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 ADELAIDE PHILLIPS. 353 " You have made me good, though I did not mean you should." Miss Phillips worked excessively hard, and after her health began to give way she kept on too long. She went abroad with her sister in 1882, hoping that rest and change would restore her. It was too late ; she died at Carlsbad, October 3, 1882, not fifty years of age. She lies buried in the cemetery at Marshfield in Massachusetts, near the grae of Daniel Webster. She was a conscientious artist and high-principled, too generous woman. There is per- haps no vocation so arduous as hers, for a public singer, besides serving an exacting, fastidious, inconsiderate, and capricious master, the public, is also a slave to her voice. She rests in peace after a life of arduous toil, and her memory is dear to many who knew her worth.* 1883.
 * Adelaide Phillips, a Record. By Mrs. R. C. Waterstoa. Boston,