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396 The A. M. E. Church Review; and "Teaching as a Profession," published in the October number of The Review. Mrs. Washington continues to write, and productions from her pen are welcomed alike by publishers and the public.

On Hardings street, in the city of Nashville, July 29, 1870, was born the above-named young lady, whose work in the literary sphere has been marked with that success which would attend many a person's life whose aim is light, and whose dependence is God.

Of Christian parents, Rev. and Mrs. A. N. McEwen, she grew up a God-fearing child, receiving a religious as well as an intellectual training. She acquired the rudiments of an education in the Nashville public schools, and subsequently attended Fisk University, (1881) and, after the death of her mother, Roger Williams University, (1884.) She did not, however, finish the prescribed course here, as her father, knowing the care a motherless girl requires, and feeling that a ladies' institute would best supply the need, sent her to Spelman Seminary, at Atlanta, Ga. This was in 1885, which also dates the preparation and publication of her first article for the press, which was printed in The Montgomery Herald, under the caption of "The Progress of the Negro.

During her school life at Spelman, she wrote various articles for the newspapers, until her graduation, May 24, 1888, at the age of eighteen. She was then engaged as associate editor to her father, Rev, A. N. McEwen, who was editor of The Baptist Leader, a five-column, four-page journal, neatly printed, and presenting as attractive an appearance as the average race journal.

Miss McEwen is a journalist under the guidance of her