at night in the comfortable quarters prepared for him in the Regent's Park. Thus the whole of the arrangements for his transport from Cairo were most successful, and reflect the highest credit on the energy and ability of those concerned in them. It will readily be understood that no ordinary difficulties had to be surmounted in his maintenance at Cairo, in the first instance; and afterwards in getting him down to Alexandria, shipping him on board the Ripon, supplying him with the vast quantities of fresh water necessary for his bath, transferring him from the steamer to the railway, and thence to the Gardens. It appears, however, that throughout the whole of this eventful journey, from the island where he was captured, everything contributed to a favourable issue to the Viceroy's liberal desire to assist the Zoological Society in the most interesting and important enterprise which they have ever undertaken. "On arriving at the Gardens, Hamet walked first out of the transport van, with a bag of dates over his shoulder, and the Hippopotamus trotted after him; now and then lifting up his huge grotesque muzzle, and snuffing at the favourite dainties; with these he was duly rewarded on entering the apartment, adjoining which had been prepared for him a bath. "Next morning, the Hippopotamus was first seen by the members of the Society, when his healthy condition, his docility, and attachment to his Arab attendant, and the evident enjoyment with which he plunged and gambolled in the water, gave satisfactory testimony of the care which had been bestowed on him, and the foresight with which the Society's arrangements had been laid for his reception. Although yet under a twelvemonth old, his massive proportions indicated the enormous power to be developed in his maturer growth; and the grotesque expression of his physiognomy far exceeded all that could be imagined from the stuffed specimens in museums, and the figures which had hitherto been published from the reminiscences of travellers." Scarcely inferior to the excitement caused by the Hippopotamus, was the nine days' wonder caused by the arrival among us of the Nepaulese Ambassador, who came from the remotest recesses of the Himalaya to pay his respects to Queen Victoria. Of the origin and antecedents of this prince we are also furnished with a pleasant account, of which we shall give an abridgement. We have no space, however, to enter into a detail of the intrigues and chances which have elevated him to his present position, and must content ourselves with a brief chronicie of his doings while in this country : "Within the past year we have had a distinguished claimant of this class in Jung Bahadur, the Prime Minister of Nepaul, and Regent of the minority in the government of that country. In a letter from Calcutta, written on April 7, the very day of his embarkation for England, he is thus introduced : 666 and will, I am sure, be interested by, him. He is thirty-two years of age only; rather slight in figure, but neatly formed; strong, firm, and agile as a hart; forming a strong contrast with his two stout, or rather fat, brothers, who accompany him. His features are of the Tartar cast. He appears to have great physical courage. On his way down to Calcutta in the steamer, passing through the Jungly shores of the Sonderbunds, some object of game exciting his attention, regardless of tigers and alligators, and to the great alarm of his followers, he jumped overboard into the water or mud, but returned equally safe and unsuccessful.' "Then we read of another extraordinary feat performed by His Excellency, during his stay at Patna. The exploit consisted in riding to the summit of a large masonry granary ou the back of a hill pony, which animal is famous for its sure-footedness; still, a more trying experiment, both to the rider's nerves and to the pony's paces can scarcely be conceived; the height of the dome is about 200 feet, with two most peculiarly awkward and dangerous staircases leading to the summit..... "His Excellency, General Jung Bahadur Koorman Ramagee, arrived in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, at Southampton, on Saturday morning, May 25. The Prince's suite consisted of twenty-four persons, amongst whom were his brothers, Colonel Jugget Shumshere Koorman Ramagee, and Colonel Dheer Shumshere Koorman Ramagee. The General came to this country as Ambassador Extraor dinary from the Government to the Queen of England; and he was charged with a complimentary letter and costly presents for her Majesty: the embassy being also accompanied by Mr. McLeod, private secretary to his Excellency, and Captain Cavanagh, political agent at Nepaul. Jung Bahadur and his suite are Buddhists; and, on account of their strict notions respecting their religion, diet, and ablutions, and their dread of having their food, or the vessels which contain it, touched by Christians, they were compelled to engage the whole of the fore-cabins and saloons of the Ripon, in which they fitted up a cooking apparatus, constructed out of a large square box made of planks and paddle-floats, filled with Their principal food on board was poultry, kids, eggs, mud and sand. The fuel they used was charcoal. rice, and vegetables. They took in themselves, at each port they touched at, whatever water they used. "Jung Bahadur was treated with great distinction by the Governor-General of India, having been received in full Durbar at Calcutta, and saluted with nineteen guns on his arrival and departure. Although so young, he has already proved himself