. The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. ourMagazine, the gay changes whichthe marriage of our adored Prin-cess had made in the world of Fa-shion. How little did we then an-ticipate the melancholy task atpresent assigned to us, of descri-bing the mourning worn for her bya country who looked up to her asits future ruler, and who witnessedwith delight the gradual develope-ment of those virtues which provedher the true descendant of her ve-nerable grandfather I But she isgone where alone her virtues couldbe rewarded ; she has exchangedthe probability of
. The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. ourMagazine, the gay changes whichthe marriage of our adored Prin-cess had made in the world of Fa-shion. How little did we then an-ticipate the melancholy task atpresent assigned to us, of descri-bing the mourning worn for her bya country who looked up to her asits future ruler, and who witnessedwith delight the gradual develope-ment of those virtues which provedher the true descendant of her ve-nerable grandfather I But she isgone where alone her virtues couldbe rewarded ; she has exchangedthe probability of possessing anearthly crown for the certainty ofa heavenly one. Yet such is theselfishness of human nature, that itwill be some time before even thisreflection can mitigate our grieffor her loss. On the promenade costume wehave this month scarcely any ob-servation to make. The few fa-shionables who are seen walkingare wrapped in black cloth shawls,which have a broad binding ofcrape, and large bonnets, composedeither of crape over sarsnet, orblack Leghorn full trimmed with, ???ss.
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