anagrams, enigmas, &c. A, 1 from page 91, treats of the urth Creation Days," and is Wilson.

DE REGISTER. (London: Or5, 27, Walbrook.)-We find the er pamphlets on our table, and s purpose is the facilitating of d and other houses and apartde places, not only in England ut in Wales, Ireland, and the ls. The idea is an excellent one, und a great advantage to heads of est of temporary homes or houses le. The Register is published at is, and distributed gratuitously by an and Dickens, and its lists are requirements, containing houses ents at rentals from two to twenty week. H-WOMAN'S REVIEW.-(London: Marlborough Street, Regent Street; Co., Paternoster Row. A camary of Mr. Mills clever speech Tranchisement of women, and other onnected with the debate, occupy the Art of this number. To the admirable s of Mr. Mill little can be added; his tations) of the position of women in tion to men have the force of conscienuth in addition to lucid illustration. gestion for a numerical return of wives, or indirectly done to death by blows, or Il-treatment of their husband, told emally; his allusion to the fact so completely ght of by women, that not one mother in dred perhaps ever heard of it, viz., that the wments of public schools by our forefathers intended to benefit not boys only, but boys girls indiscriminately; his instancing the tment of Miss Garrett, and the prohibition thers who would follow in her steps at the ids of the chivalrous Society of Apothecaries, h another phase of the same feeling, exhibited the Royal Academy, must give a heavy ow to this short-sighted and narrow policy, nd make large-minded men ashamed of such lean measures. How forcible he sets forth the aw with regard to married women. By the common law of England everything that a woman has belongs absolutely to her husband. He may tear it all away from her, may spend the last penny of it in debauchery, leaving her to maintain by her labour both herself and her children, and if by heroic exertion she earns enough to put by anything for their future, unless she is judicially separated from him he can pounce upon her savings and leave her penniless; and such cases are of very common occurrence. If we were besotted enough to think such things right, there would be more excuse for us, but we know better. The richer classes have found a way of exempting their own daughters from the iniquitous state of the law. By the contrivance of marriage settlements they can make in each case a private law for themselves and they always do. Why do we not provide that

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justice for the daughters of the poor which we take good care shall be done to our own daughters?" No wonder that 72 members of Parliament, including pairs, voted in favour of giving the suffrage to women. "The position of women in America," by Mrs. Bayle Bernard, is a suggestive paper, and deserves to be attentively read.

An article entitled "photography as an employment for women," points to a very suitable field for feminine labour, one in which, as usual, they are allowed to keep a share of the least profitable portion, but are never allowed to learn enough of the profession in a photographer's studio, to make it a profession for themselves. The society for the promoting of the employment of women have taken premises in Belgravia nearly opposite the Grosvenor Hotel Victoria Station, for the teaching and practising of photography by women, an enterprise which has our best wishes for its success, especially as from her Majesty downwards, lady photograph ers have exhibited special facilities for excelling in the art. The remainder of the number will be found highly interesting, the Reviews especially so.

THE LABORATORY: A Weekly Record of Scientific Research.-(James Smith, Cannonstreet, London). — The fifth number of this work lies before us, filling a place of no common interest to physicists and chemists, and in these days (when so many take an interest in science for its own sake) to a large circle of studious men, neither the one or the other. The report of the Chemical Society must interest the most common - place reader, and though we cannot see the use to science of a memoir of "Geber," founded for the most part on legend and supposition, yet it is well that justice should be sought to be done to the founders of a science to which humanity is so largely indebted. Without the mysteries of alchemy the miracles of chemistry had remained unknown and undeveloped: Amongst other matters we find a well-written report of the chemical products at the Paris Universal Exhibition. It may, perhaps, be new to some of our readers to learn that in France (as a rule) the old sulphurmatch is still adhered to; yet in the face of this fact the lucifer-match is unrepresented at the Exhibition-an oversight by no means singular, at least in the English chemical sections. It was hoped by Dr. Hofman, at the Exhibition of 1862, that before that of 1872 phosphorusmatches might be abolished; and the writer of the report (C. W. Quin, F. C. S., Superintendent of the Chemical Classes of the International Exhibition of 1862) observes that, amongst the numerous cheap compounds that are ignitable by friction, something might be found to supersede the objectionable phosphoruspaste. One sound reason for getting rid of it is conveyed in the reminder amount of bones now consum3⁄44. ture would then be free for poses.

