Review of reviews and world's work . y years later, in 1861, he was attachedto the personal staff of Gen. Benjamin , of Massachusetts, in the capacity ofsecretary, and had charge of General But-lers correspondence. General Butler wason the James River ir Virginia. One dayhe received a letter from an irate lady com-plaining that the Federal troops were milkingthe cows on her plantation. The lady provedto be Mrs. Tyler, widow of the formerPresident, who had been kind to the youth-ful Hale at Washington in the early course, Dr. Hale was glad to follow Gen-eral Butlers instructi
Review of reviews and world's work . y years later, in 1861, he was attachedto the personal staff of Gen. Benjamin , of Massachusetts, in the capacity ofsecretary, and had charge of General But-lers correspondence. General Butler wason the James River ir Virginia. One dayhe received a letter from an irate lady com-plaining that the Federal troops were milkingthe cows on her plantation. The lady provedto be Mrs. Tyler, widow of the formerPresident, who had been kind to the youth-ful Hale at Washington in the early course, Dr. Hale was glad to follow Gen-eral Butlers instructions, and not only toexpress regret, but to give Mrs. Tyler everyassurance that her plantation should be un-molested. Here was a man who was doinggood work as a newspaper writer and cor-respondent some seventy years ago, and whowas still so much a man among men in ourown day that scarcely any one knew that hewas ill until the newspapers announced hisdeath. A week before he died he had at-tended a celebration in honor of the ninetieth. Photognipli by Davis A Kickemeyer, N. Y. DR. EDWARD EVERETT HALE.(Bom, April 3, 1822; died, June 10, 1909) DR. HALES BUSY CAREER 81 birtlulay of Mrs. Julia W^anl Howt, authorof poem, Battle Hymn of the Republic. Dr. Hale will be remembered by the thou-sands who knew him and by the hundreds ofthousands who had heard him speak as aijreat personality. There are those who,knowing his literary talents, felt that hisenergies were too freely put forth in manyother fields of endeavor. But it was chief business to live in an active way,to preach, to help all sorts of movementsand causes that he believed in; and he wrotestories and contributed to literature as anincidental matter, out of the abundance ofhis knowledge and experience, and as a rest-ful by-play for his creative talents. When a country or a civilization can pro-duce good and great men like Dr. Hale itstands vindicated, and if can be forgiven formany deficiencies. He had all the marks of
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