I can only say, in closing this
paper, that it will be well for us, if, in these days of national
prosperity and power, when Liberty, proudly triumphant, stands like

"A bearded man
Armed to the teeth,"

ready to hold his own alike against traitors at home and envious
despotisms abroad, we do not forget with what a world of self-sacrifice
and patient toil our forbears laid the foundations of this great, free
government; nor should we deem it a light thing to have been born
citizens of a Republic a thousand times grander, nobler, and, God grant!
far more enduring, than those of heathen Greece and Rome, that have long
since fallen to decay, and now lie buried beneath the melancholy dust of
centuries.

Let the words of the great poet whose name stands at the head of this
paper speak like a word of warning to every heart within their reach:--

"And they who founded in our land
The power that rules from sea to sea,
Bled they in vain, or vainly planned,
To leave their country great and free?
Their sleeping ashes from below
Send up the thrilling murmur, No!"

TRUST.

BY ARTHUR ELWELL JENKS.

Once let us feel the trust a child bestows
Upon the guardian of its life, each day
Would set serenely on our troubled souls!
To help but one of these, or bring again
To lip and eye the smile so full of peace,--
Reflection of some tender mother's love,--

Ah, such were service, that, in future years,
Shall shine upon our devious pathway, as
The evening star lights up the western sky!
O ye who labor for the children's sake,--
Setting these jewels for immortal life,--
The "Well-done!" of the Master shall be yours!

NEW ENGLAND CHARACTERISTICS.

BY LIZZIE M. WHITTLESEY.

"We constantly," as Ruskin affirms, "recognize things by their least
important attributes, and by help of very few of these. We recognize our
books by their bindings, our friends by the mere accidents of the body,
the sport of climate, and food, and time."

Applying this principle to New England, we unconsciously recognize her
first by her mere outward, incidental properties.

By the waving of her hair in the "Pine-Tree State," by the frown of her
massive brows in the "Granite" and "Green Mountain," by the glancing
brightness of her smile in the "Old Bay," by her lithe grace of limb in
"Little Rhoda," and her firm step and erect carriage in the "Land of
Steady Habits;" wh