for the reception of the corpse with its accompani- In the summer of the same year a tumulus was opened, which contained, amongst other things, proceedings of the Social Science Congress in Dublin, or, rather, of that department of them, in which the ladies connected with this journal appeared. We are glad to find our own view of Mrs. Overend's proposal, occurring simultaattach-neously to a correspondent of the E. W. J.— who signs herself "A Member of the Committee of the Association for the Employment of Women," and who indignantly repudiates the idea that ladies who seek employment are ashamed of their labour, and justly observes that if they do exist they are not fit to be trusted with workan opinion in which we very sincerely agree with her. Mrs. Fison's paper on "The Institutions of Hofwyl" is an exceedingly interesting one. Our favourite subject, in a literary point of view, "Fruits in their Season," is not yet finished, but continues its pleasant garden gossip most agreeably. Eden is never described but Adam is introduced; so it is impossible to speak of the Fruits of Civilization, horticulturally considered, without reference to the introducers and famous growers of them, with all the various anecdotes in connection with their ancient and modern history. So the theme burgeons as it proceeds; and we must say that, long as it has been continued, we shall be sorry when it is concluded. A small bronze box, or canister with a lid to slide on, measuring altogether two inches high and the same in diameter. When found it was much crushed, but still retained, inside, remains of thread, and bore on the outside impressions of linen cloth, Close to it were two bronze pins or broken needles, and a mass of corroded iron, some of which has been wire chain-work connected with a small bronze ornament with five perforations plated with silver and engraved with a cable pattern, near which were two iron implements of larger size, the whole comprising the girdle and chatelaine with appendages of a Saxon lady. Many pieces of hazel stick were found in contact with these relics, which were probably the remains of a basket in which they were placed at the funeral. These few extracts will suffice to show the very interesting character of this volume, which, in connexion with Mr. Bateman's previous work, "Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire," is of the utmost value to the anatomist and ethnologist. The results of all these varied diggings, in pottery, gold ornaments, bronze work, and other relics, are carefully preserved in the Museum at Lombardale, many of the skeletons beautifully articulated, and the whole forming a noble monument of the patient research and untiring industry, of one whose name will far outlive his generation,-E. M. THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S JOURNAL. (19, Langham Place, Regent Street; Kent and Co., Paternoster-row).-The September part of our contemporary contains, amongst other interesting matter, an abridged account of the MAGNET STORIES: THE SHEPHERD LORD. By Julia Corner. (Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster-row).—In this very pretty story our young friends will find the interesting facts of the life of the "good Lord Clifford" embodied; him who, having suffered thirty years for the sins of his father, distinguished as "the butcher," who in cold blood murdered the boy Earl of Rutland, a lad of fourteen years of age, was subsequently restored to his title and estates, and won by his virtues the happy title by which the poets have remembered him. Miss Corner is so intimate with historical facts, and so well known to the youthful public, that her name is a promise of pleasant reading. In the present tale she has used so slight a thread of fiction to combine the real occurrences of the past, that the "all truth" which childhood so eagerly asks for, is really found in the principal and most adventurous details of this story, THE TOILET. (Specially from Paris.) trimming. Tuscan hat, trimmed with a wreath of cherries and a black velvet bow. On the hair a Greek net of red chenille, with loops of velvet. FIRST FIGURE.-White muslin dress, the skirt, ceau, or whatever colour may be run in the skirt trimmed with a number of narrow flounces placed on the bias, and surmounted by a headed flounce traversed by a puffing, in which a ponceau ribbon is run. Body gathered. Round waist. The sleeves have two puffs and four frills on the shoulder. Duchess sash of white ribbon, bordered with pon SECOND FIGURE.