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 *vers have interviews, but ah the cruelty of destiny! poor Athalia finds a change in her shape, which a cruel and unfeeling world is so malignant as to censure. She is likely to be a mother without being a wife." "Poor Athalia!" said the critic; "but one comfort to her is, her case is not singular." "Alas! no," said the author; and here she sighed, and was in some little agitation; but our hero either not noticing, or not appearing to notice her, proceeded, and read in the synopsis "a pathetic letter of Athalia to Carolino, on discovering her condition." Hamilton turned to the place, and read as follows:

"My beloved Carolino,

"How shall I communicate to you the fatal secret; alas! I am betrayed. I will not reproach you. I am betrayed into mistake by the soft sensibility of too