deference; but finding his efforts to that end ineffectual, he rushed wildly into an inner apartment of their abode, and threw himself franticly upon his own bed, with a force that made it, solid and stable as it was, creak and totter. He delivered himself up to the full force of his hitherto suppressed emotions. The father, meanwhile, proceeded to the outer door: and here he paused for a time, occasionally drawing his hand across his black and corrugated brow, as if to clear it of thickcoming thoughts,; he then stepped forth on the threshold and looked wistfully for a moment at the bright heavens, which gleamed blue and beauteously through a break in the foliage which overshaded his humble dwelling, and intruded its leafy tops through every aperture. The sun was bright above, and the green fields were bright below; the bowers were bright even in their shadow, and all nature around, above and about, seemed rejoicing in its loveliness, and brightness, and life. But this was no scene to be looked on long by a man whose mind was wound up to such a pitch of desperation as his. Striking his forehead violently he retreated into the interior of the cottage, bolted and secured the door as firmly as the uncouth fastenings would permit, paced for awhile up and down the dark apartment, now doubly dark to him from the contrast presented by the brightness he had just witnessed abroad, aud held communion with himself of deep and dreadful import. The door of the inner apartment where his son lay, was close shut, and no sound could be heard from its recesses, as the structure, though rude, was strongly and comfortably constructed. After pacing up and down the room until he had apparently wrought himself up to the last degree of reckless resolution, he suddenly stopped short, clasping his hands closely together, wrung them hardly while in that position, and bowed his head half down to the earth, as if weighed down by his feelings; then rushing towards the ample hearth, he took down a long gun, which hung suspended over it, exclaiming at the same time, in a low, hissing tone of voice, in which utterance appeared to be almost choked by passion :—

"I'll shoot him first, by heaven! before he marries her: no son of mine shall ever lie alongide one of her kidney. Aye, if I had a hundred of them, by heaven! they should die first." And he smote the breech of the piece with such violence against the flagged hearthstone, that the very roof rang again with the sound of the shock.

The sound seemed to have reached the ears of the young man within, despite of the thickness of the walls and the closeness of the door. It was more fully evidenced by his coming forth in a hurried manner, and with a wild, indeterminate look. He appeared to have been endeavoring to subdue his excited feelings, as the traces of tears were distinctly visible on his cheek; but the sight of his father's savage look, and the menacing attitude which he had now taken up, aroused each particle of dormant irritation in a nature, already too prone to obey the impulses of every passion. Assuming at determined gait and corresponding aspect, he approached the outward door, looking neither to the right nor to the left, but seeming entirely bent upon prosecuting his first-formed intent, from which a kind word, even then,

*Kidney or liver, a metaphorical expression in use among the Irish peasantry, meaning race, kind, or religion.

would perhaps effectually and for ever have turned him. The father now withdrew to the very end of the room, and took up his position opposite the only egress to the apartment, the fatal weapon poised in his hands, and and his countenance wearing a savage, nay, a demoniac al expression.

"You can't go out this day to do what you intend." croaked he in a harsh, and grating, and agitated voice. "Nor you shan't go out neither, for to do any such thing, William," continued he after a short and awful "Don't you attempt it. It's of no use for you to do so I have the key here;" and he pointed to it, where it hung securely to his waist.

pause.

"Open the door, father," said the youth sadly; "open the door, father, and let us part in peace. It will be a long day before I darken it again.' Here his emotion overcame him and he sobbed audibly.

But the relentless old man continued unmoved, even at this evidence, of a softened heart and better feelings in his child; and the son now appeared more than ever determined to effect his preconceived design, as, after a momentary stand, he dashed the tear from his eye, and proceeded hastily to undo the fastenings of the door, which opened upon the road.

"I have sworn before Ged this day, William, that you shall never go out o' this house alive, unless it be for a far different purpose from the one I know you now intend," slowly and determinately ejaculated the fatherpausing on every syllable, and giving a fearful effect to every word.

"And I have sworn too before God, father, not alone this day, but many a day ago, that I would make Ellen my wife; do you desire I should break my oath? is that what you so often taught me to read in the Bible? Father, father don't you think of opposing me in my designs, for heavens sake,, I am resolved, fixedly resolved to keep my oath to her. Now do your utmost!" -and he wrenched with one violent effort, the heavy door from its hinges.

