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body ; tight sleeves, and large pelerine or cape finishes this perfect morning costume ; the cape being either spotted all over or embroidered, edged with gympe and lace fringe, the color assorted to that of the tissue or material of the dress. Another style of dress considered very becoming for promenades is made in taffetas glacé, trimmed with four flounces of lace, or four rows of very broad fringe. There is no doubt that the most favorite material for walking dresses will be the moires glacées | unies, and those à raies Indostanes.

BALL DRESSES are still being made a double jupe. Two dresses we have just seen, which we can cite as being very pretty and new, being made in the form of tuniques, composed of crépe, and open at the sides. One of them was attached with a row of carnations of variegated colors, placed zigzag upon the sides of the jupe ; the other dress being ornamented à coté, with a white corkscrew trimming, caught at distances with cameos of coral ; the draperies of the body attached also with cameos, in the style of the ancient Romans. Another rich description of dress is now being made of white satin, trimmed with two rows of gold heading round the bottom of the skirt ; the tunique that is worn over is of tulle, descending as far as the top of the second heading on the under jupe. This tunique is rounded in the front, and attached to the under dress with nœuds of gold cord ; the corsage ornamented with folds, edged with a heading forming a cape over the back and shoulders. The waist a rounded point, encircled with a rich cordelière ; the sleeves very short, rounded at the back of the arm, and caught up in the front, bordered also with a gold heading. CAPS are still being worn for demi-costume. One of the most simple and elegant isthat called à la Gertrude : it is of white tulle, the crown very small, the form much resembling the cap of a French peasant; the butterfly ears descending on cach side very low, and the whole entirely edged with a very small full ruche, supported at each end with a tuft of Parma violets. Then we have a delightful morning cap in muslin, lined with pink or blue gauze, and trimmed with English or Mechlin lace, interspersed with little pompons of ribbon. We have also remarked among others, some charming little caps in lace, trimmed round the crown with a garland of small roses, and small velvet bows interspersed with lace. For an evening nothing can be prettier than the little Venetian caps, the foundation open, and made of gymped blonde, trimmed with a garland of primroses. Also caps à la jardinière ; these are formed short at the ears, with a pompon of ribbon, or a single flower placed on each side of the temples, and having a bow of ribbon with long ends floating over the back of the throat. This little coiffure is generally made in blonde or English point lace. Les fanchons : this is a little fantasie made

in black or white lace, arranged in a graceful form, so as to be worn with the combs named after the Empress Josephine, and which are now so much the fashion ; these combs are made in frosted gold, and sometimes ornamented with cameos. SCARFS.-We can assure our fair readers that scarfs will be much worn this summer ; we have already been favored with a sight of one or two of the newest style. One of them was composed of bouillons or fullings in poult de soie glacé, continuing the whole length of the scarf, each one being about three fingers wide, and separated by rows of open work gympe about the width of two fingers. The whole of the scarf is lined with a deep color, which can be seen through the open part of the gympe, the edge decorated with a well-assorted fringe. This scarf forms a pelerine behind, and is fulled in the front, falling back in two large ends, and descending low beyond the knee. Another was made à la pelerine unie, but rounded, and the ends bouillonnées horizontally crossed with open work gympe, allowing here and there the lining to be seen. Lastly, we must mention a mantelet, fulled in the shape of a high cardinal pelerine, headed by a collar mousquetaire, style of Louis XIII. put on plain, and rounded so as to form the shape.

SONNETS. BY CHARLES LAMB. WAS it some sweet device of faery That mocked my steps with many a lonely glade, And fancied wanderings with a fair-hair'd maid? Have these things been ? or what rare witchery, Impregning with delights the charmed air, Enlighted up the semblance of a smile In those fine eyes ? methought they spake the while Soft soothing things, which might enforce despair To drop the murdering knife, and let go by His foul resolve. And docs the lonely glade Still court the footsteps of the fair-hair'd maid? Still in her locks the gales of summer sigh? While I forlorn do wander reckless where, And ' mid my wanderings meet no Anna there. Methinks how dainty sweet it were, reclin'd Beneath the vast out-stretching branches high Of some old wood, in careless sort to lie, Nor of the busier scenes we left behind Aught envying. And, O Anna ! mild-eyed maid ! Beloved ! I were well content to play With thy free tresses all a summer's day, Losing the time beneath the greenwood shade. Or we might sit and tell some tender tale of faithful vows repaid by cruel scorn, A tale of true love, or of friend forgot ; And I would teach thee, lady, how to rail In gentle sort, on those who practise not Or love or pity, though of woman born.