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376 letter from Victoria Earle. Some even dispense with their editorials to make room for her letters. She has written for our brightest and best papers, such as The Boston Advocate, Washington Bee, Richmond Planet, Catholic Tribune, Cleveland Gazette, New York Globe, New York Age, and The New York Enterprise. No other Afro-American woman has been so eagerly importuned for stories and articles of a general news character, by the magazines and papers of the whites, as has Victoria Earle.

She has met with marked success in story writing, and tales written by her expressly for The Waverly Magazine, The New York Weekly, and The Family Story Paper, have readily found place in the columns of those publications. She is indeed entitled to the highest honor from her race by her efforts to dignify her work, and eminently prove Afro-American journalism to be the peer of any.

In closing the life of this honored lady journalist, we could not say more of her than The New York Journal does in the following: "Victoria Earle has written much; her dialect tid-bits for the Associated Press are much in demand. She has ready several stories which will appear in one volume, and is also preparing a series of historical text-books which will aim to develop a race pride in our youth. She is a member of the Women's National Press Association, and no writer of the race is kept busier."

The enthusiast who writes the history of a life of modern times is too apt to paint the virtues of his subject in such glowing colors, that, on becoming acquainted with the party, we hardly recognize the person as the one described. With this in view, we wish to state the points of Miss