a successful warrior, and is one of the most perfect marksmen ever seen. He used head of the Ripon during the voyage from Alexandria. repeatedly to fire at and strike a bottle from the mastHe was sea-sick after he left Egypt, and so ill that it was determined to land him at Marseilles, in order that he might reach England through France. He, however, through the kindness and attention of all on board, got Detter, and was enabled to enjoy the voyage. He was very fond of all the amusements and games entered into by the passengers during the voyage, and cordially joined in them. He was particularly delighted with the music of the Ripon's band, and rewarded the musicians most munificently..... The visit of the Nepaul Minister will be, I imagine, the most remarkable one you have received this century. Rammohun Roy was a clever, quiet, intellectual Bengalee Hindoo gentleman, who, I believe, turned Unitarian, and died in England. Dwarkanath Tagore, whom the good folks at home appeared to think a very great man, The Embassy was welcomed in truly magnificent was a humbug; in fact, he was rich only-or thought style by the Hon. East India Company entertaining to be so. The Pasha of Egypt was comparatively next door to you, and a Mahommedan; but our Minister Jung Bahadur and his companions at a grand banquet and Commander-in-Chief of the Nepaulese," fresh from at the London Tavern, on Saturday the 15th of June. his mountains, is a genuine and most strict Hindoo-aries of state, members of both houses of parliament, The company included some of the principal functiona nobleman of the Rajpoot caste and the Goorka tribe- and a number of gentlemen of eminence connected with the most valiant, and now nearly sole independent, of India and the East India Company." the native states. As he will probably remain in England two or three months, you may perhaps see, Jung Bahadur was now presented to the Queen, Ellis dusky but handsome face, and his magnificent | showing that electricity crossed the river, and in quan- tity in proportion to the size of the plates in the water; "The greatest miracle of modern science-the Electric Telegraph-has, within the past year, acquired a grand extension of its working in the first interchange between England and France, destined to form the future key for instant communication with the European continent. This achievement is illimitably suggestive of great and glorious results to the entire human family. It will do more to calm its dissensions than a century of Peace Congress sittings; and its increase of international benefits approximates to the promises of inspired prophecy. "One of our most profound electricians is reported to have exclaimed, 'Give me but an unlimited length of wire, with a small battery, and I will girdle the universe with a sentence in forty minutes. Yet this is no vain boast; for so rapid is the transition of the electric current along the lines of the telegraph wire, that, supposing it were possible to carry the wires eight times round the earth, it would occupy but one second of time! . . . "In 1842, Morse conceived his subaqueous plan, which, in December 1844, he submitted to the United States' House of Representatives. In the autumn of the former year, the Professor, at the suggestion of the American Institute, undertook to give the public in New York a demonstration of the practicability of his plan, by connecting Governor's Island with Castle Garden, a distance of one mile. For this purpose, he laid his wires, properly insulated, beneath the water. He had scarcely begun to operate, and had received only two or three characters, when his intentions were frustrated by the accidental destruction of a part of his conductors, by a vessel which drew them up on her anchor, and cut them off. "The chief obstructions that present themselves (said the objectors) occur in the physical configuration of the sea itself-its rocks, and currents, and the agitation of its waves; albeit it is contended by philosophers, that at certain fixed fathoms down, the ocean is tranquil; and that the water, from its superincumbent weight, becomes almost solid, so that a wire, when sunk, might be looked upon as literally lodged or imbedded in a sort of oceanic cement. Independently, moreover, of the physical, let us look at what we may designate the conjectural side of the affair. Fancy a shark or a sword-fish transfixing his fins upon the insulated wires, in the middle, perhaps, of the Atlantic, interrupting the magic communication for months. Granted that minor fishes would be scared away by shocks of electricity through their scales; but what would all this avail against the headlong plunge of a whale! What is to be done against the tides, when they deposit their floating debris of wrecks and human bodies? Even supposing you could place your wires at the lowest depth-say thirty thousand feet-ever reached by the plumb-line, would your wires even then be secure?" The first experiment in England was made by Mr. C. V. Walker, superintendent of telegraph to the South Eastern Railway, by sinking a portion of tubing in the sea, near Folkestone, on the 10th of January, 1849. At forty-nine minutes past noon, the first telegraph despatch was successfully forwarded to London. Application being shortly afterwards made to the French government, they gave their sanction to the scheme of an international telegraph. Meanwhile Mr. Brett, the inventor of the Patent Printing Telegraph, had obtained permission to apply his scheme to a submarine communication. "In the moment