COLLARETTE IN MODERN POINT LACE. MATERIALS.-Parisian white cotton braid, No. 1, and the point lace Cottons of Messrs. Walter Evans & Co., of Derby.

The section given of this collar is complete, and on the proper scale; the whole article may therefore readily be drawn from it. It is to be drawn on coloured paper, which must be lined with glazed calico, pasted on, and turned over the edges of the paper to preserve them. The outlines are done in the narrow braid.

The various stitches are so well known that no particular description of them is needed. The Brussels lace is worked with No. 70, Evan's Boar's Head Cotton: the English lace with No. 90, the Raleigh bars with 120 Mecklenburgh, and the other stitches with No. 100.

This design might easily be enlarged to double its present size; and would make a very handsome bertha, or open sleeves.

THE VIVARIUM, AND HOW TO STOCK IT.

I AM eminently fond of London, but I am no less attached to the sea-side. The most beautiful article Nature keeps in her establishment is-sea-coast. Let any one, after feasting their eyes on a Turner or a Stanfield, rave about sunsets, clouds, delicious hazes, and all that it is right and proper to do on such occasions-I am content with more homely fare. I respect wooden spades at 6d. a piece, with an allowance made on taking a quantity, as in the case of schools; I grieve over the fate of wheelbarrows, which, neglected by their Titanic owners, are doomed to go to pieces under the influence of the returning tide. I would not for worlds follow the example of heartless young gentlemen, who, lolling on the beach, take savage delight in putting their cigar ashes on the bathing-dresses laid out to dry, which are probably destined on the morrow to encircle the lovely forms of sisters, or those to whom they themselves are matrimoniously inclined. I place confidence in bathing-machines, marvelling at the guides, and wondering whether they don't feel very damp and salt when they get home, and I would willingly subscribe my mite to build an asylum for "Decayed Bathing Women," if there ever should be such phe

nomena.

Rambling (floundering is a more appropriate term) westwards one morning, away from the fashionable throng, and poking my stick from time to time amongst the tangled masses of sea-weed thrown up by the tide, it suddenly flashed into my mind, that the previous spring I had spent a quiet but most delightful afternoon in the "Vivarium" at the Regent's Park Gardens, in watching the various movements of the many wondrous inhabitants of Ocean. "If," thought I to myself, "these may be kept for observation and study in a public resort like this, wherefore not on a smaller but equally interesting scale in my humble room, provided they have sufficient light from the win

dow?" No sooner said than done. The next morning I emptied my carpet-bag on the floor, inserted therein several preserve jars, kindly lent me by my considerate but amazed landlady, and resolutely bent my steps in a westerly direction, in search of "rocks," until I found that I had placed some three miles between myself and Kemp Town.

Descending the beach-blush not, fair reader-I opened my bag and deposited therein my socks and boots, very much to the astonishment of a stranger in a long black coat, white neckerchief, and wired spectacles, who, in a position strongly resembling a frog previous to springing, was, with a sharp hammer, demolishing stone and rock, and his own fingers at the same time, in a style that would have done credit to a navvy employed in the service of M'Adam, and occasionally depositing some dirty little bits of stone, in which he apparently seemed to take great interest, in small pill boxes lined with cotton wool, which he afterwards carefully placed in a long black case, similar to those made use of by geologists.

I, however, valiantly proceeded on my way, and after staggering about on the tops of the different weed-covered boulders, and performing sundry gyrations that would have struck envy to the heart of the talented acrobat who walks up the inclined plane on the top of a butter firkin at Astley's, I commenced operations.

It was naturally some time before my eye became accustomed to viewing the different animals that reposed at the bottom of the various little pools of sea-water formed by the receding tide; but a little patience soon enabled me to see that what I at first mistook for stones and plants, were beautiful sea-anemones, of all sizes and colours. These were "sucked" at the base to the different rocks and stones, and, though I had provided myself with a blunt knife and a chisel, I soon cast them aside as useless, and found my thumb-nail the most efficient implement in detaching them from their restingplaces. After gathering several of the actiniæ mesembryanthemum (the commonest sort), of colours ranging from crimson to olive green, I came to a pool containing several antheas, by some called the sea nettles, because of their supposititious powers to sting. This anemone, unlike its confrères, has no means of housing its petal-like tentacles when alarmed. Perhaps the most beautiful of its species is the most plentiful-of a bright apple-green with purple tips. In collecting several of these, I certainly did experience in my fingers a sensation similar to that of the slightest galvanic shock; but the feeling was so transient that no one could for a moment compare it to a sting. My next acquisitions were some bellis, or sea daisies, a few hermits, crabs, and prawns, and some fine plants, both of the green and red kinds. I am thus concise, as I am aware that what was great delight to me at the time, becomes tedious on paper-as a mere enumeration. After securing a few swimming fish, gobies and blennies, I again became a respectable looking member of society, by resuming my

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stockings and boots; and my geological neighbour, seeing me thus metamorphosed, condescended to address me: "Pardon me, sir," said he, but you seem to be one of the disciples of Geology." I replied in my blandest tones, that "Zoology, in the form of collecting marine animals, was my present pursuit ;" and so we parted company. And now to get my treasures to our vast and modern Babylon.

When I am in full feather, and on a visit to my friends at the coast, I leave town at noon per third class carriage, and on my arrival at my destination, accompany my carpet-bag on a tour round the back streets, until the hour that the express arrives. Then, issuing boldly forth and engaging a cab, I gratify my own feelings, those of my friends, and my own importance, by rattling up to the door, and urging upon Jehu the necessity of a superior donble-refined application to the knocker. But on this occasion, being a solitary wanderer, I humbly seated myself in the third class," placed my can of "curiosities" under the seat, and dozed, half wakeful, dreaming that I was again the disreputable individual, walking barelegged on the shore, enjoying myself to my heart's content. But this pleasant delusion is suddenly dispelled by the hoarse tones of a railway official, vociferating "Croydon ! Croydon any gents for Croydon!" and I am thus abruptly called back again to the world.

