passed behind the two ladies who stood next his partner. Lady then passes behind the two ladies next lowest; gentleman at same time behind the two gentlemen next lowest ; and so on all down the line. At the bottom, lady gives left hand to her partner, and they promenade back to places at the top of the line. (This figure is frequently ommitted.) Top couple advance, courtesy and bow, then lady turns off to the right, gentleman to the left, each followed by the rest of her or his line. Top couple meet at the bottom of figure, join hands, and raising their arms, let all the other couples pass under them towards the top of the line, till all reach their own places, except the top, who have now become the bottom couple. Figure is repeated from the beginning, until the top couple have once more worked their way back to their original places at the top of the line. GLOSSARY. We subjoin a Glossary of all the French words and expressions that have long since been universally accepted as the accredited phraseology of the Ball-room. A vos places, back to your own places. A la fin, at the end. A droite, to the right. A gauche, to the left. Balancez, set to your partners. Balancez aux coins, set to the corners. Balancez quatre en ligne, four dancers set in a line, joining hands, as in La Poule. Balancez en moulinet, gentlemen and their partners give each other right hands across, and balancez in the form of a cross. Balancez et tour des mains, all set to partners, and turn to places. (See Ballotez, do the same four times without changing your places. Chaine Anglaise double, double right and left. Chaine des dames double, all the ladies perform the ladies' chain at the same time. Chassez croisez, do the chassé step from left to right, or right to left, the lady passing before the gentleman in the opposite direction, that is, moving right if he moves left, and vice versa. Chassez croisez et déchassez, change places with partners, ladies passing in front, first to the right, then to the left, back to places. It may be either à quatre-four couples-or les huit-eight couples. Chassez à droite-à gauche, move to the right-to the left. Le cavalier seul, gentleman advances alone. Les cavaliers seuls deux fois, gentlemen advance and retire twice without their partners. Changez vos dames, change partners. Contre partie pour les autres, the other dancers do the same figure. Demi chaine Anglaise, half right and left. Demi moulinet, ladies all advance to center, right hands across, and back to places. Demi tour à quatre, four hands half round. Dos-à-dos, lady and opposite gentleman advance, pass round each other back to back, and return to places. Les dames en moulinet, ladies give right hands across to each other, half round, and back again with left hands. Les dames donnent la main droit-gauche à leurs cavalier, ladies give the right-left-hands to partners. En avant deux et en arrière, first lady and vis-à-vis gentleman advance and retire. To secure brevity, en avant is always understood to imply en arrière when the latter is not expressed. En avant deux fois, advance and retreat twice. En avant quatre, first couple and their vis-à-vis advance and retire. En avant trois, three advance and retire, as in La Pastorale. Figurez devant, dance before. Figurez à droite-à gauche, dance to the right—to the left. La grande tour de rond, all join hands and dance completely round the figure in a circle back to places. Le grand rond, all join hands, and advance and retreat twice, as in La Finale. Le grand quatre, all eight couples form into squares. La grande chaine, all the couples move quite round the figure, giving alternately the right and left hand to each in succession, beginning with the right, until all have regained their places, as in last figure of the Lancers. La grande promenade, all eight (or more) couples promenade all around the figure back to places. La main, the hand. La meme pour les cavaliers, gentlemen do the same. Le moulinet, hand across. The figure will explain whether it is the gentlemen, or the ladies, or both, who are to perform it. Pas de Allemande, the gentleman turns his partner under each arm in succession. Pas de Basque, a kind of sliding step forward, performed with both feet alternately in quick succession. Used in the Redowa and other dances. Comes from the South of France. Glissade, a sliding step. Le Tiroir, first couple cross with hands joined to opposite couple's place, opposite couple crossing separately outside them; then cross back to places, same figure reversed. Tour des mains, give both hands to partner, and turn her round without quitting your places. Tour sur place, the same. Tournez vos dames, the same. Tour aux coins, turn at the corners, as in the Caledonians, each gentleman turning the lady who stands nearest his left hand, and immediately returning to his own place. Traversez, cross over to opposite place. Retraversez, cross back again. Traversez deux, en donnant la main droite, lady and vis-à-vis gentla man cross, giving right hand, as in La Poule. Vis-à-vis, opposite. Figure en tournant, circular form. FIRST STEPS IN COURTSHIP. T would be out of place in these pages to grapple with a subject so large as that of Love in its various phases: a theme