it was not wonderful that she should imagine she conversed with spirits, in an age when every one consulted unseen spirits and fairies to some extent; she was educated from the cradle in the belief of visions of saints and angels, assurances of which fell daily upon her ear in tales and legends from her mother's lips. The French believed and accepted her as a celestial deliverer, investing her with a supernatural power which she did not claim. On one occasion at Bourges, when the women prayed her to touch crosses and chaplets, she laughed merrily, and said, "Touch them yourselves, they will be just as good."

Her success, was simply that of a warrior who inspires his troops with his own courage and confidence of victory, and rushes to battle with an impetuosity that sometimes supplies a lack of skill. She took advantage of the superstition of those she led as well as those she opposed. She embodied their ideal of an angel in mortal form, by the purity of her beauty, manner, and words which was manifested even in her equipments, and thus they followed her with a unity and enthusiasm that gave strength to a party that previously owed its weakness to an indolent and despairing prince, and to the divisions and feuds among the leading nobility.

Through all the deference and honors paid her, she never lost the child-like sweetness and simplicity that were singularly united in her character with good sense, shrewdness, and woman's subtlety.

Charles VII., who owed his crown and kingdom to her heroic exertions, acknowledged the debt by causing

a monument to be erected to her memory in Paris so soon as his power was established. The inhabitants of Rouen testified their admiration of her and their disapprobation of the unjust sentence, by erecting a statue that still stands in the market-place of the old city.

It

The house in which she was born was afterwards repaired on the original plan by the king's orders, and still remains in Dom-Remy. "It stands near the church and is easily discovered by a Gothic door that supports three scutcheons adorned with the fleur-de-lys, and a statue, in which she is represented in full armor. became national property during the reign of Louis XVIII., who granted the village twelve thousand francs to build a monument to the memory of Joan, eight thousand for the education of young girls in Dom-Remy and the neighboring hamlets, and another eight thousand as a support for a sister of charity to teach the school." A fine painting, the gift of the king, decorates the principal room of the house.

In the market-place, which is surrounded by poplar trees, and watered by a fountain, is placed a statue of the Maid. On the monument is the simple inscription:

"To the memory of Joan of Arc."

MARIA THERESA.

IV.

Maria Cheresa.

We will not from the helm, to sit and weep;
But keep our course, though the rough wind say, No.

SHAK

AUSTRIA is a name that suggests the ideas of despotism, cruelty and bigotry. In these respects, it is a land that has no rival, except Russia. Every humane and free heart must burn with indignation at the mere mention of those Empires. But Austria, however repulsive as a blood-thirsty power, has much attractive interest in its several provinces and noted places, and in portions of its history. Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary, have associations that are dear to art, to religion, and to liberty. Austerlitz is a word of potent influence, and Vienna is full of picturesque imagery, for it is the name of a capital than which there is none more gay, magnificent, and enriched with curiosities.

-"Not in any other town

With statelier progress to and fro
The double tides of chariots flow

By park and suburb, under brown