Like the sky, now rosy flushing
At the dawn.
Très Beau-tanical.—An Aladdin-like Magic-Lamp and Magic-Lantern Night at the Botanical Gardens on Wednesday. A thousand additional traditional lamps. The Flower of the Aristocracy, being at the State Ball, is represented by the Aristocracy of Flowers (in the absence of Lord and Lady Battersea, without whom no Floral Fête can be absolutely perfect) in every part of these beautiful gardens. Bands playing; but not sufficient distance between them, so that when they performed, simultaneously, entirely different tunes, the effect was far from soothing to the listeners' nerves. Why not adopt the plan admirably carried out at the Marlborough House Garden Party, where one band having finished, another, at a distance, commenced? Why among the harmony of colours at the Botanical should there be produced by the conflict of two tunes, taken in different times, but played at the same moment, an inharmonious whole?
Ladies' Fashions.—Extremes: Minimum—Bonnet; a ribbon and rosette. Maximum—Hat; a Flower Garden on a Yard of Straw.
THE MODERN NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD.
If times were as when time was young,
And reason ruled each shepherd's tongue,