The philosophical character of Mrs. Howes mind, and her recognition of principles, have made all that she has said in connection with the suffrage movement logical. With the enthusiasm of a late convert to the cause she has combined the results of her studious life. Of the merits of the muchvexed question this is not the occasion to speak. The writer would, however, bear testimony that even among those who are most firmly convinced that its success would not conduce to the well-being of the women, children, and men of the country, Mrs. Howe's disinterested and ardent advocacy is admired and respected.

The establishment of the New England Women's Club in the year 1869 was a new departure in the woman's movement. Mrs. Howe was one of those with whom originated the plan of the association, of which she has long been president. This club of some two hundred ladies has pleasant parlors in Park street, in the house originally built by Mr. Francis Gray, and afterwards occupied by ex-President Quincy. The rooms are always open and warmed, and the regular weekly meeting brings a large proportion of its members together to listen to a paper from some eminent person. The club is not a suffrage club, though a large proportion of its members are interested in the cause. Many of the subjects there discussed relate to the education and the general welfare of women.

As a speaker Mrs. Howe has had much experience since the year 1870. Her lectures are interesting, and touch on many topics, some of which are germane to the reform she has had so warmly at heart. Her gentle voice and powers of oratory are by no means the least of her gifts. The exquisite modulations of her tones, the perfectly chiselled enunciation of the words, make her voice carry to a great distance, and she has frequently been heard to advantage in the Boston Music Hall and Tremont Temple, and has also spoken in the Royal Albert Hall in London.

In the year 1872 Dr. and Mrs. Howe, with their youngest daughter and a party of friends, passed three of the winter

months in the island of Santo Domingo, the queen of the tropics, the garden of the world. Dr. Howe had been appointed a member of the commission sent down by President Grant to investigate the advantages of the proposed annexation of the island to this country. The report was one very favorable to the scheme, and of all the commissioners none was more enthusiastic for the annexation than Dr. Howe. The Samana Bay Company made Dr. Howe one of its directors, and President Baez received him with the greatest cordiality. The winter passed in the picturesque gray-walled town of Santo Domingo, where Columbus had so long lived, was one full of a romantic interest. The wonderful resources of the island were explored, and journeys into its interior were made on horseback. The hospitality of the inhabitants was cordially extended and greatly enjoyed by Dr. and Mrs. Howe. The great white-marble house- or palace, as it was called by the natives where they lived was garrisoned day and night by a military guard of honor. The soldiers drew for this and all other military duty the incredibly small pay of ten cents a day. The payment was made in United States silver. The army was dressed- very sketchily — in uniforms a large part of which bore the familiar letters U. S. The life in the great cool palace, with its open courtyard and wide marble corridors, its view of palm groves and orange orchards, was idyllic. The perfect climate, the beautiful landscape, the simple, pathetic people, longing for a civilization which we have declined to help them achieve, all made a strong impression on Mrs. Howe.

From Santo Domingo she sailed for Europe, where she remained several months. The object of this visit was the furtherance of the cause of peace by a direct appeal to the sympathies of women. In the year of the Franco-Prussian war Mrs. Howe had become much impressed with a feeling that the women of the civilized world could, by uniting their efforts, do much to destroy the prestige of military glory and to promote the settlement of international difficulties by arbitration, based on recognized principles of justice. So strongly was

Mrs. Howe moved by this view that she composed and issued a circular addressed to women of all nationalities and degrees. This brief circular was translated into several languages, and was distributed in countries as various.

Her visit to Europe in 1872 was made in pursuance of this appeal, and in the hope of assembling a Women's Peace Congress in London, the metropolis of the world. To this end Mrs. Howe remained in England some two months, where she was employed mostly in the public advocacy of the measure which she had so much at heart. The time was not, and is not yet, ripe for such a congress as Mrs. Howe sought to assemble. Her efforts, however, were recognized by many eminent persons, and her "Peace Crusade" of 1872 has always remained one of her happiest remembrances.

