MR. VIOLET, a romantic Youth, is fond of imagining how he would act in trying Circumstances. a ke alamating What he would have done If a Young Lady were on the point of being run over by an Omnibus. [N.B.-The Horses in the first cut are drawn from wooden models in the possession of the Artist.] If a band of Indians should attempt in his presence to make prisoner of a Lady. If he should carry to a Publisher his Manuscript Novel, which he is sure is better than any thing of Dickens, and ought to bring him $50,000. Furnished by Mr. G. BRODIE, 51 Canal Street, New York, and drawn by VOIGT from actual articles of Costume. THE HE dress is of pink silk; the corsage décolletée, pointed, and demi-busque, with a berthe of silk tulle, made in small puffs, sewed upon Lyons tulle, with sleeves the same, followed by a lace four inches wide. The skirt is trimmed with a wide lace, which, falling from the waist, reaches the top of a range of tulle puffs, similar to those above, but larger. The silk is now visible for a space; then follows a range of vine-foliage, interspersed with small gilt grapes, the leaves being of green and This heads another fall of lace, russet crape. All which is also succeeded by puffs of tulle. these puffs are looped with pink and white ribbons crossing each other, ranging from No. 7 to No. 11, bows of which ornament the sleeves. The corsage has a bouquet of foliage. The hair is worn in flat bandeaux; it is low on the face, and on the head is divided into two parts, and rolled over the bandeaux; on the neck it falls low, without a knot. The ornaments consist of grape-leaves in autumnal tints, with grapes of pearl in small clusters. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. No. XCII.-JANUARY, 1858.-VOL. XVI. VOL. XVI.-No. 92.-K HE numberless from the cities into the rural neighborhoods, of our men of wealth and culture, bearing with them the examples and means of refinement, outgoings, of late years, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by Harper and Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. |