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 MUFF CROCHETED IN IMITATION OF FUR. BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.

THE following articles crocheted in imitation fur are recommended for the warm winter toilets of young girls, as they are not expensive. Detail No. 14, gives the stitch in which the muff is crocheted. With a fine bone-hook, No. 12, bell gauge, and the gray wool, single Berlin, ( of which you require 6 ounces, ) make a chain of 78 stitches. 1st row: DC (double crochet, ) at the end 1 ch. 2nd row: 1 de in the first de, taking up the back of the loop, which is done throughout the work, take up the back of the 2nd loop, draw the wool through, pass the wool round the needle, take up the same loop again, making 3 loops on the needle in this one stitch, draw the NO. 1. MUFF (CROTCHETED IN IMITATION OF FUR.) wool through these 3, then through the 2 on the needle ; take up the whole of this row in this, a row of double crochet, then a row of pattern, manner. 3rd row: Plain de worked from the always working a ch stitch at the end of each row. Work about 8 inches of this crochet for the width of the body. Sew it together, and stuff it with wadding covered with silk. The tail is worked separately, and is crocheted in looped crochet. Make a ch of 20. 1st row: De. 2nd row : Take up the back of the loop, pass the wool three times round a mesh one inch and a quarter wide, or your 2 fingers of the left hand,

NO. la. DETAIL OF NO. 1. back of the loop as before. Repeat the 2nd and 3rd row. Work a piece wide enough for your muff, then make it up ; for this you require blue silk in the piece, two pair of black tassels, some blue ribbon to run in the runner, and a sheet of wadding. Lay your wadding the size of the piece of crochet you have worked, cover it on both sides with silk, then sew together ; make a slot at each outer edge, sew up the piece of crochet, place it over the silk, run the edges of the crochet to the extreme edge of the slot, then pass your ribbon in ; add the tassels by the join. NO. 2. THE BOA. This is also crocheted in the same stitch as the muff. You require five steel knitting-needles, No. 12, for the head as it is knitted, 2 jet buttons for the eyes. For the length of the body make a chain of 117 stitches. Commence with 466

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put the needle under these loops, loop the wool over, then take up the st again, draw through, and draw through the 2 on the needle ; work the row in this manner. Work these 2 rows until you have ten rows of loops ; then work 2 more rows, decreasing one stitch on each side row, cut the loops in the middle and comb them with a fine comb. Sew the tail together, then to the body.

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 TRIMMING IN CORAL PATTERN. The head is knitted. Cast on 10 stitches on each of the 4 needles; knit a round. Then 3 rounds knit plain. 4th round : Knit 17. You now commence the increase for the forehead. In the 18th st work 2 st thus : knit 1, then purl 1 ; work the 19th st in the same manner ; 20 st, knit plain ; the 21st and 22ndst like the 18th and 19th ; the rest knit plain. 5th round : Knit plain. 6th round : Increase like the 4th round in the 2 st on both sides the 22nd st. 7th round: Plain. 8th round : Increase like the 4th round on both sides the 24th st ; rest plain. 6 plain rounds. 14th round : Knit 7, knit 2 together ; Knit 1, knit 2 together ; knit plain until the 12 last; then knit 2 together, knit 1, knit 2 together. 15th round: Plain. 16th round : Knit 5, knit 2 together 3 times ; knit plain until the last 11, when knit 2 together 3 times ; knit 5. 17th round : Like 14th. 18th round and 3 next rounds plain. 21st round : Knit 5, knit 2 together twice, kait plain until the last 9, then knit 2 together twice, knit 5. 22nd round : Plain. 23rd round : Knit 7, join the black, knit 2 together in black until the last 7, which kuit plain in gray. Knit 8 rounds plain, knitting the black stitches with black, and the gray with gray; cast off. Wad the head to the shape, stitch on the buttons for the eyes, add some shreds of black wool for whiskers, then stitch

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on the ears, the directions for knitting which follow. THE EARS. -Cast 12 st on 1 needle with gray wool. Knit back. 2nd row : Purl. 3rd row: Knit 2 together, knit 8, knit 2 together. 4th row: Purl 2 together, purl all but the 2 last, which purl together. Repeat the 3rd and 4th rows until you have only one stitch left, then cast off, and sew to the head.

NO. 3. CUFFS TO MATCH MUFF NO. 1. NO. 3. THE CUFFS. You work the cuffs in the same manner as the body of the animal and the muff. Make a chain of 30 stitches. This is for the height of the cuff. Work as the muff, until you have enough to pass over the hand. Make a lining of white quilted silk over wadding ; sew neatly to the edges of the crochet, make a runner at the top of the cuff, in which you draw through a ribbon, to tie it to the shape of the hand.

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 TOBACCO - BAG. BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.

4th round : Single crochet ; fasten off. THIS bag is crocheted with fine purse silk and a steel needle, No. 18, bell gauge. You now work the 8 half circles joining the You commence in the center. center of the bag. They are worked separately, Terms- Ch. , chain ; DC. , double crochet or and joined to the center in the last row of their plain crochet ; L., long crochet, or the thread { formation. 1st half circle : Make a chain of 20, 1 1 onthe once round the needle before taking up the 15th, 3 ch, miss 1 ; 1 1 on 2nd ch of foundastitch named ; S., single crochet. Make a chain of 5, unite, work 1 1 in the 1st tion, or the 13th ch ; repeat 3 times, then work ch, 9 ch, 1 1 in 1st chain again ; * 7 ch, 1 1 in 3 s on the row of single in the center- piece ( see next chain on foundation, 9 ch, 1 1 in same engraving ; ) 11 on chain again, missing 1 from 3 ch, miss 1, 1 1 three times, and stitch as last ; repeat until you have 8 loops or last long; leaves ; for the last work 7 ch, 1 s on 1st long fasten off. Work 8 half circles, joining them to in the round. the round at equal distances ; when the last is 2nd round: Work 3 s on the 1st 3 of 9 ch, 2 finished do not cut off the thread, but turn, and de in next chain, * 7 ch, 1 de on center ch of work the first round of the bag as follows, keepnext loop ; repeat, join at the end with one ing the right side of the work upward : single. 1st round : 5 ch, s in 3rd of 5 ch. 2 ch, 3rd round : 1 1 on 1st ch, 2 ch, miss 1, 111 s on 1st ch of foundation in 8th circle ; 5 ch, on 2nd ch of 3rd round ; repeat. 1 s in 3rd. 5 ch, take the needle out and insert 468

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it in the 3rd of the 5 ch ; draw the 5th loop Work two sides exactly alike. Before joining through, so forming a picot the reverse way. 5them together tack the upper half of each side ch, 1 s in 3rd ; 2 ch, take up the 15 ch of foun- to a piece of paper, in order to make the points dation chain to first half circle, 5 ch; 1 in s 3rd fall in their right places, then fill up each side 2 ch, 1 s on 1st 1 in half circle ; 5 ch, 1 s on 3rd, of the rounds with Russian or ribbed crochet. 5 ch, take up the 3rd loop for a reverse picot ; This is plain crochet, only worked from the 5 ch, 1 s in 3rd ; 2 ch, 1 s on last long of next back of the loop. When you come to the points circle ; repeat all round the work. At the end take the needle out and draw through the point the last stitch in the row, then work back again. work in s to the top of the 1st picot. 2nd round : 5 ch, 1 s in 3rd, 2 ch, 1 s on next When this crochet is completed, join the two picot, 5 ch, 1 s in 3rd, 2 ch, 1 s on 2nd picot sides together by a row of chain- stitch. Work from the last taken up. This leaves the 3rd at the top of the bag: 1st: A row of de all round. picot made in the 1st round to fall inside the work. * 5 ch, 1 s in 3rd, 2 ch, 1 s on next picot; 2nd row : 111 ch, miss 1. 11. 3rd row: Like the 2nd, taking the chain up repeat from once more ; then repeat, missing a picot. Repeat from the same place all round ; of last row for the 1 stitches. 4th row: * 3 ch, miss 1, 1 dc. Repeat. at the end of round work in single crochet to 5th row: 3 ch, 1 dc on 2nd ch of last round. the top of the 1st picot of this round. 3rd round : 5 ch, 1 s in 3rd, 2 ch, 1 s in Repeat. 6th row: Dc and fasten off. next picot; repeat. 4th and 5th rounds: Like the 3rd. Add a fine silk cord to draw the bag up, which 6th and 7th rounds : 7 ch, 1 s in 5th, 4 ch, 1 must be lined through with strong silk, and three tassels. See engraving. s on next picot ; fasten off.

MUSIC- ROLL. BY MRS. JANE WEAVER

MATERIALS.-Gray perforated leather, one{ laid in folds and turned round a quarter of an yard of green sarcenet ribbon half an inch inch over the outer edge, ornamented in the broad, one yard of gray ribbon one inch and a middle with a wooden button worked over in quarter broad, green flosselle silk, Venitian crochet with green silk. The outside consists shells, gold beads, half a yard of black elastic, of perforated leather, ornamented with little two small enamel, and two large wooden but- Venitian shells and gold beads, and bound on tons, cardboard, etc. both sides with green sarcenet ribbon. For the Our model consists of two equal parts formed crochet band, which is buttoned on on one side, into a round, furnished with atop, and joined begin from the middle with green silk, and work by a band of elastic worked over with crochet. a chain of six inches and three-quarters long, For the ground of each of these parts, cut a and crochet double round it over an elastic at the piece of cardboard four inches high and eight last row at the end, leaving a space of one inch for a button-hole. For the last row crochet little inches wide, gummed together. The top is of gray sarcenet ribbon gummed on scallops of one double and five chain, passing to the outer edge of the round. The ribbon is over always two double of the preceding row. VOL. LVI.- 30

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OVERSHOE.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.

