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cans are to send Britain every good thing, and that the 

 once proud country that led the world is to stand receiv- 

 ing as it were the crumbs from this rich land's table. In 

 one department America can be kept second for as long 

 a term as we need worry about — she has nothing to 

 compare with the leading English reviews. Our gen- 

 eration will see no close rival to the Fortnightly or the 

 Nineteenth Century, to Blackwood or Chambers Journal, 

 or to the Edinburgh or Westminster Review ; although 

 the North American and the International show that 

 even in this race America enters two not indifferent 

 steeds. 



I must not forget to mention that the birds in the 

 Century magazine which the AthencBuni pronounced so 

 far superior to any British work were designed by a 

 young lady and engraved by her sister. The work of 

 two American young ladies excelled the best of Eng- 

 land ; and then did not Miss Rosina Emmet send a 

 Christmas greeting of her own composition to friends in 

 England which took the second prize at the London 

 Exhibition, although not intended for anything more 

 than a private token of friendship. Let a note be made 

 of all this, with three loving cheers for the young lady 

 artists of the Republic. Instead of losing the charms 

 of women by giving public expression to their love of 

 the beautiful in all its forms, they but add one more in- 

 describable charm which their less fortunate sisters can 

 never hope to attain. How a man does reverence a 



