now always formed of ends; a favourite ornament is composed of riband cut to resemble a feather. Various shades of green, ruby, and rose, are the colours in request for ribands.

We do not remember a winter in which so great a variety of materials for half and full dress have been produced as the present. Merinos, cachemires, and washing silks are all in request for negligé; for grand costume we have plain and fancy silks, satins, velvets, crapes, and gauzes, which for richness of material and beauty of pattern, are, we may boldly say, unrivalled. A good many dinner dresses are made in the half pelisse style, that is to say, partially high behind, but very open on the bust, and trimmed round with ornaments of the lozenge form, which are frequently edged with narrow blond lace. The chemisettes worn with these dresses are usually trimmed round the top with a ruche composed of blond net. The sleeves are always long, but generally of some transparent material. A narrow flounce, or a row of ornaments of the lozenge form, are the only trimmings seen on dinner gowns, and many are untrimmed.

Gowns in full dress have the corsage cut low, but not indelicately so. The backs are made plain, the fronts almost all crossed in drapery. Some are trimmed, en pelerine, with blond lace; others are plain. Sleeves in full dress are always very short and full. Full dress trimmings are either a blond lace flounce, to correspond with that on the bosom, or else a Grecian border embroidered in coloured silks, or composed of satin rouleaus. Claret colour, chesnut, dark blue, rose colour, dark green, and various fancy colours, are all fashionable.

Bodes de Paris.

OPERA Dress.

A redingote of very light vapeur gros des Indes, over a jaconot muslin dress; the corsage of the latter, made plain and high, is finished round the top with a double row of lace, arranged in round plaits. The skirt is embroidered round the border in detached bouquets, the embroidery is partially seen, as the redingote is open from the waist downwards. Corsage croisée, cut very low upon the shoulders, a little open at the upper part, and made with a square falling collar. The sleeve is of the demi gigot form. A Grecian border, embroidered in emerald-green silk, and intermingled with light sprigs of foliage, goes round the hem, and up each side of the dress to the waist; the collar is also embroidered. The hat is an intermixture of velvet and satin; the colour of the first is violette des bois, the latter vest emerande ;

of a Newton, a Watt, or a Jenner; but they protrude into meridian splendour the puny pretensions of countless poetasters, witlings, and amateurs. Real genius and active industry should not be dismayed, however, by this indifference which clouds the dawn of their exertions, and which sometimes nips the bud of noble aspirations; for great truths there will always come a time and a place; the man who works for the benefit of his fellow-beings can afford to await the hour allotted for the full development of his labours, and bequeaths, in tranquil confidence, to posterity the reputation which he may have failed to obtain from a dominant coterie of capricious contemporaries."

Edward, third son of the vicar of Berkeley, in Gloucestershire, was born the 17th of May, 1749, and early manifested a growing taste for natural history, in pursuit of which he became an enthusiast in its most extended sense, whilst residing as pupil with the celebrated John Hunter, who possessed a menagerie at Brompton, where he prosecuted his inquiries into the habits and structure of animals. Between these great men a real friendship arose, and a community of taste and pursuits united them to the last.

Whilst in London he declined several advantageous offers, from a wish to return to Berkeley. Here his practice rapidly increased; his surgical attainments, his amiable and polished manners, and his very general information, securing to him a welcome reception from the most distinguished families in his district. His lively disposition equally entered into the deepest sympathy with the sadder moments of his friends, or gaily participated in their happier hours. In 1788 he married, and in that year he began to turn his attention more seriously to the subject of vaccination, which had long before occupied his mind, though it was not till the 14th of May, 1796, that he made his first decisive experiment. On that day an annual festival is still held at Berlin, to commemorate the event. He published his first memoir in June, 1798, after struggling against every discouragement from the various members of the profession with whom he previously communicated. He intended to have consigned his results to the Transactions of the Royal Society, but he was seriously admonished not to present his paper, lest it should injure the character which he had previously acquired among scientific men.

The various disappointments and difficulties which darkened the outset of this inestimable discovery were now on the point of being surmounted by the most triumphant success. Those who violently opposed its progress, or less candidly sought to undermine the pretensions of its author, were soon to be silenced. In

the summer of 1799, thirty-three of the eating pisicans, and forty eminent surgeons of London, sgnet an earnest expression of their confidence in the efficacy of the cow-gox. Lary 20 his present Majesty, then Duke of Clarence, actively par mizet Jenner, who was successively introduced a me leating nenders of the royal family.

