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verse marked by a pearl: very full sleeve, formed into crêves by small spaces between each crêre being plaited in reverse plaits, and ornamented to correspond with the corsage. The trimming consists of a bouillonné of silver gauze formed à

la colonne by white satin intermixed with the gauze.

Fashionable colours are the same as last month, with the addition of some new shades of violet and slate colours.

FRENCH FEMALE FASHIONS. PARIS, Dec. 18.

My dear SOPHIA,

SOME of our élégantes, who begin to find the court mourning a very tedious affair, have, since my last, diversified it by the introduction of lilac and violet of peculiar shades, which are called lilas et violette de deuil; and other ladies appear on some occasions in mourning, and on others entirely in colours. The number of both, however, is comparatively small, the majority still appearing in black, white, or grey.

Yesterday the court mourning changed to plain black silk, trimmed with white crape: but before I speak to you of the novelties prepared for this change, I must give you some account of the present form of walking costume, which, whether in black or colours, will, as the winter is now set in, continue during the ensuing month.

Redingotes and high dresses are equally in estimation both for the promenade and the spectacle. The former are generally worn with a pelerine à la neige, which almost entirely conceals the body; it is made with a high collar, and cut round in a manner that very much resembles the teeth of a saw. The trimming of the skirt consists of rouleaus, disposed round the bottom and up the front in festoons. Long sleeve, made Vol. V. No. XXV.

very wide, confined at the wrist by a band, and ornamented by three small rouleaus, placed at some distance from each other, in festoons half way up the arm.

Some of the high gowns are made en blouse; others have the body and long sleeves tight. Trimmings are of two kinds: bias tucks laid on half way up the skirt, crossed at each side of the gown about an inch, and fastened by a button; and bouillonnée, formed by triple drawings between each bouillon. If the body is tight, the front of the bust is adorned with tucks variously placed, or else is disposed in drapery; and the epaulette, always full, is either tucked, or arranged in drapery to correspond with the bust.

Black velvet spencers are in request; they are principally in the. hussar style, with frogs and braiding: the long sleeve is ornamented by five satin bands at the bottom, and surmounted by a full epaulette composed of large bouillons, formed by braiding, and interspersed with frogs. These spencers are worn with black dresses only. A scarf tied round the throat is the only additional covering worn with them; nor have the rédingotes any, except the pelerine à la neige: but mantles and shawls are equally in favour for high dresses. Trimmings composed of

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marabout down formed into a rou- | by a drapery of levantine, looped in

leau are very much in favour for mantles; they are trimmed also with chinchilla and sables, but not so generally.

Undress bonnets are composed of velvet; they are still worn of a large size, and are trimmed with a full bunch of large leaves cut in deep scollops of the same material. Black satin bonnets are in favour for the spectacle; they are adorned with knots, composed half of velvet, and half of silver or steel gauze. There are also a good many bonnets finished at the edge of the brim with silk pluche, and trimmed with knots of the same material; and some others composed of velvet and satin intermixed, as a velvet crown and a satin brim, and vice versa: the only ornaments of these bonnets consist of knots of the same material. The prettiest novelties that I have seen for the change of mourning are, a black levantine dinner dress, the corsage of which is cut very low, and finished round the bust by a wreath of leaves in white crape; a white crape rouleau goes up the centre of the bust, with branches of leaves issuing from each side. Short full sleeve of white crape, surmounted

two places by wreaths of leaves: the trimming of the skirt consists of black gauze drapery fancifully intermixed with white crape leaves.

Full-dress trimmings composed of velvet will also be very general: they consist of wreaths of flowers with their foliage; the former in white, the latter in black velvet.

The new articles of millinery are, Turkish turbans of white crape, or gaze lisse, ornamented with a mixture of black and white plumes, arranged in the form of a crescent; Russian toques of white gaze lisse adorned with diadems of white curled ostrich feathers; black crape turbans trimmed with white marabouts, so arranged as to form lozenges; and small dress caps in black blond, trimmed with heath-blossoms, or clematis, in black satin.

