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Mrs. Leverton loved to draw her comparisons from nature, because then she was convinced that her groundwork was just; and one day when Ida appeared discontented at some remarks she had made on beauty, she sent her into the garden, with an injunction to gather a nosegay of the flowers she herself liked best. It was early in the month of May, and the little maid soon returned with a nosegay of wall-flowers.

"What, Ida!" exclaimed her wise and gentle teacher; "wall-flowers-wild, simple wall-flowers! Did you not see tulips, blue-bells, anemonies, and many other much handsomer blossoms ?"

"Oh, yes! many handsomer, certainly." "Then why did you not gather them?" "Because they had no smell.”

"True, Ida,” replied Mrs. Leverton, kissing her forehead;" and this very bouquet proves what I have so often said. My dear girl, goodness is to the person what fragrance is to the flowers-an essence that will endure when the beauty of both decay. Do you understand me?"

Ida did understand her: and a precept so illustrated must be long remembered by every child, because the sight of the flower cannot fail to recall it.

She also managed so to temper Ida's wit, that it retained its brightness though it lost its edge-enlivening, not cutting; yet notwithstanding all her care and culture, she could not but regret that the young lady was a favourite with this dangerous yet fascinating tempter, who too often sits enthroned on the prettiest lips in the wosld, armed with glittering but poisoned

arrows.

"Wit must make you foes," Mrs. Leverton would say; "but, remember, love, it will never make you friends."

Ida, who began by hating, at last, and imperceptibly, finished by loving her, whom she of herself now called "her darling mamma." And even nurse Scroop, who after a time was permitted occasionally to visit Miss Ida, allowed that "the dear child was astonishingly improved."

It must be confessed, that had Ida been a child of weak understanding, she would not so soon have profited by her mother's instruction; and, be it also remembered, that though a girl of quick and violent temper, she was totally free from the mean and abominable vice of obstinacy, ready to acknowledge and atone for a fault almost as soon as it was committed. It is even more difficult to manage the obstinate than the foolishthe one you can command; but the other you can rarely lead.-Juvenile Forget-me Not.

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twelve years of age, he was placed under the care of three eminent authorities, Dagain, Lochan, and Enna: and at fifteen, having diligently studied with them the Holy Scriptures, he took the monastic habit. "Some time after," when, it is presumed, he could not be more than twenty, he founded the monastery of Glendalough (valley of the lakes), in perhaps the most peculiarly romantic spot in the county of Wicklow. His reputation, and that of his new establishment, attracted crowds of pious people, and the solitude of Glendalough became covered with a celebrated and holy city. Having been created a bishop, Kevin erected a cathedral church, in the same place, to St. Peter and Paul. The ruins of seven or eight buildings yet stand in the lonely valley, bleached and weather-stained and moss-spotted, some of them half embedded in their own rubbish, or in the greensward that hides it. Separate from every other relique, and much more ancient than every other, towers one of those round pillars, found only in Ireland and the East, upon the era of the building of which, or upon their use or purpose, no two antiquaries can agree. Doubtless, it was Kevin's attraction to found in Glendalough his first monastery; for, whenever the primitive priesthood of Ireland met with one of those mysterious indicators of a forgotten people, there they constructed their simple cells. Hewn in the solid and perpendicular rock of a mountain, which blackens with its shadow the waters of the valley, is a cave well-known as "St. Kevin's bed," and as the scene of his abominable cruelty to the love-sick Cathleen. It hangs at a fearful height over the lough, and in order to enter it, you must first ascend above it, and then creep down an in-sloping ledge, where a single false step were destruction. And yet to the edification of the natives, the then Great Unknown safely achieved the task two or three years ago; and so did the poor Cathleen thirteen hundred years ago, but not with his impunity. The young, the comely, the famed St. Kevin, had been haunted by her fluttering sighs, and her sad, sad glances, out of all his cloisters in the valley, and he scaled this mountain and hewed this cave to hide himself from her. But the persevering maiden, rendered sagacious by a passion that indeed often makes us wise (after it has made us fools), tracked him, in her searchings and wanderings, after his disappearance, by the fresh-pulled green rushes which he had provided for his flinty couch, and which, during his progress up the mountain, had fallen from his bundle. Careless of the perils of her way, she suddenly presented her blue, tearful eyes, her streaming golden hair, and her glowing cheeks, at the threshold of the boy-hermit's cell! and he, as suddenly, started from his chilling meditations, and pushed her into the deep, black waters beneath. The young tiger! Had Potiphar's wife beennot Potiphar's wife, but a tender, loveborn, love-inspir ing virgin, it is odds that Joseph himself would have left him the shadow of a precedent for such conduct: at all events, the generous-hearted brother of the little Benjamin could never have murdered the poor girl. Even St. Senanus, in the opinion of Mr. Thomas Moore, must have hesitated; for the melodius bard of Erin, though he faithfully records the rude refusal of the saint of the Shannon to allow the lady to land out of her skiff, on a very dark night, upon the shores of his prudish Island, yet surmises, that if she had taken no notice of his surliness, but waited till morning.

