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Rh the University of Virginia by a woman. As seen in her poems and speeches in behalf of the restoration of "Old Ironsides," her plea for the Lincoln memorial collection at Washington, D.C., and in the brochure, "An Offering in behalf of the Deaf," concerning speech education, many another cause has had her helping hand.

Miss Gould is an honorary member of the Castilian Club of Boston, having contributed one of the ablest papers to volume xxvii. of members' essays, presented by the club to the Boston Public Library. Her right-to-the-point speeches on a variety of subjects also made her an honorary member of the Wednesday Morning Club of Boston. She was the only woman speaker upon the erection of the Abigail Adams cairn, June 17, 1896, under the auspices of the Atlams Chapter, Mrs. Nelson V. Titus, Regent, and was the poet of the Webster Centennial at Fryeburg, Me., in the summer of 1902, having been made some time be- - fore, for articles written on Webster, an honorary member of the Boston Webster Historical Society.

Her conscientious and extensive research in historical realms is seen in her interesting book, "John Adams and Daniel Webster as Schoolmasters," for which the Hon. Charles Francis Adams wrote an introduction. This, with its companion, "Ezekiel Cheever: Schoolmaster," will, it is said, become the final word on the respective subjects, to be more and more valued as the years go by. Her versatility has led to her being the poet of occasions and of movements. Her "Endeavor Rally Hymn," to which her nephew, Willard Gould Harding, composed the music, has been widely scattered. Her "Columbia — America," set to music by Adeline Frances Fitz, which is played by Sousa's Band, is the accepted song of the Massachusetts Daughters of the Revolution. Two of her Children's Songs, set to music and published by Clement Ryder, are in demand for Children's Sunday. Her verses on the Mountain Laurel, on its proposal as the State flower, were dedicated to the Massachusetts Floral Emblem Society. Perhaps Miss Gould is most popularly known by her single stanza, "Don't Worry," which has been copied far and near, even a little Alaska paper having caught its sunshine, and, widely scattered in leaflet form, has been a comfort to many a troubled soul. Not to mention, for lack of space, the "Songs of the Months" and verses to notable contemporaries and friends, it may here be stated that all that Miss Gould wishes saved of her poetry has been recently collected under the name " One's Self I sing, and Other Poems." A story, "A Pioneer Doctor," and "The Brownings in America," have been recently published.

A book of selections, her "Gems from Walt Whitman," published in 1889, called forth warm response from "the good gray poet": "I want to thank you as a woman," he said, "for the capacity of understanding me; for," he added, somewhat meditatively, "only the com- bination of the pure heart and the broad mind makes this possible." The publication of her "Anne Gijchrist and Walt Whitman" in 1900 gave further evidence of her generous capacity for friendship and her appreciation of that gracious quality in others. An official connection with the Walt Whitman International Association was accorded to Miss Gould in recognition of her labors of love in that direction. Educated in music, "brought up," as she once said, "on symphony concerts," a sympathetic student also in other realms of art, she has been both a musical and an art critic. Her tastes are nowhere more plainly seen than in the collection of choice paintings, and literary treasures — signed photographs, autograph books, letters, stamps, and souvenir cards — which her wide acquaintance with famous men and women in this country and abroad has brought to her.

An extensive traveller in this country and in Europe, Miss Gould, like some other tourists, has made a practice of dipping her hands in the water of various places she has visited, her list including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the chief rivers, lakes, bays, falls, of our own land and a number of the most famous abroad. The hot geysers of the National Park and the icy waters of the Muir Glacier in Alaska mark the extremes of temperature she has encountered in pursuing this "hobby." The highest water she has reached