I embellish the common and gentler humanities of life, and, under the allurements of fiction, breathe a humanizing and subduing in?uence, favorable to the development of the great principles of Christian brotherhood. The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating dis tresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.