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Hale, Edward Everett

clergyman, author, was born April 3, 1822, in Boston, Mass. He is a prominent unitarian clergyman of Boston, widely known as a writer, whose literary activity covers a wide field. Since 1856 he has been pastor of the South Congregational church of Boston. As a writer of short stories he will, perhaps, be longest remembered, his work in this direction including The Man Without a Country; Ten Times One Is Ten; In His Name; Mrs. Merriam's Scholars; His Level Best; The Ingham Papers; Four and Five; Crusoe in New York; Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; Christmas in Narragansett; Our Christmas in a Palace. Longer essays in fiction are, Margaret Percival in America; Mr.

Tangier's Vacations; Ups and Downs; Philip Nolan's Friends; The Fortunes of Rachel. Other works of his are, Sketches in Christian History; Kansas and Nebraska; How to Do It; What Career?; Gone to Texas: Seven Spanish Cities; June to May, a collection of sermons; Boys' Heroes; The Story of Massachusetts; Sybaris and Other Homes; Sunday- School Stories on the Golden Texts of 1889; For Fifty Years, a collection of poems; A New England Boyhood, an autobiographic work; Chautauquan History of the United States; and If Jesus Came to Boston.