from the narrow bridge, but where it pushed its boughs broadly out, there was nothing beneath them, except the torrent which roared far down under the cliff. The tree itself could be easily climbed by a hardy mountaineer, but unfortunately, the arrow had lodged in a dead branch, which seemed unable to bear the weight of a man. Any attempts from the land to loosen it would inevitably cause it to drop into the torrent.

At one glance the Count saw all the hazard of an attempt to regain the arrow. Yet as a work of magic, whose loss would be followed by a curse, he could not bear to lose it. Rather his castle, anything, than that on which his life depended.

"Five hundred crowns," cried he, "to the man who will place the silver arrow in my hands!" There was a wistful buzzing among his retainers, but no one stirred. The Count marked this and knew what must be the price of such fearful danger.

the Countess Lilien."

"I will grant," he said slowly and loudly, "any boon in my power and consistent with my honour, which he shall demand." At these words, he noticed a youth in the back of the crowd striving to break loose from those who would restrain him. The Count continued: "The reward shall be given by the hands of Albert broke desperately from the grasp of his friends. If success was in the power of man, his light agile form seemed most likely to obtain it. It was easy to ascend the tree up to the point where the dead limb shot off from the trunk. Here he stopped a moment and coolly formed his plan. There was no other course than to advance boldly upon the rotten branch, without any support overhead, and to return in the He stepped lightly and nervously forward.. His eye was fixed upon the silver arrow, as it glittered before him, loosely hanging to the branch with nothing between it and the torrent but a hundred feet of air. It was reached and in the bold youth's hand. Had he moved on without stopping, the decayed wood might have borne its burthen a little longer, but the unavoidable pause in grasping the shaft brought his whole weight for an instant upon a particular point. The branch cracked. He threw the arrow at the Count's feet just as the bough broke from the tree with a crashing noise and fell down the abyss. A cry of terror burst from the crowd.

same manner.

so miraculously preserved to her love, she yielded to the only impulse of her heart and kneeled with him at her father's feet.

Count Rudolin whitened with rage at this presumptuous act. A storm of passion swept into his heart and almost burst the frame that was unable to contain it. For a few moments his retainers looked to see him fall into convulsions, as had often happened when anything roused his ungovernable fury. At length he spoke a few words in a hoarse, stammering hiss.

"Blind and dungeon the madman. On with your sports, simple fools."

Without noticing Lilien he walked hurriedly to the castle, the silver arrow still in his hands. In his joy at its recovery, he had vowed not to part with it throughout the day. The only reward of its restorer was a dungeon.

(To be concluded in our next.)

We understand that some party has been round the local districts with Fashions, and announcing that Mr. Roper (the celebrated Artiste de Modes) had given up businessthis is as untrue as it is unjust; the dress so much admired in the Crystal Palace was deeigned by him, and he still continues to send cases of genuine fashions (see Advertisement). The remittance not being required until after the receipt of the goods must be a guarantee to those who wish to be well supplied. The exquisite manner in which the patterns are made up is too well known to require any comment.

OUR GIRLS.

OUR girls they are pretty,
And gentle and witty,
As any the world ever knew-
Talk not about Spanish,
Circassian or Danish,

Or Greeks 'neath their summer skies blue;
But give me our lasses,
As fresh as the grass is,
When sprinkled with roses and dew.

Each lip like a blossom,

Each fair swelling bosom,
As white as the high drifted snow-
With eyes softly flashing,
Like spring bubbles dashing,
O'er hills-rocks to valleys below;
All smiling with beauty,
All doing their duty,
Where shall we for lovelier go?

O, ours are the fairest, The sweetest, the rarest, The purest and fondest I see

Their hearts are the truest, Their eyes are the bluest, Their spirits so noble and free

O, give me no other; True-love, sister, mother, Our own are the chosen for me..

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tinuance; they are decidedly not so pretty as the ribbon ruches; nor have they the relief which is given by gimp or embroidery in soutache; some of dahlias of velvet waving in wreaths; the taffetas the handsomest are the taffetas with foilage and Pomone is less heavy; having the designs imitating guipure or Alençon lace in a white satin pattern, on laurel green.

OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT. BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS, CREMORNE GARDENS.. The season at September, 27, 1851. these gardens is nearly closed; the weather, CHERE AMIE, which has been most propitious for out-door THE new autumnal materials of silk, or cachemire, amusements, cannot be expected to continue and wool, which already make their appearance, are favourable much longer; and this place of well adapted for tight dresses, or for those à la genuine amusement and public resort will shut Regence, which consist of a long and full skirt with its doors to the pleasure-goers, after a few more pockets, and caraco edged by a ruche à la Vielle or weeks. During the time it has been open, Mr. chicorée, and a pretty waistcoat mousquetaire of Simpson, the proprietor, has catered most li- white jean; this toilette is completed by a silk berally for all his patrons, and thousands have capote with flat soft crown, and ornamented by spent some most agreeable hours in his de- bunch of verbena; very elegant taffetas are of lightful gardens; which, pleasantly situated on rather dark colours, with patterns wove in the the banks of the Thames, may be reached either material in foliage arabic, or rings intertwining; by land or water conveyance at a trifing ex-it is thought this style will not be of long conpense; and which not only afford entertainment for the evening, but also for the day. The dancing and singing this year have been superior to those of any former one; the water spectacles have also been got up on a grand scale; and the ballooning has been kept up with great spirit, the aeronauts who started from Cremorne having escaped the casualties We are asked, what is there new in the Autumn which unfortunately attended the adventures of dresses? To say the truth there is nothing new in some of their contemporaries.. In short, the dresses or redingotes; all attention seems to be season has been one of uninterrupted success; directed to the toilette Louis XIII. which is coma success merited by the great exertions of the posed of a casaque, a gilet, and a full skirt; the proprietor, and his efforts to render "Cre- casaque is made of grosgrain silk or velvet, and morne" a place of amusement to which the generally matching the skirt; the form varies á most fastidious might resort. l'infini, sometimes with pockets, covered by a patte CURIOUS CLOCK.-At Heidelburg, in Ger-placed en biais in front of the hips; sometimes with small chale a l'Aragonaise; the most remarkable divers motions; and when the clock struck, point is that it confines the hips, and requires no the figure of an old man pulled off his hat, a fastening; indeed they are not generally made to button. cock crowed and clapped his wings, soldiers fought with one another, &c.; but this piece of workmanship, with the castle and town, were burnt by the French when they took those garrisons, June 2, 1693.

The peasants broke into shouts of triumph. Even the Count's harsh features wore a smile of admiration as he said,

"Now, gallant boy, ask the boon." Albert looked steadily at the young Countess until she shivered under his gaze. He stepped forward and offered to take her hand within his own. Trembling with recent excitement, and conscious of nothing but the movements of one,

GUILTY SILENCE. It is never more difficult to speak well than when we are ashamed of our silence..

As far as we can yet judge of winter dresses, it than ever; robes, manteaux, scarfs, bonnets, caps appears that velvet trimmings will be more worn it is applied to all and in every style, that is to say, galons of every size, of every colour, of every styleit is a complete furor; at this moment it is used on simple as well as richer toilettes; thus we have l'pretty redingotes, accompanied by their mantelets;

and these dresses have also their jacket bodies, termed cœurs du feu. Some redingotes of silver gray were trimmed with black or dark ruby, or violet velvet; some were ornamented en tablier, enlarging towards the bottom, formed by twenty-seven rows of narrow velvet each side of the tablier, terminated by a wider velvet; the sleeves were rather tight with revers cuff; the corsage very high with revers lined with velvet, which closed at will, crossing the chest; the mantelet accompanying it was of the scarf form; ornamented by numerous rows of narrow velvet. Black has become an indispensable part of a lady's toilette; it is not as formerly reserved for mourning; black dresses are also decorated in a manner that gives them an elegant effect, bugles are much introduced in fringes and gimp; for satin or moire deep lace flounces, or ruches of lace en tablier, are worn; taffetas pinked or stamped form deep trimmings, or the flounces may be covered by narrow velvets arranged as embroidery. Very pretty dresses of black barege or grenadine, have been made with three or seven flounces of the same, festonnés or embroidered; some had above each flounce a little bugle trimming, so light as to do away with a heavy appearance; the corsage half high, or open in the style of a cannezous, was trimmed with lace intermixed with delicate ornaments of bugles; the sleeves demi-pagodes were similarly trimmed. These dresses were not at all intended for mourning but formed elegant toilettes.

