I would not have the sight of those I love DIEGE Shed not the wild and hopeless tear Crowns our blessed martyr's brow! MISS MCINTOSH, the author of a series of fictions, characterized by their truthfulness and happy style, is the descendant of a Scottish family, which came among the first settlers to Georgia. Her ancestors in Scotland were distinguished by the handling of the sword rather than the pen, though an uncle of her grandfather, Brigadier General Wilhain McIntosh, who led the Highland troops in the rising of 1715, during a fifteen years' imprisonment in the Castle of Edinburgh, where he died, wrote a treatise on "Inclosing, Fallow ing, and Planting in Scotland." With fortunes greatly diminished by the adherence of his family to the Stuarts, her great-grandfather, Capt. John Moro McIntosh, with one hundred adherents sailed from Inverness, in 1735, for the colony of Georgia, and landing on the banks of the Alatawaha, named the place at which they settled New Inverness, now Darien, in the county which still retains the name of McIntosh. This John More McIntosh was the same who originated and was the first signer of the protest made by the colonists to the Board of Trustees in England, against the introduction of African slaves into Georgia. Of his sons and grandsons, seven bore commissions in the American Army of the Revolution. Of these, Major Lachlan McIntosh was the father of our author. He combined the dissimilar professions of the law and of arms. His standing as a lawyer was high in his native state, and after the war of the Revolution, political honors were often thrust upon him, and his pen was often employed in defence of the meh-res of his party. He was admired for his social qualities, and his warm heart and conversational talents are still remembered. He was married to an accomplished lady, wno united great energy of character to purely feminine traits. Major McIntosh resided after the Revolution in the village of Sunbury, forty miles south of Savannah, on the seacoast of Georgia, where our author was born. In a reminiscence of this spot she thus records her impressions of its scenery. "Sunbury was beautifully situated about five miles from the ocean, on a bold frith or arm of the sea, stretching up between St. Catherine's I-land on the one side and the main land on the other, forming, apparently, the horns of a cre cent, at the base of which the town stood. It was a beautiful spot, carpeted with the short-leaved Bermuda grass, and shaded with oak, cedar, locust, and a flowering tree, the Pride of India. It was then the summer resort of all the neighboring gentry, who went thither for the sea air. Within the last twenty years it has lost its character for health, and is now a desolate rain; yet the hearts of those who grew up in its shades still cling to the memory of its loveliness; a recollection which Mr.J. M Sutoch exists as a bond of union between them, which no distanco can wholly sever. Its sol, still green and beautiful as over, is occasionally visited by a solitary pilgrim, who goes thither with something of the tender reverence with which he would visit the grave of a beloved friend." Shie In Sunbury, at an academy, which dispensed its favors to pupils of both sexes, Miss Melntosh received all of her education for which she was indebted to schools;* and there the first twenty years of her life were spent. After that time her home having been broken up by the death of her mother, she passed much of her time with a married sister, who resided in New York, and afterwards with her brother, Capt. James M. McIntosh of the U. S. navy, whose family had also removed to that city. In 1835, Miss McIntosh was induced to sell her property in Georgia, and invest the proceeds in New York. The investment proving injudicious, she was dependent on her friends or her pen. characteristically chose the independence and intellectual development of the latter. Her first thought was to translate from the French. friend advised her to attempt a juvenile series of publications, which should take the place in moral science which the popular " Peter Parley" books had taken in matters of fact, and suggested "Aunt Kitty" as a noma de plume. The story of Bind Alice was accordingly written in 1838, but did not find a publisher till 1841. Its success led to a second, Jessie Grahame, which was followed in quick succession by Florence Arnott, Grace and Clara, and Ellen Leslie. Each of these little works was designed for the inculcation and A A few notes before us, from the pen of Miss McIntosh, contain a sour-nir to the memory of this head master of Sunbury. He was an Irish Gentleman-an epithet which he marked as quite distinct from that of a Gentleman from Ireland. He was a graduate of the University of Antrim :—a Presbyterian divine, yet not in early life after a very strict model. He would indeed. then, have answered Addison's demands well, being quite willing to avail himself of the eloquence of the classics of the pulpit, while he could take a hand readily, either in backgammon-Sir Roger de Coverley's special requisition-or in whist. In his latter years, however, for he has passed away from earth, he became an earnest and sincere Christian minister, and might have said to many of his order, I was in labors more abundant.' As a teacher he was unsurpassed. Taught in the niceties of his own language and of the dead languages, as few American scholars