the first time on Tuesday, in company with my worthy friend Timothy. We set off early, in order to secure a good place. The streets through which we passed were all alive and the castle was evidently the centre of general attraction. The bearers of blue bags (for green is now discharged) were particularly nimble. · There, with like haste, by several ways they run Some to undo-and some to be undone.' CORRESPONDENCE. PHILOSOPHICAL QUERY. TO the editor, SIR, It is a well-known fact, that, when the eye has been fixed for a time upon a luminous object, its image continues to present itself after the eye has been withdrawn. TO THE EDITOR, 'Wretched, indeed! but far more wretched yet, 0. change his mode of writing, that change will, at least, be one for the better;-let his attacks be directed against the leading vices, and the ridiculous follies of the age; and let him not affix his censures to the backs of his quondam friends, whose real characters are unimpeachable ;—let him do this, and he will add to the number of his present admirers, a majority of his sensible and virtuous townsmen ; the field is an ample one, and the task itself honourable. If, however, on the contrary, he persevere in the path in which he has set out, he may depend upon one thing, that his labours shall not go unreHis eulogist closes his letter with a fab'e; warded. I, too, would willingly do the same, but being afraid of extending this letter to too great a length, must content myself with referring this gentleman, to the works of the Phrygian Slave; and, that he may not mistake the fable to which I allude, it may be well to inform him that the moral of it is, that those who have glass-heads, should be careful of throwing stones.' A few evenings since, having gazed intently upon the setting sun, I closed my eyes, in order to banish its image, which prevented me from distinguishing the objects around me not succeeding, at once, in My friend was in danger of laughing out-recovering the organs of sight from the impression right, when his eye caught a glimpse, of the which they had received, I closed my eyes a second time, and found the sun's image, which was before galaxy of wigs, which make so many foolish of a brilliant red colour, now tinged with yellow: II faces wise, and so many wise faces foolish.' repeated the experiment, and found the image to assume successively the prismatic colours; passing from 'Odds bobins,' said he, ‘but they are a rum- red to a deep violet, when it ceased to be visible. looking set.' And sure enough they are. I An explanation of the phenomenon will oblige, Your's, never look upon them, without being reminded of the Ugly Club at Oxford, mentioned by the Spectator. Some frowned from under deep wigs. These Timothy took to be the Chamber Counsel, of whose unfathomable legal knowledge, he had often heard. Others mounted fierce wigs, and pert wigs. These he doubted not, were the formidable lawyers he had read of, who terrified poor witnesses so in cross-examination. A few sported sly wigs; -and a great many were encumbered with wigs that bore no character at all. All these he set down as the briefless. There were newmoon phizzes and full-moon phizzes; sleepy eyes and sleepless eyes-staring eyes and squinting eyes: sharp noses and snub noseshook noses and long noses-twisted noses and twittering noses :-in short, features differing as much from each other as possible, but all agreeing in that true legal characteristic ODDITY! 'What formidable gloom their faces wear! How wide their front!-how deep and black the rear! as Sir Richard Blackmore says of the clouds. Those who were not concerned in the cases before the Court, were killing their time, and and perhaps smothering their chagrin, by reading a newspaper or French novel-or sketching caricatures—or cracking jokes—or perpetrating puns. One graceless wag was moulding paper pellets with his finger and thumb, and discharging them at his second neighbour, over the shoulder of the first. Another was scrutinizing through his glass, the faces of a bevy of beauties, who occupied one of the most conspicuous portions of the Court, as conveniently as if they had been placed there for the express purpose of being seen. A third and a fourth were conversing with each other by signs and nods, across the table. It was an awfully pleasant sight, and can only be paralleled by an equal number of grave divines playing at hunt the slipper in their canonicals, in the midst of a public assembly, if such a thing should ever occur." SIR,--The letter of commendation, to give it a gentle title, with which a correspondent, who has adopted the signature of a 'Clubite,' has favoured the public, in your last uumber, respecting the beautiful essays which appear in the Iris under the title of the Club, has much surprised me; for it is notorious that not one of the elegant compositions' to which your correspondent alludes, is untainted by offensive personalities. ICHNEUMON. ADVERTISEMENT. LECTURES ON POETRY. ON Monday next, 1st April, at seven o'clock in the evening, the REV. J. J. TAYLER, A. B. will begin a COURSE OF LECTURES, at the Rooms of the Literary and Philosophical Society, George-street, Manchester, on the HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY-Further particulars may be learned by applying to Messrs. Robinson and Ellis, 5, St. Ann's Place; Messrs. larkes', Market-place; Mr. Sowler's, and Mrs. Bancks', S. Ann's Square; or Mr. E. Thomson's, Market-street, who will also receive the names of Subscribers. THE DRAMA. MANCHESTER DRAMATIC REGISTER. An eminent literary character, by far the ablest of the Manchester contributors to a well known northern miscellany—a worthy and inoffensive subscriber to a respectable news-room in this town; and the members of some of our most valuable literary institutions, have successively been the batts against which the wit of this club has been directed. I do not make this assertion because, in the ridiculous portraits with which the author has presented us, any resemblance is to be found to these characters: but because, from numerous incidental circumstances, which he has been careful to introduce, it is impossible to mistake Friday, 29th.- Ivanhoe; with a Chip of the Old the objects of his allusions. How any one could conceive such essays to be the son is the offspring of gratitude, a Clubite' conceiv- There, however, are two opinions advanced in this Monday, March 25th.-Wallace; with Therese. the Glen. Block. To the author of the Club' I have, at present, nothing particular to say; nor, if be ceases from his personalities, shall I ever trouble bim: he is report- PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HENRY SMITH, ed to be of a very changeable disposition ;-let him ST. ANN'S-SQUARE. Or, Literary and Scientific Miscellany. PUBLISHED No. 10.-VOL. I. FOR THE IRIS. "THE CLUB." No. V.-FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1822. How now, Horatio? You tremble and look pale: SHAKESPEARE. Another member, who, like a certain philosophic personage, usually coughs to prepare his powers of utterance, supported the same opinion contending that if the dead go to a good place it is not likely they should feel any inclination to return; and if they go to a bad one, they would probably not be permitted. "I have heard," remarked a third member, "of so many instances in which ghosts have, on examination, proved to be evil-minded persons who had a design to terrify others for some mischievous purpose, that I, for my part, am persuaded that almost all ghosts are of the same description." WEEKLY. PRICE 34d. or matter is visible. Therefore there can be no | against which they are applied may, I think, WHEN the landlord of the Green Dragon Our landlord, who appears very desirous to stand well in our opinions, smiled at the maid's alarm while he was stating the circumstance, but, notwithstanding his address, it was very obvious that his mirth, like that of a certain assailant of the club, was only affected in order to conceal his real feeling. Those who have seen the Green Dragon, which, having been built in former times, is rather antiquated and singular in its structure, will easily imagine, that it is not unlikely it should share the fate of many other of the old houses in the town, and lie under the suspicion of being haunted. The landlord had no sooner quitted the room, (for we seldom enter upon a discussion while he is present), than one of the members took up the subject. "How absurd," said he, "is it for people to trouble their heads about specIt is plain that the dead can never return, as no one can conceive of the mode of their reappearance. They cannot appear in the body; for that moulders in the grave. They cannot appear spiritually; for nothing but substance tres. 66 This annihilated, but we should not leave for the The president, who was observed to take world, even the Being who framed it. To shew a more than usual interest in the conversation, you that I have authority as well as reason for having been several times appealed to by dif- what may be termed my credulity, I will read to you a few sentences from the productions ferent speakers, put on a look, like that with which he exercises his authority in his own of two distinguished writers, who have always chairman rang the bell, and desired the landschool, and, in a mild, but still peremptory been reverenced by this Club."-Here the tone, made the following observations. is a subject, Gentlemen, upon which I have lord to send to his school for Johnson's Rasse"I think says Addison,* a person who is often reflected deeply, but, I must confess, las, and the second volume of the Spectator. very little to my own satisfaction. I cannot conscientiously admit that, according to my terrified with the imagination of ghosts and judgment, the mass of evidence preponderates spectres much more reasonable, than one who on that side which has been so warmly espous- contrary to the reports of all historians sacred ed. The notion of ghosts has been assailed, and profane, antient and modern, and to the as usual, by ridicule in the place of argument. traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance But this is not the way to convince an unbias- of spirits fabulous and groundless: could not sed, enquiring mind. The objections which II give myself up to this general testimony of have heard this evening, do not appear to me to be conclusive. Even if they were admitted to be just as far as they extend, the notion Spectator, No. 10. mankind, I should to the relations of particular persons who are now living, and whom I cannot distrust in other matters of fact. I might here add, that not only the historians, to whom we may join the poets, but likewise the philosophers of antiquity, have favoured this opinion.' "Josephus thought that the appearance of departed persons is a most certain proof of the immortality of the soul, and of divine providence.' 