It was while Mrs. Child’s letters were forming one of the greatest attractions of the _Boston Courier_, in 1843, that Miss Cornelia Wells Walter took charge of the editorial columns of the _Boston Transcript_, doing her work as ably and faithfully as any of her masculine fellow journalists. And in the next year, 1844, Margaret Fuller, who in 1840 had founded, and for two years edited, that famous quarterly, the _Dial_, came from Boston to New York at the request of Horace Greeley to fill the position of literary editor of the _Tribune_. Here she set the standard of criticism at high-water mark, and made its literary notices famed for a discrimination, sincerity, justness, and fearlessness of judgment and utterance which contributed largely to the influence of the paper. In the summer of 1846, when she sailed for Europe, its review columns had in her hands attained a reputation which in after years the scholarly editing of Dr. Ripley did but sustain. In the same year that saw the beginning of Mrs. Child’s brilliant letters from New York, the readers of the _Louisville Journal_ greeted the advent of another woman, Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm, in letters and editorial contributions bearing the strong stamp of an earnest, aggressive, deeply thoughtful but vivacious mind, intense in its sympathies, ready to do battle against every form of wrong-doing, and gifted with a bright humor which winged the shafts she sent abroad with unfailing vigor. It was but a little while until she became also special correspondent for the _Spirit of Liberty_, issued at Pittsburgh. She speedily proved herself a worthy compeer of her Eastern sisters in the journalistic field. In 1848 she removed to Pittsburgh and established there the _Saturday Visitor_, a paper which grew rapidly into wide circulation and influence.