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��ter land. For a while gentle Genevieve was contented down here ; but when the flowers lost their sweetness and the birds stole away, she all too soon grew lonely in our cold world, and wanted to 2:0 too.

Oh : liow often, when the forests cast the leaf and the sweet summer dies in its voluptuous beauty, the soul mindful of the change throws off its human appendage. She longed for her old home beyond the stars, where the flowers are ever blooming, where

��the birds are always singing, and no night is there. One wild, terrible night ia autumn they watched over her with anxious, praying hearts : but she was "better in the morning !" Little Genevieve loved a particular flower, the violet, which in floral lan- guage is expressive of hope. When brought where it was she would point her baby, chubby hands towards it, smiling, speaking in a language none could understand ; — and in summer it waves over her s-rave.

��NEW HAMPSHIRE AUTHORS. By Arthur Everett Cotton.

��The prosperity of a nation comes from well directed industry ; its hap- piness, from an impartial administra- tion of good, wholesome laws ; its preservation, from good habits and an impregnable defence ; but its last- ing glory comes from its letters.

Of the states of New England, Connecticut may be said to have produced artists ; the Bay State, men of letters ; the Granite State, states- men. Notwithstanding this is found to be the case, it is with a pardonable pride that New Hampshire points to her past literary history. Measured by posterity, itwill secure an enviable position in the realm of literature.

RICHARD B. KIMBALL.

Born in Lebanon, educated at Mer- iden and Dartmouth, from which he graduated at the early age of seven- teen, Richard B. Kimball ranks amono; New Hampshire's best known literary men ; in truth, he is about the only

��novelist worth}' of the name that the state has produced. At college he bore the reputation of a diligent stu- dent, a clever writer, and was exceed- ingly popular among his fellows, of whom he was the youngest. The class of '34, to which he belonged, contained many men who have achieved prominence in the various walks of life. Such is Prof. E. A. Lawrence, of the Connecticut Theological Insti- tute ; such is Judge Daniel Clark, of Manchester ; such is the Hon. Moody Currier, of the same city, — not to mention others.

After graduation, young Kimball entered upon the study of law with his brother at Waterford, N. Y., which declining health soon obliged him to relinquisli. To recuperate his debil- itated constitutioa, never very strong, he went on a trip to Europe, whither he has made fourteen voyages, one of which was in company with Wash- ington Irving. While abroad, he

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