-Dress of Mozambique, checkpattern, green and blue. On the skirt a headed flounce as high as the knee. The crosses which decorate the heading are composed of green and blue ribbon. Body high, with a waistband and clasp. Sleeves half wide, plaited at the top. The whole trimmed with ribbon crosses, like those on the skirt. Muslin collar and under-sleeves. Burnous of the same material as the dress. Bonnet of white crinoline, trimmed with blue ribbon and white roses. The continued warmth of the temperature, which, while I write, is almost tropical at Paris, has overturned the preparations for splendid autumn effects; and vaporous tarlatane enamelled with flowers, and robe of gauze, either flowered or spangled, continue to form the most charming toilets. These fabrics are either trimmed with flounces, or made with a triplet of skirts falling one over the other. Robes of plain white muslin, or of muslin embroidered, are worn over either white or coloured transparents, and are universally popular and becoming. Then there are white piqués, and piqués coloured maze or mauve; the tissue Mozambique, silk and woollen grenadines, popélinettes, new baréges, and a host of other pretty materials; for industry is always making fresh efforts. A new ceinture-the ceinture dragonne-is very graceful, whether of silk or ribbon. It has behind two little ends, fastened with fancy buttons, which may be as luxurious as can be desired, and forms a corslet in front, fastening at the side with two ends encircled with lace or quilted ribbon. This ceinture is made in two shades, which may be black and violet, cerise and white, mauve and white, according to the shades of the robe, or that prevail in the toilet. I recommend it as a very gracious innovation, breaking up the uniformity of white robes, and transforming a single one into many toilets. One sees the most charming and radiant toilets at the various balls. Here are two or three models for you: A simple robe of white tarlatane terminated by a deep flounce, surmounted by a full ruche of tarlatane découpée. Corsage draped behind and before. In the hair a ruche at one side, and a tuft of white violets on the other. Again, a robe of very thin Indian muslin, the flounce lined with rose-coloured taffetas. One other, and I have done: A robe of sky-blue silk, with six little flounces at the bottom of the skirt, each flounce garnished with a bias of white silk; these flounces traverse the robe to one side, where they are finished with a bow of ribbon. The corsage is a bertha of fulled tulle illusion, quadrilled with blue ribbon velvet; this gorgerette is surrounded with two little flounces to correspond with the trimming of the skirt, bordered by sprays of rose foliage, with a large full-blown white rose on the bosom and on the shoulders. Sprays of Thé roses and their foliage, also decorate the ornaments that traverse the skirt. The coiffure is of The roses, disposed à la Greek. With this very radiant toilet we observed a marvellous Arab burnous of white Algerian tissue, with great glands and tassels, white and gold. The form of bonnets has not changed with the commencement of a new season, but the ornaments offer extreme variety. For bonnets de visite plumes are much in vogue. A pretty bonnet for dem toilet is composed of Belgian straw, upon the front three ranks of blue plaited ribbon, at the side a tuft of blue daisies, and bandeau of the same flowers in the interior. Another, of white crinoline ornamented with roses, with curtain and strings of black taffeta, is simple, but effective. PASSING EVENTS RE-EDITED. Philanthropy has just now taken a turn in the direction of creatures that really cannot help themselves, and are therefore not likely to be rendered more feeble and inert by amiable interference. It is pleasant to find practical men engaged in the destruction of ignorant prejudices, and proving that nothing is ultimately gained by working against Nature; that the perfectibility of creation is established in the most apparently trivial as in the sublimest of the Almighty's works, and that literally a sparrow cannot fall to the ground out of its appointed time but that defects in the great system follow. For a long series of years farmers have carried on a war of extermination against certain members of the animal world. Owls, weasels, stoats, sparrows, and moles have been regarded as their special enemies, and a price has been set upon their lives. Even our too scarce songsters, the blackbirds and thrushes, because they sometimes cleared their mellifluous throats with juice of cherries, or dipped their beaks into the luscious pear, were shot down without mercy; as if their cheery whistling and wood-notes wild were not an ample payment for the trespass. In vain men of science and humanity pointed to the slightness of the mischief compared with the services and the delight they rendered. The filmy eye of ignorance saw the birds pecking the buds in spring, and