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 sensibility in the author to the true and beautiful in art and in life.&quot; Boston Daily Advertiser.

&quot; Of Mrs. Sigourney s merits as a poet, and also as a prose writer, we have not now to speak for the first time. She is, if we may so say, one of the established reputations of the country, and her name to a work as author is a sure guarantee to its sale. With many thanks to its accomplished author, who by her simple, chaste, and devout spirit, can exert none but a pure and purifying influence on the sons and daughters of her native land.&quot; Democratic Re e vie ; vu.

��&quot; One of the most recent critical notices of Mrs. Sigour ney s poetry which we have seen was written for the Demo cratic Review by the Hon. Alexander H. Everett, and we give his estimate of her powers, rather than attempt an ex pression of our own. Her compositions, says this able and eminent critic, being exclusively to the class of short poems, for the Pocahontas, which is the largest of them, does not, as we have said, exceed thirty or forty pages. They commonly express, with great purity, and evident sincerity, the tender affections which are so natural to the female heart, and the lofty aspirations after a higher and better state of being, which constitute the truly ennobling and elevating principle in art, as well as in nature. Love and religion are the unvarying elements of her song. This is saying, in other words, that the substance of her poetry is of the highest order. If her powers of expression were equal to the purity and elevation of her habits of thought and feeling, she would be a female Milton, or a Christian Pindar. &quot; Graham s Magazine.

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