ects,
not inclusive of short stature. These are the heroes whom female slavery
brings forth!

Woman is an invalid, says Michelet, therefore she must not work. Woman
is not an invalid, therefore she is willing to work, and does work. But
that work has its proper sphere at the domestic hearth; and so long as
fortune does not lift the family above the cares of daily want, or
genius elevate the individual to the rank of teacher or leader, there
should it be suffered to remain.

ALEXANDER DELMAR.

SPRING JOY

The wet red glebe shines in the April light,
The gray hills deepen into green again;
The rainbow hangs in heaven; thin vapors white

Drift o'er the blue, and freckle hill and plain
With many moving shades; the air is strong
With earth's rich exhalations after rain.

Like a new note breaks forth the ancient song
Of spring-tide birds, with fresh hope, fresh delight.
Low o'er the fields the marsh-hawk sails along;

Aloft small flocks of pigeons wing their flight;
Alive with sound and movement is the air;
The short young grass with sunlight rain is bright;

The cherry trees their snow-white garlands wear;
The garden pranks itself with leaf and flower;
Quick with live seeds the patient earth lies bare.

Oh joy! to see in this expectant hour
The spirit of life, as on creation's day,
Striving toward perfect form! No fear hath power,

No sense of failure past hath strength to sway
The immortal hope which swells within the breast,
That this new earth matures not toward decay,

But toward a beauty hitherto unguessed,
A harvest never dreamed. These mild bright skies,
This lovely uncompleted world, suggest

A powerful joy, a thrill of high surprise,
Which no fruition ever may inspire,
Albeit each bud should flower, each seed should rise.

EMMA LAZARUS.

HOW LADY LOUISA MOOR AMUSED HERSELF.

I.

The earl of Birndale was the magnate of the district. He was a tall,
strong, coarse-looking man: had he chanced to have been born in the
position of a coal-heaver, no one would have been surprised if he had
been hauled up before a magistrate for beating his wife or for squaring
his fists at any time and at any person as the humor seized him; or if
he had been a wharf-porter, he would have heaved a load on his shoulders
and carried it in a way to make puny specimens of th