that must be left to poets, novelists, and moralists to dilate upon. It is sufficient for our purpose to recognize the existence of this, the most universal-the most powerful-of human passions, when venturing to offer our counsel and guidance to those of both sexes who, under its promptings, have resolved to become votaries of Hymen, but who, from imperfect knowledge of conventional usages, are naturally apprehensive that at every step they take they may render themselves liable to misconception, ridicule, or censure, We will take it for granted, then, that a gentleman has in one way or another become fascinated by a fair lady-possibly a recent acquaintance-whom he is most anxious to know more particularly. His heart already feels "the inly touch of love," and his most ardent wish is to have that love returned. At this point we venture to give him a word of serious advice. We urge him, before he ventures to take any step towards the pursuit of this object, to consider well his position and prospects in life, and reflect whether they are such as to justify him in deliberately seeking to win the young lady's affections, with the view of making her his wife at no distant period. Should he, after such a review of his affairs, feel satisfied that he can proceed honorably, he may then use fair opportunities to ascertain the estimation in which the young lady, as well as her family, is held by friends. It is perhaps needless to add, that all possible delicacy and caution must be observed in making such inquiries, so as to avoid compromising the lady herself in the slightest degree. When he has . satisfied himself on this head, and found no insurmountable impediment in his way, his next endeavor will be, through the mediation of a common friend, to procure an introduction to the lady's family. Those who undertake such an office incur no slight responsibility, and are, of course, expected to be scrupulously careful in performing it, and to communicate all they happen to know affecting the character and circumstances of the individual they introduce. We will now reverse the picture, and see how matters stand on the fair one's side. First, let us hope that the inclination is mutual; at all events that the lady views her admirer with preference, that she deems him not unworthy of her favorable regard, and that his attentions are agreeable to her. It is true her heart may not yet be won: she has to be wooed; and what fair daughter of Eve has not hailed with rapture that brightest day in the springtide of her life? She has probably first met the gentleman at a ball, or other festive occasion, where the excitement of the scene has reflected on every object around a roseate tint. We are to suppose, of course, that in looks, manners, and address, her incipient admirer is not below her ideal standard in gentlemanly attributes. His respectful approaches to her-in soliciting her hand as a partner in the dance, etc.-have first awakened on her part a slight feeling of interest towards him. This mutual feeling of interest, once established, soon "grows by what it feeds on." The exaltation of the whole scene favors its development, and it can hardly be wondered at if both parties leave judgment "out in the cold" while enjoying each other's society, and possibly already pleasantly occupied in building "castles in the air." Whatever may eventually come of it, the fair one is conscious for the nonce of being unusually happy. This emotion is not likely to be diminished when she finds herself the object of general attention-accompanied, it may be, by the display of a little envy among rival beauties-owing to the assiduous homage of her admirer. At length, prudence whispers that he is to her, as yet, a comparative stranger; and with a modest reserve she endeavors to retire from his observation, so as not to seem to encourage his attentions. The gentleman's ardor, however, is not to be thus checked; he again solicits her to be his partner in a dance. She finds it hard, very hard, to refuse him; and both, yielding at last to the alluring influences by which they are surrounded, discover at the moment of parting that a new and delightful sensation has been awakened in their hearts. At a juncture so critical in the life of a young, inexperienced woman as that when she begins to form an attachment for one of the opposite sex-at a moment when she needs the very best advice, accompanied with a considerate regard for her overwrought feelings-the very best course she can take is to confide the secret of her heart to that truest and most loving of friends-her mother. Fortunate is the daughter who has not been deprived of that wisest and tenderest of counselorswhose experience of life, whose prudence and sagacity, whose anxious care and appreciation of her child's sentiments, and whose awakened recollections of her own trysting days, qualify and entitle her, above all other beings, to counsel and comfort her trusting child, and to claim her confidence. Let the timid girl then pour forth into her mother's ear the flood of her pent-up feelings. Let her endeavor to distrust her own judgment, and seek hope, guidance, and support from one who, she well knows, will not deceive or mislead her. confidence