MATERIALS. An ounce and a quarter of four-, Forward, simply collecting the stitches upon the needle ; returning, work always four chain thread fleecy scarlet, quarter of an ounce of without taking up any stitch, and then at the four-thread fleecy white, one yard of elastio, fifth take a stitch from the needle. In conclutwo yards of ribbon, for rosette, two buttons, for center of rosettes, one pair of bone pins, No. 13, (bell gauge. ) Cast on fifty- six stitches, and knit as for a stocking edge, two plain, two purled, alternately. After knitting twelve rows with the ground color, work fifteen rows with the other color, in the middle of which a line of holes is formed by alternately putting the thread round the needle and knitting two together. After knitting ninety-six rows with the ground color, repeat the line of holes, and the twelve first rows, then cast off loosely. To this cast- off edge and first row of the knitting, add a ruchelike trimming in one or two shades ; for this work, with a thick crochet-hook in the edge stitches of the knitting, in tricot, as follows :-

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sion, sew the knitting together at the cross sides, to form a straight bag, ornamented round the upper edge with stripes and ruche, (see small cut. ) Draw an elastic through the holes, and put a ribbon rosette upon one of the seams in the front. This completes the shoe.

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PIN - CUSHION.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.

MATERIALS. -Colored satin, satin ribbon to match, one inch broad, silk cord and chenille cord, fine and coarse cotton. A square box of thin wood, or thick pasteboard, is required. The lining is of quilted satin, thinly wadded and scented with violet. The outer covering is also of satin. The sides are ornamented with a leaf ruche of folded

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 EDITOR'S EDITORIAL CHIT- CHAT. "PETERSON" FOR 1870 - We call attention to our Prospectus, for next year, to be found on the last page of the cover. It is now admitted, everywhere, that " Peterson" is cheaper and better than any periodical of its kind. Our enormous edition, surpassing that of any monthly in the world, enables us to distance all competitors. Our fashion department, particularly, excels that of any cotemporary. Most of the other monthlies give only colored wood-cuts, or lithographs, for their principal plate ; we, on the contrary, give elegant and costly steel engravings. Our styles, moreover, are the very latest, and are received in advance from Paris. Our correspondents abroad have access to all the freshest novelties, so that our fair subscribers are never misled by false intelligence. The mammoth colored fashion-plates in " Peterson," in short, are not only the most tasteful and beautiful issued in the United States, but also the most reliable. Our original stories, tales and novelets, have been acknow. ledged, for years, to excel those of any cotemporary. In 1870 the literary department will be more brilliant than ever, as a glance at the Prospectus will show. We never had such a series of novelets before : and the shorter stories will be equally attractive. The best of our contributors, moreover, write exclusively for us : no other magazine has Mrs. Ann Stephens, or Frank Lee Benedict, or the author of " The Second Life," or several others. Every new writer ofability is engaged, so as to keep "Peterson" always fresh, and always ahead of its rivals. Now is the time to canvass for clubs ! Anybody, with a Ettle exertion, can get up a club, and so become entitled to the premiums. Be the first in the field! A specimen will be sent, gratis, if written for. Do not lose a moment! THE TITLE-PAGE, in this number, is engraved from an original design, by E. L. Henry, one of the most famous of our younger American artists. He painted the celebrated picture, "Westover, on the James River," now in the possession of the Century Club of New York ; " The DrawingRoom at Levens," " The Monastery at Lugano, Lake Maggiore," " A Rainy Day at Piacenza," and other first-class pictures. As a delineator of architectural effects, Mr. Henry is without a rival in the United States. Of his genius as a landscape painter our subscribers can judge for themselves from the picture we have had engraved. Few artists infuse so much feeling-may we add true poety ?—into their productions.

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AMERICAN WOMEN ARE NOT EXTRAVAGANT, according to Bryant, the poet. In his newspaper, " The New York Evening Post," he says that the value of silk and the manufactures of silk imported into the United States for the year ending June 30th, 1869, was $22,334,654. He adds :-" Now, in this State of New York, in 1865, there were 1,467,636 women and girls over ten years of age. The sum of $22,334,654, the total value of imported silks, divided among these women and girls, of our State alone, would give only fifteen dollars and twenty-two cents worth of all the silk goods imported into the United States to each. This is the value of two gallons of fine brandy ' imported from France,' but, in fact, oftenest made at home." The truth is that American women, as a class, are not only not extravagant, but are the best of economists. In each of our great cities there are a few " fine ladies," we admit, who spend money beyond their means. But ninetynine hundredths of the sex will make more devoted sacrifices for their husbands and children than any other women in the world. "They bow," says Mr. Bryant, " with dignity and grace to the loss of property, and bear up with resolution and fortitude under adverse circumstances. There never has been exhibited in the world's history more and nobler heroism or greater self-sacrifice, than by the women of the United States. Go up and down Broadway, through all the streets, visit our other cities and large towns, and where up restauran for women togrog-shops, trade and saloons buy in,you youfind findplace willone ten fitted, ts, or segar-stores, where men pay large sums, in the aggregate, for things which profit neither body, mind, nor estate,' but weaken the one, enervate the other, and waste the last." To all of which we cordially subscribe! THE NEW STYLe of Wearing tHE HAIR, of which we have already given several engravings, is in plaits down the back of the head and far on the neck. But we do not think it as becoming as the style it is supplanting. The quantity of hair required is enormous, and as few ladies have enough, false hair must be largely used. Moreover, the style ofputting it on is bad : it looks as ifplastered on to the top of the head; the whole fashion is false and in bad taste. It is our duty to state, honestly, what the fashions are ; but it is also our duty to frankly discuss them. We do not like the fashion, and do not believe it will " take ;" it looks well only on ladies with very long necks.

THE CHAIR-SEAT, OTTOMAN-SEAT, ETC., which we give, printed in colors, in the front of the number, needs no " THE PRISONER OF THE BASTILE," is the title of Mrs. Ann detailed description. Get a piece of canvas, and fill it in, the colors of the pattern. The design is in the S. Stephens' novelet for next year, and it is even more following powerfully written than "Marie Antoinette's Talisman.” best style of Louis the Fifteenth. Some of the characters, which figure in the latter, will reSAYS THE Uhricksville (0.) Chronicle, " Peterson's Magaappear in the former, and our subscribers for 1869, we are zine is justly entitled to the name which it has obtained, sure, will be only too glad to renew their subscriptions, in 'the best and cheapest ofthe lady's books.' It is replete with order to follow the fortunes of these personages, in whom the very choicest of reading matter, fashion-plates," etc., etc. they are already so much interested.

REMIT EARLY, for the January number will be ready by A LADY SHOULD always take the right arm of a gentle- the first of December, and those who send soonest will get man, when walking with him. In this way she will avoid the earliest and bost impressions of its superb engravings. being pushed, or annoyed by persons passing. Always go SUBSCRIBERS in the same club will be sent to different to the right of a person you meet. post-offices, if desired. Additions to clubs may be made at MORE FOR THE MONEY," says the Louisville (Ill . ) Ledger, the price paid by the rest ofthe club. "and of a better quality of its kind, is given in ' Peterson's NEVER SAY AN ANGRY WORD, for you will be sure to Magazine,' than in any one published. In its peculiar field repent it, sooner or later. it defies competition." 472

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 N the cemetery at Bartos’s house, consequently with Staza and the grave-digger, were Frank and old Loyka. They conducted together their modest household, Frank busying himself about the management of all outside the house, and Staza devoting herself to domestic duties.

Frank and Staza had reached an age when life wishes to burst forth in the song of the sky-lark. Where such an eye directs its gaze, the bud unfolds, the rose blossoms. The sky is draped in a garment of transparent blue, every star has its own language, every ray of moonlight brings a message down to earth. The earth is draped in a garment of green, and this green is full of hope, the birds sing songs about it, the leaves of the wood murmur about it. The garish light of day trenches far upon the depths of night, and night, with its own golden speech of dawn, trenches far upon the day itself. The young heart reels between waking and dreaming; presentiment and uncertainty contend about it, the presentiment of joy above which there is none; uncertainty which is half a certainty because the world is so fair.

Once Staza sat upon the grave of her mother: she did not sing “Oh, rest in peace”, either to her mother or to the other dead. But she felt weary and oppressed, she knew not why, and then she interpreted the oppression to be sorrow for never having known her mother. And she would most gladly have delved a fresh grave beside her mother’s grave and laid herself in it, not by any means as a corpse, but that she might again tap at her mother’s coffin and tell her something which she had not yet breathed even to herself.

At this moment came Frank to her, and when he stood beside her, he was for the first time at a loss for a word. Everything that he had said to her hitherto seemed insufficient. He wished to say much more, and therefore said nothing.

The dawn of life shot its crimson streamers before him, he had his soul full of spring, full of sap and beauty, and when he wished to express it all he cast his eyes down to the ground and his tongue seemed parched with a long drought. He had his soul full of sunlight, and when he wished to reveal it in its full brightness he had tears in his eyes.

