feeling. The sound of his voice was solemn and impressive. A gentleman, who saw him for a few hours, said "I no longer wonder that young people are so prone to believe the blind supernaturally inspired."

During forty years of happy union, Mrs Huber proved herself worthy of such a husband's love. He was the object of her kindest, and most unremitting attention. She read to him, she wrote for him, she walked with him, she watched his bees for him; in a word, her eyes and her heart were wholly devoted to his service.

Huber's affection for her was only equalled by his respect. Alluding to her low stature, he used to say 66 mens magna in corpore parvo" (a great soul in a small body).

He used to say, "While she lived, I was not sensible of the misfortune of being blind."

His children, inspired by their mother's example, attended upon him with the most devoted affection. His son, Pierre Huber, who himself became famous for his history of the economy of ants, was a valuable assistant and beloved companion. He made a set of raised types, with which his father could amuse himself, by printing letters to his friends.

After the death of his wife, Huber lived with a married daughter at Lausanne.

Loving and beloved, he closed his calm and useful life at the age of eightyone. In one of his last letters to a friend, he says, "Resignation and serenity are blessings which have not been denied me."

QUEEN MARY,

WIFE OF WILLIAM III.

MARY, the daughter of James the Second, was a most affectionate wife to William Prince of Or

ange.

When asked what she intended her husband should be, if she became Queen, she answered, "All rule and authority shall be vested in him. There is but one command, which I wish him to obey; and that is, Husbands, love your wives.' For myself, I shall follow the injunction, be obedient to your husbands in all things.'

Wives,

She kept the promise she had voluntarily made They were proclaimed under the title of William and Mary, but the power was entirely vested in him. She was an amiable and excellent princess, and by her example made industry and domestic virtue fashionable. She was constant and earnest in her attachment to the king, and all her efforts were to promote his interests, and make him beloved by the people. Her letter to Lady Russell, in which she deplores the bustle and pomp of royalty, because it separated her so much from her husband, is a beautiful proof how much stronger were the feelings of the woman than those of the Queen.

The king had great confidence in her ability and discretion. During his absence, she was several times left regent of the kingdom, and although the conflicting state of parties rendered the office exceedingly difficult, she discharged her duty in a remarkably energetic and judicious manner.

She died in 1694, in her thirtythird year. Her husband showed a degree of affliction hardly to be expected from one whose feelings were so habitually subdued, that the English considered him cold in his affections. For several weeks, he was entirely incapable of attending to any business. "I cannot do otherwise than grieve," said he to archbishop Tennison," since I have lost a wife, who during the seventeen years I have lived with her never committed an indiscretion."

QUEEN ANNE,

WIFE OF GEORGE OF DENMARK.

THE Princess Anne, younger daughter of James the Second, who married Prince George of Denmark, was likewise a most amiable and affectionate wife, and a very judicious mother. During the illness of her husband, which lasted several years, she would never leave his bed, and often sat up half the night with him. Lady Russell, speaking

of the few days that preceded the death of Prince George, says: "Sometimes they wept, sometimes they mourned; then sat silent, hand in hand; he sick in his bed, and she the carefullest nurse to him that can be imagined."

The Prince died in 1708. As her elder sister, Mary, died without children, Anne was proclaimed Queen, after the death of William. She had a numerous family, but none of them survived her.

It is a singular circumstance that the grandmother of Queens Mary and Anne was a poor country girl, employed to carry beer from a brewery in London. She was handsome, and the brewer married her. He left her a young widow, with a large fortune. She applied to Mr Hyde, the lawyer, to transact her business. He became enamoured of his fair client, and married her. Hyde became Earl of Clarendon his daughter married the Duke of York, afterwards James the Second, and became the mother of Mary and Anne.

Mr

COUNTESS OF DORSET,

WIFE OF THOS. SACKVIL, EARL OF DORSET.

THE following tribute to the virtues of a good wife, occurs in the last will and testament of the celebrated Earl of Dorset, one of the finest scholars of his time, Chancellor of Oxford, and Lord High Treasurer of England, during the reign of Elizabeth.

most virtuous,

"Imprimis, I give and bequeath unto the Lady Cicilie, Countess of Dorset, my faithful, and dearly beloved wife, not as any recompense for her infinite merit towards me, who, for incomparable love, zeal, and hearty affection ever showed unto me, and for those her so rare, reverent and many virtues, of charity, modesty, fidelity, humility, secresy, wisdom, patience, and a mind replete with all piety and goodness, which evermore both have and do abound in her, deserveth to be honored, loved and esteemed above all the transitory wealth and treasures of this world, and therefore by no price of earthly riches can by me be valued, recompensed or requited,— to her therefore, my most virtuous, faithful, and