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 where she attracted the notice of Mendelsohn, who did all in his power to assist her. He taught her his songs, and composed one of the most celebrated of them, the well-known "Volksleid," expressly for her. After performing in most of the German cities, with still increasing success, she, in the revolutionary year, 1848, came to England and sung before the classical audience of our Philharmonic Society; her fine mezzo soprano voice was extremely admired, as well as the taste and simplicity of her management of its powers; she sang before the Queen and became a musical star of London and the provinces, getting encores and thunders of applause wherever she appeared. Up to the present time she has continued to delight English audiences with her fine vocal powers, to the attractions of which she adds the advantage of a pretty and piquante expression of face, attractive manners, and a most amiable character, and all the accomplishments of a thoroughly educated gentlewoman. Like Jenny Lind, she is ever ready to assist in a work of charity, and her brother or sister artistes in misfortune, have frequently found a ready friend and sympathizer in Jetty Treffz.  TRIMMER, SARAH, The daughter of Mr. Kirby, who wrote on Perspective, was born at Ipswich, in 1741. She prepared several useful works to promote the diffusion of education, at a period when for a woman to devote herself to such a task was uncommon and unpopular. Mrs. Hannah More was, it is true, in the field of literature; but she had gained powerful friends and supporters; nor did she aim so much at opening and clearing the sources of education for the young and ignorant, as in interesting and improving those who were already educated, or giving a moral direction to minds which could not be kept quiet in their ignorance But Hannah More could not do everything which was then needed in literature for her sex and for children; she, probably, effected more good than any one writer of her time; and among her kind feelings and noble acts, was the regard she manifested for Mrs. Trimmer, and the efforts she used to serve this more humble, but useful literary contemporary.  TROLLOPE, MRS. This lady, one of the most prolific writers England has produced, was born about 1787. She was unknown to literary fame until she had reached the sober season of married and middle life, during a considerable portion of which she resided at Harrow. In 1829 circumstances induced her to visit America; she resided about three years there, chiefly at CincinnattiCincinnati [sic], came home, and in 1832 published her "Domestic Manners of the Americans." which excited much public attention. We quote from Chambers's "Cyclopædia of English Literature," the following critical remarks upon the productions of this undoubtedly gifted but coarse-minded writer.

"She drew so severe a picture of American faults and foibles—of their want of delicacy, their affectations, drinking, coarse selfishness, and ridiculous peculiarities—that the whole nation was incensed at their English satirist. There is much exaggeration in Mrs. Trollope's sketches; but having truth for their foundation, her book is supposed to have had some effect in reforming the