are requested to send her the name and number of those periodicals in which such notices appear; as otherwise, since she has not the opportunity of seeing periodicals regularly, she may miss reading the critique.

"Should the poems be remarked upon favourably, it is my intention to appropriate a further sum for advertisements.

If, on the other hand, they should pass unnoticed or be condemned, I consider it would be quite useless to advertise, as there is nothing, either in the title of the work, or the names of the authors, to attract attention from a single individual." I suppose the little volume of poems was published some time about the end of May, 1846.

It stole into life; some weeks passed over, without the mighty murmuring public discovering that three more voices were uttering their speech.

And, meanwhile, the course of existence moved drearily along from day to day with the anxious sisters, who must have forgotten their sense of authorship in the vital care gnawing at their hearts.