If so, then is he excelled in glory by the devil, far more than he excels the woman. But love, not intellect, is the glory of man, as it is, indeed, the highest glory and crowning attribute of God himself; and it is in this attribute that the woman excels the man. In gentleness, meekness, humility, love, compassion, mercy, consists the glory of man, even of the God-Man Himself; and in these the woman is the glory of humanity.

In conclusion, then, man is the superior animal, and also the superior intelligence; but woman is the superior being, 'the cunningest pattern of excelling nature,' the paragon of all God's works. Perhaps, however, it is not exactly fair to compare the sexes in point of intellect; for, although the mind of man is, for man's work, superior to that of woman's; yet is her mind superior to man's for her own appointed work, or mission in the world. The different spheres appointed to man and woman in this world, however, and the wonderful adaptedness of each sex to its own peculiar sphere or mission, must be reserved as the subject for some future occasion.

ART. VIII.-The First Eight Volumes of the Southern Review. Baltimore: from January 1867 to January 1871.

This number of the SOUTHERN REVIEW brings its eighth volume to a close. Those persons who predicted its speedy failure, allowing only three, or at most only twelve, months for its continuance, were much wiser than its senior editor and founder. That is to say, they entertained a much more sagacious estimate of the trials, difficulties, and discouragements which would beset such an enterprise than he did; and, if their prediction was not fulfilled, this is because they had underrated

the energy and perseverance which he had brought to the undertaking, as well as the literary ability of the South by which it has been sustained. The history of this enterprise has, at least, demonstrated two things: first, that the intelligence and cultivation of the South are fully equal to the production of a first-class Quarterly; and, secondly, that the men of capital and means are not disposed to extend to such a periodical the sympathy, support, and 'material aid,' which it deserves. Hence, although a generous press, and a generous people, have lavished on each and every issue of the REVIEW all the praise it deserved, if not more than all; yet, in a pecuniary point of view, has it languished in its every fibre, and limped in its every member. If, as we have often said to ourselves, we only had a machine to convert golden opinons into greenbacks, how splendid, in all respects, would be the success of the SOUTHERN REVIEW! But, unfortunately, there is, as yet, no such machine to be found among all the manifold and multiplied inventions of the age.

We have been told, indeed, by more than a thousand persons that if suitable means had been taken to spread the circulation of the SOUTHERN REVIEW, there would have been no lack of patronage, or 'material aid.' But, as often as the trial has been made, it has been easy to convince such persons, that they had never maturely considered the question respecting which they so confidently pronounced. They knew, indeed, neither what had been done, nor what could be advantageously attempted, to increase the circulation of the REVIEW. It seems perfectly evident to our minds, however, that, if instead of talking loosely and at random, cach one of these friendly advisers had only brought one additional permanent subscriber to the REVIEW, it would have made a very great difference in the result. Be this as it may, it is certain that, in such a case at least, the most idle and unprofitable of all idle and unprofit able things, is the miserable folly of crimination and recrimination. We must take the world as it is; and the world as it is had, in point of fact, brought the SOUTHERN REVIEW, in spite of all its honors, to a serious crisis in its affairs; another melancholy proof, if you please, that 'the best laid schemes of men and mice aft gang agley.'

It was under the pressure of this crisis, that the senior editor of the REVIEW, giving vent to feelings which had long oppressed his mind, published the following statement: 'I have now conducted, as is well known to a few persons, the SOUTHERN REVIEW, for three years and a half, in the city of Baltimore. The editorial department of the REVIEW, which alone belongs to an editor in anything like favorable circumstances, has not only been a labor of love to me, but one of intense delight. But the business department, with which no editor should be troubled, and for which I have no taste, has been the source of immense annoyance and discomfort to me. The supervision of articles as they pass through the press; the correction of proofs with eyes already overtasked with the labor of reading and writing; the demands made upon my time by the dishonesty, or negligence, or the failure, and disappearance, of agents; these, and many other things too tedious to mention, have rendered the business department of the REVIEW an intolerable burden to me. I rejoice in the literary department; I absolutely abhor the business department. This has seemed too much for a brain already sufficiently taxed with literary, scientific, and editorial labors. The conviction has, indeed, for some time, been forcing itself on my mind, that I must either get rid of the business department of the REVIEW, with all its vexations and troubles, or else abandon the enterprise itself, as too much for me. But to abandon the SOUTHERN REVIEW Would

