SELINGER , Mrs. Emily Harris McGary, artist, born in Wilmington, N. C., in 1854. She is a descendant on her father's side of Flora McDonald. Her maiden name was MrGary. Her father, a planter. amassed a fortune in the East India trade, he died just before the Civil War, and his family were stripped of the large fortune left them through the mismanagement of a relative and by the war. The mother took her three little daughters to Providence, R. I., to educate them. Emily was a precocious child, showing aptitude for anything in the line of music, art and language. She finished the high-school course in Providence, studied with private tutors, and ended with a course in the Cooper Institute School of Design in New York City. With art she studied medicine, but decided not to attempt to practice in that held. In her nineteenth year she taught in southern schools, acting as instructor in painting, drawing, elocution, botany, French and Latin for seven years in various institutions. While teaching in Louisville, Ky., she read a paper on "Art Education" before a gathering of five-hundred teachers, which resulted in the establishment of a normal art-school in that city, of which she was principal. Ill-health compelled her to go north, ant) she returned to Providence, where she opened a studio. There, in 1882, she became the wife of Jean Paul Selinger. the artist. From 1882 to 1885 they traveled in Europe, studying in Italy, and while abroad Mrs. Selinger corresponded for the "Boston Transcript." She became a student of flower-painting, and earned the title "Emily Selinger, the Rose Painter." Returning to the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Selinger settled in Boston. Mass., where they now live. Her work has been remarkably popular, and her rose pictures are found in every notable collection in the country. She is a successful artist and author, and a member of the New England Women's Press Association.