Mrs. Elizabeth Oaksmith

"OUR AUTHORS -- MRS. ELIZABETH OAKSMITH,

"decidedly one of the most engaging and attractive of all our writers.

"Widow of the late Seba Smith, originator of the Major Downing letters, which were so gloated over in the days of Andrew Jackson, and so shamefully imitated and plagarized all over the country, she, herself, took to quite another style of composition.

"After some prose writings, which appeared in her husband's paper, the Courier, of Portland, and others which were issued in New York, while her husband was a colaborateur in the Express, this gifted woman gave birth to the Sagamore of Saco and to her Sinless Child -- a poem of singular merit, and from that day to this, we find her constantly writing for the magazines and newspapers, and occasionally lecturing upon such questions as Woman's-Rights, and Woman-Suffrage.

"What she may be doing just now, it were hard to conjecture; but this we know, that she cannot be idle, and whether it be 'the night-mare moanings of Ambition's breast,' anxiety for independence, or a desire to do the greatest possible good to the greatest number of her sex -- who are in bondage without knowing it -- in bondage, not only to their corsets and millinery and dressmakers, and to the fashions of the day, but to their husbands, and sweet-hearts and children, we may be sure that she will do honor to her sex, and go far to 'vindicate the ways of God to man.'"