gument to sustain the ground
we assume.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
Lucretia and Margaret Davidson 9
Mrs. Adams 49
Mrs. Washington 79
Madame de Stael 90
Lady Hester Stanhope 121
Hannah More 131
Mrs. Barbauld 167
Madame de Genlis 182
Josephine 219
Marie Antoinette 261
Madame Roland 267
Madame de Sevigne 286
Mary, Queen of Scots 307
Elizabeth, Queen of England 335
Isabella of Spain 339
Joan of Arc 349

LUCRETIA AND MARGARET DAVIDSON.

"There stood on the banks of the Saranac a small, neat cottage, which
peeped forth from the surrounding foliage--the image of rural quiet
and contentment. An old-fashioned piazza extended along the front,
shaded with vines and honeysuckles; the turf on the bank of the river
was of the richest and brightest emerald; and the wild rose and
sweetbrier, which twined over the neat enclosure, seemed to bloom with
more delicate freshness and perfume within the bounds of this earthly
paradise. The scenery around was wildly yet beautifully romantic; the
clear blue river, glancing and sparkling at its feet, seemed only as a
preparation for another and more magnificent view, when the stream,
gliding on to the west, was buried in the broad, white bosom of
Champlain, which stretched back, wave after wave, in the distance,
until lost in faint blue mists that veiled the sides of its guardian
mountains, seeming more lovely from their indistinctness."

Such is the description which the younger subject of these memoirs
gives us of the home of her parents, Dr. Oliver and Margaret Davidson,
in the village of Plattsburg, Vermont. Amidst scenery so well