separtely at an equal distance: the body is en gerbe in front, and plain at the back. Evening dresses, when colored, either of crape, sarcenet, or muslin, have short sleeves, the same as the dress, over which are white transparent long ones a l'imbecille ;-these are generally of tulle. A full fluted flounce often ornaments the border, over which are bias folds as high as the knee, or two ruches.

The caps for evening costume are very elegant, and are chiefly of the turban kind; they are of colored crape, or of broad rich blond; the former in bias, and elegantly caught up on each temple, where bouquets of flowers are placed; when of blond, the borders are turned entirely back, and the ribbons and flowers lie on the hair. The dress hats for the country are now frequently of white chip; they are lined with colored crape, and ornamented with branches of heath in blossom, or small esprit feathers. Young persons still continue to wear their tresses charmingly and becomingly arranged, without any ornament; even at balls, where a certain style of dress is required, only a few flowers are added. Berets and turbans of crape are yet worn by matrons at evening and dinner dress parties.

Bonnets of white and of colored gros de Naples are much in request; they are trimmed with puffs of the same round the crown, in a truly elegant and simple manner: a broad rich white blond finishes these bonnets at the edge of the brim. For the morning promenade, and for early shopping, nothing is reckoned more genteel than a bonnet of Dunstable straw, lined with some bright summer color; a ribbon crossing the crown, of the same color, from which, without any rosette, are formed the strings: these bonnets are universally worn by ladies when walking in the park or gardens of a nobleman's or gentleman's country seat: the riding hats are all now of black beaver. Leghorn hats, though they never will be out of fashion, are seldom seen at the promenade; they seem confined to the carriage, and are of extreme fineness; they are usually ornamented with flowers now in season: the puffs of ribbon with which they are trimmed are long, and the strings float loose.

The pelisses are made chiefly in the wrapping style, with the body a la Circassienne; but pelisses are not very much worn. Shawls of Chinese and of Cyprus crape are infinitely

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more in request: we greatly admire the former: they set beautifully to the form, keep out the chill air, yet never appear too warm for the short summers of our uncertain climate the Cyprus crape shawls are very pretty; but they are so easily imitated that they are become extremely common. A few muslin pelisses have appeared at Tunbridge, and other places of fashionable resort; but they are by no means general: the weather was cold during the commencement of July, and the fashionable pedestrian, thus enveloped, was compelled to add a shawl of Chinese crape, forming thereby a very pretty cos

tume.

The favorite colors are garnet, yellow, celestial-blue, stonecolor, spring-green, Parma-violet, and lavender.

PARISIAN FASHIONS.

PARISIAN WALKING DRESS.-A dress of Aurora, or apricot-colored batiste, bordered by two flounces, edged with fringe. The sleeves are a l'imbecille; and a canezon-pelerine of plain muslin, trimmed with a double frilling of lace, conceals the body this is surmounted by a triple ruff of fine narrow lace, tied in front by a bow of pink ribbon. The hat is of white chip, ornamented with an exotic flower, and green foliage the flower is often the camerina, or canary-bell flower. Strings of pink ribbon float loose, and the hat is slightly trimmed with the same.

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FRENCH MORNING DRESS.-A dress of stone-color, lavender, or any other chaste and unconspicuous tint, of muslin ; with a broad hem round the border of the skirt, headed by two rows in zig-zag, formed of satin rouleaux, in grass-green, or in dark-blue: the sleeves a l'imbecille; and the waist confined by a belt the same as the dress, bound with the same color as the ornament at the head of the broad hem, and fastened in front by a gold buckle. A canezon-pelerine of muslin, richly embroidered, is worn with this dress, and is trimmed round with broad lace; it fastens down the front with a row of small buttons: a full ruff encircles the throat, divided by a broad, colored ribbon, which ties in a rosette before. The bonnet is formed of white and colored ribbons, sewn together, and is ornamented with full bows of the same, with strings floating.

CURSORY REMARKS ON THE LAST FRENCH FASHIONS.

For the balls which have been given this summer, the most admired dresses are of white organdy, worked in different colors, on very fine India muslin, embroidered in feather-stitch; the sashes worn with these dresses are of beautiful workmanship.

