PLEASANT CROPS ABROAD.—A GOOD LOOK OUT FOR THE SYRIANS.
“French agents are said to be sowing discontent in Syria.”—Sunday Times.
THE GENTLEMAN’S OWN BOOK.
Having advised you in our last paper of “Dress in general,” we now proceed to the important consideration of
DRESS IN PARTICULAR,
a subject of such paramount interest and magnitude, that we feel an Encyclopædia would be barely sufficient for its full developement; and it is our honest conviction that, until professorships of this truly noble art are instituted at the different universities, the same barbarisms of style will be displayed even by those of gentle blood, as now too frequently detract from the Augustan character of the age.
To take as comprehensive a view of this subject as our space will admit, we have divided it into the quality, the cut, the ornaments, and the pathology.