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for four; one driver in a red face-the common livery for your Paris hackmen; but no footman, nɔ footman, no footman!" Huburt repeated, with a groan. "Not so much as a little tiger clinging to the straps behind! I comforted myself, however, with the reflection that beggars must not be choosers; that, if I rode with Madam, I must accept her style of turn-out. "Aux Gobelins,' says Mrs. Waldoborough, to the driver; mais allez par l'Hotel de Ville, le pont Louis Philippe, et l'église de Notre dame-n'est-ce pas ?' referring the questiou to

me.

"I said 'As you please.' And off we drove. "We stopped a few minutes to look at the Cathedral front; then rattled on, up the Quai and across the Pont de l'Archevêché, and through the crooked, countless streets until we reached the Gobelins; and I must confess I did not yet experience any of the sublime emotions I had counted upon in riding with the distinguished Madam Waldoborough.

"You have been to the Gobelins? If you havn't, you must go there, not with two ladies and a lapdog, as I did, but independently, and you will find the visit well worth the trouble. The establishment derives its name from an obscure wool-dyer of the fifteenth century, Jean Gobelin, whose little workshop has grown to be one of the most extensive and magnificent carpet and tapestry manufactories in the world. "We found liveried attendants stationed at every door and turning-point, to direct the crowds of visitors and to keep out dogs. No dog could be admitted except in arms. I suggested that King Francis should be left in the coach; when Mrs. Waldoborough asked, reproachfully, 'Could I be so cruel?' And the Spider looked at me as if I had been a complete savage. To atone for my inhumanity I offered to carry the cur. He was put into my arms at once; and so it happened that I walked through that wonderful series of rooms, hung with tapestries of the richest description, of the times of Francis I., Louis XIV., and so forth, with a detested lapdog in my hands. However, I showed my heroism by enduring my fate without a murmur, and quoting Tennyson for the gratification of Mrs. Waldoborough, who was reminded of the corridors of The Palace of Art.'

Some were hung with arras green and blue,
Showing a gaudy summer-morn,
Where with puffed cheek the belted hunter blew
His wreathed bugle-horn.

'One showed an iron coast, and angry waves. You seemed to hear them climb and fall, And roar rock-thwarted under bellowing caves, Beneath the windy wall.

'Or sweet Europa's mantle blew unclasped,
From off her shoulder backward borne.
From one hand drooped a crocus: one hand grasped
The mild bull's golnen horn.'

And so forth, and so on. I continued my citations in order to keep Madam's mouth shut; for she annoyed me exceedingly by telling everybody she had occasion to speak with who she

was.

"Je suis Madame Waldoborough ; et je désire savoir' this thing or that-whatever she wished to inquire about; as if all the world knew of her fame, and she had only to state, 'I am that distinguished personage,' in order to command the utinost deference and respect.

"From the show-rooms we passed on to the work-rooms, where we found the patient weavers sitting or standing at the back of their pieces, with their baskets of many-coloured spools at their sides, and the paintings they were copying behind them, slowly building up their imitative fabrics, loop after loop, stitch after stitch, by hand. Madam told the workmen who she was, and learned one had been at work six months on his picture. It was a female figure kneeling to a colossal pair of legs, destined to support a warrior, whose upper proportions waited to be drawu out of the spoolbaskets. Another had been a year at work on a headless Virgin with a babe in her arms, finished only to the eyes. Sometimes ten, or even twenty years, are expended by one man upon a single piece of tapestry; but the patience of the workmen is not more wonderful than the art with which they select and blend their colours, passing from the softest to the most brilliant shades, without fault, as the work they are copying requires.

"From the tapestry-weaving we passed on to the carpet-weaving rooms, where the workmen have the right side of their fabric before them, and the designs to be copied over their heads. Some of the patterns were of the most gorgeous description-vines, scrolls, flowers, birds, lions, men; and the way they passed from the reflecting brain through the fingers of the weaver into the woolien texture was marvellous to behold. I could have spent some hours in the establishment pleasantly enough, watching the operatives, but for that terrible annoyance the dog in my arms. I could not put him down, and I could not ask the ladies to take him. The Spider was in her element; she forgot everything but the toil of her fellow-spiders, and it was almost impossible to get her away from any piece she became interested in. Madam, busy in telling who she was and asking questions, gave me little attention; so that I found myself more in the position of a lackey than a companion. I had regretted that her footman did not accompany us; but what need was there of a footman as long as she had me?

"In half-an-hour I had become weary of the lapdog and the Gobelins, and wished to get awayr But no-Madam must tell more people who she was, and make further inquiries; and as for Arachne, I believe she would have remained there until this time. Another halfhour, and another, and still the good part of another, exhausted my strength and the endurance of my soul, until at last Mrs. Waldo.

borough said, Eh bien, nous avons tout vu, n'est-ce pas ? Allons donc!' And we allonged.

"We found our coupé waiting for us, and I thrust his Majesty King Prancis into it rather unceremoniously: Now you must know that all this time Mrs. Waldoborough had not the remotest idea but that she was treating me with all due civility. She is one of your thoroughly egotistical, self-absorbed women, accustomed to receiving homage, who appear to consider that to breathe in their presence and attend upon them is sufficient honour and happiness for anybody.