"Well then take this and my blessing," shouted the ruthless old ruffian; and raising the gun, he fired. The shot took instant and fearful effect. When the cloud of smoke that filled the dark apartment, had in some degree dissipated, the unfortunate young man was visible, lying across the threshold-half his body within the house, and the other half without; his hand stretched forth to his father, and his eye, even in the agonies of death, fixed in forgivness towards his murderer. A small stream of blood oozed from his side, and mixed with the dust, of which it was soon to became a part; and the fingers of the hand which he faintly projected towards the murderous old man, were dabbled, and smeared, and dropping with the fast congealing fluid. "Father, father," groaned he apparently in the most intense pain, "father, father-come here-and here-give me your hand-for the last time-forgive me-father—I forgive you-oh-oh!" and he died without another pang, or another word, or another groan.-The filicidal, father, meanwhile, stood on the spot from whence he had fired, the very image of utter lifelessness; not a look, not a stir, betokened existence: no statue could have been more still; even the corse of his murdered son had less of death in its appearance and aspect than he. Sense, perception, reason, animation-all seemed to have departed from him; nought gave indication that he was a man in full health and possession of all his coporeal

faculties; no bronze could have exhibited more rigidity of limb, and muscle, and fibre. It was not until he was forcibly aroused from this torpor by the entrance of the neighbouring cottagers, attracted thither by the sound and sight of death and destruction, that he ap peared to have any knowledge of foregoing circumstances, or any recollection of the awful tragedy in which he was such a principal actor.

But why prolong the painful tale? Suffice it to say, that he was immediately taken to Cork goal, tried at the ensuing assizes, and-acquitted. He was acquitted on the score of insanity, but, many believe, through the influence of a predominant party who deemed it a duty to defraud justice in this case. After being immured. for a short time in prison, subsequently to his trial, to save appearances, no doubt, he was sent forth on the world again with the mark of Cain in his heart and on his brow a murderer of the very worst description.*

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It is now nearly eleven years since I saw the wretch. He was then and is perhaps still living in the same house where the deed was perpetrated-a scorn and a terror to the neighbourhood-abhorred by the rich and feared by the poor-an object of contumely, and a pach and execration to his fellow-men. Agony, more than age seemed to have bent him double; and every evil passion appeared to have its abode in his mind, and to exhibit itself in his deformed aspect. The hovel— what was then, to be called a comfortable cottage, is now a ruinous hovel-in which he dwells, is surrounded with fœtid sloughs, a meet emblem of his mind; and his fields, for want of cultivation, are covered with long weeds, rank grass, and thickly-sown thistles. I looked once and I looked no more: a single glance was more than sufficient; and I turned away with an indelible impression on my mind and my soul, that, for such a man no deed was too evil, nor any crime too great.

SONG.

SEE, see my ship's white sails are spread,
And wait the favoring breeze,
And the bright streamer blue and red
Waves gaily o'er the seas;

The anchor weigh'd, the breezes strong
Will swiftly cut the foam,
And on our way each sailor's song
Shall breathe fond tales of home.

Then let us part, the faithless wind,
Like friendship soon may change,
And I would scarce be left behind,

The Arno's banks to range;

Though there I've spent those happy hours Which may no more be mine,

I leave those banks with all their flowers, To seek the restless brine.

E'er yonder cloud shall fleet away

Before the rising blast.

"Twill be in vain our course to stay,

As vain to seek our mast;

Farewell, my friends, from each a hand,Repress those rising sighs

For one who loves his native land

Before your cloudless skies.

He was an Orangeman, and the jury which tried him was a packed one, composed principally of men of the same political party. That was the true cause of his acquittal,

THE LADIES OF AMERICA.

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THERE are strange inconsistencies in the character of every nation, and one of the strangest in the Americans is the immense freedom young ladies enjoy upon some points and their primness in others, upon which latter the English often comment, altogether forgetting how prudishly prim the ladies of England appear to foreigners from the Continent. Nothing is more mon here than for the young lady of the house, perhaps seventeen years old, to give invitations to a ball in her own name to single gentleman as well as others, though there may not be the slightest reason for the mother or father not issuing them in their name. I fancied I had made a great impression on some unknown beauty, when I received my invitation from young Miss So-and-So. "I," were my thoughts, "invited by Miss X. Y. Z.?-She writing my name?" It was not long, however, before I discovered my mistake. The mother is put quite in the back-ground. This is village-like, and is rapidly growing out of fashion in the best educated families. As soon as the lady is married, she drops, like a cactus grandiflorous, after twenty-four hours' blowing; she recedes to give the ground to other young ladies yet unmarried. This is mauvais ton, no one denies, and you see less of it in New York than in Philadelphia-in Philadelphia less than in Boston. However, it is pire ton still in Italy, where a girl is shut up in a convent till she marries, aud when she is married, tries to regain in all possible ways all she has lost in her early youth. Yet the true value and refinement of society depend upon the married women. Young damsels, occupied but with themselves, may be found. any where. People perceive this more and more, and I have myself observed a change towards the better since I have resided in this country.