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Novels of George Eliot. With Illustrations. 5 vols., 12 mo. New York: Harper & Brothers.-We have here a very cheap, yet neat, edition of the novels of Mrs. Lewes, better known under her assumed signature of George Eliot. "Adam Bode," " The Mill on the Floss," " Felix Holt," "Romola," and " Silas Marner," comprise the series. We consider this lady, by all odds, not only the best novelest of her sex, but also the best cotemporary novelist, male or female, alive. She is one of the few story-tellers of our time who will become classic. Her novels may be considered standard ones, and, therefore, should be placed in every library. The Complete Works of Caroline Lee Hentz. 12 vols., 12 mo. Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.-Few American novelists were so popular, ten or fifteen years ago, as Caroline Lee Hentz. Nor do we think that her popularity 2 diminished. In a certain circle of readers she has a permanent interest. Her novels are all love-stories, in the most romantic sense ; and even at our age, and we have long been out of our ' teens, we like alove-story. The house of T. B. Peterson & Brothers designs issuing this series, in THE NEWEST IMPORTATIONS of French dresses, look, many semi-monthly volumes, beginning on the first of November. of them, as if made for the stage. Catharine de Medici Woman: Her Rights, Wrongs, Privileges , and Responmight have walked out of a picture-frame and stood before sibilities. By L. P. Brockett, M. D. 1 vol., 12 mo. Hartus, so correct an imitation have we seen of the dress of herford: L. Stebbins.- This book professes to discuss the whole times the ruff, head-dress, and all. The costumes of Queen question of woman, including the suffrage, etc., etc. It is Elizabeth, and Marie Stuart, are also worn, but a good deal as good as most attempts of the kind, but we are free to modified by the requirements of this nineteenth century say that, as yet, we have seen no work that goes to the All these costumes require an entirely different style collar heart of the question, or that is, in any sense, exhaustive. from those usually worn ; and quantities of lace are now The problem is a deeper one than even John Stuart Mill fashionable, quilted around the neck, reaching down the seems to realize. front ofthe waist, etc. Man in Genesis and Geology. By J. P. Thompson, D. D., POINTS ARE TO BE WORN to the waists of dresses, both be- LL.D. 1 vol., 12 mo. New York: S. R. Wells.-This is an fore and at the back, though they do not entirely take the attempt, and a completely triumphant one, to test the place of sashes, which will continue popular, especially for Biblical account of man's creation, by the scientific theories slim figures. But points are newer, and so becoming to ofhis origin and antiquity. The author is one of the ablest most figures, that we are glad to see them in fashion again. clergymen of our time, who brings to the aid of revealed Small basque-skirts to bodies of dresses, of various shapes religion a logical and well-balanced intellect, putting to and styles, are also popular. Skirts are made fuller at the shame the crude skepticism of the half-informed, conceited top of the side breadths, also, when there is no second skirt, minds ofthe popular materialism of the day. or tunic. Lake Shore Series. By Oliver Optic. 4 rols., 16 mo. Boston: & Shepard.A series that Express," boys will Lightning interesti titles,of"books veryLee ng. Their WE WILL SEND for 1870, as we did for 1869, three copies find of " Peterson," for $4.50, if no premium is asked. "Switch Off," " On Time," and "Through by Daylight," indicate their character. w In Silk Attire. By William Black. 1 vol., 8 vo. New REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. York: Harper & Brothers.- A new novel by the author of Mental Philosophy; Embracing the three departments of that popular story, “ Love and Marriage." The description the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will. By Thomas C. Upham, of the deer-hunt, in the Black Forest, is very graphic. On D. D. 2 vols., 12 mo. New York: Harper & Brothers— the whole, the story is one of unusual merit. The author of this work is professor of mental and moral A Philosophy of Heaven, Earth, and the Millennium. By philosophy in Bowdoin College . He is already favorably known to the public as an able and conscientious writer. J. A. Spurlock. 1 vol., 16 mo. St. Louis : W. J. Gilbert.— The author of this book claims that it is a correct key to His present work, as he says in his preface, is essentially Eclectic in its character, and does not belong exclusively to the motions of the heavenly bodies, and that his theory will become the basis of all true astronomy. any of the great philosophical schools. It is based on a similar work, originally written many years ago, and which The Initials. By the Baroness Tauthphoeus. 1 vol., 12 mo. passed through several editions. Condensed in some re- Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.-A new edition of spects, but enlarged in others, it is a decided improvement one of the very best novels of the day, which will bear to on its predecessor. We really consider it one of the very be read again and again. It ought to be on every centerbest works of its kind. table. David Elginbrod, By G. MacDonald. 1 vol., 12 mo. Under Lock and Key. By T. W. Speight. 1 vol., 8 ro. Boston: Loring.- The principal character in this work is a Philada: Turner Brothers & Co.- A very remarkable Scotch peasant, who is graphically delineated, and is one of story, in the style of Wilkie Collins, but hardly, perhaps, Nature's noblemen. Mr. MacDonald is at the head of the to be called an imitation. second rate English novelists. Strong's Life-Work. By Mrs. S. A. Southworth. Veronique By Florence Marryatt. 1 vol., 8vo. Boston: 1 Hester rol., 12 mo. Boston: Lee & Shepard -A well-written Loring. This is very well written, and really deserves sucstory, with an excellent moral. It would make a good cess. A cheap edition. Christmas gift. A NEW PREMIUM ENGRAVING, as will be seen from our Prospectus, is offered, by us, to persons getting up clubs for 1870. The subject, " Our Father, Who Art In Heaven, 33 represents a child at prayer, at its mother's knee. 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qualities; it is only such who have suffered from illness OUR ARM- CHAIR. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.-The newspaper editors continue themselves that can tell all the miseries of a heavy foot, or to speak of " Peterson's Magazine" as altogether the best quick or hasty movements in a sick-room. All bustle or and cheapest of its kind. Says the Nashville (Ill. ) People's noise should be carefully avoided ; the rustling sound of Press : The engravings are by the best artists, and the folding or unfolding a newspaper, or even turning hastily fashions are the latest, but the most interesting feature is, the leaves of a book, is painful to a sick person ; loud speakthe reading matter, in which Peterson surpasses all othering is generally refrained from, but whispering is often inmagazines ofits class." The Boston (Mass.) Journal says :-dulged in, and, to the sick ear, nothing is more fatiguing "Ladies, who are not subscribers, will do well to begin than the indistinct buzzing sound of words which cannot be taking this long-established Magazine." " Worth ten times understood. By attention and forethought, almost every the subscription price," says the Youngstown (0.) Register.noise which is hurtful in a sick-room can be avoided. Ifyou "Certainly the leading Magazine of its kind," says the Jack- have creaking shoes, let them immediately be changed for son (Mich.) Citizen :-" No lady of taste and refinement," light slippers. If the door has a rusty lock, or creaking says the Liberty, (Va.) Sentinel, “ should be without a copy. hinges, let them be oiled. Avoid the noise of throwing It is very cheap at two dollars a year." The Gloversville small coal upon the fire (which often rattles down upon the (N. Y.) Standard says :-" The literary matter of ' Peterson hearth,) by lifting small pieces of coal with the tongs ; or is invariably excellent." "Decidedly the best fashion Maga- have an old glove to hand, and lift them with your hand ; zine," says the Lyons (N. Y.) Democratic Press. " Far supe- or have the coal placed in sugar-bags, which can be placed rior," says the Scottsville (Va.) Register, " to others whose on the fire without the slightest noise ; and, when the fire subscriptions are doubly as high." The Holmesburg (Pa.) requires to be poked, use a bit of wood, so as to avoid all Gazette says :-" Its fashion plates are always superb, and { clatter of poker and tongs against the grate. Keep in mind, its price wonderfully cheap." Says the Louisville ( 111.) that at all times the absence of noise and bustle is desirable, Ledger:-" Peterson has a fame so world-wide that it is but to the sick, whose nerves are in a proportionally weak useless for us to speak at length on its merits." The Eliza- state with the rest of the body, it is of the very greatest imbeth (N. J.) Monitor says :-" The fashion-plates of Peterson portance. Have a table covered with a nice clean napkin, so that no noise is made in putting down a glass or spoon,
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Raised Pie-Make a raised crust as for a pork-pie ; take worn during the night. Every article should be hung up, so as to be completely aired before morning. In the same a fine, young rabbit, disjoint it, and cut the meat from the manner, what has been used during the night should be left bones; season it highly; add to it half a pound of fat bacon, off in the day. When the patient is able to sit up long the yolks of four hard-boiled eggs, cut into slices, and suffienough to have it done, the bed-clothes should be regularly cient tomato-sauce to make it of an agreeable color. Pack carried out, and aired before an open window in another the meat pretty tightly, and bake in a very gentle oven for room, and the bed left uncovered, and the mattrass turned. an hour and a half. This is usually eaten cold; but a vol a Where the patient is so weak as generally to be confined to vent may be made with paste baked round a buttered mould, bed, considerable relief may be experienced by being raised and when doue, removed from the mould, and filled with a in bed by means of a bed-chair, for much support is required { rích ragout of rabbit, which is eaten hot. Brisket of Beef Stuffed.- A piece weighing eight pounds by the back when in an upright position. Where there is no bed-chair, a small foot-stool, put behind the bolster, doubled, { requires about five or six hours to boil. Make a dressing and the pillows, is a tolerably good substitute. It adds of bread-crumbs, pepper, salt, sweet herbs, a little mace, greatly to the comfort of this position to have something and one onion, chopped fine and mixed with an egg. Put for the feet to rest against-something solid, which will not the dressing between the fat and the lean of the beef, and change its place when pushed against. Where there is a sew it up tight ; flour the cloth, pin the beef up very tight foot-board, it is easy to place some such article on the bed ; in it, and boil it five or six hours. When it is done, take and even where this is not the case, it can be managed by a the cloth off, and press it until it is cold. This is to be cut strong brace oflinen being first fastened across the foot of in thin slices and eaten cold. the bed. By attention to this manner of raising the patient, Spiced Tripe.-Take fresh tripe, cut it up in pieces four the stress is taken off the spine, without which there can or five inches square ; take an earthen jar, put in a layer be no relief in the change of position. A light shawl or of tripe, then sprinkle a few cloves, allspice and peppers mantle should be at haud, to be thrown over the shoulders (whole) over it ; then another layer of tripe, then spice, and of the sick person when sitting up in bed, and while lying so on till the jar is full ; take good vinegar, scald it, pour down, the air of the sick-room may be often changed by over it, filling the jar full ; cover it up aud stand it away in throwing a shawl over the bed, or even drawing it over the a cool place for a few days, until it tastes of the spice, then face if necessary, while the window is opened for a few serve it up cold for supper, or any other meal. It is an exminutes. It is often refreshing to a sick person to have a cellent relish. Minced Mutton.-This is a very useful preparation of cold few drops ofvinegar sprinkled about the room, and to have their temples and hands sponged with vinegar and luke- mutton, and will be found excellent for a change. Cut warm water ; even such small changes as these are generally slices off a cold roasted leg of mutton, and mince them very an expressible relief to the sick, if administered gently, fine ; brown some flour in butter, and moisten it with some without haste or bustle. gravy; salt and pepper to taste, and let it simmer about ten Preparations should be begun in good time for laying a or fifteen minutes, to take off the raw state of the flour; add patient quiet for the night, as they may be made feverish by another lot of butter and some parsley, chopped fine, then not having perfect quietness in the room at an early hour. add the minced meat, and let it simmer slowly, but not boil, A small table should be set by the bedside, on which fresh or the meat will be hard. tonst-and-water, and any medicine to be taken during the Pork-Steak Broiled.-The tenderloin is the best for steak, night, should be placed within reach of the patient ; or, if but any lean, white meat is good. Broil slowly, after splitthey are so ill as to require any one to watch by them, letting it, so as to allow it to cook through without drying o the person seat herself, not too near the bed, but still within burning. When ready to turn over, dip the cooked side in reach ofperceiving the slightest sign, or hearing the gentlest a nice gravy of butter, pepper and salt, which should be whisper; and let her be careful so to shade the light, which prepared on a plate, and kept hot without boiling. It must it is necessary to have in the sick-room, so that no ray, be well done. It requires slow broiling. It will take at either from candle or rushlight, may fall upon the eyes of least twenty minutes to broil a pork-steak. Steamed Fowls.-Fowls are better steamed than boiled, the patient, or on any part ofthe bed. The necessarymedicine, or toast-and-water, when required, especially when there is no veal stock on hand to boil them should be given to the sick without entering into anything in. When steamed, the juices should be saved by placing a like conversation, or asking needless questions, which, by pan under the strainer to catch all the drips. Drawn-butawakening them completely, may break their rest for the ter, plain or seasoned with parsley or celery, is the most remainder of the night. Young nurses in particular often common sauce used for boiled fowls. Liver-sauce is good ; err, from over anxiety to make themselves useful, and the but when oysters can be had, oyster-sauce is to be preferred idea that they must forever be doing something for the above all others. Rabbit and Oyster-Pie.-Cut up a nice fat rabbit, well patient; they are constantly urging them to take a little nourishment, or to change their position, or to allow their season it with white pepper, grated lemon-peel, and finelypillow to be beat up, while they are only anxious to be left shred parsley. Take three dozen fresh oysters, beard them, in peace, and to rest their weary head in the position in but save their liquor ; add them to your rabbit. Put a crust round the edge of your dish, fill in your rabbit and oysters, which they themselves have placed it. with also a few slices of fresh butter, cover with a good crust, and bake for little better than an hour. Beef and Sauer-Kraut- German Receipt.-Put about eight pounds of beef into cold water. When it comes to a boil, OUR NEW COOK - BOOK. let it boil very fast for eight or ten minutes, not longer. Every receipt in this Cook-Book has been tested by a Take it out and lay it in a stew-pan, cover it completely practical housekeeper. over with sauer-kraut, and pour in a pint of thin gravy. MEATS AND POULTRY. Stew it four hours, and serve with the gravy in a tureen or Venison-Steake -Cut them from the neck ; season them deep dish. Cooking a Calf's Head.- Soak the half head in cold water with pepper and salt. When the gridiron has been well heated over a bed of bright coals, grease the bars, and lay for a couple of hours ; then put it into cold water and bring the steaks upon it. Broil them well, turning them once, it to the boil. Simmer for another hour and a half, skimand taking care to save as much of the gravy as possible. ming carefully. Serve with parsley and butter, and ham or bacon. Serve them up with some currant-jelly laid on each steak.

