Biographical Sketch.
MRS. LOUD, formerly Miss Barstow, was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania; and passed the early part of her life in the beautiful retirement of her native home, enjoying unrestrained intercourse with the wildest scenes of wood and valley that are to be found among the windings of the Susquehannah. Although when a child she committed whole volumes of poetry to memory, and studied with fond devotion the best poets, (as well as nature, one of the best teachers a poet can have,) it was not until the time of her marriage in 1824, that her own talent began to develope itself. She is now quite an accomplished writer, and contributes to various magazines and daily journals; her poems often possess much melody of language, graceful thought, and tender feeling.