rarely shows, and such as books almost as rarely teach. There will
be a deficiency of refinement, taste, art--all that the polished
world values so highly--and which it seems to cherish and encourage
to the partial repudiation of the more essential properties of
intellect. However surprising this characteristic may appear, it
may yet be easily accounted for by the very simplicity of a training
which results in great directness and force of character--a frank
heartiness of aim and object--a truthfulness of object which
suffers the thoughts to turn neither to the right hand nor to the
left, but to press forward decisively to the one object--a determined
will, and a restless instinct--which, conscious of the deficiencies
of wealth and position, is yet perpetually seeking to supply them
from the resources within its reach. These characteristics will
be found illustrated in the present legend, an object which it
somewhat contemplates, apart from the mere story with which they
are interwoven.

A few words more in respect to our heroine, Margaret Cooper. It
is our hope and belief, that she will be found a real character by
most of our readers. She is drawn from the life, and with a severe
regard to the absolute features of the original. In these days of
"strong-minded women," even more certainly than when the portrait
was first taken, the identity of the sketch with its original will
be sure of recognition. Her character and career will illustrate
most of the mistakes which are made by that ambitious class, among
the gentler sex, who are now seeking so earnestly to pass out from
that province of humiliation to which the sex has been circumscribed
from the first moment of recorded history. What she will gain by
the motion, if successful, might very well be left to time, were
it not that the proposed change in her condition threatens fatally