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Rh Douglass and many other Afro-American and Caucasian men who may be regarded as fittingly competent to judge.

She always manifests an interest in the cause of humanity and has given many hours of her valuable time and much talent in this direction.

The very high esteem in which she is held in her native city and the large crowds that have so repeatedly thronged to hear her at home, on more than sixty different occasions, in less than six years of her early public life, are strong and weighty evidence of her sterling worth and ability in her chosen profession.

With the exception of twenty-one concerts, managed by J. C. Price, for Livingston College, Miss Nahar has been her own manager, and has successfully managed a few church concerts in Boston, but lately has entered the manatjerial field as a full-fled o-ed manager. In Chicago, where she now resides, in January, 1893, she signed a contract with J. B. Pond, the Black Patti's manager, for the Madam for four concerts, $600, two of which she gave to Bethel Church, Chicago, on February 6th and 7th, and two in New York, March 7th and 8th, to Zion Church—a brave venture for a little woman and so young a manager. Both were grand successes; each church was packed both nights. Bethel Church receiving as its one-half net profits more money than from any other concerts ever held in the church by any manager. On February 27th and 28th, before leaving for