of ease to the shape.

sufficiently to give an appearance able both for morning and half dress. One of the prettiest morning caps which we have seen, is a small mob, composed of alternate strips of British net and letting-in lace; the former full, and the latter plain: it is trimmed round the top of the crown with lace, set on very full; the ends are cut very narrow, and placed very far back: it has a single border of lace, set on very full, and a large bow of white satin ribbon pinned a little to one side. For the most elegant half-dress cap, we must refer our readers to our print, as we have seen nothing so tasteful or becoming.

White gauze and white net are most in estimation for full dress: crapes, especially coloured ones, are very little seen. The favourite form is a gown, cut low all round the bosom and back of the neck, tight to the shape in front, and a considerable fulness both in the body and skirt behind. Short sleeves, are worn very short, very full, and in general draperied with silk or pearl ornaments. Blond is still worn for trimmings; but we think that the same material as the dress, fancifully intermixed with ribbon, small pipes of satin, or satin wreaths of leaves, is more generally adopted. Embroidery is still in much request, as are also long wreaths of artificial flowers. Dress-naments alone are adopted. Cores are still trimmed very high, which is a great disadvantage to under-sized belles.

We have no alteration to notice either in plain dressing or ornaments for the hair since last month. In half-dress jewellery gold or

nelian, which was high in estima-
tion when mixed with gold, has de-
clined for some time past, and is

now exploded.
now exploded. Gold ornaments
are now very expensive, because
the workmanship of them is so ex-
tremely elegant. The French no
longer retain their pre-eminence in
jewellery; and we are happy to say,
that French trinkets are much less
worn than they have been.

When dresses are trimmed with embroidery, they are frequently worn with a white satin brace, embroidered to correspond: the form of this brace is different to any thing that has yet been introduced; it forms a point behind, crosses in front, and is cut out on each breast so as to display the under-dress: it is, in our opinion, highly advanta-are, Pomona green, dark and azure geons to the shape.

Fashionable colours for the month

blue, evening primrose, peach-co

Cornettes continue very fashion- lour, and lavender.

FASHIONABLE FURNITURE.

PLATE 20.-MONA MARBLE CHIMNEY-PIECE.

or-molu, or bhule, with which these chimney-pieces are usually ornamented for apartments of superior decoration. From the circumstance of this simplicity of design, they

THE Mona marble has so consi- || receive the ornaments of bronze, derably increased in reputation and fashion, that no apology need be offered for presenting our readers with the annexed design, which shews the simple forms proper to Vol. II. No, X.

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are manufactured at prices calculated to supersede similar works in foreign white marbles, over which they have a considerable advantage, from the beautifully variegated tints

of the Mona marble, and from the circumstance of its preserving the original freshness of effect, which statuary loses in a few years.

INTELLIGENCE, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, &c. THE Rev. C. Colton is prepa- ! The Rev. John Bruce, of New

ring a work, under the expressive title of Many Things in few Words, addressed to fewer persons who think.

4 Diary of a Journey into North Wates, by the late Dr. Samuel Johnson, printed from the original MS. in his own hand-writing, together with a fac-simile of a part of the manuscript, edited, with illustrative notes, by Mr. Duppa, will be speedily published.

port, is printing Juvenile Anecdotes, designed for the moral and religious instruction of the rising generation.

Mr. Robert Fellows, of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, has in the press, A History of Ceylon, from the earliest period to the year 1815; with characteristic details of the people.

Mr. T. Dibdin is preparing for the press, The posthumous dramatic Pieces of the late Mr. Benjamin Thompson, accompanied with a copious memoir, in two octavo volumes.

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Sermons on interesting Subjects, by the late Rev. James Scott, D.D. rector of Simonburn, Northumberland, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, are in the press.

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Survey of the Parish of Sheffield, or Hallamshire; with many original, biographical, and bibliographical

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Mr. Charles Peter Whitaker, formerly of the University of Gottingen, and professor of languages, is preparing for publication, A new Grammar of the French Language, on a plan perfectly original, intended for the use of those who wish to acquire a speedy and grammatical knowledge of modern French; to be interspersed with in