CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN was born in London in 1808. She is the daughter of Thomas and the granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Her father died when she was a child, and her mother superintended her education, which was unusually wide. In 1827 she was married to Hon. George Chappel Norton, who had asked for her hand three years before. Meanwhile an accepted lover had died. She bore her husband three sons. But after a few years some baseless scandal connecting her with Lord Melbourne, whom she first met in 1831, led to a suit brought by Mr. Norton against Melbourne. The result was a triumphant verdict, on the part of the public as well

as the jury, for the defendant. Mrs. Norton and her husband have not since lived together. She is said to have been as beautiful as she is accomplished. She began writing verses in childhood, but was not encouraged by her mother. It is said that with her sister, who married Hon. Price Blackwood, she produced two little books of pictures and verses when they were twelve years of age. Mrs. Norton has published ser eral novels, besides her successive volumes of poetry. Her most popular poem is "Bingen on the Rhine." "The King of Denmark's Ride" has been a favorite with dramatic readers, and "The Arab to his Steed" with schoolboys. "We have been Friends together" is popular as a song.

"Tell my mother that her other son shall comfort her old age;

For I was still a truant bird, that thought his home a cage.

For my father was a soldier, and even as a child

My heart leaped forth to hear him tell of struġ. gles fierce and wild;

And when he died and left us to divide his scanty hoard,

I let them take whate'er they would-but kept my father's sword;

And with boyish love I hung it where the bright light used to shine,

On the cottage wall at Bingen—calm Bingen on

the Rhine.

"Tell my sister not to weep for me and sob with drooping head,

When the troops come marching home again with glad and gallant tread,