of mortification, he immediately devised a plan for preventing such an accident in future, by so arranging his wires along the banks of the river, "At length, the arrangements for the solution of the as to cause the water itself to conduct the electricity. great problem were completed. The points of commuMorse tested this arrangement across a canal with suc-nication selected by Mr. Brett, were from the beach at cess; and the law of its passage was next ascertained, Dover, nearly opposite the railway terminus, to Cape Grinez, at a short distance from Calais; at both which places temporary stations were provided. "In the week previous to the experiment, the Goliath steam vessel, a very appropriate name for so gigantic an undertaking, arrived at Dover, having on board about thirty miles of the submarine wire, destined to form the connecting link, which was coiled midships' upon an immense reel or drum, 15 ft. by 7 ft. The copper wire was coated with gutta percha, was 9-16ths of an inch in diameter; it weighed about five tons, and the cylinder two. "The preliminary arrangements of laying down the connecting wires from the coast at Dover and Cape Grinez, which for better protection from the chafing of shingle is, to the extent of about 400 feet, encased in lead tubing, having been made, preparations were commenced on Tuesday to complete the undertaking; but in consequence of the boisterous weather it was postponed until the following day. "On Wednesday, the weather being moderately fair, the Goliath was moored off the Admiralty Refuge Pier, and was provisioned for the day, having on board a crew of thirty men. There were also on board Mr. Jacob Brett; Mr. J. C. Wollaston, C. E.; Mr. F. Edwards, and other scientific gentlemen. The Goliath rode out to the Government pier with her telegraphic tackle and apparatus on board, under a calm sea and sky, and a favouring wind; and then being fully under weigh, she steamed out at the rate of about three or four miles an hour into the open sea, in a direct track for Cape Grinez, twenty-one miles across channel, the nearest landmark to the English coast, and lying midway between Calais and Boulogne. The vessel was preceded by Capt. Bullock, R. N., of H. M. steam-ship Widgeon, who accompanied the experimenters as a pilot; and who had caused the track of the navigation to be marked out by a succession of buoys surmounted with flags on the whole route between the English and French coasts. rougher on approaching the coast of France, was ac complished cleverly but slowly. "On nearing Cape Grinez, the soundings become very rugged, and the coast dangerous; but by steady and cautious manipulation, the Goliath delivered her cargo of wire to be safely connected with the end of the tubing which had been laid at Cape Grinez, and run up the cliff to a temporary station at its summit. This was completed the same evening, and every accommodation was afforded by the persons at the lighthouse, in the use of lanterns and lamps, so that at nine o'clock the same evening (the 28th of August) the following message was printed, in legible Roman letters, upon a long strip of paper, by telegraph, in the station on the French coast; in the sight of a numerous audience of the French officials and others, amidst tremendous cheers of all present at the success; three times three resounding on all sides for the Queen of Great Britain, and Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and the French nation. "The Goliath has just arrived in safety; and the complete connexion of the underwater wire with that left at Dover this morning is being run up the face of of the cliff. Complimentary interchanges are passing between France and England under the straits, and through it for the first time. The French mail, ut mos est, may not arrive at Dover at the time of going to press, but, in a short time, on the necessary arrangements being complete, Paris news and closing prices at the Bourse will be communicated by a mail that sets time and detention at defiance.'. . . . "The Electric Telegraph appears to us more like a miracle than any scientific discovery or mechanical achievement of our time. Assume the steam-engine, and railroads are a mere question of finance. Even so magnificent an operation as the completion of the tubular bridge across the Menai Straits does not affect the mind with a sensation of wonder. What power was re "There was an anxious crowd assembled on the pier to witness the departure of the convoy. About half past ten o'clock, the end of the wire on board was sequisite to raise a given weight? What material could curely fastened to the end of that from the shore, encased in lead, which was connected with a telegraph apparatus temporarily fitted up in a horse-box at the railway station, by which the uninjured state of the wire during the progress of submersion was tested. "The operation of paying out the thirty miles of wire commenced on a signal to the sailors to go ahead with the wheel' and 'pay out the wire,' which was continuously streamed out over a roller at the stern of the vessel; the men, at every sixteenth of a mile, being busily engaged in riveting on to the wire square leaden clumps or weights, of from 14 lbs. to 24 lbs. weight; these had the effect of sinking the wire in the bottom of the sea, which, on the English coast, has a depth of thirty feet, and varies from that to 100 and 180 feet. ... "Various interesting salutations were kept up hourly during the progress of submerging the wire, between the gentlemen on board and Mr. J. Brett. The