"And given the Saint one rosy smile,

She never had left his lovely isle."

By the way, the beautiful version of this tragical story of Cathleen and Kevin in the Irish Melodies, endeavours, in poetical mercy to Kevin's character, to soften the atrocity of his act. Mr. Moore insinuates that previous to the real appearance of his unhappy admirer, the barbarous young saint had been asleep and dreaming of her proffered endearments, and that when he actually pushed her into the lake, he had only started up, in the impulse of his dream, to inflict that unmeasured punishment upon her shadow. But this account would sink, rather than raise St. Kevin, in the opinion of all Christian people. In the situation of a dream, above all other situations, his iron nature ought to have been off its guard; but instead of that it prompts him to be as ferocious as in his most severe waking moments even he could be. So that Mr. Moore would, for his sake, have done better by adhering to the plain prose of the fact, as authentic tradition relates it.

LONDON AND PARISIAN FASHIONS FROM A VARIETY OF THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES INCLUDING COPIOUS EXTRACTS FROM

"Le Petit Courrier des Dames"-" Journal des Dames et des Modes, L'Observateur des Modes et L'Indiscret"- -"Le Follet Courrier des Salons"-" Le Mercure des Salons," &c. &c.

Among the numerous balls nightly given in Paris, Fancy Balls greatly predominate; the majority can, therefore, hardly be considered within the pale of criticism, or as affording fair subjects for remark-there being no presiding mode to regulate the choice of fancy costume. The costume of the peasantry is the most common-some ladies of taste might, however, be seen in very beautiful designs of the style of the middle ages.

The Balls of the Opera House, resplendent in beauty, magnificence and variety, extend their animating influence throughout the whole of Paris, and draw within the circle of their attraction the most demure and fastidious.

The elite dressed in the height of fashion, or in dominos, with a small mask that scarcely disguises the contour of the features, make their appearance in the opera houses to review the magic scene, themselves the greatest ornaments. Hither they commonly repair in the same dresses which they have been previously wearing at the soirees of the upper circles--were a flower faded, a ribbon-a tint even changed, they would be liable to the gaze of scrutiny, in a situation where curiosity is all absorbing.

DRESSES.-The open dress is a very decided favourite, whether it be worn open in the front only, or en tablier, that is, with the front in form of an apron with two openings, one on each side, these being fastened together by nœuds or clasps, but at a sufficient distance to show the under-dress. When there is only one opening down the front of the dress, gradually widened like a redingote, it leaves room for a greater degree of elegance to be displayed in the under-dress. This is made of white satin, white embroidered moire, und even in blonde. The latter are certainly the richest. One

pattern above all will doubtless have a run; it is a width of blond, with elegant designs extending from the waist to the hem; if agreeable, the front can be had in form of an apron, and the rest in imitation-blond, what is visible of this has a very beautiful effect.

The width of the skirt has got to so great an extent that it can hardly be increased without the adoption of hoops, silk skirts take up six or seven breadths for a slender person, and eight for a moderately stout person. The corsages are flat, with a few ornaments; the sleeve is largest at the shoulder, and diminishing at the wrist.

Large sleeves, gathered at the wrists, are freqnently made in very slight tissu for the promenade; the redingotes are general preferred by grown, frocks by young ladies. There is now a very great difference in the style of dressing of the very young and of adults, the former preserve an extreme simplicity in all their apparel.

High velvet dresses are in great taste for petites toilettes, or the promenade, they are buttoned before, or fastened by satin or velvet nœuds.

