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New YoRx, May 80.
II variety be charming, and all the world
agrees in thinking SO, our climate is charming
beyond comparison. During the past three days
we have had every possible variety of weather.
It has been as hot July, and cold January.
On Wednesday the streets wore full Of white pam
falcons, parasols, and straw hats; but to-day one
meets nothing but greatcoats and winter dresses
The Quakers are holding their yearly meeting, and
the cold weather il looked for a matter of course
good deal Of excitsment has been Created in
the so called fashionable circles by the projected
publication of holiday book, by Putnam, in imi-
tation Of Heath's Book Of Beauty, to be called the
"Home Book OF Beauty" II is to be composed of
twelve portraits of married ladies celebrated for
their beauty and accomplishments, and the text,
which has special relation to the pictures, il to
be from tho graceful but homcly pen of Mrs. Mary
Clavers. The portraits of the ladies are alto be
drawn in crayon by Charles Martin, an English
artist of considerable ability, and son of Beshaz-
Ear Martin. A work like this must of necessity
no little fiutterng Of expectation among those
who have any pretensions TO beauty fashion, end
it not to be wondered at that il should bOevery
where talked about. Tho portraits are to be but
twelve in number; and of course good many
lovely women who might have strong claims to
cluded. All tho ladies who are to appear in the
"Book" are New Workers., but in the next vol
other purts of the country will be represented
The subject has been seized upon by Madame do
Marguerite az the motive for two-act comedy,
which was produced last night with great success
at Brougham's Lyceum. Madame de Marquee
rite, although hardly year in tho country, has
seized with great cleyerness the leading fobes of
New York fashionable society, and woven them
into her slight dramatic sketch in a very telling
manner. II il the first successful attempt that has
been made 10 put American high life upon the
stage. The affair has not much dramatic merit,
but the dialogue is light, sparkling, and full of
telling hits, and the characters sufficiently
pronounced to be recognised representatives of
certain classes Of society among The perform
of this trifie called together large number
of the distinguished iterat and Of the fashion of
New York than have been seen together in place
Of amusement here in many years. The theatre
here has become almost tabooed as n place of
amusement for TIA educated classes, and it cannot
be otherwise whiIgthe only entertainment offered
consists of adaptations of pieces fret translated
from the French for the London stage. But the
five theatres nightly open here, besides the Italian
Opera House, German Theatre, and Virginia Min
stres. are well supported by the floating and loose
population OF the city On Monday night the
united troupcs Of the Astor Plaoe and the Havana
opera commenced performances under the man.
ngement Of Maretzek. Next week Jenny Lind
will bring her concerts to close, and il is said
she will not sing again in this city. Although less
noise has been made about her than on her
first visit, the amount Of money taken at her
concerts has been much greater; il has averaged
ten thousand dollars night. Her brilliant sue
will be something for our posterty 70 wonder
IL
ter among popular delusions not, it 10 difficult
to tell while the spell Of the syren is upon Us.
On Tuesday night last a new hotel called the
Colamore House, on the corner Of Broadway and
Spring strsct, was "inaugurated," as the phrase
once have caused people to open their eyes with
amazement by its superb furniture and elegant
refnements But such things have now become
much a matter of course, that il requires un-
usual display to create excitement in the hotel
world As illustration of the growth Of the city,
it may not be amiss to mention that another ole
giant hotel, callod the WAverly House, will be
"inaugurated' in a similar manner tonight; the
Wavcrly is new and spacious house, with
brown stone front, like tho Collamore House, on
the corner Of Fourth street and Broadway. A
short distance above the Waverly House, in Broad
way, il another new hotel, but recently opened,
called the Eoan House. These houses are all
full, and doing well, it is said. The business Of
hotel keeping is the only one in which there no
failures. Monnot, the present proprietor of the
New York Hotel, was the assistant cook at the
American Hotel but few years since He after
wards assumed the post Of chef de cuisine at tho
hotel of which he is now the proprietor. He owns
the large summer hotel called the Pavilion, at
Fairfield, once kept by Captain Black, Of the Ma
tonal; il the proprietor of extensive livery sta
Bile, and 10 said to be worth hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. although he is put down in the
tx book worth but thirty thousand. There is
newspaper legend that merchant once deter
mined to ruin himself by squandering his money
in advertising; but he found that the more he ad-
yertscd the richer he grew, until at last he was
obliged to give up in despair of evor running him
self in that way. 1t would seem if some Of our
hotel keepers had tried similar experiment. and
attempted to ruin themselves by extravagant
penditures in furnishing their houses, and been
similarly unsuccessful II is said there is not
hotel in London large enough to accommodate two
hundred guests, while in Now York there is hardly
30 small as TO be fllsd by that number.
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