some ladies add to these bonnets a fox-brush adorned with tassels, and a full plume of wlute plume of black feathers.

ostrich feathers. The cornettes for receiving Fine cambric dresses are yet prevalent for home parties, are of richly embossed net; they the dejeuné costume; they are, of course, made are made in front with a tiara. point, and are high, and have a pelerine cape, trimmed round || finished with blond next the face, and ornawith fine muslin; they are finished round the mented with a very full half wreath of small border by numerous tucks, and a narrow red roses, privet blossoms, and Scotch heath. flounce of muslin at the extremity of the hem, The favorite colors are pink, London smoke, set on very full. Neptune blue, and lavender.

For the most fashionable articles in the

The home costume, is composed of high dresses of purple, and other dark colored sars-jewellery line, we feel ourselves indebted to nets; they button down the front of the bust, and are finished at the border of the skirt, with puffings, in bias, of satin, the same color as the dress; these puffings are confined by rich silk cordon. Sarsnets, tabinets, and satins, are, as usual, worn as materials for dinner party dresses, at this time of the year, and Scotch plaids of various kinds are very general. The autumnal recess ball dress is of white gossamer satiu; it is finished at the border, by rosettes of blond, set on at equal distances; in each rosette is a guelder rose, the body is ornamented en chevrons, which are formed by narrow rouleaux of satin, placed on fiue net. On the full short sleeves, are scallops of net, caught up with a small guelder rose. With some ball dresses of white net over white satin, is worn a beautiful corsage of pink satin, with an Arcadian frill; the corsage is embellished with a novel kind of trimming round the bust, representing rings, seemingly issuing (from interstices formed in the most ingenious manner,) from beneath the under part of the corsage. The sleeves are made to correspond: the stomacher is of white satin, diversified with narrow pink chevrons.

The turban dress hat is a very favorite headdress with married ladies; it is formed of white crape and white satin; the turban part is divided from the forehead, à la Sultane, with an elegant souffleé plume of real paddi feathers, which are white, tipped with lilac. The provincial theatre cap is of fine net, pink satin rouleaux, and blond; it is crowned with small roses, placed in bias among blond flutings. The white evening highland toque is much admired in full dress; it is formed of fine net and white satin en plaid, and has a superb plume of white flat feathers, playing over the front. The pearl colored satin Iberian hat, is also an elegant evening coeffure, it is finished at the edge with beautiful chain wire guimp; the crown

the information of Mr. Hill, at the Parisian depôt, in Regent Street; the ornamental side combs for the hair, are extremely beautiful; an elegant ornament of diamonds rises from the coronet, part of the comb, and a beautiful Indian lotos is seen elegantly depending. The Swiss bodkins for the hair, are headed by a small heliothorpe; in the centre of which is a ceylon ruby; this jewel is surrounded by pear pearls set in gold, which are finished by clusters of small brilliants. The necklaces are of brilliants or amethysts, set in the antique manner, à la Rosace. Diamond wheat ears are a favorite ornament for the hair, intermingled with glauvina pins, headed with elegant filla gree basket work. Bracelets are made of dark hair, fastened with amethyst or topaz brooches. The fans in this collection would lose by description; they are all chefs d'oeuvre of their different kind; but we were peculiarly struck with those of carved ivory, than which no lace work can be fiuer; some of these are delicately painted over in small festoons of colored flowers of the most brilliant hues.

The ball dresses are of fine net, trimmed with pearls in chain work, with other superb ornaments, and fastened behind with pearl buttons, in the form of crescents.

Cabinet of Taste ;

OR MONTHLY COMPENDIUM OF FOREIGN
COSTUMES.

By a Parisian Correspondent.

COSTUME OF PARIS.

THE novelties of this demi-saison have nothing in them pa:ticularly striking; yet our

Marchandes de Modes are never au desespoir; || but the back is plain. The pelerines worn and I have selected some very elegant articles || with gowns are shaped like a heart, and are for the toilet, of which the following is a faith-trimmed with silk cordon, as are the manche

ful description.

Little shawls of Chinese crape are very prevalent for the promenade, when the weather is mild; they are trimmed with broad tufted fringes; are drawn up close to the throat, and fasten in front with a silk cordon. A few pelisses of Merino have made their appearance, and will, no doubt, be more general as the cold increases; their only novelty is a flounce of satin round the border; and the mancherons of satin, en bourelet. Wrapping pelisses of sarsnet, of a light color, with three enormous pelerine capes, are, at present, very|| much worn in the country. Cachemire shawls, of all colors, and of various patterns, are universally adopted.

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rons and the belt. A new manufacture fur gowns is much admired; it is called Nerine. The ground is grained, or what you style, I believe, Shagreen. It is of silk, and fabricated at Lyons. The most approved colour for dresses made of this material, is London Smoke.