Satin redingotes de couleur foncée, are also adopted for a negligée or promenade dress. They are closed at the middle or sides with satin ribbon nœuds. The noeuds may be of a similar shade of colour.

Black lace dresses over rose, blue or lilac coloured satin are very beautiful. These as well as embroidered tulle dresses are equally applicable to fancy or dress balls. They should be trimmed with satin ribbons, of the same colour as the under dress, or a black blond satin, on a foundation to match.

We observed an azure blue crape dress, crossed by a row of acacia roses. The whole round of the corsage was trimmed with a row of satin roses, and round the neck an English mantilla. In the hair two rows of acacia roses falling on each side of the side curls,pearl ornaments.

A very pretty evening dress was composed of citroncoloured satin, cut high, and open in front, trimmed at the neck with a blonde collerette, the cuffs long and ample, trimmed with blond, turning back from the wrist, a little velvet hat on the head, raised slightly on one side; on the lower side were placed three mauves plumes, and a row of pearls were pendant from the crown to the front.

A blue crêpe dress, ornamented with two rows of wild roses placed diagonally-on the head a couronne à nœuds of wild roses, round the corsage a border of flowers, placed on a blond mantilla- -a cameo orna

ment.

BALL DRESSES, &c.-Worsted gauzes are used greatly for ball dresses, and are very commonly made open at the side; they can be united by bouquets of flowers, nœuds or cameos. We observed on one occasion a white gauze dress, with a rich pattern running lengthway, open en tablier, with fringed edges, united on both sides with nœuds of ribbon of silver gauze, these edges falling close to the nœuds give a sufficient indication of the shape of the apron underneath to produce a beautiful effect.

Some of the fabrics worn are heavy and gorgeous, and the patterns rich and varied beyond description. Beautiful bouquets of all imaginable hues, and worked on magnificent tissue, give great scope to elegance of taste and amplitude of fortune, the latter can hardly be

dispensed with when on the material alone of these magnificent dresses, must be expended between twenty and thirty pounds. Where fashion is now seen, luxury and profusion may be said to reign paramount. Black ornaments are not now in vogue, the black nœuds have given place to white ones, when the dress is of two different colours.

The most elegant and recherchees garlands are those called a nœud, composed of a row of flowers formed into the appearance of a couronne, and fastened in such a manner as that one end shall be elevated and the other depressed; the two bouts should separate and form two bouquets, one much higher than the other.

use,

For the hair, garlands of flowers are in most general these garlands originate from the tuft of hair on each side, and close together at the back of the head. No flowers are worn on the forehead, some called à la Fontange commence on the summit of the head, and descend on each side to the temples, where they terminate in a large tuft of flowers.

Garlands of golden grapes, with white satin Persian lilac, have an elegant effect.

Some ladies carry a porte-bouquet, containing odoriferous artificial flowers; but femmes distinguées prefer natural flowers, around the stalks of which a ribbon is twisted to preserve the gloves.

A blue crape dress, ornamented with two rows of wild roses, placed diagonally-on the head a couronne à nœuds of wild roses, round the corsage a border of flowers, placed on a blond mantilla. Ornaments of

cameo.

A very pretty dress is formed of white crape, trimmed from top to bottom with rows of satin nœuds, graduating from the centre to the hem.

Flowers placed en tablier or en biais from right to left of the skirt are much worn,

Blond preserves its ascendancy, thanks to the good taste which presides at the formation of the various rich designs exhibited in this material.

HATS, CAPS, &c.-The dimensions of hats have considerably encreased, feathers are still esteemed as best calculated to set them off.

We have seen some elegant blond hats trimmed with ribbon in most excellent taste, called à la cauchoise, they are appropriate for the promenade as for fancy costume, and are remarkable for originality in appear

ance.

Promenade hats are simple, of considerable size, à bevolets, with nœuds en rosetta. Plain velvet hats are in vogue at Longchamps; they still, however, make small hats of velvet des Indes with taffeta ribbons.

Hats trimmed with marabouts white or coloured according to the shade of the hat, have a pretty effect. Feathers still predominate as ornaments for hats. For Capotes flowers are more generally used. Turbans of blonde tulle form the most beautiful head dresses for a toilet, somewhat negligée. Nothing can be more elegant, more zephir like than these white or pale tissues floating as it were like light clouds around the features.

