. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . cityslife, as sincere, asuntiring, as uncon-scious as they. Con-cerning himself hehas said : I had thegreat luck to be bornin the middle of alarge family. I livedwith three brothersand three sisters. Iwas the fourth, count-ing each way. I wasput on my Latin para-digms when I wassix years old, and Ilearned them reason-ably well. We limpedthrough a Latin ver-sion of RobinsonCrusoe when I waseight years old. ButI knew nothing ofthe Latin language,as a language
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . cityslife, as sincere, asuntiring, as uncon-scious as they. Con-cerning himself hehas said : I had thegreat luck to be bornin the middle of alarge family. I livedwith three brothersand three sisters. Iwas the fourth, count-ing each way. I wasput on my Latin para-digms when I wassix years old, and Ilearned them reason-ably well. We limpedthrough a Latin ver-sion of RobinsonCrusoe when I waseight years old. ButI knew nothing ofthe Latin language,as a language, till Iwent to the BostonLatin School. I wasninth in a class of fifteen. That is about the average rank which I generallyhad. I owe my education chiefly to my father, mymother, and my older brother. My father introducedthe railway system into New England when I was elevenyears old. Dr. Hale graduated from Harvard in first regular settlement was in 1846, as pastor of theChurch of the Unity in Worcester, where he remaineduntil 1S56. In that year he was called to the SouthCongregational (Unitarian) Church in Boston, where he. EDWARD EVERETT HALE still preaches. He has been one of the most active menin our national literature and in many philanthropicmovements. His pen has been constantly employed inthe latter, while scores of volumes attest what he hasdone in the former. How he has found time for somuch work, in addition to his pastoral duties, is amystery. He shows the marks of the toil of the scholarin his countenance, but his general health has been sus-tained through it all, and he is in full physical and men-tal vigor after allthese years of earn-est work. In MyDouble, and How HeUndid Me, in theMan Without aCountry, and othershort stories, he hasachieved a personalimmortality in as he hasproved himself to be,his work in fictionhas never been donefor arts sake, but forthe sake of all hu-manity. His book, Ten Times One isTen, led to the es-tablishment o
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