this as their winter residence, and a pleasant little summer retreat, near Bristol, called "Cowslip Green," also purchased with the joint fruits, as we infer, of their school and of Hannah's publications, they divided their time (Mrs. More still continuing, though much abridging, her visits to London), till 1802, when they all removed together to "Barley Wood," a more commodious residence, situated in a very healthful and picturesqne spot, almost in the vicinity of Bristol. To this they became so much attached, that they soon afterwards parted with their property in Bath, and made it their only home.

Here, in this well-known and constantly visited retreat, from which so many of the letters and writings of its celebrated occupant are henceforth dated, the happiness of the sisterhood was interrupted by the death, in 1813, of Mary, the eldest, who had been even as a mother to Hannah, the instructress of her childhood,* and afterwards the delighted witness of the virtues and splendid reputation of her maturer years. In 1816 they lost their sister Elizabeth, and this affliction was followed in 1817 by one equally severe, in the death of Sarah, the next in age, whose vivacity and innocent wit, with a most amiable temper, made her the life and charm of their domestic circle. But in 1819, Hannah was called to a still heavier sorrow by the death, after an illness of only four days, of "her best beloved and sole surviving sister," Mrs. Martha More, nearest to herself in age, probably, therefore, as is common to brothers and sisters thus connected, her early confidant and friend, as she certainly was the cheerful and zealous partner of her charitable labors, her intelligent assistant, if not the head, in the sunday-schools, her tender nurse in sickness, and the inseparable companion of her healthful hours. These sad bereavements were aggravated by her own severe sicknesses, which were in several instances protracted and alarming. During the greater part of the year 1820, she was confined to her chamber, and was often afterwards a sufferer from acute bodily pains. But amidst all her trials she was faithful to her principles, and maintained with great beauty and consistency

*As will be remembered, Hannah became the pupil of her eldest sister at the first opening of the school in 1757. The seminary appears to have been conducted exclusively by the older sisters, Hannah never taking part in the instruction. She was in London visiting; and they were in Bristol teaching.

the filial submission, which in her "Practical Piety" she has so well inculcated.

From this period, Mrs. More was the solitary survivor (for she seems to have had no near family connexion), — but by no means the solitary inmate of her house. Barley Wood was still the resort of numberless visitors, intimate friends, and entire strangers, anxious to see or to be seen of this eminent lady. The number is almost incredible of the guests of various pretensions and rank, some of the highest distinction, among whom were two Persian noblemen, others like many travellers from our own country, of which great was the company, attracted by her fame, and bearing recommendations from her friends, who were courteously received, and, as long as her health permitted, pleasantly entertained, all with the fruit of her lips, her instructive and animating conversation, and many with the fruit of her table, breakfast, luncheon, or dinner, as the hour of coming or other circumstances offered. "What do you think," she writes, in 1819, to Sir W. Pepys, "of my entertaining one hundred and twenty gentlemen and ladies at dinner last week, and about two hundred at tea? The superior part of the company, which attended a Bible meeting in our village, adjourned afterwards by my invitation to Barley Wood." This surely was an enterprise of no common moment; such as few ladies, married or single, even with the hope of thereby entertaining angels, would have ventured. But with her, hospitality was a favorite virtue. Her domestic establishment, including not less than eight servants, of whom, as she found to her cost, were a coachman and a gardener, - was on a scale of simple, tasteful elegance, which her success as an author enabled her without carefulness to sustain. Nor was she at all averse to the variety and excitement which such society furnished her; and from a vanity as natural as it was pardonable, of which most others would have betrayed more with much less merit for its apology, she seems to have encouraged this flattering resort of visitors, even when in the opinion of her friends her infirmities would have justified or perhaps prescribed retirement. “It must be confessed," says her biographer, cautiously adverting to this delicate subject, "that as her valuable life drew towards its end, her mind partook more and more of the general decay, and that for some time previous to her departure she was unfit, though unconscious of her unfitness, to

receive the visits of homage, respect, or curiosity, which continued to flow in upon her. But her philanthropy, which she had always indulged to an extent bordering on excess, made it an uneasy effort for her to refuse admittance to any visitor; and however expedient on many obvious grounds it was to spare her these excitements, this comparative seclusion was not so agreeable to herself as it was satisfactory to others."