only conjectured difficulty on the route was at a point in mid-channel, a ridge (called by the French Le Colbart), between which and another inequality called the Varne (both well-known and dreaded by navigators) there is a deep submarine valley, surrounded by shifting sands: the one is seventeen miles in length and the other twelve, and in their vortex, not unlike the Goodwin Sands, ships encounter danger, and part from their anchors and drifts; and trolling-nets of fishermen are frequently lost. Over this physical configuration, however, the wire was successfully submerged, below the reach, it was believed, of either ships' anchors, sea animals, or fishing-nets, though it will be curious to know that it withstands the agitation of the wild under-currents and commotions that are supposed to be the characteristics of such localities. The remainder of the route, though best endure the strain of the traffic? How could it be most effectually laid down?-how best supported by the single arch or from above? Such a work is in its way no doubt astounding from the combination of forces brought to bear in order to obtain a certain result, but they are all forces with which we are perfectly familiar. Now, the introduction of electric communication is but of the other day. We had scarcely taught ourselves to acquiesce in the idea that instantaneous communication between two points on solid land was a mere matter of course than it was gravely proposed to drop the communicating line and transmit intelligence along the bottom of the ocean. The jest or scheme of yesterday has become the fact of to-day. The wildest exagera tion of an Arabian tale has been outdone by the simple achievement of modern times. The consequences of the electric telegraph must be as important as the agency by which they are obtained is wonderful. Great excitement prevailed throughout Europe when the first balloon carried up an adventurer into the skies. But there was no comparison between such an achievement and the present. Even the most enthusiastic projectors must have entertained certain doubts as to the practical value of their aeronautic expedition. In the case of the submarine electric telegraph, the first and obvious effect of this instantaneous communication between the two most civilized and powerful nations of the world will be to unite them so closely in community of interests as to secure their co-operation in all designs that may promote the advancement of humanity and maintain the peace of the world. In a great measure this had been already effected by a mode of communication which required at least a certain number of hours. But with the electric telegraph across the Channel, communication with Paris is not even a ques- | flock to it. While the continent of Europe resembles tion of seconds. At present, no doubt a message must a volcano about to burst forth into destructive fury it is our glory—and may it ever remain so-to cultivate the spirit and the arts of peace, not in the narrow spirit of selfish aggrandisement, but with a generous regard for the interests of the whole humanrace. A sketch of the rise and progress of this great scheme cannot but be acceptable to our readers : be first forwarded to Dover; at Dover a delay will take place, another at Cape Grinez, and so on through France; but these are mere points of detail now that the chain of communication has been carried across the bed of the ocean. Some few arrangements are all that is requisite in order to render a sustained conversation between two persons, the one in London, the other in Paris, not merely a possibility but a fact." Every one has heard of the breaking of the wire in consequence of its casing not being sufficiently strong; but this is a defect which will be easily remedied in fature. The success of this marvellous experiment is complete, and it will no doubt be applied to an extent which it might at present seem visionary to anticipate. The present year too will be memorable to the Londoners as that in which the new building for the British Museum was brought to a conclusion. The heary old chateau which we all knew so well, has vanished for ever, and its place is supplied by a magnificent edifice of the Ionic order, chaste and severe in style, and on a scale commensurate with the everwidening circle of acquisitions in every department of science. Perhaps the most striking recent accessions have been the Nineveh marbles, some of the most remarkable of which have been recently added to the collection. Here we may remark that of late years antiquarian research has fully kept pace with science, aal opened to our investigation vast fields of interest both in the eastern and western world. The whole "In the Journal of Design for October, the royal proof North America as well as its central and southern posal is stated to have assumed thus early the aspect of portions are found to contain almost innumerable à certainty. The Editor then repeats that the particutraces of early occupants, while ancient Assyria has lar idea was the Prince's own: Now is the time,' said been disentombed from the obscurity of ages. his Royal Highness, to prepare for a great exhibition -an exhibition worthy of the greatness of this country; Another pleasing feature of our times, is the popu- not merely national in its scope and benefits, but comlarization of literature by means of cheap publications-prehensive of the whole world; and I offer myself to the a work in which the finest geniuses, a Dickens or a Hunt, do not disdain to co-operate. Simultaneously