all the world beside by the cause in which she we dare not call that a wicked which f brought its possessor into that state of strong and fiery resolution and elevation which enabled her to raise her lover from his sense of guilt into a solemn devotion to his better nature she guided him rightly by her clear vision of what was in accordance with the of her true heart aided by this she learned what all his had never taught him � the power of love to sustain and guide and teach the soul this bore her through her trial and this at that glowing hour when both rose above the weight which bowed thorn down tore the scarlet letter from her breast and made her young and pure again the gone heaved a long deep sigh in which the burden of shame and anguish departed from her spirit o exquisite relief she had not known the weight till she felt the freedom by another impulse she took off the formal cap that confined her hair and down it fell upon her shoulders dark and rich with at once a shadow and a light in its abundance and the charm of softness to her features there her mouth and beamed out of her eyes a and tender smile that seemed from the very heart of womanhood a crimson flush was glowing on her cheek that had long been so pale her sex her youth and the whole richness of her beauty came back from what men call the past and clustered themselves with her maiden hope and a happiness before unknown within the magic circle of this hour and as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the of these two mortal hearts it vanished with their sorrow all at once as with a sudden smile of heaven forth burst the sunshine pouring a very flood into the obscure forest each green l� the ones to and b the gray trunks of the solemn trees the objects that had made a shadow hitherto embodied the brightness now the course of the little k might be traced by its gleam afar into the wood s heart of mystery which had become a mystery of joy the ecstasy of s the calm solemn of the sterling wealth of beauty in s and the appealing and teaching heart of woman in all these come crowd before us as we with to this holy exaltation the wisdom and power which came to this woman from the scarlet letter which society on her breast may come to every one who will honestly this token to his own as who of us may not it is only an open confession of our weakness which brings ua strength the flattering self assurance that we pursue virtue with conscientious diligence never us to reach what we are striving for we may perchance escape the dangers which beset our path but never through ignorance shall we overcome the obstacles there is no more fatal error than moral ignorance and and superstition and may around the mind until intellectual springs up more pitiful than the most abject ignorance and the instincts of the heart will almost always be found to protest against them moral may the and the effect is temporary aad social influences may produce the and as the circle the magic may � but that cowardice which to the denial of error to one s own soul which refuses to receive the impression that all experience brings with honesty and intelligence and behind good intentions feels safe from attacks of sin is the most hopeless of all mortal defects there is a false delicacy which the contemplation of evil and which severe experience may destroy there is a sweeping belief that vice stands at one pole and virtue at the other which the deep trials of life may there is a want of sympathy for the and an ignorant closing of the heart against those whose entrance would and and warm our souls which the knowledge of our own temptations may remove but no experience no knowledge no power short of miracle will bring the needed relief to that spirit which will not confess its guilt either to itself or to its the heroic power which comes through is like the and earth life to a and compared and growth of virtues it and the deepest and most startling wisdom by which to test our fellow men but is it not most sad and most that love the great parent of all power and virtue and wisdom and the guardian of the tree of knowledge of good and evil the of all that is rich and generous luxuriant in f nature should rise up in society to be by the strange features of the scarlet letter iy � lake superior u h and compared with tho e of other and a narrative of the j and by other gentlemen by louis c c boston and present concern is with that portion of he work furnished by m in fifty three pages and a valuable addition to our knowledge of the north american a large proportion of this is taken up by of the plants observed accompanied also by many interesting foot notes we consider all such local of either the or the of any particular section of any country as far more useful than a hasty reader would be apt to regard them it is true that they are often so far as names are concerned merely a repetition of scientific names still there are other considerations connected with them which claim attention such as with precision not so much perhaps in every instance the limits of vegetation as the or the in which such vegetation is found to every aspect of nature points to some other connecting phenomenon and nothing therefore in which science itself can be looked upon as we 