though it glided with kind sympathies into the common pleasures of youth, never seemed to relax its tie to the spiritual world.
During the summer of 1824, Captain Partridge visited Plattsburg, with his soldier scholars. Military display had its usual exciting effect on Miss Davidson's imagination, and she addressed to the "Vermont Cadets" several spirited stanzas, which might have come from the martial Clorinda.
It was about this time that she finished "Amir Khan," and began a tale of some length, which she entitled the "Recluse of the Saranac." "Amir Khan" has long been before the public; but we think it has suffered from a general and very natural distrust of precocious genius. The versification is graceful, the story beautifully developed, and the Orientalism well sustained. We think it would not have done discredit to our best popular poets in the meridian of their fame: as the production of a girl of fifteen, it seems prodigious. On her mother discovering and reading a part of her romance, Lucretia manifested her usual shrinkings, and with many tears exacted a promise that she would not again look at it till it was finished; she never again saw it till after her daughter's death. Lucretia had a most whimsical fancy for cutting sheets of paper into narrow strips, sewing them together,and writing on both sides; and once playfully boasting to her mother of having written some yards, she produced a roll, and forbidding her mother's approach, she measured off twenty yards! She often expressed a wish to spend one fortnight alone, even to the exclusion of her little pet sister; and Mrs. Davidson,
