The following pages have been translated and considerably abridged from a work by an anonymous French author. Though differing in style, and in some of its modes of thought and judgment, from those to which we are accustomed, the scope of the book is yet so practical, it bears so closely upon many of the questions of woman's sphere and relations which are to-day agitating the world, and it shows such profound insight into character and such depth of religious experience, as to give it a real value at the present time. Quiet as its story may appear to those who have been nurtured upon the sensational literature which too easily finds a place in our homes and Sunday-school libraries, yet there are many earnest young women who will welcome the instructions brought to them in so interesting a form.