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which was so easy a home-costume, has colour of the ground tourterelle, with very been transferred to the out-door envelope, || dark satin stripes of shaded blue. A faand is retained as the most appropriate vourite home-dress is of pink lawn, borderdress for the morning walk, especially ined with four or five very broad bias folds : the country; and who could remain in it is made high, en gerbe, with a Paladin Paris at such a season? To these muslin collar-cape; but, as the dress fastens bepelisses have succeeded some very elegant hind, this collar is pointed in front, and is ones of organdy, a little smarter in their not cleft as these collars are in general: it make; they are trimmed with very broad is trimmed round with a very full chevauxlace, set on full, in deep scallops. The de-frieze, of the same material as the dress, corsage is made to fit the waist exactly, and and is surmounted by a double collar of the sleeves are ornamented in a very ele- fine muslin, edged with lace, and fastening gant manner with rûches and bows of in front with a bow of pink satin ribbon. organdy: two rows of the same rûches A favourite evening dress is of vine-leaf terminate the border of the pelisse next the green gauze and gold lama; two broad feet. Muslin canezous, over either white or flounces of tulle, embroidered with gold, coloured dresses, are in universal favour; and each headed by a rouleau of green these are of fine India muslin, richly em- satin, ornament the border; the corsage is broidered up the sleeves, en chevrons. quite plain, fitting tight to the shape, and White hats are generally ornamented the sleeves of the same material puffed out, with jessamine or tube-roses; crape hats but quite unornamented, except a quilling are bound with satin in bias, and when the of blond next the arm; and a very superb hat is white, this binding is of dark green, blond tucker, plaited in the middle, encirshaded; in front is placed a branch of a cles the bust. I have seen a splendid ballrose-tree with the leaves the colour of dress finished for a lady belonging to the jocko (that is to say a red-looking brown) || court: it is of tulle, beautifully figured, and and the roses in bud, but very large. Some ornamented with white satin foliage; each crape hats have the crowns notched in leaf jagged, and at the base of each leaf is front; the two portions that are hollowed a rosette of white satin, with a large pearl out are filled up with embroidered tulle: in the centre. Of these elegant foliage white feathers encircle the crown, and ornaments there are three rows; and next under the brim two cockades of satin rib- the shoe is a full rouleau of gauze, entwined bon, cut in notches, serve to fasten the with white satin: the corsage is made à la strings. The round hats have two bows Sevigné; and the bouffont ornament across under the brim. Sparterie hats are still the bust is confined by two strings of worn, but they seem on the decline; a pearls down the centre: the short sleeves large bow of sparterie is placed in front; full and unornamented. The hair of the the strings are of straw-coloured ribbon. || lady who wore this dress is remarkably Veils are very general. The flowers that fine; and it was arranged in the most beare placed on hats are remarkably small, coming and ingenious manner, in light but there is a vast quantity of them: they bows and curls, among which were eleconsist of sweet peas, palm-blossoms, and gantly wreathed corn-poppies and ears of the laurel-rose. Chip hats are generally corn; the latter were all of fine pearls. ornamented with honeysuckles, roses of Toques of gold gauze are much worn by Paradise, pinks, and mignonnette: but let married ladies in full dress, with a full the flowers be what they will, if they are plumage of white feathers. Bolivar hats only placed with grace, fashion is satisfied. of white watered gros de Naples are in Nothing, however, is reckoned more gen-great favour at balls in the country; they teel for walking than a large Leghorn hat, very simply ornamented with two bows of white satin ribbon.

A new material for summer dresses, charmingly calculated for the warm season, has just made its appearance: it is a new tissue, formed from the bark of a tree, the

are ornamented with bows of white satin ribbon and ears of corn: these hats are larger in the brim, in front, than they are at the sides.

The colours most in favour are tourterelle, blue of every tint, pink, and vineleaf-green.

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And whence the living spirit came, and where

It past, when parted from this mortal mould; Of such mysterious themes with willing ear They heard, devoutly listening while she told Strangely disfigured truths, and fables feign'd

of old.

By the Great Spirit man was made, she said ;
His voice it was which peal'd along the sky,
And shook the heavens, and fill'd the earth
with dread.

Alone and inaccessible on high
He had his dwelling-place eternally,
And Father was his name. This all knew
well;

the course of his multifarious reading and research for his history of Brazil. Monnema had fled with her husband from one of the Indian settlements where the smallpox was committing the most dreadful ravages. In her solitary retreat, amongst the marshes and forests beyond the Mondai river, where she had given birth to two children, a son and a daughter, she is found by Dobrizhoffer, who prevails upon her-her husband, previously to the birth of her second child, having been devoured in the forest by a wild beast-to accompany him to the Jesuit town of St. Joachim, in Paraguay. There, pining for the enjoyments of "sweet home," dear to the Indian as to the Swiss, the mother and her daughter successively expire. The surviving son, agonized by his loss, is rapidly sinking into the grave. Imagination brings to his nightly couch the spirits of the dear departed, who implore him to follow the example of his mother and sister, to enter the communion of the new faith, and thus to be for ever united with them in the Christian's world of happiness. He prevails upon the Jesuit to baptize him, as he had before baptized his beloved relatives; and he dies almost immediately after the performance of the sacred rite.-This is The natural foes of men, whom we pursue and

only an imperfect sketch of a simple story, thrown by Dr. Southey into very graceful

verse,

We shall not enter upon the invidious task of pointing out the defects of this poem, which are perhaps more numerous than might have been expected from a veteran writer-of enumerating and chuckling over its puerilities-or of expatiating on its general want of vigour; but, on the contrary, we shall select one or two passages, creditable to the talents and feelings | of the author, and grateful to the taste of the reader. Monnema relates to her children, Yeruti and Mooma, the traditionary belief of the Indians respecting a future state. We have not room for the whole of the passage, but what follows is very beautiful:

On tales of blood they could not bear to dwell, From such their hearts abhorrent shrunk in fear.

Better they liked that Monnema should tell Of things unseen; what power had placed them here,

But none had seen his face; and if his eye
Regarded what upon the earth befell,

Or if he cared for man, she knew not:-who
could tell?

But this, she said, was sure, that after death
There was reward and there was punish-
ment;

And that the evil-doers, when the breath
Of their injurious lives at length was spent,
Into all noxious forms abhorr'd were sent,
Of beasts and reptiles; so retaining still
Their old propensities, on evil bent,
They work'd where'er they might their
wicked will,

kill.

Of better spirits, some there were who said
That in the grave they had their place of
rest.

Lightly they laid the earth upon the dead,
Lest in its narrow tenement the guest
Should suffer underneath such load opprest.
But that death surely set the spirit free,
Sad proof to them poor Monnema addrest,
Drawn from their father's fate; no grave

had he

Wherein his soul might dwell. This therefore could not be.

Likelier they taught who said that to the
Land

Of Souls the happy spirit took its flight,
A region underneath the sole command
Of the Good Power; by him for the upright
Appointed and replenish'd with delight:
A land where nothing evil ever came,
Sorrow, nor pain, nor peril, nor affright,
Nor change, nor death; but there the

human frame,
Untouch'd by age or ill, continued still the

same.

Grieve, nor thirst parch and hunger pine; from the Italian of Ludovico Ariosto,

On the white bones the mouldering roof Displays the simply braided hair ;