the marks of their dainty beaks upon the ripe fruits in autumn; but they could not understand how much of the crop had been preserved to them by the soft-billed songsters, who had destroyed few buds indeed compared with the myriads of destructive insects of which, if left to their natural work, they would have cleared the trees. In some districts, twenty years ago, the matter was not left in private hands; but the churchwardens, on behalf of agricultural villages, promised to pay so much per dozen for sparrows' heads; so that the destruction of these useful little birds in the wise economy of Nature was, in some seasons and in some localities, almost general. Moles in the same way were ruthlessly destroyed, and these, the greatest checks to the increase of insect-life upon the earth and under it, being in a large proportion removed, the real destructives to corn-lands and orchard-produce have of late years so materially injured our field and garden-crops, that even thoughtless persons have begun to inquire the reason of it. In France the question has received public attention at the hands of scientific men, who have fully established the services of the sparrow, the song-birds, and other hitherto ill-used animalfriends of man; and have claimed for them, on the most practical grounds, the consideration and protection of gardeners and agriculturists. The publicity given to the inquiries of the French Commissioners has had the effect of ventilating the subject in our own provincial papers, and I find extracts from the Gardener's Chronicle, Journal of Horticulture, and other similar works, circulating up and down in country districts, all bearing evidence to the active use of hedgehogs, toads, moles, blackbirds, thrushes, and sparrows, in keeping down the rapid increase of slugs, snails, caterpillars, earth and wire-worms-the favourite food of the mole. dations of beetles and other insects in greenhouses. In France another subject of great interest, in a social point of view, is being argued and written about: nothing less than the propriety and ultimate necessity of introducing the ancient method of disposing of the dead by cremation instead of burial. Having ourselves suggested the propriety and utility of such a mode of returning earth to earth, five years before the appearance of the brochure which has awakened the attention of the French and American savants to the subject, we may be permitted to ask of our readers a dispassionate and unprejudiced consideration of the subject. The space already occupied in cemeteries and grave-yards in Great Britain is enormous, while in proportion to the increase of the population will be the increase of these silent territories; the existence of which in the neighbourhood of crowded towns, however we may plant them with trees, or mask the hillocks of decay with flowers, are simply reservoirs of malaria and disease. We live in days when the cumirous and expensive funeral-pyre is wholly unnecessary for the reduction of the corpse to its primitive elements. Chemistry has simpler methods, and less repugnant to the public mind, which, after all, can never have realized the abhorrent process of that reduction in the tomb, or surely the A practical gardener, writing in the Jour- quick, innocuous, cleanly transfer of our mortal nal of Horticulture, states that he has seen particles back to the lap of Nature would seem a pair of sparrows with a second brood pass a thousand times preferable to the slow, uneight times in nine minutes from some goose-speakable and utterly loathsome disintegration berry bushes which were infested with caterpillars to their nest, each time with caterpillars in their beaks. The insects had attacked the bushes, in great force, about the first of August; on the third he perceived the sparrows busy with them; and by the eighth the caterpillars were all gone. This witness in favour of feathered bipeds has a kind word also for other small deer hitherto tortured and trapped wherever they could be caught, and ends his letter by saying: "We have also eight or nine hedgehogs, and about twenty toads, under glass"-an effectual guard against the depre of the grave. Almost everyone professes to be ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "The Summer Pool," and "Sonnet," not up to our standard. PROSE received.-"A Quaker Burial;" "The Living Toys." "Law of Marriage."-We decline to introduce the subject. "Beauchamp."-We regret to vote this gentleman what we are sure his biographer is not-a bore. P.S.-In consequence of the temporary absence "The Monk's Meadow."-Pretty, but not up to dents are unavoidably postponed. of the Editress, further answers to Correspon par. Printed by Rogerson and Tuxford, 246, Strand, London. |