The following pretty toilettes were ordered at the close of the season. A robe with corsage à basques, of taffetas chiné pink and brown on a white ground, and sprigged with daisies; the flounces, of which there were three, were edged by nine very narrow ribbons put on full and in rows of three and three, in shades of pink, brown, and white; round the basquines these ribbons formed a ruche, and also terminated the sleeves; the corsage was very open to the ceinture, and ornamented by three noeuds foutanges of ribbon made to suit the style of the dress, and between each noeud was seen the guimpe composed of valenciennes and insertions of embroidery, with sleeves to match; this toilette was for a dinner dress, but may be adopted for morning wear in simple materials, and with twelve tucks of graduated width; the corsage open, with small waistcoat of taffetas; the sleeves with deep revers cuffs and under ones of bouffants cambric, covered by the English embroidery. A redingote of violet taffetas was ornamented in a new style of embroidery composed of spots of velvet graduating in size from the bottom to the top, the smallest size only being used on the revers of body and sleeves; they are of a deeper colour than the dress and fixed round by a cord worked on the material inclosing each spot; a veste in the same style accompanied the redingote, and might equally be worn with a white skirt flounced with English embroidery, under-sleeves and chemisette, with basque of the same, and form an elegant toilette demi negligé. A dress of mousseline de soie of light green ground, was sprigged with bouquets of violet and dark green; the corsage tight with very short sleeves, and covered by a cannezous of point d'Angleterre, very open in front and deep basquines round the waist; wide pagoda sleeves fulled cross way. This cannezous is fastened at the waist by a chou of ribbon; the coiffure was composed of bunches of violets, accompanying nœuds of ribbon with long floating ends.

A pretty country toilette was of iron gray coutil; the corsage with basquine, tight behind, and sufficiently open in front to show a little white jean waistcoat, forming point at the ceinture, closing with buttons round the throat; instead of a collar, was a double row of Valenciennes lace, fluted; the basques and body, as well as deep revers of the sleeves, were ornamented with four rows of very narrow velvet; the front of the skirt was also ornamented by two moutants formed of four rows of velvet, separated by a row of black buttons of a lozenge form; and on each side the skirt the pocket

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The amazon chemisettes of cambric or jaconet with tucks run very close together, very small and regular, are much in favour for morning wear with small collar.

holes were ornamented by a band, forming three have been worn during the warm weather, are not points, trimmed round with velvet and terminated at suitable for the weather we are now preparing for; each point by a button. Straw bonnet, with wreath a skirt of silk with light cannezous must be reof vine leaves, with bunch of grapes at the sides, in-placed by those worn inside the autumnal dress of termixed with nœuds of black velvet and long ends; levantine glacé, or in pattern wrought on the matethe interior with small vine leaves, clematis, and rial, or redingotes of taffetas pekiné; the new canred berries. nezous are entirely of tulle, with application of emThe season for manteaux is so rapidly approach-broidery and valenciennes insertions, the sleeves ing that it becomes matter of necessity to mention made of suitable length with those of the dress. them. Many styles are preparing; they will follow the present mode of pardessus, and remain short, however much they may vary in other respects. The Talmas continue in favour, but have rivals in the Chambords, which are handsomer from their fulness at the bottom, and are very elegant in violet or black; the ornaments vary, but white satin lining is the most elegant. Some mantelets echarpes of velvet are very full. The Talmas last year were quite round, those of this season are with seam on the shoulder, the effect of which is to facilitate the passage of the arm, and avoid the necessity of raising the whole manteau to make use of the hand.

Among the most elegant articles of toilette in demand are the mantelets of velvet with hoods; they are also made without hood, lined with taffetas, trimmed with fringes or lace-though the hood may form pelerine on the shoulders; it is a style that enlarges the form very much, and is very trying if the figure is not really graceful. Many of these mantelets are bordered with bugles, they form point in front and mante behind; cloth ones are spoken of for the winter; it is, however, thought that the Talmas will not be quite excluded from fashion. The Frileuse is intended as the covering at night for ball dresses; it is made of taffetas glacé with hood, very full behind, almost flat on the top of the head, caused by the folds being laid flat and regularly; at the bottom of these is a noeud of black velvet, the hood is lined with pink taffetas and trimmed with lace; the frileuse is very full, and is edged by two rows of velvet as the hood, and a row of black lace.

Until some decided novelty or serious change is announced in bonnets, we may say that, except some slight change in the trimming, bonnets continue much the same as worn during the summer, but they are made a little less spread and less drooping at the crowns; bugles are much used to ornament them; some very rich ribbons have been worked in bugle beads, they are also intermixed in the resilles of gimp, and it is with this open tissu that the crowns of bonnets are often covered; some laces have also been worked with bugles destined to ornament velvet bonnets; the crowns of bonnets will be more simple, but made without stiffness or support; the capote style will predominate, but will yield to taste and fancy. Capotes of velvet will be transversed by insertions of lace; already some are made in this style in satin and lace. A bonnet of the Marie Stuart style was of royal blue velvet with touffe of casoor on each side, the front very open, and the crown with two falls, Marie Stewart; one of pink had the front of pink terry velvet, and the crown of satin, which was edged by four rows of narrow black lace and narrow pink fringe falling on the front; large coques of pink satin ribbon on each side, and the interior ornamented with black lace and pink fringe.

Some new coiffures or caps are preparing for the Autumnal season, composed of tulle or application; some are of round form, encircled by lace put on full, which does not close behind, and recalls the pouffs of our ancestors; a sort of wreath of ribbon, half satin, half fancy, in coques, supports this slight fabric, and a chou of the same at the right ear with long ends gives a finish to this coiffure; others are of the fauchon style, made of a half square, and ornamented at the side by clusters of rings formed of fancy ribbon. As many ladies wear the hair in plaits on the summit of the head, pouffs are made suited to that style; one of blond and oriental ribbon was mixed with foliage and flowers.

The entire cannezous, that is with sleeves which

DESCRIPTION OF THE ENGRAVINGS. PLATE I.

FULL LENGTHS.

Carriage Dress.-Robe of embroidered muslin ; the skirt is ornamented down the centre with a bouillon of ribbon and lace frill Casaque Camarge to correspond; trimmed with two rows of lace. Bonnet of crape and lace with flowers.

Promenade Dress.-Robe of green glacé silk; the corsage is open and edged with a plissé of ribbon; mantelet of violet velvet trimmed with lace; capote of crape and straw with feather.

Public Promenade Dress.-Robe of taffetas with open body and pagoda sleeves; the skirt with pinked flounces. Pardessus of black lace, composed of two falls of very deep lace, attached to a small pointed neckpiece of silk; capote of pink silk and lace straw.

Walking Dress. - Robe redingote of striped silk; the corsage is open and ornamented by gimp and fancy buttons; the pagoda sleeves form deep points, confined by fancy buttons; capote of fancy straw lined with blue silk.

HALF FIGURES.

Walking Dress.-Robe of popeline; the corsage is high, ornamented by braid in a vandyke and buttons; the sleeves to correspond, and lace ones under; capote of silk with feather.

Carriage Dress.-Redingote of glacé silk, and pardessus with hood, trimmed round with a plissé of ribbon. Bonnet of paille de riz with flowers.

Carriage Dress.-Robe of barege with flounces; the body is full from the shoulders to the waist and open en cœur in a wave; half-long sleeves with two frills of lace; capote of paille silk.

Déjeuner Dress.-Peignoir of nansonk of the Albanaise form, closing at the throat, and confined at the waist by a ceinture; the sleeves à la renaissance consisting of tight underones, and very wide sleeves over; capote of white silk with ruches and lily at the side.

CAPS, BONNETS, &c.

Morning cap, with lappets and small full crown. Capote a coulisses of cinnamon brown, lined with white.

Coiffure of point lace, with noeuds in blue ribbon. Bonnet of pink silk lined with white, and flowers at the side.

Morning cap of embroidered muslin, trimmed with vandyke lace.

LARGE PLATE.

FULL LENGTHS.

Carriage Dress.-Robe of blue barège, with three flounces, striped with satin bands in the material; the corsage is tight, and the half-short sleeves terminate with a frill. Pardessus Agnes Sorel of black lace, the sleeves terminating with four frills of lace. Bonnet of straw lace, with bunch of blue bells.

Carriage Dress.-Robe of muslin de laine; the skirt is ornamented en tablier, by rows of frills to the waist, terminating, at each side by a bouillon trimming; jacket body, trimmed all round by a

bouillon. Fancy open straw bonnet, lined and trimmed with cherry colour,

Walking Dress.-Robe of taffetas d'Italie, with open body and paragon sleeves. Mantelet echarpe, with short square ends, ornamented by two bands of black velvet, and fall of black lace; the capote is composed of ribbon, and bunch of syringas at the side.

Walking Dress.-Robe of popeline, with jacket body, only partially open, and edged round by rows of narrow black velvet; the sleeves terminate with revers; cuffs also edged with velvet, and the skirt has four of the same, encircling it in bands placed apart. Bonnet of fancy straw, with flowers.

Little Girl's Dress.-Frock of taffetas of the Raphael form, cut square both in front and behind, the skirt with tucks, and pagoda sleeves.

Carriage Dress.-Robe of taffetas, with open body; trimmed round with a bouillon festonné; wide sleeves à la Bassonessierie; the skirt has four flounces scolloped and edged, as well as the sleeves and body, by a narrow ribbon, which marks the scollop; ceinture with ends of wide ribbon. Bonnet of blond and ribbon, and bunch of roses at the side.

Public Promenade Dress.-Robe of plaid popeline, with open body ornamented by noeuds. Mantelelet of glacé silk, trimmed with fringe, and a scroll pattern in soutache. Capote of very open

straw and silk.

Carriage Dress.-Robe of taffetas in small checks, with tight body, and pardessus of embroidered muslin. Capote of white lace.

Carriage Dress.-Robe of glacé silk, with the body open en coeur, and edged by three rows of galons and frill of lace; half-long sleeves open on the front of the arm, and edged with the galon. Capote à coulisses of pink silk.

Morning Dress.-Robe of embroidered muslin; the corsage is high, closing at the throat, and ornamented the whole length of the body and skirt by bands of work, trimmed round with lace, and lined with pink, in a lozenge form; similar ones ornament the jacket worn over this dress. Ceinture with noeuds and ends of pink ribbon. Small lace cap, with full trimmings at the sides of narrow ribbon. Walking Dress.-Robe of black satin and pardessus of ruby velvet, ornamented with soutache. Capote of green silk.

Carriage Dress.-Robe of mousseline de soie, with jacket body, closing with noeuds and trimmed with frills of ribbon; the skirt is also ornamented

by noeuds of ribbon up the centre. Capote of rib

Dinner Dress.-Robe of grenadine, with low body and cannezous of lace, meeting in a point; the skirt has three flounces with pattern wove in the material; half-long sleeves trimmed with lace. Coiffure of hair with lace lappet.

Walking Dress.-Robe of pekin, with open body; mantelet of glacé silk, trimmed with three rows of Bonnet black lace, headed by a plissé of ribbon. of silk and lace.

Little Girl's Dress.-Robe of checked barege, with low body, ornamented by a revers, which as well as the sleeves is edged by a ribbon ruche; guimpe of plaited muslin.

pardessus of glacé silk; with sleeves trimmed by a Walking Dress.-Robe of striped taffetas and deep frill of the same, vandyked and headed by a ruche. Capote of silk with rosace of narrow ribbon at the side, and voilette of tulle.

HALF FIGURES.

Evening Dress.-Robe of crape with flounces embroidered in colours; the corsage is with revers to the point, formed of frills, and the ceinture of the body to correspond. Coiffure of lace and flowers.

Morning Dress.-Peignoir of taffetas with full body, open in front and finished by a revers of the same embroidered; the pagoda sleeves terminate with similar embroidery. Capote of ribbon and

straw.

Morning Dress.-Robe of figured popeline with tight high body and sleeves renaissance; the skirt ornamented with flounces. Capote of crape and straw.

Carriage Dress.-Redingote of silver gray taffetas; the body and skirt ornamented by a rich Moorish embroidery in satin stitch, and galons; the corsage is high, and a little open in the waistcoat fashion at the ceinture; half-long sleeves, open in a square form at the side. Capote of pink crape and lace, with bunch of daisies and grass.

CAPS, BONNETS, &c.

Dinner cap of lace, with short lappets.
Dinner cap of tulle, with roses and streamers.
Capote of taffetas with flowers.

Coiffure of lace and flowers, with lappets.

A SONG FOR MAY.

FROM the wintry frost set free,—
Sweetest month of all the year,—
Earnestly we welcomed thee,

Our deserted lot to cheer.
Now the joyous birds are singing ;-
Now the early flowers are springing ;-
Airy hopes their flight are winging,

O'er the surface of our sphere. What tho' clouds obscure the light, Sorrows dim the rising day? Sunshine but appears more bright,

When those clouds have passed away. What tho' hearts with grief are swelling? Sunny smiles those griefs dispelling,Love triumphant, still excelling,

Shall life's gloomy passage cheer. Life, like thee, has in its tide

Sunny nights and sunny days,
Grief and joy go side by side,

And attend us all our ways;
But like thee all care denying,
From our eyes the salt tears drying,
We, the ills of life defying,

Nobly, proudly onward bear.

A BEAUTY OF THE SANDWICH ISLES.

The eldest Elekeke, or the walking one, was quite a child; such a one she was as poets picture angels, a very Undine without her soul. At the age of eight years she was perhaps old as a child in England of eleven, and all untamed as nature made her. The old couple into whose hands the children had fallen, for they were no kin of theirs, despised education; and except a few lessons the elder one had had from a French missionary, who was attracted by her beauty, they were ignorant of all learning or creed. The few words of religion they had thus gained she had woven into a creed of her own, which, mixing with legend and superstition, had become a faith as curious as it was wild. Elekeke said the Kanakas loved to learn to read, because it taught them how to make money. "And do you not want to read?" "No, no; there is the bright sky, there are the rivers; the flowers are fresh-I want no more." Elekeke-for the others were but attendant nymphs on her-was very fair, almost amounting to what the natives call poponree, and her hair was thin and beautifully fine. She had eyes that started, flashed, gleamed, and would have been hurtful in their very brightness, had not the soft white in which they were set, and their voluptuous swimming, tempered them with all maidenly beauty; then

Cap of tulle and lace, with loops of ribbon at the the long eyelash which, drooping, veiled their

sides.

GILET OR WAISTCOAT FOR LADIES.

THE season is now rapidly approaching when we anticipate the Gilets introduced during the warm weather will become generally fashionable, and with this idea we have been induced to give a model of one with our present number, which is faultless in form, and easy of execution: it is of ordinary size, but can easily be enlarged by increasing it proportionately. The material of course varies according to taste and the style of toilette; they are sometimes of white satin, embroidered, of light silks, &c.

BLESSING. The smell of the violet lasts as long as the smell of the rose; and so, perhaps, the blessing of the poor rises as high as the blessing of the rich.

lustre was so fine and glossy that all the cutting flash was forgotten, and a love for what was dovelike and soft succeeded, till again the flash came, but only again to subdue and delight. Her complexion was a clear brunette, whose well-marked veins showed the healthy blood coursing with wild pulse all over; the mouth a bower of roses concealing beds of pearls. The springy bounding step, the coquettish wreath of fresh flowers, the neat dress which showed a foot and ankle that neither shoe nor stocking concealed, yet turned and chiselled like a Grecian statue,-such were the fairy forms of my attendants, and, wake when 1 would, there they sat; for while one or the other watched the rest slept around on the mats; the feather-fan was playing over me, and the active kind eye inquired if there was a want, that it might be instantly satisfied.— Walpole's Four Years in the Pacific.