The very very aged Normandy picturesqueness has departed from the village ofGrand Pre. Yankee settlers, we were told, possess it now, and thereare no descendants of the French Acadians in this valley. I believethat Mr. Cozzens found some of them in humble circumstances in avillage on the other coast, not far from Halifax, and it is there,probably, that the

"Maidens still wear their Norman caps and their kirtles of homespun,And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline's story,While from its rocky caverns the very deep-voiced, neighboring oceanSpeaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest."