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     The late Z. F. Smith, Historian of Kentucky, said of Mrs. Morton
in his review of her work:
     'Mrs. Morton is a recognized priestess of metrical art of song and
poetry, only too modest and content to be enshrined in her temple at the
Capitol of the Commonwealth and by her votaries there to be approached
in her home. Many gems of imagination and beautiful thought has she
strewn along the highways of literature."

     The Critic says:
     "Well may she be called and crowned the 'Lady Laureate of Ken-
tucky.' No one writes like her. Her poems are not only beautiful in
imagery and diction, but there is a touch of feeling that makes all the
world akin, in them all."

     The World says:
     "When Mrs. Morton sings, her notes have the golden ring of a harp.
The   earth-earthly--minor chords  of sadness and sorrow  breathe
through them, strike the heart unexpectedly, and bedew the eyes that
read. Never was a sweeter poem written than 'Pictures in Silver,' though
the scenes are in the clouds--through her pen--we see them as through a
magic lantern--
                   "On transparent, rosy texture
                   Ri es now a wondrous picture,
                        Framed in silver swaying there.
                   Memory draws it nearer, nearer,
                   And I see its figures clearer
                        in the moonlight soft and fair."