production, %yhich*J the 'Condon

^Spectator has pronounced the finest'

poem .'ever , written in America^. .-In'

the early. ~~"Ipart of the war, on

e'^arkV Saturday night in the dead "of

winter, there died in the Commercial

Hospital,. in Cincinnati, a young womant

oyer vshose head only twoand-twenty

summers bad-passed. She-had been once

possessed of an enviable share of

beauty, and had been, as she. herself

says, ".flattered and sought for the

charms of the face," but, alas! upon her

fair brojy had Jong been written that

terrible name " .. * - Once th e pride

of ^ respectable .parentage, her first

\\'ropg s|ep 'wa^ the small beginning of

the same olu story oyer .-again, which,

has been the v.onlyhistory .of

thousands." Highly educated, and

accomplished in manner, she might:have

shone in the best society/ Jiutibe evil

hour that proved her ruin camej and

having spent a "young life In disgrace

an^fsjuime, the poor friendless one

'died the=melancholy death of a broken-

heart'ed; outcast;* Arnpng; her personal

effects was found thejMiSi,? of the

.Beautiful Snow."}