BY CATHARINE E. BEECHER. Philadelphia: HENRY PERKINS, 134 CHESTNUT STREET. PERKINS & MARVIN, BOSTON. . . . . . . . . 1837. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1837, by Henry Perkins , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. L. ASHMEAD AND CO. PRINTERS ....

The honoured and beloved name which that lady bears, so associated as it is at the South, North, and West, with all that is elegant in a scholar, refined in a gentleman, and elevated in a Christian,—the respectable sect with which she is connected,—the interesting effusions of her pen,—and her own intellectual and moral worth, must secure respect for her opinions and much personal influence. This seems to be a sufficient apology for presenting to the public some considerations in connexion with