Put the pin into the pearl to be attached, and bring the cotton through in a loop as usual; keep the joining-loop in the front of the oval, and with the pin bring it through the space in the centre of the oval to the back, then pass the shuttle through this loop and draw it close.

Work 11 ovals more the same, joining as before to a pearl of the centre. When the 12 ovals are made, keep the cotton at the back, and join to the pearl of the 1st oval.

1st Rosette. Commence a loop, work 4 double, then (1 pearl and 2 double alternately, 9 times); draw close. Make a joining, thus: Keep the cotton at the back of the rosette, and putting the pin into the last pearl but two of it, bring the cotton through in a loop; put the pin into the pearl of the next oval, bringing the loop of cotton through it, then pass the shuttle through this joining loop and draw it close. This leaves 6 loops at the top and 2 at the lower part.

2nd. Commence a loop, work 2 double, join to the next pearl of the rosette; 2 double, then (1 pearl and 2 double, 9 times); draw close. Make a joining as before to the next oval. Work 10 rosettes more as the last, joining the same after each. When finished, sew the last pearl to the first rosette, and fasten off.

THE BORDER.

1st. Rosette. Commence a loop, work 2 double, then (1 pearl and 2 double, 10 times); draw close. Keep the cotton on the back, and missing the last 3 pearls join to the 4th pearl, which leaves 6 pearls on the other side.

2nd. Commence, work 2 double, join to the next pearl of the last rosette, 2 double, then (1 pearl and 2 double, 10 times); draw close, and join to the 4th pearl as before.

3rd. Commence, work 2 double, join to the next pearl; 2 double (1 pearl and 2 double, 10 times); draw close; and as this is for the corner, the joining is not required.

pearl of the 3rd rosette, and after it is made joining to the 4th pearl as before.

5th and 6th. Work them both as the 2nd rosette, always joining to the 4th pearl.

When the six rosettes are made leave this part of the border unfinished, and, filling another shuttle, work one of the corners.

THE CORNER,

of about one yard; work 4 double, take the 1st Oval. Commence a loop, leaving an end star and join to the centre pearl of one of the the end of cotton in the right hand, holding the rosettes of it; then 4 double, draw close. Take shuttle cotton in the left for a straight thread, make 5 single stitches, then take the shuttle again.

2nd. Commence, work 4 double, join to the centre pearl of the next rosette, 4 double; draw close; take the end of cotton as before and make 3 single stitches; then take the shuttle again.

3rd. Commence, work 4 double, take the 1st rosette of the border and join to the centre loop of the 3 pearls on the lower side of it; then 4 double, draw close; make 5 single as

before.

4th. Commence, work 5 double, join to the centre pearl of the 2nd rosette of the border; 4 double, join to the centre pearl of the 4th rosette, 5 double, draw close; make 5 single as before.

5th rosette, 4 double, draw close; then 3 single 5th. Commence, work 4 double, join to the as before; and to make it round, draw the end oval; then place the two ends together, knot of cotton tight, pass it into the centre of the 1st them firmly and cut them off.

Return to the border, and to make the dot, reverse the work so that the star is at the top.

The Dot. Commence a loop, work 2 double, join to the centre of the next rosette of the star, 2 double, draw close; join to the same pearl of the border as before. Reverse the work.

Make the 7th, 8th, and 9th rosettes, the same as the 2nd rosette of the border; and commencing again at the 3rd rosette, repeat the direction until the four sides are worked; fasten off.

In repeating the corner pattern, the 1st joining must be made to the 2nd rosette of the star, Make counting from the right side of the dot, as many squares as are required.

KNOTTING FOR THE JOINING.

end of cotton to the last pearl but two of one of the corner rosettes, using No. 12 cotton, if the tatting is worked with that number; but if finer, then use No. 14.

First loop: Make 4 knots as directed, then join as usual to the centre pearl of the next rosette. Work 5 loops more the same, joining after each; then make a 7th loop, joining to the 3rd pearl of the corner rosette; and for the 8th loop, make 6 knots and join to the last pearl but two of the same rosette. Repeat from the 1st loop all round, and fasten off.

