3. Aboriginal Portfolio, illustrated by S. Eastman, U. S. A. 4to, 1853.

4. Chicora, and other Regions of the Conquerors and Conquered. 4to, 1854.

Besides these, Mrs. Eastman, in 1852, published a novel entitled "Aunt Phillis's Cabin," intended as a response to Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The sale of this book reached eighteen thousand copies in a few weeks. In 1856, she published "Fashionable Life," a novel, the motto of which was- -"But the world! The heart and mind of woman! Every one would like to know something about that!" Mrs. Eastman has been a frequent contributor to magazines, etc.

Mrs. MARY WEBSTER MOSELY, wife of John G. Mosely, of Richmond, and daughter of Robert Pleasants, wrote for various periodicals, and was highly esteemed for her virtues and literary accomplishments. Her only published work was "Pocahontas," a legend, with historical and traditional notes; issued in 1840. Mrs. Mosely died in Richmond, in 1844, aged 52 years.

Mrs. ANNA COKA MOWATT RITCHIE has been frequently sketched as a Southern authoress, and I am proud to place the name of so gifted a woman upon my pages. Anna Cora Ogden was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1818. When sixteen years of age, she was married to James Mowatt, of New York, a lawyer of wealth and culture. For a history of her eventful and heroic life, the reader is referred to her Autobiography of an Actress," published first in 1855. Mr. Mowatt died in 1851.

In 1854, Mrs. Mowatt became the wife of William F. Ritchie, at that time editor of the Richmond Enquirer.

Mrs. Ritchie published numerous plays and novels that were successful. She died in England, July 26, 1870.

Mrs. JANE TAYLOE WORTHINGTON, wife of Dr. F. A. Worthington, of Ohio, and daughter of Colonel Lomax, of the U. S. A., was a native of Virginia. By the frequent changes of residence involved in military service, she was afforded large opportunities for observation ånd social and intellectual culture, but she always retained a strong

attachment for her native State, and nearly all her writings in prose and verse appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger of Richmond. She died in 1847.

Mrs. MARTHA HAINES BUTT BENNETT, born in Norfolk, Va., was the author of several successful volumes. "Leisure Moments," a collection of short tales, essays, and sketches, was published in New York in 1859. She contributed to various periodicals.

In 1865 she was married to Mr. N. J. Bennett, of Bridgeport, Conn In 1866, Mrs. Bennett published a volume for children, entitled "Pastimes with my Little Friends," (New York, Carleton.) She died in New York in 1871.

Mrs. E. H. EVANS, a sister of the Rev. Thomas H. Stockton, and the wife of Dr. M. H. Evans, of Amelia County, Va., published a volume of poems, (Philadelphia, 1851, 12mo,) and was a contributor to magazines. She is the mother of Mrs. Mary Wiley, who is sketched among the living female writers of Virginia.

The "Old Dominion" State has had a few other female writers who are worthy of mention, whose literary works were popular and attractive, but whose addresses, amid the mighty changes of a few years, it has been impossible to ascertain.

South Carolina has been quite as fruitful of endeavors to establish literary journals as her Southern sisters, and quite as unfortunate, if judged by the financial standard alone. Literary success has often been good, while the financial was not; and in general, the former has been far ahead of the latter.

Journalism in South Carolina dates back about a hundred and thirty years. Its protagonist- to use that word in Mr. Petigru's sense of it was Mr. Lewis Timothy, who in Charleston established The South Carolina Gazette, in the year 1731. Literary periodicals have been less successful, financially speaking, than the political; less than agricultural; and less, if possible, than religious. Experiments, however, have been made in a large variety of spheres, from the heaviest to the lightest; from grave to gay; from the orthodox doctrinal utterances

of Church organs, to the flippant on dits of village gossip; from the Magnolia (not grandiflora) of Mr. Whitaker, to the sweet little Rosebud of Mrs. GILMAN; from the solid learning of Legare's Southern Review, to the niaiseries of Sargent's Brazen Nose. In earlier times there were The Columbian Herald, The South Carolina Museum, The Monthly Magazine, Heriot's Magazine, and The Southern Literary Jour nal of Mr. Carroll; not to mention some half literary and half political issues. Then there were Whitaker's Magazine, or magazines, and afterward Russell's. Mrs. Gilman's Southern Rose bloomed for a while. Besides, Mr. Simms did earnest and effective work in The Southern Literary Gazette, The Cosmopolitan, The Magnolia, his Southern and Western Magazine and Review; and did heroic work on The Southern Quarterly Review. All of these lived only for a time. Not one of all the above and this list of the dead is not complete, and many were meritorious in their way—not one is now living.

