NURSE.-"Oh! In grain Carpet, I declare! I never was in a house where there wasn't at least Brussels in the Nursery." Fashions for January. Furnished by Mr. G. BRODIE, 51 Canal Street, New York, and drawn by VOIGT from actual articles of Costume. THE HE two styles of Furs which we illustrate, are | small and circular, of dark-green velvet, lined the only ones which have come under our ob- with salmon-colored taffeta. servation which differ materially from those worn last season. Siberian Squirrel is a very decided favorite; when mottled, as in Figure 1, it is called the "Squirrel Lock." The lining is a warm gray silk. The CHILD'S COSTUME will be understood without description. The tunic is of heavy plaid taffeta, trimmed with broad velvet. The cloak is COIFFURES.-We append two very pleasing varieties of coiffure. Figure 4 is classic in character. Figure 5 is adapted for bridal costume. CAPS.-Figure 6 is composed of lace, with taffeta tabs; these, together with the ribbons, are of maize-color. The trimmings are velvet ribbons and acacia-flowers.-Figure 7 is trimmed with Napoleon-blue velvet ribbons. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. NO. LXXXI.-FEBRUARY, 1857.-VOL. XIV. BEHEMOTH AND HIS FRIENDS AT | journeyed north through Caffraria and the country of the Bechuanas to the banks of the Lim HOME.* FIFTEEN years ago, Gordon Cumming es- popo, the highest point of latitude reached be tablished the fact that Southern Africa was the Paradise of Nimrods. Allowing for exaggeration and Highland vain-glory, enough remains in Cumming's work to prove that he is one of the mightiest hunters of our day, and that his hunting-ground is the noblest that has ever rung to the sound of the rifle. Whichever element of eminence we examine-whether the abundance of the game, or the character of the animals to be killed, or the danger of the chase-we must come to the conclusion that, for the adventurous hunter, the first spot in the world is Southern Africa. For the benefit of those who may not have followed Mr. Cumming's wanderings on the map, it may be stated that he took his departure from Graham's Town, in long. 26° 25' E., • Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and Discoveries, during Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of Southwestern Africa. By CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON. 12mo. Numerous Illustrations. Harper and Brothers. ing about 22°, and the most westerly point about 25° E. long.; that he roamed the country between these points until he was tired of slaughter, and then returned home by the way he had followed on his journey outward. Now, large as this field of operations was, it comprised but a very small section of the lower peninsula of Africa. The line 25° East bisects the southern portion of the continent unequally; leaving about two-thirds on the west, and but one-third on the east. This western portion comprises, at its southern extremity, Capetown and Cape Colony, and, north of these, a vast tract of country which has only begun to be explored within a very few years. All that was known, until five or six years ago, of the land between 15° and 27° 45' South (say the mouth of Orange River), as far inland as 25° East was that the coast was barren, treeless, and waterless, that the interior was inhabited by wild tribes who were said to be ill-disposed to strangers, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by Harper and Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. VOL. XIV.-No. 81.-T WALFISCH BAY. and that wild beasts were plentiful there. | ming, undertook journeys into this unknown There was a rumor of a great fresh-water lake at some distance in the interior: it was compared, on the strength of accounts from the natives, to the North American lakes, and even said to exceed the largest of them in extent. There were likewise stories of a great river flowing no one knew whence, and disemboguing itself no one could tell where. And the Boers were full of stories about the abundance of hippopotami, elephants, and all manner of wild beasts, which dwelt in the trackless land to the north, which they had never dared to penetrate. This was all. Six or seven years ago, enterprising explorers, excited, perhaps, by the success of Cum LIONS PULLING DOWN GIRAFFE land. Their labors were well rewarded. In 1849, Messrs. Oswell, Livingstone, and Murray discovered the fresh-water lake-the Ngami. In the following year Green and others added a mite to our knowledge of its approaches. In 1851, Mr. Galton roamed through Damara-land, penetrated into the Ovambo Country north of 20°, and published the result of his discoveries in a work entitled "Tropical South Africa." Later still, Mr. Andersson, who had accompanied Mr. Galton, found his way in a nearly due easterly direction to Lake Ngami, of which he made fuller and more precise examinations than any of his predecessors. Mr. Andersson was an ethnologist, a hunter, and a naturalist, as well as an explorer. Standing only second to Cumming at the chase, he takes rank above him as an observer of men. His delineations of the African tribes which he encountered possess the double merit of originality and philosophical acumen, and his hunting-scenes have rarely been surpassed for vividness and reality. We propose to condense a few of his hunting and traveling experiences; and, passing over much scientific matter which adds greatly to the permanent value of his book, to let our readers know, briefly, what manner of men and beasts inhabit the tract of land we have designated by its boundaries, and what Mr. Andersson did with them. His point of departure was Walfisch Bay, a miserable crook in the western coast, often choked up with dead fish, about 22° 70' South; and his basis of operations, as a soldier would say, was a missionary station, called Scheppmansdorf, on a river a few miles inland. Let us note at the start that misnomers are as |