country, notwithstanding her banishment, testified the popular belief in her innocence. M. de Marbois relates, that when she stopped at a village where the people were about to burn Arnold in effigy, they put it off till the next night."

Truth to say, these reminiscences of the women of our forming day are so interesting, that we might extract more than half the book if we should indulge our disposition to hold up to honor the daughters of the various portions of this extensive country, whose characters were brought out by the influences and chances of the times. We owe them an incalculable debt, to be repaid only by the best possible use of the blessings they bequeathed us, and an interest in the future of our country equal to that which inspired their efforts and sacrifices.

WESTERN TRAITS.

Ir there be a country on earth where hospitality is free and hearty, it is ours. Whatever faults we may possess as a people, this one virtue-if virtue it may be called which is rather a gratification than a sacrifice of the natural promptings-is flourishing to a degree unknown elsewhere. It seems the spontaneous and generous fruit of our overflowing prosperity; the impulsive rendering to the fellow-creature of the debt which we owe to the All-bounteous Parent. When not crushed by self-induced Penury, or chilled by empty pride, the American heart responds to the claim of the stranger with unerring, electric precision. Whether guests are numbered in thousands, while the government is called upon to play host, or the single stranger knocks at the door of a log-cabin in the midst of a prairie, no hesitation occurs as to the reception, refreshment, and aid of the weary and discouraged traveller. If immigrants overflow our alms-houses and hospitals, we build more; accommodating the surplus, meanwhile, by temporary arrangement, at any cost. If private visiters come down upon us in avalanches, we turn the house out of doors, and make beds in impossible places, rather than refuse to open our doors to any one coming in the sacred character of guest. If our national character suffer-according to certain English observers-from the lack of the ennobling sen