And now I am again in dear old London, and fond thoughts of my cockney home drive the naturalist out of me; when, having taken boat at the Surrey side of London Bridge, and landed at the Temple pier, I find almost the first thing I come across is an establishment especially devoted to the supply of the very things I have been at so much toil and trouble to get here, in the very heart of London. Yes; there on the right-hand side of Essex Street, as I move my outstretched sinuosities along towards the Strand, I espy, in bright white letters on a blue board, "THE VIVARIUM, H. J. BOHN;" and on near approach a crowd round the window arrests my steps. I enter the shop, and all my sea-anemones, my sea-lettuce and enteromopha, and even my pretty prawns, are matched by an endless variety of their fellows, and of deep-water zoophytes and plants from all parts of the coast. I proceed on my way with a diminished head, feeling a sense of "snubbing," when I thought I was going to make my immediate friends and neighbours praise my knowledge and skill, and my pursuit both, under now surmounted difficulties.

Provoking as it was in some respects to be thus cast into the shade, I cheered up a little when I found, from the odoriferous condition of two or three traitors in the prison house of the can in which my zoophytes were deposited, that their places could be supplied without much damage to my pocket; and when, on the following day, I took stock of my treasures, I was not a little glad, upon the whole, to take advantage of the facilities thus unexpectedly afforded me. I bought a small tank, shingle, rock-work, and artificial seawater, carefully prepared according to Mr. Warrington's formula, and, after receiving some useful hints from the proprietor as to the best means of planting, arranging rockwork, &c., I rapidly took my way home, and immediately set to work at my new task. The first two or three days were cold and cloudy, and I too, like the weather, was beginning to cool in the ardour of my new pursuit. But the next day turned out one of those lovely autumn mornings that seem like tardy summer still lingering, and loth to say "Adieu!" and all my anemones, gemmaceæ, troglodytes, serpulæ, and prawns started into life and beauty. Even the marine plants seemed to feel the genial influence, and, spreading their feathery branches, lost the bunchy appearance that at first had so much disappointed me; while columns of bubbles, like strings of brilliants, streamed to the surface. This is the oxygen, or life-giving principle, caused by the equal balance of animal and vegetable life introduced into the tank, and no possessor of one of these interesting collections need fear that ought is wrong so long as a proper proportion of light produces this necessary gas.

I have now four tanks-three cast-iron, not dangerous, treacherous wrought metal-and one with white marble base and polished brass framework, besides several bell-glasses. Two of these are supplied with fresh-water fish and plants, minnows, roach, carp, eels, and loach. Anachares, valisneria spiralis, and mysiophillum, with its worlds of lives. My own hobby, as a personal fancy, is the briny pursuit, for I love the sea, and yet, too, I love my clear green plants and pretty fish.

In the foregoing observations I have purposely abstained, as much as possible, from using scientific names, knowing, as I do, how discouraging it was to me, when I was but a beginner, to have the hard words fired out at me by those who had long been schooled in the

matter.

When, nearly thirty years ago, Mr. Ward showed the London public how fertile a garden, in the shape of a fernery, might be kept in the very heart of the city, he conferred a boon, which was at once felt and appreciated; and now that Mr. Warrington and Mr. Gosse have opened this new and more extensive page of natural study, and brought the sea itself to our very fire-sides, what home can be complete without a Vivarium, which may be established at the cost of a few shillings, as well as at that of many pounds?

FASHIONABLE CHIT-CHAT.

ALTHOUGH the dissolution of Parliament, at the end of last month, and the consequent rush into the country of every person in any way interested in electioneering, left London comparatively empty, yet the Easter season in the theatrical world has been marked by the simultaneous opening of Her Majesty's Theatre, and of the Royal Italian opera, in the Lyceum Theatre, the tiny substitute for poor Covent Garden. At the former, Mademoiselle Pocchini, a danseuse of extraordinary ability, made her appearance; and her performance of the Truandaise is regarded as one of the most eccentric as well as remarkable feats of which the choreographic art is susceptible. Throughout this dance she bends forward at intervals, so completely, that you are alarmed with the idea that she is either prostrating herself on the stage, or at least about to kiss the dust, in deference to the audience. But in a moment, literally in the twinkling of an eye, she is perfectly erect; and it is only when you have witnessed, half a dozen times, the recurrence of this strange pose, that you become convinced you are not the victim of optical delusion. Mademoiselle Pocchini certainly promises to be a great attraction to this theatre. The Piccolomini, as we are writing, is performing the charming "Figlia del Reggimento," Jenny Lind's most fascinating, if not most scientifically admirable impersonation. Madame Spezia, Giulini, and other stars, give promise of a brilliant season.

At the Little Lyceum, Grisi, Mario, the Tagliaficos, Ronconi, Graziani, and others, will doubtless fill the house nightly, from floor to ceiling; but it certainly does seem a pity that their talents should be displayed on so small a stage, and to an audience necessarily limited, while Drury Lane is "to let," with the probability of its boards being very unworthily, if at all, occupied.

OUR attention has been directed to the merits of the "Elastic Zone, or Infant's Belt," invented by a lady, and sold by Mrs. Bates of Croydon. It is the nicest stay we have seen for an infant; and appears calculated both to facilitate the dressing of a child, and to afford it support. Whether it is also a complete substitute for the Roller, we are not, however, quite convinced. It does not appear to us to answer the purpose of that necessary article of dress. Still, neat in appearance and moderate in price, it will no doubt prove a boon both to the child and the nurse.

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