FIGURE 1. Dress toilette for Promenade.-Robe of damask broche, light green upon a more deep green. Corsage open in front, high behind, with revers, showing very pretty high guimpe, composed of eight or nine little volants of white lace, slightly gathered; waist long.

Sleeves demi-large, a little short, open on the inside, exhibiting white under-sleeves, which come out in puffs, with tight wristbands, and two volants of lace upon the hand.

Jupe with flat, broad plaits upon the hips. On each side, the jupe is opened to two-thirds of its height, and the stuff folded back upon itself, forming two revers laid very flat upon the jupe. These two openings are filled below with green damask like that of the robe.

The revers of the corsage and those of the jupe are edged throughout with fringe of green silk of two shades, arranged thus: first, a head of narrow galoon, second, a knit mesh, and, finally, the fringe of two shades.

The openings of the sleeves are crossed with a galloon with fringe, and those of the jupe are also crossed with five rows of the fringe.

Capote of pink satin in round folds. There are three crossings of gauze riband with rounded scallops. These crossings have a fold in the middle, and are gathered; two surround the face, the other crosses the crown en bias.

FIGURE 2.-Home Dress.-This exceedingly pretty dress is made of satin, a la reine. The corsage is high, and fitted tight to the form; the waist long, and without belt. The redingote is buttoned in front from top to bottom, with seven buttons on the corsage, and eleven on the skirt. These buttons are of jet, cut in facets, and surrounded by small black balls, and furnished each with three little tassels. They are set on between two flat revers of stamped velvet, stitched in relief upon the redingote. The corsage is furnished with similar trimming. These velvets are broad above and below, and decrease to points at the waist.

The collar is made of two rows of lace, laid one upon the other. No cravate. Sleeves open behind as far as the elbow, the sides of the openings being connected by four narrow black bands. Between each of these bands a narrow volant of white lace, and finally, from the bottom of the sleeve spring two wider volants of the same.

Coiffure, a small cap of white tulle, upon which are stitched some very narrow red velvets, following the winding of the tulle. On each side depend two small strips, also trimmed with narrow velvets. Each velvet supports a very narrow volant of lace.

Bonnet blue, the front trimmed with four rows of lace, separated by very small feathers placed in rings. A similar trimming ornaments the edge, and a bunch of knotted feathers is placed at the side.

FIGURE 3. Walking Costume. The dress is of cinnamoncoloured satinette; the corsage fits tight to the form and close round the neck. Like most of corsages for out-ofdoor dresses, it is made very high. The sleeves are tight and slit behind to the elbow, where a button and two tassels are affixed. Full undersleeves of white muslin finished at the wrist with lace ruffles. Up the front of the jupe are five ornaments of passamenterie placed upon folds of satinette fixed upon a foundation of stiff muslin. The size of these ornaments is graduated to correspond with the width of the folds, which become narrower from the feet toward the waist. A similar but smaller trimming ornaments the front of the corsage. Around the

FIG. 6.

WALKING DRESS.

WALKING DRESS.

OUR JANUARY NUMBER.

WHEN Sartain's Magazine was commenced, it was with the determination to do, rather than to promise; not to give one splendid specimen Number by way of attracting subscribers, and then fall back into carelessness and neglect, but to maintain fully throughout the year the high character with which we set out. That we have acted up to the spirit of this determination, has been universally conceded. We can say what no other Magazine can-and we say it without the fear of contradiction -that our January Number for 1849, so far from being the best, was the poorest Number published by us during the year. It was indeed a splendid Number, and was commended in the highest terms publicly and privately all over the country. But it was eclipsed by the February, as that was by the March; in fact every succeeding month has been admitted to be an improvement upon its prede

cessors.

The Magazine for the present month may safely challenge comparison, either with its predecessors, or its competitors. In amount of matter, in the quantity and style of its embellishments, and more than all, in the character of its literary contents, it is entirely unrivalled.

