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      The Principles Of Harmony And Contrast O...

      To those skins which are more yello"W than orange , it imparts white ; but this , 'Orabtnatton is very dull and heavy for a fair complexion . " Whea the skin is tinted more with orange than yellow , we can make it roseate by lenitralising the yellow .. It produces ; this effect upon , the black-haired type , and it is tlrus that it suits brunettes . " Violet is one of the least favourable colours to the skin , at least when it is not Hdfieiently deep to whiten it by contrast of tone . " Blue is suitable to most blondes , and ia this case justifies its reputation . . " It will not suit brunettes , since they have already too much of orange . " Orange is too brilliant to he elegant ; it makes fair complexions blue , whitens those which , have an orange tint , and gives a green hue to those of a yellow tint . " Drapery- of a lustreless white , such as cambric muslin , assorts well with a fresh complexion , of which it relieves the rose Colour : tut it is unsuitable to complexions wihich have a disagreeable tint , because -white always exalts all colours by raising their . tone : consequently it is unsuitable to those skins which , without having this disagreeable . tint ,. very nearly approach it . "

      The : work ends with a section on the aesthetics of colour , and an historical sketch of the author ' s researches . We loot upon it as the most important application of positive science to the practice of colouring in every departinent of art and art-manufacture . Such a hook-was much needed , and it -will , no , doubt , become a most valuable text-book at Maryborough House . Indeed , to . all pur great dyeing , paper staining , carpet weaving * and calico p rinting establishments , such a work of reference seems to us indispensable x € tihey -would compete successfully , with the French , who have benefited ifcom M ,. ChevreuTs instructions for the last twenty-five years .

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      1026 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

      Books On Our Table. Arvon} Or R Ihe.Tria...

      BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . Arvon } or ihe . Trials . A Legend . By C . Mitchell Charles . 2 vols . G . Routledge aad Co -2 % « BcAlto $ x > fBabe Christaid , aoiih offer Lyrical Poems . By Gerald Massey . ( Fourth Edition . ) David Bogue . WUd Sports in- the Far West . By Frederick Gerstaecker . Translated from the German . With Illustrations by Harrison Weir . G . Routledge and Co , 3 Mle Caxians : a Famil yPicture . By S 5 r Edward Bulwer lytton , Bart , M . P . G . Routledge and Co . -Captain Canot ; orfTioeniyYears of an African / Slaver . By Brantz Mayer .

      . G . Routledge and Co . The Golden Legend . By Henry Wads-worth Longfellow . G . Routledge and Co . Things as ( hey ' arein America . By Wilfeim Chambers . W . and R . Chambers . Traditions and Siiperstitiomt ofthe jVew JZea , 7 anders ; with Illustrations of their Manners and Customs . By Edward Shortland , M ; ± . & c . Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans .

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      W 2 Sr 3 J & 3 § SK'SfiS ' . & . 'S ? 332 a hi . SS ^ VENTS began to succeed each other in rapid succession before the | H | 2 | blinking eyes of Dutton . He had now identified the house to which t > Hlil John Smith repaired ; had discovered the beautiful young- lady , and & WMfJ had .-ascertained , the fact that it was-Smith who appeared as her guar-<&&*& dian . ^ What right , he asked himself , had a common clerk to indulge in these fanciful recreations—to wander about the country at night- —to visit lovely young ladies , and , in short , to behave as if life were a romance . Dutton had done nothing of the kind , although Tie was a gentleman by birth , and might y have taken these licences . He at once inferred that there must be something wrong in Smith ' s accounts- —a new object of investigation . He learnt from the fair Amy indeed that the clerk was prudent and exact . " At Brixton , perhaps , " hesaid to himself , "but let . ua look at his books . " There was , however , nothing , tbere to justify suspicion ; which only made Dutton suspect the more , and feel the more indignant at the deep villainy and , dur iplicity of the man . A wilder suspicion crossed his . mind when he once more dogged Smith to Cheauv ; , for ha . now , prosecuted his . watch best at early evening ,, which less -excited . bis vague alarms , and allp-wed him to repair afterwards to the faithful Amy . The gentle creature had tacitly assumed , a , new position ^ -donning a -dress ,, not . a little resembling , a widow ' s weeds , a happy stroke of gooditaste * nrMoh > charmed the chivalrous Dutton . He felt that he was , getting to himself a genuine romance of real life , but at a cheap rate ; and he really fcegan- to . adore his Amy , who reciprocated his devotion and gratitud e * Onofc more * partly'to gratify the ¦ inj ured lady by a more exact description * of-the "lawless Tieauty " whom he had seen so slightly , Dutton

