ement. His filial affection, his kindness, his watchful endeavours
for her welfare, were evinced by a careful anxiety and pains to
enlighten her mind with those qualities and acquirements, that would be
most conducive to enlarge her sphere of usefulness in life, and furnish
her with the means of rational pleasure, and to blend with her personal
appearance the more fascinating charms of a well-improved understanding.

[_NY Weekly_: Essayist No. II:

To review the transactions of former days, the many sportive hours
which have long been past.... 'Twas then health and beauty bloomed
upon the cheek, and every object was decked with the charms of
fascination. 'Twas then the heart ignorant of vice and unacquainted
with sorrow or misfortune, enjoyed every pleasure without alloy.]

[Hannah More: On Dissipation:

.... She who dedicates a portion of her leisure to useful reading,
feels her mind in a constant progressive state of improvement....]

[[This is the only identified passage from Hannah More. The text
may have been reprinted in a periodical such as the New-York
Weekly.]]

[_NY Weekly_: Domestic Felicity:

.... Maria, who has only completed fourteen, to a beautiful
countenance, joins the more fascinating charms of a well-improved
understanding....]

She mourned his loss at a residence where every object recalled him
continually to her remembrance. She was wholly absorbed in melancholy,
and amid these sad ideas that agitated her bosom alternately, Bonville
arrived from the neighbouring village, and her attention was for a time
diverted, and she was relieved from a train of painful reflections. Her
brother had a long conversation with him respecting Theodore, and
wondered how it happened that his friend Raymond had never received any
intelligence from him.

Bonville seemed much embarrassed at these observations of Albert, and it
was some length of time before he made any reply. Then biting his lips,
and putting on an air of displeasure, he said that he had actually
thought of going to England himself, to trace him out, and ascertain the
cause of his strange conduct. Then assuming a look of insignificance,
accompanied with several speeches in double entendre, he remained in
sullen silence.

The conduct of Theodore certainly, thought Alida, is mysterious and
singular, and his long silence is truly unaccountable, and the idea of
ever meeting him again with these different