Sunday morning the College-chapel is used by the whole Baptist community of Hillsdale, and the students may attend there or elsewhere as they please; but in the afternoon the service is specially designed for them, and their presence is required. In the evening are different Bible-classes, but of an order very much quieter than those at Oberlin. Indeed, at Hillsdale the whole tone seemed to me in this respect much more healthy. The desire was evident that a religious feeling should pervade the College, but we heard nothing of revivals, and the students did not seem oppressed by the kind of religious melancholy that one regretted in the older College. I have no doubt that the advantages of natural situation are greatly on the side of Hillsdale, and that here the students live altogether a far more healthy life, though one still deficient in physical activity. At the time of our visit, however, a class for gymnastics was being formed, and many of them entered into it with great spirit. I wished myself very much that some good croquet-grounds formed part of the College domains. The only thing that I saw by any means resembling athletic sports

was a kind of trial of strength by some of the young men in throwing small blocks of stone backward over their heads, and this I remember was objected to, not in itself, but because it was done just in front of the College.

Numbers of the students here, also, had just returned from the war, and certainly some were illustrations of the youth of many of the later regiments.

The feature in the Sunday programme which I most disliked was the custom, very common in the West, of having no regular mid-day meal on that day, but only a lunch of (on this occasion) apple-pie and bread and butter, with meat at the 6 o'clock supper. I suppose the idea is to save Sunday cooking; but I should hardly think the plan could be wholesome for a large community of hard-working students.

On Monday no College work is done, the day being assigned especially to such washing as the students choose to do in the College laundries. On the Monday that we spent at Hillsdale the afternoon was devoted to a " sociable"-a kind of friendly gathering of

all the students in the President's room, library, and adjoining apartments, where various objects of interest were exhibited, and a sort of conversazione (rather of the crowded kind) took place. These meetings are, I believe, only held at considerable intervals, and seem very popular.

Monday evening is always devoted to the meetings of the Literary Societies, of which four exist among the students, two being conducted by the male, and two by the female, students, and each limited to one sex or the other, for some reason which I could not understand. A room is given by the College to each of these societies, and the only form of extravagance popular at Hillsdale consists in decorating and adorning these rooms, really at considerable expense. Hardly any of the students considered carpets necessary in their own rooms, but the richer of these societies exhibited in their domain all sorts of expensive upholstery, including exceedingly comfortable arm-chairs, and carved cases for books and specimens; so that it had a really very curious effect to find the stern simplicity of the rest of the College separated

by only a door and curtain from a display of considerable taste and luxury in furniture, paintings hanging from the walls, and carved work (often, if not always, by former students) ornamenting the very doors.

Two at least of these societies issue from time to time neat magazines of their own, containing the essays or other literary efforts read or spoken at their meetings. Of these magazines we were given several numbers as a pleasant remembrance of our visit.

As illustration always goes twice as far as description, I will here insert two articles chosen from these little publications, the first being issued in "The Souvenir, by the Ladies' Literary Union," and the second in "The Amateur, by the Amphictyon Society," conducted by students of the sterner sex.

"CALICO.*

"There is, perhaps, no article so much abused, and yet at the same time so useful, as Calico. It is not stiff and ungraceful like silk, but neat, plain, and becoming, and, it should be added, cheap. It is not appreciated by the American people, and WHY cannot be conjectured, unless it be because it does not cost dimes enough. Delaines, merinos,

Anglicè-Cotton-print.

silks, and velvets, are well enough in their proper places, the parlour or the drawing-room, but even there the greatest attention must be paid them. Scarce anything may come in contact with them lest they be rumpled. Silk possesses a great animosity to all things in general, while Calico is affectionate. Although it delights in the company of the mild, it bears without flinching the presence of the rude. It does not gather itself into all manner of contortions every time it chances to meet with a nail. Calico prepares the niceties that tempt man's palate. You know not why, but it is not Calico that makes muddy coffee, burns the biscuits, or scorches the toast. It is Calico that can ramble in the woods, climb fences, and leap logs, without being injured. It is Calico that the rain does not spot nor the mud spoil. It has been well said, that when Calico comes blushing from the kitchen and takes a seat at the piano, and from it brings sweet melodious strains, and with these blends a musical voice, that then we can appreciate it.' It is Calico for school-girls, Calico for farmers' girls, and should be Calico for city girls. This is said to be a world of reforms, and here is a place in which woman, who has always thought that she is abused, may display her power. Let the advocate of woman's rights, before seeking a greater sphere of action, improve the opportunities already granted her. Here let there be a beginning. Crush silk to the earth, and elevate Calico. History informs us that woman has degenerated. We are not as our foremothers were. The women of the Revolution were discreet, courageous, and true, but they were found not with silks and satins. They were an honour to their country, and now, at the commencement of another war, we should strive to be noble and brave even as they were. Not that a person cannot be truly noble if arrayed in silks, but their influence cannot be as great. Silk craves attention, while generous Calico takes care of herself. There