before the commencement of her Magazine, one design of wiiid:

to extend their influence and to famish a means of commanicacios between them.

In her personal appearance Mrs. Whittlesej is prepossessing and dignified; in her address ^asy and nnafibcted; in her conTersatke gentle, deliberate, and persuasive ; in her natural temperament geiuaL warm, and sympathetic ^ in her judgment sound and discrtminatiTe. arriving at her conclusions less, perhaps, by a formal procees d induction, than by a native aptness and a sanctified taste. She was made for influence in whatever path of life she might have cho^n. In that wtiich Providence has actually assigned to her, she h£ sought to wield it for the noblest ends.. We rejoice in Its extest, since it is apparent that she views it only as a talent to be empioyed in her Saviour's service. For her efforts to raise the standard' of maternal hope and fidelity, to sow the seeds of domestic virtue and happiness far and near, and to improve and elerate the char- acter of female influence in general, she is destined, we believe, to be long and affectionately remembered as a most et&cieut and noble benefactress.

DiffTiNouisHED both as a teacher and writer, has for many year? held a prominent position among those who encourage and aid American 'literature and moral improvement.

This lady is the daughter of the late ;Samuel Hart, of Berlin, Connecticut, where she was bom in February, 1787. Her Ikdicr was descended, on the maternal side, fh>m Thomas Hooker, the first minister of Hartford, who is regarded as the founder of the State of Connecticut j he having lead the colony across the wilder^ ness from the vicinity of Boston. Her paternal ancestor was Stephen Hart,' a deacon of Mr. Hooker's churcl^ and his companion through the wilderness.

The love of teaching appears to have been a ruling passion in Miss Hart's mind, and was developed in her early years. At the age of sixteen she took charge of a district school in her native town. The following year she opened a select school, and in the summer of the next year was placed at the head of the Berlin Academy. During this period, being engaged at home througbont the summer in the capacity [of instructress, she managed in the spring and autumn to attend one or other of the two boarding' schools at Hartford.

During the spring of 1807, Miss Hart received invitations to take charge of academies in three different states, and accepted that from Westfield, Massachusetts. She remained there but a few weeks, when, upon a second and more pressing invitation, she went to Middlebury, in Vermont. Here she assumed the charge of a female academy, which she retained for two years. The school was liberally patronized, and general satisfaction rewarded the efforts of its pre- ceptress. In 1809, she resigned her academy, and was united in marriage with Dr. John Willard, then marshal of the district of Vermont, and for several years a leader of the republican party of that State.

In 1814, Mrs. Willard was induced to establish a boarding-school at Middlebury, when she formed the determination to effect an important change in female education, by the institution of a class