_Bleuette et Coquelicot_ is a charming fairy tale of the pastoral
order, unexceptionable in its style, and salutary in its instruction. I
have only to add, in further illustration of the head-dress of Arganto
(p. 360), that "Foreign _Marshalle_ Powder" was advertised in 1781 at
sixteen shillings per pound, by R. Langwine, at the sign of the "Rose,"
opposite New Round Court, Strand; and that receipts for making it occur
as late as in Gray's _Supplement to the Pharmacopœia_, in 1836. The
author of _L'Histoire des Modes Française_, quoted above, says he does
not "despair of one day seeing rose-coloured hair powder, blue heads,"
&c.; and in _Plocacosmos_ (1781), we actually find receipts for making
yellow, _rose-pink_, and black hair powder; while Goldsmith, in his
_Citizen of the World_, Letter III., mentions both black and _blue_.