ck._

FREDERIC HENRY HEDGE, D. D. 302
_From a photograph lent by his daughter, Charlotte A.
Hedge._

SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE, M. D. 328
_From a photograph by A. Marshall (1870), in the possession
of the Massachusetts Club._

LUCY STONE 376
_From a photograph by the Notman Photographic Company._

MARIA MITCHELL 386
_From a photograph._

THE NEWPORT HOME OF MR. AND MRS. HOWE 406
_From a photograph by Briskham and Davidson._

THOMAS GOLD APPLETON 432
_From a photograph lent by Mrs. John Murray Forbes._

JULIA ROMANA ANAGNOS 440
_From a photograph._

REMINISCENCES

CHAPTER I

BIRTH, PARENTAGE, CHILDHOOD

I have been urgently asked to put together my reminiscences. I could
wish that I had begun to do so at an earlier period of my life, because
at this time of writing the lines of the past are somewhat confused in
my memory. Yet, with God's help, I shall endeavor to do justice to the
individuals whom I have known, and to the events of which I have had
some personal knowledge.

Let me say at the very beginning that I esteem this century, now near
its close, to have eminently deserved a record among those which have
been great landmarks in human history. It has seen the culmination of
prophecies, the birth of new hopes, and a marvelous multiplication both
of the ideas which promote human happiness and of the resources which
enable man to make himself master of the world. Napoleon is said to have
forbidden his subordinates to tell him that any order of his was
impossible of fulfillment. One might think that the genius of this age
must have uttered a like injunction. To attain instantaneous
communication with our friends across oceans and through every
continent; to command locomotion whose swiftness changes the relations
of space and time; to steal from Nature her deepest secrets, and to make
disease itself the minister of cure; to compel the sun to keep for us
the record of scenes and faces, of the great shows and pageants of time,
of the perishable forms whose charm and beauty deserve to remain in the
world's possession,--these are some of the achievements of our
nineteenth century. Even more wonderful than these may we esteem the
mor