Illustrations supplied by Frank Leslie, proprietor of "Leslie's Gazette of the Fashions," and taken from Articles of Actual Costume, selected at the Various Establishments, given as Authority by the Editor of this Magazine.

LIGHT, transparent textures, such as tulle, gauze, and crape, worn over slips of plain glacé are, this season, as heretofore, preferred to the richer kinds of silk for ball costume. A ball dress, just completed, consists of amber-color glacé, covered by three skirts of crape of the same hue. Each of the crape skirts is trimmed with a rouleau of white marabout feathers, spotted with yellow. The crape corsage is in folds, and is ornamented with small tufts of marabout, The sleeves are trimmed at the lower edge with a narrow rouleau of the marabout. In the centre of the corsage there is a bouquet of flowers in groseille-color velvet, having long, pendant stamens of gold. Bouquets of the same

We give an illustration of a dress for a little girl of seven years, furnished by Genin. The dress is of light cherry color silk. The skirt has three flounces; each flounce is edged with narrow fringe of the same color as the silk, and enriched by three rows of narrow black velvet, arranged in a border of reversed points. The waist is low in the neck, and made with bretelles and a basque. Three rows of black velvet, forming points, adorn the front of the waist. The basque is rounded up on the hips, and ornamented with bows of black and cherry ribbon. The edge is bordered with narrow fringe and rows of velvet trimming. The short sleeves are formed of a single narrow flounce, edged like the bretelles. With this dress is worn a black velvet basque, which descends to the top of the upper flounce. The edge is enriched by a border of embroidery four inches wide, interspersed with small star-shaped flowers of jet.

No. 2, Madame Demorest, 375 Broadway, is making unusual preparations for her display of patterns of the spring fashions. We were much pleased with the variety of new

flowers, with strings of gold beads, are to be worn in the hair. Another greatly-admired ball-dress consists of white silk, covered with tulle illusion. The silk skirt is covered by three skirts of tulle illusion, hooped up on one side with bows of blue gauze ribbon and strings of pearls. Over the corsage there is a small fichu, composed of tulle illusion, and trimmed with a ruche of tulle and a torsade of blue ribbon and pearls. The sleeves are formed of three puffings of tulle, and trimmed with bows of blue gauze ribbon with pearls intermingled. A coiffure of pearls and blue ribbon will be worn with the dress just described. A ball-dress of pink silk has been trimmed with nine flounces of pink tulle. The corsage and sleeves are trimmed with bouquets of roses and a wreath of the same flowers is worn in the hair.

designs presented for our inspection. Her success in imitating the various styles of trimming manufactured by our fashionable dealers is truly wonderful. The illustration we give this month is of a child's over-dress, which may be made of silk or poplin, according to fancy. It forms full box plaits from the neck to the waist, where it is confined by a silk cord and tassels. The fronts are ornamented by a trimming of velvet, which surrounds the neck in the form of a collar, and is continued down the entire length of the skirt. The flowing sleeve forms deep points at the edge. The upper sleeve may be formed in like manner, and the effect of a double sleeve produced by arranging the trimming in points to correspond with the edge of the sleeve. The fronts are closed by small silk buttons and loops.

The front is enriched by four

pipings of terry velvet of a light shade of purple, each piping being edged by a narrow ruffle of blonde. The curtain is of silk; two pipings of velvet, separated by a

narrow blonde, surround the edge. The trimming on the left side consists of green and purple velvet lilies, with black leaves inter

A deep frill of white rose, with brown velvet leaves and spray. A wreath embroidered muslin, edged with Valenciennes lace, forms a of green velvet leaves extends half-way over the head.

CHAPTER 1.

