Evening Dress.-Robe of white satin, trimmed with two flounces of black lace; pointed body, with double berthe of black lace. Wreath of flowers with pendant branches on the head, and ornamental comb.

Ball Dress.-Robe of tulle over silk, with flounces of guipure lace ornamented at intervals by bunches of flowers, the body is with drapery of guipuro on the top, confined in the centre and on the shoulders by flowers similar to those on the skirt. Head-dress of guipure lace, with ostrich feather; necklace and ear-rings of pearls.

PLATE V.

Mantelet (the Regina) of rose-coloured satin, garnished with stamped velvet of the same colour; the upper cape is divided at the shoulder, and falls lower in the back-piece, and is trimmed with black lace of a costly description, and fastened with four sets of buttons. The novelty of this design is striking.

The bonnet on the right is of blue silk, with a bunch of white and pink May flowers each side. The one above the mantelet is of primrose crape with marabout feathers.

The chapeau to the left is composed of pale green areophane trimmed with white lace and ribbon. The caps are of tulle, blond, lace, and flowered net, trimmed with ribbons of mixed colours, and adorned with roses and various other flowers; white under-sleeves of net and muslin, with ribbon and lace trimmings; collar of embroidered cambric.

NATURE'S METHOD OF CURE.-"The use of purgatives, of leeches, and the lancet is, perhaps, not so general and manifest in medical practice, as it was some years since; but they are still employed much more frequently and liberally in chronic complaints than is necessary, or safe. Too many practitioners forget that nature commonly resorts to the mildest and most soothing means, and that by such means the most signal advantages are most surely gained. Her mode of operation is uniformly not to pull down, but to build up; and the means which she employs are those which secure to the patient simultaneously an increase of strength, comfort, and health. This should ever be our aim; and it is of immense importance that the public should be impressed with the fact, that generally whatever plan of management weakens the patient, and increases his discomfort and pain, is certainly not only inappropriate and ineffectual, but positively injurious, and often permanently so."-Dr. Graham's Modern Domestic Medicine.

An ignorant fellow, who was about to get married, resolved to make himself perfect in the responses of the marriage service; but by mistake he learned the office of baptism for those of riper years; so when the clergyman asked him in the church, "Wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife?" the bridegroom answered, in a very solemn tone, "I renounce them all."-The astonished minister said, "I think you are a fool." To which

THE PARADISE OF FLOWERS. THE paradise of flowers,

Their native land is here,
Where laugh the rosy hours,
And sunlight robes the year.
Soft-breathing eve and morn

Their cups with nectar fill;
New buds each instant born,
Drink sun and dew at will!
The passion-flower doth here
Expand more brightly warm,
The white selandria rear
More proud her lily form.
Daturas wave on high

Their vast yet graceful bells,
On branch that breasts the sky
The soft camelia dwells.

The rose more fragrant grows,
The violets sweeter smile,
The fair carnation shows

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More bells the polyanth bears,
The hyacinth more bloom;
New charms the dahlia wears,
The primrose new perfume.
The paradise of flowers,

Their native land is here, Where laugh the rosy hours, And sunlight robes the year. Soft-breathing eve and morn Their cups with nectar fill; New buds each instant born, Drink sun and dew at will!

THE ADVENTURES OF A BANDEREO.

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WITH a salubrious climate and a large and constantly increasing population, that portion of South America which is now generally known as comprising the Argentine Republic, is one of the most fertile countries under the sun. It has every facility for the successful prosecution of commerce, and boasts of some cities not inferior in magnificence to many of those which have been for centuries the pride and ornament of old Spain. Like those of all other southern republics of modern growth, however, its people have felt the blighting influence of despotism, and partake of that effeminacy and indecision of character, for which their race throughout Spanish America is noted.

Those who have ventured as far as Buenos Ayres, without troubling themselves to penetrate into the interior, can form but little estimate of the country of which we speak. Its mountains are so lofty and rugged, its waters so glassy, its skies so transparent, its pampas so illimitable, its products so delightful and varied, that he who journeys (if the guerillas will allow him) from Buenos Ayres to Cordova, is struck with involuntary admiration at every thing he sees. For many years past, little was known of this luxurious climate, few having visited Buenos Ayres, except for purposes of business; but, thanks to the agreeable and entertaining narrative of Colonel King, whose passion for adventure is well and widely known, and who has spent a fortune in the gratification of that passion, we have now some clue to the

It was on one of the warmest mornings in the month of July, 183-, that a single horseman might have been seen entering from the unrelieved solitude of the pampas upon a covered way which formed a portion of the covered road leading from Buenos Ayres to Cordova. It was no bearded or hardy veteran who thus, almost unarmed and entirely unaccompanied, pursued his weary journey along one of the most dangerous districts of the country through which he was passing; but a slender, though well-formed boy, whose acquiline nose and regular features marked with a certain air of determination, proclaimed in him a native of a more northern clime. He was very badly clad, and somewhat singularly, too,-his nether man being encased in trousers and buskins, after the fashion of the country, and his upper person protected only by a thread bare and oft-patched jacket, undeniably the result of American industry. A broad sombrero, in rather ragged condition, covered his features; and from beneath its shade there straggled forth upon his shoulders a tangled and knotty mass of jet black hair. The only weapon of defence visible about his person was a rifle, to which its owner seemed to cling as though it had been an old companion.