Five hundred blouses were made last week, and shipped off for America. They were of cambric, lawn, and leno. The collars worn with these dresses are those belonging to the fichu underneath, which turn over, and have deep points à la Chevaliere. Dresses made of barêge silk are of a running pattern, like those on clear muslin, that are termed Persian flowers. Colored gowns have sleeves of white lace. The French ladies do not now embrace each The most fashionable trimming at the edges other when they meet, as formerly; no, they of hats, is gauze doubled in bias; bonnets are give a hearty shake of the hand; and in their still tied with long broad lappets. The favorite large straw hats, their loose wrapping gowns, bonnet flower is the Scabius, particularly on || pantaloons, and gaiters, they look more like lemon color. The bows of ribbon are very two young fellows from the country, than Parilarge on hats; on some the bows are of straw; || sian ladies. These blouses continue so much and these have an ornament called the Glean- in favor, that they are often worn over a dress er's Sheaf, which has the ears of the wheat gown in lieu of a pelisse; these are generally bent downwards, and seemingly scattered; made of embroidered cambric; and as the when flowers are worn with these sheaves, it is blouse is very short, it discovers the elegant generally the Amaryllis, but not so large as it trimming round the border of the dress undernaturally is. The lilly of Calcedonia, is also neath. The sleeves of all dresses are made another favorite flower on hats, but it is pon- very short and full. Braiding is now all the çeau, instead of its native color of bright scar- rage; the merino and cachemire dresses dislet. A new hat of white, cane is much ad- play the most beautiful patterns in silk braidmired; it is ornamented with a wreath of ing, generally of a different color to the dress; flowers, one end of which hangs over the left the sleeves have a very rich appearance with side, and is made to mingle with the hair. The this embossment; for they are superbly braided brims of hats are now small, and ponçeau fea- from the shoulder to the wrist. White Barège thers mixed with those that are white, are a silks, or of a celestial blue, with variegated fashionable ornament for these small carriage oriental shawl borders, are among the most hats. The sempstress' morning bonnet is of elegant novelties of the day. tulle, and is tied under the chin with a half handerchief of the same material. The leghorn, chip, and cotton, in imitation of straw, are generally made large either in hats or bonnets; the strings tie very loose, and are fixed with a pin to the belt, in a bow forming a double rosette. These hats were worn at the country balls; and not only there, but now at the pub-rouleaux, and a bouquet of clove carnations. lic walks, and even at the theatres, when the At the last performance at the Opera Buffa, audience is composed of those females who the ladies wore no ornament on their heads but rank in the first circles. their hair elegantly dressed, there were, how

The hair arranged à la Ninon is the most prevailing fashion for evening dress, with a plume of Marabouts. A dress hat of light grey gros de Naples, is also much admired, with a plume of curled feathers of the same color. White silk caps are likewise a favorite head-dress, ornamented with carnation, red

The bodies of the gowns are plaited in front, ever, a few celestial blue or ponçeau turbans.

Brooches representing flies and spiders, of a dark Spanish fly green, are now in great estimation.

The reticules are made in the shape of plain work-bags, exactly square; they have on them a large cypher, the initials of the owner's name, which takes up as much space as those of the sovereign on a hussars Sabretache.

each arm, and one more on the right arm than on the left. A multitude of rings on the fingers, from the plain one of polished steel to || the broad thickly set brilliant ring. Vermillion cockleshells form a favorite clasp for belts: some jewellers make these of real shells, and line and edge them with gold.

The favorite colors are celestial blue, lemon

Bracelets of a different kind are worn on color, and Spanish fly green.

THE HIVE.

An eclipse.—At a representation of a French || classical youths in attendance on the great man comedy a few weeks since, at the West London theatre, in the midst of a comic part, the ornamental figure of the sun under the stage box, fell down with a heavy crash upon the stage, and covered it with plaster, &c. which caused some murmurs of disapprobation from the audience, upon which M. Laporte (a leading comedian) looking up at the place where it had shone so refulgently, restored good humour and laughter by exclaiming "Ce n'est rien qu'une éclipse, messieurs." {

are styled adjutantes, though in England we might ignorantly be disposed to call them scullions,—an accomplished professor is very highly considered, who for his own part imagines himself a personage of great consequence. Amongst a nation of the greatest actors in the world, both in gesture, countenance, and expression, for theirs may be termed a language of tropies and figures, the innkeepers may be called the greatest. An English officer quartered in Catania being in want of a cook, applied to a Boniface of the

Beautiful definition.—At the celebrated in-place for one, who after apostrophizing for

stitution for the deaf and dumb, at Paris, one of the élèves was asked the meaning of the word gratitude," he immediately took his pen and wrote "The memory of the heart."

some time on the mystery itself, suddenly burst forth into a warm panegyric on Don Dominico the bishop's artist. "Your excellency is of course acquainted with his merits." "No." "Well I am astonished! I thought he had been known all over the Criticism.-A party was very uncharitably || world,-at Naples I can tell you, his name is discussing Mr. Banks' history of Rome. Really," said a gentleman, "you all appear to be very hyper-critical and censorious: for my part, I like his Rome, better than his company."

Vanity. Without quarrelling with the rest of mankind, we may be permitted to laugh at their foibles. Of these, vanity to us, is perhaps, one of the most amusing.

A recent English traveller describing domestic manners in Sicily, observes "that the art of cookery itself throughout Italy is held in high estimation, as well as in Sicily, where the cooks, amongst themselves, are called by much higher titles, than we are accustomed to bestow on that fraternity. The lord of the stewpans is designated a professor, and the

a passport !—not a nobleman nor gentleman in Sicily, but should have named him to strangers of your excellency's distinction, in fact (lowering his voice to a whisper) all their cooks are more or less disciples of that great man! he is as much above all other professors in this part of the world as"—“ I perfectly understand you," interrupted the officer, "he is among cooks what Raphael was among painters." "Exactly so, your excellency! you have hit it exactly, you begin to understand things--per deo a genius!were you any thing but an Englishman, I should say half a Sicilian."

The petty way in which vanity displays itself in little things is often amusing. Every body has heard of the warm farmer who