Style, that with pride each empty bosom swells,
Puffs boys to manhood, little girls to belles.

Scarce from the nursery freed, our gentle fair
Are yielded to the icing-master's care;
And e'er the head one mite of sense can gain,
Are introduced mid folly's frippery train.

A stranger's grasp no longer gives alarms,
Our fair surrender to their very arms.

And in the insidious waltz (1) will swim and twine,
And whirl and languish tenderly divine!
Oh, how I hate this loving, hugging, dance;
This imp of Germany-brought up in France;
Nor can I see a niece its windings trace,
But all the honest blood glows in my face.
"Sad, sad refinement this," I often say,
"Tis modesty indeed refined away!

"Let France its whim, its sparkling wit supply,

"The easy grace that captivates the eye;

"But curse their waltz-their loose lascivions arts,
"That smooth our manners, to corrupt our hearts! (2)
Where now those books, from which in days of yore
Our mothers gain'd their literary store?
Alas! stiff skirted Grandison gives place
To novels of a new and rakish race;
And honest Bunyan's pious dreaming lore,
To the lascivious rhapsodies of MOORE.
And, last of all, behold the mimic stage
Its morals lend to polish off the age,
With flimsy farce, a comedy miscall'd,

Garnish'd with vulgar cant, and proverbs bald,

With puns most puny, and a plenteous store
Of smutty jokes, to catch a gallery roar.
Or see, more fatal, graced with every art

To charm and captivate the female heart
The false, "the gallant, gay Lothario" smiles, (3)
And loudly boasts his base seductive wiles ;—
In glowing colors paints Calista's wrongs,
And with voluptuous scenes the tale prolongs.
When COOPER lends his fascinating powers,
Decks vice itself in bright alluring flowers,
Pleased with his manly grace, his youthful fire,
Our fair are lured the villain to admire ;`
While humbler virtue, like a stalking horse,
Struts clumsily and croaks in honest MORSE.

Ah, hapless days! when trials thus combined,
In pleasing garb assail the female mind;
When every smooth insidious snare is spread
To sap the morals and delude the head!
Not Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego,
To prove their faith and virtue here below,
Could more an angel's helping hand require
To guide their steps uninjured through the fire,
Where had but heaven its guardian aid denied,
The holy trio in the proof had died.

If, then, their manly vigor sought supplies
From the bright stranger in celestial guise,
Alas! can we from feebler nature's claim,
To brave seduction's ordeal, free from blame;
To pass through fire unhurt like golden ore,
Through ANGEL MISSIONS bless the earth no more!

NOTES, BY WILLIAM WIZARD, ESQ.

1 Waltz] As many of the retired matrons of this city, unskilled in "gestic lore," are doubtless ignorant of the movements and figures of this modest exhibition, I will endeavor to give some account of it, in order that they may learn what odd capers their daughters sometimes cut when from under their guardian wings.

On a signal being given by the music, the gentleman seizes the lady round her waist; the lady, scorning to be outdone in courtesy, very politely takes the gentleman round the neck, with one arm resting against his shoulder to prevent encroachments. Away then they go, about, and about, and about"about what, sir ?”- —about the room, madam, to be sure. The whole economy of this dance consists in turning round and round the room in a certain measured step and it is truly astonishing that this continued revolution does not set all their heads swimming like a top; but I have been positively assured that only occasions a gentle sensation which is marvellously agreeable. In the course of this circumnavigation, the dancers, in order to give the charm of variety, are continually changing their relative situations;— -now the gentleman, meaning no harm in the world, I assure you, madam, carelessly flings his arm about the lady's neck, with an air of celestial impudence; and anon, the lady, meaning as little harm as the gentleman, takes him round the waist with

most ingenuous modest languishment, to the great delight of numerous spectators and amateurs, who generally form a ring, as the mob do about a pair of amazons pulling caps, or a couple of fighting mastiffs.

After continuing this divine interchange of hands, arms, et cetera, for half an hour or so, the lady begins to tire, and with 06 eyes upraised," in most bewitching languor petitions her partner for a little more support. This is always given without hesitation. The lady leans gently on his shoulder, their arms intwine in a thousand seducing mischievous curvesdont be alarmed, madam-closer and closer they approach each other, and in conclusion, the parties being overcome with erstatic fatigue, the lady seems almost sinking into the gentle man's arms, and then" Well, sir! and what then?lord, madam, how should I know!

2] My friend Pindar, and in fact our whole junto, has been accused of an unreasonable hostility to the french nation: and I am informed by a parisian correspondent, that our first number played the very devil in the court of St. Cloud. His imperial majesty got into a most outrageous passion, and being withal a waspish little gentleman, had nearly kicked his bosom friend, Talleyrand, out of the cabinet, in the paroxysms of his wrath. He insisted upon it that the nation was assailed in its most vital part; being, like Achilles, extremely sensitive to any attacks upon the heel. When my correspondent sent off his dispatches, it was still in doubt what measures would be adopted; but it was strongly suspected that vehement representations would be made to our government. Willing, therefore, to save our executive from any embarrassment on the subject, and above all, from the disagreeable alternative of