had on a white dress, trimmed with fine lace,
neater than any shepherdess had ever been
seen in. Her waist was encircled by a band of
little roses and jasmine; her hair was adorned
with flowers;" and she had "a gilt and
painted crook." As for Sans-pair, "he was
himself attired in a dress of rose-coloured
taffety, covered with English point, and
carried a crook adorned with ribands; and a
small basket; and thus equipped, no Celadon
in the world had dared to appear before
him."

The degree of tolerance for ugliness shown
by the countess is very well displayed in the
case of Princess Laidronette, who was, like
Trognon, good but ugly; and "having arrived
at twelve years of age, went and threw herself
at the feet of the king and queen, and
implored them to permit her to go and shut
herself up in the Lonely Castle, that she
might afflict them no longer with the contemplation
of her ugliness. As, notwithstanding
her hideous appearance, they could
not help being fond of her, it was not without
some pain they consented." But they did
consent. Here, then, we have fixed points,
from which, in all her flights, the woman's
mind of the Countess d'Aulnoy could not
swerve. Love of dress, jewellery, pretty faces,
princes and princesses, the fancy shepherds
and shepherdesses, with other fashions of the
court of the great king, abided by her. Her
range of invention, too, was limited. Her
fairies are all very much alike; the majority
of her princes and princesses are shut up in
towers; and so forth. Within her range,
nevertheless, and according to her manner,
the use made by her of her material was perfect.
The White Cat, the Fair with Golden
Hair, and half-a-dozen more of her tales, are
immortal. But, we would have the works of
the countess gathered, as they have been
by Mr. Planché, the best friend—next to her
friends the children—that she has in our
own day; we would have them, as we said at
starting, set in their places among others,
read in their turn with the legends gathered
by the brothers Grimm, with choice tales
from Musæus, and such more spiritual freaks
of fancy as the fairy tales of Tieck and Goethe
furnish; with the wild stories of Hoffman;
of course, with our own Red Riding Hood,
and others of its class; with the Irish fairy
legends; the story of King Arthur and his
Round Table; with the Seven Champions of
Christendom, and all the legends of the days
of chivalry; farther back still, with all the
good fables ever written, up to Æsop, and up
farther, to Pilpay; with the Arabian Nights;
Greek and Roman legends; with choice gold
of the fancy coined of old in Persia, China,
Hindostan. The ways through which a happy
child to guide, "in this delightful land of
Faery,"
    Are so exceeding spacious and wide,
    And sprinkled with such sweet variety,
that we desire to claim for children right of
way through all of them, with privilege to
pick the flowers on all sides.

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SHUT your eyes and open your mouth,
teachable public, for the instruction hereby
to be given you. Facts are to be set before
you which you may hardly be disposed to
accept, unless you qualify for the receipt of
them by having the eyes of a mole and the
swallow of a hippopotamus. The Rappers,
who adopt in America the name of Spiritualists,
profess to number now nearly two
millions of believers, fed upon humbug by no
less than twenty thousand mediums and
twelve or fifteen periodicals. Two numbers
of a new Rappers' newspaper, published at
Boston on the fourteenth and twenty-first of
April last, are now before us, and if anybody
wishes to be edified let him give ear.

The paper is denominated the New England
Spiritualist, and the first thing we read
in it—a discourse at the Melodeon through,
the Reverend Miss Emma Jay, by some one
of the saints in heaven—has a touch of the
Yankee spirit in it. "Is there not," he
through her says, "also the same voice
teaching you to regard the interests of your
brother man? And though, in a worldly
point of view, you cannot be expected to love
your neighbour as yourself—that is, in the
sense of seeking first the interests of your
neighbour pecuniarily, rather than your own
—yet, so far as spiritual gifts are concerned,
of that which has been dispensed to you, you
should be willing to impart to others."

And how do we have the obedient Yankee
taking care of number one pecuniarily, while
imparting spiritual gifts? See advertisements,
see leading articles, see paragraphs,
see the whole Spiritualist newspaper.

                  TEST MEDIUM
George A. Redman has rooms at No. 45 Carver
Street, where he will receive company from 9 to 12 a.m.,
2 to 5, and from 7 to 9 p.m. daily, Sundays excepted.
Manifestations are made by rapping, tipping, and
writing. Private circles, one dollar each person.
Public circles (evening only) fifty cents.

Another gentleman is ready to clear away
any little difficulties between man and wife,
by producing what is called among the Rappers
conjugal adaptations; and those surely
are things worth any money to the henpecked
and the crestfallen. The next advertiser is a
clever man who has an article for sale which
is, indeed, the whole art of drawing and
painting—taught in one lesson. Then a quack
of the established sort advertises, Purifying
Syrup, Nerve-Soothing Elixir, and Healing
Ointment, which have such virtues as only
Doctor Dulcamara knows how to recapitulate,
with the additional recommendation
that they are prepared from Spirit directions