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falling fichu collar; one of these collars is laid in a great number of small plaits, the other in flutings.

The hair is dressed very high on the summit of the head; two bands of hair cross the forehead, and three loops approach very near the summit. A wreath formed of wheat-ears, cornpoppies, and blue-flowers, surround the head, with a small sheaf of corn on the summit. Chains a la chevaliere, are often wound round the head, and are, at present, a favorite ornament; they are of gold, enamel, or of differently colored stones. Another accessory on a head dress of hair is formed of green foliage, and the winter cherry. Ostrich feathers, half white, half colored, called plumes boiteuses, are much worn at dress parties, and at those theatrical representations which require a peculiar style of parure, cherry-color and white, and lilac and white, are the most approved in these party-colored plumes the dress hats, ornamented with these feathers are of white crape.

On hats of Leghorn it is a very prevailing fashion to have a full bouquet of various flowers, which, divided into two portions, are placed end to end as an ornament in front of the crown. Hats of white chip are adorned with a branch of dahlias. In dishabille, hats of fancy straw are as much in favor as they have been these two months past; but bonnets of satin have lately made their appearance, as suitable, not only to the chill weather, but as appropriate to demi saison costume. On hats, which are made of satin, the puffs of the same material are mingled with the bows of gauze ribbon, which have satin stripes, the stripes are the same color as the ground of the ribbon; but the greater part of these hats and bonnets are trimmed with silk ribbon with satin stripes. The bonnets are now short at the ears, but very long and projecting in front. Hats of gros de Naples, or of colored crapes, have all, at the top of the crown on the left side, a long branch of flowers, which droops over to the opposite side on the brim the bows of ribbon are notched at the edges, and bound with figured satin ;-the ribbon is in gauze. A yellow satin hat was seen at the Institute, trimmed with several rosettes under the brim, and two branches of geranium, placed end to end.

The colors most admired are yellow, slate-color, rock-geranium, blue, rose-color, cherry, and vine-leaf-green.

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EASTERN SUPERSTITION.

Among the cities of the east, few can compare with Damascus for antiquity or grandeur. It was known as a city 3000 years before London existed, or even England was known, but as an island, inhabited by barbarians. The above is a view of one of its streets and mosques, which will give some idea of the general appearance of the city.

Notwithstanding the antiquity of the east, superstition is still more prevalent than in any other part of the world. Mr. Buckingham, the oriental traveller, relates the following trait which occurred to him whilst in Damascus,

"During an evening party, I was intreated, by several of the individuals composing it, for written charms against poverty, sickness, danger, &c. At first I endeavoured to persuade the applicants that no human being possessed the power to possess such charms, however impostors might pretend, from interested motives, to propagate a belief in their efficacy; and that a very strong proof in support of their being false and delusive was to be gathered from the fact, that the vendors of such charms, to save others from misfortune, were not able to protect themselves from the evils inseperable from inhumanity, but were equally liable, with all other men, to sickness, misfortune, and death. This argument, however, convincing as it would have been to most minds, had no effect whatever on L. 29. 2.

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theirs, and I was somewhat surprised to find it combated by an example from sacred history; one of the parties observing that the same objection had been raised, but without foundation, against the divinity, of Christ, when those who mocked him, exclaimed, "He saved others himself he cannot save." It was vain to attempt conviction on minds entrenched behind such a position; and, therefore, to satisfy the encreasing importunity of those who now believed, from my very scruples and reluctance, that I really had the power, but was indisposed to exercise it for their benefit. I wrote on slips of paper various unmeaning characters, which were taken as favors, and construed into talismans of a general, rather than a particular nature, from my declining to assign to them any specific virtue. The occurrence of such a scene as this among the Mohammedans of the Nile, or the barbarians of Nubia, or the savages of Africa, would not have been surprising; but here, as I had been forced, by what I had seen, to estimate the state of civilization among the Arab Christians of these parts, I had not before supposed it to be so low as this incident evidently showed it to be."

THE CONTRAST.

BY REGINALD AUGUSTINE.

I saw her when the roses' flush,
Illum'd her maiden cheek;
No softer beam, no brighter blush,

From morning skies could break;
Her eyes contain'd the tender light
Which sweet stars give unto the night.

