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we have gone far beyond the French in the facility with which the marriage tie may be dissevered in some parts of our country. Some of M. Carlier's conclusions will probably be incredulously received by those who have not thoroughly examined the facts from which he makes his deductions. He does not write as an enemy, as is often the case with our foreign critics, but discusses the subject dispassionately and thor oughly, and brings out many facts which are exceedingly interesting, very suggestive, but by no means flattering.

MARRIAGE IN THE UNITED STATES.-De Tocque- | plains? And yet, according to the author's showing, ville, an eminent French philosopher, and a great admirer of the American Republic, pronounced a high encomium on our social life in his work on America issued a few years ago. The success and prospective permanence of our free institutions he based on the sanctity of the marriage tie, and the affection, order, and discipline of our American homes. We have just glanced over a recent French work, bearing the title heading this article. It is from the pen of M. Auguste Carlier, translated by Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, of Boston, and published by Messrs. De Vries, Ibarra & Co. Again we have the views of an eminent Frenchman on Marriage in the United States, after more than a quarter of a century has passed away since the criticisms of De Tocqueville. M. Carlier, like De Tocqueville, writes from observation, and in profound sympathy with

American institutions, and from a careful study of our history, manners, and customs. Besides the little treatise before us, he has published a volume upon Slavery in its Relations to the American Union, as well as one sketching the History of the American People from the foundation of the English colonies up to the Revolution of 1776. He is also now engaged in the preparation of a work on the institutions of the United States. We are sorry to find that M. Carlier is compelled to take issue with the statement of De Tocqueville, that there is no country in the world where the tie of marriage is so much respected as in America, and he, unfortunately for us, is able to make a strong point against that distinguished writer, by citing the facility with which divorces are secured, not only in some of the north-western States, where it has become disgracefully notorious, but in New England as well. After a pretty full dis cussion of the subject in all its bearings, M. Carlier arrives at the conclusions that " the very great independence of the young American girl is mostly due to the race to which she belongs, to the religion which she professes, and to the traditions brought from England;" that the young French girl is, on the whole, quite as well off as the American; that the life of an American wife, whatever it may have been in the days of De Tocqueville, is now very far from being based on a sacrifice, since there is no other country in the world where luxurious living is so general as it is here, and that the morals of the family in France are not inferior to those of America. As De Tocqueville gave preëminence to the American family, and as M. Carlier makes no claim for the improved morality of the French family, it is not a pleasant inference to draw from the whole argument that we as a people have been degenerating to the French standard. But who can tell now far the silly devotion of our country women to the fashions, manners, and customs of France imported into this country, has operated toward the demoralization of the old American family? Is it not this growing assimilation of the American family to the gay and frivolous type of the French standard, which constitutes the very degeneracy of which M. Carlier com

OUR ENGRAVINGS.-We again present our readers two choice engravings. The picture entitled, "And some Fell among Thorns," we esteem one of the most

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tory. We do not offer it so much as a beautiful picture, as a specimen of delicate engraving. The subject, taken from our Lord's parable of the Sower, is of course deeply interesting and suggestive, and the thought is well rendered by Mr. Richards, the painter of the original picture. But the point to which we would direct the attention of the reader is the exquisite delicacy of the engraving of every line, leaf, blade, and head of wheat. Every plant is accurately enough drawn for a botanical specimen, and yet the whole is combined into a beautiful artistic picture. Mr. Hinshelwood has furnished us the beautiful and naive little picture Looking for Papa-from the painting by J. G. Brown. Every mother will appreciate this picture, and it will warm the heart of many a "papa."

How MUCH IT COSTS.-The actress Ristori's engagement in the United States extended through eight months. The aggregate receipts for this period were some four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, an average of some two thousand, seven hundred dollars per night. This amount would have sustained for one year some eight hundred home missionaries, or circulated four hundred and fifty million pages of tracts, and in that way, by the blessing of God, it might have been the means of saving thousands of precious souls. As it was given, it is only so much cast away, from which we can conceive of no possible good that can accrue to any body or to the community at large. We often hear complaints of the cost of sustaining and propagating the religion of Christ, but what votary in Satan's service complains of this vast expenditure for naught?

ARTICLES ACCEPTED.-Death of Brown Fred: Chris tian Stockfelth; Bertel Thorwaldsen; The Skeleton 1 Dane; Only a Day: The Rest at the Well; Stories from Pictures; How the Sisters Kept House; The Grandmother's Story-Stepping-Stones; Starlight.

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