For the ball, blond turbans are light and convenient, they do not load the head, and are generally becoming. MATERIALS AND COLORS.-Satins d'Alger are for the most part the materials for demi-toilet dresses; this material which takes the place of the reps, or more accurately speaking, is only another denomination for the

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Embroidered tulle is still extremely well suited for the ball or the assembly; particularly of rose-color, citron, or blue, embroidered with the same colored silk. VARIETIES.-The Coiffure is now dressed in a medium way between the very high and the Greek styles; of the two, the low dressed coiffure may be said to predominate.

A pretty coiffure is arranged with the sides supported by large pearls in the form almost of a ring, and closing under a bouquets of flowers similar to the dress. The elegant Andalusian mantilla, the long veil of the style of the middle ages, and the little béarnais hat are still seen.

A new species of opera glasses, called jumelles are now likely to supersede the massive ones in ordinary use. They are of a peculiar light construction and fold together in a very small space.

The coiffure à la Mancini is of the most elegant and tasteful description for a length of time introduced.

Two bouquets of flowers, one elevated on the right bunch of curls, the other depressed on the contrary one, have a very good effect.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES.

[The description of the plates which has hitherto taken up a considerable portion of our space, we have long considered might be much more appropriately devoted to matters of more interest and more utility; though, in accordance with the general usage in similar works, we have long given a detailed description, we could never discover the advantage of describing dresses, &c., so accurately delineated in the engravings, and particularly to those who are so perfectly au fait in all matters of taste and elegance.

Our descriptions are already very ample of dresses not engraved ; and we propose, of the actually engraved ones, only to notice those which in form or material may not be familiar to our readers. This matter will be found under the proper heads in the article London and Parisian fashions.

If our fair subscribers take a different view of the subject, they will be kind enough to communicate with us-we will bow to their decision.]

MODES DE PARIS ET DE LONDRES. PUISEES AUX SOURCES LES PLUS AUTHENTIQUES COMPRENANT UN CHOIX D'EXTRAITS DES JOURNAUX DONT LES TITRES SUIVENT:

"Le Follet Courrier des Salons"---" Le Petit Courrier des Dames"-'-" La Mode"--" Journal des Dames" &c. &c.

Le carnaval a été plus actif, plus bruyant qu'aucun carnaval depuis plusieurs années, et pourtant toutes ces fêtes, tous ces plaisirs qui se sont précipités depuis quel

ques semaines, n'enlèveront rien aux nouveaux amusemens que le carême nous réserve. On prépare partout de nouvelles soirées, on déploie dans nos plus grands magasins de neuves et séduisantes étoffes.

La mode de danser en robes de riches étoffes a enlevé beacoup de ces ornemens de fantaisie qui étaient la ressource des femmes qui ont plus de goût que d'argent à mettre dans leur toilette. Les soieries ne comportent en général que peu d'accessoires, car les garnitures en feraient de suite un costume trop lourd. Sur les gazes et les crêpes on dispose encore des rubans et des fleurs, mais presque toujours sur la hauteur du jupon. Les broderies même se font de préférence en forme de tabliers, ou en échelle, ou en bouquets détachés qui ne se trouvent que par devant le jupon, et remontent graduellement vers la taille.

Il y a de jolies gazes semées de fleurs brodées en soie plate ou imprimées, Celles fond brun, imprimées en dessins gothiques or ou argent, sont très distinguées. Des crêpes roses, semés de feuilles de roses brodées en soie rose, sont charmans. Des tulles de soie blancs, ayant des colonnes brodées en soie nuancée, ou blanc sur blanc; des gazes à jour, d'autres mates, avec dessins transparens; d'autres encore à effet de rubans, serpentans sur fond clair; enfin la blonde à bouquets ou à colonnes, forment la majorité des robes légères que l'on porte pour danser.

Le bal de la Cour, le dernier, assure-t-on, qui aura lieu cet hiver, offrait une très-grande variété de luxe de parure. Il est évident que quelques femmes y affichent une très grande simplicité, tandis que d'autres sont écrasantes de richesses dans leur costume. A ces fêtes on porte beaucoup ou pas de diamans; car on comprend que, dans ce genre, rien ne serait plus maladroit que la médiocrité. Les coiffures en plumes dominaient; on en place une ou deux un peu en arrière de la tête, ce qui nécessite un grand art ehez le coiffeur pour produire un effet complètement gracieux.

