rapt up into the mountain in
visions, their daily walk and life were in the world; its dust and
soilure cling to them, we see them wavering and going astray. Their
very wanderings bring them nearer to us, who sojourn; their desire,
their aspiration, their failures make the wiser use of opportunity
possible to any of us who may have been born away from home.

TITUS MUNSON COAN.

THE HOME OF MY HEART.

Not here in the populous town,
In the playhouse or mart,
Not here in the ways gray and brown,
But afar on the green-swelling down,
Is the home of my heart.

There the hillside slopes down to a dell
Whence a streamlet has start;
There are woods and sweet grass on the swell,
And the south winds and west know it well:
'Tis the home of my heart.

There's a cottage o'ershadowed by leaves
Growing fairer than art,
Where under the low sloping eaves
No false hand the swallow bereaves:
'Tis the home of my heart.

And there as you gaze down the lea,
Where the trees stand apart,
Over grassland and woodland may be
You will catch the faint gleam of the sea
From the home of my heart.

And there in the rapturous spring,
When the morning rays dart
O'er the plain, and the morning birds sing,
You may see the most beautiful thing
In the home of my heart;

For there at the casement above,
Where the rosebushes part,
Will blush the fair face of my love:
Ah, yes! it is this that will prove
'Tis the home of my heart.

F. W BOURDILLON.

THE SOUTH, HER CONDITION AND NEEDS.

Sir Robert Peel, shortly before his death, said that what he had seen
and heard in public life had left upon his mind a prevailing impression
of gloom and grief. What impressed the mind of the English statesman so
painfully in reference to his own country must be felt correspondingly
by Americans who contemplate the South; for its present condition
awakens the anxious solicitude of every thoughtful patriot. A brief
mention of some of the evils that afflict her may help toward the
ascertainment and application of adequate remedies. Let it be premised
that this discussion proceeds in no degree from disloyalty to the
Government, nor from unwillingness to accept the legitimate
consequences of the war.

Betwixt the North and the South there lingers much estrangement. One
serious cause of irritation at