66 6 That the dead are seen no more,' observes Johnson, I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails, as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those, that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; and some who deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears."-Rasselas, Chap. 31. When the chairman had finished reading, another member after drinking off his glass, as if conscious that it required more courage than he naturally possessed, to defend a notion which is generally regarded as rather ridiculous, declared that he did believe in super marrying a common female scold of the last | pug-puppy from Paris that is in the world :' and Mrs. B. a sweet cat in her establishment.' Their talk only breathes honey, essence of Tyre, bloom of Ninon, violet washes, and a thousand essences that are advertized in the newspapers. They die of a rose in aromatic' There is, however, a pleasure in holding up anguish, and are recovered by lavender-water, a few of the first classes of talkers to attentive and other soft appliances' fifty times an hour, notice, somewhat similar to that which a Dutch in their over-exquisite' moods. I would soontulip-fancier feels, when he displays to the cu-er sit at an opera with five Jews in the same rious, wondering eyes of one not in the fancy, box, or be in a small room with three French(who had perceived, on being shewn a bed of men, than talk with one of these. them, that they were all tulips, but did not discern the nicer streaks of difference between them,) is 'Some faultless tulip which the Dutch ne'er saw.' composed of common babblers. There are The first and most common class of talkers, several varieties of these; but the most disathem is sufficient to set a whole village at war, greeable is the long-tongued babbler. One of privacy. Rather than be silent, he will wound or disturb the peace and sacredness of virtuous his dearest friend, with a tongue, which, like Laertes' foil, poisons wherever it touches; and sometimes even him who first used it. From Jones's finery, and Miss Jenkins's faux pas; this sort of talker you learn the origin of Miss the state of Mr. Tomkins's embarrassment, &c. &c. Or if you fear what the world thinks of your own character for virtue or folly, you entire dissatisfaction. He publishes a pernicimay have your misgivings confirmed to your several times had appeals made to his senses in and follows the sound of his own rumour, as a ous piece of truth or scandal in the morning, the way in question; and, though very desir-wether-mutton follows his own bell. Another ous to think differently he could not resist a variety is the dull, or harmless babbler. He belief in ghosts. "You may, gentlemen," talks in his turn and out of his turn, in season said he, "smile at the confession," (for some and out of season, and yet has nothing to say; of the members were beginning to titter,) "but You may, perhaps, learn from him that it rained what I have seen and heard, under very pecu- yesterday; and backed by the boldness of his liar circumstances, and without, I may say, fears, you may get some credit for weather wisthe possibility of deception, I cannot disbe- dom, if you doubt whether it will not rain tolieve." He then detailed some very striking morrow. He is Francis Moore's counterpart. particulars. "I have hardly known a family," said he in conclusion, "into whose confidence I have been admitted, who have not had some inexplicable intimation of the death of a near relative, or a bosom friend." natural visitations. He assured us that he had Many other remarks were made, during the evening, on both sides of the question; but, as they did not seem to contain much force or novelty, it is not thought necessary to lengthen this paper by repeating them. The third are those of the objective class. Be your opinions what they may, however undeniable, correct, settled, or well-digested, they will chew them over, and object to them. and beams in the eyes of Truth. I know such water, motes in the brightest rays of the mind, They will find flaws in diamond-wit of the first throw down a bad pun, as burglars toss a bribe an one. If you would take an advantage which he is gaining in argument, out of his mouth, tage ground of them, and he instantly drops of meat to a house dog who is getting the 'vanthe argument, (as that fabulous dog dropped his substantial meat in the river for the shadow of it,) to tear the poor pun to pieces, anathan nothing; and when he has satisfied himlyzing nothing, till he proves that it is no more self to conviction, that a bad pun is not a good one, he is obliged, after all, from politeness, to laugh reluctantly at the joke. your opinions to-day be to the letter what These are tea-table