Nous ne devons pas omettre de citer une coiffure charmante, qui a eu un succès complet sous le nom de coiffure à la Mancini. Il y a dans cette composition un goût gracieux et épuré, qui lui donne le type du genre distingué et qui devait infailliblement réussir dans le grand monde où elle est apparue toute fraîche et toute nouvelle. La coiffure à la Mancini est un composé de boucles et de fleurs s'entremêlant et descendant très-bas de chaque côté des joues. Cette disposition sied à ravir, et nos plus jolies femmes l'ont adoptée à plusieurs bals.

Puis auprès des coiffures antiques et sévères où l'on ne copie que les camées romains ou les ornemens qui dominaient au siècle de Louis XV, viennent les inventions gracieuses et originales par lesquelles la physionomie de chaque femme reçoit le charme qui lui convient le mieux. Le tact est peut-être le plus grand mérite du coiffeur : comprendre pourquoi le pli d'une gaze doit être ainsi tourné, pourquoi une branche doit s'incliner ainsi, saisir ce qui s'harmonise le mieux avec les traits, s'accorde même le plus avec le caractère, rendre enfin une femme plus jolie sans qu'elle s'en doute, est un art qui doit être vivement apprécié.

Pendant les jours gras on ne pouvait pas compter le nombre des bals particuliers qui ont eu lieu. Les uns offraient beaucoup de déguisemens de caractère, les autres se contentaient de réunir force costumes à la Pompadour, à la Sévigné, à la Mancini, &c., espèces de mo

des qui, bien que renouvelées chez nous et adoptées par nos élégantes, n'en semblent pas moins encore un peu des travestissemens.

Voici quelques toilettes jolies sans être extraordinaires, qui ont paru aux derniers bals.

Une robe ouverte, en satin noir, sur une robe de satin rose garnie d'un haut volant de dentelle noire. On voyait tout le devant du jupon, la robe de dessus s'élargissant de chaque côté. Cette robe avait un corsage décolleté et drapé, et aux épaules deux jokeys qui retombaient sur une manche courte à triple sabots, garnie au bas d'une manchette de dentelle noire. Pour coiffure, une rose placée très de côté près l'oreille; de cette rose partait un long esprit noir qui se courbait au-dessus de la tête.

Une robe en pou de soie blanc, garnie de deux ruches de rubans de gaze blancs, liserés en or; ces ruches partaient d'uu côté de la ceinture en formant un feston contrarié. A la place où les festons se rejoignaient, était un nœud de ruban, ce qui en formait cinq sur, la hauteur du jupon; corsage a pointe et uni, garnie autour d'une ruche de rubans, et trois ruches semblables traversaient les manches et s'arrêtaient sous une autre ruche qui entourait le bas du dernier sabot. Pour coiffure de petites têtes de plumes placées en arrière dans le chignon, et entremêlés de chaînes d'or.

Une robe en crêpe blanc, ayant sur le devant du jupon une quantité de petits nœuds de rubans roses, s'agrandissant progressivement vers le bas, et formant tablier, les manches toutes couvertes de petits nœuds, et dans les cheveux deux nœuds roses placés de chaque côté dans une tresse qui tournait en formant le fer à cheval sur les joues.

Nous avons vu plusieurs chapeaux garnis de marabouts, blancs ou de couleurs, selon la nuance du chapeau. Les chapeaux sont presque tous d'une seule couleur, doublure, rubans et ornemens.

On pose généralement sur les chapeaux des plumes. de préférence à tout autre ornement.

Sur les capotes, au contraire, ce sont des fleurs. Les œillets mignardises sont fort recherchés. Beaucoup de bonnets sont garnis tout autour d'une guirlande de roses qui entoure le front et les joues. La garniture en blonde est ordinairement relevée.

On pose sur le côté de la coiffe du bonnet, à gauche, un bouquet de fleurs analogues à la guirlande de front. On garnit aussi les bonnets de marobouts ou de petites plumes.