be like the pang of death to me. It is the child of my affections. I have made so many sacrifices for it; I have bestowed so many fears, and anxieties, and labors upon it; that I have often said to myself, in the midst of my greatest troubles, "No! it shall not be abandoned! Come what will, the SOUTHERN REVIEW shall be sustained!" But, after all, these "brave words" were only those of a poor weak creature; and only showed how great was the pressure of the necessity on the one side. Hence I have felt, in my weakness, that the resolution could hardly be carried out while the business department of the REVIEW continued to press on the other side, and grind me as between two mill-stones.

'How, then, to get relief from this nether mill-stone, from

this hard and grinding necessity of the business department of the enterprise? The world has, in fact, known but little, or nothing, about its existence. Otherwise, perhaps, the friends of the South, or at least some of them, would have afforded the desired relief by placing the business of the REVIEW in such hands, and on such a basis, that the editor, and other writers for its pages, might receive at least half pay for their labors. I have often thought of making the state of the case known, with an appeal for such moderate relief; but although I have found it easy to think of such an appeal, I have found it impossible to make it.

'In making the above remarks, I wish to be distinctly understood, Money is not my object. I am willing to work for the South; nay, I am willing to be the slave of the South, but I am not willing to be worked to death in such servitude, without something like a reasonable compensation for my labor. I am not willing to bear all the burdens of the SOUTHERN REVIEW; which is carried on, not for my own benefit, but for the great cause of truth, and justice, and mercy.'

Some time, indeed, before the above statement was made public, we had determined to introduce a theological element into the SOUTHERN REVIEW. We concluded that if we had to write for our own pleasure, we would write on those subjects which are the most agreeable to us. Hence our minds, deeply impressed with the vanity of all earthly things, reverted to our first love, the study of Theology, which Lord Bacon so properly calls, 'the Queen of the Sciences.' And who knows, we said to ourselves, but that the introduction of such an element would, on the whole, increase the circulation of the REVIEW, as well as its usefulness? It is certain, that it would not be seriously injured, in any respect, by the discussion of the great religious and ecclesiastical questions of the day, or rather of the age.. These were, however, the minor motives by which the above determination was settled and fixed in our minds. We could not consider, indeed, how deeply the age is stirred by such questions, nor the signs and portents of changes and revolutions, the most appalling as well as the most encouraging, with which the religious world is rife, without

feeling a natural desire to express our views, however poor and feeble, in regard to such stupendous and eternal interests. Nay, it continually haunted us as a solemn duty, that we should, speak out the thing that it is in us respecting such interests, and not merely look on, like dumb dogs, while the powers of light and the powers of darkness are so manifestly at work on all sides around us. The resolution was retaken; and that, too, with a still deeper purpose. We determined to leave the dead to bury their dead; and let our voice, however poor and contemptible, be heard in what we conceive to be the cause of the living God. And after this resolution was taken, we soon rejoiced at the hitherto meagre success of the SOUTHERN REVIEW; because we soon became convinced that, having been led by a way we knew not of, we had, at last, been landed in the safe and unquestionable line of duty.

'There's a Divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough bew them how we will.'

Having resolved on the thing to be done, the next question was, how to do it? How to turn the new feature of the REVIEW to the greatest advantage? While revolving this question in mind, our thoughts naturally turned to the Methodists, who had, from the first, shown themselves the most active and working friends of the REVIEW, and who would, we were perfectly aware, still more warmly approve it with its new theological element. Hence, when we learned that the General Conference of the Methodist Church, about to be held at Memphis, would consider the expediency of starting a Quarterly, we determined to suggest the propriety of throwing their immense influence in favor of the SOUTHERN REVIEW. Some of their periodicals had, indeed, all along advocated the idea of concentrating their patronage on the SOUTHERN REVIEW, instead of starting one of their own. By this suggestion, we hoped to be relieved, at last, of the business department of the REVIEW, and left free to devote all our energies to its editorial department, the supreme object of our wishes. We thought that the SOUTHERN REVIEW was entitled to the support and patronage of the Methodists; because we knew that its theology would be in perfect conformity with their twenty-five Articles, which