Her physical training made her a fearless swimmer, a bold rider, and an excellent walker--all of which greatly added to her active habits and powers of observation in travelling, for she travelled much.

Only a person of uncommon bodily vigour can so enjoy nature in her wildest moods and grandest aspects.
This quotation is from a long article which Mrs.Grace L.Oliver, of Boston, published in an early number of _Scribner's Magazine_.

I never had known of the existence of this learned, accomplished woman, but after reading this article I ventured to ask her to send me the material for a lecture and she responded most generously, sending books, many sketches of her career, full lists of the subjects which had most interested her, poems addressed to her as if she were a goddess, and the pictures she added proved her to have been certainly very beautiful.

"She looked like Venus and spoke like Minerva." My audience was greatly interested.

She was as new to them as to me and all she had donated was handed round to an eager crowd.