Quant aux robes leurs façons n'ont subi que peu de variations: à la ville, les manches sont larges jusqu'aux poignets, et les façons-redingote dominent visiblement. Au bal, on met des fleurs sur presque toutes robes légères, on les pose en tablier, en biais partant du bas de la jupe à droite et montant presque à la ceinture à gauche.

On fait quelques robes de tulle ou de gaze entièrement doublées, mais on en fait aussi qui sont soulevées d'un côté de manière à laisser voir la jupe de dessous.

Une redingote décolletée pour aller à un diner ou à une soirée est le type de la petite maîtresse.

Plus que jamais less étoffes noires frappées d'or ou brochées d'or sont en vogue

La blonde conserve sa supériorité, grâce au bon goût qui préside à la création de ses riches dessins.

Les coiffures basses sont en majorité; on les enrichit presque toutes d'une plaque en forme de diadême sur le front.

MISCELLANEA.

Early Rising. People talk about this fallacy, and that fal lacy; but of all the fallacies in the world, there is not one that equals that prodigions prejudice that has for some hundreds of years been running in favour of getting up early. It is un. wholesome I once had a great-grandfather-the last of our family that was ever so foolish as to indulge in what he used to call the luxury of early rising-and what was the consequence?-That nature one day summoned him to pay for the Inxury, by bestowing on him such an admixture of cold and catarrh as carried him in half a week to his grave. And how could it be otherwise? If, from your comfortable bed-room window you chance to observe some unfortunate wretch whose cruel destiny compels him to quit his wholesome couch for the crude morning air and its draggle-tailed dew, you first see him striving, as it were, to shrink within himself in the hopes of avoiding the raw atmosphere that salutes him on every side, and then-all escape, in spite of his ingenuity, proving fruitless-you next perceive him suddenly struck with a sort of ague-fit that dances him along, groaning and grumbling, at the rate of seven miles an hour, while his teeth chatter and jar against each other at a still more rapid pace. And after all, what is his remedy? He has none, till the day has marched on, and the sun has nearly approached his highest eleva. tion: then he feels himself a little relieved from the swamp in which he has been buried; and he begins to find out that his clothes hang about him damp and dreary, like a lady's handkerchief that has undergone the ordeal by-water through a fiveact tragedy in the dog-days: he lifts up his leg, and resting it against a stile, surveys with rueful countenance the streamy drops that trickle from it, till a deep and dangerous puddle is formed beneath; while thus he gazes, he calls to mind how he has seen a washerwoman handle a sheet, and he longs to try and wring his leg, that he may have one limb dry at least: or "with curious busy eye" he carries his reflections yet further, and quitting the survey of his leg for that of his general con dition, he sorrowfully petitions Heaven to send some Brobdig. nadian housemaid that way, that she may take him up in her brawny arms, and twirl the moisture from him as an English wench twirleth her mop.-And, this is what my poor great grandfather used to call the luxury of early rising!-Well, well, he paid a dear penalty for his mistake.

The costumes of the inhabitants of the mountains of Lebanon are very curions, and of great variety of colours; those of the higher order are particularly rich and splendid. That portion of their dress, however, which most attracts the notice of the traveller, is the silver and golden tantoura. This is a hollow tube, worn generaly by the females; those worn by the princesses are embossed and studded with diamonds and other precious stones; it is fastened on the forehead, and projects about sixteen inches. Over this is flung a white maslin or crape veil, which falls rather gracefully down the back. The women appear to be remarkably shy. If perchance you happen to be passing a fountain, whither they resort with their pitchers or jars for water, they immediately conceal from view their faces, drawing the large loose white veil, which covers the tantoura, closely over their head, leaving sometimes only visible a sparkling black eye! When an opportunity presen's itself, they have no dislike to this being seen by a European. They frequently stop while you pass them, with their back turned towards you, their faces directed to the bank or hedge. These tantouras are principally worn by married women, but some unmarried females of the lower classes also wear them; these latter are some times made of wood or thick paste-board. It undoubtedly at first sight has a very extraordinary appearance; but still a more curious effect is produced by the side tantoura, or trumpet, for I know not exactly what to call it This is worn in other neighbouring districts. It is tied on close to the temple, a little above the ear, and is of a very different shape, being much larger at the projecting end: they are generally of silver, or silver gilt, with ornamental engravings, and are, like the others, hollow; for if solid they would be insupportable.

