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Rh and force of youth has returned, improved by the ripened wisdom of a matured intellect.

That she is still capable of rousing and interesting audiences by her graceful eloquence, her cogent reasoning, and powerful wit, the respectful and laudatory notices she wins on these occasions from the English press show conclusively. One of these says: “If we may accept her as a type of what the ladies will become when they have the rights in question conceded them, the men most assuredly will have to look to their oratorical laurels.”

"Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose, of New York,” writes Mr. Conway from London to the Cincinnati Commercial, “has been staying with her husband in the dignified and fashionable old town of Bath. By a local journal I learn that a startling episode occurred at a public meeting concerning the new School Board held there. An amiable lady, who disapproved of women being on the board, sent up to the chairman, to have read, a silly letter, written by Miss Burdett-