A second visit to Santo Domingo was made by Dr. and Mrs. Howe in the year 1873. This time the little town of Samana, lying cradled at the foot of a range of hills, washed by the beryl-green waters of the bay, was their headquarters. In a cottage high up on the mountain-side Dr. and Mrs. Howe, with one faithful black attendant, Francé, a Dominican, passed a quiet winter. The simple folk of the village grew to love the strange lady who took such interest in their homes and children. When at last Dr. and Mrs. Howe were obliged to leave the island, and the flag of the Samana Bay Company was lowered, it was with real grief that they parted with their humble friends, who still cherish a grateful memory of the visitors who sojourned for so long among them.

On the 9th of January, in the year 1876, Dr. Samuel G. Howe died after a short illness. For several years previous to his death his health had been greatly shattered, and in the last year especially he became very dependent upon his wife. Her care of him was tender and unfailing.

In the spring of the following year Mrs. Howe made at voyage to Europe with her youngest daughter. She remained abroad for more than two years, and visited in this period England, France, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Greece. With Greece she was

already familiar, but the delights of the Orient had until then been unexplored by her.

Genius is of a twofold order. That which springs only from the intellect is like the wonderful spectacle of the aurora borealis, which flames across the face of heaven. It will challenge the admiration of mankind. It may illuminate the spheres of the present and the future, solving their problems and revealing their secrets; but while its brilliant play transfigures sky, sea, and land, it warms no living thing. There is a quality of genius which is of the heart, and which works mainly for the comforting of humanity. Through every thought and action of him who possesses this spark of the Divine love is felt the glow of the Promethean fire.

It is a strange fact that most women of genius have possessed the genius of the intellect. Those of Eve's daughters who have claimed and found admittance to the Olympian heights of greatness have more often been admired than loved. Their feminine nature seems often to be hateful to them, and in their striving for fame and glory they lose that quality which should most endear them to their kind. Men are their competitors, and it is from them they must wrest the unwilling admission of equality. The heavier burden which is laid upon their shoulders handicaps them in the race of life, and their sex becomes a grief to them.

How different has been the spirit by which Mrs. Howe has been animated through life. How has she striven to maintain the dignity of womanhood, and to lift her sex to the high level which she has attained.

To those who have lived nearest to the deep heart, its warmth has overcome the griefs and disappointments of the world. To those who from a distance can only judge of the woman by her works, the glow of her genius is a beneficent and helpful light. As poet, philosopher, reformer, she is known by the world; to her own she is dearest as woman, friend, and mother.

CHAPTER XVI.

CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG.

BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD.

Clara Louise Kellogg's Birth and Parentage-Girlhood and Early Education - Her Extraordinary Musical Genius-Its Early Development -Intuitive Knowledge of Tone and Pitch Marvellous Execution- Patient Study and Unwearied Devotion to Her Art - Beginning of Her Career-An Unusual Compliment at Rehearsal - First Trial in Opera - Her Début -Carrying the Audience Captive - Wild Enthusiasın - Triumphant Success Verdict of the Critics - Visits Europe - Début in London A Brilliant and Enthusiastic Audience- Acknowledged to be the Queen of Song- Return to America - Reception in New York - Triumphal Tours Her Charity and Kindness Personal Appearance and Characteristics.

T would be difficult to imagine a stronger contrast in any life than that existing between two nights in the life of Clara Louise Kellogg. In the one, at the very end of the Italian opera season, in the city of New York, a girl of seventeen, slight and pale, so nervous that she could hardly move her rigid lips, so frightened that she could hardly command her young voice, came before a calm and critical audience, under the shadow of a powerful Italian clique, who sat in cool judgment, oblivious of the fact that warmth of manner and generosity of applause would stimulate the singer as sunshine stimulates the budding stem. essayed to sing the part of Gilda in "Rigoletto," both the dramatic and the musical portions of which she had studied faithfully for nine months, and fainted under the cruel ordeal when the curtain had fallen at the end. In the other, some few years later, in London, before a house crowded from floor to ceiling with the best culture of the British empire,