We have now introduced in these pages the names of most of the eminent writers who stand forth prominently as having been continuously associated with the greater part of John Blackwood's career as an editor and publisher. There still, however, remain to be mentioned some well-known authors who came to him during the later years of his life. And, place aux dames, there is yet much that is interesting to be told regarding her whose indefatigable pen served him so faithfully and so long. Mrs Oliphant's place in a work of this kind is difficult to determine, for the reason that there is not a year, hardly a month, from the date of her earliest contribution down to her last, in which she is not represented in the archives of the Magazine. Following her brilliant course up to the last article she wrote for John Blackwood in 1879, we find that this portion alone covers a tract of twenty-seven years. We have drawn attention to the opening novels of the series, the ‘Chronicles of Carlingford’ and other works that occupied her in the early “sixties.” Those early years were marked by sorrows which for long left their trace on Mrs Oliphant's naturally cheerful and happy temperament. How bravely she struggled on in her sadness and bereavement is evinced by the mass of work she accomplished at that time, finding, perhaps, her only relief in the toil which one of less courageous, less disciplined mind would have felt to be impossible.