A compendious manual. It brings our history down to the end of Madison’s administration.
“Life of John Wickliffe, D.D.” By Margaret Coxe. Columbus. Isaac N. Whiting.
This is an interesting, though scanty biography of the first of the Reformers. It does not pretend to give a philosophic account of his times, but simply to present a chronicle of the principal events of his life.
FASHIONS FOR MARCH, 1841.
EVENING DRESS.
Fig. 1.—Of plaid Mous de Laine. The head dress of buff crape, trimmed with roses.
FULL DRESS.
Fig. 2.—Crimson velvet robe, a low corsage, it is trimmed with a row of dentille d’or in the heart style. Short sleeves, composed of two bouffants, with manchettes of dentille d’or, looped by gold and jewelled ornaments, corresponding with that in the centre of the corsage. The tablier and flounce that encircles the skirt are also of dentille d’or of the most superb kind. The head-dress is a toquet of white satin, embroidered in gold, and trimmed with a profusion of white ostrich feathers.