“In order to estimate properly the fruits of his exertions, et us," says the volume before us, consider the evi vuch he combated, and which he finally deprived of its princiņa, magă. From an examination of the London bis of mortality during forty-two years, Dr. Jurin ascertained that, even after suelarom had been introduced, one in fourteen of a that vere Jor perished by the small pox. Of persons of every age uden In the natural way, one in five or six diet; wile even of the laserlated one in fifty fell a victim. Condorcet, in rammending the adoption of vaccination in France, excaimed, "La petite vérve nous décime." In the Russian empire it is sit sa haze svejs away two millions in a single year. At Constantinogle it provet fatal in many epidemics to one half of those infertet. But, after mat the disease had been undergone, traces often remained in the habit only inferior in severity to the evil itself; it appears from the records of the London Asylum for the ladigent Blind, tine three-fourths of the objects there relieved aut inst their sight through the small-pox. These infictions might i.. nang pag of detail; they ought to be steadily borne in mind even at present "The late professor Gregory at the merit of incest wing recination into Sectland, in which he was aited 19 Sir Mamaew Tierney. Dr. Waterhouse mccented, accnt the year 190, n establishing the practice in America. Dr. De Carr, as taas period settled in Vienna, deserves particviar mention de ve successful exertione in communicating this antutore sa Aan.

cannot afford space to enumerate the acting promoter of me measure on the continent of Europe, but Dr. Sum of Man distinguished himself both by active casperking, art by Joze sonal inquiries into the origin of cow-pox Must if the query ments of Europe have since enjoined the practice by ente enactments, which more or less amoune spoon, mut the results have been more favourable water men tromances fan in our own country, where individuals are mandanes i guidance of their own capricious unggasana,

"A committee of parliament was noted a 2702 the claims of Jenner upon the cute fus omnes

clearly proved that he had converted un sentitie teeIAT PERSONE

the trimming consists of knots of green gauze riband, composed of ends cut in dents de scie. Ear-rings, neck-chains, &c. massive gold. Green velvet bracelets, with gold clasps. Green satin bottines.

MORNING DRESS.

A high dress composed of drab coloured gros de Naples; corsage à l'Amazone, embroidered round the collar and on the bust in silk braiding to correspond. Cambric chemisette, small plaited, and finished round the top with a double frill. Black satin bonnet of the chapeau capote shape. The brim is ornamented on the inside with a bandeau and knots of pale pink riband. An extremely large nœud of satin, attached to the front of the crown, projects on one side over the brim; a twisted band of riband goes round the crown, and a knot, en tulipe, surmounts the satin ornament on the left side.

STATEMENT OF FASHIONS AT PARIS, IN NOVEMBER.

White dresses and light scarfs are no longer seen in the fashionable promenades; they have given place to the warm winter mantles, or the well-wadded pelisse. Several of the former are extremely elegant. Some are made of fine twilled cloth, of a very slight texture, with an excessively large pelerine, and a high collar; the pelerine, the collar, and the fronts of the mantle, are embroidered, or pointed, in a wreath of flowers. Mantles composed of plaided merinos, made in the same manner, but without any trimming, are also in request.

Pelisses are composed of sarsnet; they are made with a plain tight corsage, and a high collar; they fasten imperceptibly down the front, and have no trimming. A fur tippet, either of the boa or palatine form, is always worn with a pelisse.

Velvet is in much request, as are also gros des Indes, and gros de Naples, for walking bonnets and hats; they are lined with satin of a different colour, and a good many are composed of two materials, and of two colours, so that one would be tempted to think the fair wearers were economical enough to have their bonnets made of shreds, if the expensive feathers, or handsome lace veils worn with them, did not show that economy had nothing to do in the business.

The brims of bonnets are, comparatively speaking, of a moderate size; the crowns are low, a good many are of the melon shape, and have the material arranged in folds. If the bonnet is composed of two materials, the trimming corresponds; if of one, it is composed of ribands only. There is now a great variety of tri-coloured ribands besides those of the nation; the latter are