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Great Nation than Dr. Nichols has enjoyed for nearly half a
century. He has resided in twenty-three States, and is per-
sonally acquainted with the most influential men of all
parties. From an impartial stand-point he sees events
clearly, and in these volumes he gives the world the results
of `Forty Years of American Life.' "
London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street.

NOTIC E.- MADELEINE GRAHAM,
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DUBLIN UNIVEE
No. 374. FOR FEB
CONT.

,SITY MAGAZINE.-
EtUARY. Price 2s. 6d.
ENTS.

I. Lord Lyndhurst.
2. Yaxley and its Neighbour-
hood.
3. Draoideachta : The Magic
of the Ancient Irish.
4. Their Majesty's Servants.
5. Wylder's Band. By the
Author of „The House by
the Churchyard." Part
IX,—Concluded.

6. The Court of Frederic
Gilliam: 11. Third Ex-
cursion in the Grand
Tour.
7. Etchings of the Confede-
racy.
8. Falstaff's Wake. By T
Irwin.
9. Paul Feral, a Breton Man
of Letters.
10. New Editors—Shakspeare
,ondon : Hurst and Blackett.

Dublin: George Herbert.

with small hanging plush ornaments, is also worn; and fur
is as fashionable as ever. Tarlatans dresses are even
trimmed with bands of swan's-down, and the effect pro-
duced is both novel and pretty. Swiss ceintures and corse-
lets are still quite the rage. They are to be seen in so many
different styles, that all tastes may be pleased; but those
made with basques, and laced up in front, are, perhaps, the
most stylish.
Visiting-dresses are frequently made quite plain, with
merely epaulettes of passementerie, and aumonieres to
match. Passementerie is sometimes put up every seam of
the skirt. The skirts are made quite as long and fan-shaped
as formerly; of course the lower part much wider round
than the upper.
Sleeves are still very small and long ; only just opened
sufficiently at the wrist to show the under-sleeves.
The convenient and charming little vestes, with under-
waistcoats, are as indispensable as ever. Those for morn-
ing are made of satin, velvet, plush, or even cachemire, but
alwass with the Indian chemisette of foulard; in the even-
ing, of course the veste is more elegant, and worn over a
chemisette of Yak lace, lined with satin of the same colour
as the dress.

Opera-cloaks made of light-coloured volvets, and trimmed
with wide fringe and passementerie, are very elegant, The
shades most admired are white, ponceau, or gold.
Our description of dresses commences with these appro-
priate for evening wear.
An azure-blue satin, with narrow flounce of white bugles
round the bottom of the skirt. An over-skirt of white tulle,
trimmed with white blonde, and caught up at equal dis-
tances with wide blue satin ribbon, spotted with silver. The
ribbons commence at the waist, and are finished off with a
bow and white bugle fringe. The body is made of white
tulle over blue satin, and the drapery formed of blue satin
trimmed with blonde. The sleeves—very short—also made
of satin, and trimmed with drapery and blonde.
A ball-dress; a skirt of very fine white tarlatane with
several narrow flounces, alternately of white taffetas and
tarlatane; above these, some bouillonnes of tulle. The
whole skirt is covered in this way, and small bows of white
or coloured chenille are dotted about over it. The body is
made of white taffetas, with a plamon of white tulle.
A robe with three skirts of white tulle trimmed with
ruches over a skirt of ponceau satin. The body is of satin,
bouillonne with tulle, and the sleeves, which are made very
short, are also of full tulle. All over this dress are bouquets
of pomegranate flowers with green foliage.
A dress of white crape over white satin, the crape skirt
forming a tunique, which is trimmed round with white
blonde flounces. A trimming of peach blossoms finishes
the toilette.

A black velvet dress ; the body, sleeves, and skirt, have
bands of blue satin upon them, over which are flounces of
black lace. The body is cut in the Swiss style, and the
lace put flat over the bands of satin.
A dress of white tulle, with bouillonnes up to the
knees, and an under-skirt of ponceau satin. A flounce of
black lace nearly a yard wide is placed over the bouillons of
tulle, festooned with bouquets of pomegranate flowers. The
body, of satin, is covered with drapery of white tulle mixed
with black lace. the sleeves are made to match; and on
both body and sleeves are bouquets of pomegranate flowers.
A robe of Indian red velvet; the skirt with a train, but
quite plain : drapery of white tulle and velvet on the body ;
the sleeves, bouillons of tulle.
A white moire, embroidered with gold and violet daisies ;
the skirt, training, is trimmed round with a thick rouleau of
violet velvet. This material, being very rich, admits of no
other trimming. The body is low, but worn with a chemi •
sette of English lace. The sleeves are so short that they
are almost imperceptible, but a trimming of English lace is
placed round them, and falls over the arm.
A pink satin dress, trimmed round the bottom with three
rows of white chenille fringe, with the ends formed of little
white satin balls ; body with a square berthe, with two rows
of narrower fringe.

