Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

These will often neutralise lilac and purple colours , and thus prevent their imparting an unfavourable hue to the skin . Scarcely less difficult than mauve to harmonize with the complexion is the equally beautiful colour called ' magenta / The complimentary colour would he yellow-green ; magenta , therefore , requires very nice treatment to make it becoming . It must be subdued when near the skin , and this is best done by intermixture with black ; either by diminishing its brightness by nearly covering it with

black lace , or by introducing the colour in very small quantities only . In connection with this colour , I have recently observed some curious eil'ects . First , as to its appearance alone : if in great quanity , the colour , though beautiful in itself , is glaring , and difficult to harmonise with its accompaniments . Secondly , as to its combination with black : if the black and the magenta-colour be in nearly equal quantities—such , tor instance , as in checks of a square inch of each colour—the general effect is dulland somewhat

, neutral . If , on the contrary , the checks consist of magenta and white , alternately , a bright effect will be produced . Again , if the ground be black , with very narrow stripes or cross-bars of magentacolour , a bright , but yet subdued effect will result . This last effect is produced on the principle that , as light is most brilliant when contrasted with a large portion of darkness—like the stars in a cloudless sky—so a small portion of bright colour is enchanced by

contrast with a dark , and especially a black ground . Yellow , also , is a difficult colour to harmonise with the complexion . A bright yellow , like that of the buttercup , contrasts well with black , and is becoming to brunettes , when not placed next the skin ; but pale yellow or greenish yellow suits no one , especially those with pale complexions . Its effect is to diffuse , by contrast , a purple hue over the complexion , and this is certainly no addition to beauty . "

The same number of the St . James's Magazine contains an article on female horsemanship which we highly approve , and part of the remarks in which paper ought to be printed and distributed amongst grooms and stable boys , by the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals . Such of our readers as are disciples of that " meek old angler ,

knight of hook and line , " Izaak AValton , will be interested iu the following instructions , given by Mr . AV . C . Stewart , in his Practical Angler , which has now reached a fourth edition : ¦— " First , as you approach , fish the side on which you are standing with a cast or two , and

then commence to fish the opposite side , where you are to expect the most sport . For this reason , you should always keep on the shallow side of the water , as the best trout generally lie under the bank at the deep side . After having taking a cast or two on the near side , throw your flies partly up stream and partly across , but more across than up from where you are standing . You should throw them to within an inch of the opposite bank ; if they alight on it so much the beteer ; draw them gently offancl they will fall

, like a snow-flake , and if there is a trout within sight they are almost sure to captivate it . Casting partly across and partly up stream , for a variety of reasons , is more deadly than casting directly up . The advantage of having a number of flies is entirely lost by casting straight up , as they all come clown in a line , ancl it is only the trout in that line that can see them ; whereas , if thrown partly acrossthey all come down in different linesand the trout

, , in all these lines may see them . In casting across , when the flies light the stream carries them out at right angles to the line , and they come down the stream first , so that the trout see the flies before the line ,- whereas in casting straight up , if a trout is between the angler and the place where his flies light , the line passes over it before it sees the flies , ancl may alarm it . "

Our M . AA . Grand Master has commissioned Sir . Edward Landseer , R . A ., to paint , on a large scale , a portrait of his celebrated racehorse , Voltigeur . In a recent number of The Working Men ' s College Magazine , Professor Maurice thus writes of the authors of Essays and Peviews and the Volume of the Sacred Law : — " My name has been

associated , even in penny newspapers , which all people read , with the names of men who think that the English reverence for the Bible is exaggerated . These men are so superior to me in all intellectual and moral qualities , that I am sure those who brought us together intended to pay me a compliment . It is a compliment I should be less disposed to decline at this time than any other , because the writers to whom I allude are in disgrace with the religious world and with the authorities of the Church . AVere I

addressing that world or those authorities , I should let the suspicion go for what it is worth . As I am writing to those by whom , impractical purposes , it is needful that I should be understood , I will say at once that I am more convinced in the year 1 SC 1 than I was

ten years ago , that the only cure for the mischiefs which are current among religious men of our day , and for the most deepseated corruptions of the Church , lies in a more hearty and thorough appreciation of the worth of the Bible than any which prevails amongst us . I must go further , and say that the high character and learning of those who adopt the opposite opinion to mine , so far from shaking me in it , have led me to consider it more carefully , and have helped very much to make it a fixed ancl abiding conviction . "

The inhabitants of Bolton-le-Moors , in Lancashire , are adding a museum to their free library . AVe have heard much outcry against the Duke of Sutherland's conduct to the Highland peasantry on his estate ; but G . II . IC , in Vacation Tourists , and Notes of Travels in 1860 , edited by Mr . F . EaltonMAF . R . S . : — " One reallhardly knows whether

, .., , says y to laugh , or swear , when one reads how this old matter has been raked up with new and original embellishments , and used as a means of annoyance to the present Duke , who had as much to do with it as the great Cham of Tartary , the whole affair having been carried out in his father's time , and indeed before there was a Duke of Sutherland in existence . The measure simply consisted in moving the people from the hills and the wilder straths , down

to the productive borders of the sea , where they not only had good land , but fish at their doors , enough both for their own support , for sale , and even for manure . Each person who was removed had long warning given ; every one had a plot of ground allotted to him before he removed , and received a sum of money sufficient to start him iu bis new position , and he was even paid for the miserable sticks which supported his turf roof , and which the Highlanders were in the habit of carrying about with them

whenever they shifted their bothies , and which , from the difficulty of procuring them , they regarded with a species of veneration . That the poor people , nursed in sloth and idleness , and profoundly ignorant and superstitious , looked with horror at the projected change , and used every art which semi-savage and illiterate cunning could invent , to prevent their removal , is most true ; ancl wild was the lament , and intense the horror at the prospect of being located on the ' wild , black Dornoch moors . ' AVhen you go to Sutherland ,

just take a look at these ' wild , black Dornoch moors ' now , and if you can point me out a brighter specimen of cotter prosperity in the North , more luxuriant crops , more productive potatoes ami yellow oats , be kind enough to let me know its whereabouts , for I should like to see it . So intense was this terror of the change , that it seemed the same to many of the people whether they went ten miles clown the strath , or to America ; and to America somenot many—went . And so strong is the feeling of these emigrants

against their old landlord , that a very few years ago , when a relation of the Morfear chatt visited Nova Scotia , they came sixty miles to see him and were so frightfully excited , that they shook hands with him with the most intense heartiness , and Seemed ready to kiss him . "

The office of head master or warden , of the AVelsh Collegiate Institution , Llandovery , is now vacant , in consequence of the appointment of the Rev . E . Owen Phillips , M . A ., to the living of Llanbadarn-fauer , Aberystwyth . Mr . Alexander Smith's new poem , Edwin of Leira , is now ready for the public . In another number we hope to find space for an

extract or two . Pope , when twelve years of age , in his beautiful ode on solitude , wrote" Thus let me live , unseen , unknown , Thus unlamented let me lie , Steal from the world , and not a stone

Tell where I lie . " This , no doubt , was a true expression of feeling at the moment it was written ; but it is not the enduring wish of the poet , and least of all was it that of Alexander Pope . But he this as it may , for one and twenty years the ashes of the lamented L . E . L . have rested in their solitary grave at Cape Coast Castle , without a stone to

mark the spot . A few months ago , however , the governor , attended by the civil and military officers of the fortress and of the Gold Coast Colony , visited the grave , and placed thereon a Latin cross of white marble , with the simple but widely-known initials of the poetess , L . E . L . as the only inscription . This is sufficient to mark the spot and no more is required .