The mourning jewellery has given place to diamonds or pearls, and in undress our élégantes wear dead gold or polished steel. The colours adopted by the few fashionables who are seen out of mourning are, dark green, crimson, amaranth, ruby, and chesnut-brown. Adieu! Ever your EUDOCIA.

VIEW ON HERNE-HILL, CAMBERWELL.

style and character displayed, they generally excite attention.

PERHAPS no place more clearly || London; and from the variety of the demonstrates the efforts now making in the building art, to meet the taste and wants of the public in the way of residences, than the neighbourhood of Camberwell: there villas of every sort meet the eye, to tempt the wealthy to come and inhabit them.

The annexed plate exhibits four villas on Herne-Hill, viewed from the road as the passenger goes towards

The first is an ornamental cottage of very peculiar design, and the artist has taken great pains to perfect his interior: it affords much more accommodation than it promises to supply; and we believe it is now, or was, divided into two small residences.

The second is a good family house;

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and here it seems that the substan- || effect; whilst the last, content with two stories only, is shaded by its Sicilian roof in comfortable simplicity.

The next is designed with a view to more architectural and picturesque

INTELLIGENCE, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, &c.

EARLY in January will be published, part I. of a new topographical work, entitled Delineations of Gloucestershire; being views of the principal seats of nobility and gentry, and other objects of prominent interest, in that county; with historical and descriptive notices. The drawings will be made, and the plates engraved, by Messrs. Storers; the historical notices by J. N. Brewer, Esq. It is intended that this work shall consist of one hundred engraved views, quarto size; and attached to the view of each mansion will be presented the armorial bearings of the proprietor. The publication will comprise twenty-five parts, forming two handsome volumes.

On the 1st of May next will be published, in demy 4to. part I. (the whole to be included in ten parts) of a translation of the Ossemens Fossiles of the Baron Cuvier, being a continuation of his Description of the Animal Kingdom. This work will be honoured with occasional aid from the Baron Cuvier himself, who has offered to communicate to the editor such new facts and discoveries, both in existing and in fossil organization, as may arise pending the publication of the works. The translation of the justly celebrated" Theory of the Earth," which forms the introductory discourse to the " Ossemens Fossiles," will be from the baron's manuscript, with important additions and corrections, prepared for a new edition of that work, which he is about to publish. Major C. Hamilton Smith has gratuitously offered the use of his immense collection of original drawings, now exceeding 6000 species, together with his notes on many genera of the mammiferous

tribes. The monograph on the antelopes, with a great number of new species, will be from his pen, and the figures entirely from his pencil.

In a few days will be published, The East-India Register and Directory, for 1825, by A. W. Mason, George Owen, and G. H. Brown, of the Secretary's Of fice, East-India House.

New Landlord's Tales, in two vols. will be among the earliest of the forth coming literary novelties.

The Rev. John Topham, of Bromsgrove school, has just completed, 4 Synopsis of the Evidences of Religion, natural and revealed, drawn principally from the writings of Paley, Butler, Doddridge, and Marsh; designed as a manual for youth: also, An Epitome of Chemistry, wherein the principles of the science are familiarly explained, and the whole adapted for the instruction and entertainment of ladies.

Mr. Farr has in the press, the second edition, considerably enlarged, of his

Treatise on Cancer.

The Good Nurse, or Hints on the Management of the Sick and Lying - in Chamber, and the Nursery, by a lady, is just ready for publication, in one vol. 12mo.

Mr. Barron Field, late Chief Justice of New South Wales, is about to publish a small collection of Geographical Papers respecting that Colony.

Miss Edgeworth has in the press a new work, entitled Mutual Instruction, the object of which is to excite the curiosity and taste of young people for science, and to put them in possession of its principles.

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