"Never mind,' thought I, 'she'll invite me to dinner, and maybe I shall meet an ambassador !'

(To be continued).

Oh! then how pleasantly,
Once more again,

From the dimmed heaven
Falleth the rain.

When golden Autumn-days
Once more have fled,
When all their treasures are
Dying or dead,

When all earth's glories

Day by day wane,

Oh! then how gloomily
Falleth the rain.

Like tears in bitterness
Shed by the old,
As life's light fadeth

As joys grow cold; When they no longer Here may remain, Mournfully, mournfully Falleth the rain.

FALLING RAIN.

Ere the Spring cometh Gentle and mild, While the wind bloweth

Rudely and wild, From the dull cloud line

Dark o'er the main Sharp as the arrow Falleth the rain.

Dreary, oh dreary

Is all around, Leafless the woodland

Sodden the ground. Streams hasten onward, Sweeping along, Murmuring hoarsely Winter's dull song.

When the Spring cometh

Pleasant and fair,

When the clouds silver grey

Float in the air,
While the blade springeth

Upward again,

Midst golden sunbeams

Falleth the rain.

Like tears in childhood

Soon wiped away,

Brief thoughts of sorrow
Soon lost in play;
So in the spring time,
In the green lane,
While hedges blossom
Falleth the rain.

While the long Summer Parches the ground, While droop the flowers Mournful around,

THE DEATH OF THE DOVE.

The song-birds met in the weeping ash,
And the mournful mavis said,

"No more let our harps be turned to mirth, For the turtle-dove is dead.

"Go, seek the field where the lambkin plays, And gather the snowy fleece,

Weave a silken shroud, and with blossoms make

A pall for the bird of peace."

Then the finches gathered the thistle-down, And rifled the cherry blooms;

And the linnets toiled on the apple-boughs,

As weavers by crimson looms.

And the lark embroidered the blooming hay

By curtains of clover-beds;

While the blackbirds toiled in the tangled brake With mosses and silver threads.

Then ere the dial of day went down,

They finished the work of love;

And when the lamps of the glow-worm burned, They buried the turtle-dove.

And the robins piped a funeral dirge From sprays of the golden broom; And the swallows, beautiful architects, Were the builders of the tomb.

THE LADIES' PAGE.

CROCHET TASSEL

FOR ORNAMENTING COUVRETTES, CURTAIN-HOLDERS, ETC.

MATERIALS.-Usual Cotton, of Messrs. Walter Evans & Co., Derby.

This tassel is worked in crochet with middle- | after every 2 treble stitches. Then work 3 sized knitting cotton.

Work with a whole skein of cotton as follows: Make a foundation chain of 50 stitches, miss the last 9, and work 6 times alternately in the next stitch, 1 double, 4 chain, missing the same number of stitches under the latter, lastly 1 double, 8 chain, 1 double in the last foundation chain. Repeat 75 times more from *. On the upper end of this fringe work 1 row of double stitches, always inserting the needle into the chain of 2 fringe skeins, thus drawing the skeins tight together. Roll up the skeins and sew them together at the upper edge. Then make a foundation chain of 16 stitches, join them into a circle, and work in rounds till the work is 2 inches high, working in such a manner that the right side of the work is turned inside. Then work the outer covering of the heading of the tassel in the following manner:1st round. 1 treble in every stitch, divided 1 chain

2nd. 1 treble in every chain stitch of the preceding round, 1 chain stitch between.

3rd. Like the second, only working 2 chain

rounds of double stitches worked backwards and forwards in ribbed crochot stitch, and then the

7th. Alternately 2 double, 2 chain, missing 2 stitches of the preceding round under the latter. On the other side of the tube-like part 2 inches high, work a similar part as the one just described; then push the middle tube-like part on a lead pencil, and wind cotton round it; draw also cotton through the open-work crochet parts on both sides, and lace them together with fine cord crosswise, always drawing the cord through 2 chain stitches of both parts. At the top of the tassel fasten 3 rows of loops of cotton, which are to be worked over a mesh two-fifths of an inch wide, like fringe. Take a piece of white cord ten inches long, fold it together in the middle, join the ends together with a knot, and draw it through the tassel, so that the knot is covered by the skeins of the tassel, and then through the tube of the heading. At the top of the latter, and at the same time on the cord, the rows of loops must be fastened, so that the cord cannot slide out.

THE YEW AND ITS BERRIES.

Cast on nine stitches on three needles (No. 20); three stitches on each needle, with drab Berlin wool split in two; knit one plain round, fasten on a bright pinkish scarlet shade of Berlin wool split, work one more plain round; in the next increase one stitch at the beginning of every needle ; knit four or five plain rounds and cast off all the stitches. Cover a piece of leto, or very fine wire, with the thread of the same scarlet wool; sew this round the scarlet edge of the little cup just made; when the two ends of the wire meet, continue to sew one of them round the edge so as to bring it exactly opposite to the other; turn down both ends inside the cup, make a little ball of drab Berlin wool, or cotton wool covered with drab silk, about the size of a young green pea; place it in the scarlet cup, gather the drab stitches; twist the wires together to make a stem, and cover it with green wool.

