Our own continent has had but one great mystic, Rosa of Lima, who is hence known as _primus Americæ meridionalis flos_. She had inherited her peculiar organization from her mother, who had frequently seen visions, and when the child was three years old, changed her name from Isabel to Rosa, because she had seen a rose suspended over the face of her daughter. Much admired on account of her great beauty and rare sweetness, the young girl refused all offers, and preferred, in spite of the remonstrances of friends and of brutal ill-treatment on the part of her brothers, to enter a convent. On her way there, however, she felt her steps suddenly arrested by superior force, and saw in this supernatural interruption a hint that she should leave the world even more completely than she could have done as a nun of the Order of St. Dominick. She built herself, therefore, a little cell in her father's garden, and here led a life of ecstatic asceticism, during which she often remained for days and weeks without food, and became strangely intimate with birds and insects. Whenever she took the eucharist, she felt marvelous happiness and fell into trances; in the intervals, however, she suffered intensely from that depression and utter despair which in such cases are apt to result from powerful reaction. She died quite young, exhausted by her ascetic life and continued excitement, and has ever since been revered as the patron saint of Peru. THE END. PROF. SCHELE DE VERE'S WORKS. WONDERS OF THE DEEP. By M. SCHELE DE VERE, Professor of the University of Virginia. Third edition, 12mo, cloth, $1.50. Illustrated, cloth, gilt, $2. CHIEF CONTENTS. Pearls. Corals. Facts and Fables. Mercury. Oysters. Lighthouses. Odd Fish. Knight in Armor. A Pinch of Salt. A Grain of Sand. The Earth in Trouble. "One of the freshest, most scientific, and at the same time most popular and delightful books of the kind we have ever read."--_St. John's Telegraph._ "These essays make a valuable addition to the standard literature of the time. The author, who is one of the profoundest scientists of the age and one of the most brilliant essayists of the country has brought from the depths of the ocean vast stores of hidden knowledge.... The charm of the book is the skillful and yet natural way in which plain facts have been put. We were attracted toward them by their freshness, and soon we are following on with intense interest and enthusiasm. The chapters on "Pearls," "Corals," "Mercury," and "A Pinch of Salt," and, in fact, nearly all the others are absorbingly interesting."--_Newark, N. J., Register._ STRAY LEAVES FROM THE BOOK OF NATURE. New edition, illustrated. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. "The book is peculiarly fascinating."--_Chicago Journal._ "The entire work is full of charming description and pleasant information."--_Courier-Journal, Louisville._