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 Filiasi. These applied to Madame Michiel to aid their labour; and it was while immersed in the studies this task involved, that the idea of her "Feste Veniziane," so happily executed, was planned. She died in 1832, aged seventy-seven years. A monument was erected to her memory, with an inscription, which, though eulogistic, considering her life, character, and learning, was not superior to her merits.

MILESI, BIANCA Milan, has been very carefully educated by judicious parents. Possessing a mind capable of the highest cultivation, every thing which instructors can effect has been done to render her thoroughly accomplished. Not satisfied with a proficiency in the lighter intellectual acquirements, the most profound studies have received her patient and indefatigable attention. As her abilities and her laborious course of study were well known, her first appearance in the Republic of Letters was greeted with an applause that her subsequent works have fully justified. She is a respectable artist, having studied painting at Rome, and developed a genius for that art, which would have rendered her remarkable even without her scientific honours.

MILLER, LADY, at Bath-Easton, near Bath. She published "Letters from Italy," and also a volume of poems. She was well known as a literary lady, and a patroness of literature. Her death occurred in 1781.

MILNER, MARY, an English female writer, who has done good service to the cause of religion, by striving to infuse into the current periodical and other literature of the day, a spirit of true christian piety. A brief glance at the various writings of this lady will show that her efforts in this direction have neither been few nor unsuccessful. To the numerous readers of these works, as well as to the religious public generally, the following few particulars of her life will not be uninteresting.

She is the eldest daughter of Thomas Wilberforce Compton, Esq., a relative of that great man who so materially contributed to the success of the Anti-Slavery movement in. this country. Mary Compton was born November 12th., 1797, and resided from infancy with her great-uncle the late Very Rev. Isaac Milner, Dean of Carlisle, and President of Queen's College, Cambridge, where he was also professor of mathematics. She was married, February 15th., 1820, to the Rev. Joseph Milner, Vicar of Appleby, Westmorland, where she still resides.

Besides her contributions to periodicals, which are numerous, she has written "The Christian Mother," published in 1838; "The Life of Dean Milner," 1842; an abridgment of the same work in 1844; "Sketches illustrative of Important Periods in the History of the World, with Observations on the Moral and Religious uses of History," 1843; a second series of these sketches came out a year or two after. In 1849, Mrs. Milner edited a revised and enlarged edition of "Mrs. Trimmer's History of England," for Messrs. Grant and Griffith; and, in 1850, appeared under her editorship the "People's Gallery of Engravings," in four superb quarto volumes; also "The Juvenile Scrap-Book." "The Garden, the Grove, and the