The writer of the present little volume on the Art of Dressing Well, aspires to meet a social requirement of long standing, name ly, a work of genuine authority upon color, taste, occasion, and variety in dress; not merely a book on fashion, but such hints as Will be useful at all times, Whatever changes in style the capricious Dame Fashion may dictate: Many books professing to treat of the subject have been before the public, but they are so closely allied to mere fashion books, that their hints are as useless in a few years, as the directions in to-day's magazine of lady's dress.