A robe of white satin, trimmed above the hem with black
lace insertion put on in lozenges ; in the centre of each a
large black lace leaf, and between a smaller one. The body
is made with a round waist, a sash of black lace with wide
ends falling behind ; small lozenges of insertion are put on
as a square berthe.

A white satin dress, covered with two skirts of tulle,
spotted with gold, the lower one entirely bouillonnee, and
theupper is caught up at distances by wreathes of black lace
leaves ; berthe, bouillonnes of tulle ; in front and on the
shoulders large leaves of black lace, grouped with roses.
A robe of white tarlatane ; at the bottom of the skirt a
flounce, put on waved, and headed with a chicoree of rose-
coloured taffetas ; higher up, a second flounce. A ceinture
body of rose taffetas, piped with white, and trimmed round
with small rose-coloured tassels.

A sea-green moir antique, with two bands of black velvet,
pinked and trimmed with ruches of white blonde.
A thick black taffetas dress, trimmed rather more than 15
inches up the skirt with wide biais band of violet and white
checked velvet, put on slantways. High body, with dia-
gonal bands from shoulder to shoulder. Sleeves with revers
trimmed to match.

A robe of black satin, with four thick wide ruches of the
same, edged with narrow blonde. The body has a cascue
cut up behind.
An emerald-green satin dress, trimmed round the skirt
with two wide bands of green ♦elvet, separated one from the
other by an insertion of black lace, and each side of these
bands is edged with lace ; the whole of this trimming is put
on in points. The body is a Senorita jacket of velvet, with
a satin waistcoat trimmed with lace.

Robe Imp6ratrice •f violet poplin, trimmed round the
skirt with a band of black velvet'and a fringe of balls, which
reaches nearly down to the bottom of the dress. Basque,
and the bottom and top of the sleeves, trimmed to match.
A similar fringe, forming a square berthe, is placed on the
body.
A wedding dress of white satin, having round the bottom
a trimming of swan's down between 15 and 16 inches wide.
This dress is made with a train.

Another marriage dress is of white terry velvet,
with three wide flounces of English lace, each
flounce headed with a narrow band of swan's down an inch
wide. A plain body, with buttons formed of pearls about
the size of a small nut. At the top of the sleeves, a nar-
row band of swan's down.

Thero is little change in bonnets this month; they are, if
possible, more simple and elegant than those described in
our last number.

We begin with one of corn-flower-blue satin, quilted ; a
velvet ribbon, about an inch and a half wide, beginning
at each side of the crown, is fastened at the top in two long
bows and ends; two other straps of the same ribbon are
brought from the inside of the bonnet to meet the bow. A
bunch of perriwinkles, in blue velvet, is placed across the
forehead : narrow strings of velvet to match the bonnet, and
wide ones of black silk.

A white plush bonnet; the front and curtain edged with
plaid velvet, a large flat bow of the same, the ends trimmed
with chenille fringe ; the edge of the front trimmed with the
same fringe. Strings of white ribbon, edged with plaid
velvet. This bonnet is equally pretty if green or blue vel-
vet is substituted for the plaids.

A bonnet of pale green velvet, the curtain trimmed with
black lace. The front has a half wreath of brown heath, and
velvet leaves; in the inside, the same flowers, mixed with
black berries. Blonde cap and green satin strings.
A bonnet of green royal velvet, the front bouillonne of
crape the same shade. The curtain of green velvet, lined
with white satin. On the grown, tufts of whits feathers,
with aigrette of black lace. In the inside, a pouff of white
crape, with daisies in mother-of-pearl and bright leaves.
The dinner and evening coiffures are high, bat coquettes
and artistic.

The coiffure ruse is much ad opted this winter, and requires
the ornaments to be worn quite on the summit of the head.
Amongst many charming head. dresses, was one formed with
a pouff of tulle on the summit, Siberian aigrette at the side
with a rosette of red velvet; a diamond butterfly in the
middle of the pouff.
A head-dress of pink rock coral, branches of coral cross..
ing the back hair, and falling in long strings.
A coiffure awhile point lace, forming a chaperon, trimmed

