Fashions for July. Furnished by Mr. G. BRODIE, 51 Canal Street, New York, and drawn by VOIGT from actual articles of Costume. THE HE ROBE EN PEIGNOIR illustrated on the previous page, though especially designed as a bridal morning costume, is also adapted for general use. In our illustration it is composed of white mousseline de laine; stone tint, azure, or mode colors are, however, equally appropriate. The first of the series of loops which confine the garment is left unfastened in order to show the chemisette, which is of lace bouillonnée crossed by narrow plaited white satin ribbon. The robe adjusts itself easily to the figure in front; the back is gathered in four reversed plaits. The skirt, folded back upon itself, displays an elaborate embroidery, or it may be wrought in braids. Cords, passing through large eylet-holes, which form part of the ornamental design, loop the revers, as indicated in the drawing. The sleeves are Vandyked; they are very full, short upon the fore-front, descending abruptly midway below the elbow, and are richly ornamented to match the skirt. The under-sleeves are of lace, very full, and are caught up in festoons upon the upper arm. The jupe is of Nansouk, richly em broidered. Of these whys and wherefores we are content His love, to be sure, is not of that passive at this moment to recall those only which are so kind in which the Southron is content to eloquently written by all-bountiful Nature upon dream away his days in the perfume and shade the charming physique of the whole length and of the self-same magnolia which was a world breadth of his cherished home, and which all so to his childhood's eyes; but, far better proved, clearly read in his proud, self-reliant, and un-it withstands the estranging powers of strong tiring nature, and in the simple virtues and the ambitions, and prolonged excitements-a love healthful pleasures of his social life. unconquered by pride, the spirit of gain, or the Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by Harper and Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. VOL. XIII.-No. 75.-T seductions of other climes; for takes he ever so kindly to chibouk in Persia, to the gold-digger's spade in California or Australia, shivers he among the icebergs of Polardom, sings he "do re mi" Mississippi-wards, or dispenses the A B C, nutmegs, or tin-ware, in latitude and longitude ad libitum, he is still Jonathan, gazing back with gentle memory, ever and anon, as he follows a trail or drives a trade, to "the smoke's blue wreaths ascending with the breeze;" and feeling always, down in that unsolidified stratum of his rugged heart, beneath the layers of gold and brass and tin, that "the first, best country ever is at home;" and at last rejoicing, some day, like Macgregor, to find his foot again upon his native heath. Portia's suitors before the mysterious caskets, although, more happy than were they, he is sure to catch fair Nature's portrait in each. Thus, one early summer day, a few years since, were we embarrassed, while cogitating the best investment of some months' furlough from city toil. We had said a reluctant "No," successively to the persuasive pleadings of the dainty valleys and cascades of the Carolinas and Georgia; to the springs and hills and rivers and caves of Virginia and Kentucky; to the shores of the great inland seas, and to the lakedotted wilds of the Adirondacks; and had limited the election to New England alone: and so-shutting our eyes upon the dominions of the Camel's Hump, and of the White Hills, and of old Graylock reigning down in verdant Berkshire upon the venison and trout of the woods and waters of Maine, and upon the rocks and waves of her rugged coasts-we looked determinedly toward the far-famed valleys of the Connecticut alone. In the small area of the Eastern States we find not only an epitome of the landscape beauty of our whole country, but the brightest examples of many of its highest characteristics; as in the vast primeval wildernesses, sustaining still the wild animal life of untold centuries back; in the lofty hill-ranges, where the peaks of Mount In our survey of this charming river we deWashington overlook all the land; in the match-termined to deny ourselves the last seventy-six less lakes, where Winnepiseogee and Squam sleep miles of its course, extending from its debouchunrivaled; in the generous rivers and the teem-ure into Long Island Sound, through the pleasing valleys, where the meadows and floods of the Housatonic and of the Connecticut drew the poet to sing, "No watery glades through richer valleys shine, Nor drinks the sea a lovelier wave than thine." ant though quiet breadth of its namesake State, to Springfield, in Massachusetts; and making at once for that central point of rendezvous, where New England railways most do congregate, journey thence to the sources of the river in the northern wilds of Vermont and New Hampshire. This route we cordially commend to our be-packed and Connecticut-inclined The summer tourist finds it as perplexing to choose between the many attractions which invite his love in the endless field of natural beauty which this wide Union presents, as did readers. |