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Rh contributed articles to the Philadelphia papers on the resources of California, and published translations of several novels from the German. Also translations of music and original songs. In 1877 she published "Echoes from Mist-Land," or more fully "The Nibelungen Lay Revealed to Lovers of Romance and Chivalry," which is a prose version of the famous poem, and was the first American translation of that work which received favorable comment, not only in this country but in England and Germany. She is a well-known Scandinavian translator and is a pioneer in the translation of the Norway Music Album, a valuable collection of Norwegian folk-lore songs, dances, national airs and compositions for the piano. In December, 1887, she became the wife of Samuel H. Moore. Mrs. Moore is considered an authority on the musical liistory and literature of the Scandinavians, and a collection of her writings in that field would form the most valuable compendium of Scandinavian lore to be found in the English language. She has done valuable work in making Americans familiar with Norwegian literature and music. She has been invited to give evenings on this subject before the various clubs of this country, notably the Sorosis, of New York, and the Woman's Club, of Boston. She is unexcelled as a translator of the poetry of the Norwegian, French, and German writers, and her translation of Goethe's "Erl King" has been considered the finest ever made.

Miss Davenport studied history at Radcliffe College (Harvard Annex), from which college she received the degrees of B.A. and M.A. ; at Cambridge University, England, and at Chicago University. From the last-named institution she received the degree of Ph.D. (in 1904). She taught history at Vassar College during the year 1904-1905, and since 1905 has been an assistant in the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Until she became connected with the Carnegie Institution, she worked in English Economic History, and published two books and several articles in that field. Of these, the principal one was a book on "The Economic Development of a Norfolk Manor." Since her connection with the Carnegie Institution began, she has compiled in collaboration, with Professor C. M. Andrews, a "Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, Minor London Archives, and the Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge." Has published in the American Historical Review (1909) an article on "Columbus's Book of Privileges," and has been and is now engaged in compiling and editing a collection of "Treaties relating to the territory now included within the United States, to which the United States was not a party."

Mrs. Walker was born in Banff, Scotland, and received her early education in private schools of Scotland and England. She is the daughter of the late James Hunter, M.A., for quarter of a century rector of the Banff Academy, a school which prepared youths for the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Mr.