Having entered the shadow of the trees which here so densely lined the way, the boy very incautiously jumped from his horse; and, throwing his rifle over his shoulder, while he passed the bridle loosely over his arm, he suffered the animal to assume a more leisurely gait, pausing occasionally when the appearance of a fresh patch of herbage seemed to invite the nostrils of his faithful companion, that, by his occasional neighings and other similar demonstrations, testified that he was not insensible to his master's kindness.

"Poor Fico!" exclaimed the lad, in the Spanish dialect, gazing affectionately upon his horse during one of these brief pauses, "go where thou wilt, thou art always sure of an ample meal; while I, thy master, have passed

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twelve weary hours without finding wherewithal to satisfy the cravings of hunger. Be it so! I am used to such privations, and can better wait than thou, whose only pleasure lies in the filling of thy stomach. So ho! Fico. What has frightened thee, lad ?"

This exclamation was caused by a sudden swerving motion made by the horse; and looking up, the boy found himself in the presence of a rough-looking customer, whose air and appearance left no room to doubt that he was a ladrone. He wore the usual trousers, buskins, jacket, and sombrero; but his attire was in the most filthy and neglected condition. Pistols peered from his belt, and in his hand he carried a carbine.

"Hallo, there, mi amigo; you take it very coolly this fine morning," was the unexpected salutation of the new comer, who was leaning quietly against a tree, at whose roots the horse had stopped to graze.

"One had need take it coolly, with the thermometer at ninety, and the atmosphere like a prairie," replied the boy, giving not the slightest indications of fear or irresolution.

(To be continued.)

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BLACK is much in fashion, not exactly the entire toilette, which would look heavy at this season, but the mixture of black velvet and jet, both on mantelets and dresses of white taffetas, is a style, though peculiar, that finds favour. Currant colour is also fashionable. Foulards are a very favourite material, particularly for travellers: barèges are much worn this summer; in negligé they are plain, or with check or stripe in the materials, but handsomer ones are similar to the silks and other materials termed à disposition, having wreaths of flowers wove in the material adapted to the different parts of the dress; the flowers selected to correspond with the colour of the barège, as with blue; wreaths of blue and white convolvoluses; in pink, with white roses; green, with pretty foliage, admitting of endless variety and offering elegance with novelty. Redingotes of plain taffetas are frequently trimmed with a wide moire ribbon, edged by a stripe. One of the novelties of the season consists in taffetas dresses, with flounces edged by a white grenadine gauze ribbon, which in some light colours has a very pretty effect, the trimmings of the body and sleeves of course correspond; some taffetas dress are without seams, particularly those that are shaded from the palest tint to the brightest, the dark of course at the bottom.

Very suitable morning dresses for summer are made as peignoirs of pretty printed jaconots; skirts and jackets are also made of this material; the skirts may be flounced or not, if flounced the jacket is trimmed to match; it may be left quite open, with white waistcoat and ribbon sash.

Plain materials are less in favour this season; all the flounces appear to be with some design on them, stripes, checks, or pattern broches in the same or contrasting colours; even the darker colours have the flounces terminated by plaid borders, and one style is with a thick white edge, either scolloped or vandyked, and terminated by a narrow fringe; but skirts without any trimming having merely a hem, particularly in barège, are worn; plain barèges are pretty with skirts

covered by tucks with merely a little space left plain between each.

The style adopted in Paris, of wearing double dresses of barège, is not without good effect; the under one of white barège with a light colour over, or black under bright colour, produces something of the glacé effect; the blending of the two colours has a softness that pleases the eye, and at all events produces the charm of novelty, and gives more durability to a fragile material; grenadine mousselines and silk batistes resemble each other very much.

We have long heard of the Pompadour body, but are now further indebted to that once celebrated favourite for the name, at least, of a redingote Pompadour, now announced as a pretty novelty trimmed with a plissé of ribbon; the body open with bands across and bows of ribbon in the centre, made of the new silks termed taffetas fleuré; waistcoats continue to be made in every variety, those of embroidered are very elegant and suitable for the moment.

Pretty evening dresses are made with double skirts of different colours, the lower one white with coloured wreath of foliage broches in the material; the upper skirt is pink or blue, &c. with wreath broché in white body of the Watteau form, open in the centre; others are of tarlatane with very deep hem headed by a coloured wreath, embroidered in a wave. Mousseline de soie barèges with satin stripes and tarlatans, printed in running patterns, are all now used in evening dresses, with low bodies and bouffante sleeves; the bodies with centre piece have changed the form of their sleeves, instead of the pagoda they are of tulle with wristband.

Little girls were never dressed with more elegance than at this moment; they are covered with embroidery and lace; their skirts worked in the apron form, with frills of work crossing the shoulders and back, descending the front of the body to the waist.

The fancy of mixing black and white together is not confined to dresses; mantelets, bonnets, head-dresses and caps are made with trimmings of narrow black velvet ribbon.

The mantelets are still made with hoods, in various styles some are close, some open, often partaking of the Talma style, and trimmed with bands of velvet or moire, for these the hood is flat; but the open cloak is more of the scarf kind, with square ends in front, the hood having more of the pelerine form; many of these mantelets, made in black taffetas,