      dogged the wretched Smith , and obtained more to tell than he bargained 4 br , ¦ He- arrived before his plebeian rival , and had to await him ; and he found-that some one else was -waiting for the same person . The slight ofiioervlike man whom Dutton had seen , before , loomed in the twilight , and returned' back again dawn the luno . Presently thoro were voices , violent though subdued- —there was a scuffle , —a pistol went off , then another—and Smlth > hnstily passed towards the cottage- Ab soon as Button ' s niglvtmared limbs could move , ho made for tlie scene of action ; and there he found the mysterious stranger sitting on . the road-side . Are you hurt , sir ? " There vraa ab ^ firat no answer , then a very brief admission that . " perhaps ho was ; " A few minutes later , the spy found himself conducting towards his- own cab 4 va injuredraan . who would not lota hint escape of his injuries , his contest , or hia , object . He did not so much as offer to pay for tho cab , nor when loft at a lodging in Arundcl-atreet did ho so much aa thank his kind protector ; but Dutton marked ' him , feeling as sure that the man would bo kept at homo for a day or two by his hurts , as that ho might bo made " king ' s evidence *" BubJna , not paying for tho cub I That rankled in the mind of the anxious Duttan * Decidedly Smith was more expensive to him than his Amy- —far more ; now roaaon why lio abhorred tho -villain . And now lie was plunged . in

      a new expense , all through the same heartless wretch . His petty cash was running low ; for that fool Jarrett , who had appointed him for a de < Tadin <* reason , had tied him up and underpriced him , and now he should liave to trench upon his savings . Touch his savings ! The idea haunted him . He hated Smith that made him do so , Jarrett that made it necessary , and even thought that " Amy might have helped a leetle . " But of course he could not tell her so ; and at the bottom of his heart he respected her for her discretion . Still there was the hateful thought—he should have to touch his savings to find more means of unmasking the villain who had led him . into such an enormity as " cab-hire . "

      On the next morning , soon after Jarrett came to the place of business , Smith , in the most open and unblushing way , took possession of his chief , aad they were closeted together in Jarrett ' s cLoset , next to Dutton ' s . Jarrett went in so much haste , that he left his purse on the table—fat and gapin <* . It was a common negligence of his . " How , " asked the indignant Dutton , " could such a man have got on in business ? " He would not keep his eyes off the purse , which he hated for its master ' s sake . Jarrett had no cab-hire to pay ! Dutton tried to listen , for he could hear that Smith alone was speaking ; but he could not distinguish the flow of murmured words , and he felt that his position -with his ear to the door was not safe . An hour , or nearly , did the principal remain , and then he went forth by another door , leaving Smith behind . Smith came once or twice into Dutton s room for papers left behind h y Jarrett : he was , with his own subordinate hand , doing Jarrett ' s special work , never entrusted to any other Hateful fact ! The supplanting was clearly made out . To trust such a