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Very Rich Pudding. -Line a deep pie-dish with puff-paste, Sausages. The proper seasoning is salt, pepper, sage, summer savory, or thyme ; they should be one-third fat, having first buttered it thoroughly; place on this a layer of the remainder lean, finely-chopped, and the seasonings well jam, then a layer of custard, then jam, then custard, until mixed and proportioned, so that one herb may not pre- the dish is nearly full, leaving the custard layer at the top. dominate over the others. If skins are used, they cannot Slice the minced peel and cut it into diamonds, and arrange be prepared with too much care ; but they are about as well on the top. Bake for twenty minutes in a moderate oven ; made into cakes ; spread the cakes on a clean, white wood { let the pudding cool, beat up the whites of the eggs that board, and keep them in a dry, cool place ; fry them long were used for the custard into a stiff whip, with a little powdered sugar; pile the whip on as high as possible, and and gently. • serve. DESSERTS. Lemon Plummery.-Squeeze four lemons into a basin, Rich Plum-Pudding without Flour (time, five hours.)— One pound and a half of grated bread, one pound and a half throwing in the rinds, but not the seeds ; add half a pint of for an of raisins, one pound and a half of currants, one pound of water, half a pound of loaf-sugar, and cover close beef-suet, peel of one large lemon, three ounces of almonds, hour; take out the lemon-rinds and again cover, and let it a little nutmeg or mixed spice, sugar to taste, three-quar- { stand all night. Then strain through a cloth, and add one ters of a pound of candied orange, lemon, and citron, eight ounce of isinglass, and put it in a sauce-pan, with six eggs, or nine eggs, half a pint of milk, two wineglasses of brandy. well beaten ; set over the fire, and keep stirring one way till Stone the raisins, wash and pick the currants, chop the suet it is as thick as cream. When milk-warm, put into moulds very fine, and mix with them a pound and a half of grated previously dipped in cold water. Lemon Mince- Meat.-One large lemon, three large apples, bread; add the candied peel cut into shreds, the almonds blanched and minced, and the mixed spice and sugar to four ounces of beef-suet, half a pound of currants, four taste. When all are thoroughly blended, stir it well to- ounces of white sugar, one ounce of candied orange and gether with eight or nine well-beaten eggs, two glasses of citron. Chop up the apples and beef-snet, mix them with brandy, and half a pint of milk, tie in a cloth, and boil it the currants and sugar, then squeeze the juice from a large for five hours, or five hours and a half, or divide it into lemon into a cup. Boil the lemon thus squeezed till tender equal parts, and boil it in moulds or basins for half the time. enough to beat to a mash, add it to the mince-meat. Pour Raised Pies.- Take seven pounds of flour ; then take one over it the juice of the lemon, and add the citron, chopped pound of mutton-suet, clarified down, put it into a sauce-pan, fine. Egg Mince- Meat.-Six hard-boiled eggs, shred very fine, with one pint and a half of water, and set it over the fire till it boils ; make a hole in the middle of the flour, and double the quantity of beef-suet, chopped very small, one pound of currants, washed and dried, the peel of one large pour in the liquor boiling hot ; then mix in the flour with a spoon till you can bear to put your hand in ; mix it till it or two small lemons, minced up, six tablespoonfuls of sweet becomes a nice smooth piece of dongh, cover with a cloth, wine, a little mace, nutmeg, and salt, with sugar to your and raise the pies with as much of it as will make the size taste, add a quarter of a pound of candied orange and citron, you want; when filled and nicely closed, wash with egg, and cut into thin slices. Mix all well together, and press it into lay on the ornaments. Your oven must be brisk, if for a jar for use. Bread-Pudding.-An economical bread-pudding for the small pies ; but if for large ones, a more steady heat will be kitchen may be made in the following way: Soak the pieces the best. Farm-House Syllabub.-Fill a china or earthenware bowl of bread, crust, and toast, in a bowl of boiling water, and of any size nearly half full of cider, (if sour it is of no con- when they are perfectly soft, press as much of the water out sequence, ) sweeten to the taste with coarse brown sugar, as possible, put in a small piece of beef-dripping or butter, grate nutmeg and cinnamon to taste ; then send the bowl a little grated lemon-peel and sugar to taste, one egg, and out to the cow to be milked on till quite full of froth. A beat the whole up with a spoon till quite smooth. Put it in better syllabub for company is made of port-wine and cider a dish and bake it. mixed, (or port-wine only,) sweetened with white sugar, and CAKES. spiced to taste. They are generally served quite cold, and Artificial Yeast.-Place a quart of good, strong yeast in a will even keep till the next day, though not so well. The bowl is generally placed on the table, and the syllabub vessel, and cover it up warm until it has well worked and served with a punch-ladle into coffee-cups placed all round has a good head on it, then stir in sufficient maize meal or wheat meal to make it into a stiff dongh, and flatten this the bowl. Cottage Plum-Pudding (time, five hours.)-A pound and a out with the hands into cakes the size of the top of a tumhalf of flour, four or five eggs, a pinch of salt, a little nut- bler, or less. Lay these on a nice dry board or sieve and meg, one pound of raisins, half a pound of currants, sugar dry in the sun, or over a fire-place, turning them every day to taste, and a little milk. Make a thick batter with five until quite dry. If dried in the sun, they must be brought well-beaten eggs, a pound and a half of flour, and a sufficient in every night, otherwise the damp will injure them. When quantity of milk. Then add the currants, washed and dry, pack away in tins in a dry place, as the slightest moispicked, the raisins stoned, a little nutmeg, and sugar to ture injures them. For use, mix one of these cakes in about taste. Mix all well together, and boil it in a basin or a pint of warm water, and with it make a batter in the floured cloth for quite five hours. The peel of a lemon, center of your dish of flour, or set a sponge overnight, and grated, and a few pieces of citron, ent thin, may be added. proceed in the morning as usual with your yeast-bread. One Apple-Pudding.-Pare four or five large, tart apples, grate cake will raise twelve pounds of flour. them fine ; then make the following custard, into which stir Italian Bread.-One pound of butter, one pound of the grated apple : Flour, four tablespoonfuls ; one pint of powdered loaf-sugar, one pound two ounces of flour, twelve milk, five eggs, and a little grated orange-peel. After you eggs, half a pound of citron and lemon-peel. Mix as for have these ingredients well mixed, pour them into your pound-cake. If the mixture begins to curille, which it is pudding-dish, and bake about one hour and a quarter. most likely to do from the quantity of eggs, add a little of Rice and Milk.-To every quart of good milk allow two the flour. When the eggs are all used, and it is light, stir ounces of rice ; wash it well in several waters ; put it with in the remainder of the flour lightly. Bake it in long, the milk into a closely-covered sance-pan, and set it over a narrow tins, either papered or buttered; first put in a slow fire ; when it boils, take it off; let it stand till it is cold, layer of the mixture, and cover it with the peel cut in and simmer it about an hour and a quarter before sending large, thin slices ; proceed in this way until it is three parts it to table, and serve it in a tureen. full, and bake it in a moderate oven.

