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INTRODUCTION.

TO THE PUBLIC.

HAT "there is nothing new under the sun,

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has been received as a truism since the days of Solomon; and though it may have occasionally been disputed by the fabricators of philosophical, metaphysical, and political systems; the applicants for patents; or the inventors of nostrum medicines; yet the general suffrage of mankind has certainly, for thirty centuries past, been in its favour. To pass by graver subjects, we would exemplify its verity, in a department, where ingenuity has ever exercised its chief energies; where fancy has been most frolicksome, and invention most indefatigable; and where, consequently, we might most reasonably expect to meet with novelty; in the wORLD OF FASHION, to wit. But, alas! the vanity of searching for it here, will be sufficiently obvious, when we recol