"Jane." These verses are evidently the utterance of a warm and impassioned heart, and strong imagination. The thoughts are expressed gracefully and harmoniously, and bear the stamp of truth and originality. In 1850, Mrs. Hewitt edited a gift book, called "The Gem of the Western World;" and the "Memorial" a beautiful tribute to the memory of her friend, Mrs. Frances S. Osgood.
A most voluminous female writer, was the daughter of a tradesman in London, in 1693. Nothing is known of her early education, but only of her works. She wrote "The Court of Armenia," "The New Utopia," and other similar romances. The looseness of these works was the ostensible reason of Pope for putting her into his Dunciad; but it is more probable that some private provocation was the real motive. She seemed to perceive her error; and, in the numerous volumes she published afterwards, she preserved more purity and delicacy of sentiment. Her later writings are, "The Female Spectator," in four volumes, "Epistles for the Ladies," "Fortunate Founding," "Adventures of Nature," "History of Betsey Thoughtless," "Jenny and Jemmy Jessamy," "Invisible Spy," "Husband and Wife," and a pamphlet, entitled, "A Present for a Servant Maid." She also wrote dramatic pieces, but none that succeeded. She died in 1756, aged sixty-three.
HILDA, ST.,
Princess of Scotland, was learned in Scripture, and composed many religious works. She strenuously opposed the tonsure of the priests, probably supposing it a heathenish custom. She built the convent of St. Fare, of which she became abbess, and died there in 685.
HILDEGARDIS,
A famous abbess of the order of St. Benedict, at Spanheim, in Germany, whose prophecies are supposed to relate to the reformation, and the destruction of the Roman see; they had great influence at the time of the reformation. She lived in 1146. The books in which these prophecies are contained, appear to have been written by a zealous, godly, and understanding woman, shocked at the crimes which she saw prevailing around her. She also wrote a poem on medicine, and a book of Latin poems. Her good works and her piety were long remembered.
HILL, FRANCES M.,
Deservedly honoured for her long and beneficial exertions in the cause of female education in Greece, was born in the city of New York. Her father, John W. Mulligan, Esq., still living, is a lawyer of high repute, one of the oldest members of the bar in that city. Besides Mrs. Hill, two other daughters of Mr. Mulligan have been teachers in the missionary schools at Athens; the father who has educated his children so wisely, and encouraged them to employ their talents in the service of God and humanity, must be worthy of the exceeding great reward he is enjoying in their extended usefulness and wonderful success.
The marriage of Miss Frances M. Mulligan with the Rev. J. H. Hill, seems to have been one of those unions ordered in heaven
