emigrants, &c. The museum is open gratuitously between 2 and 5 p.m. every Wednesday and Saturday, and is easily accessible from the Waterloo terminus. The building is situated very near the Twickenham station. Cards of admission, with programmes and other printed

information, may be obtained at the Society of Arts; but without these, in the language of the philanthropic projector and proprietor, "any persons engaged in raising the condition of their poorer brethren will always be welcome visitors."

FIRST FIGURE.

VISITING TOILET.-Silk dress ornamented

on each breadth of the skirt by a wide band of white silk, covered at little distances with rows of velvet ribbon to match the colour of the robe. Corsage high, plain, and pointed, and trimmed in unison with the skirt; the band down the middle of the front being continued to the foot of the skirt. This trimming simulates a collar round the neck, finished above with a little frill

of lace. Sleeves cut with an elbow, ornamented

with a band of white silk and rows of velvet.

Under-sleeves of muslin, finished by a ruche to

match the frill round the throat. Bonnet of havane velvet, ornamented with a traverse of Mexican blue velvet on the front, from which a white blond lightly fulled falls back on the crown; upon the front, a little inclined to the left, a spray of havane velvet foliage accompanied with white wild roses. Blue velvet curtains, with an ornament of white blond in the middle. Square

Indian shawl.

SECOND FIGURE.

IN-DOORS TOILET FOR A YOUNG LADY.Robe of rayed silk simply trimmed on the skirt with lozenges of passemeterie; and on the body, which is cut with a round waist, are placed braces and a waist-band of passementerie Spanish point. The sleeves almost tight are garnished on the upper part with a similar ornament, and at the bottom by a very light passementerie to match. Plain linen under-sleeves, and collar

Sleeves

mounted in great plaits, and surmounted by a chicorée ruche in black silk. Bernese corsage, edged at the top with a black silk ruche. short, formed by a simple little flounce set on in great plaits. Hair-net with velvet bow. Swiss muslin chemisette or “guimpe," with linen collar

and under-sleeves to match.

Pantaloons ornamented with tucks, and entre. deux of valenciennes.

Coiffures composed of white or black blond and terminating in two floating ends, are popular coquillé describing a crown, mixed with flowers, dress consists simply of a square of lace a little at our balls and soireés. A very charming headelongated, surrounded by a blond, surmounted by two or three rows of velvet China blue and assorted velvet flowers are placed at the left side black, or ponceau and black &c. A branch of of this model, and a tuft of white blond lace ornaments the other; this is mounted gracefully the hair is worn, the coiffures of flowers are en evantail. Following the fashion in which raised in a diadem in front; at the sides they are a simple cordon of foliage, or buds, while sometimes a capricious hand adjusts a tuft of assorted flowers behind. Others are finished with trailing ends.

of the gillet, or to simulate the Figaro jacket. The forms adopted for corsages are either that

embroidered in the corners.

THIRD FIGURE.

Among the innumerable analogies that may be traced between the phenomena of the natural and of the moral world, there are few more perfect, or more instructive, than that which may be shown to exist between the weeds of the field and garden, and the bad habits, the weeds of the heart.

1. Both commence on a small scale. The Scotchman's little paper of thistle seeds was sufficient to overrun an island as large as England with the noxious weeds. So the little mischevious seed which a man sows in his heart will bear a crop of weeds out of all proportion to the original germ.

2. Again, both weeds and bad habits mature and multiply without cultivation. Whatever is valuable must be reared with more or less of care and labour; but these natural and moral pests ask only to be let alone. Neglect is the only care they require. Do nothing, and you do all that they ask.

3. They are both lusty and hardy. They are not apt to be nipped up by early or late frosts, or scorched by fiery suns. They are the last things to be drowned out in a flood, or to dry up in a drought. Give them a foothold in the soil, and the smallest possible chance of life, and they will take care of themselves.

4. They are both amazingly prolific. It has been said that a single plant of the weed called "sow thistle" will produce over eleven thousand seeds. We will not venture to calculate how many mischievous seeds may spring from a single weed in the heart, but we know that such things are very prolific.

5. Both are costly and destructive. Though no toil is required to rear a crop of weeds, they eat up the goodness of the soil, and deprive those plants which are valuable of their proportion of nourishment.

6. Again, if suffered to remain long in the ground, they both become very difficult to extirpate. If you would eradicate a noxious plant, you must take it in hand at an early stage. If you wait till its seeds are wafted to every corner of the field, and its roots have spread deep and wide, it will mock your efforts to exterminate it. You may cut it down, or pluck it up; you may burn it, or bury it; you may fight it manfully and patiently; but while you are subduing it in one spot, it will spring up afresh in another, to mock your labours, and vex you soul. So it is with a heart long overgrown with the weeds of bad habits. What a long, and stern, and sorrowful struggle will it require to reclaim that dreary waste, to make it again blossom as a garden! True, terribly true, is the record which declares that it is as difficult for those to do good that are accustomed to do evil, as for the Ethiopian to make white his dusky hue, or the leopard to change his spotted skin. Southey has pictured this struggle with confirmed bad habits with great vividness in the following lines, with which we close this sober, though not unseasonable homily:

"For from his shoulders grew
Two snakes of monstrous size
Which ever at his head
Aimed their rapacious teeth,
To satiate raving hunger with his brain.

He, in the eternal conflict, oft would seize
Their swelling necks, and in his giant grasp
Bruise them, and rend their flesh with bloody nails,
And howl for agony ;

Feeling the pangs he gave; for of himself
Co-sentient and inseparable parts

The snaky tortures grew."

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