Louis the Fourteenth. The most valuable of her letters are con-

tained in the <*Life and Character of the Duche-ss Elizabeth. Char- lotte of Orleans," by Professor SchUtz, Leipsic, 1820.

Wife of Frederic the Second of Prussia, Princess of Bmnswick Wolfenbtlttel, was bom in 1716, at Brunswick; married in 1733 and died in 1797. Being Compelled to this marriage, Frederic lived separate fi*om her during his whole life. But on his ascending tbe throne in 1740, he gave her proofs of his esteem, and on his death ordered her revenue of forty thousand crowns to be increased t© fifty thousand; 'for," said he, "during my whole reign she has never given me the slightest cause of dlssatisi^tion." Half of her income she appropriated to benevolent purposes. She translated several German works into French ; and wrote in French, "La Sago Revolution ;" "Meditation k TOccasion du Renouvellement de I'An- n^, sur les Soins que le Providence k pour les Humains, etc.;** "Reflexions pourtous les Jours de la Semaine ;" "R^exions sur 1' Etat des Affairs publiques, en 1778, addresses aox Personaes craentives."

Daughter of the Emperor Maximilian the Second, and wiffe of Charles the Ninth, King of France, was married at M^zteres, Nov. 26th., 1570. She was one of the most beautiful women of her time ; but her virtue even surpassed her beauty. The jealousy of the queen-mother, Catharine de Medicis, and the influence she possessed over the mind of her son, prevented Elizabeth from having any share in the events that occurred in the tumultuous reign of Charles the Ninth.

The deplorable massacre of St. Bartholomew affected her extremely ; though she was not informed of it till the morning, lest her opposition should influence the king.

She was gentle and patient, and devoted herself entirely to do- mestic concerns. Warmly attached to the king, during his illness, she spent all the time, when she was not attending on him, in prayers for his recovery. Thus she always preserved his affection and esteem ; and he often said, that he calght boast of having the most discreet and virtuous wife, not only in whole France, or is all Europe, but in the whole world.

Elizabeth wrote two books: one "On the Word of God;" the other, "On the principal events that happened during her residence in France." After the death of the king, her husband, she retired to Vienna, where she died, in 15925 at the age of thirty-eight, in a convent of her own foundation.

Daughter of Henry the Second, and of Catherine de Medicis, was born at Fontainebleau, in 1545. She was the destined wife of Edward the Sixth ; but the marriage was prevented by his premature death. Elizabeth was then betrothed to Don Carlos, Infant of Spain; and though they were mutually attached to each other, sbe was compelled, in spite of her repugnance, to marry his father, Philip the Second, who became a widower by the death of his wife Mary. Don Carlos never forgave this injury ; and having ex-