_The Lorgnette_, published by Stringer and Townsend, continues to make its appearance once a fortnight, and well sustains the reputation it has acquired, as a brilliant, searching, and good-humored satirical commentary on the many-colored phantasmagoria of the town. The name of the author is still a dead secret, in spite of numerous hints and winks among the knowing ones, and he is shrewd enough to prefer the prestige of concealment to the tickling of his vanity by publicity. The most noticeable feature in his work is its quiet, effective style of composition, which is utterly free from the pyrotechnic arts of so many current pretenders. SUMMER FASHIONS. FIG. 1. PROMENADE DRESS.--For walking in public gardens, _barege_ dresses, plain or figured, are generally adopted; but _glace_, or damask bareges are the most _recherches_. Dresses of shot silk form also charming toilets. The skirts are less full than those of last year--but, to compensate for it, they are trimmed with graduated flounces up to the waist--as many as five are worn, and they are pinked and stamped at the edges. The bodies are tight, and open in front; a cord connects the two sides of the corsage, and buttons, either of silk, colored stones, or steel, are placed on the centre of this cord. The sleeves are wider at the bottom than at the top, and are trimmed with two small flounces; from beneath them a large lace sleeve falls over the hand, leaving the lower part of the arm uncovered. This form of sleeve is very becoming to the hand. Mantelets are very slightly altered; they are, however, rather more closely fitted to the figure than last year; they are all made of _taffetas glace_, and trimmed with pinked _ruches_ of the same material for young persons, and with wide black lace for married ladies. [Illustration: FIG. 1.--PROMENADE DRESS.] FIG. 2, is a Pelerine of a pattern quite new; made of embroidered net, trimmed with three rows of _point d'Alencon_, and ornamented with a large knot of _ribbons Bayadere_. Another pattern is of Indian muslin _Canezcu_, embroidered and trimmed with _malines_, open and buttoned up in the back. [Illustration: FIG. 2.--PELERINE.] FIG. 3 is a neat costume for a little girl.