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 wild place where he settled has become a pleasant village, not far from Cincinnati; there they were born, and have always resided. The father has been greatly blessed in his children; surely with such treasures he must be rich indeed. The excellent mother of these sweet singers is no longer living; the daughters are thus invested with the matronly duties of house-keeping, and, to their praise be it recorded, they never neglect domestic matters even for the wooings of the Muse.

Griswold, in his "Female Poets of America," has thus described the characteristics of these sisters. "Alice Carey evinces in many of her poems a genuine imagination and a creative energy that challenges peculiar praise. We have perhaps no other author, so young, in whom the poetical faculty is so largely developed. Her sister writes with vigour, and a hopeful and genial spirit, and there are many felicities of expression, particularly in her later pieces. She refers more than Alice to the common experience, and has, perhaps, a deeper sympathy with that philosophy and those movements of the day, which look for a nearer approach to equality, in culture, fortune, and social relations."

A volume of "Poems, by Alice and Phoebe Carey," was published in 1850. "Hualco, a Romance of the Golden Age of Tezcuco," by Alice Carey, appeared in 1851. The poem is founded upon adventures of a Mexican Prince, before the conquest, as related by Clavigero, Torquemada, and other historians.

CARLEMIGELLI, ASPASIE, born in Paris, in 1775, and was the daughter of one of the Prince de Conde's footmen. Her childhood was rendered so miserable, by the bad treatment she received from her mother, that she never spoke of it afterwards without the utmost horror. Obliged very early to labour for her own support, and left unprotected by her parents, she fell so violently in love, that she became dangerously ill, was thought deranged, and was sent to an asylum for the insane. But in her strongest paroxysms she never lost her judgment; and the physicians were accustomed to entrust her with the care of the other insane persons. She was released, but imprisoned again in 1793, for having spoken against the revolution. She was soon set free again; but they had taken from her all that she possessed, and, tired of her miserable life, she cried aloud in the streets, "God save the king!" But though she was again tried, she was acquitted.

Aspasie then endeavoured to obtain the condemnation of her mother, but in vain. She next turned her fury against the deputies who had caused so much bloodshed, and attempted the life of two. She was tried for this, and boldly avowed her intention. She would allow no one to defend her, and heard her condemnation with the greatest impassibility. She was guillotined, in 1798, at the age of twenty-three.

CARLEN, EMILY, a native of Sweden; her maiden name was Smith. She began her career as an authoress very early in life, for the purpose of adding to the means of her parents, who were in narrow circumstances. Her inspiration was thus of thus noblest kind, and more