his head to write history? A historian-king | and orders three luxuriously-bound copies, for the should begin by abdicating. He has not done three public libraries which he has just organized; so; it is a bad sign! I have read passages of Fenestella will add a volume to his literary hisit. He justifies outlawry and apologizes for tory; Metullus, who writes the prince's speeches usurpation. It must be so. And you, Galli- so beautifully, will enumerate the oratorical onus, wish me to criticize this work of false- beauties of his book; and Verruis, the gramma hood and ignorance, clad in the approbation of rian, will name over its grainmatical beauties; two thousand centurions, and recommended to Marathus, the historiographer, will give an the reader, by veterans. Criticism! It is siege analysis in the court-journal, and Athenadorus, you would have. You do not see, my good the protégé of Octavius, will draw up a paraGallionus, that this is one of the best tricks phrase for the use of ladies, and little explanathat the son of the banker (26) has played the tory notes suited to princesses. I have mensons of the she-wolf, who, alas! unlike their tioned ten men, but I know a thousand; all ancestress, do not know how to bite. Ah! these people will defile before the Emperor, Gallionus, we are degenerate, we are Romans of shouting aloud, like knights at parade: be, the decline, fallen from Cæsar to Augustus, however, will assume an attitude full of modesty thrown from Charybdis against Scylla; from and majesty; his gesture will say: Enough! strength to trickery, from the uncle to the his smile will say: Once more! and the crowd nephew! Pah! No, I will not fall in this will split its throat anew. As he had the populiterary trap, nor be caught in the hole; nor lace of the Seven Hills to applaud his acts, will I cause others to fall into it; no, I will so he will have to praise his book, the populace not write on the Memoirs of Augustus. The of authors; applause is certain, but it can only silence of the people is the lesson of kings. come from one side; it is even rather a funny Labienus will teach it to Augustus. consequence of his unique literary situation. The unfortunate man did not perhaps forsee it, but what do I care? he will succeed by order; that is hard, but I cannot help it. All-powerfulness is inconvenient to an author; the wreath of the crowned writer is not all roses. The situa tion is hard to bear, and Virgil would have lost his Latin in such a quandary. But a man must bear the laws he makes, and when shame is poured out, it must be quaffed down. Pay attention, my dear Gallionus; the holiday is about to commence, it will be noisy and crowded; the musicians are already in their places, tuning their instruments and playing the prelude to the concert; listen and look, if it suits your taste; I confess that the spectacle will be very enter taining to those who are still able to laugh.

"Be at ease, too; if you want criticism on this little morsel of imperial literature, if you want cunning appreciation, you will have it; if you want learned dissertation, it will rain down; if you want ingenious and frequent observations, reviews full of novelty, elegant and courteous discussion sustained in an exquisite strain by men belonging to the best society, you will have it; if you want controversy on its knees and rhetoric flat on its stomach, and epigrams thrown off, the point of which tickles instead of wounding, and bites which are caresses, and bitter reproaches which are pleasing, and adorably-graceful little lines slipped in under the guise of severe judgment, and pretty little words of the most charming description, delicately enveloped in the garb of a ferocious and warlike sentence, and bouquets of flowers of rhetoric, and waves of mellifluous eloquence, and arguments offered up on cushions, and objections presented on a silver waiter, like a letter brought by a servant; nothing of all this will be want ing, my gay Gallionus. We shall see the muses of the state go through a dance, and Mæcenus will lead the ballet. The chaste sisters have quitted Pindus for Mount Palatine, and Apollo belongs to the police. So Augustus is certain of his public, readers, judges, critics, imitators and commentators; he will find people for this work. Those who have made Virgil great, can make Aristarchus so; he needs them, he will have them!

(27) "All literature is merry-making ready. Varius is weeping with joy, Flavius is happy, Rabirius is preparing his tablets; Haterius will lecture, and Tarpar will declaim. Pompeius Macer declares that it is a glad day for morality,

(28). "I know that the work will comprise the last civil war, and even the last year of the reign of Julius Cæsar. In good faith, my dear Gallionus, can you look at such a thing as serious? Augustus publishing (29) a book upon the revolution he caused! What ought to be said, think you, of a criminal who would publish an apology for his crime? To my mind, he commits a second outrage, more difficult, it is true, than the first (for it is easier to commit a crime than to justify it); but this second crime, if more difficult to accomplish, is as guilty and more hurtful, for the victims are more numerous, and the consequences more enduring. The first attacks the life of men, the other their conscience; the one kills the body, the other the mind; the one oppresses the present, the other the future. It is the coup d'état of morality, the creation of disorder, systematized injustice, the organization

(28). An allusion to the later days of the Empire, and the revolution of forty-eight.

(29). It is known that the aim of Napoleon, in

(26). This may be an allusion to the real father of writing the life of Caesar, was to personify his uncle Napoleon III.

(27). An allusion to men of letters only known in Paris,

in Caesar, and himself in Augustus, and to prove that both have been the personification of the interesta of their epoch.

stormy weather, will make these boats the harbingers of life to many a despairing fellow creature, who, but for them, must (seeing that heaven helps us through ourselves) have cried in vain-"Lord, help; or we perish!"

Donations and subscriptions thankfully received by all Bankers in the United Kingdom, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, John Street, Adelphi.

CREATION, A TRADITION

boats of larger size, and of improved construc-
tion have replaced the boats hitherto in use at
these stations. The expenses of these latter
alteratious have in each instance, save that of
the Tramore boat (collected amongst the
members of the Cambridge University Boat
Club, (all honour to them for their humane
generosity! and of the Sunderland life-boat
from a fund collected for the purpose) been
borne by benevolent individuals. Besides an
article on the necessity of life-belts for merchant-
seamen, and a short but comprehensive memoir
of the late Admiral Fitzroy, F.R.S.; the usual
special notices of the services of life-boats,
and a summary of the meeting of the Committee
appear. The first is replete as ever with tragic
interest, and heroic deeds. It is all very well in
the glorious open of a summer's night, or by the
ale-house fire at midwinter, when the winds
blow high, for roystering landsmen to sing "Rule
Britannia, Britannia rules the waves," but
national egotism never inspired a falser notion.
Far from ruling the waves, more British heads
have succumbed to their power, more bones of
British seamen strew the bottom of the " briny
deep," than those of any other nation; and
neither improved charts, better ships, a more
extensive acquaintance of navigation on the
part of their commanders, nor our growing
knowledge of the law of storms, appear to have
reduced the numbers of shipwrecks in British
waters, nor the dreadful loss of life entailed by
them, Year after year the awful catalogue of
disasters at sea rather increase than fall off, and
the cry for more help, to aid in saving the perish-
ing crews of storm-struck vessels driven on
the dangerous rocks, and treacherous sands of
the channel and seaboard, grows more importu
nate from the experienced benefit of such
aid. Let us thank God that the benevolent
and the wealthy are yearly becoming
better acquainted with the great merits of this
grand National Institution, and eager in assist-
ing its means of help. Every report of the
committee proves the growing interest taken by
all classes of the community in the work the
Institution is charged with. Quite a long list
of Life-boats, the individual gifts of living men
and women, to whom heaven has returned their
charity a thousand fold, in the knowledge that
their gifts have been the human means of saving
many lives, and of preventing the sufferings of
many households. Many others have remembered
in their Wills the constant outgoings of the
society's funds, and have left large sums of
money, or special bequests of boats to be built
for the Institution; but the hold, this grandly
conducted and noble scheme of relief has taken
on the people's hearts, is best seen from the
fact that the Societies of Odd Fellows and
Foresters have each subscribed amongst them-
selves, the cost of a Life-boat-and that the
men employed at more than one factory have
collected large sums for the same purpose. The
time is at hand when dark winter nights, and salmon."