Bridge of Lodi.-' Buonaparte's first care was to place as many guns as he could get in order in direct opposition to the Austrian battery. A furious cannonade on his side of the river

also now commenced. The General himself appeared in the midst of the fire, pointing with his own hand two guns in such a manner as to cut off the Austrians from the only path by which they could have advanced to undermine the bridge; and it was on this occasion that the soldiery, delighted with his dauntless exposure of his person, confirmed on him his bono rary nickname of The Little Corporal. In the meantime he had sent General Beaumont and the cavalry to attempt the passage of the river by a distant ford (which they had much difficulty iu effecting), and awaited with anxiety the moment when they should appear on the enemy's flank. When that took place, Beaulieu's line, of course, showed some confusion, and Napoleon instantly gave the word. A column of grenadiers, whom he had kept ready drawn up close to the bridge, but under shelter of the houses, were in a moment wheeled to the left, and their leading files placed on the bridge. They rushed on, shouting Vive la Republique! but the storm of grape-shot for a moment checked them. Buonaparte, Lannes, Berthier, and Lallemagne, hurried to the front, and rallied and cheered the men. The column dashed across the bridge in despite of the tempest of fire that thinned them. The brave Lannes was the first who reached the other side, Napoleon himself the second. The Austrian artillerymen were bayonetted at their guns ere the other troops, whom Beaulien had removed too far back, in his anxiety to avoid the French battery, could come to their assistance Beaumont pressing gallantly with his horse upon the flank, and Napoleon's infantry forming rapidly as they passed the bridge, and charging on the instant, the Austrian line became involved in inextricable confusion, broke up, and fled, The slaughter on their side was great; on the French, there fell only 200 men. With such rapidity, and consequently with so little loss, did Buonaparte execute this dazzling adventure" the terrible passage," as he himself called it," of the bridge of Lodi."'

At Paris, one morning, a hungry poor man, begging his alms from door to door, did at the last espy very good cheer at a cook's house; whereat, by and bye, his teeth began to water, and the spur of his empty and eager stomach pricking him forward, he made as much haste towards the place as his feeble feet would give him leave: where he was no sooner come, but the pleasant smell, partly of the meat, partly of the sauce, did catch such sure hold of the poor man's nose, that, as if he had been fast holden by a pair of pincers, he had no power to pass from thence, until he had, to allay the fury of his raging appetite, eaten a piece of bread which he had of charity gotten in another place, in the eating whereof, his sense was so delighted with the fresh smell of the cook's cates, that albeit he did not lay his lips to any morsel thereof, yet, in the end, his stomach was so well satisfied with the smell only thereof, that he plainly acknowledged himself thereby to have gotten as good a breakfast, as if he had indeed there eaten his bellyful of the best cheer; which, when the cook had heard, being an egregious wrangler, and an impudent companion, what do h he, but all hastily steps forth to the poor fellow, lays fast his hand upon him, and in a hot, choleric mood, bids him pay for his breakfast. The honest, poor man, half amazed at this strange demand, wist not well what to say; but the cook was so much the more fierce and earnest, by how much he perceived the good man to be abashed at his boldness; and did so cunningly cloak the matter, that in the end, the poor man was content to refer the deciding of the controversy to whatsoever person should next pass by that way, and without any more ado, to abide his judgment; which thing was no sooner concluded, but by and bye, cometh unto the place a very natural fool, and such a notorious idiot as in all Paris his like was not to be found All

the better for me, thought the cook, for more he doubted the sentence of a wise man than of a fool. Well, Sirs, to this foresaid judge they rehearsed the whole fact: the cook cruelly complaining, and the other patiently confessing as before. A great multitude of people were gathered about them, no less desirous to know what would follow, than wondering at that which had gone before. To conclude, this natural, perceiving what money the cook exacted, caused the poor man to put so much money betwixt two basins, and to shake it up and down in the cook's hearing, which done, he did arbiti ate and award, that as the poor man was satisfied with only the smell of the cook's meat, so the cook should be recompensed with only the noise of the poor man's money. Which judgment was so commended, that whoso heard the same, thought, if Cato or Solomon had been there to decide the controversy, they could not have given a more indifferent or just sentence.

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