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 were all remarkable chiefly for their high moral aim and tendency.

She, as well as her husband and father, entered warmly into the cause of negro emancipation, and availed themselves of every opportunity to assist, succour, and instruct the coloured people. The introduction of anti-slavery reports and other pamphlets into the college, and their ready acceptation by the students, stirred up the slave-holding interest against the Principal and Professor Stowe, and ultimately led to their withdrawal from the establishment, which was for a time deserted by its pupils, who rather preferred to give up its advantages than their notions of universal freedom. Professor Stowe accepted the professorship of biblical literature in the Theological Seminary of Andover, in Massachusetts, in 1850, and in the same year his wife, having thoroughly acquainted herself with the sad catalogue of crimes and miseries included in the American slavery system, published in succeeding numbers of "The Washington National Era" that tale of "Life Among the Lowly" which has so firmly established her fame as a powerful writer, and a Christian woman of deep and wide sympathies, and a well-cultivated understanding. Edition after edition of this work was called for in America, and our readers need not be told how it was received in England. Some of her pictures of negro wrongs and sufferings having been impugned as exaggerated and highly coloured, Mrs. Stowe produced in 1852 her "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin," in which she proves by incontestible evidence that this is not the case, but, on the contrary, that the real is more harrowing and soul-sickening than the fictitious. At the beginning of 1853 Mrs. Stowe visited England, in accordance with numerous pressing invitations, and received the most enthusiastic welcome from all ranks of society. Her favourable impressions of this visit, and of a continental tour which followed it, are recorded in "Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands," published in 1854. Her latest work, "Dred," the name of a runaway negro, came out in 1856. In it we have further developments of American life in relation to slavery. As a story, it is not equal to "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and has disappointed many; but it has very powerful scenes and admirable delineations 'of character.

STRICKLAND, AGNES, graceful pen has made the dead queens of England objects of deep interest to the living world, may justly be classed among the most eminent English female writers of the day. She resides at Reydon Hall, Suffolk, where she was born, being the third daughter of Thomas Strickland, Esq., of an ancient and honourable family, whose eight children are all remarkable for great intellectual powers. Miss Strickland is descended from the Nevilles, of Raby, who were connexions, in a remote degree, of the good Queen, Katharine Parr. We name this circumstance because of the influence such a reminiscence has undoubtedly exerted over the mind and pursuits of Miss Strickland. The love and reverence she was taught from childhood to cherish for the queen of her own ancestral line made the lives of these royal ladies the most interesting theme she could study or illustrate.

The reading public are too familiar with the result of these studies to require any description thereof; yet few, probably, have considered the labour as well as talent involved in the great work of these