11 MAY 1867, Page 20

figured, or might figure, in fair average magazines. The best

idea in them is in the first story, where the mode of proposal adopted by a diffident young man, and the consequences entailed by it, are amusing enough. The young man is in love with a dark-haired girl, and sends a letter to her at Paris by the hands of a friend. The friend is charged to give her the note at the opera, and does give the note to the only dark-haired girl in the company. But unfortunately the girl to whom the note was addressed has followed the prevailing fashion, and dyed her hair red, so that the proposal is made to another. The idea wants working out in Miss Power's hands.