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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Elia W. Peattie Writes of This Famous Woman and Author.

How the Quiet New England Wife and Mother Write "Uncle Ton's Cabin."

Some of the Characteristics of the Enthusiasitc Friend of the Slave Whose Book Stirred the World.

"There is a ladder to heaven," once write Harriet Beecher Stoww, "whose base God has placed in human affections, tender instincts, symbolic feelings, sacraments of love, through which the soul rises highe and higher, refining as she goes, till she outgrows the human and changes, as she rises, into the image of the divine. At the very top of this ladder, at the threshold of parndisc, balzes dazzling and crystaline that celestial grade where the sould knows self no more, having learned, through a long experience of devotion, how blest it is lose herself in the eternal Love and Beauty, of which all earthly fairness and gradure are but the dim type, the distant shadow."

Mrs. Stowe, by the exercise of the affections and instincts, by the use of the sacraments and symbols, has attained to the Love and Beauty of which she wrote, and has found agian, let us hope, the old sweet sanity of mind, the old serene peace of spirit.

She lived till she was 85, and from early youth to old age she was busied with many things. She was not a genius exactly. At least it is safe to infer that she would not have lived to be so spoken of in "Queer Little People," she made Mrs. Nutcracker says:

"Depend upon it my dear, that fellow must be a genius."

"Fiddlesticks on his genius," said old Mr. Nutcracker, "what does he do?"

"Oh nothing, of course; that's one of the first makrs of genius. Geniuses, you know never come to common life."

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Elia W. Peattie Writes of This Famous Woman and Author.

How the Quiet New England Wife and Mother Write "Uncle Ton's Cabin."

Some of the Characteristics of the Enthusiasitc Friend of the Slave Whose Book Stirred the World.