Scotland, women are largely employed in field husbandry. In Glasgow, they carry coals, and scrape in dirt-heaps, and do the roughest cleaning. Why object, in the interest of woman, to something less rough and better paid. Secondly, there will be the substitution of educated women, for uneducated, in various employments demanding love and knowledge in equal proportions. Nurses in hospitals, and matrons in workhouses and gaols, and superintendents of charitable institutions, will be (if this question be justly advanced) educated women, and to secure such, higher rates of pay must be given, and such callings raised to the rank of professions. The employment of "nurse or "matron," to be nobly discharged, must have the social position of a profession, and unite adequate remuneration with a command of the highest society equally with the lawyer or the doctor. Thirdly, there will be the creation of new professions which do not now exist-but for the want of which suffering and wrong abound unnoted and unredressed-such as lady inspectors of workhouses, lady inspectors of prisons, lady inspectors of factories; nay, lady inspectors of mines-who might learn something of what their fellow women are subjected to, and, learning, might redress. We shall never gain the higher humanities of civilization until educated women bring their influence to bear upon the employments of industrial life. Wherever women are industrially employed, and wherever government inspectorship is a necessity, it should be shared by women with the educated men who are called to its performance—only thus will business become a part of humanity, and humanity a part of business. Fourthly, women will, doubtless, if a free way be opened, enter some professions now considered the peculiar privilege of men, especially will there be lady doctors-why not? The knowledge needed cannot be unfitted for a lady, because it is in itself the wisdom of a God. If any branch of knowledge be improper for women, then must there be impurity in the heart of the Creator. The skill needed is often, in delicacy of operation, peculiarly suited to a lady's hand; and the observation needed often peculiarly apt for a lady's eye. On this matter, the "heresy" of the proposal consists in little more than the substitution of skill for ignorance. Women do tend upon disease, in its most delicate as its most offensive forms. Α medical education would simply give knowledge and skill to discharge offices now ministered in ignorance and awkwardness. Fifthly, a new spirit will be breathed into the treatment of women in those cases where they are now actually employed. A wiser and womanly superintendence must be exercised over those thousands engaged in factory life. The whole class of servants needs exaltation by some system of moral training on the one hand, and by less imperious exaction on the other. Speaking generally, therefore, we maintain that every legitimate subject of human thought should be free for the woman as the man, that a full and comprehensive education should be imparted equally to girls as to boys, and that additional means should be provided for carrying forward woman's education, when schoolgirl days are over. We call on woman to within her power to gain. claim her right to study. It is a right She need not ask man's consent, she can take it for herself, for God's universe and God's teachers will not be silent to her. Thus, finally, as woman gains in independence and culture, will man grow to the fulness of his manhood. XLVI.-MADAME RECAMIER. ONE day in the autumn of 1806, M. Recamier brought the disastrous news to his wife that, owing to the strange political and commercial state of Spain, his affairs had become suddenly involved, and to such an extent, that unless the French Government would give leave for a very considerable loan by the following Monday (it was then Saturday) his bank must suspend payment. It was startling information for one who, like Madame Recamier, had never needed to think of money otherwise than as a means always at hand to gratify her desires whether of taste or charity; and the knowledge of having so recently given a check to the imperial overtures made her feel little hope that any trust which rested on Napoleon's ministry would be realized. Her calmness and courage, however, did not desert her. M. Recamier retired into the country to hide his agitation during the period of suspense, leaving to his wife the task of keeping up appearances in society. She had a large dinner party the next day, and none among her guests felt any suspicion that the splendid hospitality which they were sharing was based on an insecure and tottering foundation; or that their graceful and composed hostess was suffering the tortures of suspense, dreading the imminent ruin of her fortune, and moving about, as she herself described it, in a fearful dream. Madame Recamier's apprehensions were only too well founded, the request for aid was harshly refused by the French Government, and on Monday morning the bank stopped payment, involving in its ruin many secondary commercial houses. Everything was given up to the creditors; M. Recamier's conduct deserved and received from them the highest testimonials of honor and confidence, and his wife did her part no less nobly-sold her jewels, let her house, and made immediate and wise plans of future retrenchment and economy. It is unnecessary to say how universal was the sympathy felt and expressed by the numerous friends and admirers of Madame Recamier. Her old friends gathered round her with redoubled devotion, and many who had till then been only acquaintances took this opportunity to claim admission, by their earnest and affectionate sympathy, into the circle of her friends and intimates. Madame de Stäel, Bernadotte, Junot, and the Montmorencys were among the most earnest of the former. Madame de Boigne, whose good understanding and charming manners soon obtained a response in the heart of Madame Recamier, and M. Prosper de Barante, were among the most notable of the latter. News of these marks of compassion and sympathy were taken by Junot, Duc d'Abrantes, to the Emperor, then in Germany; who, with some pique, answered contemptuously, "People could not show more respect to the widow of a French marshal who had died in battle!" But shortly after, a more severe blow fell upon Madame Recamier-her mother, who had so rejoiced in the splendor and elegance which surrounded her beloved daughter, and who, though in declining health, still clung to the pleasures of dress and society, had not strength to resist the agitation and grief of the catastrophe which Juliette herself bore with so much composure, and died in the January of the following year. Six months were passed by Madame Recamier in profound retirement; but when they were expired she went to spend some time with Madame de Stäel, at Coppet; and there opened on that chapter of her life where is concentrated the most romance, the most speculation, and, we must admit, the most blame. Prince Augustus of Prussia, young, handsome and chivalrous, was at that time