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 educational tastes, need make little profession of their service, Ibr the people' have sufficient perception to thoroughly estimate those who are truly 'with' and 'for' them."

In 1854, "The Journal" was discontinued, chiefly on account of the illness of the gifted editor; in its pages appeared many vigorous prose papers from her pen, numerous fresh poems, and re-prints of all those which had before been published.

COOPER, MISS, of the distinguished novelist, J. Fennimore [sic] Cooper, has written a work of rare merit, entitled "Rural Hours; by a Lady," published in 1850. It is a journal of daily life, commencing with the spring of 1848, and ending with the spring of 1849. The scenery described so charmingly, is that surrounding her own fair home in Cooperstown. Out of these simple materials Miss Cooper has formed one of the most interesting volumes of the day, displaying powers of mind of a high order. This path of literature is peculiarly appropriate for the female sex and a new country. Beautified as these scenes from common life may be by the touch of genius and the soul of piety, we are taught how fair is the world we live in, when viewed in the gentle spirit of love, hope, and faith.

COPPOLI, ELENA CECILIA, Perugia, born 1425, died 1500. This learned woman was the daughter of Francesco Coppoli. In the twenty- seventh year of her age she entered the religious house of Santa Lucia, and became a member of the sisterhood. She was an intimate friend of the famous Porcellio, who addressed many Latin poems to her. She was not only mistress of the Greek and Latin, but well acquainted with elegant literature. She has left some Latin poems, "Ascetic Letters," a manuscript life of a certain sister Eustachia of Messina, and a "History of the Monastery of St Lucia."

CORDAY D'ARMONT, MARIA-ANNE CHARLOTTE. one of the last descendants of a noble Norman family; she numbered among her ancesters the great tragedian Corneille, and Fontenelle was her near relation.

Her father, Jacques of Corday and of Armont, was a younger son of this noble line. He was, however, poorer than many of the peasants amongst whom he lived, cultivating with his own hands his narrow inheritance. He married in early life a lady of gentle blood, bat as poor as himself. They had five children and a noble name to support, in a vain show of dignity, on their insufficient income. It thus happened that Charlotte, their fourth child and second daughter, was born in a thatched dwelling, in the village of Saint Saturnin des Lignerets; and that in the register of the parish church where she was baptized, on the 28th. of July, 1768, the day after her birth, she is described as "born in lawful wedlock of Jacques Francois, of Corday, Esquire, Sieur of Armont, and of the noble dame Marie Charlotte-Jacqueline, of Ganthier des Authieux, his wife." It was under these difficult circumstances, which embittered his temper, and often caused him to inveigh, in energetic terms, against the injustice of the law of primogeniture, that M. D'Armont reared his family. As soon as they were of age,