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Rh ever was in England, they are, most likely, chiefly from report and invention, which the intriguing spirit then prevalent gave sufficient grounds for. Her Memoires Historiques of Europe, from 1672 to 1679, are part fiction, and part truth. Her romances are still read with interest—They are Adventures of Hypolytus, Earl of Douglas; an historical one of John de Bourbon, Prince of Carency, 1692, and Tales of the Fairies, in 4 vols. Her daughter. Madam de Heere, likewise wrote with applause in prose and verse.

Memoirs of French Ladies by Mrs. Thickness.

wrote genealogical tables of distinguished families, ornamented and painted by herself; in which she has rectified the faults of a former genealogist. This work is highly spoken of by the literati of Sweden, but has not been made public. F. C.

had a liberal education; and, having added much acquired knowledge to great natural endowments, made an eminent figure among the literati of that period, and hence acquired so extraordinary a reputation, that it has been said she was constituted governess to Edward VI. If this be a fact, it is a very surprising one; since she could not be much more than twenty-five years of age at the death of that young monarch, and only nineteen when he began to reign. However that may be, it is certain that she early became distinguished for