calculated to impress the heart and conscience. In all there is something so obviously instructive, so high-toned a morality, so transparent a purity, so heartfelt a Christianity, which never once condescends to utter a low thought, an equivocal idea, or an objectionable word, that they are eminently proper to place in the hands of children and youth by the most careful parent, which is, perhaps, the truest compliment which can be paid to a popular writer.
Miss Browne has furnished for Sartain’s Union Magazine, to which she is an engaged contributor, the following articles: April, 1849—“Marrying for the Parish;” October and November, 1849—“The Ace of Hearts,” Parts I. and II.; November, 1850—“Looking Up in the World;” July, 1851—“The Rabbit on the Wall.” For Graham’s Magazine, Philadelphia: February, 1849—“Lessons in German;” September, 1849—“Jessie Lincoln, or The City Visiters.” For the Dollar Magazine, New York: November, 1849—“Going into Winter Quarters;” February, 1850—“Condescending to Marry.” For the Ladies Magazine, Boston: November, 1846—“Precept and Example;” February, March, and April, 1847—“Choosing how to Die,” Parts I., II., III., IV.; October, 1847—“Not Wealth, but Worth;” November, 1847—“The Disappointed Husband;” March, April, May, June, 1848—“Self-Conquest;” February, 1849—“En Dishabille, a Story for Young Wives.” For the Dollar Newspaper, Philadelphia: July, 1848—“Town and Country;” August, 1849—“Reversed Decision;” November, 1849—“Thanksgiving Carols;” February, 1850—“The One-Horned Dilemma.” For the New York Organ: March, 1850—“The Misadventure;” July, 1850—“The Bachelor’s Criticisms;” July, 1851—“The Promise and the Pledge.”
Several other fugitive sketches have appeared, from Miss Browne’s pen, through various channels: “The Fatal Jest,” “The Bride of the Buccaneer,” “Elizabeth Falconer,” “Love and Policy,” &c. The religious press has also brought out a variety of articles from the same source, and three small volumes for the young: 1848—“Margaret McDonald, or The True Sister;” 1849—“Story of a Western Sabbath School;” 1850—“Laura Huntley;” 1850—“The Youth’s Sketch Book” (of which Miss Browne and her sisters are joint authoresses). The “Snow Flake,” an annual for 1851, has also an article entitled “The Contrast,” of 18 pages.
LOOKING UP IN THE WORLD.
Something must be done to escape from the inevitable disgrace and odium of labouring at such a disgraceful and odious business as shoemaking. James Skates should not be a shoemaker any longer, nor Katy a shoemaker’s wife! “O yes, to be sure, something must be done,” said Cousin Sophronia, “it was a shame they were not getting above their neighbours, and looking up in the world, when Katy had natural abilities to make so much of an appearance, and cut such a dash in the city. Mr. Skates must be persuaded; and she
