Diners à la Russe may possibly, erewhile, save modern gentlemen the necessity of learning the art which was in auld lang syne one of the necessary accomplishments of the youthful squire; but, until side-tables become universal, or till we see the office of "grand carver" once more instituted, it will be well for all to learn how to assist at the carving of this dish, which, if not the most elegant in appearance, is a very general favourite.

A dance was in progress, and Stafford, as he stood by the doorway and looked mechanically and dully at the whirling crowd, the kaleidoscope of colour formed by the rich dresses, the fluttering fans, and the dashes of black represented by the men's clothes, thought vaguely that he had never seen anything more magnificent, more elegant of wealth and success.

No one will feel sorry for having traveled a hundred miles to see the "Leaning Tower," and the traveler will observe with pleasure and satisfaction that its two companions are even more elegant than itself.

" A young woman, pretty, lively, witty, playing on a harp as elegant as herself, was enough to catch any man's heart.

Of the tragedy of Miss Caroline's mere coming to us they could suspect nothing, save it might be the humiliation her old-fashioned furniture must put upon her in a prosperous town where so much of the furniture was elegant to the point of extravagance.

The objection of its being too elegant for shepherds he anticipated and nullified by making Love himself account for it in a charming prologue, of which the god is the speaker: "Queste selve oggi ragionar d'Amore S'udranno in nuova guisa; e ben parassi, Che la mia

No bigger nor me fist, ye know; but all set out elegant with little weeshy-dawshy teeth, all as perfect as ye could imagine.

Do you imagine that she goes about in a plain white dress, without any ornament or any thing elegant about her?

Learned without ostentation, refined without foppery, elegant without effeminacy!

"I had promised her to the Hart, the finest and most elegant among the animals.

O thieves!" Elegant at once covered her lover with the blanket, but one of the slaves saw the invader's feet.

"Excellent," "well furnished," "elegant beyond anything I ever looked for," are some of the expressions of praise which it draws from him.

v. 5. 'Elegant by cleanliness' 632.

He was certainly a most gentleman-like man, elegant from head to foot; there was not an ungraceful line about him, to his very boots, and the white nails of his slender fingers; even the defects of his figurethe too great length of the neck and slope of the shouldersincreased his likeness to those saintly pictures with which he had been mixed up in her mind the night before.