At the late procession of La Fete Dieu the princesses were all in grand court costume; their dresses were of white tulle and silver lama: the dress of her royal highness, Madame, was as short, as if for a ball; and the silver embroidery which formed the ornament round the border of the skirt, and ascended as high as to the knee, was extremely rich; the young ladies in her suite were all in white.

The sleeves still continue to be made a l'imbecille, and the most admired trimming at the border of dresses consists of rows of broad fringe, as high as the knee. A dress of muslin has appeared with one flounce; it was not very broad, yet it was fixed at the knees, and the lower part of the dress left plain.

Young ladies seldom wear now any ornament on their hair, which is arranged either after the English or the Chinese fashion; with the former style, corkscrew ringlets are adopted. Where full dress is required, nothing is reckoned more elegant than a bêret of crape, ornamented with the most beautiful flowers, as light as down. At a concert has appeared a dress hat of crape, the color, jaune-vapeur, ornamented with English-blue ribbons, and a very long branch of Acacia. Several ladies of high rank, in imitation of the princesses, wear, in full dress, their hair elegantly arranged and adorned with flowers; at the back of the head depends a long veil of the finest lace

A lady was seen in the public walks in a pelisse, which she retained as a dress at a rural ball; it was of lilac poplin, ornamented with pattes, placed on a satin bias, which concealed where the skirt was supposed to fasten in front: these ornaments were edged round with a narrow blond. On each hip were large plaits, and, ascending as high as the knees, were two satin rouleaux, and two blond flounces, separated by two rouleaux of satin. The belt was notched, and embroidered

with white silk, on a lilac satin ground. The clear muslin canezons, which are much worn over colored dresses of all kinds as out-door costume, are made with a stomacher in front, and hook behind.

Many bonnets are formed of ribbons and blond sewed together, in alternate stripes; they are very slightly ornamented with puffs of gauze ribbon. According to the color of the lining, so is that of the feathers on Leghorn hats: one or two are placed under the brim, and the others are disposed in stages, one above the other, in front of the hat. Bonnets of open straw are universally adopted in the morning: the newest fancy figured straw is stamped with flowers. A long branch of flowers is often seen ornamenting a Leghorn hat, which forms a Z on the crown, and descends to the middle of the brim, where it terminates by a large bow of ribbon, with long loops and streaming ends. Straw hats, when they are ornamented with flowers, are so embellished, with either Acacia or chesnut blossoms. Hats of rose-colored crape have often the edge of the brim, and the top of the crown, finished by plats of straw four or six ribbons of pink gauze, with satin stripes, are spread out from the summit of the crown, towards the middle of the brim, where they are fastened by a rosette; they first pass through rings, or runners, made of a plat of straw, and are fastened down two and two together. Bonnets of the capote kind, of transparent crape, of some very light color, are much admired for young persons: the crown of these bonnets is much lower on one side than the other, and is ornamented with numerous puffs of ribbon, many of which fall over the brim, and destroy the light transparency of the capote. Bonnets of shining straw, projecting very much in front, are much worn in the morning walks by the merveilleuses; the caul of them, as well as the lining, is of gros de Naples; sometimes the caul has two or three separate stripes, formed of plats of straw: they have no other trimming than a rich ribbon, which forms the strings. At rural balls, young persons wear hat-bonnets, of open straw, with colored crowns of gros de Naples: two rosettes are placed on these bonnets; one on the right side of the crown's summit, the other at its base, on the left.

The colors most in request are lilac, blue, rose color, Indian-green, yellow, and violet.

THE WOOD WREN.

On some huge oak, whose branches grey,
Are straggling o'er the stream below,
Where hare-bells in the breezes play,
And fox-gloves court the sunny ray;
And woodbine, fern, and swart combining
With the honeysuckle twining;
And the eglantine is seen,

And woodroof with its foliage green,

And the water-plantains grow.
'Tis there the wood-wren loves to form
Her dwelling in the branches high;
Defended from the sweeping storm,
And hidden from the traveller's eye;
And there she haunts the live-long day,
And carols light and free;

And there she spreads her pinions grey,
That dash the dew-drops from the spray;
And there she sings her evening lay,
And warms her in the sunny ray,
Beside her native tree.

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