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family of fifty boys (the father and mother be- 
ing absent) with no officer in the building. 
He gave satisfaction in his charge of them 
day and night, for, 1 think, two wee£s, of 
course having regular relief and the frequent 
oversight of the superintendent. Of insub- 
ordination, a refusal to obey proper com- 
mands, I may say that it is almost unknown 
in the institution. 
.The girls’ school, near Trenton, is small, 
now numbering but 23 pupils, \ and the ex- 
cellent matron is therefore abldyto give to 
each a measure of personal attention, which 
would be impossible were the numbed quad- 
rupled. She governs as a wise, conscientious 
mother would, giving way to no excitement 
of temper, but inflexibly keeping in view thA 
requirements of duty. Encouraging the joy- 
ousness of romping girlhood, participating in 
their fancy work and other pleasures, they 
know that the sterner tasks the imposes, the 
labor and the study, are also for their good 
and dictated by a loving, maternal heart- 
When she enforces upon them the obligations 
of the golden rule, they are not startled, for 
they feel that she exemplifies it in her own 
treatment of them. 
Confinement to her room is sometimes re- 
sorted to when a girl gives way to improper 
temper or conduct, but no punishment* has 
been used to which a judicious mother would 
object. Thou hadst not an opportunity to 
witness the teaching in the Bible /class. I 
know the thorough, practical application of 
the truths of Holy Writ to the/ varied needs 
of life would have gratified tjbee greatly, 
should have said that the' officers of the 
school are all ladies. / 
When the matron considers any girl pre- 
pared to leave the school, she and the lady 
managers endeavor to secure for her a home 
where she will be shielded, as far as may be, 
from dangerous associates and the teachings 
of the institutioh will be continued. In m 
cases this effort has been successful, but in 
few instances cold selfishness and indiffer- 
ence on the part of the employers, or their 
own imperfections, have marred the good 
work. Of a number of the girls their mis- 
tresses give the most gratifying assurances of 
their excellent deportment. 
> own account of the death makes it an 
accident —he wis knocked overboard by the 
sail in ‘coming about,’ when only the two of 
them were out sailing. She might have saved 
him by throwing him a rope, for which he 
cried ; she did not, Wid is haunted by his 
drowning face. Sh& loves Deronda, but still 
without admitting it completely to herself. 
Deronda loves Mirah, also without full ac- 
knowledgement. Derdnda has had an inter- 
view with his mother, Princess Halm-kber- 
stein, a Jewess by race, s|nd formerly'" a great 
singer. Her first hus bank was a Jew, and 
Deronda was their legitimate son, though 
Deronda is not his real name. ” The Athe- 
naeum pronounces the book a failure, andun- 
worthy of the powers of Greorke Eliot. The 
Spectator is of a different opinion, however. 
It says none of her previous books have been 
so powerfully constructed in po\nt of plot, 
and in none of them has there be s en a relig- 
ious element, a faith in an omniscient higher 
powe^, developed with such surprising force 
and skill. t 
George Eliot’s novel of Daniel Deron 
da is now all out in England with the excep- 
tion of one book. The last book published 
is called “Mother and Son,” and its contents 
are thus summed up by the Athenaeum : 
“Mr. Grandcourt is dead ; killed I Gweudo 
WtiAT THE BULLET SAN(f. 
[BreLflart in Harper’s Weekly. j 
joy of Creation, 
To be! 
0 rapture td\fly 
And bo, free ! 
Be the battle lost or won, 
Though its smol^e shall hide the sun, 
1 shall find my Love — the one 
Born tor me ! 
I shall know him where he stands, 
All alone, \ 
With the powi r in his fiends 
Not o’erthrown ; \ 
I shall know him by his face, 
By his godlike front and gra\e ; 
I shall hold him for a space, 
All my own I 
It is he— O my Love ! \ 
So bold ! \ 
It is I— all thv love 
Foretold ! 
It is I. O Love, what bliss ! 
Dost thou answer to my kiss ? 
Ah, sweetheart, what is this? 
Lieth there 
So cold ! 
The Fifteen Young -Ladies Problem. 
[From the Scientific Miscellany.] 
The London Mathematical Society lately 
occupied itself with the discussion of the fol- 
lowing problem : “In a school of fifteen girls 
a rule has been laid down that they shall walk 
out every day in rows of threes, but that the 
same two girls shall never come together twice 
in the same row.” The rule is supposed to 
have been carried outcoirectiy during the six 
working days of the week, but when Sunday 
comes it is found impossible to send the girls 
to church without breaking the rule* This 
problem wai announced more than a quarter 
of a century ago, and has engaged the at ten- 
tion of distinguished mathematicians, for the 
reason that its solution involves the use of 
mathematical synthesis. Prof. Sylvester’s pa- 
per, in which the subject was discussed, was 
“en the fifteen young-ladies problem and a 
general mathematical theory of pure syntax.” 
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