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Female Authors -In the notes of Blackwood's Magazine the Ettrick Shepherd pronounces the following beautiful eulogium upon female authors:-

"Oh, Sirs! what a glorious galaxy of female genius and virtue have we to gaze on with admiration, pure and unreproved in our native hemisphere.— There--that shines the large and lustrous star o' Joanna Baillie; and there the star o' Hamilton--and Edgeworth--and Grant--and Austen--and Tighe--and Milford--and Hemans! beautiful and beloved in all the relations of Christian life, these are the women, Mr. North, maids, wives, or widows. whom the glorious spirit of the protestant land will venerate as long as the fires of a pure faith burn upon their altars.-These are the ladies. Mr. Tickler. and thank God we have many like them, although less conspicuous, who, to guard from insult of look or whisper. or touch, what man, English, Scotch, or Irish, but would bare his breast to death? and why? Because the union o' genius and virtue, and religion, and morality, and gentleness and purity, is a soul uplifting sight, and ratifies the great bond of nature by which we are made heirs of the immortal sky."