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Soda-Cakes. One pound of raisins, quarter of a pound of Lemon-Cheesecakes.- Boil the peel of two lemons in a pint moist sugar, one pound of flour, quarter of a pound of but- of water till soft, beat them in a mortar, add the yolks of ter, to be rubbed into the flour, quarter of a pound of can- six eggs, quarter of a pound of powdered sugar, and half a died peel, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, dissolved in pound of butter. Mix all together in a mortar, and add a halfa pint of new milk, (which must be lukewarm, ) and one few currants. Line patty-pans with paste, put in the mixegg; to be put into the oven immediately. Another soda, ture, and bake. seed, or currant-cake : Break down six ounces of fresh butter into one pound of fine, dry flour, and work it into small crumbs ; mix with these half a pound of sifted sugar, and FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER. pour to them first a quarter of a pint of boiling milk, and FIG. 1.-WALKING-DRESS OF BLUE POPLIN.- The under-skirt next three whisked eggs ; add some lemon-rind, and eight is trimmed with one deep ruffle,headed by five narrow ones. ounces of currants, or from one to two ounces of caraway- The upper-skirt is open in front, looped up quite short at seeds, ground ; beat well together, and strew in a very small the sides, and trimmed with a deep fringe. Short, black teaspoonful of good carbonate of soda which has been well velvet casaque, with very wide sleeves, trimmed with fringe. mixed with a little white sugar ; beat all lightly for three The casaque is cut square in front. minutes, put it into a buttered mould, and bake from an FIG. II.-EVENING-DRESS OF WHITE ORGANDY.-The long hour to an hour and a quarter. Or, take a quart of flour, skirt is trimmed with one deep flounce, headed by a puffing ; and mix well with a cup of milk ; add one pound of raw this puffing has a narrow ruffle, and both it and the flounce sugar, four ounces of butter, one teaspoonful of soda, and are scalloped and edged with a straw braid. The uppertwo teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar. Mix all together skirt is open at the back, and is looped quite high each thoroughly, bake for about two hours in a hot oven (not too side with poppies, wheat, white daisies, and other field. hot) in a well-buttered tin. flowers. The top-skirt is edged with straw, like the flounce ; Excellent Breakfast-Cakes.-A teaspoonful of baking-pow- the berthe is trimmed with a fringe of straw and white silk. FIG. III.-CARRIAGE-DRESS.-The petticoat is of poppyder mixed dry, with about three-quarters of a pound of flour, a piece oflard the size of a large walnut, as much cold milk colored silk, trimmed with five flounces of the same; on as will moisten the above, which is to be mixed with a spoon each flounce is a narrow fall of black guipure lace. Rich or knife very lightly and very quickly ; roll out to half an black silk overdress, open in front, made with a very long inch in thickness, cut into cakes with the top of a dredging- { train, trimmed with a narrow ruffle, scalloped on each edge, box, and put them immediately on a hot griddle over the with a fall of black guipure lace over it. The short, upperfire. They take only a few minutes to bake, and should be skirt is a good deal puffed, and trimmed to correspond. The served immediately they are done. Mixed in the same way sleeves are half-tight, and the body has a trimming to simuan excellent cake can be made without the lard, forming it late a square neck. FIG. IV.- HOUSE-DRESS OF GREEN AND WHITE STRIPED into one cake the size of a saucer a little thicker than the SILK. The skirt is long and plain. The waist is cut low above. All to be baked on both sides. Bun Loaf.-Rub half a teaspoonful of tartaric acid, the and square on the bust, and high on the shoulders. Over same quantity of bicarbonate of soda, and one pound offlour, it is worn a white tulle fichu, edged with wide lace, and is all together through a hair-sieve ; work two ounces of butter carelessly tied in front. Tight sleeves, trimmed with three into the flour, add two ounces of loaf-sugar, a quarter of a bands of plain green silk. FIG. V.- WALKING-DRESS OF CLARET-COLORED CORDED SILK. pound of currants, (when liked, a few caraway-seeds.) Mix all these ingredients well together, make a hole in the mid- -The petticoat is plain, and edged with two rows of narrow dle of the flour, and pour in half a pint of cold, new milk, black velvet. The upper-dress and casaque are of black mixed with one egg, which should be well beaten ; mix velvet, edged with narrow bands of fur. The dress is looped up at the back ; the casaque is cut quite short at the back, quickly, put into a tin, and bake for an hour and a half. Spice- Cake.-Two and a half pounds of flour, two ponnds and long, and pointed in front. The sleeves are long and of currants, two pounds of butter, half a pound of moist pointed. FIG. VI.- HOUSE-DRESS OF TSHADES OF AMBER-COLORED sugar, half an ounce of pounded spice, four yolks and two whites of eggs, two glasses of brandy, a tablespoonful of SILK. The skirt has a deep hounce set on in large, flat boxyeast, and a little warm water. Rub the butter into th pleats. The upper trimming is made of the lighter shade, flour, mix all together, and put it before the fire to raise and is itself trimmed with the darker. A double tunic. about halfan hour. Then make it into cakes about half an Waist cut square in the neck. FIGS. VII. AND VIII.-SKATING-DRESSES.- In the first, the inch thick, or a little more, and the size of a pudding plate. skirt is of dark-blue habit-cloth, open at one side, and one Bake them not too quickly. Tea- Cakes. The following receipt for tea-cakes produces side gathered into the other, trimmed with a band of blue light and very nice results : Half peck of flour, one pound of velvet. The petticoat of Astrakan, trimmed with ermine butter, one pound of lard, one pound of sugar, caraway- tails. Coat, muff, and hat of the same. The other suit is seeds, two tablespoonfuls of yeast, eight eggs, well beaten, made of plush, trimmed with a band of satin and chenille one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. Mix well with a little fringe. Muff and hat of the same. FIG. IX.-WALKING-DRESS OF BLACK SILK, with six straight warm milk, and let it stand to raise ; bake in cakes. They ruffles on the skirt, edged with black velvet. The basque is will keep some time, and are best if eaten warm. Lemon- Cuke.- Beat six eggs, the yolks and whites sepa- a little loose. The skirt is rounded, and trimmed with a rately, till in a solid froth, add to the yolks the grated rind silk ruffle. The front and sleeves have revers of velvet. of a lemon, six ounces of sugar; beat this well for seven or Small velvet hat. eight minutes, shake in with the left hand six ounces of FIG. X.- WALKING-DRESS OF GREEN AND BLUE PLAID CASHdried flour, then add the whites of the eggs, and the juice MERE, made with a second skirt, and two capes, and trimof the lemon. When well beaten, pour into a cake-pan, and med with a bias fold of the same, and with worsted fringe. Iat of velvet, with long ostrich feather. bake nearly an hour. IN ADDITION TO THESE, we give numerous engravings of Washington Cake.-Three-quarters of a pound of butter, and the same of sugar, worked to a cream, five eggs, well new style Hats, Bonnets, Collars, Bodies, etc., etc., which, beaten, nutmeg and cinnamon, one pound of sifted flour, one however, do not need a description. GENERAL REMARKS.- Very many of the new goods are gill of wine, half a teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in one gill of cream, one pound of currants or raisins. Bake in a figured. Some silks have round, satin spots in them of the moderately quick oven. same color as the silk: others again are of different colors.

