The Portland daily press., 1890-11-07


large frame, the quick motions, the
powerful hands and arms. Mental and
moral strength look out from the clear,
keen, steady eyes, the firm and strongly
cut features, and are evident in the very
tones of his voice. 1t is a pleasure to
talk with him, there is something so
breezy about his manner. was some
what tired when l saw him, and the
meeting had much the same effect on
me that fresh breeze straight from the
ocean would have on sultry day Not
word was wasted. DR.. Hale evidently
had no time to sit down and talk about
himself, though he does have time to
take the hndliest interest in every one
with whom he comes in contact.
He has more patience to talk about his
stories than about their author. Of his
little book, "In His Name" he said: 81
wrote it as Christmas story, to be told
to the young people of my church on
Christmas day. 1t was not nearly as
long as in its present form, and its de-
livery occupied only about twenty min
utes Afterward visited Lyons, where
the scene of the story is laid, and went
over the whole ground which the priest
went over, only not by the same roads.
It is study of the spot on the spot"
The book has been translated into
French, Italian and German. DR.. Hale
said, 1.-THE French toned it up little
because it wasn't orthodox enough to
suit them"
"My Double and How He Undid Me-"
very humorous sketch, was published
originally in The Atlantic. DR.. Hale
said that when it appeared Boston
paper declared that it was "a very inn
probable story" He laughed at the
recollection, and it is no wonder, for
that fact was self evident, and needed
not to be told Indeed DR.. Hale inclines
to highly improbable stories, only some of
them are so because the world is not
ready for the reforms they outline. But,
probable or not, he succeeds by some oc-
cult magic in making them wonderfully
real to the reader.
1.-THE Man Without Country" was
written during the war, "as contribu-
ton to the patriotic necessities of the
times, +" its author says. 1t was expected
to appear anonymously, but by some
mistake the name was given. "The edi-
tor never read it before it was issued"
says DR.. Hale, ''for at the time he was
tramping In a southern state with a
musket over his shoulder" The story has
been translated into several languages
and has run through many editions. 1t
was printed in German without the
authors name, and was afterward re-
printed in an American paper, also
anonymously. A friend of DR.. Hale's
says she found German copy of it in a
little country village on the Amazon.
The story by its large sale did not lit
tie to further the spread of patriotic
feeling throughout the country.
Edward Everett Hale was born in
Boston, April 8. 1929, and has passed
large part of his life there His father
was Hon. Nathan Hale, who did great
deal Of work when the first railroads in
the vicinity were surveyed and laid out,
and who had charge Of important finan-
cial matters. Capt. Nathan Hale, the
patriot, was his great-uncle, and Edward
Everett, the statesman and orator, was
his uncle.
His mother, Sarah Preston Everett,
was the daughter of clergyman, and
great lover of books His father was a
scholarly man, who at one time fitted
boys for college, and SO the youth grew
up in an atmosphere where learning was