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 historian, affirms that the queen frequently interrupted him and his school-fellows in her walks, and questioned them, with much closeness, on their progress in Latin. Ingulphus was then a scholar at Westminster monastery, near Editha's palace. She was also skilful in needle-work, and kind to the poor. Her character is very interesting, and her heart-trials must have been severe.

EGEE, of the African Amazons, of whom it is related that she passed from Lybia into Asia with a powerful army, with which she made great ravages. Opposed by Laomedon, King of Troy, she set his power at defiance; and, loaded with an immense booty, was returning to her own country, when, in crossing the sea, she perished with her whole army.

EGERTON, LADY FRANCES, her husband on a journey, which gave occasion to his "Mediterranean Sketches," and from her pen, "Journal of a Tour in the Holy Laud." The Quarterly Review says of this work, "Lady F. Egerton's little volume, taken all in all, well justifies the respect with which we have always heard her name mentioned. Although she travelled with all the comfort and protection which station and wealth could secure to her, and the smooth ways of pilgrimage now permit, yet that one indispensable qualification which the Christian reader demands in all who presume to approach the altar-place of our faith, the absence of which no array of learning and no brilliancy of talent can supply—namely, the genuine pilgrim's heart—that, we find in Lady F. Egerton's unpretending journal, more than in any other modern expedition to the Holy Land that we know." The sweetest praise Lady Egerton could receive for her literary genius, would be poor to the compliment her husband has paid her at the close of his work; the offices he awards to her of "Guide, companion, monitress, and friend," are significant of the true womanly virtues of her heart, and of the entire sympathy of their intellectual pursuits. Fortunate is the woman thus wedded.

EGLOFFSTEIN, JULIE, COUNTESS VON, German artist, was for many years demoiselle d'honneur to the Grand Duchess Luise Weimar. Her vocation for painting was early displayed, but combated and discouraged as derogatory to her station. A journey to Italy, undertaken on account of her health, fixed her destiny for life; yet in her peculiar circumstances it required real strength of mind to take the step she has; but a less decided course could not well have emancipated her from trammels, the force of which can hardly be estimated out of Germany. There is nothing mannered or conventional in her style, and she possesses the rare gift of original and creative genius.

"When I have looked at the Countess Julie in her painting room," says Mrs. Jameson, "surrounded by her drawings, models, and casts—all the powers of her exuberant enthusiastic mind flowing free in their natural direction, I have felt at once pleasure, and admiration, and respect. It should seem that the energy of spirit and real magnanimity of mind, which could trample over social prejudices, not the less strong because manifestly absurd, united to