grew over her a quiet indifference to outside things, even to the subjects which had once most excited her; she was living, as in truth she had done more or less all her days, in dreamland. And when finally her home activity ceased, and her interests grew languid, though not her affections—only her impulse to the manifestation of them—she still preserved what a friend described as her "sweet, sad content;" and in this deep calm she passed away, May 24, 1895.
It may be well to add a chronological list of all the poems published in her lifetime, most of which have been already referred to.
1. "War Lyrics, by A. and L." (Saunders and Otley), 1855. This little work, aided by the national enthusiasm for our brave soldiers in their fearful strife, reached a second edition in a fortnight.
2. "Gemma of the Isles, a Lyrical Drama by L." (Saunders and Otley), 18509, a fairy-fiction, full of songs and poetical pictures, with a very slight thread of historical fact.
3. "Hannibal, a Drama in Two Parts" (Smith and Elder), 1861, anonymous. I have
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