d flowers,
and with sympathies as lively as ever in all that concerns the welfare
of the world. Our habitual mood is serene and cheerful."

Only a few months after these words were written, her husband died, and
she left the place so full of memories of him to find a home elsewhere.
Of these later years it was said: "She lived among a singularly peaceful
and intelligent community as one of themselves, industrious, wise, and
happy; with a frugality whose motive of wide benevolence was in itself a
homily and a benediction." She died in 1880.

BONNIE HAREBELLS.

BY ANNA B. BENSEL.

Bonnie harebells, bonnie harebells,
Ring, oh, ring!
Ring across the listening twilight
While the fairies sing.

Bonnie harebells, bonnie harebells,
My love greet!
Let her hear you ringing softly
At her very feet.

Bonnie harebells, bonnie harebells,
Sound out clear;
Tell a little, watching maiden
I am very near.

Bonnie harebells, bonnie harebells,
Ring, oh, ring!
All the world with silence over
Waits listening.

MYTH IN AMERICAN COINAGE.

BY ISAAC BASSETT CHOATE.

The worship of "the almighty dollar" is of no recent origin, provided it
be the case that the dollar is represented in gold. This worship forms
no special _cultus_ in the religions of the world. It is a survival from
prehistoric times, and is intimately connected with the earliest forms
of nature-worship. The estimate in which gold has been held has always
been out of all proportion to its utility, its scarcity, or the
difficulty of mining it. There have been times when civilized man had a
comparatively far more abundant supply of gold than he has at present,
but this circumstance did not avail to depreciate the metal. There were
long ages of an incipient civilization, during which gold flooded the
markets of the world as compared with iron, but this did not affect the
relations between the nobler and the baser article of merchandise. Gold
was all the time held at a valuation far above what it would have
received from its importance to mankind in the useful arts. It was
prized as amber was prized, and the two substances were devoted to quite
similar uses. They were employed for the decoration of temples and
shrines, and were worn for personal ornament. But the wearing of such
ornament had its origin in sentiments which may be regarded as strictly
religious. Beads and rin