appendages, and sometimes The second class are the small talkers. hang by the dexter bend of ladies elbows! and The fifth class consists of the talkers in adare usually 'prim, puss gentlemen,' all pretti-mirations. I heard one of these, the other day. words of no tone,' they lisp, or cultivate some ness and pettiness. Ceaseless tonguers of His conversation, if such it might be called, delicate mispronunciation of one of the four- and was made up of a due jargon of Good-Gods! was all exclamation, like a German drama; and-twenty letters, or of a few well-selected God-bless-mes! Is-it-possibles! Who'd-havesyllables. They have a chicken's perseverence thought-its! You-astonish-mes! &c. The chairman is suspected to be quite a conin picking up the smallest grain or chaff of tea-table intelligence, yet are not greedy in the vert to the notion he supported, though, contrary to his custom, he affected to be dubious; hand nothings at less than the cost trouble. possession of it: you may have their secondin support of the suspicion it was particularly Their wit is as an island in a vast sea of three noticed that, when the speaker last alluded to, months' sail; you may steer round it, and by had concluded, the chairman smiled very kind-it, and never make it or if you think you ly upon him by way of encouragement, and said he should be glad to drink his health over again, which he did accordingly. ON TALKERS. J. T. There are as many varieties of talkers as there are of tulips; to classify them would require the nice discernment and patient perseverance of an ethical Linnæus; and when done, it would be an useless classification, unless, indeed, Taste could be brought to have a love for the cultivation of them, with an ulterior view to the improvement of the several classes, by descry it in the offing, you may tack for it, and talk is all question: I should think their tongues The sixth are the interrogative class. Their were shaped like a note of interrogation. I know him, as a catechized charity-boy does, when he one of this genus. You feel, in conversing with is asked what his godfather promised not to do for him. Talk an hour dead with one of this class, and you will only hear from him such interrogatory affirmations as these following: And so Jones is well?-and Johnson's married ?--and you really now prefer Pope to Pomfret?-and you seriously deny that alderman Curtis is the author of Junius ?-and affirm that Dr. Watts did not write The Frisky Songster? The seventh, and most insufferable class, are the exclusive talkers. One of these will undertake to talk for all the company present. If you impatiently throw in but one little word, it is like flinging a large stone into a quick current-it disturbs, but cannot impede it, and rather impels it, still faster onward :-or_like striking a spark into a barrel of gunpowder a fresh explosion of words spreads a hubbub and confusion all around it. Though he tells you every thing you already know, you cannot tell him any thing that he does not know. He can tell you what a new book contains that is to come out next Tuesday, as well as if he was himself Wednesday; or anticipate the merits of a great picture on the easel. If you mean to see the new tragedy, he has seen it, and he destroys all the delight you would have in its newness, by repeating the best points of it, and by unravelling its plot. If you set out with an anecdote, he snatches it out of your mouth, as a covetous dog would a desired bone from his best boon companion and dearest puppyfriend, and tells it for you. You object that your's was a different version of the same story, and gently persist in telling it your own way: -he knows the other version as well as you do, and re-relates it for you, but thinks his own the best. If you persist, after all, in telling it for yourself, he will insinuate to-morrow that you are in your anecdotage, and declare that you are the worst teller of a good thing since Goldsmith. You could not have done a worse thing than start an anecdote in his hearing, for that one is too sure of reminding him of a hundred others; and the last one of that first century of good things is so nearly related to the first of the second century, that he cannot choose but relate it, and you dare not choose but hear it. If you commence a favourite quotation, he takes up the second line, goes on with it, and ends by quoting twice as much as you intended. This invariably leads him to recollect another poem by the same author, which no doubt you have heard, but Mrs. Jones, who is present, would perhaps like to hear; and then he begins it without farther prelude, and you can, if you please, go to sleep ad interim, if you have no fear of his reproach for want of taste, &c. before your eyes, to keep them open. You have been to Paris, and he informs you of your expenses on the road:-or you are going to Scotland, and he narrates most pathetically the miseries of a German inn. Of all talkers these are the worst. MATHEMATICS. Solution of No. 2, by Mercurius. Let x the side of the cube; then we have, by the question, x— x3 = a maximum. Hence, dr= 3xzdx, or, 3x2=1. That is, x = Answers were received from Mr. W. M. Laurie, and Amicus. Solution of No. 3, by X. Y. dancing