[8] Of her early years, she recollected, "Mine was a silent dreamy childhood haunted by visions of impossible poems.

[5] In 1855, she married Benjamin F. Mace, a lawyer of Bangor, remaining in that city until 1885, when they removed to San Jose, California, residing at Palmtree Lodge.

"Israfil" appeared, with illustrations, in Harper's Magazine, gaining for her quick recognition and advancing her toward the front rank of singers.

[4][5][10] In 1883, she published a collection of poems in a volume entitled Legends, Lyrics and Sonnets, soon followed by a second edition, enlarged and extended.

It was in 1850 when Miss Laughton, then a young girl, was paid the very highest prices on our list for her poetic contributions to our columns, and our readers have welcomed everything that else come from her pen in all the years since that date.

We are very much astonished to learn that a work just issued by D. Lothrop & Co., entitled " Women in Sacred Song," edited by Mrs. G. C. Smith of Springfield, Ill., again ascribes this " world-renowned Only Waiting " to Mrs. Wood-White, and appends a note from her in which she insists that it is her composition.

There is no foundation whatever for her statement, but like the woman who insisted that she wrote William Allen Butler's "Nothing to Wear," she has probably told the falsehood so often that she has come to believe it herself, and has succeeded in imposing upon others so as to make them participators in her folly.