In the days of King James the Second, there lived at Burnley Manor "a right loyal gentleman," as he was called at that period. His ancestors, from time immemorial, had lived in the old house. I need not go through the long pedigree, to show how one of the Burnleighs of Burnleigh" had been to the Holy Land (was not his long red-cross shield hanging up in the old hall?) or how one of them sailed with Sir Walter Raleigh, or how, in later years, Geoffry Burnley was killed at the Battle of Naseby-that fatal fight, when so many noble English families perished. Burnley's son, concealed by the friendship of a Puritan called Crane, who lived at Burnley, had returned to his estates at the time of the Restoration, and, in turn, extended his protection to Crane's son, who was nearly suffering imprisonment. One would have thought that such mutual kindness would have bound their descendants together for ever; but, as will be seen hereafter, avarice stepped in, and broke up friendship that promised to be so lasting.

the celebrated Dundee. Certain it is that he raised small body of men, and disappeared from the neighborhood, only reappearing some time after the fatal Battle of Killiekrankie, when, with the shattered remnants of his followers, he returned to Burnley; but the few that went with him on that secret expedition were tried, and faithful, and kept their own counsel, so that, in spite of the lectures and cross-questionings of their respective wives, the truth was never elicited, and, though dangerously compromised, Cyril escaped unpunished.

But his heart was with King James, and not to be behind his ancestors in loyalty, he determined not to take the oath of fealty to the usurper, as he invariably called William of Orange.

He was not a man of great moral courage, so he laid a plan by which he might escape an open refusal, and yet satisfy his conscience he was sensible enough to see that open resistance was useless, and there was no hope left for James.

In the year 1688, then, or the year following, Cyril, The Burnley we last mentioned married a lady while in London, fell in with William Penn, the wellof good family, who bore him one son. While the known Quaker. Penn about this time was suffering merry-making and carousing were going on at the for his close friendship with the exiled king. Four Manor House for the birth of the heir, the wife of the several times was he carried before King William rescued Crane died in giving birth to a male child. in council, and accused of being in secret correspondence The two infants thus ushered into the world on the with James. His own people cried out against him as same day, and almost at the same hour, seemed as a Romanist, nay, as a Jesuit in disguise-and numerous if born to be playmates and friends- —a still stronger tie rumors of the most horrible description were circulated between the two families-but fate had destined them about him. Cyril was irresistibly attracted towards to play a different part in the great drama of life. him by his real goodness and sterling worth, which all Young Cyril Burnley and Roger Crane went to the the calumnies in the world could not destroy. He comsame school, where the latter soon outstripped his municated his difficulties, and Penn advised him, rather schoolmate, not less in learning than in intelligence, for unwisely, perhaps, to start for the new colony on the Cyril was an easy, quiet lad, not remarkable for shrewd- banks of the Delaware. After talking it over, Cyril ness. His friends called him a "good-natured fellow," | returned to Burnley, and sent down early on the mornthat being the euphuism for the epithet "fool," accorded |ing after his arrival to beg Roger Crane to come up, as him by his enemies; while Roger, far from being a he had important business to communicate to him. "fool," inclined a little more to the "knave." After spending some time at school, the two youths went to Oxford, where Cyril entered at Christ Church, while Roger obtained a scholarship at the neighboring Hall of Broadgates, which some time before had been raised to the dignity of a college. Here he progressed rapidly, and after leaving college, became a studious Templar.

Cyril led a jolly life at Oxford, but was at length expelled by the college authorities for some irregularity -I believe, for a dispute with a Puritan Doctor of Divinity, which ended in his flooring the worthy divine -after which exploit he retired to his native village, and, his father being dead, began the life of a country squire. About the same time Crane, having arrived at the dignity of a "Counsellor," came down to Burnley, and from that period our history commences.

Discords and dissensions soon began, and King James was driven from his throne, and in the struggles and troubles that followed, Cyril was suspected of assisting

A close friendship still existed between the two, although the Puritan seldom visited the Manor House, for the jolly life of the Cavalier, and his revelries and merry-makings were hardly suited to his taste.

We will take a look at Cyril while he is waiting for Crane in the little library, for, although the former thought it necessary to have a library, seeing that he had been a magistrate and justice of the peace under King James, he adorned the walls with only just enough books to give it a right to that title; and of those books most were works of no very justiciary weight-Philip Sidney's 66 Arcadia," "The Faerie Queene," a mighty gathering of jovial Cavalier song-books, with a scanty, very scanty, sprinkling of sermons, most of them being upon the King's Supremacy. Cyril had now grown a fine man, just in the prime of life; his long dark hair hung in curls upon his shoulders, for he despised the idea of a wig; his moustache had in it a slight tinge of auburn, that contrasted well with his black love-locks.