... FASHIONS FOR OTOBER. , ACCORDING to the great preparations being made in the PuAis he houses, it appears that the coming winter seasou will aboultil in rea novelties. Many new patterns for the make of bodies have been iho sbown by the medi.teS. Satided as they aro tbat the gored kirts es will be still preferred, they think that the bodies might be rean ish dered a little more varied and ...

... P A S H I O N. ag TnE Lancet has a paper on the follies of fashion. We have 1 e jaut now a lucid interval. It happens that men and women e who attire themselves according to the dictates of fashion, is and fall down and worship the images that tailors and i Lr milliners set up, wear clothes which may pass even the e stern censorship of the physiologist. Men have for a long s 'y time been ...

... PO ETRY. M Y DREA-M. A SLENDER form, a girlish face, Bluo eyes aDd golden hair; Sweet lips, dear lips I and sunny smiles, A vision angol fair I Oh, gentle eyes I oh, cruol eyes I Why will you haunt me sol Filled with the old sweet tsndernoss The love of long geg. A merry laugh, a pleasant voice, Sweet chimes, like silver bells; Old music, unforgotten still, Around me rings and swells. Oh, ...

... LITERAT U RE. The Debt's Becovety (Seotland) Act, with Annotations by PETER MORISON5. Wmn. Blaekwood & Sonls. INi the important Act which was passed last Session to facili- tate the recovery of certain debts above the value of £12 r but not exceeding £50, thle provisions contained in Rs great number of the sections of thle Small Debt Act, and relative mchedules, are 'held as incorporated. In ...