The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-17
SYCAMORE. Ill.

IN ~ x@Er representative Am
T w erican men of letters
we're brought near
together for the last time on earth, one
in life and one in death; one to read the
burial services for the other. They
were Oliver Wendell Holmes and Ed
ward Everett Hale. The latter remains
now almost the sole survivor of the old
school of New England publicists, orators
writer's and thinkers. He, the survivor,
remains laboring on as ever with tongue
and pen for all worthy causes, as keenly
alive to the issues and duties of the
hour, as tireless, as energetic. as ready
to do and to give of time and strength
as he was half a century ago. The as
sociate and co-laborer in various ways
with Emerson, Wendell Phillips, Daniel
Webster, Longfellow, Whittier James
Freeman Clarke and Phillips Brooks,
he has followed them all to their rest
one by one, until he alone remains to re.
mind us by his words and his work of
the noblest traditions of our past in lit
terature, politics and craftsmanship.
DR.. Hale is Bostonian by birth,
New Highlander by training and educa-
ton, and an American in the broadcast
and highest sense of that term. His
SEVENTEEN birthday came around on
April 3, 1892, and the occasion was made
notable by many pleasant remembrances
from friends and admirers in many lands.
DR.. Hales literary ability may be con-
sidered perhaps as product Of heredity,
since his father, Nathan Hale, edited
The Advertiser, the oldest daily in New
England, from 1914 to 1886 His moth
er also was woman of marked literary
gifts. But DR.. Hale himself declares
that to Edward Tyrrell Charming, one
of the teachers in Harvard, he owes his
knowledge of the English language. And
he adds "If the dear public thinks that
Clarke. Holmes, Dana, Story, Higginson,
Child and Parkman wrote good English,
let them be thankful to dear Ned Chan
ming who taught them how
DIR. Hale has been criticised at times
for trying to do so many things that he
has not done some things well. He GER
tainly has displayed a marvellous capaci-
ty for work and versatility that is moth.
ing less than wonderful. At various
periods of his life he has filled at one
and the same time the positions of pas
tor OF large city church. editor of
monthly magazine, regular contributor
to several papers and periodicals., a pop
ular lecturer, an officer in various phil
anthropic and educational societies. and
writer of novels and histories He is
even now active in all these lines with
his seventy years and more upon him.
DR.. Hale's published works number
! more than score; some of the best
known of them being as follows: 1.-The
Rosary q84S); kansas and Nebraska"
1854; "The Man without Country
1861; THE Ingham Papers 1850;
Ten Times One is Ten" (1S70); Our
New Crusade" Q875); "Stories of War
told by Soldiers" Q879l "Stories of the
Sea- Q8S0); Seven Spanish Cities" and
Christmas in Palace" 1854; Christ
mas at Narragansett" 1855; Franklin
in France" 1s97); THE Story of Spain"
$500. His most popular story and the
one by which he will be longest remem-
bered is The Man without Country"
work which breathes the most ardent
patriotism, and sets forth the noblest
conceptions of civic duty.
DR.. Hale's home for the greater part
of the year is on Highland avenue, Rox-
bury suburb of Boston. He has sum
mer home at Manuntuck, little hamlet
to the south of Newport and far down
on the opposite side of the bay. He vi
brates between these two points, but
never stops working and helping this
cause and that the year around The
Hale residence in Roxbury is an old
fashioned structure, and like its owner
seems to have an iSfnite capacity for
holding things. Within it's walls have
grown to manhood and womanhood a
happy family of five sons and daughter.
The house. which is of cream color with
salmon facings, is set back from the
street some fifty feet, affording small
front lawn divided from the sidewalk by
a row of trees. The second-story front
windows are beneath the roof of the
great Doric porch, and beneath the pill
lars of this porch Chamber the five leaved
woodbine and the broad-eaved aristo-
lochia, or Dutchman's pipe. His library
is small room, and is crammed with
plain book shelves and cases of drawers.
In this room most of Mr.. Hale's writing
is done He has a good collection of
books and maps relating to Spanish
American subjects. Among these is a
fac Simile of Cortez's autograph map of
Lower California, made for Mr.. Hale by
order of the Spanish Government from
the original copy preserved in the ma
tional archives.
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