Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-22

| the creatures Of God; forgive all those who
are disgraced resist the uojust; devote your
| self 10 those who are great by their virtues.
Love me. l will teach you many things if
we live together. If we have not that happi-
ness (the greatest that I can imagine, and
| the only one which makes me desire long
| life), you will pray God for me; and from
| the darkness of death, if something remains
Of me, your mother will watch over you"
Miss LUcRETIA NOBLE, the author of that
successful novel, The Reverend Idol lives in
Wilbrsham, Mass, where her father, re-
tired clergyman, settled in order to educate
his four children at the academy. Miss No
bic began her literary life in her childhood,
writing poems and five long dramas, which
were produced in school by her and her
companions. The first fruit of her pen which
was ever published was a short poem. Near
ly her first prose was series of articles pub
listed in The Milton. Sc.ibner has also
printed essays from her pen. She has
generally published anonymously. A
Reverend Idol is the first work of
notion she has ever published,
with the exception of a tr1fing tale
which appeared IN a provincial newspaper.
Miss Noble planned her novel to justify her
sex against the charge of being unveracious
by nature. She is herself an Episcopalian
and her hero is not Phillips Brooks, but the
Rev. Mr. Ancient, the English clergyman
who saved many sufferers in the wreck of
the Atlantic. One curious fact in relation to
this writer of a successful novel ia that she
has lived most quiet and secluded life
one i'll adapted to varied observations of
people and things.
AMONG the prominent literary workers of
Washington should not be overlooked,
despite her retiring disposition, partly due
to delicate health, Mrs. Anna III. Dorsey, the
writer OF many patriotic American and re-
hgious Catholic tales, which have attained
the widest circulation. This ia called to
mind by the announcement that her last
story, Warp and Woof, has Just been repub-
lished in far off Calcutta, India, compli-
ment to which few of our American writers
can lay claim. Among her previous wort s
May Brooke has already been republished in
f iinburgh; TIE Sister of Charity, translated
into German and published in Vienna;
Codind, similarly translated and published,
we believe, in Berlin; Tears on the DiGdem
and The Student of BIenheinl Fore,t, in Lon
don. She is also Washington writer in
the sense that many scenes in her recent
stories, BetFs Promise, Tangled Paths and
the above mentioned Warp and Wool are
laid in Washington; and Tangled Faiths por-
trays in graphic style the state of society,
politics, and feeling and incidents here al
the Out break of the rebellion Mrs. Dorsey
may be regarded "a the pioneer OF Catholic
light literature in this country, aud in recog-
milton of her efforts Pope Leo few months
sgo sent her through Archbishop Gibbons.
OF Baltimore, his apostolic blessing. Her
writings are at the same time characterized
by broad charity aud warm feeling of de-
votion to native land. She is also somewhat
of a poetess and one OF the fine lyrics she
has composed for special occasions, that for
the Sanitary Commission Fair, Baltimore,
went the rounds of the country. Mrs. Dor
built on commanding hight on the north.
western outskirts of The city, which has |
received from its construction the fanciful |
name OF the Gable End" with her daugh-
ters, two of whom have Inherited a share of
her literary gifts, though they hsye employ, d |
them 10 less durable form, VIZ that of |
with success WASHINGTON Herald |