'O moi que j'adore, O nous que nous nous adorons !" " Mr. Morland. "In this exaltation of constancy there is something of that self-deception which attends all our imaginings of every species of virtue. We make them so beautifully perfect, to serve as an excuse for not attaining thereunto. 6 Perfection was not made for man."" Mr. Trevyllian." Only that truth is like the philosopher's stone, a thing not to be discovered, it were curious to observe how practice and theory accord. The omnipo-. tence and unity of first love are usually and eloquently insisted upon. No person pleads guilty to more than a second, and that only under peculiar circumstances. Now, I hold that love affairs in the human heart are like the heads of the hydra; cut one off, another springs up in its place. First would come passing attractions-innumerable; then such as a second interview have made matter of memory-these would task the calculating boy himself; next, such as further, though slight, intercourse has deepened into a tinge of sentiment-these would require slate and pencil to cast up. Again, such as wore the name of friendship these might be reckoned for as the French. actress said, upon being asked if she could enumerate her adorers: Aisement; qui ne sait compter jusqu'au mille? Encore, attachments thwarted by circumstance, or such as died the natural death of absence--these would be not a few; to say nothing of some half-dozen grand passions." Lady Mandeville.-"Now, in spite of your knowledge of our sex-a knowledge, as I once heard you say, founded on much study, and more experience-I think you are confounding vanity and love." Mr. Trevyllian.-"I own I see little difference between them." Lady Mandeville.-"On the contrary, I hold that vanity is to love what opium is to the constitution,-exciting, but destroying." ་ Edward Lorraine.--" I must own I allow to this religion of the heart' a more exalted creed than you seem inclined to do. Love is of all others the principle in our nature which calls forth its higher and its better part.' Look at the disinterestedness of love, the sacrifices it even delights in making Think bow lightly are all worldly advantages held when thrown into the balance with affection." Mr. Trevyllian.--" Pardon : Mr. Lorraine is under the influence of hope, not memory: he paints the passion he expects to inspire." Mr. Morland. "What an interesting subject for conversation are these varieties of la belle passion! Sentiment meets with a deal of sympathy." Lady Mandeville." As far as words go." Mr. Trevyllian.---" Does sympathy often go much further?" Mr. Morland.---" Look at the daily papers: to what eloquence do they attain when an affair of the heart becomes an affair of the police!" Mr. Trevyllian.---" My way hither lay through the county town, where I stopped to take 'mine ease at mine inn,' of which I soon grew tired enough. One does many rash things from idleness. The assizes were being held, and I demolished a fragment of our great enemy, Time, in court. The case being tried was what is called, par distinction, an interesting case. A man, in the desperation of a refusal (common people take those things strangely to heart), had stabbed the obdurate fair one with his knife. She was herself the prosecutrix. The counsel denounced the crime: he should have denounced the criminal's taste. As the evidence proceeded, one thing was in his favour---that, after stabbing the woman, he ran and fetched the doctor: a manifest proof,' as the judge observed, of his good heart.' Well, the jury could not agree, and accordingly were shut up to their dinnerless discussion...a method of proceeding, by the by, enough to produce affectionate unanimity between the rival queens themselves. When... 'Hark! there are murmurs in the crowded hall! 6 The prisoner had hurried verdict and catastrophe---he had stabbed himself. Heavens! the sympathy he excited! 'Such strong feelings'---' ruin of his happiness'---' blighted affections'--in short, there was not a man in the court who would not have asked him to dinner, nor a woman who would not have married him." Edward Lorraine.... "An equal sympathy they both confessed." Lady Mandeville.---" An equal sympathy do you call it? Come, Emily, we must teach them to value us higher---we must leave them, that distance may lend enchantment to the view."" END OF VOL. 1. PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, 82 CLIFF-STREET, NEW-YORK. THE HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the present period. 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