The governess vainly claims, that education and culture doled out by female lips and hands, is just as good, and in many cases better, than if dispensed by masculine smartness. It will not command the same price in the public school market. From the fieldhand and kitchen-help, to the school-room, woman stands beneath man, and beneath her proper self, in the matter of recompense. We hate the embargo laid on female labor-whether it be hand or brain service.

From the lowest to the highest round of society, then, there is room for amendment. The famous XVIth will not cover the reigning evil entirely. As long as woman's intellect is confined; her morals crushed; her health ruined; her weakness encouraged and her strength punished-so long the paradise of woman has too many thorns stuck in among the roses. American society now needs most of all women to stand by the side of men-never mind the ladies and gentlemen; we can survive their absence. To have them, there must be an enlarged system of culture for her benefit. The so-called "female education" is not commensurate with her needs and capacities. Let her be prepared to fill the station set for her by the Maker of us all. Then will she be able, best of all, to decide all mooted questions of taste and propriety. Whatever she will dare do then, will be becoming and proper. She will no longer stand in need of any manocracy over herself, to survey her field for her, and locate her, as we now survey and locate a rail

road.

The incessant cry of woman's modesty, will be varied somewhat, we think; and duty, right, conscience, and destiny, will be spoken of sometimes, too. Woman does not need all the modesty there is. A good share of it belongs to and becomes man. Virtue has no sex. There are no male or female graces, when closely taken. They belong to both halves of the race, of which, woman, by common consent, is the better half.

A PLEA FOR MORE SUBSCRIBERS.

BY THE EDITOR.

The report of the Reformed Church Publication Board in Philadelphia, presented to the late Synod at Pottstown, stated, that the subscription list of the "Guardian" had been increased during the past year. We are pleased to learn this, and know that many of our readers will be equally gratified. The "Guardian" is the only magazine of its kind in the Reformed Church. Its mission

and message is to the young; its contents are equally adapted for the young of every part of the Reformed Church. Whilst it is a denominational publication, whose contents, as a rule, are in full accord with the doctrines and religious customs of the Reformed Church, it does not assail the doctrines of other evangelical bodies. The young of other Churches can safely and profitably read it, without having their Church attachments weakened. Its office is not to make proselytes from other denominations, but to improve its readers, and assist them in the formation of correct, Christian habits.

The circulation of the "Guardian" is not confined to the Reformed Church, as indeed it ought not to be. As a new year is about to commence, we earnestly ask our friends to aid us in increasing the number of its readers. There are few readers, who could not, with a little exertion, procure one or more new subscribers. If a few young people in a congregation or town, will start a subscription paper and call on their friends, they will be able to add new names to our list. Let us come to the practical point of the matter. As soon as you have read this article, speak to some of your friends about it. Propose a plan to them. Let each one take the names of ten or twenty persons, on whom he or she will call. In this way the neighborhood can be canvassed in a short time. For the new subscribers which you gather, the publishers, the Reformed Church Publication Board, will give you a premium in money or book.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

HEART LIFE. By Theodore L. Cuyler, Pastor of Lafayette Avenue Church, Brooklyn, pp. 190.

This is an excellent little volume, written in the pithy, pointed style, so characteristic in Dr. Cuyler's writings. Here and there the author is somewhat lax in his views about the Church and her ordinances. But the book is so full of the marrow of the gospelso full of the tincture of the true faith, that, in view of its general excellence, we can pass lightly over its occasional errors.

THE CHRISTIAN USE OF MONEY: Especially in Relation to Personal Expenditure. By J. F. Wyckoff, Esq., pp. 45.

This volume contains excellent advice concerning the right use of money. It severely condemns those, who needlessly lavish money upon the pride and parade of life and give little to Christ.

Both the above works are published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street, New York.

EDNA HARRINGTON, or the Daughter's Influence in the Home Circle. Pp. 311. Price $1.00.

A loving, obedient daughter, the joy and pride of her parents, and the ornament of her home, is the subject of this volume. Her piety influenced all the other members of the family, and her life daily showed, that she had been with Christ and learned of Him.

SUMMER IN THE FOREST, or Slender Hands in the Stone Quarries. Pp. 304. Price $1.00.

This book contains a pleasing narrative, which tells how a party of young people combined duty with pleasure. They spent the Summer in the country, in a neighborhood, where the children were without a Sunday-school. With merry hearts, they set to work, secure a place, gather in the children, and organize a flourishing Sunday-school, which becomes the nucleus of a church. The book tells how this was done. May its reading incite many young people to follow the example of this party of young people in acts of well-doing!

SACRED GEOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES, with Maps and Illustrations. By Rev. E. P. Barrows, D. D. Pp. 685. Price $2.00. This work, for some people, will prove less pleasant reading than the foregoing. Yet, without wishing to disparage other works, it has more substance and instructive matter, than twenty of the average volumes of lighter reading. The author has bestowed a great amount of scholarly labor upon the work. The numerous illustrations, of places, plants, animals, customs, &c., are a great help to a correct understanding of its descriptions. Its treatment of Sacred Geography and Archæology, furnishes a vast treasure of instruction to the common reader. We feel confident, that this volume will be of great service to Sunday-school teachers, as well as to Bible readers generally. Its extensive Table of Contents, Geographical Index, Index of Places and Subjects, and Index of Scriptural Texts, are a convenient help in the use of the work.

The above works are all published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street, New York, and 1408, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.