after a month's gout; or like that ་ A. M. .D Draw the lines AC, CB, MN, and DE; and let b=MD; a=ND; x=CE; and y=DE. Then, by similar triangles, bx: a: ах b EN. There are several other classes, which I shall y2 (DE2) + (EN2)= a2 (ND2) MASTER MINASI. gratify their curiosity. Many persons of distinction, Minasi was encored five times. He was the idol The eighth class are the exaggerators, not the professional, but amateur fibbers. These In the early part of the year 1819, the Countess are a pleasant set of talkers: you must not, to and Lord Oxford, being very desirous to hear this be sure, take them literally. It is a humour juvenile Orpheus, who was then only four years and that even witty persons cannot always appre-a half old, applied to his father, who was willing to ciate; to your thoroughly sensible and oneand-one-make-two sort of minds, it is a stumbling-block and a reproach.' It is, perhaps, as to its conversational value, mere nonsense: it is what an ingenious punster (fracturing a French word in pieces) considers bad-in-age, and not very good in youth. But, most sensible reader, shut not thine ears against it: if thou wouldst enjoy sense at any time, listen sometimes to his less capable brother, Nonsense. After the mind has been wearied by abstruse studies, or worldly carkings, or imaginary ills, or positive griefs, is not nonsense like letting a long-strained bow relax; or giving slackness to a lute-string? Nonsense is to sense, like shade unto light, making, by strong contrast, what is beautiful, still more beautiful:-it is like an intended discord in a delicious melody, making the next concord the sweeter; or like silent sleep after sorrowful wakefulness; or like that calm which succeeds a storm; or like cheerfulness after care; or like condescension after hauteur; or like the freedom of a night-gown or slippers to the cramping of tight boots and bursting buttons; or like a night's A li-ar, is that despicable thing Though sometimes, where most useful, prized least. Answer to John Swilbrig's Enigma in our last. A German Flute. CHARADE No. 11. In a considerable town in this country may be found, a national calamity-a pledge of union-and half of a dead sheep. POETRY. SONG.-CONCEALMENT. AH! chide me not, that o'er my cheek No tears of silent sorrow steal, Nor deem the ardent passion weak, My bosom long has learnt to feel; No words my secret flame reveal, No sighs the tale of love impart, Yet looks of outward peace conceal The sadness of a bursting heart. Yet do not blame me, if awhile I wear the semblance of repose, And who a fleeting summer smile, To gild the darkness of my woes : Oh! 'tis the lingering ray that throws O'er the dim vale a blaze of light, And bright in parting splendour glows The herald of a cheerless night. FROM ANACREON. They say, fair Niobe of yore Which Rosabella deigns to grace ;— SONNETS FROM FILICAJA. On the Death of Christina, Queen of Sweden. The tree, which shaken of its royal boughs Gave with its trunk a shelter and a shadeWhose broad and towering top to heaven arose, High, as in earth its roots were deeply laidWhere men the nest of all their hopes had made, Whence Virtue sought support amidst her woes, The branches of whose glory broadly spread From the far West to where the Caspian flowsYields, as its massy roots are rent away, And in its mighty ruin buries all That in the shelter of its shadow lay. It sinks as if the solid world gave way, Majestic in the thunder of its fall, And mighty, e'en in ruin and decay. To Italy. Where is thine arm, Italia?-Why shouldst thou Fight with the strangers?-fierce alike to me Seem thy defender, and thine enemy; Both were thy vassals once-though victors now. Thus dost thou guard the wreath that bound thy brow, The wreck of perish'd empire;-When to thee Virtue and valour pledged their fealty, Was this thy glorious promise, this thy vow? Go then reject thine ancient worth, and wed Degenerate Sloth: 'midst blood, and groans, and cries, Sleep on, all heedless of the loud alarms. Sleep vile adulteress from thy guilty bed, Too soon th' avenging sword shall bid thee rise, Or pierce thee slumbering in thy minion's arms. TO MISS M. A. TREE. Delicate Spirit, thou wert made Or with sweet Juliet's faith to prove Every softer, kindlier glow, Finds its resting-place in thee: In Sorrow's touch so lightly press'd, Or with Ophelia's fleeting mind, To shrink at once before the blast; To wither in an hour, and find But one short grief,-the first and last : To view the desolation wide, And yield, nor dare to stem the tide. Or, in fond Julia's shape to tell, The tyraut thrall that lovers bear? And while I look on thee I feel 'Twere rapture at some shrines to kneel Delicate Spirit thou wert made Thus to breathe thy noiseless spell, And binds, although invisible. VARIETIES. TURKISH JUSTICE. The Turkish Ambassador, who was at Paris in 1798, bought a diamond of a jeweller in that city. While the bargain was concluding, one of his people stole a ring. Å little child saw it, and told his father after the Turk was gone. The jeweller immediately wrote to the Ambassador, who sent him word that he should wait twenty-four hours. After the expiration of this time, the jeweller received a box directed to him, which he