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Rh Her "Story of the Nile" is one of her latest achievements, and as our power of judging is meagre we fully and freely assent to its grandness. Dr. Marshall W. Taylor says: Of the Negro race in the United States since 1620, there have appeared but four women whose careers stand out so far, so high and so clearly above all others of their sex, that they can with strict propriety and upon well established grounds be denominated great. These are Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Amanda Smith.

Mrs. Harper, possessing superior advantages, is superior to any one of the four great women here mentioned in mental drill and versatile literary culture; she is an erudite scholarly woman; she too is a reformer, an agitator, but not in the rough, or with any political tendency; she is polished, and may be called the greatest of school-made moral philosophers yet developed among the women of the Negro race. If Sojourner Touth [sic] was a blind giant, Frances Harper was an enlightened one. Standing outside of the church and churchly relations, Mrs. Harper is without an equal among Negro men of her times and type of thought.

As early as 1845, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper began to figure conspicuously as a literary leader and teacher, starting out in her career as assistant instructress under the principalship of, now, Bishop John M. Brown. Whether she has kept pace with this learned prelate, we leave our readers to judge. Her activities then as now, in the cause of the Negro, battling for its education and equal rights, startle us with love and admiration, while our hearts go out in search of even the crumbs of her wonderful pioneer life. As to the world did God give Adam and Eve, not only to dwell upon the earth, but to be master over every living creature, so did he almost spontaneously give to the Negro race two people, a man and a woman, to stand ont [sic] beyond opposition intellectually, the man Rt. Rev. Bishop D. A. Payne, the woman Mrs. Frances E. Watkins Harper, the equals of any of our nineteenth century civilization.

Phœba A. Hanaford, in her "Daughters of America," under the caption of "Women Lecturers," says: