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TOILETS FOR COUNTRY-SEATS.

FIRST FIGURE.-Dress of gray pou de soie, consisting of a skirt and corselet cut out of a single piece, and having one large plait at the waist behind. The skirt is gored in every width, and cut in notches at the bottom. The corselet is cut at the top in similar notches, and the short sleeves are finished in the same manner. Under-body of muslin, with guipure transparents, in which a ribbon is run, and the long undersleeves are finished up the back of the arm with the same description of ornament. A jacket, in the rotonde form, trimmed with a jet embroidery above a flounce of guipure, is worn with this dress out-of-doors. I may mention that a band of the material, edged with narrow guipure and studded with large buttons, ornaments the front of the skirt.

SECOND FIGURE.-Silk gauze dress, with two skirts. The first is trimmed with four rows of silk bias-pieces of the same colour as the dress. The second skirt, which is raised à l'antique on each side, has three similar rows. Basquine body, lined with silk to match. Tight sleeves, lined with the same, and finished round the arm-hole and at the wrist with rows of bias-pieces to match those on the skirt. Belgian-straw bonnet, in the plateau form, trimmed with convolvolus flowers and foliage. Barb-strings of Chantilly lace, fastened by a cluster of convolvolus.

port, but are made to fit the upper part of the figure quite closely. For long dresses several very pretty supporters have been invented in the shape of loops &c.; and dresses tied up at the sides and backs are in favour both for street and evening wear. Short skirts have appeared at the Tuileries in full-dress. A very pretty walking dress is composed of an under-skirt of striped grey silk, of two shades. The over-skirt is of plain gros-grain, of the lighter shade, with a piping of green silk between each of the gored widths. The upper skirt is much shorter than the under one. Bodice of plain silk, with two short pointed basques at the back. Buttons of green velvet down the front of the dress, on the edge of the tight sleeves, and half circling the arm-hole. For these short dresses summer. poplin, Mohair, and Alpaca, either plain or striped, are much in favour. For serious robes of silk, the newest and most favourite is grenat; the tint is a charming one, and is very distinguée.

I am glad to say that natural flowers are being greatly worn for ornaments in the bair; and the difficulty of keeping them fresh through the evening has been overcome by the use of hollow flexible tubes of India-rubber perforated with holes for the reception of the flower-stems, and filled with moss previously saturated with water. These tubes take the form and colour of natural branches, and are easily adapted to any style of coiffure.

Long sash-ends continue to be worn, as do the pointed waist-bands. Everything-shawls, mantles, basques-affect the peplum-form, while the graceful drapery (properly so-called) continues to be in general vogue.

Trimmings are worn both on the fronts and backs of dresses, and while short skirts are in favour (with young persons for promenade), trained dresses are made more deeply trained than ever, but the skirts, in either case, are gored; and the short waists and scanty fulness remind one of the days of Queen Charlotte. Here the dresses are, for the most part, worn without any fulness whatever, and appear almost drawn over tight-fitting crinolines. The latter, when intended for trained dresses, are wider than ever at the bottom, where these caudal appendages require sup-flowers-a pretty idea, is it not?

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Chignons are worn higher every day: some appear on the very summit of the head, and long plaits have in some measure taken the place of curls; but the newest style of coiffure adopted by lovers of originality is, instead of curling or plaiting the bair, to let it fall on each side of the chignon as low as the waist, merely tying it at intervals with a tuft of beads or

CORRESPONDENTS.

POETRY accepted, with thanks.-" Roses from the
Harem;"
Doomed;""The Soul and the Wil-
low;" "Hope in Despair;" "Receipt for a Head;"
"Mowers tossed the Hay."
Declined, with thanks. Among the Mows;"
"Tell Him" (very sweet and refined in sentiment,
but the inequalities of the rhyme require amend-
ment). "Tellefer's Song to the Conqueror" labours
under the same defect. "The Squire of "Ashbury"
(the MS. has been returned by post).
Received." Out with King Mob" (the writer shall
have an answer as soon as the MS. is read); "Be-
fore the Wind" (not equal to the author's intention.

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