residing at Geneva. If anything more was needed to make him interesting, the misfortunes of his family, and his own position, for he was a prisoner,-lent the necessary charm. We cannot be surprised that he did not see Madame Recamier without losing his heart, nor can we much wonder that he inspired a return; to what extent we know not, but more, probably, than she ever accorded to any other during her life. Prince Augustus, as a Prussian and a Protestant, saw no difficulty in her obtaining a divorce and bestowing her hand upon him; and Madame Recamier, attracted either by the brilliancy of the offer, or by the devotion which inspired it, listened, hesitated, and at last wrote to M. Recamier, suggesting the possibility of having their marriage annulled. The answer touched her and roused all her generous feelings, as well as the respect and affection she had always felt for her husband. He left the matter in her own hands, promising not to withhold his consent; but he advised, remonstrated, and pleaded so kindly and yet so strongly, that she could not decide upon abandoning him; especially now, when his old age was impoverished and so'itary. She returned to Paris, only to resolve to be guided by him and to give up the project which had for a time absorbed her. She had the courage not to relinquish one duty, but unfortunately she had not the courage to perform another; and with a cruel kindness, some say with a love of power and coquetry which were quite inexcusable, she kept Prince Augustus in doubt as to his fate, not for weeks only, but for months and years. Four years later, she appointed to meet him in Switzerland; he obtained leave of absence from Prussia, but Madame Recamier did not come, and did not even warn him in time to prevent his useless journey. He was hurt and mortified at her conduct, but still continued to correspond with her. He kept her portrait near him till his death, and in the last letter which he sent her-many, many years after he had resigned the hopes and visions of his youth, he wrote, "the ring which you gave me shall go with me into the grave." Three months later he died. Nothing could excuse Madame Recamier's conduct from the charge of heartlessness, save the supposition that love and duty were long struggling in her heart before the latter triumphed; but looking at all the facts, and weighing the opinion of those most likely to know, we must rather conclude that neither love nor duty could quite overpower the vanity of a woman, or induce her either to rivet or to break the chains which bound so noble a heart and name to her life. In 1808, Madame Recamier took up her abode with her father, and his old friend M. Simonard. Occasional visits to her friends in the country were all that occurred to diversify her life till 1811, and it was in the summer of that year that she adopted a niece of her husband's, a child of seven years old. This was, indeed, a happy event for both; it gave to Madame Recamier a home tie, and an unfailing source of interest and tender affection, and to the little child a kind and loving protectress, to whom she devoted herself during life; to this filial reverence and affection we owe memoirs, which do honor both to her who inspired so much love and to her who gave it. Well, indeed, was it that Madame Recamier secured, just when she did, a new source of comfort to be always with her, for she soon had need of it. Matthieu de Montmorency having dared to visit Madame de Stäel, in her exile, thereby incurred the displeasure of the Imperial Government, and received sentence of exile himself. When the news reached Madame de Stäel, she was daily expecting Madame Recamier to stay with her. Dreading to compromise another friend, she sent a courier warning her not to come, but in vain. Madame Recamier would not pass near Coppet without entering, though but for a short time, and by so doing brought instant punishment on her head. She was exiled to forty leagues' distance from Paris, and thus separated from her father, her friends, and her home. She fixed upon Châlons-sur-Marne, which was at precisely the necessary distance from Paris, as her first place of residence. It was at the best a melancholy change for her, but the neighborhood of the Duc and Duchesse de Doudeauville, (connexions of the Montmorency family,) the society of the Prefect of the town, and a few others, occasional visits from her friends, and the care of her interesting little adopted child, made her pass the eight months of her residence at Châlons with content if not with pleasure. She was, however, at last persuaded to remove to Lyons, where many members of her husband's family lived, besides several of her friends and acquaintances; some among them were also suffering sentence of exile from Paris, but fretting against their fate with a useless regret, to which Madame Recamier's calm and resigned character was a stranger. In Madame Delphin, a younger sister of her husband's, she had not only a friend and companion, but one under whose superintendence, and at whose suggestion, her charitable heart found its best consolation in ministering to others. Madame Delphin was indeed an instance of how much can be performed when a life is devoted to the cause of charity. All classes of sufferers,-the poor, the sick, and the abandoned-found help, advice, and comfort from her. Her time, her patience, her money, seemed alike inexhaustible, and perhaps were so, because the tender compassion which prompted her to relieve all, created an almost miraculous ingenuity in providing the means. She was truly one of those many worthy disciples of St. Vincent de Paul who were already carrying into effect his charitable plans throughout France. We can easily understand that she found Madame Recamier a sympathizing ally in her works of mercy. Among the more notable names of those who were at this time residing at Lyons, and whose society made it pleasant to Madame Recamier, we must note Madame de Sermésy, whose grief at the death of her only daughter, and regret at possessing no likeness of her, roused in her a new and remarkable talent; she succeeded in modelling a bust of her child, which was not only like, but showed a power only requiring exercise to be very remarkable. She, thenceforward, devoted herself to sculpture, and though her want of early training may be noticed in the small technicalities of art, her productions are nevertheless very excellent, and show a refinement and sentiment which more than redeem the defects. We need only mention the names of Camille Jordan, and Talma; and we must not pause to say more of the capricious and fascinating Duchesse de Chevreuse, one of the band of exiles, than, that her failing health and spirits, as well as her talent and amiability, excited both the sympathy and interest of Madame Recamier, and they were much together. But her mother-in-law, the eccentric Duchesse de Luynes, stands out from the group, and attracts our attention more forcibly; she was simple and unaffected in character, and yet original in appearance, manner, and pursuits. Her voice was harsh, |