an eternity of harmony and love--that "perfect love which casteth out
fear." We have speculated on seeing Milton in the company of angels; on
recognizing Bunyan with the faithful; on beholding Fenelon at the "right
hand," and Mendelssohn among the chosen! Knowing that God is a more
merciful judge than man, we believe that there we shall see many faiths
prostrate in adoration of the one great LORD, who is for all, and "above
all, and in us all." We have looked to the higher nature, the divine
essence of those we have honored; and when noble deeds have been done,
or lofty genius has triumphed, we have listened with more than doubt to
the insinuations of those who, in former, as in present times, aim to
detract from the excellence it is not given them to understand. We do
not cater for the prejudices of sects or parties, but simply desire to
lay our tribute of homage on the graves of those who seem to us most
worthy, and have been most useful. We have enjoyed the high privilege of
knowing many remarkable people who have passed from among us during the
last twenty years,--having won for themselves a glorious immortality by
the exercise of talents which, in any other country, would have led to
national distinctions. Yet they are well remembered! and to them be
_all_ the glory of success. The memory of these great lights,--great
authors, great statesmen, great philosophers, great warriors,--is still

"Green in our souls."

But there were some stars of lesser magnitude, who, if longer spared
among us, would have become luminaries of power; some who were summoned,
when, according to our finite views, they had arrived at the period for
their faculties to expand, and they were about to reap the harvest of
long years of labor and of care; such was Mrs. Fletcher, better known as
Miss Jewsbury, one of the chosen friends of Mrs. Hemans, who passed away
in a foreign land, far from all who loved her.

And such was GRACE AGUILAR--a Jewess, of mind so elevated, heart so
pure, and principles so just and true, as to deserve a lofty seat among
those "Women of Israel," whose lives were so beautifully rendered by her
delicate and powerful pen. It seems Quixotic in this day of sunshine, of
civil and religious liberty, to attempt to combat the prejudices which,
we are gravely told, do not now exist against the Jewish community; yet
it is impossible to observe society, and not perceive that whatever
political disabilities may be removed f