IT should be woman's office to move in the midst of practical affairs, and to gild them all, the very homeliest, were it even the scouring of pots and kettles, an atmosphere of loveliness and joy.

SERENE I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for time nor tide nor sea;

with

Hawthorne.

I rave no more 'gainst time nor fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me.

John Burroughs.

Now 'tis a fairer season; ye have breathed
Rich benedictions o'er us; ye have wreathed
Fresh garlands: for sweet music has been heard
In many places; some has been upstirr'd
From out its crystal dwelling in a lake

By a swan's ebcn bill; from a thick brake,
Nested and quiet in a valley mild,

Bubbles a pipe; fine sounds are floating wild
About the earth: happy are ye and glad.

Keats.

MARIA MITCHELL, 1818.

BUILDING OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE BEGUN, 1879.

He is the truly successful individual who early in life sees clearly what his mission is, and bends his powers from youth onward to the fulfilment of that mission. Scattered force ends in failure, or at best, in only partial success; concentration is one of the elements, if not the element, of success.

Helen L. Webster.

Anger is but swiftly fleeting, love

lasts long, is ever kind;

And the gift that comes free-hearted,

testifies the noble mind.

Hitopadeca.

August 2.

Tr. by H. L. W.

THE reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in mak

ing cages.

IN a season of calm weather

Though inland far we be,

Dean Swift.

Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither;

Can in a moment travel thither.

And see the children sport upon the shore,
And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Wordsworth.