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 attendance by the sick-bed of her husband, occupied the best part of her life. She was fond, however, of literary society, as is shown by her friendship for Mrs. Rowe, (she was the authoress of the letter signed Cleora, in Mrs. R.'s collection;) Thomson, whom she kindly patronized, (who dedicated to her the first edition of his "Spring;") Dr. Watts, (who dedicated to her his "Miscellaneous Thoughts in Prose and Verse;") and Shenstone, (who addressed to her his ode on "Rural Elegance.") She died in 1754. No collection of her poems has been made, although a number are preserved in Bingley's "Correspondence of the Countess of Pomfret" with our authoress.

TIBERGEAU, MARCHIONESS DE, sister of the Marquis de Phisieulx, and the beloved niece of Rochefoucauld, author of the celebrated "Maxims." Her maiden name was Sillery. She early showed a decided inclination for poetry. It was to Mademoiselle de Sillery that La Fontaine addressed several fables, and of her he spoke when he said,

She married the Marquis de Tibergeau, and continued till her death the constant friend and protector of literary men. She encouraged Destouches in writing for the theatre, and induced M. Phisieulx to take him for his secretary when he went as ambassador to Sweden. Destouches often consulted Madame de Tibergeau concerning the plans of his different plays. She preserved all her quickness and vivacity to;he last. She died at the age of eighty.

TIGHE, MARY, the daughter of the Rev. William Blachford, county of Wicklow, Ireland. Mary Blachford was born in Dublin, in 1774; and in 1793, when but nineteen years old, she married her cousin, Henry Tighe, of Woodstock, M. P. for Kilkenny, in the Irish parliament, and author of a "County History of Kilkenny." The family of Mrs, Tighe were consumptive, and she inherited the delicacy of organization which betokens a predisposition to this fatal disease. From early womanhood she suffered from depression of mind and langour of frame, which probably gave that "tone of melancholy music" to her celebrated poem, "which seemed the regretful expression of the consciousness of a not far-off death." Well she might feel sad when this thought was pressing on her heart; for she was most happily married, beloved and cherished by her husband, and surrounded with all the luxuries of life.

She died in 1810, aged thirty-five, after six years of protracted suffering. Her husband, though he survived her some years, never married again. She left no children; but the scenes of her bridal happiness, and of her lamented death, will bear the memory of her beauty, genius, and virtues, while her "Psyche," is read, and the names of those who have celebrated her merits in their songs are remembered. And she has left an enduring monument of her goodness, which gives lustre to her genius. From the profits of her poem, "Psyche," which ran through four editions during her life-time, she built an addition to the orphan asylum in Wicklow, thence called the "Psyche Ward."