of every duty of the wife and mother. She maintained a household in which no ones' comfort was forgotten or neglected, no duty ignored or slurred over, while its mistress was modestly and laboriously building a reputation for breadth and scope of views, for depth and accuracy in research, and clearness and force of statement, seldom equalled.

We might add to these imperfect sketches of English women, many pages of description of their labors in the religious and philanthropic

movements, in which some of the highest born and most richly endowed ladies in the land have made themselves conspicuous by their piety, their large hearted benevolence, and their wisdom and energy. We might speak of the noble mother of the Wesleys, to whom they were indebted for many of the qualities which enabled them to begin and carry on the religious awakening, whose influence has gone round the world and is still widening and increasing; of the wise, kind, far-seeing Lady Huntingdon, the friend and the counsellor of Whitefield, and Doddridge, and the early Methodists; of the excellent Duchess of Sutherland, whose name and presence and influence, were always at the service of any good cause, and a legion of others, scarcely less eminent or useful, until our work was swollen to many times its predes

tined proportions, without exhausting the material which lies ready to our hands.

The English woman is the crowning fact in English institutions. The periods in which women have filled the throne of the Kingdom have been the most critical and momentous in the history of the nation; the epochs of great reforms and revolution none the less radical and important, because they have been in general accomplished without bloodshed. The long reign of Elizabeth consolidated and confirmed Protestantism in England, and aided it in taking firm hold upon the continent, and the forty years of the reign of the present sovereign have witnessed some of the most stirring events in the constitutional history of the country, and an advance in the moral and social interests of the people without a parallel. Few sovereigns have impressed their own individuality upon the action of their governments more strongly than the shrewd and sensible, but arbitrary and self-willed daughter of Henry VIII., who made even her foibles subserve the interest of her realm, and never, even in her overweening vanity, forgot for a moment the welfare of her people. Times have greatly changed in the interval between her and Victoria; personal government has become obsolete in England, and the monarch hedged in by the immensely developed powers of Parliament, has come to reign but not to govern. And yet the hand of the Queen is still a potent factor in the English administration; and the strongest and wisest of the statesmen, who have been gathered around her from time to time, have owned its guiding and beneficent influence, while the example of her simple, straightforward purity and uprightness, her virtues as woman, wife and mother, have been powerful for good in unnumbered ways.

The Aboriginal Races. The Esquimaux. Their Country, Habits and Customs. Means of Subsistence, and Dwellings. Character, Position and Influence of their Women. The North American Indians. General Characteristics. Position of Women among them. The Indians of the Plains. The Apaches and Commanches. The Civilized Indians. Bright Eyes.

AKING navigators centuries ago, sailing westward from the North Sea, or driven out into the unknown waste of waters beyond Iceland, discoved a country whose delightful verdancy, in refreshing contrast to the bare and rugged volcanic rocks of Iceland, and the meager vegitation of the Norwegian coast, so enchanted them, that they named it Greenland, and founded colonies upon its shores which they fondly hoped shouid become the centre of a great nation. In the intestine convulsions of the mother country, these colonies seem to have been forgotten, or lingered only in the traditions of the Vikings, in which "Lost Greenland" was painted in bright and alluring colors. The infant settlements, cut off too early from their parent stock, perished, leaving no records behind them, and when ages later, the coast was visited by whalemen, scarcely a trace of the early colonists remained.

But this continental waste was, and had been for an unknown extent of time, the home of a simple race of savages, members of a