The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-12

ties outside her home life which occu-
pied ~ muclI Of her later years. Per-
maps the civil war which was then
raging may have contributed. for that
tore people out Of their ruts and dis
tinctly changed the character OF Amer
lean life. Dr.. Howe was at once en-
gagged in the work % the Sanitary
Commission and Mrs. Howe. on a visit
to Washington in the first year OF the
war. was inspired to write the one
poem inseparably connected with her
name, THE Battle Hymn of the Re-
public still II must not he forgotten
that while her soug a spreading
throughout the country IL made
merely u favorable impression in cul-
tured New England and caused no
Immediate excitement. The author at
the time was disappointed. and can
hardy have felt encouraged to venture
out Of her privacy. \ more plausible,
II commonplace. explanatioG Of the
change may be that the remaining
children were ont ~ the nursery and
growing up. the older girls able to
look ont for themselves: that the FAM
iy circumstances were improving. 90
that the Howes now lived in the heart
or the city. and tina. thus the mother
FOUND time To indulge IN her own in
te.lectual tastes. Possibly. too. the
fact that tho diaries bcEir then ampli-
Hes the record Of work. Whatever the
cause. with the war period what We
may call the public career Of Julia
Ward Howe begins.
In 1Nth thu l'Tnfpp ~ ussrWnNtNt tr~LA
out, many refugees fed TO Greece In
Sreat dcstitution. DR.. Howe stirred
people up To contribute money for their
relief and sailed to Europe 70 see that
1t was properly distributed. He took
his wife and two ~ the girls with him.
Mrs. Howe described the voyage in a
book; she had previously issued a
second volume % poems. Then. In or
der 20 obtain more money. she helped
I" organize "A tretan far. and wen;
about giving addresses on the Cretans.
Sn" had made a beginning before the
voyage of giving public readings. She
had Joined James Freeman clarke's
church AMI hc continued to he her pas
tor as long AZ he lived: it was newt
all" tina she should lie ono of the
group that met to discuss rclislon and
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