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210 Literary World: "Emma Huntington Nason is one of those who write verses by divine permission. Her poems are not merely personal outpourings of joy or sadness, but they are thoughtful with the insight that looks into others' experiences as her own. ’The Ballad of the Blithe Quartette,’ with its mingled music, the gently swinging ’Slumber Song,’ the dignified ’The Tower,’ which begins the book, and the reverently passionate ’Attainment,' which closes it, are widely different from each other in form as in spirit, but they are all good and true, and we are glad they are ours to read and keep."

The verses "Body and Soul" and "Two Faces" have been pronounced "two of the most remarkable poems published in this country in recent years." The former was selected by Mr. Warner for his "World's Best Literature" and "A Child's Question" was chosen by Mr. Stedman for his American Anthology. Mrs. Nason has done much work for the literary clubs of Maine, having prepared papers on "The Folk-lore of Russia," "The Abenaki Indians," "The Early Balladists and Troubadours of France," and a course of lectures on the "Genius and Love-life of the German Poets." She is an enthusiastic student of German literature, and has published a number of magazine articles on the German poets.

Her talents are not limited to literature alone: she is a musical composer, having done some excellent work, and is active in the musical circles of Augusta. She is also interested in drawing and painting. Her studies in oil have much merit, and she sketches effectively in charcoal from nature. She has written a series of articles on "Ancient Art for Young People."

At Augusta's centennial celebration in 1897 she delivered a poem entitled "Ancient Koussinoc," into which is woven much of the historical and legendary lore of the valley of the Kennebec.

Mrs. Nason is a member of the Society of the Mayflower Descendants and of the Order of the Descendants of Colonial Governors. She has been Regent of the Koussinoc Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Augusta and Vice-Regent of the Maine State Council, D. A. R.

Mr. and Mrs. Nason have one son, Arthur Huntington Nason, who was graduated A.B. from Bowdoin College in 1899, and A.M. pro merito in 1903. He has been a teacher of English in secondary schools, and, since 1903, a graduate student in English at Bowdoin College and at Columbia University. He was joint editor of Songs of Theta of Delta Kappa Epsilob, 1899; and his own publications include A Yule-tide Song and Other Verse, 1901, and pamphlets on English literature and composition 1901-2-3. He was appointed University Fellow in English at Columbia for the year 1904-5.

MMA MYRTICE WOOLLEY, M.D., was born in Owasco, Cayuga County, N.Y., July 8, 1859, daughter of George and Catherine (Freese) Woolley.

Her parents were married in the town of Aurelius, in the same county, in 1852. Her grandfather and grandmother Freese were of Dutch origin, and were among the pioneer settlers of Ulster County, New York. When their daughter Catherine was a small child, they journeyed to Indiana in a wagon—a remarkable trip it was considered, that State being regarded in those days as a part of the "Far West." After a two years' battle with fever and ague they returned to the little farm in Aurelius to spend the remaining days of their lives.

George Woolley, father of Dr. Woolley, was born in Cayuga County in 1831. He was educated in the common schools and the Auburn Academy. He followed farming until 1873. In that year he sold his farm in Owasco, and removed with his wife and their three children to Auburn, where he worked at various trades. In 1887, having removed to the Freese homestead in Aurelius, he resumed his former occupation. He is living in that town at the present time, as active as any of his younger neighbors. Mrs. Woolley, the Doctor's mother, died May 9, 1900. She was born in 1830. For several years previous to her marriage she taught school. Active-minded, energetic, and, withal, possessed of considerable literary abil-