e when I was young and unknown." He
dedicated to her his "Life of Saint Dominic," saying, "I wish that
some one of your descendants may one day know that his ancestress was
a woman whom Saint Jerome would have loved as he loved Paula and
Marcella, one who needed only a pen illustrious and saintly enough to
do her justice." Hearing of her last illness, he made a journey of
six hundred miles, to be with her, and lavished on her every winning
word and act that filial love and reverence could suggest; and, after
all was over, he pronounced on her a funeral address, which will
always rank with the highest trophies of his genius. No other words
can be so fitting as his own to close this sketch:

"She belongs to the nation of the great minds of our age. In a time
of intellectual dependence, when parties bore every thing in their
train, she made no engagement, and submitted to no attraction: she
isolated every question from the noise around her, and placed it in
the silence of eternity. A constant simplicity and an equal elevation
gave to her ideas a personal influence. This double charm might be
resisted; but she could not fail to be loved herself, and to inspire
the desire to become better. Happy mouth, which for forty years made
not an enemy to God, but which poured into a multitude of wounded or
languishing hearts the germ of the resurrection and the rapture of
life! Alas! dear and illustrious lady. I cannot attach to your name
the glory of those Roman women whom Saint Jerome has immortalized;
and yet you were of their race. Conquered for God through the
language of France, you wished to live under the French speech; and,
quitting a country you alwaysloved, you came among us with the
modesty of a disciple and of an exile. But you brought us more than
we gave you. The light of your soul illumined the land which received
you, and for forty years you were for us the sweetest echo of the
gospel and the surest road to honor."

FRIENDSHIPS OF MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS.

THE first species of exclusively female friendship is that which
exists between mother and daughter. The maternal tie of organic
instinct and moral guardianship on the one side, and the filial tie
of respect, dependence, and gratitude on the other, form the ordinary
connection of mothers and daughters. In exceptional cases, these
bonds of affectionate protection and pious love are lifted out of the
faded commonplace of custom by deep mutual appreciation and sympath