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Then again, stripes are very popular, as well as brocaded materials; but we still prefer the one colored plain silk to any other. If one does not possess a great variety of costumes, one very soon tires of figured materials ; but the latter have the advantage of not showing soils as soon as the more quiet, plain article. Of course, plaids in high colors will always be popular for children, and they are also very useful ; but for older persons, though, plaids are not so much employed. The woolen goods are, many of them, striped in darker shades of the same color, some of the stripes being diagonal, others straight, but scarcely any are crosswise. Mixed woolen goods are very popular for out-ofdoor wear; the style that long ago was called " pepper-andsalt," fine black and white, brown and white, etc., etc. The satin-faced serge, which looks very much like the oldfashioned lasting of which boots were made, comes in all colors, and is remarkably nice for out-of-door costumes. The colors now worn are much gayer and more striking than formerly; bright purples, rich dark greens, and blues, wine-colors of the warmest hues, are all employed, as well as our old favorites the drabs, fawns, grays, and browns. Black must always be very much worn, it is so unobtrusive, and with a change of ribbons at the neck, or flowers on the bonnet, a new effect may always be gained. A black silk, an empress cloth, a cashmere, a satin-faced serge, or even a merino, can always be made to look stylish. WITH REGARD TO THE MAKE OF DRESSES, only slight modifications have taken place. The short dress, or " costume," as it is called, is the only one ever seen on the street now, and for an ordinary house-dress it is a great deal worn. This style is much less elegant than the train-skirt, but certainly much more convenient ; the train-dress is, however, universally worn of an evening, except by quite young ladies. It is most difficult to keep the short dress from looking vulgar and ridiculous, if the fashion is at all exaggerated ; the habit of wearing very small hoops, (or none at all, as some do,) makes it somewhat risky to appear in the large panniers, which some persons exaggerate to a fearful degree. The well-dressed women will wear the under-skirt, not to end at the top of her boots, but as long as she can, so that it does not touch the ground ; she will have it moderately trimmed ; and she will wear the upper-skirt rather long, and looped up so as to forin moderate-sized puffs at the back, or on the hips. No respectable French woman looks like a top, as so many American women do now. DRESSES FOR THE HOUSE have the body cut open, rather low, but narrow in front, and almost quite high at the back and on the shoulders. This is a beautiful style, we think ; and with a black velvet ribbon, with a pendant locket, is becoming to almost all persons. The coat-sleeve, so long popular, is still much worn ; but is frequently replaced now by a sleeve tight to the elbow, and which is trimmed with ruffles ; for a pretty arm this is a desirable change, and much less stiff and more dressy than the coat-sleeve. When the latter is worn, it is finished at the hand by a deep cuff, which turns up and relieves the sleeve of its formal look. FLOUNCES are still popular for house-dresses : one deep one, or many small ones, disposed on the dress, according to the fancy of the wearer. Sometimes they do not cross the front breadth, but run around the back, up each side, narrowing in width as they ascend the skirt ; sometimes they are studdel, or held back by bows of velvet ribbon. In fact, velvet ribbon forms a most popular and stylish trimming, especially for winter. Black, maroon, blue, green, or, in fact, any colored velvet which will contrast favorably with the dress, is elegant ; of course, the waistband and sash must be of the same; the ends of the sash are short, but very wide. Black velvet can be worn with any colored dress, and the lighter the silk, the more effective is the dark sash. SACQUES OR MANTLES are of innumerable varieties. Some are confined closely to the figure some are cut to fall in to it, and others are quite loose ; but these latter are very short,

not reaching much below the waist. One of the most elegant which we have seen is a wide velvet paletot, just reaching the waist, but not cut out to fit the figure, wide Ilungarian sleeves, cut so as to discover the tight sleeves of the bodice beneath. The paletot forms two square ends in front, simi{ lar to the ends of a mantelet. The entire jacket is studded with jet. Some of these new paletots are of cloth, and trimmed with braid only, or with braid and fringe ; others, less heavy, are of cashmere, and richly embroidered in gold; the gold embroidery is very popular, but should be only used for house wear, or some exceptionally dressy occasion. The make of these sacques is so complicated that it is quite impossible to describe all of them. BONNETS, this winter, are marvels of style, or ugliness, just as it happens ; the really stylish bonnets are of most peculiar shape : flat to the head, and then there rises, just back of this flat piece, a high, square coronet; the flat piece is edged with lace ; and at one side of the coronet, is usually placed a beautiful rose, carnation, or any other flower which may be fancied. But after the coronet is got, the bonnet may be trimmed in a variety of ways ; long, flowing plumes are very much worn, and are very graceful ; these are put in on one side, and fall over the hair at the back. There are other very beautiful bonnets, with less exaggerated coronets-in fact, more in the Marie Stuart shape, coming more in a point ; but the trimming is arranged to give them the highest effect. The ugliest articles for the head, which we have ever seen, are things which are neither bonnets nor hats ; they are round, stand half a foot high, and are made of velvet, and are elaborately trimmed with feathers, flowers, and lace. We only mention this as one of the styles, but we are happy to say that it finds but few to patronize it. HATS FOR YOUNG GIRLS are also high, but droop in a point before and at the back, and are trimmed with velvet and } long, floating plumes ; these are stylish, and becoming to most faces. Other hats, not quite so high, are also popular, and are trimmed with stiffer feathers than the former. THE HAIR has undergone quite a change during the autumn ; the high chignons are no longer worn, but simplelooking braids are all the fashion. We say simple-looking, for they are not so in reality. The real “ chatelain braid,” such as was engraved for our November number, must be made ofvery long, even hair; but it may be braided over a "switch," or long " rats;" when this is done, it is easily put on the head, turned up at the sides, and fastened with pins; a small coronet-braid across the front is all that it needs to { finish the head-dress. But this long hair is exceedingly expeusive, and not becoming to every one, so the shorter hair is often used, braided over thick rats, and is as ready to pin on as the old-fashioned chignon. Still this latter plan is not as fashionable as the former-is not, in other words, regarded as so stylish.

CHILDREN'S FASHIONS. FIG. 1.- GIRL'S SUIT OF WHITE CASHMERE ; skirt plain ; coat loose, edged with swansdown. Hat to match. FIG. II. GIRL'S SUIT OF CASHMERE, with overdress of darkblue, edged with fur. Hat of felt, with plume. FIG. III -YOUNG MISS' SKIRT OF SILK, with overdress of blue velveteen, looped on the shoulders with bows and ends of ribbon. Hat of velveteen, with ostrich feather. FIG. IV. YOUNG MISS' SUIT OF BLACK VELVETEEN, edged with satin. Leggins and hat ofthe same. FIG. V. GIRL'S CASHMERE SUIT, with squirrel-tippet. Hat with rolling brim. FIG. VI.—LITTLE BOY'S SUIT, made of cashmere, with heavy embroidery. Turban hat. FIG. VII.-GIRL'S CLOTH SUIT.-Skirt plain. Cloak with wide sleeves, and hood ; Persian trimming. Balmoral stockings.

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KNICKERBOCKER SUIT FOR BOY.

Good heavens! Had the widow gone mad! She took off her bonnet and veil, unfastened her cloak, unhooked her crinoline and skirts, and stepped out—wonder of wonders! the bridegroom, George Lyon!

Squire Lemon gave one gasping cry, no more he was too far gone. He sat staring like a man who has taken leave of his senses.

"It was I all the time," said Mr. Lyon, struggling with a laugh. "I was the widow George Seaton Lyon. I never saw a ghost, and I never expect to. Try to pardon me, Squire Lemon, when I am gone. All's fair in love, you know."

Mr. and Mrs. Lyon went off to Boston ; and people wondered why, after being so very cordial at the wedding- breakfast, the squire refused to speak to his daughter, or her husband, for ever so long after. But he came round in time, as these flinty- parents mostly do, and forgave them handsomely, and brought them back to Lemonville, to live happy forever after.

As for the stately widow Seaton, nothing was ever seen of her since; and the popular belief in Lemonville is, that that house is certainly haunted, and that the crafty, plotting widow was scared away by the GHOST OF LEMON LANE.

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BY EMILY H. MAY.

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 nothing else but the inquiry, “Oh! Staza, and thou dost not sing any more.”

Staza quivered at these words, glanced up at him, and then looked on the ground: glanced up at him with a gleam in her eyes which he had never seen there before, with fervour so that her bosom was expanded and was penetrated by it. And when she glanced down to the ground she did not raise her eyes any more, but from the heaving of her own bosom it was evident that this gleam of light and fervour had elevated her whole existence.

Frank was melancholy; what he had said did not satisfy him, and he could not think of anything else. Even Staza was melancholy, because she could not find anything to say at all: but after a brief pause she threw herself at full length on the grass, a deep sigh escaped from her bosom, and then she quickly rose to her feet and, without casting one glance at Frank, ran lightly away.

Perhaps she at last told her mother what she wanted to say.