LEAVES.-If chenille is used, as it can be'

procured stiffened with wire, it will be sufficient to fold the chenille in two for each leaf, and tie one leaf alternately on each side of the branch; after ten or twelve leaves place one berry, and begin another similar bough. The boughs are afterwards added together in the same manner as the leaves have been, that is to say, one at the top, and the others alternately on each side of the branch.

If Berlin is used for the leaves, cover with green wool, split a few inches of the finest leto you can find; take a piece of Berlin wool, not split, of bright though rather deep shade of green, place it across your leto near one end of it; twist the leto tight two or three times, cut the shortest end close to the twist, turn down both ends of the Berlin wool along the remaining leto, fasten both Berlin wool and leto together to a piece of wire, with a thread of brown halftwist silk split in two, and continue as directed for the branch of chenille leaves.

THE TOILET.
(Specially from Paris.)

EVENING TOILETS.

FIRST FIGURE.-Round skirt of blue silk, trimmed at the bottom with two gathered flounces, having a ruche at the head, and the edge in rounded points, which are bordered by a small ruche. Between the flounces there is also a ruche. All these ruches are of blue silk and fastened down along the middle. Corsage plain, with tight sleeves, trimmed near the top with a blue ruche fastened down the middle. Jacket of the same, with large paniers behind, something in the coquille or shell shape, and trimmed like the tunic. Close-fitting corsage without sleeves. Blue silk waistband. Lace cuffs. Pearl-grey kid gloves. Ivory fan covered with pink-tinted silk.

SECOND FIGURE.- Pink costume, with a round skirt. Louis XV. corsage, close-fitting and without sleeves; a pink bow on the shoulders. Over this corsage comes another of very, fine black-spotted white tulle, high, close-fitting, and trimmed with black lace disposed in rows slightly drawn, and descending from the shoulders towards the waist. The plain sleeve is terminated at the wrist by a black lace trimming, and also a frill of the same material as the body, with a black lace head. Pale pink kid gloves.

THIRD FIGURE.-Sea-green costume, with a close-fitting corsage, having half-tight sleeves, profusely trimmed with black gimp. A deep black silk fringe goes round the top of the back, falls over the sleeve, descends in front nearly to the waist, and then slants to meet the middle of the band. This costume forms a puff behind with a panier. Flat collar, fastened by a small bow of pink velvet. Cuffs to match.

FOURTH FIGURE.-Dress of very thin India muslin. Round skirt trimmed with five quilled flounces, having very small heads. Louis XV. corsage, cut low and square in front; it is trimmed on the edge inside with a ruche, which descends to the waistband. Round waistband of white silk with flat loops in the front. Habitskirt of very fine nansook, having a collar embroidered in satin stitch. Under-sleeves to match. Black lace cravat tied in a knot, having

no loops, but four ends of unequal length. Saxony gloves. Black gros grain boots.

I predict for the benefit of those of your fair clients, who desire to look in advance into the glass of fashion, that costumes of cloth will take an important place in the modes for autumn; and we not unfrequently see them substituted already at the sea-side for lighter woollen fabrics when excursions or yachting is in question. The favourite form of costume is a jupon, finished round the bottom with a bias or flounce with a long redingote cut absolutely square before; the corsage high, and fafstened by bows of gros grain or velvet, or if half open in front, with a flap in the middle, on which is a knot of the same colour as those on the corsage. The sleeves are demi tight with revers of gros grain. If the redingote is of black silk the revers must be of a different colour, iris, or blue, or véseuve but of a very bright tint; but if the redingote is of cloth, the revers should be black, as a fantaisie, some few double the redingote with silk, and relieve the corners of the flaps behind and before, which recalls very much the habit of the gardes francaise, but for all that it is very elegant and very young, though the eccentricity of such a fashion is neither convenient nor becoming to all women. That which is a symptom of the best taste and is highly elegant, is an absolutely assorted toilet, in which case there should be but two colours, neither more nor less. A toilet altogether uniform as much resembles a woman as a stick of sealingwax; a dress of a variety of colours is reprediated by good taste. The toilet which is always comme il faut is composed of two colours, black and white, it is very difficult to create it of other shades. However, some persons have the tact to make mauve and straw colour, maroon and blue, grey and green, and green and blue appear togetherin perfect harmonie; véseuve and black are all the vogue at this moment. We have rather too much autumn with us already, but fortunately, though mixed fabrics are worn they are often white, white alpaca for instance is ornamented with bands of black velvet.

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POETRY received and accepted, with thanks: "Crowned with May;" "One Year ago" (under consideration); "The Wreck;" "For ever Fled." Declined, with thanks: "Duty;' "Out with the Tide;" ;" "An Eve in June;" "I have a Treasure." PROSE received, with thanks: "The Salted Claim;" "The Purser's Daughter;" "Who would have Thought it;" Alice Bourne's Settlement;" "Beyond the Realm."

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