American enterprise will not halt till it has built up the waste places of our land, and in this case literally made the desert to blossom as the rose.  Thus gloriously does our new civilization reclaim the errors of the past, building upon ancient ruins the enlightened institutions of to-day, and grafting fresh vigor upon effete races and nationalities.  And now, at last, the Spanish Peaks, those mighty ancient sentinels whose twin spires, like eyes, have watched the slow rise and fall of stately but tottering dynasties in the long ago, are to look out upon a different scene—­a new race come in the might of its freedom and with almost the glory of a conquering host to redeem a waiting land from the outcome of centuries of avaricious and bigoted misrule, and even from the thraldom of decay.

GEORGE REX BUCKMAN.

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LOST.

  I.

  I lost my treasures one by one,
    Those joys the world holds dear;
  Smiling I said, “To-morrow’s sun
    Will bring us better cheer.” 
  For faith and love were one.  Glad faith! 
  All loss is naught save loss of faith.

  II.

  My truant joys come trooping back,
    And trooping friends no less;
  But tears fall fast to meet the lack
    Of dearer happiness. 
  For faith and love are two.  Sad faith! 
  ’Tis loss indeed, the loss of faith.

MARY B. DODGE.

ADAM AND EVE.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

From the day on which Adam knew that the date of Jerrem’s trial was fixed all the hope which the sight of Eve had rekindled was again completely extinguished, and, refusing every attempt at consolation, he threw himself into an abyss of despair a hundred-fold more dark and bitter than before.  The thought that he, captain and leader as he had been, should stand in court confronted by his comrades and neighbors (for Adam, ignorant of the disasters which had overtaken them, believed half Polperro to be on their way to London), and there swear away Jerrem’s life and turn informer, was something too terrible to be dwelt on with even outward tranquillity, and, abandoning everything which had hitherto sustained him, he gave himself up to all the terrors of remorse and despair.  It was in vain for Reuben to reason or for Eve to plead:  so long as they could suggest no means by which this dreaded ordeal could be averted Adam was deaf to all hope of consolation.  There was but one subject which interested him, and only on one subject could he be got to speak, and that was the chances there still remained of Jerrem’s life being spared; and to furnish him with some food for this hope, Eve began to loiter at the gates, talk to the warders and the turnkeys, and mingle with the many groups who on some business or pretext were always assembled about the yard or stood idling in the various passages with which the prison was intersected.