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Rh At the Hyperion Theatre about one thousand people attended the concert given by the Dixwell Avenue Church. Besides the Yale Banjo and Apollo Club, Miss Nahar, of Boston, a highly gifted elocutionist, was received with great applause.—The Palladium (New Haven, Conn.).

Miss Nahar is a reader of wonderful talent, very graceful and expressive; her selections are particularly refined—Philadelphia Advance.

This devout young lady is the daughter of Mary Elizabeth and Philip Henry, who resided at Rose Hill, three miles north of Richmond, Va., where the subject of these lines was born on the 31st day of March, 1865. Her father was drowned when she was nine years old, leaving the entire responsibility of a large family upon her mother. Like most Afro-Americans, in those days, scarcity of means for support was an every-day reminder at this widow's house. However, there was one bright character in that gloomy home—Lucy Ann was always cheerful and ever with a book in hand seeking to know the contents thereof.

She exhibited such an aptness to learn and teach that she received the name of "teacher" among the children with whom she used to play. When she entered the Richmond public schools at ten years of age (the family having moved into the city) the little "teacher" had learned to read and write. The mother being com-