Frank scarcely ventured to glance at her as she ran away, and still less ventured to ask himself the question why she ran away. And he sat down exactly on the place where she had been seated a moment before, only that he looked toward the wicket-gate and then called to mind how he had come to the cemetery the first time with the measure for his grandfather’s grave. And then he called to mind how he had slept in his grandfather’s grave, and how he and Staza had nestled together. And all at once he started as though something had stung him in his heart.

And now Staza and Frank avoided one another, or, more properly, they sought one another, but when they ought to have found one another they did not find one another, and when they found one another they were melancholy and sought one another once more. They who had grown side by side like two flower-stems, only now became conscious that they were side by side, and began to separate from one another in order that they might yearn for one another’s presence.

When at even Staza worked in the living-room, certainly Frank was not there, and wandered somewhere under the window or outside the burial-ground, in the fields, perhaps even in the woods, God knows where. And if Frank was in the living-room, Staza would rather have laid her down beside the charnel-house than have been at the same time in the same room with him; and again she glanced into his eyes, which were so clear and fervent.

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 world a greater happiness than such meetings, so that they measured time by them, although they dwelt under the same roof.

When Bartos, the grave-digger, observed what I here relate, he said to Frank, “You will not sleep another night at our house, Frank, you will go to the farm; the farm is your own, and requires a hospodar without delay.”

And now it seemed to Frank as though Bartos had announced to him some dire misfortune. Frank begged not to be dismissed to the farm until the morrow. But Bartos said, “You go there at once, just as you are, without saying a word to any one.”

“Not even to Staza?” asked Frank.

“Not even to Staza”, said Bartos.

And so Frank departed that same day without saying a word to any one.

When several days had elapsed, old Loyka said, “I wonder where Frank is roving; ’tis several days since he has been at home.”

“I have not seen him now for several days”, said Bartos. “I know not where he is roving.”

I know not whether this answer contented Loyka, but certainly it did not content Staza, who was now constantly on the watch to see whether Loyka or Bartos would begin to mention Frank.

She would gladly have inquired a hundred times in the hour what had become of him, and yet she never summoned courage to ask even once.

“I wonder why Frank doesn’t come”, said old Loyka after several days.

“I wonder he does not come”, said Bartos.

And it was the only thing she heard of him for several days, and yet she always watched with immeasurable anxiety for the occasion when Loyka should inquire for his son. Once Loyka asked Staza herself whether she knew where Frank was. “I do not know”, said Staza; and after this she once more seated herself on her mother’s grave, buried her hot face in the clover, and doubtless told her mother to the very end what that other time she had only begun to speak about.

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 Once Bartos came home and said to Loyka, “I know at last where Frank is.”

At these words Staza grew red and white several times in the same minute, just as though some one had announced to her that she must from that minute suffer some dire adversity.

“Frank is at home with his mother, who is sick unto death and longs for you to come and visit her”, exclaimed Bartos.

“I go to the farm!” began Loyka vehemently. “To your wife, who is sick unto death”, put in Bartos. And here old Loyka was, for that day, completely metamorphosed. He did not speak a word, leant his head on his hands, turned over in his mind various plans, and looked another man.

“So you think, Bartos, that I have to go to the farm?” he asked, as if on the brink of some final determination which he specially dreaded.

“I think that you ought to go. If you wish it, I will conduct you”, said Bartos. And here the matter was half decided.

What a wholly different effect it had upon Staza! How gladly, without any hesitation, would she have run to the bedside of the invalid, how gladly would she have watched there, how gladly would she have tended her. How instantly would she have left everything that she might be present where there was most need of her. No one invited her, and she would have sped like the wind. The grave-digger invited Loyka, and Loyka prepared himself to go, as though he was preparing himself for his own death.

“How many years is it since I have been on the estate?” asked old Loyka, still undecided.

“Oh, many a long year”, said Bartos. “In the meantime your son has grown up and is like a nosegay—’tis a pleasure to look at him.”

At these words Staza let fall everything which she held in her hands, and for a long time was at cross purposes in all she did. She poured water from the ewer into the basin until it overflowed. When she observed this, she wished to wipe it up with something, and emptied the salt-cellar into the water imagining it was something she had forgotten to salt.

That evening, Loyka and Bartos wended their way to the farm, at Frishets, which Loyka still supposed to be in the possession of Joseph. It must have been a very crushing pilgrimage for him, for let Bartos begin any topic of conversation, Loyka did not listen to him, but remained shut up in his own sombre reflections, Rh


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 and at intervals he heaved a heavy sigh and said in a constrained voice, “Well, then, this is my last journey.” Bartos did not tease him to converse. Moreover, they had to rest at every boundary-stone, and the walk, which, under ordinary circumstances, was easily accomplished in half an hour, was prolonged to a full hour. And then each time they sat down Loyka said, “My Lord and Master, I go to the Mount of Calvary.”

But with this great oppression which overpowered Loyka, all traces of that tempestuous spirit which had oftentimes shaken his whole inner man seemed to have disappeared. He went as though the road was one which it was impossible to avoid—he went exhausted and oppressed, but still he did not turn aside.

When they reached the Loykas’s farm it was almost dark. Loyka seated himself exhausted by the abutment, beside which long ago Frank had wept for the death of his grandfather. And as he sat by this abutment, he spoke in a voice of forced meekness, “Bend, proud knees, and entreat my son to permit me to cross his court-yard. Hands, clasp yourselves in prayer and entreat my son to open that gate for so many years barred against me. Enter his doors, ye words, and entreat and implore. For surely it is not possible that I must stifle even my words. Then forth, oh! stubborn thoughts, and learn humbleness! My son Joseph!” said he, raising his voice, “lo! Thy father stands at thy threshold, only, prithee, promise me one thing, by word of mouth and before witnesses, that thou wilt not set that dog upon me which long ago fawned upon me and which I fed with my bounty.” And more to the same effect.

At times it was like praying, at times like weeping, at times like affected humility, at times like reproach.

While he sat thus and Bartos stood beside him, the sound of harps and violins issued from the court-yard and several vocal melodies were wafted to their ears. Old Loyka was silent, raised his head and looked round about him. He listened. He looked round about him to see where he was sitting, and he listened to find out whence the music came. He saw that he was seated by the gates of Joseph’s farm, and that the music resounded therefrom.

“Whither have you led me, Bartos?” inquired Loyka, and rose to his feet, for he could not trust what he had heard and seen.

“And you said that my wife was sick unto death?” he further inquired.

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 “Why are they playing music where some one is sick unto death?” inquired Loyka.

“If music can play after a funeral, why should it not be played before the funeral? Did not the music play the whole day when they brought out your father for me to bury?”

Loyka mused a while and was silent. After this, Loyka said of his own accord, “Let us enter.”

He opened the gate, remained standing in the gateway and listened. The music played on.

Here Loyka said, “They have not yet loosed the dog upon me and I cannot hear one barking.” The music played on.

Then they stepped into the court-yard, and old Loyka said in a much milder tone than before at the abutment, “Look in wonder on me all you who here in days gone by craved a hospitable shelter. Did any of you come here so humbly as I come this day? Had any of you to stoop to such servile entreaties as I have stooped to? Oh, how could I come more humbly than I come this day?” And the music played on. Loyka listened and said, “I have not yet heard the baying of the hound.”

And when he had said this he perceived that the music and the singing were in the chambers beside the coach-house, and now there was the chattering of many voices. He saw and heard feet approaching, and, not looking up to see who it was, he bowed his body to the ground and cried, “If thou art my son Joseph, oh! I pray thee only do not drive me away for this one day. For the sake of my aged wife, I implore thee, for the sake of thy mother who bore thee, and whose only fault was that she loved thee all too well, and now is sick unto death. I promise that I will depart again as soon as she is dead if I survive her death.”

And more to the same effect. It was Vena who approached him and said, “I welcome you, pantata, to your own farmstead.”

Old Loyka drew himself up, looked round about him and listened. Afterwards his eyes rested on Vena. “Thou art Vena,” he said, “I know thee. What has brought thee here? Thou went wandering from here.”

“Now I am here again, pantata, and we are expecting you”, said Vena.

“Expecting me? And who are those yonder playing?”

“The harpers, fiddlers, and singers. Of course, you know them all”, said Vena.

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 “Expecting me! Well, well, well, well.”

Then he took Vena by the hand and said, “Thou wise man, do not trot me out to make a fool of me, and tell me, is it safe to cross the court-yard?”

“I am sent for you, pantata, and I have to conduct you wherever you please—to the pension house or the farmhouse; but our good old mistress is in the farmhouse, and, therefore, I might perhaps have conducted you to the farmhouse.”

“Ha! then, lead me to the farmhouse”, said Loyka, and he said it just as though he had by this confirmed his own death-warrant, which it was impossible now to avoid. And, even as the wretch condemned to die, just before his death, dares to implore some favour for himself, so old Loyka implored, “You hear, Vena, I am going into the farmhouse; but first, lead me yonder, to the chambers by the coach-house, that I may gaze upon those spirits who there await my spirit.”

And he hung on Vena’s arm, and Vena led him to the spot. When they caught sight of him a flourish of trumpets rang forth. Then the family of the kalounkar came out upon the door-step, the cloth-pedlar, several tinkers, and, in a word, all whoever just then were lodging under that roof, and all said, “We welcome you, pantata; we have already been expecting you.” And when old Loyka hardly recognized those figures by the scanty light of a candle, his head went round, so that he scarcely attended to what they were saying.