opened, and found in it the head of the thief, with the ring between his teeth! FRENCH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES. To parody a famous expression of Mirabeau, it may be said that the French language is making the tour of the world.' A French Journal is now printed at Smyrna, under the title of the Spectateur Oriental; and another is published in the Russian empire, at Odessa; two French papers appear at Madrid, the one entitled the Regulateur,' and the other the 'Boussole,' England has its Courier de Londres;' and several French Journals appear in various parts of Germany and Switzerland. Such are the accounts of the French themselves of their language. Let us compare them with the English, destined perhaps one day to exceed all other languages in universality:In Paris, one paper; in Brussels, one; in Canada, several; in America, between three and four hundred; in the different West India Islands, seven or eight at least; in New South Wales, two and a magazine; in India, five or six, and also one or two periodical works; at the Cape of Good Hope, and in our other Colonies, one paper at least. While 15,000,000 of persons in the West Indies and America, 20,000,000 at home, and half a million or more in the different Colonies of the East and in Europe, making a total of 35,000,000 inhabiting every climate, speak the English tongue from childhood; besides all those foreigners whom Literature or Trade induce to study it. The increase of the English language in America, in the East, and in New South Wales, will only be limited by a territory which far exeeds one quarter of the globe, when its population shall be at a standa more permanent memorial of Britain than all her martial triumphs, and destined to make her remembered and admired when they are long forgotten! FASHIONS FOR APRIL. [From ' Ackerman's Repository of Arts, Fashions,' &c.] PROMENADE DRESS. A French gray poplin round gown, made to fasten behind; the bust is ornamented on each side with chenille to correspond, in a scroll pattern, in such a manner as to form a stomacher à l'antique. Long tight sleeve with a full epaulette, consisting of two falls disposed in bias, and stiffened at the edges, so as to stand out from the long sleeve: they are lightly embroidered at the edge in chenille. The bottom of the long sleeve is pointed, and finished at the edge with chenille. The trimming of the skirt consists of a rouleau of gros de Naples to correspond at the bottom, surmounted by a trimming of gros de Naples, quilted in the middle, and set on in a serpentine direction. The pelisse worn over this dress is composed of a colour between a peach blossom and a red lilac latestring; it meets in front, and is tied op with bows of bound lutestring. The bottom of the skirt is finished by a broad band of velvet to corres pond with branches of leaves issuing from it, disposed in a scroll pattern, and bound with lutestring. The body is ornamented on each side of the bust with French folds, finished at one end by a rosette of crimped cord, and at the other by a bullion frog. The back is tight, and the hips are ornamented with frogs to correspond. Tight sleeve, finished at the hand in a rich pattern of lutestring leaves edged with satin. Full epaulette, slashed across in an oval form, and the middle of each slash ornamented with lutestring leaves. Head dress, a bonnet of white figured gros de Naples, trimmed with amber gauze, disposed in drapery folds across the back of the crown, and brought round to the bottom of the crown in front: the edge of the brim is finished by narrow folds of ponceau and amber satin. A full bunch of flowers adorn the crown, and white gros de Naples strings tie in a full bow on one side. Black shoes. Limerick gloves. EVENING DRESS. The evening dress is composed of gray silk; the trimming of the skirt is of net, laid on full, and divided into compartments by narrow sattin rouleaus, terminating at the top in points, each point flushed by three white satin leaves; a double rouleau of white satin goes round the edge of the bottom of the skirt. The corsage is of net; it is full on each side of the bust, the fullness confined in the middle by a narrow band of satin; it is sloped down at each side to form the shape of the bosom, and is edged by a singularly pretty satin trimming, which also goes round the bust. The corsage is cut low and square round the bust; the waist is of the usual length; a net sash, richly wrought in steel, is tied on one side. Short full sleeve, composed of Urling's net, finished at the bottom by a narrow satin band, and ornamented with satin in the form of bat's wings. Hair dressed low behind, full on the temples, and less divided on the forehead than usual. Head-dress a double wreath of spring flowers. Necklace and ear-rings, pearl. White kid gloves. White gros de Naples slippers. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. The favourite articles in jewellery are necklaces of several rows of pearls, twisted and fastened with richly-ornamented ring of polished steel. a The favourite colours are jonquil, milk chocolate, Egyptian reed, and Parma violet: the fast approaching spring will, no doubt, make all these favourite colours more general. |