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RS. JULIA WARD HOWE was born May 27, 1819, in New York City. Her parents were Samuel Ward and Julia Cutler Ward. Her ancestors included the illustrious Huguenot family of Marions of South Carolina, Governor Samuel Ward, of Rhode Island, and Roger Williams, the apostle of religious tolerance. Her mother died in 1824. Her father, a successful banker, gave her every advantage of education. She was instructed at home by able teachers. education included music and languages. She learned German, Greek and French. She became the wife of Dr. Samuel G. Howe in 1843. They went abroad and remained a year, and her first child was born in Rome, Italy. Her father died in 1829, and Mrs. Howe became a Universalist in religion after rallying from the sorrow caused by his death. In youth she had shown her literary trend. At seventeen she published a review of Lamartine's "Jocelyn," an essay on the minor poems of Goethe and Schiller, and a number of original poems. Her marriage interrupted her literary work for a time. In 1850 she went to Europe and passed the winter in Rome with her two youngest children. In the fall of 1857 she returned to Boston. In 1852 and 1853 she published her first volume of poems, "Passion Flowers," which attracted much attention. In 1853 she published her "Words for the Hour," and a blank-verse drama, which was produced in Wallack's Theater in New York City, and later in Boston. Her interest in the anti-slavery question dated from 1851. Her third volume, "Later Lyrics," included her "Battle Hymn of the Republic," which was written in Washington, D. C., in the fall of 1861. Her book, "A Trip to Cuba," written after her visit to Cuba in 1857, is a prohibited volume on that island. Her prominence during the Civil War was due to her celebrated patriotic songs. Her “John Brown" song was written in 1862. It at once became known throughout the country and was sung everywhere. In 1867, with her husband, Mrs. Howe visited Greece, where they won the gratitude of the Greeks for their aid in their struggle for National independence. Her book, "From the Oak to the Olive," was written after her visit to Greece. She has been a profound student of philosophy, and has written numerous essays on philosophical themes. In 1868 she joined the woman suffrage movement. In 1869, before a legislative committee in Boston, she made her first suffrage speech. She has been officially connected from the beginning with the New England, American and other woman suffrage organizations. Her

husband died in 1876, and since that year she has preached, lectured, written and traveled much in all parts of the United States. Her lectures included "Is Polite Society Polite?" "Greece Revisited,” and "Reminiscences of Longfellow and Emerson.” In 1872 she went to England to lecture on arbitration as a means for settling national and international disputes. In London she held a series of Sunday evening services, devoted to "The Mission of Christianity in Relation to the Pacification of the World." In 1872 she attended, as a delegate, the Congress for Prison Reform held in London. Returning to the United States, she instituted the Women's Peace Festival, which meets on June 22nd each year. Several years ago she went to Europe and spent over two years in travel in England, France, Italy and Palestine. In Paris she was one of the presiding officers of the Woman's Rights Congress in 1878. She lectured in Paris snd Athens on the work of the women's associations in the United States. In Boston she organized the Woman's Club and the Ladies' Saturday Morning Club. In Newport she aided to form the Town and Country Club. She has served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Women for several years. She maintains her connection with these organizations and is an active promoter of their interests. She is still a vigorous, active woman. In the clubs which she has formed the members study Latin, French, German, literature, political economy, botany and many other branches. Her life has been and still is one round of ceaseless activity. Her home is in Boston, Mass.

THE CITY OF MY LOVE.

SHE sits among the eternal hills,
Their crown, thrice glorious and dear,
Her voice is as a thousand tongues
Of silver fountains, gurgling clear.

Her breath is prayer, her life is love,
And worship of all lovely things;
Her children have a gracious port,
Her beggars show the blood of kings.

By old Tradition guarded close,
None doubt the grandeur she has seen;
Upon her venerable front

Is written: "I was born a Queen!"

She rules the age by Beauty's power; As once she ruled by arméd might; The Southern sun doth treasure her Deep in its golden heart of light.

D. I.