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 by the late President Garfield United States Minister Resident and Consul-General to the Negro Republic of Liberia." The Legislature of Liberia, upon application, at once chartered the institution, and endowed it with a hundred acres of land at Brewerville, where it was situated, as well as an annual grant of three hundred dollars to assist in the operations. When our noble sister had gotten the work well on footing she returned to this country, leaving a hundred and twenty-five students in charge of Mrs. C. L. Parsons, wife of the Chief Justice. Here she solicited aid to make the institution all it was meant to be. On leaving America to return to her work she purposed visiting England also to solicit aid. On hearing this some of her prominent American friends gave her recommendations to Julia Colman, Secretary of the Afro-American Union, and said of her: "We commend our sister, Mrs. M. H. Barboza, who is to visit you on the way to Africa, where she has established the Garnet Memorial School at Brewerville. This is a school with industrial training—just what Africa needs so much." Her visit in England excited a great deal of interest. Here is what some of the newspapers said about her:

Mrs. Garnet Barboza is not only the daughter of a negro who achieved distinction, Dr. Henry Highland Garnet, but is herself an educated, fluent and graceful speaker. Naturally she is interested in the education of women, and seeks the aid of philanthropists in Europe to help her in that work. The education of women has lagged behind that of men in Liberia.—Manchester Guardian, August 21, 1888.

We trust that the appeal made by Mrs, Garnet Barboza, in the Manchester Town Hall yesterday, for English sympathy on behalf of her educational work in the African Republic of Liberia, will not remain