[65] Babies’ tiny caps have disappeared, like some other articles of costume in Emma’s day. What would Mrs. Weston have thought of the bald little polls which are now fearlessly exposed by mothers and nurses?
“They’ve robed that maid so poor and pale
In silks and samites rare;
And pearls for drops of frozen hail
Are glistening in her hair.”
“SENSE AND SENSIBILITY,” AND “MANSFIELD PARK.”
Of the two novels for which I have not found space here, the one belongs to the first, and the other to the second series of Jane Austen’s tales.