flames were quelled, but the car was no longer tenable; and
all the passengers were huddled together in the other. It
was now nearly two o'clock in the afternoon, and appre-
hensions of a horrible death had begun to seize upon
them, when a train on the Michigan Southern line
arrived at a crossing 400 yards off, and was stop-
ped. The work of transferring the passengers was im-
mediately commenced. The distance between the two
trains was filled with a drift nearly ten feet in depth, and to
make the passage from one to the other was a work of great
labour and difficulty. The storm was at its height and the
cold so intense that the faces of the women and children
were frozen almost as soon as they came in contact with the
wind, turning white as instantly as if they had been plunged
in boiling water. Scarcely any one made the passage from
one train to the other without being badly frost-bitten ;
many quite seriously. This newly•arrived train was already
16 hours behind its time. Some wedding cake, the only
food in it, was confiscated to the necessities of the occasion,
This train, with its double load, after starting afresh, was
soon effectually buried in a drift, the wheels clogged with
snow, and the engine frozen up. Another night was com-
ing on. Two strong men were now started for the town,
and reached it after great toil and danger. They made
their way to the Fremont-house, which was full of guests,
and told their story. The a:arm was given, and sleighs
started with provisions and blankets, but only two suc-
ceeded in getting as far as the train. After unload-
ing they started at eight o'clock for Chicago, with
several of the passengers. The drivers, however, after
travelling a short time becane conscious that they were
lost, No one could tell in what direction to go. They were
in the midst of an illimitable labyrinth of snow-drifts
running in every direction, and some of them of great
depth. In the gloom the presence of a drift could not be
known until the horses were plunging and struggling up to
their sides. Both sleighs were turned over several times,
and frequently both the men and ladies were compelled to
get out into the deep snow-drifts and extricate the horses.
Finally one of the sleighs broke dee,vn, and the men were com-
pelled to trudge along through the snow, waist deep in
places, and lead the horses dragging the broken sleigh.
On, on, on they went, one snow-drift succeeding another,
as billow succeeds billow upon the ocean, and still no sign
or trace of the "lost city." About half-past 10 o'clock a
light was seen in the distance, towards which the horses
were immediately headed. Arriving they found it to pro-
ceed from the residence of a hospitable German, who made
them comfortable for the night. Awakening in the morn-
ing, they found themselves just half a mile from the train.
Happily, the beacon light which had been kept burning by
the passengers who were left in the train served to indicate
its locality to the agent of the railroad, who succeeded in
reaching it with some more provisions and blankets about
ten o'clock that night, after having blundered around among
the drifts for several hours. 'With these advantages the
passengers on the train managed to pass a tolerable night,
considering the prospects before them when evening set in.
Early in the morning they were brought up to the city in
sleighs, some of them severely frost-bitten, but no life was
lost,—Chicago Times.

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given ground for
many men and women in whom the reader can never cease _ iYthe Michigan Central Railroad plunged in an immense drift,
to feel an interest."—Attien ve um. ST. PETER'S ITALIAN' CHURCH, which lay directly across its way. The powerful locomo- revert to subjec
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
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WYLDER'S HAND. A NOVEL. Grand Vespers and Benediction, at 7 p.m. Followed by part the foam. Further and still further into the drift and tinctly to the fol,
By JOSEPH SHERIDAN Lr, FANU, Rossini's STABET MATER. • slower and still slower went the engine, It laboured and that at the time
Author of "The House by the Churchyard." The usual efficient Choir will be strengthened on this struggled as if loth to give up the contest, but finally •
occasion. tuexico was signs
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countrymen had
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We have this mouth to notice such an extensive list of women and children, with but a short supply of wood. One Is it not true th
elegant dresses, that we will only devote a limited space to
This day, at all Libraries, in 2 vole.,by one out into the blindingstorra went those who were possibilities, they
TH E SMUGGLER CHIEF. general remarks. At the present moment, ball and evening able, and digging down through the snow drifts tore up the
pearance of oar
By GUSTAVE AMIARD. dresses are of the first consideration. Low bodies are cut fences near the road, and brought :hem as fuel to the cars.
*** "Decidedly the author's best novel, and it stands rather square, or slightly in the shape of a heart. Thick The boards were broken up, and tba fast cooling stoves soon would be produce
alone in the dexterity with which the female characters are materials are usually made with round waists. Very wide gave out a generous heat. The wind, as it rushed along, monarchy, akin I
delineated. Every one will be satisfied with this work."
sashes are worn with these, tied behind, with double falling drew the flames up through the kindling pine, until stove in the New War]
London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. bows ; the sleeve is made with a bouillonne of the same and pipe were heated red. Then anew peril broke upon the ciples and our it
material as the dross. The trimming of the skirt reaches passengers, The roof of the car bok fire from the heated devoid of grand
This Day, in Two Vols., Demy Octavo, 325., about half a yard up from the button—narrow flounces, pipe, and as the wind caught tht flames they roared and
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F ORTY YEARS IN AMERICA. •
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fringe, are all in vog,ne, A net-work formed of chenille, or crackled. and curled d rer tow d the ownwa Le wards s risenp . ,
-.4 . placed these emig
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