PAGE Lucretia and Margaret Davidson 9 Mrs. Adams 49 Mrs. Washington 79 Madame de Stael 90 Lady Hester Stanhope 121 Hannah More 131 Mrs. Barbauld 167 Madame de Genlis 182 Josephine 219 Marie Antoinette 261 Madame Roland 267 Madame de Sevigne 286 Mary, Queen of Scots 307 Elizabeth, Queen of England 335 Isabella of Spain 339 Joan of Arc 349 LUCRETIA AND MARGARET DAVIDSON. "There stood on the banks of the Saranac a small, neat cottage, which peeped forth from the surrounding foliage--the image of rural quiet and contentment. An old-fashioned piazza extended along the front, shaded with vines and honeysuckles; the turf on the bank of the river was of the richest and brightest emerald; and the wild rose and sweetbrier, which twined over the neat enclosure, seemed to bloom with more delicate freshness and perfume within the bounds of this earthly paradise. The scenery around was wildly yet beautifully romantic; the clear blue river, glancing and sparkling at its feet, seemed only as a preparation for another and more magnificent view, when the stream, gliding on to the west, was buried in the broad, white bosom of Champlain, which stretched back, wave after wave, in the distance, until lost in faint blue mists that veiled the sides of its guardian mountains, seeming more lovely from their indistinctness."