enjoy the gifts of God;
but thou shalt never be forgotten in their hymns:

O Goddess--thou good Goddess of Poverty!

XV.

They will always remember that thou wert their faithful mother,
their robust nurse, and their church militant. They will spread
balm upon thy bleeding wounds, they will make the fertile and
perfumed at last repose:

O Goddess--thou good Goddess of Poverty!

XVI.

While patiently awaiting the promised day of the Lord, torrents and
forests, mountains and valleys, lands teeming with wild flowers
and filled with little singing birds, desert paths which have
no masters though sanded with gold, let her pass--let her pass:

The Goddess--the good Goddess of Poverty!

THE

Continental Monthly

The readers of the CONTINENTAL are aware of the important position it
has assumed, of the influence which it exerts, and of the brilliant
array of political and literary talent of the highest order which
supports it. No publication of the kind has, in this country, so
successfully combined the energy and freedom of the daily newspaper with
the higher literary tone of the first-class monthly; and it is very
certain that no magazine has given wider range to its contributors, or
preserved itself so completely from the narrow influences of party or of
faction. In times like the present, such a journal is either a power in
the land or it is nothing. That the CONTINENTAL is not the latter is
abundantly evidenced _by what it has done_--by the reflection of its
counsels in many important public events, and in the character and power
of those who are its staunchest supporters.

Though but little more than a year has elapsed since the CONTINENTAL was
first established, it has during that time acquired a strength and a
political significance elevating it to a position far above that
previously occupied by any publication of the kind in America. In proof
of which assertion we call attention to the following facts:

1. Of its POLITICAL articles republished in pamphlet form, a single one
has had, thus far, a circulation of _one hundred and six thousand
copies_.

2. From its LITERARY department, a single serial novel, "Among the
Pines," has, within a very few months, sold nearly _thirty-five
thousand_ copies. Two other series of its literary articles have also
been republished in book form, while the first por