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FEMALE PROSE WRITERS OF AMERICA.

PROF. HART, one of the editors of Sartain's Magazine, is engaged upon a work with the above-named title. It is to be a royal octavo of five hundred pages, with numerous portraits in the finest style of line and stipple engraving, executed in London, and in a corresponding style of typographical splendour. Authors interested in making a suitable appearance in this sumptuous volume are invited, either personally, or through their friends, to forward to Prof. Hart materials for the biographical and critical notices, addressed to the care of E. H. Butler & Co., Philadelphia, who are to publish the work. Editors will confer a special favour by giving publicity to this paragraph.

POPULATION OF PHILADELPHIA.

WE look forward with great interest to the completion and publication of the Census. So far as our own city is concerned, we show a population, in round numbers, of 410,000, and a rate of increase decennially of sixty per cent. This rate will probably be accelerated by the impetus that must spring from the completion of our great western railroad, and the sudden revival of our foreign commerce. But supposing the rate of increase to remain as it is, it will make the population of Philadelphia twenty years hence more than a million!

THE CHEAP POSTAGE BILL

THE evidences of the popularity of this measure are too numerous to be mistaken. The fact that the matter has been taken up and carried so successfully through that House which reflects more directly and freshly the public sentiment, shows pretty clearly what the public wish is We do hope the bill will not meet with either opposition or delay in the Senate, but before this paragraph meets the eye of those for whom it is intended, the Cheap Postage Bill may become the law of the land. Our thanks are due to all the members of Congress who favoured the

measure, and especially to our friend, Hon. Joseph R. Chandler, who has worked manfully for the bill, and who, in settling the details, has taken special pains to protect the rights of the monthly magazines, and to put them for the first time on something like an equitable basis.

THE FEBRUARY ENIGMA.

MRS. DORR writes us, she cannot contrive what the solution of Miss Sproat's Enigma can possibly be, if it is not "Ale-wife." Of course it is! The following poetical solution of it also has been sent us by Miss Mary A. Bancroft. Cheered by my " Ale," last eve I went

Gaily to seek my fair;

"This eve shall heart with heart be blent,
As I my love declare."

But, oh! that hour how sad its tale,
I'd thought with pleasure rife,
For, ah! because I loved my ale,
She would not be my "Wife."

Said she, "Intemperance's breath so sweet
Is floating round you yet;
Her kisses on your cheek and brow
A rosy tinge has set.

She is my rival, and, I know,

Would cause me many a strife;
Away, thou false one! quickly go!
I scorn to be your wife."
Dejected though I was at first,

I will not yield to grief;

My heart with sorrow shall not burst,
While I've such sweet relief.
I'll drown these silly thoughts for aye,-
At least through all this life;-
An "Ale-wife" can my wants supply,
And she shall be my wife.

Just as we were going to press, we received also the following, from an unknown contributor signing herself "Estelle," a name already appropriated and made clas sical by Miss Bogart.

Alas, poor wight! a heavy heart

Indeed must you have borne,

When with the grief which doubts impart
Your furrowed brow was worn.
But turning to the friendly can,

As fears or hopes prevail,
You felt yourself another man,
Inspired by sparkling ale.

Armed with this wondrous, new-born strength,
All fear was lost, and hope

Still nerved your courage, till, at length,
With giants you would cope.

Ah, 'twould have ta'en a giant's might
To conquer in the strife
You boldly sought that fatal night
She would not be your wife.
Oh, foolish pride, that made her spurn
Your true heart's offering!
Unto another fair you turn,

And buy for her the ring.
The soft, consenting words you hear
That fill your mind with glee,
And whisper in her willing ear:

"An ale-wife you shall be;

"And daily shall my lovely bride

Give me the foaming draught.
Thus I'll revenge me of the pride

That blamed me when I quaffed
The ale that, coursing through my veins,
Gave to my heart new life,

When I endured love's doubts and pains,
Ere suing for a wife."

We defy you all to solve Mr. Ellsworth's Enigma.

