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T the age of twenty-one, Miss Yonge had already written "Abbeychurch," the first of the long series of novels which have made her name familiar to innumerable readers. Miss Yonge's books have done good, not only by their healthy moral teaching, but by the generous use which she has made of the proceeds of their sale. The profits of "The Heir of Redclyffe," which was written at the age of thirty, she devoted chiefly to the fitting-out of the missionary schooner, The Southern Cross, for the use of Bishop Selwyn; and the sum of £2,000, which resulted from the sale of 'The Daisy Chain," to the erection of a missionary college at Auckland. Miss Yonge is at present editor of The Monthly Packet.