again taking the lead. The reader must not forget the moral, "A proper place for every one Society being composed of different parts, it is well when each part finds its right place and acts accordingly. To the head belongs the place of honour. Dignity and state become it. The both sexes are necessary in every climate, and in every home. Man in the world alone is as a naked rock in the midst of the sea, exposed to the sneer of every breeze, the contempt of every wind, and the rude insult of every tossing wave. Woman to society is as an ornament to the brows, its crown and glory, the sunshine of the head. Without her man looks with an unintelligent eye, and speaks with an unmusical voice. She alone can add lustre to the vision, and put music into the speech. By her "Music and light attend our head." Without her man only sees, at most, one side of humanity, concerning one half of the human species he has to live in relative ignorance. One half of the world shut out! Man thus left to himself is dark in one eye, and, with a haziness over the other, sees but in an indifferent manner one side of the features of the human face divine. Of the human species it may with truth be said, that one without the other cannot be made perfect. It is not good for man to be alone, for WOMAN, both in CREATION and SOCIETY, makes up the COMPLEMENT of human nature. The world in which man has to live is made up of land and water, he has to go through marshy and foggy districts, and often ventures among breakers, whirlpools, and quicksands. The man who goes through society alone should know its labyrinths. He should understand every point of the compass, and every place in the journey, with the many turnings and crossing of the roads. He should know the chart, with the entrance, circuit, and exit of every sea. In the midst of so many dangers, near and distant, if he has the courage to venture by himself he must be ever on the look out, and constantly take heed to his steps. With a knowledge of only one half of human kind, he would do well to keep within the limits of one hemisphere, and not to venture trade abroad. To cross the Atlantic for the first time required the knowledge, perseverance, and daring of a Columbus. Man by one false step may have to pay a heavy penalty for his daring attempt to pass through the busy world alone. One slip and he may become a victim to his presumption. Without a help-meet he is at best only one-half of humanity. Without her he is left-handed. In a companion he has a right hand. A wise proverb says, "She is the better half." To secure the great reality of life he is dependant on forces and influences apart from himself. He is in need of the compass to tell him which way he is sailing. Without the magnet he will be "all at sea.” Is he about to take the helm, then let him have the compass near at hand, and the attracting point will never fail to let him know where the north pole lies. Providence foreseeing man's necessity provided for him a fit companion, to walk beside, and throw rays of light in smiles and joys around his daily path. She is the picture and forms the frontispiece of his history; the different phases of her varied character illustrate his works. She adds life and gives beauty to the landscape scenes which otherwise would be as still as death and as cold as winter. She is the index to the chapters and sections, and points out the pages of his every day life, in the filling up of which let him see to it they are not prosy. Woman, as the sun by day, and the moon by nigh, shines not for herself. Glow-worm like, she carries her light with her and sheds it forth to attract her mate. The light thus shed cheers many a benighted traveller on his weary way. She trimis and lights her lamp, not so much for herself as for her companion. All honour is due to her for such disinterestedness. She should look to her lamp, for by the light it gives her value and usefulness will be estimated by society. If the light flicker in the socket it may go out, and end amid glare and smoke. Let it rather be trimmed and fed, always burning as the lamp in the tabernacle. Ever consuming but never consumed, "a burning and a shining light." Neither an artificial lamp nor a lying flame only raised to mislead. Man should look well to the light he follows. For in society there are many passing flames, comet-like, moving in eccentric orbits of doubtful tendency, brilliant and dazzling, but terrific to trace in their whereabouts. Weird sisters, wandering stars, meteors, will-o-the-wisps, passing glares, false lights, which shine and dance about unsubstantial ground, low and damp, soft and murky places; and man, poor wretch, if he follow such, may expect to be lost amidst bogs and miry ground. Let virtue trim the lamp, and good temper be the ever glowing light, and woman will throw a glory around the pilgrimage of man by which he may be enabled to see and know the worth of every object as they pass him by. With her he may know humanity in its different workings and see it from every point of view, its heights and depths; lengths and breadths. With her the world shall become transparent and a knowledge of the conditions and relationships of both the hemispheres be his. SECTION II.-BEAUTY, "Mudiy ayav.-Ne quid nimis; -Not too much of any thing."-The Delphic Oracle. "All the beauty of material objects, depends on the associations that may have connected them with the ordinary affections or emotions of our nature."-Lord Jeffreys. A theory, however plausible, if not true, is worthless. The theories concerning beauty are very many; and so they are very dry. To accept for beauty the doctrine of curves, or relaxation of the fibres-smoothness, proportion, fragility, or any other physical quality-emotion, or perception, or any other exclusive dogma, would not answer the end in view. No doubt there are germs of truth, to say nothing of other germs, to be found in each of them. Discrimination must be the advance guard. The ranks should be picked men. Taste must bring up the rear. From Plato is derived the suggestion that it is mind alone that is beautiful; and that, in the perception of beauty it only contemplates the shadow of its own affections, a doctrine which undoubtedly contains the germ of all the truth that has since been brought to bear upon the subject. The doctrine of the master still reigns in the school of Plato; the doctrine is, that matter is not beautiful in itself, but derives its beauty from the expression of mind. What a man feeleth in his heart, when the outward sign or thing signified is before him, so is he, and so will the beautiful be appreciated by him. To deny that beauty depends upon the mind, capable of being recognized as agreeable to the eye, and even worthy of some admiration, would be false and foolish. Beautiful is an epithet used in Scripture, and always mentioned with honour. To find fault with recognized beauty is to find fault with nature, which is to find fault with human kind, created at first in the likeness, and is still a mirror in which is seen reflected the image of eternal beauty, the offspring of the Author of Nature. Individuals who have no beauty, either in mind or body, are for the most part the persons who find fault with it in others. All parties would have it if they could. It is just as possible for the poor man to glorify his poverty, as it is for the rich man to glorify his wealth. The beggar may be as proud of his rags, as the gay of their costly apparel. The deformed in feature, or limb, can be as vain,often indeed they are more so,--and as vinegar-tempered as the most beautiful in countenance and form. Recognized beauty and the contrary, are among the impersonal laws of the present state of nature, over which the parties concerned have no possible control. The state of that society must be bad where a contemptuous sneer is indulged at the misfortune of those unfortunates who have not been able to avoid their physical deformity. The beautiful in soul, and mind, and life, should be the standards alike to man and woman. "This So soon as the first man saw the first woman, the words put into his mouth describe the transport of his feeling. "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman.' is language in admiration of the beautiful, as seen in the construction of the physical frame of the Mother of us all. Had there been less of beauty in her, or even an equal degree, than that which was found in him, the transport of Adam's soul would not have risen so high, nor would his expressions have been so full of sentiment. Human nature being our witness. Against the charm of beauty's powerful glance."-Milton. The first woman was a model of form and beauty. In her first state she was a standard of excellence, a |