Second Square. Work as the last square to the end of the 7th loop, then for the 8th loop. Make 4 knots; take a corner loop of the 1st square and join to it, placing the joining between the last knots but two of the 6 knots, which will leave the 4 knots to the left; then make 2 knots and join to the last pearl but two of the rosette. 9th loop: Make 2 knots, join to the centre of the opposite loop; inake 2 knots, and

join to the centre of the next rosette. Work 6 loops more as the last; make 2 knots, and join between the 2nd and 3rd knots of the opposite loop; make 4 knots, and join to the last pearl but two. Finish the round as the 1st square. Repeat this knotting until all the squares are attached.

In working the 6 knots of the corner loop, where 4 squares meet, a joining should be made after every two knots.

The "Greek Lace Trimming," which will appear next month, is arranged to correspond with this design, every square being the size of two scallops. It should be joined with the knotting.

This Antimacassar can be worked in colours, using pink and white.

Commence with pink, and work to the end of the ovals; then, with white, make the rosettes. The border and corner should be pink, and the knotted joining white.

THE ODD-FELLOW'S QUARTERLY MAGA. ZINE (Manchester).-A good, readable number, with information and amusement pleasantly blended. The editor's article on "Technical Education in Insurance Matters" is well deserving of attention. Mr. Hardwick loses no opportunity of impressing on his readers the importance of insurance as a means of supplementing the limited means of middleclass fathers of families, who are thus enabled to make a provision for their families which the exigencies of trade or the inelasticity of fixed incomes otherwise preclude. In the present paper he shows the necessity and comparative ease with which an ordinarily-educated person may make himself acquainted with the "theory of probabilities" on which actuaries and others base their calculations of insurance business generally. He would have a section on the subject added to our ordinary arithmetics, and taught in our public schools, so as to enlighten the youth of the rising generation upon a matter of growing importance, and thus enable them to perceive the causes of the errors which still cling pertinaciously to the financial arrangements of many existing friendly societies, and, at the same time, enable them to apply the remedy. The second chapter of Mrs. C. A. White's "Mill and the Home" advances the story, and Nellie pays her visit to Mrs. Peach.

Nellie Dewes on her way to spend the afternoon with Mrs. Peach was another Nellie than the worried

nervous child of the previous day at home. Though the sun was high, and Johnny neither lighter nor better-tempered than usual, he seemed both to his sister, who, with her face shining with a sense of pleasure, and a free application of yellow soap, her wavy hair smoothed as much as its nature and very indifferent toilet appendages admitted of, her least patched pinafore reaching lower than her scanty outgrown frock, a pair of Mrs. Dewes's old boots on, turned up like a China-man's at the toes, and on her matron's-Nellie looked to other eyes a poor neglected head an exaggerated sun-bonnet, likewise of that child enough; but in her own much better cared for than usual, and she felt comfortable accordingly.

As she walked on, she remembered Mrs. Peach's conversation with her the day before, and found new prettiness in the hedge-row flowers, and once or twice when an opening in the hedge gave her a glimpse of the river swollen with recent rain, and almost brimming its margins with meadows on either side, and clumps of trees, and groups of cattle browsing or at rest, she thought of her brother Harry, and wished that he too could see them. And thus thinking fond and sweet marked the outskirts of Allestry, and the scent of the thoughts, the grey church and sweet yew-tree, that limes in blossom that bordered the road into it, were before her, before she knew that she was half-way there. And now she began to wonder whereabouts should she find Mrs. Peach, for the village branched off on both sides somewhat after the shape of a great Y, with the church and the avenue forming the tail, and the houses running off on either hand from the Parsonage, and the doctor's house flush with the street; others standing in little gardens, and others again with small orchards about them. While Nellie stood think

So Nellie kept on her way, drinking in sweet draughts of flower-scented air, that made her feel as if she were growing bigger as she walked; and in a few minutes she had arrived at the last house in a big garden, and stood at the door irresolute. The neat paths and flower-beds and sheltering trees had something so imposing for the poor child in their order and beauty, that, in comparison with her home, Mrs. Peach's cottage and garden seemed quite a grand place, and a sudden revelation of her own appearance, in the huge ugly sun-bonnet and patched pinafore and turned-up boots, made her hesitate whether she should go in or run back again; but just at the instant pleasant-looking little Mrs. Peach appeared at the porch, and hastened down the path to admit her.