C. A. W.

OF THE INDIANS IN

BRITISH COLUMBIA.—Captain C. E. Barrett Lennard, in his "Travels in British Columbia," gives the following account of the opinion of the Indians in Columbia oc creation: "The belief among the Northern Indians is first, that Yale (crow) made everything; that men possess a never-dying soul. The brave, who fall in battle, and those who are murdered, enjoy everlasting happiness in heaven; while those that die a natural death are condemned to dwell for ages among the branches of tall trees. The world was originally dark, shapeless, chaotic; the only living thing being Yale. For a long time he flew round and round the watery waste, until at length, growing weary of the intolerable solitude, he determined to people the universe. He bade the waters recede, and the sun shine forth and dry the earth. The effect of this was to cause a dense mist to arise: out of this mist he created salmon, and put them into the lakes and rivers. Birds and beasts were afterwards created on land. After Yale had finished his work of creation, he made a survey of it, and found all creatures were satisfied with the universe in which they had been placed, with the exception of the lizard, who, having a stock of provisions laid up for winter use, and being moreover a great sleeper, preferred a request to be allowed five months' winter. 'Not so,' replied Yale, for the sake of the other animals there shall be but four snowy months.' The lizard insisted on five, stretching forth at the same time his five digits; for in those days he had a hand like a man. The crow seized his hand, and, cutting off one finger, gave him to understand that the remaining number should indicate the months of the seasons, four rainy, four snowy, and four summer. The crow finding, as winter came on, that he had no house to shelter him, er to store the salmon he had prepared for winter use, made two men build houses. He then taught them how to make ropes out of the bark of trees, and to dry salmen After a time, feeling the want of a helpmate, the erow began to look out for a wife. His first choice fell upon a

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TREFOIL D'OYLEY IN CROCHET.

MATERIALS.-Boar's Head crochet cotton of Messrs. Walter Evans and Co., Derby, No. 18.

INVISIBLE HAIR-NETS.

THE TOILET.

(Specially from Paris.)

FIRST FIGURE.-COUNTRY TOILETS.-Silk | with three steel buckles in front, and buttons of dress, with a double skirt. The body forms in the same metal on the body. Rice-straw hat front a jacket, sloping off at the sides, so as to with a blue feather laid round the crown; long leave the hips uncovered. The outer garment blue veil hanging loose. is a short paletot of faille silk. Tulle bonnet small, and in the empire shape. It is encircled by a wreath of periwinkle flowers; inside, the periwinkles are repeated. Square veille of tulle illusion thrown behind. Collar and undersleeves with linen bands.

SECOND FIGURE.-Dress of toile de l'Inde, ornamented at the bottom by rows of ribbon plaiting set on in a trellis pattern; rows of the same trimming are laid on the seams. Body open in front, with lapels bordered by a No. 4 plaited ribbon. Sleeves half-tight. Hat in the gipsy Watteau style, with flat brims, turned downwards, and bordered with black velvet. Blue veil fastened at the side, by a swallow. Muslin under-skirt, with plaited frill. Collar, and under-sleeves with linen bands. Yack lace shawl.

Visiting toilets:-Black-silk dress, double skirt, bordered with a violet trimming, ornamented with black pearls, the upper skirt looped so as to show the under one. Body long with square skirts, cut up at the sides, and behind, so as to form four lappets. Close-fitting sleeves. Black crape bonnet, trimmed with flowers to match the coloured ornament on the dress. Long black tulle veil falling behind. Valenciennes collar and under-sleeves.

A second model:-Dress of sky-blue satin, with satin bands wove in the stuff. Body with long lappets cut square at the bottom: Ceinture

For seaside, and country toilets, we have robes des fantasie, innumerable. Dresses of two colours, and often two materials, are quite a rage; and the double skirts sometimes give occasion for very trenchant contrasts. I have just seen a toilet, composed of a first skirt of Mexican blue foulard cut in dents at the bottom, each dent ornamented with a flat straw button: a fine torsade of straw, borders each dent. The second skirt is of mohair, of a light shade of Havana, ornamented with two rows of blue fringe, separated by a straw trimming: the buttons relieving the second skirt are blue.

The corsage is of Havana-coloured mohar, like the second skirt, and is made with a round waist; but upon it is placed a corslet of blue foulard to match the first skirt. This corslet is cut, both at top and bottom, into round dents, on each of which is placed a little flat straw button. The lower part of the corslet is prolonged on the haunches, and forms a small basque behind. A jockey of blue foulard ornaments the upper part of the Havana sleeve. Over the corslet, one may wear a waist-band of the shade adapted to the second skirt, fastened with a buckle of matted gold. With this dress a little basquin of faille silk is worn, and a toquet of black straw, ornamented with a white wing. Linen collar with turned-down corners, and waistbands of the under-sleeves to match.