An American girl is never embarrassed; a child of ten years and I would hardly except a single class of the inhabitants-receives you with frankness and good breeding which is astonishing, and I can assure you not unpleasing. So perfectly self-possessed are they, that blushing is decidedly of less frequent occurrence here than in Germany.

My attention was lately drawn to a young friend of mine, a most amiable girl, who blushed; and I then thought how rarely I had seen it here. I could remember but very few girls of a large acquaintance that will now and then be seen blushing;-I mean when nothing but false embarras is the cause. This pleasing ease and sensible frankness sometimes degenerate, as you may suppose, to unbecoming and ungraceful forwardness, as German mildness and bashfulness degenerates some. times into shy gaucherie. American ladies are possessed of much natural brightness, and converse very freely, infinitely more so than gentlemen. Altogether, boys and girls are earlier developed here than in Europe, partly, perhaps, owing to the climate, partly because they are allowed more freedom-left more to themselves. A young man of twenty has a much more advanced position in life here than in England, and in England more so than on the Continent. The Germans, it is my opinion hold back a young man by far too much; Americans, I am equally convinced, allow their young people to leap beyond their age--each system has its inconveniences.

Good education among ladies is general. Not a few

are truly superior in this respect.

I think there must be numbers who are bright and fluent letter-writers, to judge from my own correspondence. I know several ladies whose attainments and natural powers would be a great ornament to society any where: one of them I count among the most superior minds with whom it has ever been my good fortune to become acquainted. Yet that has nothing to do with America; such brilliant endowments are but contingencies in a nation, not the fruit of a general national civilization. Would she but give proofs of her flashing mind, unfettered thought, and independent judgement, to more than her personal acquaintance! Her mind has indeed a powerful grasp. Were it not for the horror I feel at communicating letters, I would send you some of hers, which I would ask you whether they do not equal any you have ever read which have been preserved as the stars of memoirs.

You wish the ladies described, too? I know that we wish as much to become acquainted with the appearance of the female sex of a country as with their character. But this is no easier task than to give, in a few lines, a description of the scenery of a country; it is, in fact, much more difficult. Yet I will try it: only remember that descriptions of this kind are to be taken as general assertions, admitting of innumerable exceptions. To begin then.—

It must be allowed, in the first place, that American women have generally a fine, and more frequently than the women of other countries, a genteel, rarely an imposing appearance. Their shoulders are generally not wide enough, and too sloping their busts are not sufficiently developed, but the waist is small and round, and the lower parts of the body finely formed; their feet are not peculiarly good- they are better than German feet indeed, and better than English. Yet so capricious are exceptions! The smallest pair of correctly shaped feet, so small as would be justly criticised if an artist were to give them to a work of his imagination, and the neatest pair of ancles," turned by Cupid," with corresponding hands and wrists, that I ever beheld, I saw on this side of the Atlantic--a pair of feet which might induce an admirer of the beautiful to sing but of them as Conti sung only of the hands of his mistress. I will give you a letter of introduction to these lovely feet and hands and arms, if you come to this country. In the mean time I send you a glove of their mistress, which she once gave me with much grace honour it duly, and feel unbounded obligation for my parting with the momento.

Their walk is much better than the ungraceful dipping and pitching of the English ladies, which looks rather like an unsuccesful attempt at a gallop than a walk. However, for feet and walk you must go to Andalusia; what is there equal to la gracia Andaluz ?

