vm MEMOIE OF 



its fine tone of healthy Christian feeling, commanded 

 a large and speedy circulation, and secured a ready 

 welcome for its successors, " Homely Hints " and 

 " Things to be Thought of." The popularity of her 

 writings, however, did not enkindle any literary ambi- 

 tion, and, but for the benevolent object which she 

 sought to promote, it may be questioned whether these 

 " Chronicles of a Garden " would have been given to 

 the world. Still, like almost every thing she did, she 

 had pleasure in writing them, and had her life been 

 prolonged she would have had pleasure in revising 

 them, and in making them as perfect as possible. 

 Although she was never permitted to see a single 

 page in print, it was one of the last gratifications of 

 her life to receive the drawings which adorn the book 

 from the pencil of her dear and distinguished friend, 

 Dr R K. Greville ; and amidst the languor of a last 

 illness, her eye glistened with delight as she gazed on 

 this token of kindness from one who had long been 

 loved like a father at Woodville, and whom she knew 

 that she would by and by meet again beneath the tree 

 of life in the midst of the paradise of God. 



Her heart had long been affected by rheumatism, 

 but it was not till mid-summer, I860, that there ap- 

 peared any symptoms of acute disease. On Friday, 



