. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . gers, characterize it sharply;the waning light, the rival din, the girls with tiredfaces. You start some little thing with a refrain, anda ring to it. A hymn, it is not unlikely ; somethingof a River and of AVaiting, and of Toil and Rest, orSleep, or Crowns, or Harps, or Home, or GreenFields, or Flowers, or Sorrow, or Repose, or a dozenother things ; but always, it will be noticed, of simplespotless things, such as will surprise the listener whocaught you at your oath of five minutes past. Youhave othe
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . gers, characterize it sharply;the waning light, the rival din, the girls with tiredfaces. You start some little thing with a refrain, anda ring to it. A hymn, it is not unlikely ; somethingof a River and of AVaiting, and of Toil and Rest, orSleep, or Crowns, or Harps, or Home, or GreenFields, or Flowers, or Sorrow, or Repose, or a dozenother things ; but always, it will be noticed, of simplespotless things, such as will surprise the listener whocaught you at your oath of five minutes past. Youhave other songs, neither simple nor spotless, it maybe; but you never sing them at your work when thewaning day is crawling out from spots beneath yourloom, and the girls lift up their tired faces to catchand keep the chorus in the rival din. ******** You are singing when the bell strikes, and singingstill when you clatter down the stairs. Somethingof the simple spotlessness of the little song is ODyour face when you dip into the wind and dusk. lin & Co. AMELIA E. BAKR. THE POPULAR ERHAPS no other writer in the United States commands so wide acircle of readers, both at home and abroad, as does Mrs. Barr. Sheis, however, personally, very little known, as her disposition is some-what shy and retiring, and most of her time is spent at her homeon the Storm King Mountain at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, NewYork Mrs. Barrs life has been an eventful one, broken in upon by sorrow, bereavementand hardship, and she has risen superior to her tiials and made her way throughdifficulties in a manner which is possible only to an individual of the strongestcharacter. Amelia E. Huddleston was born at Ulverstone, in the northwest of England, in1832. She early became a thorough student, her studies being directed by herfather, who was an eloquent and learned preacher. When she was seventeen, shewent to a celebrated school in Scotland ; but her education was principally derivedfrom the reading of boo
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