Their very walk would make your bosom swell :

I can't describe it though so much it strike,
Nor liken it, I never saw the like,-

An Arab horse, a stately stag, a barb
New-broke, a cameleopard, a gazelle-
No none of these will do."-

Their arms-where are fine arms any longer to be found, if not by way of exception? Sleeves have spoiled them. Their colour-I do not speak specially of arms-is generally delicate, which contributes to

give, even to the lowest classes, an air of gentility. An English face is known directly by its florid colour; and it is sometimes very agreable to meet with a rosy cheek lately arrived. Their eyes are not so large as the spanish, nor ojos adormidillos, yet they are fine, well cut and well set, and of such mental expression. They look bright, and are generally of a fine dark brown colour. The general expression of the face is again that of handsomeness and delicacy rather than of great and striking beauty.

From all this you will see that American ladies look better in the street than in the ball-room; yet I can assure you, you find there also many charming faces. It is a peculiarity of the United States which has often struck me, that there are more pretty girls than in any other large country, but fewer of those imposing beauties which we meet in Europe, and who have their prototypes in a Mad. Recamier or Tallien, or the beautiful Albanian, when I saw her in Rome, or even as you find many in the higher ranks in England, or those noble faces, necks, and figures of the women in the marine villages near Gensano, which made a Thorwalsden rave -beauties which "try man's soul," which will not depart from the mirror of your mind, and disturb your quiet, though your heart may be firm as a rock. After all, I come back to my old saying; there is no European nation that can-taken all in all-compete for great beauty with the English, as there is no nation where so many pretty delicate faces are seen as in the United States. Heavens! what an array of beauty in one single bright afternoon in Hyde Park, or at a ball in the higher circles!

Amongst other nations, there are also beauties, for example, Roman ladies, the peasant woman about Gensano, whom I just mentioned, and the Tyrolese men ; but I call the whole English nation a handsome one. The very first time I took a walk in London, I was struck with the beautiful children even in that confined city; a handsome English boy of ten years of age is one of the flowers of creation. Go even to the London 'Change, among the merchants, who with other nations,. surely do not exhibit many specimens of beauty, you find there tall, well-shaped, fine looking men, whom Frederic I. would have put directly into a uniform of his grenadiers. Call me a heretic, as the distinguished did in the Roman asteria, I cannot help it ; English beauty outstrips all the rest, and what seems peculiar to that nation, is that the higher the class in England the greater the beauty, whilst the aristocracy of other Europeau nations is far from forming the handsome part of the inhabitants.

Brightness of mind, as I said before, is a general attribute of the American lady. They seize with ease the salient point of things. Let, me instead of a long description, give you an instance. In a conversation between a lady and myself, tableaux vivans happened to be mentioned; and when it was found that I was acquainted with the mechanical details of these charming entertainments she immediately resolved to have some presented in her house, and entered into their whole character with an ease which surprised me, as she had never seen any before. The theoretic part, as well as the mechanical part was soon perfectly understood. I will not detain you by relating all the trouble we had to find the proper gauze for the frame, and my delight in arranging and placing the pictures on the occasion.

will only say, that not a single one of the company showed either false primness or a coquetish desire to show herself to the greatest advantage. But one wish animated all, to make the tableaux as perfect as possible -and they were made perfect. I had never seen more beautiful ones, though I have seen them on a large scale; the stage, curtain, music, the ease and grace of the performers, the subjects, the steadiness with which the ladies and gentlemen stood, the style of the whole, in short, every thing conspired to make these tableaux vivans, the first ever seen by most of them, as perfect as they could be wished. Several European gentlemen who, like myself, had often seen them, were quite astonished, and the whole performance gave me a high opinion of the tact, taste, and grace of American ladies.

I will give you the subject of some of the pictures, so that you may the better judge: Niobe, Hagar and Ishmael, Ali Pacha Vaviliki, Cumean Sibyl, Margaret and Faust, Baptism of Malek Adhel, Amy and Janet Foster, Death of Cleopatra, Marino Faliero, a Vestalall after Engravings or pictures. I can assure you that while the first was a truly classical picture, there were others, for instance Hagar and Ishmael, or the Cumean Sibyl, which produced in me, for the first time since I had been in the United States, that peculiar feeling, which a picture of the glowing Italian school, of Raphael, Giulio, Romano, &c., never fails to pour through all our veins.

