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It will be seen that Phillis refers to America as Columbia, the origin of which saying is erroneously ascribed by historians to Dr. Dwight. But the name Columbia must have been applied to America long before Dr. Dwight, and possibly before either writer lived.

The line beginning "When Gallic power," etc., refers to the old French and Indian war, which began in 1755. "FERRET."

RANCES E. W. HARPER was born in Maryland in 1825 and reared there. Her early education was meagre, having left school at the age of fourteen. She is truly a self-made woman. As a lecturer she has few equals. She has also contributed largely to the most prominent Afro-American journals. Her poetical and prose writings are extensively read by white people as well as black and she has furnished inspiration to many of the young writers of the race. Of late years she has been prominently connected with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and has augmented the work among the women of her race.

When great minds agree upon a fact which is thus made