hantly refuted the aspersion
that the Jewish religion leaves unmoved the heart of the
Jewish woman,--while your writings place within our reach
those higher motives, those holier consolations, which flow
from the spirituality of our religion, which urge the soul
to commune with its Maker, and direct it to His grace and
His mercy, as the best guide and protector here and
hereafter."

We can say nothing of Grace Aguilar more eloquently or beautifully true;
it is the just acknowledgment of a large debt from the Women of Israel
to a holy and good sister, who, having done much to destroy prejudice,
and to inculcate charity, merits the thanks of the true Christian as
much as of the conscientious Jew.

FOOTNOTES:

[I] Grace Aguilar's family fled to England to escape Spanish and
Portuguese persecutions, and some of them found homes and fortunes in
the West Indies. Her mother's name was Diaz Fernandes.

[J] Her family were of the tribe of Judah. Of the original twelve tribes
two only are at present are known: the tribe of Judah, the fourth son of
Jacob and Leah, and the tribe of Benjamin, the youngest son of Jacob and
Rachel. The other tribes revolted from Rehoboam, A.M. 2964, when there
were two separate kingdoms, A.M. 3205, when the ten tribes were made
captives by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria. The ten tribes have never
since been heard of; but the Israelites believe they are in existence,
and will be gathered "from all the nations whither the Lord our God hath
scattered them." The Spanish and Portuguese Jews are of the tribe of
Judah. The German Jews are of the tribe of Benjamin.

From Frazer's Magazine.

THE CLOISTER-LIFE OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V.--PART. II.

To be lodged in the monastic palace of Yuste was a distinction which
queen Mary of Hungary shared with one, and only one, of the visitors of
her brother. The personage whom the imperial eremite delighted thus to
honor was Francisco Borja, who a few years before had exchanged his
dukedom of Gandia for the robe of the order of Jesus. In his brilliant
youth, this remarkable man had been the star and pride of the nobility
of Spain. Heir of a great and wealthy house, which was a branch of the
royal line of Aragon, and which had given two pontiffs to Rome, he was
distinguished no less by the favor of the emperor than by the splendor
of his birth, the graces of his person, and the endowments of his mind.
Born to be a soldier