St. Elmo

in August she carried her to see him, telling her, as they drove along, that he was the minister of the largest church in the county, was an old

s bordered with white and purple lilies-"flags," as the villagers dubbed them-and over the little gate sprang an arch of lattice-work loaded with Belgian and English honeysuckle, whose fragrant wreaths drooped till they touched the heads of all who entered. When Mrs. Murray and Edna ascended the steps and knocked at the open door, bearing the name "Allan Hammond," no living thing was visible, save a thrush that looked out shyly from the clematis vines; and after waiting a moment, Mrs. Murray entered unannounced. They looked into the parlor, with its cool matting

hope I do not

trew in a child's coffin. Susan Archer, poor thing! lost her little Winnie l

, and turning to her companion

eral days ago, and am very glad to see you at last. Co

e hair and beard had the silvery sheen which seems peculiar to prematurely gray heads, and the snowy mass wonderfully softened the outline of the face; while the pleasant smile on his lips, the warm, cheering light in his bright blue eyes, won the perfect trust, the profound respect, the lasting love and veneration of those who entered the charmed circle of his influence. Learned without pedantry, dignified but not pompous, genial and urbane; never forgetting the sanctity of his mission, though never thrusting its credentials into notice; judging the actions of all with a leniency which he denied to his own; zealous w

the world, while the refrain of his daily work was, "Bear ye one another's burdens." So in the evening of a life blessed with the bounteous fruitage of good dee

education entirely to me; but before I decide positively what books you will require I should lik

sir-

ear. Do not hesita

r, I should like t

y use for Greek; it would only be a wast

smiled and s

Greek? You will scarcely b

id not understand Greek and Latin; and beside, I want to read wha

you know abo

at Pluta

ks do you read wi

y and t

fond of a

, s

ill have much more use

ee

both; and even if I should have no use for it, it would do me

often as ignorance. Ver

ease. I should like to

serted Village; suppos

t 'Sweet was

as he expressed himself satisfied, and to

rm as I ever knew; but for heaven's sake, Mr

ever see a genui

e to say that I never

lucky then, in not havi

e Bronte, and

rstand that term, much less possess the jewel itself; and beside, sir, you take undue advantage o

ings autocratic, and the world flatters and crowns them; but unsuccessful aspirants are strangled with an offensive sobriquet, than which it were better that they had mill-stones tied about their neck

d like to know the meaning o

tudy Greek," answered Mrs. Murray, laughing at t

gnorant of all domestic accomplishments and truly feminine acquirements, and ambitious of appearing very learned; a woman whose fingers are more frequently adorned with ink-spots than thimble; who holds housekeep

rady's photographs.

those gentlemen, Stillingfleet, who always wore blue stockings, was so exceedingly agreeable and instructive, that when he chanced to be absent the company declared the party was a failure without the blue stockings,' as he was familiarly called. A Frenchman, who heard of the circumstance, gave to these conversational gathe

dies have not as good a right to

ile you may study as hard as you please, and remember, my dear, that where one woman is considered a blue-stocking, and tiresomely learned, twenty are more tiresome still because they kn

ve homeward

Hammond a

years ago. But why do

ondered who kept the ho

usehold affairs. In your intercourse with Mr. Hammond

then throwing her head back, with the haughty air which Edna had remarked in St. Elmo, she com

pous philosophic terminology, her range of thought and study gradually stretched out into a broader, grander cycle, embracing, as she grew older, the application of those great principles that underlie modern science and crop out in ever-varying phenomena and empirical classifications. Edna's tutor seemed impressed with the fallacy of the popular system of acquiring one branch of learning at a time, locking it away as in drawers of rubbish, never to be opened, where it moulders in shapeless confusion till swept out ultimately to make room for more recent scien

ther her diction, line of argument, choice of metaphors, or intonation of voice. In these compositions he encouraged her to seek illustrations from every department of letters, and convert her theme into a focus, upon which to pour all the concentrated light which research could reflect, assuring her that what is often denominated "far-fetchedness,

ynamic, physiologic, or entomologic theories, is it not equally laudable in scholars, orators, and authors-nay, is it not obligatory on them, to subsidize the vast cosmos of literature, to circumnavigate the world of belles-lettres, in search of

stimulated his pupil's fondness for historic investigation; while in impressing upon her memory the chronologic sequence of events he not only grouped into great epochs the principal dramas, over which Clio holds august critical tribunal, but so carefully se

ndless ambition, equalled only by her patient, persevering application, Edna devoted herself to the acquisition of knowledge, a

rrow minds and partial knowledge. He taught her that truth, scorning monopolies and deriding patents, lends some valuable element to almost every human system; that ignorance, superstition, and intolerance are the red-handed Huns that ravage society, immolating the pioneers of progress upon t

asing purpose runs, and the thoughts of men

dynasty of Eblis will instantly terminate, when every pulpit in Christendom, from the frozen shores of Spitzbergen to the green dells of Owhyhee, from the shining spires of Europe to the rocky battlements that front the Pacific, shall be filled with meek and holy men of ripe scholarship and resistless eloquence, whose sc

were fit instruments, in his guiding hands, for the dissemination of his Gospel; but when the days of the Incarnation ended, and Jesus returned to the Father, all the learning and the mighty genius of Saul of Tarsus were required