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of the same material, placed at some || blouses by having the fulness in front, distance from each other. arranged in three large plaits on each side.

The materials for full dress are white satin, white gros de Naples,

We see but few transparent bonnets even at the spectacle, but a great many of rice-straw and gros de Naples: the few transparent bon-crèpe lisse, and English lace. Clear nets that are worn, are of crape; and they, as well as the gros de Naples bonnets, are adorned with short white marabouts.

. Coloured silk capotes are much in favour for walking, particularly mahogany colour, nut colour, and blue évéline; these bonnets are ornamented round the crown with wreaths of endive, disposed in wolves' teeth, and a small bouquet of gold buttons and blue-bells is placed on one side,

Leghorn is equally in favour; and hats of this kind are of three different shapes: the first, en pelerine; that is, with a brim immensely large all round. The second, à la Française; the brim is very large in front, but not more than an inch broad behind. The third, à l'Anglaise, has a brim of an equal size all round. The strings of the chapeau à la Française are placed inside the brim; those of the chapeau à l'Anglaise are attached on the outside, and confine the bonnet to the face.

The dishabille most in favour for the breakfast-table is the blouse à la réligieuse: it differs from the other

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muslin is also very much in favour, particularly for young people, and for bals champêtres, of which we still have several, for the French dance in all weathers. Ladies go to these balls in half-dress. A clear muslin blouse embroidered au plumets, a lace fichu, with a richly embroidered collar turned down. A hat of ricestraw, trimmed with exotics. A lace scarf tied round the throat, and very low. Grey satin boots laced at the side. Voila! the dress prescribed by fashion for a bal champêtre.

The hair now begins to be worn lighter on the forehead in full dress, and not so high on the crown of the head. Flowers are very much in favour: crowns of intermingled red and white roses, placed very far back, are much worn; as are also wreaths of lilies and bouquets of mignonette, lilac, honeysuckle, and woodbine.

Fashionable colours are, rose, violet, lilac, green, gold colour, very pale lavender, and blue. The favourite shade is the bleu-évéline: it is the same shade as lapis lazuli. Adieu, dear Sophia! Ever your EUDOCIA

FINE ARTS.

MR. LOWRY.

UNDER this head we have this month to record the death of that eminent artist, Wilson Lowry, who expired on the 23d of June, at his Vol. IV. No. XX.

house in Titchfield-street, aged 62 years. The following just tribute paid to his talents is extracted from the Literary Gazette:

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The death of such a man as Wilson Lowry, during the full vigour of his faculties, is an event that can scarcely be sufficiently deplored. To that his loss has occasioned inexpressible grief to every person who valued genius, talents, kindness of heart, and all the kindred qualities that appertain to these distinguished endowments of the mind, is only to repeat what every one, to whom the sad news has been communicated, admits and deeply feels.

The world of art has long been familiar with his works, and science has lost in him one of its ablest votaries; while philosophy has to deplore in him a genuine disciple. His death has made a chasm in society, that no one person can at once or at present supply. His highly gifted widow, and his able associates in art, his well-instructed son and daughter, can continue his name and reputation in art; but who can supply those other qualities of mind and talent that formed the intellectual portion of our departed friend?

Whatever his powerful and refining mind contemplated, was dissected and improved. In the science of mineralogy he was deeply learned, and his scientifically arranged cabi net is not to be surpassed by any private collection in London His opinion was constantly sought by pro fessors; and the trade often availed! themselves of his knowledge, and were guided by his advice in the purchase of the rarest and the most valuable gems.

As a mechanician, his vast improvements in the machinery of his art are acknowledged by every engraver; while the correctness of his eye and hand, the soundness of his judgment, and the purity of his taste, threw all the charms of genius over his works; the greater part of which were the production of mechanism of his own invention.b

As a philosopher, his knowledge of physics, of mathematics, of che mistry, was great and undoubted. It was applied to the furtherance of his art, and to the relaxation of his leisure hours. His mind could sport with what was laborious investigation to others; and the mildness of his voice and manners, and his suavity of demeanour, were interesting even to children, who loved his converse, and were as delighted with his kindly delivered information, as he was with their inquisitive prattle.

The early part of Mr. Lowry's life was employed on works which do honour to the names of other artists. His own, when attached to his own splendid works, became established as an engraver of the first order, and few great or useful designs were reckoned complete without his admirable burin. In works requiring scientific accuracy, in archi- His engravings of landscape and tecture, in the delineation of machi- antiquities were numerous and beau nery, he was unrivalled. In geogra- tiful; but the best have the names phical engraving he stands without of other engravers affixed to them, a competitor, his son and pupil, Jo- having been executed for them beseph Lowry, alone excepted; whose fore he was much known to the pubadmirable geographical plates in the lic. But his later productions are new Encyclopædia are cited as as the ornaments of all the principal proofs. Cyclopædias, works of architecture and of art, &c. which have been pub

Nor was it in engraving alone that this extraordinary man excelled. "lished.

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INTELLIGENCE, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, &c.

A NEW division of The World in Miniature, containing a Description of the Manners and Customs of the Natives of the Asiatic Islands, New Holland, and Van Dieman's Land, in two volumes, illustrated with twenty-six coloured plates, is just ready for publication.

Early in the ensuing winter will be published, in one volume 4to. A Description of the Island of Madeira, by the late T. Edward Bowdich, Esq. conductor of the mission to Ashantee: to which are added a Narrative of Mr. Bowdich's last Voyage to Africa, terminating at his death; Remarks on the Cape de Verde Islands; and a Description of the English Settlements on the River Gambia, by Mrs. Bowdich.

