production, which the Lon-Spectator has

pronounced the finest p ever written in

America. In the e. part of the war, one

dark Saturday ni in the dead of winter,

there died in Commercial Hospital, in

Cincinnati y?nng .woman,/ over whose

head o-two-arid-twenty summers had psttt

^ She had once been possessed of

enviable share of beauty, and had bet as

she herself says,41 flattered and song

for the charms of the face,' but, alt

upon her fair brow had long been writti

that terrible, word—. Once the pxi of

respectable parentage, her first ww.

s^ep was the small beginning of t eame

old story over again, which h been the

only history of thousand Highly educated

and accomplished i; manner, she' might

hare shone in tt best society. But the

evil hour thi proved her rub came, and

having spen a young Ufe in disgrace and

shame, th poor friendless one died the

melancholy death of a broken-hearted

outcast.