FIG. 1. Home Toilette.-Coiffure composed of gimp lace, making a rounded point upon the forehead, and having, on each side, falling tufts of narrow satin riband of various colours. These ribands are very narrow, more so than No. 1; and they fall in unequal lengths even to the shoulders. To add gracefulness and variety to this ornament, some of the ribands are rolled into spirals, corkscrew-like. Hair in puffing bandeaux, placed very high, and descending very little upon the temples.

Small vest of white satin, wadded and edged all round with a narrow white fringe. There is also, near the edges, a handsome bordering, consisting of a garland of roses and their foliage. The white ground of the stuff is also spotted with, here and there, a rose and its foliage. The sleeves are short and a little wide at the bottom, permit

FIG. 2.

WALKING TOILETTE.

ting a rich garniture to escape, which descends upon the arms as far as the bracelets.

The robe is of black velvet. Corsage décolleté, square, pointed waist, and jupe long, with flat plaits. Hose of embroidered silk. Slippers of reddish-brown kid, bordered with a ruche of cerise taffetas, and ornamented in front by a tuft of the same.

FIG. 2. Walking Toilette.-Capote of velvet épingle and satin. The face is composed of four parts of the velvet and four of the satin. They are placed alternately, and are gathered in swelling gathers under the upper trimming. These stuffs are placed a cheval upon the skeleton of the bonnet, or in other words, the under and upper surfaces are of the same piece, and gathered after the same manner. The crown, a little depressed, is of satin,

stretched smooth and covered with velvet épinglé, also stretched smooth. The satin, therefore, would be entirely hidden, but that, at the top, the velvet is cut out in six points, which, reuniting in the middle of the crown, permit the satin to be seen, star-shaped, through the openings. The bavolet or cape is wholly of velvet épinglé, stretched out smooth; it is hollowed out, so as to set very much under the crown. A garland of coques of satin riband passes from right to left, and at the right is a plume of marabouts, falling very low.

The under-trimming consists of a roll of riband around the face, a large noeud under the face, very low on each side, and sprigs of buds and brown leaves.

Little shawl-mantelet of rich garnet velvet. The outline of this mantelet is straight before, and cut in scales all along the bottom. Upon the shoulders and over the breast it fits close. There is a little embroidered festoon, to which is sewed all round a black lace volant. Above this festoon there are some bunches of flowers, embroidered in light silk, in the same manner as the festoon itself is. A black lace, of uniform depth, is gathered around, and forms a pelerine. A bunch of flowers is embroidered also in each scale of the lower border, and upon the scales

are sewn little volants of black lace, which form a double garniture.

The robe is of moire antique. It is of the redingote style, the corsage is high, smooth, and plain. The sleeves are cut open to the elbow, and short enough to afford room for two trimmings of white lace.

FIG. 3. Evening Toilette.-Coiffure of laminated riband, white and gold, arranged in coques or round bows over the head, with large ends falling upon each side toward the shoulders. The ends are finished with fringes. This very pretty style is a revival, with some improvement, of one in vogue some years ago. It is graceful and becoming. Robe of taffetas chiné, with flowers and green foliage. The ground of the silk is white, and the flowers are alternately pink and violet. The trimming is of riband, of colours to match those of the material of the dress. Reversed volants of this riband are disposed en tablier on the sides of the front of the skirt, forming three points in each, connected by curves. At each point is a nœud of the riband, formed of two bows and one end. The corsage has a berthe of a volant of riband behind. The berthe, where it starts from the shoulders, is covered with three volants of riband. The sleeves are double, the outer one being raised en draperie at intervals by traverses of riband.

FIG. 3.

EVENING TOILETTE.

VISITING TOILETTE.

FIG. 4. Visiting Toilette.-Bonnet of white satin, trimmed round the front with small rolls of velvet épinglé, and ornamented with a plume on the left side.

Robe of cerise velvet, with the skirt full and long, but perfectly plain. The corsage is high, close fitting, and furnished with a little basque or skirt. The corsage, its skirt, and the lower part of the sleeves, are edged all round with gathered riband matching the dress; and at the bend of the arms are noeuds of the same. Sleeves nearly straight, reaching but little below the elbow. Under-sleeves, two broad volants of lace.