AFTER the brilliant success which attended, in the spring of last year, our volume on The Fan— a success which was the result, as I cannot conceal from myself, much more of the original conception and decorative execution of that work of luxe than of its literary interest—I have determined to close this series of Woman’s Ornaments by a last little work on the protective adornments of that delicate being, as graceful as she is gracious : The Sunshade, the Glove, the Muff. This collection, therefo

THE author of a Dictionary of Inventions , after having proved the use of the Parasol in France about 1680, openly gives up any attempt to determine its precise original conception, which indeed seems to be completely concealed in the night of time. It would evidently be childish to attempt to assign a date to the invention of Parasols; it would be better to go back to Genesis at once. A biblical expression, the shelter which defends from the sun , would almost suffice to demonstrate the Orienta

THE GLOVE The Mitten To M me. H. de N. THE GLOVE The Mitten To M me. H. de N. WELL, my dear friend, here I am, faithful as you see to my appointment; I am come deliberately to fulfil my promise, which I so imprudently gave on a certain day last season, upon a Breton strand, you remember, while contemplating one of your rosy little hands, which was whipping its sister with a long Swedish glove, in a sort of angry pet, and gave to you an appearance of wild and exquisite bluster? How did you manage

THE Muff! The very name has something about it delicate, downy, and voluptuous. From that little warm satin nest, where pretty chilly little hands ensconce themselves in silk, carrying with them a lace handkerchief, a box of lozenges, a bouquet of Parma violets, or a tender loving billet-doux , a thousand trifles spring up to please us, like a swarm of souvenirs and caressing thoughts of our first years passed at home, and of our first roving loves. In childhood, we delight to play with the larg

APPENDIX WE see sometimes appearing certain light little works connected either with literary history or ancient poetry, or manners and customs, which would be nothing but pretty and curious pamphlets, if the Appendix which follows them were not swelled out of all proportion with proofs and illustrations, annotated notes, documents with sidenotes, bibliographic bibliography, considerations and commentaries of all sorts, which put the reader to the torture. By this proceeding of an exaggerated li

THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Motteux . With copious Notes (including the Spanish Ballads), and an Essay on the Life and Writings of Cervantes by John G. Lockhart . Preceded by a Short Notice of the Life and Works of Peter Anthony Motteux by Henri Van Laun . Illustrated with Sixteen Original Etchings by R. de Los Rios . Four Volumes. LAZARILLO DE TORMES. By Don Diego Mendoza . Translated by Thomas Roscoe . And GUZMAN D’ALF

THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY , Gentleman . By Laurence Sterne . In Two Vols. With Eight Etchings by Damman from Original Drawings by Harry Furniss . THE OLD ENGLISH BARON : A Gothic Story . By Clara Reeve . ALSO THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO : A Gothic Story . By Horace Walpole . In One Vol. With Two Portraits and Four Original Drawings by A. H. Tourrier , Etched by Damman . THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. In Four Vols. Carefully Revised and Corrected from the Arabic by Jonathan Scott , L

Daily Telegraph. “These editions are noteworthy as containing original etchings by artists of high repute. Thus nineteen exquisite plates by the French etcher, M. Lalauze, gives especial attractiveness to the ‘Thousand and One Nights;’ and the two fanciful histories of the Caliph Vathek and Prince Rasselas are illustrated by designs of Mr. A. H. Tourrier, etched by M. Damman. It is a pleasure to hold a ‘Robinson Crusoe’ or the ‘Tale of a Tub’ in one’s hands; it is a positive luxury to read those