What surprised me much, was the ease with which they at once understood the principles of the drapery, I mean that drapery which the higher art requires, and of which our present life affords no opportunity of study the lady, through whose zeal and taste they were got up, had chosen the music for each picture with great felicity; and if I add, that not a single lamp-glass cracked, or any lady smiled or moved, or any accident or mistake, however trifling, occured during the whole performance, you may imagine that I had, of the whole a fine evening, the preparations for which, by the by, in the three rehearsals, were not less agreable. Were what I write calculated to meet the eyes of the fair performers over whom I ruled for a time with almost as much power as a directeur-general des theatres, I should express my acknowledgements to them most dutifully. As to music, there was much instruction in it here, * * English perhaps · • Mozart not fashionable; can Raphael be fashionable, or the contrary?" I said, pour briller yet one of the noblest voices, and, perhaps, the best non-professional performer on the harp, I ever heard are in this country.

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Before I close my chapter on American beauty—a chapter which, I dare say, has proved very unsatisfactory to yon, although I gave you fair warning that it is very difficult for a conscientious writer to generalize such things I must mention the fact, that American women make most exemplary wives and mothers; and strange, be a girl ever so coquettish-yea even a positive flirt, who, in Europe, would unavoidably make her future husband unhappy as soon as she were married, here she becomes the domestic and retired wife. That unhappy marriages seem to be comparitively rare in America may be partly owing to the great patience of an American husband, which is again referible to the greater want of excitability; but it is undoubtedly

owing also, and probably in a greater degree, to the temper of the woman.

The American women are kind, very charitable; I think they are peculiarly so. Married ladies do not only give, if a case of misfortune happens to present itself, but they undergo considerable personal trouble in compliance with their charitable disposition. And again, I have known here several ladies of the most worldly appearance, living, apparently, but to gain admiration, who nevertheless, would visit the poor and sick in their humblest dwellings.

LIFE'S DREAM.

LIGHT and bright the vision plays,
Like the evening's fitful blaze
Over meadow careering along-
Fairy phantoms hover; blossoms strow
Thick the verdure, as with snow;
Breathes the elfin's magical song.

Fair the moon in azure floats,
Bending o'er the enchanting notes.
As if longing to glide from her sphere:
White wings faintly quiver; near and far
Glow-worm twinkles back to star,
Lighting a softer galaxy here.

Sweet by sparkling fountains sings,
Sweet and clear as tone that rings,
Pure from Harmony's chrystaline throne:
Sweetly sings a spirit; still the air
Drinks the song,-its pulses bear
Far through the night the heavenly tone.

Peering quick from shadowy glades,
Glancing back to deeper shades,
Forms too bright and beautiful play :
Gentle voices whisper; snowy doves
Circle forth, as sent by loves,-
Wheel them on fanning pinions away.

Quick steps hurryto my side;
Round my heart soft touches glide,
Wreathing fetters of lily and rose,-
Viewless forms embrace me; whispers say,
'Press the joys,-not long they stay:
Comes like a stream the pleasure, and flows.'

Sweetly dim the trance of love;
As through the veil of roses wove,
Steals its purple light to the soul.

Break the magic slumber,-cold and bare,
Waste and dark, life meets us there;

Break the dream,-thou hast withered the whole !

LONDON AND PARISIAN FASHIONS.

DRESSES. The mode of open corsage in front is obtaining still greater favor; it is well suited for the present, season, besides the advantages of adapting itself to many varieties; the deep cut corsage having ceded to this in a great number of instances where it was but lately in vogue.

The flounces are receiving constant accessions to the various styles and varieties that have already been recapitulated. They are worn small, in numerous rows at moderate distances, or close together, also wide, double, graduating downwards to the hem, dented, serpentined, vandyked, worked or embroidered. The

greatest scope is consequently given to the exercise of the taste, and thus these elegant ornaments may be arranged in conformity with the character of the dress or person.

Sleeves gathered at the top, moderately full, and terminated by a wristband are worn. For dress, the wide open and pendant sleeves, as well as the full transparent outer sleeve over a short satin or other material.

Morning Peignoirs in nankeen are observed; several rows of black velvet form an embroidery round this dress' and an opening allows an underneath dress, to be seen, of a similar material and style of trimming.

A very pretty evening dress was composed of a Scotch batiste, the corsage almost à la vierge, edged round with a tulle band; sleeves reaching about the elbow and formed in three bouillons, the skirt trimmed with five rows of tulle placed en entre deux; a little tablier of the same material as the dress, ornamented with ribbons and with a ruche all round, to match in color as well as style. A fichu mantelet in tulle point d'esprit, formed a pelerine behind with long ends in front, trimmed with lace laid on full.

