Morning Prayer, engraved by Sadd. The Polish Mother, engraved by Dunnell. The Bud and Blossom, by Welch & Walter. The Watchers, engraved by Sartain. The Proposal, engraved by A. Jones. The Lady Alice, engraved by Dick. The Blessing, engraved by Dunnell. The Playful Pets, engraved by Sartain. The Pet Rabbit, engraved by Sadd. The Reprimand, engraved by Gimbrede. True Affection, by Rawdon, Wright & Hatch. Awaiting the Husband’s Return, engraved by Sadd. The Pastor’s Visit, engraved by Dick. MUSIC. “To Win the Love of Thee,” A Ballad, 54 The Zanoni Gallop, 102 The September Waltz, 151 The Summer Night, 217 “Write to Me, Love,” 285 * * * * * [Illustration: E. T. Parris., E. G. Dunnel. _The Polish Mother._ Engraved expressly for Graham’s Magazine.] GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. Vol. XXI. PHILADELPHIA: JULY, 1842. No. 1. * * * * * THE POLISH MOTHER. It was a gorgeous bridal. The old hall of the palace was lit up with a thousand lights, and crowded with all the wealth, beauty and rank of Poland. The apartment blazed with the jewels of its occupants. Princes with their proud dames, high officers of state, nobles whose domains vied in extent with kingdoms, and lordly beauties beneath whose gaze all bent in adoration, had gathered at that magnificent festival to do honor to the bridal of the fair daughter of their host. And loveliest among the lovely was the bride. Tall and majestic in every movement, with a queenly brow, and a face such as might have been that of the mother of the gods, she moved through the splendid apartment the theme of every admiring tongue. Nor less remarkable was her husband. Warsaw beheld no noble tread her palaces more lordly in his bearing than the Count Restchifky. The fire of a hundred warrior ancestors burned in his eye. The fame of his high lineage, of his extended possessions, of his feats in arms, followed his footsteps wherever he went. In manly beauty the court of Poland had no rival to the count, in majestic loveliness the realm furnished no equal to his bride. And now, as they stood together in that proud old hall, surrounded by all that was noble and beautiful in the land, the peerless beauty of the countess and the princely bearing of her husband shone pre-eminent.