James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen

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Men often have too much confidence in their measuring lines. They fancy they have fathomed a soul's depths when they have but sounded its shallows. They think they have circumnavigated the globe, when they have only paddled in a cove. They trim their sails for other seas, leaving the priceless gems of their own undiscovered. Many a wife is wearied and neglected into moral shabbiness, who, rightly entreated, would have walked sister and wife of the gods.

As our author's books are for sale, perhaps I should remember the fact, and curb my desire to copy all her very just and very intrepid sayings; but here is one which every husband should pin into the crown of his hat:--

Men,--you to whose keeping a woman's heart is en. trusted,--can you heed this simple prayer, Love me, and tell me so sometimes?

Our author has probably heard husbands reply to this: “Why, that is of course understood; it is childish to wish or expect such a thing put into words.” Now, without stopping to discuss the “childishness” of it, if it makes a wife happier, is it wise, or best, for a husband to overlook that fact? And sure I am, many a wife loses all heart for her monotonous round of duties for the want of it; beside, when men the world over have promulgated the fact that women are but “grown — up children,” where's the harm of being “childish?”

Does not Gail Hamilton see anything commendable, or virtuous, or honorable, or manly in men? is the question some