with this has grown up a taste for instructive pictorial representations. Time was when there was but one Janorama in London; now, their name is legion. Thousands have travelled up the Mississippi into the far west, and gazed upon the monuments of Ancient Egypt, or tracked the course of their countrymen to the burning clime of India, after this cheap and easy fashion. Of these panoramas, our Year Book contains some lively and instructive sketches. scheme should be given where it is due. Its first an"It is right that the credit of originating our grand nouncement will be found in the Journal of Design, for September, 1849, wherein the Editor observed:Whilst almost every European nation has held exhibihas not yet adopted this beneficial mode of encouraging tions of its industrial products, England, as a nation, its manufactures, and instructing its people to understand and appreciate them. But public opinion in our country is at last awakening to a sense of the importance of such exhibitions, and its convictions are likely to be converted into a practical result by the active intelligence of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. From all we hear, we believe that his Royal Highness, as President of the Society of Arts, is engaged in organizing the means of forming a great collection of the works of industry of all nations, to be exhibited in London in 1851; and that measures are in active progress for ascertaining the willingness of our manufacturers to assist in this gigantic undertaking. With this view, we believe, his Royal Highness has authorized two or three collect the opinion of the leading manufacturers, and gentlemen to proceed to the manufacturing districts, and evidence of their desire to assist his Royal Highness, in order that the results of this inquiry may be submitted to Her Majesty's Government.' But the great subject of anticipation, durin- the latter end of the past year, was the Great Industrial Exhibition of the coming; and to this, as the brief months hasten away which intervene before its fulfilment, the public attention is devoted with an intensity which, like Moses's rod, swallows up all inferior matters. Received at first by a practical people with some degree of doubt and hesitation, and by many with sneers of incredulous foreboding, it is rapidly becoming a fait accompli. Even as we write, the vast palace, destined to receive the stupendous gatherings of a world's industry, rises like an exhalation; and already, from the east and the west, from the north and from the south, the eager nations are preparing, to public as their leader, if they are willing to assist in the undertaking. This is true patriotism. "On the 30th of June, the Prince summoned Mr. T. Cubitt, Mr. H. Cole, Mr. F. Fuller, and Mr. J. S. Russell, members of the Society of Arts, to Buckingham Palace, when his Royal Highness proposed that the exhibition should consist of raw materials of all kinds, mineraloinventions; of the results of these, namely, manufacgical, agricultural, &c.; of machinery and mechanical tures; and, lastly, of sculpture and plastic art generally; and that the exhibition should be opened to all nations.' At the second meeting, held at Osborn, on July 14, the President of the Board of Trade was also present, at which the appointment of a Royal Commission was decided on; and at the third meeting Mr. Cole, Mr. Fuller, and Mr. Russell, were empowered by the Prince to travel through the manufacturing districts of the country, in order to collect opinions. It was at this meeting also, June 30, that Prince Albert gave to the proposed Exhibition that great feature of universality which has ever since formed the chief characteristic of his plan. His Royal Highness limitation to the products of machinery, science, and 'considered that whilst it appears an error to fix any art, which are of no country, but belong as a whole to the civilized world, particular advantage to British industry might be derived from placing it in fair competition with that of other nations.". "Not the least wonderful part of the Exhibition,' says the Times, will be the edifice within which the specimens of the industry of all nations are to be col lected. Its magnitude, the celerity with which it is to be constructed, and the materials of which it is to be composed, all combine to ensure for it a large share of that attention which the Exhibition is likely to attract, and to render its progress a matter of great public interest. A building designed to cover 753,984 superficial feet, and to have an exhibiting surface of about 21 acres, to be roofed in and handed over to the Commiscommencement; to be constructed almost entirely of glass and iron, the most fragile and the strongest of working materials, to combine the lightness of a conservatory with the stability of our most permanent structures such a building will naturally excite much curiosity as to the mode in which the works connected with it are conducted, and the advances which are made towards its completion. Enchanted palaces that grow up in a night are confined to fairy-land, and in this material world of ours the labours of the bricklayer and the carpenter are notoriously never-ending. It took 300 years to build St. Peter's at Rome, and 35 to complete our own St. Paul's. The New Palace of Westminster has already been 15 years in hand, and is still unfinished We run up houses, it is true, quickly enough in this country; but if there be a touch of magic in the time occupied, there is none in the appearance of so