This has been a warm afternoon for your walk, Nellie. I dare say you are very tired, poor child!" And she lifted Johnny out of her arms, and led the way to the house. You'll be glad of your tea, I dare say so, and it is all ready."

And there was the table neatly covered with a white table-cloth; not like those Nellie had seen at home, but of a snowy whiteness and smooth and fine, with spots, as she afterwards described it, that shone like silk-a real damask cloth, on which the dark shining tray and cups and saucers looked prettier than Nellie had imagined such things could ever look. Then, still keeping baby in her arms while Nellie put off her bonnet and cape, Mrs. Peach trotted to and fro to the little back-kitchen, and brought in a new-made loaf and a plate of sliced sausage, while Nellie perceived on the table a dish of flead-cakes (as we call them in Kent), and one of honeycomb. Such a feast was quite beyond anything she had ever imagined, much less partaken of; and Mrs. Peach seemed the embodiment of one of those good fairies she had somewhere heard of. Oh, if only Harry or her father could have been there! And the feast was pressed upon the flattered little guest as affluently as it was spread and after a while all Nellie's shyness wore off, and she became natural and unreserved.

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Then they went into the garden, where the little girl saw lovelier flowers than she had ever seen, except through the gates of the great house near the factory, and Mrs. Peach showed her her bec-hives under a little pent-house covered with honeysuckle and clematis; and while they waited near them she saw several bees go in with the little baskets on their legs loaded with yellow powder; and Mrs. Peach contrived to tell the story of the hive and its inmates, to which Nellic listened delighted. Next there were the hens'-house and the ducks'-pond, in which the ducks were diving and standing on their heads in a very wonderful way, that made Nellie laugh heartily; and as Johnny still slept, she found herself walking with her hand in Mrs. Peach's, into a little orchard, where a mother-pig, with her brood, were just then enjoying a dessert of windfallapples, that I am afraid Nellie quite envied them. But Mrs. Peach, who seemed to think of everything, sent her back to the kitchen for a basket on a certain nail, and filled it full of delicious apples, which she intended her to take home.

DAISIES.

Thick-set the English daisies grow,
The close, fresh tuft between,
On breezy downs, in meadows low,
In lanes, upon the bank'd hedgerow,
Star-white 'mid pastures green.

Daisies that flower in gardens neat,

And archly gay and bright, Outvie with cultured prim conceit Their paler sisters, wild and sweet, With blossoms red and white.

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Outliving all blue violet bands

And every early comer,

'Till children thread with sunburnt hands, The daisy-chains from flowery lands,

In the sunny days of summer.

Daisies that live in deathless rhymes,

'Mid songs by poets given; Nor blight nor winter mar those chimes, Merrily live, for future times,

Fadeless as flowers in Heaven.

On long-grown grass I sit and weep
Beside the heart I love,

Dear heart! can no love stir that sleep?
Lying below, so deep-so deep,

With the daisy-bloom above.

THE LIFE-BOAT: a Journal of the National Life-Boat Institution.-We have not needed the hurricane reminders, so frequent during the first month of this year, to keep alive the memory of those "who go forth in ships, who do business in deep waters." In this mercantile country-with its colonies in every part of the world, and its fleets speeding on every oceanpath, going and coming, east, west, north, and south-there are few families who have not some one, near and dear to them, exposed to all the hardships and dangers of a sailor's life, and who must need, for his sake, take an interest in the means which the Life-Boat Institution has organized and maintains for the saving of the shipwrecked on our coast. Long and heavy is the list of calamities in the current part of the journal devoted to the record of Life-Boat services, and just as numerous are the instances of fearless enterprise on the part of the life-boats' crews to save those of the perilled vessels. During the storms of November and December 1867, the sum total of lives saved by the agency of boats belonging to the institution amounted to 785. The circumstances are told in the fewest words, the result in shadowy figures; but the importance of this sum total appeals, with the force of numbers, to the imagination and the heart, and we shudder at the prospect