A poult de soie dress, ash-grey color, was made with low corsage en cœur; short flat sleeves, ruched with three rows of white satin ribbon; the skirt ornamented with two rows of gothic lace, applied flat. A fichu of gothic lace, cut in such a manner as to form no plait, and fixed close to the bust by three noeuds of white satin ribbon. A coiffure à la Berthe. Poult de soie shoes like the dress completed this costume.

PROMENADE, a pekinet redingote, large stripes, white and lilac, corsage half high mounting, en cœur in front; sleeves à la jardinière adorned on the shoulders with two rouleaux proceding down the front and round the hem; collerette of lace falling low, having a colored ribbon inserted round the border, terminating in a chou. Crape capote ornamented with marabouts tinged lilac and white, small under the brim and large on the

crown.

Evening.-Organdi dress embroidered in gold and white, corsage à la Grecque, fixed in the middle of the bust by a cameo; short sleeves ornamented with chefs; the skirt adorned with two bouillons, with chefs d'or, over which the tunic of the same trimmed in a similar manner. A gold chef (salvage) formed the ceinture. The coiffure was ornamented with white roses.

HATS, CAPS, &c.-The same ornaments are used with various styles of hats and capotes, and feathers, marabouts, flowers &c. are seen on the most dissimilar descriptions; the most generally becoming way of disposing them is that of placing in a bunch a little on one side, and allowing them to fall down low on the other.

The curtain, in many, falls low behind and rises to a considerable height.

The underneath part of the brim is ornamented in much the same manner as has been already described with small bouquets.

Foliage is much used, ivy as well as vine and some others but generally with fruit or flowers.

A style of drawn bonnet that has obtained many admirers is formed in bouillons, at the border, the fulness is less conspicuous than over the rest of the brim. Muslin, organdi, crape and even silk form the principal fabrics for this mode of making up.

Talle turbans, rounded on one side and with a small

bouillon gathered at the other, are much in vogue; they frequently have the addition of flowers which form very pleasing decorations inserted in the folds.

The little chapeau Alexandrine with the forme evasee is an admired novelty.

The mode of wearing the hat placed far back on the head, now becomining rather more general, should be very cautiously adopted, and though highly becoming to some features and figures has the reverse effect with others, study and observation will best show this where it fails to strike at first sight, a mode of effecting a kind of compromise with this prevailing manner of wear is obtained by one of the fertile expedients of fashion. When the entire throwing back of the hat may be deemed disadvantageous to the appearance, bouquets are frequently so arranged as to partially fill up the space which would have been occupied by the brim Ribbons and lace bandeaux are also placed very full and advancing towards the front.

A lace barbe placed rather back on the head, fixed with a couple of pins is a pretty addition to the coiffure, the ends hang frequently very low below the shoulders and of uneven lengths.

MATERIALS & COLORS.-Challi, mousseline de laine have not yet run their length, and jaconot, batiste, foulard still hold sway. Organdi retains its popularity and is often worn with applications in velvet, though with perhaps the highest class of taste its own plain simplicity is generally preferred.

Shot silks are again coming into vogue but are confined at present to dresses and cloaks.

VARIETIES.-Pins of various shapes and devices in gold, pearls, opal, coral, cornelian, fabricated into the shapes of flowers, fruits &c, are in great use as ornaments for the coiffure.

A new sort of style also is formed of gold resembling fillagree work, in round and other shaped nœuds.

Mosaic worked bijouterie is not in the same estimation as previously; cameos on the contrary are in still greater vogue.

The serpent form of bracelet in gold with pearls and eyes of rubies is still much adopted. The mode of suspending a small locket, nœud or medallion in various stones we have lately alluded to and it is still in as great repute.

Shawls in varied styles are still the mode, and though in many instances displaced by the new mantelets-pelerines that have lately come so much into vogue, are seec in great variety. In describing them one month or even week, so great is the variableness of the weather, perhaps a different fabric and fashion might be required for the next, and this taken into consideration will reconcile the apparent contradictions in citing examples, not of these only, but of the other chief articles of

costume.

Satin shawls edged with black lace and fringed, may still be observed, embroideries are also in requisition as ornaments.

Cachemere shawls are much admired, white, ponceau, and light-blue colors prevail; a deep undulating fringed border of the same finishes these shawls in a peculiarly elegant manner.

Chinese crape also sustains its reputation for shawls when embroidered, which is necessary to distinguish it from those that have now gained such very general vogue as to have become common.