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  she ventured upon a critical paper for the reviews, and, through this medium, she has given us some just and thoughtful criticisms upon foreign writers. One volume, designed by her for the young, entitled "Social Evenings, or Historical Tales," was published by the Massachusetts School Library Association, and is stated to be one of the most popular of the collection. Its characteristics are simplicity, good sense, accuracy of statement, and compactness of detail, all carefully chosen and grouped in accordance with the leading purpose of the publication.

At a later period in life, her labours were continued amidst great suffering, and with a constant apprehension of a fatal termination. Her constitution, always delicate, was gradually yielding to her complaint, which was assisted in its progress by the intense activity of her mind. But this very activity, which helped her foe, was her principal solace. Of the tenacity with which she held to her employments, we may form some notion from a single fact. Her right hand having become paralyzed, she transferred the pen to the left, and acquired a new style of penmanship, which, entirely different from that which she wrote before, is yet singularly uniform, and even spirited and graceful. She bore her afflictions with a wonderful fortitude, a sweet, becoming cheerfulness, and a still unwearied exercise of her mental faculties, all concurring to illustrate the pure and noble Christian spirit, the cultivation of which had been carefully blended with that of her intellectual and moral nature.

After years of suffering, she expired peacefully and hopefully in the arms of her family, on the 23rd. of September, 1849, at the early age of thirty-six. A selection from her poetical writings has recently been made, and published in Charleston by Messrs. Walker and Richards, in a beautiful duodecimo of two hundred and twenty-four pages.

LEE, SARAH, lady, well known to naturalists as the biographer of Cuvier, and also to the public by her numerous works of travel and natural history, was the only daughter of John E. Wallis, Esq., of Colchester, where she was born in 1791. At the age of twenty-one, she married Mr. T. E. Bowdich, from whom she doubtless received that bias towards the study of nature which she afterwards manifested. She accompanied her husband in a mission to Ashantee, during which, it is said, "she achieved wonders by her devoted love and bravery." The account of this mission was published in 1819, and there is no doubt that she greatly assisted her husband in the preparation of that, as also of the following works which succeeded it—"Taxidermy, or the art of Collecting, Preparing, and Mounting Objects of Natural History," 1820; "An Analysis of the Natural Classification of. Mammalia," 1821; "An Essay on the Superstitions, Customs, and Arts common to the Ancient Egyptians, Abyssinians, and Ashantees," 1821; and "Elements of Conchology," 1822

In 1823, Mr. Bowdich set out on another mission to Africa, accompanied by his devoted wife; from this he never returned; having died at Bathurst, near the mouth of the Gambia, in January, 1824. "The first solicitude of the bereaved widow," we are told, "was to arrange her husband's manuscripts for publication;"