Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-07
sRE WAS a NOBLE WOMAN.
Career of the Late mary Booth-How She
Gained ~ National Reputation.

Career of the Late mary Booth-How She
Gained y National Reputation.
NEW YORK. March 6.-Msry Louise
Booth. editor of Hapa's Ba-pr, whose
death was announced last nisbt, lad. been
offering for sometime past from a bron-
chisl trouble.
Six weeks ago sLe made arrangements
To- take O. two months leave of absence from
her desk. ard repaired Tor a trip to the
Brrmulas. even going so far as to purchase
tickets Her bronchial affection, however
became chronic; the disease caused heart
trouble which rspidly grew worse, until
DO resulted IN her death
The funeral services viii be held &C her
lsLe retiience on Friday morning next, at
lO O'Clock THE body viii be inferred az
Cy11css Hls, IN the family plot.
Ths life of Miss Booth was one Of toll,
vtt ore OF great beauty and crowned With
successes. She was born in Y~phang,
Long I-lsnd. on April 10, 1881. Her
Der. VIM. Chalield BOolh, descerdeEt
/ OfJoh0 Booth. WHO cane TO TINS country
Ia 1919. established 70 first public school
I n Booklyn May Booths mother was
O. granddaughter Of an exile Of the French
revolution.
Whsu bat amsIs child Mary Booth dis
plsyeC great literary tendencies. AT seven
Fesrs of age she was an eager Latin scholar
aud had read many Of the great historians.
Her tastes inclined naturally toward the
study of languages and natural sciences,
snd In these directions she worked earn
esly. Before she reached the age OF
twenty years she began the work of trans
lafiors. which was one of the most impor-
tsnt Of bar life. Among her earliest
trsosla-ions were Mery'5 Andre
C7eri. To Victor Cousins Life
~ Time Of Nine. De Chevreuz,' Man
nil's Russisn Tales and Edmund
Ao,u1s "Germaine and King Of the
Mount ina She was GO this time con-
-ituilE literally TO newspapers and
magazines. and collecting material for the
most elaborate wors q her life, ~ Com
Mote History Of the Ctr OF New York "
TIE first edition Of this work appeared ID
1859. The reception Of the book every
where Yves c0,disl. Second and MIRO
editions were printed, enlarged snd illus
t-atei The last edition, brought down &c
date was printed in lSoO.
The work which gave Mary Booth the
srsatest national reputation was done dur
irr the civil var. Just sitter Sumter CUR
I had sent forth its ultimGtum, she received
/ an adverca copy of the Count DE Gaspar
i1'. famous Uprising Of Great People.
Size took 10 st once TO MT. SCrbner anC
I 4. D., ~
told her he war would be over before II
could ne brought out. Finally ne eaia !
| tha manuscripts could he ready IN wees
he gould publish it. By writing simoos
/ tveDtv-iOur hours n day, only stopping TO-
Itd She completed her task. The WoIs
was read from enc end of the country u
Itds othsr. aud created tne greatest eninus'
Iasm. Charles Sumner wrote 70 her: 1
Is worth whole phalanX in the cause o
human fea7cu.N She received grateiu
letters Of thanks from Lincoln, Phillips
| Garrison and other great men Of the time
/ Throughout the war Mary Booth KEEP
M her patriotic work Of tIansla,ing ant
publishing the comments Of Earopea'
svmpathizsrs with the Union. S1ch EN-
inent France sympathizers as Gasparin
I Cochin. Henri Martin, Lab1ulaye ant
Moutsiemb ert kept her constantly cup
piled with material. After the war s6
/ continued her translatious, the most i'm
portant being six volumes OF Henri Mar
tins unabridged history Of France. Il
| 1861 she was called 70 the editorial chair
/ Harper's Bqzar She held that position
when the first copy was issued and held
until her death, seldom leaving her duties
excopt for a brief vacation. She was IN
most constant and Woodworking of IN
many celebrated contributors to that pepe
IN The DIV of her death.