In those past days, the great mass of pen-work was done by men. Few of the gentler sex ventured into print. It was not the style. The life of ease, elegance, and leisure, for ladies, in those statelier times, was full of noble and beautiful deeds; but few of those ladies cared for literary laurels, and many seemed to shrink with native delicacy from the bruit of authorial notoriety. The number of female writers in the past of the "Palmetto State" is small. About a dozen names, of the few dozens who have written for newspapers, are all that have become authors; and several of these never wrote a line for publication, but their letters or writings were given by others to the world after their lives had closed.

The earliest name that we meet is that of Mrs. SOPHIE HUME, whose "Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South Carolina, to bring their Deeds to the Light of Christ and their own Consciences," seems to be a pious book, and one of a woman thoroughly in earnest. She dates this volume at "Charles Town, in South Carolina, the 30th of the Tenth Month, 1747 ;" and it was published at Bristol, in England, in 1750. Her "Epistle to the Inhabitants of South Carolina " appeared in 1754, London.

A few years later, in 1760, appears the second name. This is Mrs. MARY HUTSON, née Woodward, whose good works live after her in the shape of a small volume-"Living Christianity Delineated in the Diaries and Letters of two Eminently Pious Persons, lately deceased, viz., Mr. Hugh Bryan, and Mrs. Mary Hutson, both of South Carolina." The book is divided into two parts, the second pertaining to Mrs. Hutson.

A decade later, 1770, appeared a "Treatise on Gardening," which had been written by Mrs. MARTHA LOGAN, in her seventieth year.

Later, Mrs. ANNA IZARD DEAS appeared as the editor of the "Correspondence of Mr. Ralph Izard, of South Carolina, from the year 1774 to 1804," which she prefaced with a short memoir of her father. A second volume is still unpublished.

In 1811 was published Dr. David Ramsay's "Memoirs of Mrs. MARTHA LAURENS RAMSAY, with Extracts from her Diary." Of this excellent lady a daughter of Mr. Henry Laurens, of Revolutionary fame

Mr. Simms says: "Her letters to her son at college are models of their kind. She was a matron and a mother of rare excellence of character, of pure nature, of vigorous thought and fine taste, and richly deserving of that title of strong-minded woman which is so much abused at the present day. Her mind had strength without pretension, grace without flippancy or conceit; and she wrote her morals at once from heart and head, not from the latter alone, and feeling the faith which she so earnestly professed, and conscious of the truth in all the lessons which she taught."

In the earlier years of the present century figured in Charleston society Mrs. CHARLES BARING, a lady of the great banker's family, an actress and author, who wrote "Altorf," "The Royal Recluse," "Virginia Zulaine," and possibly some other dramas. Dr. Simms, who met Mrs. Baring in her old age, says: "She had been a successful actress, and even in her latter days she carried herself with the air of a tragedy queen who had been trained in the excellent but stately school of the famous Siddons."

The subject-matter of Miss MARIA PINCKNEY's work in defence of nullification principles, indicates the force and character of her vigorous and practical mind.

Under the touching and appropriate title of "Reliquæ " are embodied the poems of Mrs. DANIEL BLAKE, née Emma Middleton Rutledge. Sprung from a line most illustrious in a State of historic renown, this lady, a daughter of Major Henry M. Rutledge, and grand-daughter both of Arthur Middleton and of Edward Rutledge, whose names grace the Declaration of Independence, was born in 1811, and died in her native Charleston in 1853. Nature, which gave her personal beauty, rare elegance of manner, and unequalled loveliness of disposition, added a childlike unconsciousness, which made her the only one unaware of her great charms, and gave her the divine gift of song. The character of her poetic principle is that vital sympathy with the outer world, which the true poet alone knows. As she herself so happily expresses it, she seemed to hold

One rises from the perusal of this dainty volume with a consciousness of something sweetly sad, but fresh and hopeful; with a feeling like the memory of sad music heard at morning, in spring, amid the smiles and odors of early violets. The tone, the thoughts, and the spirit of the book are all the reflex of an accomplished, refined, and gifted Southern woman.

The name of Miss MARY ELIZABETH LEE, her delicacy of constitution, her superb endowments, her physical suffering, her early death, the hue of mingled melancholy and hope that tinges all her genius and her life, these are all fresh in the memories of the host of friends who knew and appreciated her in Charleston. Her "Poems" were published in