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A work, which is to appear in numbers every four months, has been announced, with the title of Views in London and its Environs, comprising the most interesting Scenes in and about the Metropolis; in which, not only the localities will be faithfully represented, but it will be the endeavour of the artists to depict the character and interest which such scenes borrow from life and its various occupations. The drawings will be made expressly for this work by J. M. W. Turner, Esq. R. A., W. Callcott, R. A., F. Nash, and W. Westall, A. R. A.; and engraved, in a highly finished line manner, by J. C. Allen. Each number will contain two engravings. This work is intended to delineate all that time or intrinsic worth has consecrated in London, and will thus form a perpetual illustration to the slabours of Lysons and our chief topographers, E.

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Mr. Charles Mills, author of the "History of the Crusades," is engaged on a History of Chivalry.

Mr. T. Moore will, it is confidently stated, commence a Life of Lord Byron, as soon as he has finished that of "Sheridan."

Mr. John Malcolm, late of the 42d regiment, has announced for publication a volume of poems, the principal of which is entitled The Buccaneer,

Mr. Galt, emulating the literary fecun-dity of Sir Walter Scott, has nearly ready a new novel, entitled Rothelan, a tale of the English histories.

Mr. J. P. Wood has nearly completed for publication, a Life of Law of Lauriston, projector of the Mississippi scheme; containing a detailed account of the nature, rise, and progress of this extraordinary joint stock company; with ma ny curious anecdotes of the rage for speculating in its funds, and the disastrous consequences of its failure.

An Account of the Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St. Katherine, near the Tower of London, by Mr. J. B, Nichols, will shortly appear.

Mr. Reginald Morrice is engaged up on a tale, to be entitled Owen Glendower, founded partly on the popular traditions of Wales, and partly on authentic history. The author avows it to be his wish in this announcement, to direct the attention of the great northern genius to the rich stores of Welch romantic history; in which case he would be content to withdraw his own unpretending composition.

Mr. Thomas Bowdler, editor of the "Family Shakspeare," is preparing a new edition of Gibbon's History of the Des

The intended publication of the correspondence of the late Lord Byron, announced by Mr. Dallas, has been stop-cline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ped by an injunction granted by the ViceChancellor, on the application of Mr. J. C. Hobhouse.

adapted for families and young persons, by the omission of objectionable passages. A small volume is in the press, enti

tled Memoirs of the Rose, comprising botanical, poetical, and miscellaneous recollections of that beautiful flower, in a series of letters to a lady.

Sir Richard C. Hoare, Bart. is about to publish the second part of the Modern History of Wiltshire, containing the Hundred of Heytesbury.

Nearly ready for publication, Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army in the Years 1817, 1818, and 1819; with observations on the system according to which such operations have usually been conducted in India, and a statement of the improvements that appear necessary, by Edmund Lake, ensign of the Hon. E. I. C. Madras Engineers; with an at

Nearly ready, in one volume post 8vo. A Practical Guide to English Composi-las of explanatory plates. v tom word I tion, or a comprehensive System of Eng- Mr. John M'Diarmid has in great forlish Grammar, Criticism, and Logic; ar- wardness, a Second Series of the Scrapranged and illustrated upon a new and Book. yel dosk improved plan; containing apposite prinThe fund raised for a memorial of ciples, rules, and examples, for writ- John Kemble will be applied to the erecing correctly and elegantly on every sub- tion of a monument by Mr. Flaxman in ject; adapted to the use of schools and Westminster Abbey; to consist of a of private students, by the Rev. Peter whole-length statue of the great trageSmith, A. M. dian in the character of Cato.

Preparing for publication, A Guide to the Lord's Table, in the catechetical form; to which are added, an Address to Applicants for Admission to it, and some Meditations to assist their Devotions; by the Rev. Henry Belfrage, D. D.

THE IMPROVISATRICE.

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The monument about to be erected by subscription to the late Mr. Watt is destined for St. Paul's, and Mr. Chantrey will be the sculptor.

Poetry.

From The Improvisatrice and other Poems,
BY L. E. L.*

AMID my palace halls was one,
The most peculiarly my own:
The roof was blue and fretted gold,
The floor was of the Parian stone,
Shining like snow, as only meet
For the light tread of fairy feet;
And in the midst, beneath a shade
Of clustered rose, a fountain played,
Sprinkling its scented waters round,
With a sweet and lulling sound,
O'er oranges like eastern gold,
Half hidden by the dark green fold
Of their large leaves; o'er hyacinth-bells,
Where every summer odour dwells.

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And nestled in the midst a pair

Of white wood-doves, whose home was there;
And like an echo to their song,
At times a murmur past along;
A dying tone, a plaining fall,
So sad, so wild, so musical,
As the wind swept across the wire,
And waked my lone Eolian lyre,
Which lay upon the casement, where
The lattice wooed the cool night air,
Half hidden by a bridal twine
Of jasmine with the emerald vine,
And ever as the curtains made
A varying light, a changeful shade,
As the breeze waved them to and fro, t
Came on the eye the glorious show
Of pictured walls, where landscape wild
Of wood and stream, or mountain piledr
Or sunny vale, or twilight grove,

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Or shapes whose every look was love

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The extraordinary poetic talents of the young and fair author of this volume (pub-Saints whose diviner glance seemed caught lished by HURST, ROBINSON, and Co. Cheap- From heaven, some whose earthlier thought side), are too generally known, from her Was yet more lovely, shone like gleams beautiful compositions which have almost Of Beauty's spirit seen in dreams. weekly adorned the pages of the Literary Gazette, for this new production of her genius to need any recommendation from us.

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I threw me on a couch to rest;
Loosely I flung my long black hair;

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