FIG. 1.—PROMENADE DRESS. FIG. 2.—COSTUME FOR A YOUNG LADY. Fig. 1.—Promenade Dress.           Fig. 2.—Costume for a Young Lady.

Fig 1. A Promenade Dress of a beautiful lavender taffetas, the front of the skirt trimmed with folds of the same, confined at regular distances with seven flutes of lavender gauze ribbon, put on the reverse of the folds; a double fluted frilling, rather narrow, encircles the opening of the body, which is made high at the back, and closed in the front with a fluting of ribbon similar to that on the skirt; demi-long sleeves, cut up in a kind of wave at the back, so as to show the under full sleeve of spotted white muslin. Chemisette of fulled muslin, confined with bands of needlework. Scarf of white China crape, beautifully embroidered, and finished with a deep, white, silk fringe. Drawn capote of pink crape, adorned in the interior with half-wreaths of green myrtle.

Fig. 2. Costume For A Young Lady.—A dress of white barège trimmed with three deep vandyked flounces put on close to each other; high body, formed of worked inlet, finished with a stand-up row round the throat; the sleeves descend as low as the elbow, where they are finished with two deep frillings, vandyked similar to the flounces. Half-long gloves of straw-colored kid, surmounted with a bracelet of black velvet. Drawn capote of white crape, adorned with clusters of the rose de mott both in the interior and exterior. Pardessus of pink glacé silk, trimmed with three frillings of the same, edged with a narrow silk fringe, which also forms a heading to the same; over each hip is a trimming en tablier formed of the fringe; short sleeves, trimmed with one fulling edged with fringe; these sleeves are of the same piece as the cape, not cut separate; the trimming over the top of the arms being similar to that under, and formed also of fringe; this pardessus is perfectly round in its form, and only closes just upon the front of the waist.

Morning Caps which are slightly ornamented, vary more in the way in which they are trimmed, than in the positive form; some being trimmed with chicorées, wreaths of gauze ribbon, or knobs of ribbon edged with a festooned open-work encircling a simple round of tulle, or what is perhaps prettier, a cluster of lace. A pretty form, differing a little from the monotonous round, is composed of a round forming a star, the points being cut off; these points are brought close together, and are encircled with a narrow bavolet, the front part being formed so as to descend just below the ears, approaching somewhat to the appearance of the front of a capote. A pretty style of morning cap are those made of India muslin, à petit papillon, flat, edged with a choice Mechlin lace, and having three ricochets and a bunch of fancy ribbon placed upon each side, from which depend the brides or strings. Others are extremely pretty, made of the appliqué lace, rich Mechlin, or needlework, and are sometimes ornamented with flowers, giving a lightness to their appearance.

MORNING CAPS. Morning Caps.

Fig. 4. Morning Costume.—Dress and pardessus of printed cambric muslin, the pattern consisting of wreaths and bouquets of flowers. Jupon of plain, white cambric muslin, edged with a border of rich open needlework. The sleeves of the pardessus are gathered up in front of the arm. The white under-sleeves, which do not descend to the wrists, are finished by two rows of vandyked needlework. A small needlework collar. Lace cap of the round form, placed very backward on the head, and trimmed with full coques of pink and green ribbon at each ear.

FIG. 4—MORNING COSTUME. Fig. 4—Morning Costume.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE.

The table of contents has been added. Minor errors in punctuation have been corrected without note.

The following typographical errors have been corrected:

Page  Corrected TextOriginal had
435   fine view of the Firth of ForthFrith
439   when the curtains of the eveningcurttains
456   so I couldn’t sleep comfortablecould’nt
465   splendid creature on which he is mountedspendid
486   ancient hilarity of the English peasanpeasaat
496   I shall not readily forget,readi-
497   “They didn’t think so at Enghein.”did’nt
507   Andrew to be out so lateto to
522   I was no sooner in bedwas was
524   Were murmuring to the moon!to to
532   heavy frames, hung round the wallsroung
549   he is justly punished for his offensespunnished
549   publisher gives ₤500gives gives
565   Progress of the Worldof of
566   be very rich in goldbe be
567   published is Wordsworth’s posthumousWordswort’s

The following words with questionable spellings have been retained: auspicies, dacent, dacency, Elizabethean, vleys. Variant spellings of dillettanti and dilettanti have been retained. Inconsistent hyphenation is as per the original.

The following errors which can not be corrected were noted:

On page 520, it appears that one or more lines may be missing from the original here:

“sulphur mixed with it—and they said,
Indeed it was putting a great affront on the”

On page 560, in the paragraph starting “A communication from M. Trémaux...” the protagonist is later referred to as M. Trévaux.