The great world is consequently not alive before two o'clock in the afternoon. The Park hours are from four till six, when the ladies drive about by thousands in their elegant equipages and morning dresses, and the gentlemen on their beautiful horses 'voltigent' about from flower to flower, displaying all the grace Heaven has bestowed upon them. Almost all Englishmen, however, look well on horseback, and ride better and more naturally than our riding-masters, who certainly understand admirably, when they are on a horse trained to every sort of pace and speed, how to sit like a clothes-peg on a linen-line. The green turf of the Park swarms with riders, who can ride faster there than in the 'corso.' Among them are many ladies, who manage their horses as skilfully and steadily as the men. But Miss Sally is now led out before my door, and snorts impatiently on the macadamized pavement. My letter is long enough:--a thousand greetings to all who are good enough to remember me, and the most affectionate farewell to you! Your friend L----. LETTER XIV. _London, March 25th._ DEAREST AND BEST, It would be too tiresome if I sent you a daily list of the parties I go to: I shall only mention them when anything strikes me as remarkable; and perhaps hereafter, if I feel the inclination and the power, I shall give you a general 'apperçu' of the whole. The technical part of social life--the arrangements for physical comfort and entertainment--is well understood here. The most distinguished specimen of this is the house of the Duke of D----, a king of fashion and elegance.