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THE HAWK: "A monthly hover from the Vale of Avon. (W. Wheaton, Ringwood, and may be had of all booksellers.)-The seventh number of this promising periodical lies before us, and fully bears out the impressions we expressed of the former one. The paper entitled "South Australia," by the Rev. Basil Tudor Craig, M.A., with which it opens (the first, by the way, of a promised series) is not only interesting, but, in all probability, will prove eminently useful as presenting exactly the sort of information most needed by those who may contemplate emigration. Wonderful indeed is the change which has heen wrought in this country in the brief course of thirty years, at which period we are told that "South Australia might well be designated a desolation.

A person ascended in succession the highest mountains would have seen nothing but unlimited forests, stringy-bark ranges, salt-marshes, blue hills in the distance, and sometimes extensive grassy plains. Silence would have reigned supreme, broken only by the screams of the parrots, the cawing of the crow, the whistle of the magpie, the laughter of the jackass, or the seldom shout and war-song of the natives. Very few were then the signs of natural life in South Australia. The kangaroo, with the rest of the marsupial genus: the wombat, a sort of wild-cat; the dingo, or wild-dog; the emu, and a cloud of wildfowl on the lakes and rivers, being, with a couple of thousand aborigines, living separately in scattered wurleys formed of branchess of trees, the only inhabitants.

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At present two hundred towns and villages occupy the sites of prarie and forest-two hundred towns and villages having populations in them of from one hundred and fifty to ten thousand inhabitants. Iron and other roads, several thousand miles in extent, connect these towns and villages, and are mediums of continual traffic. Railways, trams, docks, viaducts, and a hundred bridges have been introduced or constructed; while to a half-score of ports and roadsteads there is a ceaseless influx of ships and steamers." Instead of two thousand inhabitants they number at present about a hundred and sixty thousand, and every year, of course, must materially add to these figures. The mansions of wealthy squatters, gardens and vineyards, occupy the fairest spots; farms flourish, and 450 places of worship have been built. Never has thirty years made so wonderful a change in the aspects and condition of a country. Thirty years ago

the arts and exports of South Australia might be summed up as exhibited in, and consisting of, quaintly carved boomerangs and stonesharpened spears, the rude rush-baskets and simple fishing-nets so frequently met with in our museums, and beyond which, according to Mr. Craig, the aborigines have not progressed; and though they have been taught to plough and reap, to ride and drive and row, saw-up timber, &c., the native only exerts these talents when in want of dinner, and abjures industry after a full meal. Some of them have lived and died as Christians, early brought-up at the two mission-stations; many have been carefully educated, and can read and write well; but they never apply these advantages to their advancement, and the reverend writer has only heard of them as servants of servants in the open fields. But in the meanwhile wheat and wine, wool and copper, reward the enterprise of the white man, who exported last year copper to the value of half a million sterling, and to whom the fields under culture yielded a produce of six millions two hundred thousand bushels of wheat. It will be good news for many in and beyond the vale of Avon to know (we quote the emphatic phrase of the author) that "all steady, sensible, hard-working men will prosper" at Adelaide, and in other parts of South Australia. Mr. Craig does not slur over the climatic drawbacks to this land of promise. Some fifteen days of hardly endurable heat, some few of almost tropical rain; but, with these exceptions, the climate is balmy and full of sunshine, conducive to health and high spirits; but whether productive of long life has yet to be proved. An essay on "Goodness" deserves to be widely read: it has for its foundation Cicero's book, "De Officiés," and the few illustrative cases of conscience quoted from the great Pagan philosopher, notwithstandig the precise teaching of Christian ethics on such matters might readily find duplicates, on "Change" and elsewhere, in the present day. The selfish subtlety of the human heart seems to have undergone no alteration since the time of Cicero; so that a large proportion of modern men and women, tried by the philosopher's standard of integrity, would be found wanting. We are sorry that the space devoted to "Notes, Queries, and Replies" is shorter than usual, regarding them as a most interesting feature of the publication. "The Four Pages" contain the usual amount of