Clifton was the last earthly residence of this honored and lamented lady. Her removal thither from Barley Wood, in 1828, under the vexatious domestic troubles to which we have sufficiently adverted, may be considered as the close of her active and intellectual life. From this period till her death, a space of more than five years, her health was never otherwise than in a very precarious state, and she was seldom free from pain. But to the very last her eye was not dim. She could read with ease and without spectacles the smallest print. Her hearing too was almost unimpaired; and, as a constant attendant observed, "until very near the close of life her features were not shrunk, nor wrinkled, nor uncomely, and her person retained to a considerable degree its wonted appearance, as at a much earlier period." It must also have been a high gratification to her friends, that, amidst the undeniable decay of her vigorous mind, the kindness of her affections, the sweetness of her temper, her considerate and active charity suffered no diminution or abatement. The arrangements of her will were in perfect consistency with the wellknown benevolence of her life. Almost the whole of her property, amounting to about £30,000 or nearly $140,000, she bequeathed to various religious and other charities; among which those of Bristol, in the neighbourhood of which she lived, where her sisters had early found in their school distinguished patronage, and of the best society of which they were themselves a part, were specially remembered. She died on the 7th of September, 1833, in the eighty-eighth year of her age.

As we have no opportunities of judging of the character of this admirable woman, which are not equally possessed by our readers, her works and her Memoirs, any eulogium we might offer, after the facts we have exhibited, however just, might be deemed superfluous. We prefer to leave with them the testimony of a faithfully attached and long valued friend; of one who saw Mrs. More, not as the world sees its followers

in their brightness and show, but as a trusted physician sees his patient, in the sick chamber, amidst weakness, and dejection, and pain.

"It has been my fortune," writes Dr. Carrick, in a highly interesting letter relating the circumstances of her last illness and death, "during a long and close intercourse with mankind, to have enjoyed many and valuable opportunities of observing and studying the human character under various and trying circumstances. But never, I can say with truth, have I known a character in all respects so perfect as that of Mrs. Hannah More."

Fethard, Erg.

ART. II. Proceedings of the Convention of the Young Men of Massachusetts, friendly to the Cause of Temperance, held at Worcester, July 1st and 2d, 1834. Boston. Ford & Damrell. 1834. 8vo. pp. 28.

IN contemplating the great temperance reform, no circumstance strikes us as more auspicious of its successful progress and final triumph, than the deep and active interest in it which is manifested by our young men.

While those of maturer years are rapidly passing off the stage, and their errors, prejudices, and vices along with them, the young, on the other hand, are coming forward into notice and influence, and more and more diffusing, in a thousand channels, through the living mass of society, those new truths and new virtues, in which they have improved upon a former generation.

The conspicuous part taken by young men in the temperance reform derives additional interest from the consideration, that this reform may be thought to call for peculiar self-denial in them, a sacrifice of those very indulgences, to which youth is most prone, and for which the animal warmth, love of excitement, and passion for social pleasure, so characteristic of that season of life, furnish at least some apology and extenuation.

We venture to remark further, presumptuous as the assertion may seem, that young men are more likely to take sound and correct views of the temperance cause,the prin

ciples upon which it rests, and the measures for promoting it, than those who are more advanced in life. The latter have grown up from childhood amidst the universal prevalence, and in the personal practice, of that habit, at which the temperance reform strikes its unsparing, destroying blow. To them, the doctrine of total abstinence, the first elementary principle of that reform, must originally have seemed extravagant and impracticable, because wise and good men, of their own and former times, have not only failed to discover, but uniformly in conduct contradicted and violated it. No short time, no slight. effort, is required to root out from the mind old prejudices and habits of thought. Even with a clear perception of the evil to be remedied, and an earnest desire to apply the remedy, these will ever insensibly blend, and embarrass the onward movement of reform by doubts and fears and suspicions which belong to an age gone by. Young men, on the contrary, look forth upon the world with eyes upon which the half-dispersed mists of error have left no dimness. If new principles have taken the place of old ones in society, their minds require no illumination to appreciate and go along with the change. They, without an effort, see things as they are, not as they have been; and, when still new measures of improvement are proposed, "forgetting the things which are behind, press towards the mark" of perfect and enduring regeneration.

These remarks have been suggested by the pamphlet whose title stands at the head of this article. It is an account of the proceedings of a convention of young men, held at Worcester on the 1st and 2d days of July last, to devise measures for advancing the temperance reformation. Previous conventions had been held for the same object in this and other states. The convention of young men is deserving of particular notice, chiefly on account of the new topics, connected with the great. general subject, but heretofore only slightly and incidentally noticed, which were brought up for discussion, and almost exclusively occupied the attention of the meeting. These were, first, the subject of legislation in regard to the sale of ardent spirit, and, secondly, the use of wine. We shall confine ourselves in what follows to the first of these questions. Upon this, the following resolutions were proposed, and unanimously. adopted.

“Resolved, that, in regard to the business of retailing, there is an inconsistency in our system of legislation, unworthy of the