Then touch the lyre, and let it wile All thoughts of grief and gloom away; While thou art by with smile and spell, I will not weep to-day. * * * * * EDITOR’S TABLE. CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE.—The beautiful picture of Catskill Mountain House, and the surrounding scenery, which we give our readers in this number, was painted for the present publisher, in 1846, when we were, or thought we were, richer than we are now. A party of friends were with us on a visit to that delightful spot, in that summer; and among the guests at the house was the painter, Harvey, who, in his studious observation of nature, was filling up a week or two prior to his departure for Europe. Several pictures he had finished, of bits of scenery and nooks about the mountain, all of them marked by that wonderful fidelity to nature in her minute developments—each blade, and each shade of each blade of grass, and leaf elaborated with that patient skill, which distinguishes his pictures. The morning we left, we ordered the picture before the reader; and Smillie has just engraved it in his matchless style. To our own eye, it is one of the sweetest landscapes that we have ever placed before the readers of “Graham;” and we now apprise our friends that it is the first of a series of American views which that artist is now executing for this Magazine. * * * * * DESCRIPTION OF FASHION PLATE. WALKING DRESSES—_First Figure_.—Bonnet of pink taffeta, covered with puffings and plaits of clear white organdy; the right and the left side of the front are trimmed with three little feathers, fastened in lightly and gracefully. Dress and _pardessus_ of taffeta, of any color or shade, according to fancy. The dress body is open before, and high in the neck behind. The sleeves are large, of the _pagoda_ style, wider at the lower part than at the top or arm-hole. The body is pointed before and behind. To give style to these bodies, a little strap of tape is fastened to the lower part of the waist, and this strap is attached to the lower part of the back of the corset, in order to make the back of the dress set well, and keep it from puckering. The skirt is very full, and very long, training a little behind; it is trimmed with seven flounces, each flounce six _centimêtres_[1] wide; and these flounces are placed about five _centimêtres_ apart; the highest flounce is about twenty-five _centimêtres_ from the waist. The _pardessus_ is sufficiently sloped at the seams to make it fit easily; it is a little pointed in front, and round behind. The scallops of the flounces are first traced with close runnings of sewing silk, then embroidered in heavy button hole stitch.