“Vena, let me not stay here any longer. Good lad, now I have seen it, now lead me to the farmhouse.”

When he departed, a flourish of music again rang forth, and Loyka, staggering, and leaning upon Vena, reeled towards his house. And when he was already not far from the threshold, he said, “Only bend thyself, proud tongue, and pray. Harsh words, swaddle yourselves in silk, be soft and meek, be very meek and soft, ay, as soft as the droppings of birds!” And here already some one stood on the door-step and said, “I welcome you, tatinka; we have been expecting you.”

He who pronounced these words was not Joseph; it was Frank.

And here motes seemed to flicker before Loyka’s eyes, and after a minute or two, Bartos, Vena, and Frank carried him into the farmhouse.

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 his eyes for a moment and closed them again immediately. He fell asleep.

After so many years he again slept under his own roof, and slept in the farmhouse.

It was already pretty late on the following day when he awoke; and when he awoke, he looked fixedly at the ceiling as if he was trying to call to mind how it used to look. Very much that had occurred seemed to him like a dream. As yet, he could hardly manage to assure himself that he was not still asleep.

And when his eyes ranged from the ceiling and sought the objects that were nearest to him, here stood, here sat in the apartment, his wife, Frank, and Bartos. Loyka greeted them with a prolonged stare, but did not utter a word. He only gazed at them.

And when his eyes wandered to the door he saw several of the servants standing there, one of whom said, “We await your order, pantata, where we are to go and plough.”

Old Loyka again turned his eyes towards his wife, his son, and Bartos, and said, “Tell me nothing: if it is a dream, let me dream on.” And to the servants he said, “Go and plough beyond the meadow; I will come and see how much you have worked.”

When the servants had gone, he again looked towards his son and said, “And Joseph allows you to be here? Does he allow me to be here also?”

“You are at home, papa,” said Frank, “and we will never leave it again.”

“At home? Prithee, tell me nothing whatever until afterwards”, and he rubbed his forehead. After a while he said to his wife, “They told me you were sick unto death.”

“Now she is well again”, said Bartos.

When Loyka got upon his feet he inquired, “May I venture to walk about the room?”

“About the room, the court-yard, in the fields, where you please”, answered Frank.

Loyka smiled and walked about the room, and said as he did so, “It is all a very well concocted plan, but I am already old. Why should I not allow myself to take a few steps in a room which was once my own?”

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 whether you speak the truth.” And Loyka looked out of the window at the court-yard.

“I wonder who that is standing in the court-yard?” he said. “If I am not mistaken, it is the old harvester.”

“He has been already waiting two days to see you and to have a talk with you”, they said.

“Well, let him come and say his say”, responded Loyka. “I always gladly talk with him.”

They called to the harvester and he came. “I am come to you, pantata, to inquire whether you will require the services of the old harvester this summer? Because they are ready to engage us in Časlavsko, and I said that we would go if our old pantata Loyka did not require our services.”

“Have you spoken to the young folk?” inquired Loyka.

“They told me that everything depended on you”, answered the harvester.

“Well, if they said that to you, come all of you to our harvesting. To be sure, where else would you go, when we need your services here?”

“We will be here on call early to prepare ourselves”, said the reaper and took his leave.

Old Loyka turned to his friends and said, “I know very well that Joseph will not be pleased, but why should I not exasperate him a little? Just let them come. Of course, I shall still employ them.”

After this he said, “Still, Joseph does not come hither to drive me away?”

“He is not coming”, said Frank.

“Then if he is not coming, let me go into the court-yard”, and they led him into toe court-yard.

In the court-yard the servants of old Loyka saluted him, called him “pantata” and, in general, behaved towards him very respectfully. Old Loyka inspected the field implements, inspected the house, and was evidently well pleased.

He went to the chambers by the coach-house, there all was just as it had been in his time. The family of the kalounkar, only a few inches taller and perhaps with one or two additions to its numbers; the cloth-pedlar, a little shrunken, and the harpers and fiddlers with the same instruments, only that, perhaps, they too were already a little shrunken. All welcomed old Loyka with smiles and pretty speeches, and one of them said that now all was once more just as it used to be in the old days.


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 Then they begged old Loyka to come and sit down with them. After this they began to relate about things past and present, and what changes there had been, and old Loyka felt as though some one was planting a new heart in his breast, and in his head the song of the laverock once more resounded.

Then the old kalounkar said, “I think, pantata, if you would be so good as to suffer us to stay here some time under this roof, that the Lord God would reward you for it on the other side.”

Old Loyka said, “When I see you here I can believe that I am here—just as if you had been my roots and I could again anchor myself here by you.”

They were in very truth his roots, and old Loyka anchored himself here by them.

After this his neighbours from the village came and welcomed old Loyka. They declared that they were interested about the construction of some public gardens, and that they only waited for his advice before beginning to lay them out.

In a word, every one treated old Loyka just as though there had never been a period when he was a fugitive from his home, just as though this day was a continuation of the brighter, happier days of old. Not, perhaps, that Loyka should no more remember what had been. By no means. He very well remembered that but yesterday he was a wanderer in the world, but at the same time there emerged in him to-day a fresh consciousness that, perhaps, there might be an end of this wandering.

And so Bartos’s plan succeeded. Those spiders’ webs which had obscured old Loyka’s mind, dissipated themselves of their own accord, and he every day visibly convalesced. Once more he took his walk every evening to the chambers by the coach-house, and himself invited the inmates to converse and sing. “Be merry, lads, be merry”, he used to say.

And the old life began again at the Loykas’s. That farm was now once more just as people had known it all their lives. Old Loyka so far convalesced that he threw off several years as though they had been a few heavy sheaves of corn; so that at last his friends ventured to tell him the whole truth, both about what had happened to Joseph, how he had sold out of the farm, and how the farm was bought for Frank, and how being still young, Frank begged that he, Loyka, should manage it for him. Ay, he so far convalesced that sometimes he would say, when he paid a visit to the chambers, “So, my lads, tell me the story of old Loyka when he was a wanderer in the world.”


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 “Ah! well, he was always very merry through it all”, so they began the story, and that was the only part where they did not tell him the whole truth, because they knew how greatly pleased he was that people should think he had been merry in the height of his misfortune.

They even told him that the illness of his wife was a mere pretext in order to coax him home again, and that it had succeeded.

“Ah! well,” said old Loyka about his wife, “she suffered quite enough, poor thing, when she was here by herself.”

And thus old Loyka got himself home once more.

HAT more have I to relate?

Frank again began to rove away from the farm and, of course, they knew to a hair whither he went. But it was not true exactly as they thought it: that is to say, when he went to the cemetery he went with a heavy heart as in the old days when he carried hither the measure for his grandfather’s grave. And now he carried thither a kind of measure, the measure of his own heart-was it that he would order a grave for it? By no means. In order that he might lay it in a heart softer than any dust and sweeter than any flower.

And yet, indeed, the path was as toilsome as if he were going to bury his heart in the grave. Enchantment seemed to murmur around him and shot about his path in the mist and the clear weather: his heart beat with a presentiment of rapture, and his hand vacillated—so it will be to the end of the world.

When he came to the cemetery he posted himself by the wicket-gate, as on that day long past, and gazed eagerly. And he saw the great ruddy cross and on it the white-iron figure of the Christus, then lesser crosses, then graves without crosses, some green, some flowery, some half sunk in the ground.

And there was in that cemetery something vast and incomprehensible, something that we can never analyse, something vast as a sea, chilling as winter’s ice and snow. But to-day the breath of winter did not issue from its gates, rather a portion of the spring seemed to hover over that dwelling-place of the dead.


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 When he stood by the wicket-gate, he waited and everything for which he waited could emerge from the grave-digger’s humble abode in the person of Staza.

Staza tripped forth just as on that day long past, but how different. It was not a child who hopped even over the graves like a small bird, or a butterfly. It was a pensive, blooming maiden, a rose, which blossoms on a single bush, there to glisten and then fade. She walked with her head bowed and seemed as though she would fain water those graves with her tears. And she was infinitely charming.

Frank had opened the wicket-gate a hundred times, and to-day it seemed as though he knew not how he could ever enter by it. When he thought that Staza might observe him, he retreated and only peeped furtively through the bars. And he saw Staza, who was the selfsame Staza whom he had led about the whole neighbourhood, and who yet was not the same. At least it seemed to him as though he saw her to-day for the first time, and as though he had to speak to her for the first time.

Staza seated herself on her mother’s grave, and her eyes rested on the white-iron figure of the Christus on the ruddy cross. After a moment or two she whispered rather than sang, “Odpocinte v pokoji verne dusicky” [“Rest in peace ye faithful spirits”].

But she did not finish her song. Something seemed to snap it asunder half-way, the second half remained unuttered.

And here Frank felt constrained: just as if he ought to finish in tears what Staza had left incomplete in her song, just as if he wronged her by his silence.

He posted himself before the wicket-gate in order that she might see him.

“Oh! Staza,” he said.

Staza rose from the ground, and half joyously, half pensively approached the wicket-gate.

“I welcome thee, Frank”, said she.

“Oh! Staza, will you open it for me”, said Frank.

Here Staza said archly, “Have you so soon forgotten how to open it?”

“I have not forgotten,” responded Frank, “but I have no longer the right unless you allow me.”

“You have it open!” said Staza.

“Oh! Staza, I am come to ask your hand in marriage”, said Frank, after a short silence.

“You have it here!” said Staza, and gave her hand to him.