The taste for a correct conception of and habits of our ancestors has of late yea diffused itself throughout Europe. The historian, the poet, the novelist, the pdnter, and the actor, have discovered in attention to costume a new of information and a fresh source of effect study, embellished by anecdote, soon becomes and careless reader; and at the same time sheds light upon manners and rectifies dates, the various events and eras in the most natu vivid colours indelibly on the memory.