much stucco and brick-work as our streets exhibit. Something very different from this was promised for the sioners within little more than three months from its already broken and cast aside for ever. On one hand we hail the victorious progress of science and philanthropy; on the other, we behold in full retreat the routed forces of priestcraft and supersti tion. Would that the correction of our social evils kept pace with this encouraging prospect; yet even here are cheering signs of improvement. The dark places of the earth are being explored, the haunts of misery and crime laid open to the light of day. Men of all ranks are becoming anxious to set their shoulders to the wheel of social improvement. Let us hope that our religious differences may no longer retard the establishment of a system of education for the people. Above all, let us look up with thanksgiv ing and with hope to that Great Being, the march of whose beneficent providence is so evident even among the clouds that sometimes overcast our limited horizon, and commit to his wise and paternal keeping the advancing destinies of our beloved country. THE BILLET DOUX. of Newton. A girl receiving her first billet-doux ; ANOTHER charming specimen of the peculiar style a moment of no small interest, it must be confessed, and treated by the painter with exquisite refinement and delicacy. The beauties are such as the reader must detect for himself, for they elude any attempt at formal description. No one knew so well as this accomplished and unfortunate painter, how "to catch a grace beyond the reach of art." great edifice in Hyde Park. Not only was it to rise with extraordinary rapidity, but in every other respect is to be suggestive of "Arabian Nights" remembrances. In its favour, the window law has been ignored, and 900,000 superficial feet of glass, weighing upwards of 400 tons, used in its construction. Not a stone or a brick has been employed throughout the spacious structure, which rests upon 3,300 cast-iron columns, and is strengthened and kept together by 2,224 girders of the same material. The plan of it comprises a basement, and two upper tiers diminishing in area as they ascend, and thus securing a graceful variety of ontline; while the monotonous effect of a façade 1,848 feet long is broken by a spacious transept. This transept, 408 feet long and 72 feet wide, is arched, and rises to the height of 108 feet, inclosing within it, as in a glass-case, certain trees, which respect for the Park timber has induced the Commissioners to spare. The roof of the entire building, resting on the cast-iron girders, is what is technically called “ ridge and valley," and looks like an undulating sea, the whole being covered with canvass to exclude the rays of the summer sun and prevent any inconvenience arising from excessive heat; except the transept, where the presence of trees renders light neces-offending being a bigotted faith in the creed, that sary, and where, therefore, the arched glass roof will remain uncovered. When closed in and completed, the view presented by the interior will, it is anticipated, be wonderfully graceful and splendid. The central avenue, with rows of pillars shooting off from it on either side, and so arranged that the eye can traverse freely to every part of the building, must have a very grand appear ance. Care has been taken to have the columns upon which the whole fabric rests distributed with such regularity, that no confusion or forest-like effect can be produced by them. It will be the same in all the avenues as in the central one; although there, from its proportions and the entire absence of galleries or upper flooring to break the perspective, the view presented will be most imposing." Our space is more than occupied, and we can say but a few words in conclusion. The years 1850-1 will be memorable in the pages of history for the great impulse given to the arts of peace and the progress of civilization by this stupendous Exhibition; and for the national protest against the feeble attempts of the Papacy to fasten about us the chains which we had "OLIVE;" a novel, by the author of the "Ogilvies," 3 vols. (Chapman and Hall). We have perused with much pleasure, and we hope some profit, this second effort of the authoress of the "Ogilvies." Her former work contained, as it appeared to us, in addition to a degree of performance evincing high talent, delicate taste and deep feeling, a promise of better things to come. The faults were essentially those of an inexperienced writer-the head and front of her "love's young dream" is the aim and end of exist ence for all and sundry,-a theory comprising the whole duty of man and woman in a blind worship of the sightless god. "Olive" has not disappointed us; and in no particular does it more clearly indicate advance, than in the abandonment of this Thekla-like philosophy; although it contains good measure of amativeness, and sufficient sighing to meet the requirements of the boarding-school public. "Ich habe gelebt und geliebet," is no longer the motto; to have "lived and loved," no more the one thing needful; and poor humanity is allowed to eat, drink, and sleep, discourse on art, paint pictures, indulge natural affection towards parents, and cultivate friendship, without the constant intrusion of Cupid. The great and especial merit of "Olive" lies in the beautiful development of a true woman's nature, portrayed in the character of the heroine, whose lively instinct of goodness, strengthened and directed by a deep sense of religion, conducts her 1 |