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WOMEN OF DISTINCTION.

orable mention of the following ladies of distinction, to whom we hope, in the future, to do greater justice.

Mrs. Dr. G. F. Grant, of Boston, was a pupil at the New England Conservatory of Music, and was for quite awhile the very popular and accomplished organist at the North Russell Street Church.

The Boston Globe said of her:

A fine-looking young lady; achieved a like success in all her numbers, and in fine presence on the stage and in her simple, unobtrusive manner winning the sympathies of the audience.

Mrs. Dr. C. N. Miller, also of Boston, was for a long time the leading soprano singer of Rev. L. Grimes' church, a very valuable and favorite member of the great Tremont Temple Choir, so well noted for its good music.

The Boston Globe said of her:

She is the possessor of a well-cultivated voice of natural sweetness.

Mrs. P. A. Glover and Mrs. H. Jeffreys are both of high rank in musical circles of Boston and possess voices of rare and natural beauty—wonderful in their power to thrill the very souls of their hearers with the melody of their songs.

Miss Sarah Sedgwick Brown, a lady of most charming voice as well as possessing a most wonderfully well-developed musical talent, fine interpretations and renditions of operatic and classical music. She has been quite often called the "Colored Nightingale."

The Daily Pennsylvanian of May 3, 1856, said of her: