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 great versatility of talent, and united beauty, grace, ease, and archness, with dignity, tenderness, delicacy, and judgment. She restored to the stage the masterpieces of Moliere, which had long been neglected by the public. After a theatrical career of thirty-two years, most of which were a continual series of triumphs, Madame de Pamy retired from the stage in 1808, and became the centre of a brilliant circle of friends, in which she was remarkable for her powers of conversation. A few weeks before her death, she threw into the fire a large collection of anecdotes and other of her writings, in prose and verse, because they contained some strokes of personal satire. She died in 1813. M. Arnault owed his liberty and life, in 1792, to her interference in his favour, at the risk of her own life.  CONTI, MARGARET LOUISA, Lorraine, Princess de, daughter of Henry, Duke de Guise, surnamed the Balafre, or The Scarred, was born in 1577, and died in 1631. In 1605, she married, by the request of Henry the Fourth, who was in love with her and wished her to remain at court, Francis de Bourbon, Prince de Conti. They, however, left Henry's court secretly, on the wedding night, and went to Brussels. The Prince de Conti dying in 1614, Louisa devoted herself to literature, patronized the learned, and employed. her time in studying their works, and in writing. She was one of Cardinal Richelieu's enemies, and he banished her to Eu, where she died. She wrote the loves of Henry the Fourth, under the title of "Les Amoures du Grande Alexandre." She was suspected of having married tho Marshal de Bassompierre for her second husband.  CONTI, PRINCESS DE, maiden name was Mademoiselle de Blois, was the daughter of Louis the Fourteenth, and Louise de la Valliére. She married Louis Armand de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, brother of the prince who was chosen King of Poland. Louis Armand died of small pox. The princess was equally celebrated for her wit and wonderful beauty. Muley Ismael, King of Morocco, happening to see her portrait, fell in love with her, and sent an ambassador to demand her hand. Another likeness of this princess inspired the son of the Viceroy of Lima with a violent passion; and one of these pictures having been lost in India, was found by the natives, who worshipped it as the image of the goddess Monas. The princess was a protectress of literary men. She died at the commencement of the eighteenth century.  COOK, ELIZA, deservedly distinguished for her poetical productions, which are as popular with "the people" of America, as those of her own country. Miss Cook resides in London; her childhood and youth were passed partly in Southwark, where her father, a calker by trade, resided, and partly in the country. She was the "youngling of the flock" by eleven years, and, like a babe born out of due season, was tenderly cherished by her excellent mother, whose character, disciplined by suffering, seems to have exerted a great and beneficial influence over her gifted child.

The death of this beloved mother, when Miss Cook was about fifteen, left her in that heart-desolation which is the ordeal of