of such a loss of life, but for the timely efforts of the life-boats' men, and the efficient means placed at their command by the institution. How firm a hold this glorious charity has npon the affections, so to speak, of the nation, may be gathered in part by a glance down this list of life-boat services. Not only individuals, but counties, towns, companies, and crafts are represented in the names of the boats: The "Grocer" saved one life on this list; the "Western Commercial Traveller" was lent, at the earnest request of the poor fishermen at Cadgwith, Cornwall, who were thus enabled to save their large seine-net, which had broken away from its fastenings during the gale, and was drifting away to sea; while the "Licensed Victualler" put off to the stranded "Thetis," and saved her crew of sixteen men. "The City of Worcester" dared the great gale to warn the brig "Bessie" from a point of danger, and counsel her to a safe anchorage. The Birmingham "No. 1" and "No. 2"-for the "Hardware Village" is twice represented on the list-saved between them just twelve men; while the "Bradford," three times engaged during the storms, won fourteen lives for her share of spoil from the hungry, cruel sea. The "Oxfordshire" rowed off and remained beside the stranded schooner "St. Brannock," and assisted in taking her into harbour; and the "Royal Berkshire" and the "Edinburgh" saved-the one five and

the other fifteen of the sailors rescued. But the names of those called after individuals are too numerous to distinguish, save that the Holyhead boat, the "Princess of Wales," on one day went off to the assistance of three different ships, and saved in all fifty-three persons! The local and commercial names show the spirit in which the efforts of the society have been met and responded to; but as new boats multiply around our coast the means of saving life from shipwreck, the expenses of maintaining them in an efficient state-of supporting the stations and appointments, of offering rewards, of paying the boats' crews-are continually needing funds; and therefore it is that, from quarter to quarter, the executive of the National Life-Boat Institution look to the nation for fresh supplies to enable them to sustain the enterprize in its utmost usefulness; and while donations and bequests are earnestly desired, no sum is too humble to meet acceptance. In Shrewsbury a series of penny readings have been given in aid of the Life-Boat Fund, and those who cannot bestow the cost of a boat and her appointments may yet help to buy the timbers of one, or bestow the cost of the tholepins or plugs. In every case subscriptions will be thankfully received by the secretary, Richd. Lewis, Esq., 14, John-street, Adelphi; and by all bankers in town and country. C. A. W.

SLIPS AND CUTTINGS

The great end and object of poetry, and consequently the proper aim of the poet is to communicate to us a clear and perfect idea of his proposed subject. What the painter exhibits to us by a variety of colour, by light and shade, the poet expresses in appropriate language. The former seizes merely the external form, and that only in a given attitude; the other sur rounds his object, pierces it, and discloses its most hidden qualities. With the former it is inert and motionless; with the latter it lives and moves, it is expanded or compressed, it glares upon the imagination, or vanishes in air, and is as various as man himself.-WM. ROSCOE.

But though Invention be the mother of Poetry, yet this child is, like all others, born naked, and must be nourished with care, clothed with exactness and elegance, educated with industry, instructed with art, improved by application, corrected with severity, and accomplished with labour and with time, before it arrives at any great perfection or growth. It is certain that no composition requires so many ingredients, or of more different sorts, than this. Not that to excel in any qualities there are necessary so

many gifts of Nature, and so many improvements of learning and of art; for there must be a universal genius of great compass, as well as of great elevation: there must be a sprightly imagination, or fancy fertile in a thousand productions, ranging over infinite ground, piercing into every corner, and by the light of that true poetical fire discovering a thousand little bodies or images in the world, and similitudes among them, unseen to common eyes, and which could not be discovered without rays of that sun.-SIR WM. TEMPLE.

I cannot account for the existence of these gaudy ornaments to please man [observes a thoughtful writer in the Athenæum, Nov. 24th, 1866, on the Feeling and Existence of Beauty among Animals]; for nowhere are they more gorgeous than in birds which live in the depths of the tropical forest, where man is rarely a visitor.This exactly falls in with my own conviction. And the same rule applies to insects and flowers to the marine flora, and the painted glittering scales of fishes; and not less to the glories of crystals or spars gemming the invisible depths of hidden caves. God has surely created beauty for the delight of all his

creatures, and because beauty belongs to and adorns all His works!- -Another naturalist bears me out in this belief: "I think it a childish notion that the beauty of birds, insects, and other creatures is given to please the human eye. A little observation and reflection show that this cannot be the case; else why should one sex only be richly ornamented, the other clad in plain drab or grey? Surely rich plumage and song, like all other endowments of species, are given them for their own pleasure and advantage! This, if true, ought to enlarge our ideas of the inner life and mutual relations of our humbler fellow-creatures."-H. W. BATES.

The soul contains the event that shall befal it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts.-EMERSON.

Religion and manners reciprocally act upon one another, as religion, well understood, is a most powerful agent in ameliorating and softening our manners; so, on the other hand, manners, as they advance in cultivation, tend to correct and refine our religion. Thus, to a nation in any degree acquainted with the social feelings, human sacrifices and sanguinary rites could never long appear obligatory. The mild spirit of Christianity has no doubt had its influence in softening the ferocity of the Gothic times; and the increasing humanity of the present period will, in its turn, produce juster ideas of Christianity, and diffuse through the solemnities of our worship, the celebrations of our Sabbaths, and every observance connected with our religion, that air of amenity and sweetness, which is the offspring of literature and the peaceful intercourse of society. The age which has demolished dungeons, rejected torture, and given so fair a prospect of abolishing the iniquity of the slave-trade cannot long retain among its articles of belief the gloomy perplexities of Calvinism and the heart-withering perspective of cruel and never-ending punishment.-ANNE LETITIA BARBAULD.

Books have their fates from the capacity of the reader.-SIR THOMAS BROWNE.

That which we call dying is only ceasing to live.-OWEN MEREDITH.-An expression almost identical with that of a minor poet: "We live to die and die to live"; but both are anticipated by, and probably indebted to, a line in Euripedes: "Who knows whether to live be to die, or to die to live?"-C. W.

THE SOLILOQUY.

BY R. E. T.

Why do I twine amid my hair,
This wreath, with unaccustomed care,
Why do I plait these locks once more?
Why haste to ope' my casket store?
Select the fairest gems I find,
Yet still not think them to my mind!

Study my bouquet to compose,
With the sweet bud or blooming rose?
And why is this? 'tis not to-night

I go to scenes more fair, or bright
Than those I often have enjoyed,
And with a pleasure unalloyed.
Or is it to compete with those
On whom fair Nature grace bestows,
And Admiration's meed to share,
For which so many hurry there,
Ah, no! how paltry, and how mean,
Were such an object in that scene:
What care I all they think of me.
If I be but approv'd by thee!"

A SERENADE.

BY COLONEL EIDOLON,

'Tis midnight hour: the world in sleep

Is gently borne through empty space, Whilst I a restless vigil keep,

Still haunted by thy face. But, dear one, rest, and dream that we

Arc arm-in-arm in yonder grove, Whilst I am whispering low to thee

My simple tale of love!

"Tis midnight hour: the breezes sigh;

The rippling stream glides smooth along, And seems to murmur sweet reply,

To cheer my lonely song.
Then, dear one, rest, and dream that we
Are arm-in-arm in yonder grove,
Whilst I am whispering low to thee
My simple tale of love!

WHO WAS WALLENSTEIN ?-A celebrated Austrian general, born in the year 1583, He possessed immense riches, and was the largest landed proprietor in Bohemia, excepting the Emperor. A large portion of it was obtained by purchasing, at much less than their value, the confiscated property of attainted nobles. He became owner, in this way, of sixty-seven estates, worth £800,000. He lived in a style of princely luxury, and dazzled all who beheld his splendour and magnificence. He was not only a general, but became also banker to the Emperor Ferdinand the Second, who overwhelmed him with honours and rewards, and repaid him oue debt with the Principality of Mechlenburg. He received, also, the title of General of the Baltic and Oceanic Sca..