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244 Paris, and in England, London, Lincoln, York, Chester, and other places. She preached in Birniina;hani, Stratford-on-Avon, and in Brailes and Wellesbourne in Warwickshire.

She keeps house in the cosey parsonage in Tyngsborough, and her home is a centre for uplifting and stimulating influences. Her frankness and sincerity have won for her the confidence as well as the warm affection of her parishioners, her whole-souled devotion to her chosen work and the earnestness and aptness of her pulpit utterances impressing even the casual hearer and chance acquaintance. Her hundreds of friends and admirers feel that she reflects honor upon the sacred profession. Years of careful study and high thinking have made her the cultured, refined woman whom to meet is a pleasure long to be remembered and to number in friendship is a privilege.

ATE SANBORN.— Breezy Meadows, cool, shady, a brook singing along a few steps from the piazza; cattle, sleek and contented, grazing on the rolling slopes of upland pasture; fields of growing timothy and clover, grain and corn, on every hand. A garden, blossoming full with flowers of our grandmothers' day, and new varieties also, leads into but half hides another, where grow old-fashioned and new-fangled fruits, berries, and vegetables, for the refreshment of mistress and guests.

The hand of the landscape artist has never touched the place. Rose-bushes and a few shrubs grow at will about the house, which is an old-fashioned one, standing in their midst well back from the highway. Great trees are near, but not many shadow the building, which gives out such an air of sunshine, of inbred hospitality, that one smiles before pounding a summons on the brass knocker, and keeps on smiling, for the welcome from the mistress is sincere.

This is the home of Kate Sanborn; and she loves it, and delights to entertain her friends here, both the famed and the fameless. One walks through the large sunny rooms, with books everywhere, quaint things in corners and odd places. There is a distaff full of flax in a niche half-way up the stairway, and at its head a wool wheel, banded ready for use. Coming to the dining-room, one finds a great fireplace, never changed since the olden day when the house was built, immense fire-dogs, big bellows, tongs, and shovel, made in a primitive blacksmith's shop. Many a distinguished guest has chatted and laughed by its crackling fire, many a merry group surrounded it. It is not a show place, but a home; and Miss Sanborn's hospitality is much larger than her acres. Sometimes it is a picnic party out from Boston, and always a guest in the house, often half a dozen. She is a good housekeeper and an excellent farmer.

She lives outdoors, makes her garden, and walks among the growing crops. Dogs and horses know the clear, wholesome ring of her voice, and come to be petted. Even the cows are a little more attentive when she calls. Only a womanly woman, a lady born and reared, could live her life of good cheer, literary environment, and farming.

Miss Sanborn was eminently well born. Her father was Edwin D. Sanborn, who for practically all his life held a professorship in Dartmouth College. From LS37 to 1859 he occupied with distinguished ability the chair of Latin language antl literature. In the last-named year he accepted the Latin professor- ship and presidency of Washington University, at St. Louis, returning four years later to the chair of oratory and literature at Dartmouth, which he held until he retired from active work. His was a very long, able, and distinguished career. In 1837 he married Mary A., daughter of Ezekiel Webster, of Boscawen, N.H., a niece of Daniel Webster.

Of this grandfather, Daniel says: "Ezekiel was witty, quick at repartee, his conversation full of illustrative anecdote." He was a man of wonderful presence. "In manly beauty," said Daniel, "he is inferior to no person that I ever saw." He was a model lawyer and a model man, simple and temperate.

His "Credo," which is preserved, is one of the most clear, simple, and perfect papers of its kind to be found in the annals of Christianity. All his leisure from business and his family was devoted to books. Lawyers who