I saw her when her brow was crown'd
The holy shrine beside;

She stood on consecrated ground,
A pale and silent bride.

Oh, never, never, did my heart

Deem that her youth would thus depart!

WOODBINE GROVE.

(Continued from page 123.)

The paper which the desperate Almado left on the table was an unfinished letter, addressed to Mr. Clifford; it spoke the language of ungovernable passions. He had accidentally heard of Selina's marriage, soon after he landed in England; and, having inquired the place of her abode, was on his way to Woodbine Grove, when the servant, who was sent forward to give the necessary orders for his master's accommodation that night in the next town, knowing Mrs. Melmoth, informed the count of his meeting her on the road, as he supposed, going to Mr. Clifford's. This intelligence determined him to return early in the morning to the village near Oakley Giove; but how could he enter the mansion of his friend as an assassin? Despair at length absorbing the desire of revenge, he left the inn in search of some solitary spot, where, unseen, he might execute his dreadful purpose of suicide. Wandering near the wall of Mr. Clifford's gardens, he recollected that a small gate, which opened into the adjacent meadow, was frequently left unlocked; by this means he found admission to the mosque, and there, unhappily, we found him.

The poignancy of that sorrow which filled every breast that knew the worth of our dear lamented Mrs. Melmoth, it is impossible to describe, my brother's rose to little less than distraction when we returned to Woodbine Grove, the sight of his infant daughter renewed his grief. Lord Castlebroke, who honored us with his company, though a sincere mourner with us, sought with unremitting assiduity to withdraw his mind from so fixed an attention to melancholy ideas. Lionel acknowledged with gratitude his friendly intentions, "but," said he, "it will not do; every thing here reminds me of the happiness I once enjoyed with my Selina, and which, with that dear angel, took an everlasting flight. I have formed a design, which I now will impart to you, my noble friend,-it is to enter his majesty's service as a volunteer; your lordship knows Colonel Fortescue, now with his regiment in Germany-you are no stranger to the intimacy subsisting between us; perhaps in his society, remote from those scenes, which too painfully

, recall the remembrance of my lost felicity, tranquillity may be brought once more to dwell in this afflicted bosom. Dearest Athenia, you will fulfil the dying request of your sainted sister; to your care I entrust my little Selina, and both to the protection of you, my honored guardian, who will more than compensate for the absence of their Melmoth."

My unhappy brother staid in England only as long as the arrangement of his affairs required his presence. When he took leave of me, my heart foreboded a final separation, and a few months verified its prediction. A letter from Colonel Fortescue to Lord Castlebroke contained the sad tidings, that a fever, occasioned by excessive fatigue, in the performance of military duty, joined to the grief which incessantly preyed on his constitution, had deprived him of his beloved friend. The news of the conquest followed soon after, and a ray of hope penetrated the clouds of involving woe. Alas! I anticipated a visionary joy that day, which crowned with wreaths of palm and laurel the brows of victorious heroes, saw one of the most distinguished fall on the plains of Minden? A young officer, distantly related to Mrs. Fortescue, waited on that lady with the melancholy information that Raymond, in the final engagement, received three wounds, which the surgeons apprehended were mortal; and indeed, he added, when he left the tent it was the opinion of one of those gentlemen, from the great effusion of blood, which rendered him extremely faint and languid, the colonel would scarcely survive the night: he lamented the necessity he was under of leaving the place before the event was ascertained, to which, he said, nothing but indispensable circumstances should have compelled him.

About ten months after receiving these melancholy tidings, as I was one morning standing at my dressing room window, in that state of mental abstraction from outward objects which the wretched often feel, a carriage, driving up the avenue of chesnut trees in front of the house, roused me from the indulgence of melancholy ideas,-it was Mrs. Fostescue's; but I hardly knew her, as she alighted with almost youthful gaiety; her dress, too, surprised me,—she had exchanged the sables of mourning for a brocade of pea green, with silver flowers. As I advanced to meet her, she said, "Come, my Athenia, that pensive air must give place to smiles, and those black robes to bridal ornaments. I happily possess an infallible

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