thus established will be productive of the most beneficial results-by securing the daughter's obedience to her parent's advice, and her willing adoption of the observances prescribed by etiquette, which, as the courtship progresses, that parent will not fail to recommend as strictly essential in this phase of life. Where a young woman has had the misfortune to be deprived of her mother, she should at such a period endeavor to find her next best counselor in some female relative, or other trustworthy friend. The We are to suppose that favorable opportunities for meeting have occurred, until, by and by, both the lady and her admirer have come to regard each other with such warm feelings of inclination as to have a constant craving for each other's society. Other eyes have in the meantime not failed to notice the symptoms of a growing attachment; and some "kind friends" have, no doubt, even set them down as already engaged. The admirer of the fair one is, indeed, so much enamored as to be unable longer to retain his secret within his own breast; and not being without hope that his attachment is reciprocated, resolves on seeking an introduction to the lady's family preparatory to his making a formal declaration of love. It is possible, however, that the lover's endeavors to procure the desired introduction may fail of success, although where no material difference of social position exists, this difficulty will be found to occur less frequently than might at first be supposed. He must then discreetly adopt measures to bring himself, in some degree, under the fair one's notice: such, for instance, as attending the place of worship which she frequents, meeting her, so often as to be manifestly for the purpose, in the course of her promenades, etc. He will thus soon be able to judge-even without speaking to the lady-whether his further attentions will be distasteful to her. The signs of this on the lady's part, though of the most trifling nature, and in no way compromising her, will be unmistakable for, as the poet tells us in speaking of the sex :"He gave them but one tongue to say us' Nay,' And two fond eyes to grant !" corous. Should her demeanor be decidedly discouraging, any perseverance on his part would be ungentlemanly and highly indeBut, on the other hand, should a timid blush intimate doubt, or a gentle smile lurking in the half-dropped eye give pleasing challenge to further parley, when possible he may venture to write-not to the lady-that would be the opening of a clandestine correspondence; an unworthy course, where every act should be open and straightforward, as tending to manly and honorable ends-but to the father or guardian, through the agency of a common friend where feasible, or, in some instances, to the party at whose residence the lady may be staying. In his letter he ought first to state his position in life and prospects, as well as mention his family connections; and then request permission to visit the family, as a preliminary step to paying his addresses to the object of his admiration. By this course he in no wise compromises either himself or the lady, but leaves open to both, at any future period, an opportunity of retiring from the position of courtship taken up on the one side, and of receiving addresses on the other, without laying either party open to the accusation of fickleness or jilting. ETIQUETTE OF COURTSHIP. In whatever way the attachment may .have originated, whether resulting from old association or from a recent acquaintanceship between the lovers, we will assume that the courtship is so far in a favorable train that the lady's admirer has succeeded in obtaining an introduction to her family, and that he is about to be received in their domestic circle on the footing of a welcome visitor, if not yet in the light of a probationary suitor. In the first place, matters will in all probability be found to amble on so calmly, that the enamored pair may seldom find it needful to consult the rules of etiquette; but in the latter, its rules must be attentively observed, or the course of true love" will assuredly not run smooth. For Young people are naturally prone to seek the company of those they love; and as their impulses are often at such times impatient of control, etiquette prescribes cautionary rules for the purpose of averting the mischief that unchecked intercourse and incautious familiarity might give rise to. instance, a couple known to be attached to each other should never, unless when old acquaintances, be left alone for any length of time, nor be allowed to meet in any other place than the lady's home-particularly at balls, concerts, and other public places-except in the presence of a third party. This, as a general rule, should be carefully observed, although exceptions may occasionally occur under special circumstances. WHAT THE LADY SHOULD OBSERVE DURING COURTSHIP. A lady should be particular during the early days of courtship-while still retaining some clearness of mental visionto observe the manner in which her suitor comports himself to other ladies. If he behave with ease and courtesy, without freedom or the slightest approach to license in manner or conversation; if he never speak slightingly of the sex, and |