SEVENTH FIGURE.-A costume for a boy six years old, made entirely of white Cashmere, edged with ponceau, and consisting of halftrowsers, and a blouse confined at the waist by a belt round the same.

SECOND FIGURE, for a child three years eld.-A frock of white quilting, having a first skirt plain, and a tunic opening in front, apron fashion. Jacket of ponceau woollen material, trimmed with white gimp. Round cap of Italian straw, bound with ponceau velvet, and ornamented with the tip of an ostrich feather.

THIRD FIGURE.—A costume of Indian linen for a boy of six years of age, consisting of Breton trowsers, with a white band up the side, and a jacket cut square at bottom, slightly shaped on the hips, and trimmed with white galloon. Sailor's straw hat, fancy tie. Russet

Russian leather boots.

FOURTH FIGURE.-A costume for a boy of eight, composed of Breton trowsers of a white woollen fabric, bordered with red above the knees, and a wide band of the same down the side-seams. Russian boots, black, with a red border at top. On the head a Pyrenean cap called a berret.

FIFTH FIGURE.A frock for a little girl of eight, of goat's-hair muslin, cut in the Empire style, without plaits in the waist, cut like a basquine skirt and corselet of the same piece. White muslin under-body. Lancret hat of rice-straw, bordered with blue velvet, and encircled by a cordon of blue flowers. Blue kid boots, coming up high on the leg.

SIXTH FIGURE.-A costume for a little girl of ten, consisting of a first skirt of foulard, ornamented with a deep plaiting, cut in points at the bottom, and edged with white silk. Second skirt of the same foulard. Body cut in the basquin style, the fronts close and lap over each other. Sleeves tight, cut in points at the

EIGHTH FIGURE.-A bathing-dress for a little girl, composed of grey Cashmere tunic, and body without sleeves, trimmed with garnet, and drawers to match.

Satin is much employed this summer, especially for the trimming of gauze de Chambery and tulle dresses. Some of our fashionable houses talk of reintroducing flounces, but their vogue is not yet determined on, nevertheless we have definitively adopted lace-flounces for fulldress evening toilets. The dresses most in vogue are mohair, linos, Grenadines, muslins, la Sultane, &c., &c.; and of these stuffs are composed all the toilets for the seaside and country. I have remarked some silks, glacé and marbled; others, again, rayed, which are very charming.

I must also recommend the foulard de champ, sprinkled with delicate flowers, and foulards à batons garnished with foliage thrown here and there.

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Paletots continue to be the favourite confection; these are trimmed with lace and jet; I have seen a pretty model pointed behind and before, finished at each point with pendillons of pearl, and between the points a coquille of Chantilly in order not to cut the lace, it is put on plain above the points. Japonaise sleeves bordered with jet at the bottom, and finished with pendillons and points, and looped up above with an agrafe of jet. A Chantilly lace is set on nearly flat at the bottom of the sleeve, and forms above the point a large coquille. A collar worked in the tissue of pearls finishes the top of this envelope. Every description of embroidery, whether of soutache or beads or silk, is in favour, and, with the assistance of a Wilson and Wheeler's sewing machine, can be easily and promptly executed.

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"OXCROFT."-We shall have pleasure in reading the MS. tale our correspondent writes of; at the same time we must observe that our arrangements will not admit of the immediate appearance of a story of any length.

"THE ROSE OF RIVERSDALE."-The arrangements above alluded to must be our apology for the nonappearance of this tale, which has been for some time accepted. In a month or two we shall hope to publish it.