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Rh Review, which drew much attention and many compliments. Her composition, "Old Blandford Church," which was dedicated to Hon. John Mercer Langston, had a profitable sale. The Messenger, with Mrs. Adams' aid, will he a paper of commanding influence in Afro-American journalism.

To every reader of Afro-American journals the above name is familiar. Beginning as a journalist when quite young, Mrs. Mossell has, for sixteen years, continually written for our race journals, and reported for the foremost white papers in Philadelphia. Her first article, an essay on Influence, was published by Bishop B. T. Tanner in The Christian Recorder when she was a mere school girl; and up to the present day she has written essays, poems, short stories, and race sketches, which have been published far and near.

She was especially sought for, and assumed the position of editor of the woman's department of The New York Freeman and The Philadelphia Echo. While engaged upon these papers she also reported for The Philadelphia Press and The Times, two of the most widely circulated papers in the country. She is now upon the staff of correspondents of The Indianapolis Freeman, The Richmond Rankin Institute, and Our Women and Children. Though a regular contributor to these papers, she nevertheless writes for other race journals, from the great A. M. E. Review to the smallest paper published.

Mrs. Mossell has selected journalism as her profession, believing, as she expressed herself once, that the future of women, especially of Afro-American women, is on this line of literary work. In her writings she deals particularly with