of that day were, he seemed especially gifted for the communication of knowledge to others. On his first arrival iu this country he had resided in Alexandria, and had taught in the family of General Washington, as he was proud of remembering. When he came to Georgia he inarried-there he contioned to live, and there he died at a very advanced age, nearly, if not quite, a hundred. Even to the last year of his life he would have detected an imperfect concord or false prosody. When he was a teacher, the barbarous age of the rod and the ferule still continued, and the boys of his school sometimes complained that they were made to expiate by their application, not their own faults only, but also those of their fair companions, who were of course exempted from such punishments. To those who showed any interest in study, he was kind and indulgent. To myself he scarcely offered any constraint, permitting me often to choose my studies and prescribe my own lessons. The natural dislike of a vivacious girl to plod ever and ever in one beaten track, while boys, who were not always brighter than herself, were leaving her to penetrate into the higher myste ries of science, he stimulated rather than repressed, producing thus an emulation, which gave a healthy impulse to both parties I remember often to have heard Dr. McWhir-for this was the name of the master-say, that this rivalry had done more for his school than a dozen rods, and I am quite sure that with It there mingled no bitterness, for some of those lads have been among the best friends of my life. The peculiar training of such a school must of course have exercised no small influence on the mental characteristics. It perhaps enabled me to exercise more readily the self-reliance necessary when thrown on my own resources,-yet it never inclined me for a moment to the vagaries of those who stand forth as the champions of women's rights. He who best understood the nature Ile had formed, assigned to woman a position of subjection and dependence, and I consider the noblest right to be, the right intelligently to obey His laws. In that obedience is found, doubtless, the highest honor of man or woman." VOL 11.-25 illustration of some moral sentiment. In Blind Alice it was the happiness springing from the exercise of benevolence; in Jessie Grahame, the love of truth; in Florence Arnott, the distinction between true generosity and its counterfeit; in Grace and Clara, the value of the homely quality of justice; and in Ellen Leslie, the influence of temper on domestic happiness. In 1844, Conquest and Self-Conquest, and Woman an Enigma, were published by the Harpers. In 1845, the same publishers brought out Praise and Prin ciple, and a child's tale called The Cousins. Her next work, To Seem and to Be, was published in 1846 by the Appletons, who, in 1847, republished Aunt Kitty's Tales, collected from the previous editions into a single volume. In 1848, the same house published Charms and Counter Charms, and the next year, Donaldson Manor, a collec tion of articles written at various times for magazines, and strung together by a slight thread. In 1850, was brought out Woman in America, the only purely didactic work the author has pulished. In 1853, appeared The Lofty and the Lowly, a picture of the life of the slave and the master, in the southern portion of the United States. In England, Miss McIntosh's books have enjoyed a good reputation, with a large popular sale. They were first introduced by the eminent tragedian, Mr. Macready, who, having obtained Aunt Kitty's Tales in this country to take home to his children, read them himself on the voyage, as he afterwards wrote to a friend in this city, with such pleasure, that soon after his arrival in London he placed them in the hands of a publisher, who reproduced them there. The author's other books have been published in England as they made their appearance in America, and in the competition for uncopyrighted foreign literature, by more than one London publisher; though with the liberty of occasionally changing the name. THE BROTHERS; OR, IN THE FASHION AND ABOVE THE "Some men are born to greatness-some achieve greatness-and some have greatness thrust upon them." Henry Manning belonged to the second of these three great classes. The son of a mercantile adventurer, who won and lost a fortune by speculation, he found himself at sixteen years of age called on to choose between the life of a Western farmer, with its vigorous action, stirring incident, and rough usage-and the life of a clerk in one of the most noted establishments in Broadway, the great source and centre of fashion in New York. Mr. Morgan, the brother of Mrs. Manning, who had been recalled from the distant West by the death of her husband, and the embarrassments into which that event had plunged her, had obtained the offer of the latter situation for one of his two nephews, and would take the other with him to his prairie-home. "I do not ask you to go with me, Matilda,” he said to his sister, "because our life is yet too wild and rough to suit a delicate woman, reared, as you have been, in the midst of luxurious refinements. The difficulties and privations of life in the West fall most heavily upon woman, while she has little of that sustaining power which man's more adventurous spirit finds in overcoming difficulty and coping with danger. But let me have one of your • From the Evenings at Donaldson Manor. |