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in the close of the seventeenth and the commencement of the eighteenth centiiry. 

 The people of this state will cherish in grateful remembrance Isabella Graham, 

 a Scottish lady, who passed the greater portion of her Hfe in New- York, minis- 

 tering to the poor, and alleviating the sorrows of the afflicted ; and who was 

 prominent among the founders of the orphan asylum in that city. A memoir of 

 her life has been written by Divie Bethune. The poet Southey has said that 

 the annals of English literature did not furnish a more brilliant example of pre- 

 cocious genius than Lucretia Maria Davidson. Her biography has been written 

 by Miss Sedgwick. That it has been vmtten well and justly, the name of the 

 authoress is a sufficient guaranty. The genius of Margaret Miller Davidson, a 

 younger sister of Lucretia, at a very early age produced fruits equally ripe, and 

 which have been gathered and given to the public by the kind and gentle hand 

 of Washington Irving. We conclude these notes of female biography with men- 

 tioning two works recently published, one a Memoir of Lucy Hooper, with 

 Selections from her Poetical Remains, by John Keese. The memoir is a discri- 

 minating narrative of the life and character of a young lady of genius, and of 

 deep and pure affections. The other work is the " The Missionary's Daughter," 

 being a memoir of Lucy Goodale Thurston, by Mrs. A. P. Cummings. The 

 subject was a daughter of one of the devoted band of missionaries in the Sand- 

 wich Islands, whose brief history is affecting and instructive. 



Our library of travels is already quite voluminous. At the hazard of omit- 

 ting many equally deserving of notice, we mention the following : 



Travels in England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States, in 1813, '14, '15, 

 by Mordecai M. Noah ; 1819. A Tour from the city of New- York to Detroit, 

 by William Darby ; 1819. Travels to the Sources of the Mississippi, &c. under 

 Gov. Cass, in 1820, by Henry A. Schoolcraft ; 1821. Travels to the Central 

 Portions of the Mississippi Valley, &c. in 1821, by the same ; 1825. Narrative 

 of an Expedition to the Source of the Mississippi, in 1832, under H. A. School- 

 craft, by the same ; 1834. Narrative of the Loss of the American brig Com- 

 merce on the Coast of Africa, in 1815, by Capt. James Riley. A year in Europe, 



