The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-04-16

and beams in the flashing glances of he
radiant eyes. She is tall, graceful, az,
dignifed, with that high.bred manne
which ever betokens gentle blood. Sh,
has infinite tact and talent in converse
tion, and never speaks without awaken
ing interest. As I listened to her clo
quent language I felt she was indeed
worthy of the wreath of Immortality
which fame has given in, other days and
other lands, to De Genlis, or to a Dc
Sevigne. .tF rzs1a
4 She has great enthusiasm of character
the enthusiasm described by Madame
De Staelas " God i0itbin ats',-the lore
of the good, the holy, the beautiful. She
has neither pretension, nor pedantry,
and although admirably accomplished
and a perfect classic and bellies lettres
scholar, she has all the sweet simplicity
| of an elegant woman. There is a refine
nent, delicacy, and poetic imagery in all
her historiettes, touchingly delightful.
A calm and holy religion is mirrored in
every page. The sorrow-stricken mourn
er finds therein the sweet and healing
balm Of consolation, and the bitter tears
cease to flow when she points to that bet.
ter land, where the loved and the lost
are waiting for us. She exalts all that
is good, noble, and generous in the hu-
man heart, and gives to even the clouds
of existence sunny softness. like
dreamy light of CLAUDE Lorraine pic
ture."
After an absence of twenty years and
more from her New England home, re-
marks the BostoH Transcript, Mrs.
Hentz visited the North, and spent
large portion of the year 1854 at Boston
and the neighboring cities, and among
her relatives, where she endeared herself
to all who came in contact with her, by
the elegance of her manners, by her rare
conversational powers, and by the "win-
ming Graces of her spirit"
After lingering amid the homes and
haunts of her youth, recalling the days
of her girlhood in New England, Mrs.
hentz returned to the home of her adop-
tion, leaving hosts of admirers and
friends at the North. During thespring
and summer of 1855, she devoted herself
to the composition of her last work,
entitled Earnest Linwood." The tel
egraphic message. conveyed the sad IT,
dings of her death upon the very day
when. her publishers issued her new book;
and the work is indeed worthy to be the
crowning act of a literary life of such
varied and rare accomplishments. Its
closing part seems written with pen of
fOreshadowing her own depar:
ture. -...
In the full strength and prime of
womanhood this accomplished and ele-
CANT writer, after life of such great
usefulness and literary honor, has been
called from earth. The devoted wife
and mother, the light of social life, the
ornament of the literary circle, has de-
parted, and her star shines with increased
amidst the surrounding gloom.
On the 9th of February she was seized
with sickness, which proved to be pneu-
nonia, and all that affection and high
medical skill could do, was given to her.
With uncloHded intellect, among her
amily friends, she fingered until the
Ilth, and died at the residence of her
on, DR.. Charles A Hentz, at Mariauna,
Fla.
This elegant woman, this gifted writer,
las departed !; but the music of her life
s still sounding its richest and sweet
st melody in our hearts. In her death f
he exhibited what gave the crowning |
,lorysto her life--a high Christian faith
nd although living and dying in the a
and of the orange and magnolia bios t
pms, she never forgot, in the admira- t
ION bestowed upon her in Southern '
ONES. the graceful elms which wave !,
yer the birthplace of her ancestors and c
inbred, nor the winding river whose a
ipPling music found an echo in her youth. o
IL heart. I