GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. VOL. XXXVII. November, 1850. NO. 5. Table of Contents Fiction, Literature and Articles Enchanted Beauty. A Myth. The Vision of Mariotdale Tamaque The Sunflower Minnie de la Croix Pedro de Padilh Nettles on the Grave Familiar Quotations From Unfamiliar Sources Two Crayon Sketches Quail and Quail Shooting Review of New Books Editorial. To Rev. Rufus Wilmot Griswold Poetry, Music, and Fashion Hylas Sorrow Sonnet.—Moral Strength. The Reconciliation Unhappy Love The Wife’s Last Gift I Dreamed Theodora Charlotte Corday Sonnet—To Arabella, Sleeping The Spectre Knight and His Ladye-Bride To L——. with Some Poems Wordsworth Le Follet Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook. * * * * * [Illustration: THE ANGEL’S WHISPER.] * * * * * GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. VOL. XXXVII. PHILADELPHIA, November, 1850. NO. 5. * * * * * ENCHANTED BEAUTY. A MYTH. The mythologies, in which the faiths, philosophies and fancies of the world have taken form, have such truth and use in them that they endure, under corresponding changes, through the reformations of creeds and modifications of ceremony which mark the history of natural religion throughout all ages and countries. The essential unity of the race, its kindred constitution of mind and affections, its likeness of instincts, passions and aspirations, naturally account for the under-lying agreement in principles, and central similarity of beliefs, which are traceable clean through, from the earliest to the most modern, and from the most polished and elaborate eastern to the rudest northern opinions; and the nice transitions of doctrine from the infancy to the maturity of faith and philosophy, are marked by an answering variance in their significant ceremonials. But, however mingled and marred, the inevitable truth is imbedded in all the forms of fable, and, under an invariable law of mind, the inspirations of fancy correspond in essentials to the oracles of revelation, just because human nature is one, and its relations to all truth are fixed and universal.