      fellow , Jarrett must have been swindled out of his confidence ; yet Dutton thought that- he himself would suffer too for the madness of his chief . Smith , too , must be a very superior swindler , for he did not notice the purse , though it lay there glaringly , impudently unprotected . Was it stupidity , or consummate art ? Dutton coiild not answer , though while he appeared , to he meekly-and sedulously-writing , " as was his duty , " he Was watching with all the spite of a lame teriier . Smith again settled down to the chief partner ' s own table , in the chief partner ' s own room , and Dutton was left alone with the parse , calculatin g the cab hire and other expenses " to which he was pat on Smith ' s account ; hating Jarrefct for his stupidity , and , being so stupid , for his superior positition ; and further for favouring that swindler Smith . Why should Jarrett be made to pay for the- detection of his deluder P The idea Was not strictly

      conventional morals , but Dutton felt its justice . Often he looked at the purse , and noted the ease with which he might abstract a note ; and Jarrett would not miss it , for he piqued himself not recording the money he kept about him . It would be far better than any mistake in the accounts ; mistakes are always suspicious things . However , after all , " honesty is the best policy , " and Duttonj grown very nervous -with that fiend , his headache , discarded , the idea of taking the money . Indeed he never had thought of it ; no , he scorned it . Easy as the feat was , he was above it . Me knew it waa eaay , and Jarrett owed the safety of his pocket-book to the spotless honour of his partner . There was no doubt of that , and to prove it , Dutton stealthily approached , the book , opened it , had all at his command , uninterrupted . Nay , he proved . beyond question , for hejiid it experimentally ^ that he cou ld put one note in . his waistcoat-pocket ; and if one note lay there throbbing , why notfr •¦

      The sound of Jarrett ' s boots , heavy and alert , made him pause , and them he was conscious of a gentle sound close by him : he turned . It was Smith , bewildered , amafced , evidently shocked . Dutton was at his own , desk again in a second , writing . Jarrett himself looked in , and stared at Smith ' s strange and altered aspect . - . In the confusion , Dutton forgot to keep the pocket-book in his hand , and . to avow that he was scrutinising the neglected treasure : he must now , he felt , sink , or be bold . Looking up from his writing , he smiled , pointed with hia pen to the book , and then to Smith , and said , " Your favourite , Jarrett , seems fond of toying with your pocket-book ; but I think my eye has saved it . "

      Smith had not really given rein to all his suspicion , nor to all his dislike of the man .. Even now a horror at the fate the wretch was dragging upon himself , was thestronger man ' s first thought ; bis next was of poor Amy . Jarrett remained immovable at the door , only that he had . flung it wide open , and now . stood bolt upright , in the opening . Smith deliberately walked up close to button , and said in a tone so low that tho accuser alone could hear it , * ' You have forgotten the note in your own , pocket . " So he had ! " It waa a . rnistake , " cried Dutton to Jarrett , with his thin silkiest voice , smiling and bowing over his desk ; u it was a mistake—Mr . Smith has convinced , me it-was-a mistake—it was a mistake . "

      Jarrott moved from tho door , and stood by his own desk , and looked intently at both men . It was quite clear to both , that ho perfectly understood the real situation . Dutton tried to write , but his hand shook so that tho pen rattled on the paper . He liated himself , aa he never had done before , for his want of nerve ; hated the other two for a silence tl » at he could not understand . " I have lately imagined , sir , " said Smitli , in a hoarse voice , and -while by hia manner he spoke to Dutton , ho looked ut Jarrett , " that you wore about to marry Miss Amelia Turner ? '

      Dutton felt the reprieve , and clenched -with the ready lie . " We wore , " he said , in humble tones , but unmistakably articulate , <« we wore married this morning , privately . " During the brief dead silence , Dutton remained with his head immovably bent over his desk . They wore interrupted by a movement in Jarrett ' s room ; all looked that way , and saw one of the clerks ushering in n lady . It was tho young lady whom Dutton Imd seen with Smith , at Oheam Her lovely countenance for a inomont confronted that of the guilty man no suspicion of his guilt rose to trouble tho intense loveliness of hers ; his worked anew with tho spiteful suspicions tiint were re-awnkened ; and at the

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 28, 1854, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28101854/page/18/