Yes, sigh--that is right; and sigh not only for the poor men who read such wretched books and intoxicate themselves with vile poisons, but also for the fact that there is no one to open their eyes, to lead these misled hearts back into the right path, or, at least, to excite a doubt in their perverted minds and warped consciences; no mother, sister, daughter, wife, no intelligent, enlightened, educated woman to fulfil woman's essential mission. No one else can do the work. If women are not the first apostles of the home circle, no one else can penetrate it. But they must render themselves thoroughly capable of fulfilling their apostleship. Nowadays, when all the world reasons or rather cavils, when everything is discussed and proved, when even light and life must be demonstrated, it is necessary that women should participate in the general movement. To speak without reserve--in the face of a masculine generation who graft on to the _hauteurs_ which especially belong to them feminine indifference, affectation, idleness, frivolity, and weakness--women must show themselves serious, thoughtful, firm, and courageous. When men copy their defects, it behooves them to borrow a few manly virtues. "It is time," nobly says M. Caro, "that minds possessed of any intellectual claims awoke to full vitality. Let every being endowed with reason learn to protect himself against literary evil-doers and to repulse their attacks upon God, soul, virtue, purity, and faith." To Be Continued. -------- In Memoriam. When souls like thine rise up and leave This Earth's dark prison-place, 'Tis foolishness to grieve: Or think thou dost thy life regret, And would return if God would let Thy feet their steps retrace. 'Tis he who ends thy banishment, And by an angel's hand has sent A merciful reprieve. -------- {44} The Early Christian Schools and Scholars. [Footnote 7] [Footnote 7: _Christian Schools and Scholars_; or, Sketches of Education from the Christian Era to the Council of Trent. By the author of _The Three Chancellors_, etc. Two vol. London: Longmans, Green & Co.]