ted
from the "Charlestown (Mass.), Female Seminary," when she became
connected with its Board of Instruction, as Teacher of Latin, French and
Italian. With the exception of two years spent in the south of
Virginia,--whence she returned an uncompromising anti-slavery woman--her
home was in Boston until her marriage, to Rev. D. P. Livermore, after
which she resided in its near vicinity, until twelve years ago, when
with her husband and children she removed West. For the last ten years
she has been a resident of Chicago. Her husband is now editor of the
_New Covenant_, a paper published in Chicago, Illinois, in advocacy of
Universalist sentiments, and, at the same time, of those measures of
reform, which tend to elevate and purify erring and sinful human
nature. Of this paper Mrs. Livermore is associate editor.

Mrs. Livermore is a woman of remarkable talent, and in certain
directions even of genius, as the history of her labors in connection
with the war amply evinces. Her energy is great, and her executive
ability far beyond the average. She is an able writer, striking and
picturesque in description, and strong and touching in appeal. She has a
fine command of language, and in her conversation or her addresses to
assemblies of ladies, one may at once detect the tone and ease of manner
of a woman trained to pencraft. She is the author of several books,
mostly poems, essays or stories, and is recognized as a member of the
literary guild. The columns of her husband's paper furnished her the
opportunity she desired of addressing her patriotic appeals to the
community, and her vigorous pen was ever at work both in its columns,
and those of the other papers that were open to her. During the whole
war, even in the busiest times, not a week was passed that she did not
publish _somewhere_ two or three columns at the least. Letters,
incidents, appeals, editorial correspondence,--always something useful,
interesting--head and hands were always busy, and the small implement,
"mightier than the sword" was never allowed to rust unused in the
ink-stand.

Before us, as we write, lies an article published in the New Covenant of
May 18th, 1861, and as we see written scarcely a month after the
downfall of Fort Sumter. It is entitled "Woman and the War," and shows
how, even at that early day, the patriotism of American women was
bearing fruit, and how keenly and sensitively the writer appreciated our
peril.

"But no less have we been su