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The well-known and highly respected "Bert Islew" of the Boston Advocate is a remarkable young woman, of whom the race may be exceedingly proud. Pleasing as a writer, stylish as a lady, able as a thinker, fascinating as a speaker and wise as an editor, apt as a scholar, true and reliable as a stenographer and rapid as a typewriter, Miss Lewis, though young, is, nevertheless, destined to become a potent factor in the advance lines of the march of the race towards that higher and more refined plane of civilization to which she is striving, as a leader to carry her followers.

She has filled many important positions as an aspiring young woman; in all her efforts to labor for the race she has been admirably successful. Her temperance lectures have been received with satisfaction, and so has her "Gossip," and her newspaper articles have all been read with much interest by the reading public.

Some of her writings are the following: "Man's. Weal and Woman's Woe," "Dead Heads and Live Beats," "The Mantle of the Church Covereth a Multitude of Humbugs," "Idalene Van Therse." She has contributed to a large number of Afro-American journals. It is said that the Advocate was on the way to a collapse until the energy of this young woman was placed at the helm. Now the paper is again alive. So we may say she is the resurrection of the Advocate as well as a part of its life.