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Rh the essays and articles which she has published and is still publishing. These are splendid examples of the way in which a brilliant woman, free from the modern mania for hysterical viewpoint and hyperbolic phrase, can direct public attention to national wrongs and the teachings of history. Her style in these articles is crystal clear and gently didactic and the heart interest of a broad-minded, sympathetic woman lies as the undernote even in her most scathing arraignment of our national foibles.

Mrs. Logan's interest in the soldiers of our Civil War has never lapsed. To many people these soldiers have figured merely as old men in need of charity, but Mrs. Logan, remembering them as the brave, strong boys who went to the front in that terrible conflict to return broken and scarred, has always given them the admiration due exalted heroes as well as the material help which needy cases called for. A member of the Woman's Relief Corps, for many years she made it her sacred duty to attend the reunions of the Grand Army all over the country and her receptions at these gatherings have ever been enthusiastically warm. While visiting Boston to dedicate the post named in honor of her husband, a beautiful jeweled badge was given her and glorious speeches were delivered as sincere tributes to her as well as to her husband. The poet Whittier contributed the following stanza to his poem celebrating the occasion:

At Milwaukee, August 27, 1889, fifteen thousand Grand Army veterans passed before Mrs. Logan in review and the