508 The German Student, No. XXX f. 



women having a ]>rincipal share in ma- 

 naging the concerns of thtir liusbaiids 

 in France; and here an interesting en- 

 quiry presents itself. 



In the first place, it is obvious Hit y 

 are not only the wives but the natural 

 partners of llicir husbands, and must 

 consequently feci a superior interest in 

 the management of their affairs to that 

 of a parlner, perhaps a single man, pos- 

 sessed of property sufficient to keep him, 

 and whose only object is to employ 

 himself a little, to give a greater relisli 

 to his pleasures, and to derive a greater 

 interest from his capital. 



This superior interest in the women- 

 j)artners of their husbands, induces 

 greater activity, and a more ardent co- 

 operation in obtaining a prosperous 

 result. Suspicions, jealousies, envies, 

 quarrels, and separations, which take 

 place in adventitious partnerships be- 

 tween men, and even between relations, 

 are strangers to those happy partner- 

 ships between husbands and wives. 



The example set their servants, work- 

 people, and children, is truly edifying, 

 and excites a spirit of alacrity, emula- 

 tion, and obedience, highly conducive 

 to the quick dispatch and perfecting of 

 their manufactures, and the advance- 

 ment of their own peison.il interests, 

 prosperity, and comfort. 



This co-operation and intercourse 

 with the world expands the mind, stores 

 it with useful truths, and fortifies it by 

 experience against all the smiles and 

 frowns of fortune. Thus educated and 

 trained, (to use tiie expression of tiie 

 eccentric Owen,) no wonder that the 

 women of France at all times, and 

 particularly during the late revolution. 

 Lave exhibited such numerous and bril- 

 liant instances of literary ability, heroic 

 fortitude, and consummate virtue. 



This knowledge of business, and co- 

 operation in it, has been extremely 

 useful to France in a political point of 

 view, as it has enabled married men to 

 quit their families, and fly to the fron- 

 tiers in defence of their liberty and 

 country. Their business, ia the mean 

 time, has suffered no interruption, and 

 thus the physical as well as mora! force 

 of the nation has received a most im- 

 portant addition. And, lastly, in case 

 of death, either in war or naturally, the 

 business is continued by the widows, 

 and there are few instances of establish- 

 ments being broken up from the incapa- 

 city of the latter, and dilapidated by 

 ignorant, idle, rash, or careless, execu- 

 tors. But, alas! how often does this 



[July I, 



happen, — nay, it is dally to be seen, — 

 in England, with all its train of distress- 

 ing ell'ects. Young families, who had 

 lived in |)lcnty, ease, and comfort, du- 

 ring the lifetime of their fathers, are by 

 their premature death plunged suddenly 

 into all the horrors of grief, want, and 

 misery. 



(To be continued.) 



For the Monthhj Magazine. 

 THE GERMAN STUDENT. 



NO. XXXI. 



wieland's "giron le courteois." 



(Concluded from p. 409.) 



" TUST as their hearts foretold, so hap- 



*^ pen'd it 



Upon the day of tourney. Danayn 

 And Gerou ousted ail the other kuigiits 

 From off their saddles. No one could 



prevent 

 Theircarryiu!»offtiie prize. Andnowbegan 

 A busy questioning from mouth to mouth 

 Who were these knights; but no one knew 



about tliem. 

 Except the dame of Maloane, who beheld 

 With heart's deliglithcrGeron and liisdeeds; 

 For, tho' he came into the ring so plainly 

 In common armure, yet there was no other 

 Like him in grace and dignity of port. 

 And, when she saw him with the bickering 



blade 

 Drawn in his fist, and with the sable shield 

 Before his neck, tho' troops of knights 



rode by 

 In plumed helmets, harness-waistcoats gay 

 With gold embroidery, bearing blazou'd 



shield?. 

 Yet mark'd bhe none in the career but 



him. 



Of liandson^e women and oflovely damsels 

 Many had come to Morlaix on that day 

 To see and to be seen ; but all of ihem 

 Beside the dame of Maloane appear'd 

 Like meadow-flowers round a blooming 



rose-bush; 

 And all the knights who gaz'd upon her 



beauty 

 Grew warm at heart ; but none more ardently 

 Than Lak, the comrade of King Meliad, 

 M'ho,asif fetter'd by some powerful spell, 

 Could never turn from lierhis countenance. 

 He's cau;;ht, thought Meliad within him- 

 self; 

 And, to make out the feelings of his friend. 

 Began to talk about her stately train 

 Of six-and-twenty knights. Sir Lak replied, 

 'Those six-and-twenty knights, however 



manful 

 They may believe themselves, would surely 



prove 

 For such a woman but a feeble guard. 

 So help me God, my dear King Meliad, 

 If in a forest this fair lady met me, 

 With only six-and-twenty for her escort, 

 I think I'd snatch her from them every 

 one.' 



"Sir 