In the first place, though not in the habit of boasting of the number of pages in our Magazine, believing that readers care more for the quality than the quantity of what they buy, we may yet call attention to the fact that we give the present month a larger number of pages than was ever before given by any American three-dollar Magazine. We have never promised to give more than 64 pages. We have here given 104 pages. This, according to the standard of one of our contemporaries, is "a Double Number, and eight pages over."

In regard to embellishments, the Magazine has a guarantee of success-which the public has not been slow to recognise-in the distinguished artist who has given it its name, and who, in company with others, has embarked his fame as well as his fortune in the enterprise. What beautiful Gift book or Annual is not indebted for its choicest embellishments to the burin of Mr. Sartain? High, however, as was his reputation in the beginning of 1849, it is still higher in 1850. Important improvements in the art of Mezzotinting have been introduced by him in the course of the last year, as will be obvious to any one who will look over the series of engravings by him published during that period. Lining and Stippling are now so blended with the Mezzotinting process, as to produce in the hands of a man of genius a picture, which for richness of effect, is unequalled by one produced in any other way. Examples of this may be seen in "The Brothers," published in December, and in "The Rival Songsters," now given. But, besides the services of Mr. Sartain, whose most splendid efforts are contributed of course to his own Magazine, we have constantly aimed to secure the very best productions of other artists without reference to expense. The "Conversion of St. Paul" by Serz, the splendid Illuminated Title-page and the brilliant Coloured Flower by Ackerman, the Winter Scene printed in tints by Devereux, the spirited and graceful Illustrations of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton by Gihon, all bear witness to this fact. We give no less than nine of these large full-paged embellishments in this single Number. Besides this, we give throughout the book an almost uninterrupted succession of small gems of artnot "wooden blocks," such as appear in some other Magazines-but wood Engravings, of which an artist need not be ashamed.

But it is the literary character of Sartain, after all, on which it has aimed chiefly to depend, and for which it is chiefly indebted for its unprecedented success. With this view it has sedulously excluded from its pages the whole brood of half-fledged witlings with fancy names-the Lilies and the Lizzies-the sighing swains and rhyming milk-maids of literature, who are ready to contribute any amount of matter, prose or verse, for "a copy of the Magazine," or for the mere pleasure of seeing their effusions in print. Instead of this miserable trash, of which the public have given unequivocal symptoms of disgust, we have aimed to secure, as regular contributors to our Magazine, authors of world-wide reputationwriters of the very highest genius and celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic. To secure this class of writers required indeed an expenditure of money for authorship such as has never before been attempted by Magazine publishers in this country. Believing however in the existence of a reading public-men and women who desire a Magazine to read, not a picture-book to look atwe determined to make the attempt to produce a periodical suited to this supposed want, and we have not seen reason to regret the determination. Any one who will look at our list of contributors will see that it contains nearly every distinguished name among the active collaborators in the field of American periodical literature. Not a few also of the most brilliant writers of Great Britain, who have heretofore contributed to the first class of periodicals in that country, have been induced to transfer their contributions from those Magazines, and now write exclusively for ours. Articles appearing in Sartain are not of an ephemeral character, but such as are destined to take their place in the permanent literature of the country -such as instruct as well as amuse the reader, and profit while they please.

POE'S LAST POEM.

In the December number of our Magazine we announced that we had another poem of Mr. Poe's in hand, which we would publish in January. We supposed it to be his last, as we received it from him a short time before his decease. The sheet containing our announcement was scarcely dry from the press, before we saw the poem, which we had bought and paid for, going the rounds of the newspaper press, into which it had found its way through some agency that will perhaps be hereafter explained. It appeared first, we believe, in the New York Tribune. If we are not misinformed, two other Magazines are in the same predicament as ourselves. As the poem is one highly characteristic of the gifted and lamented author, and more particularly, as our copy of it differs in several places from that which has been already published, we have concluded to give it as already announced.

ANNABEL LEE.

A BALLAD.

BY EDGAR A. POE.

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.