MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL Happier is our Professor, and more purely scientific and historic, when he reaches the Middle Ages in Europe, and down to the end of the Seventeenth Century; the true era of extravagance in Costume.

It is here that the Antiquary and Student of Modes comes upon his richest harvest.

Fantastic garbs, beggaring all fancy of a Teniers or a Callot, succeed each other, like monster devouring monster in a Dream.
The whole too in brief authentic strokes, and touched not seldom with that breath of genius which makes even old raiment live.

Indeed, so learned, precise, graphical, and everyway interesting have we found these Chapters, that it may be thrown-out as a pertinent question for parties concerned, Whether or not a good English Translation thereof might henceforth be profitably incorporated with Mr.Merrick's valuable Work _On Ancient Armour_?
Take, by way of example, the following sketch; as authority for which Paulinus's _Zeitkuerzende Lust_ (ii.

678) is, with seeming confidence, referred to: 'Did we behold the German fashionable dress of the Fifteenth Century, we might smile; as perhaps those bygone Germans, were they to rise again, and see our haberdashery, would cross themselves, and invoke the Virgin.