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church in Worcester, Mass., in 1846. He re- 

 turned to Boston ten years later and took 

 charge of the South Unitarian church, where 

 he served as active pastor for forty-five years. 



Besides a long list of magazine articles, he 

 was the author of over fifty books. He wrote 

 histories, essays, novels, poems and short sto- 

 ries of the kind that are helpful to his fellow- 

 men. In the latter form of literature he ex- 

 celled. He was influential in advancing many 

 reforms and progressive movements. He was 

 an earnest advocate of universal peace, and 

 the arbitration, by a supreme court, of all 

 international disputes. His books Ten Times 

 One is Ten and In His Name led to the found- 

 ing of the King's Daughters, Lend-a-Hand, 

 and other charitable clubs. Among his most 

 important writings are Philip Nolan's Friends, 

 The Story of Massachusetts, A New England 

 Boyhood, Memoirs of a Hundred Years, and 

 Lowell and His Friends. For the last six years 

 of his life he was chaplain of the United States 

 Senate and was a notable figure at the nation's 

 capital through those last years. 



He was past eighty-seven years of age when 

 he died, on June 10, 1909. 



HALE, NATHAN (1755-1776), an American 

 patriot of the Revolutionary period, who suf- 

 fered the fate of a spy and faced death with 

 a courage that has made him one of his coun- 

 try's noblest heroes. Nathan Hale was born on 

 June 6, 1755; at Coventry, Conn. He was 

 teaching school at New London when the 

 colonists of Concord and Lexington "fired the 

 shot heard 'round the world." In the follow- 

 ing July he joined a Connecticut regiment of 

 volunteers, with the rank of first lieutenant. 

 In January, 1776, he was commissioned a cap- 

 tain in the regular army, and during the fol- 

 lowing spring and summer was on duty in the 

 vicinity of New York City. 



On Washington's call for a volunteer to enter 

 the British lines to secure needed information, 

 Hale offered his services. In the disguise of a 

 Dutch schoolmaster he visited all the enemy's 

 camps in New York and Long Island, made 

 drawings of the fortifications, and obtained the 

 facts he sought. On the night of September 21, 

 just as he was planning to return, he was recog- 

 nized and captured, and the following morning 

 suffered the shameful but inevitable lot of a 

 spy by dying on the scaffold. His farewell 

 letters to his mother and the young woman 

 he was to marry were destroyed before his 

 eyes, and it is said that his captors refused 

 to send for a clergyman or to permit him to 



see a Bible. Bravely facing death, the young 

 hero uttered at the last the words that will 

 ever be an in- 

 spiration to 

 young Ameri- 

 cans : "I only 

 regret that I 

 have but one life 

 to lose for my 

 country." 



In City Hall 

 Park, New York 

 City, probably 

 near the spot 

 where he lost his 

 life for his coun- 

 try, a beautiful 

 statue, designed 

 by Frederick 

 MacMonnies, has 

 been erected to 

 the memory of 

 Nathan Hale. 

 The city of Hart- 

 ford, Conn., has 

 honored him with 

 a like memorial. 



Consult Los- 

 sing's The Two 

 Spies, Nathan 

 Hale and John 

 Andre; Partridge's 

 Nathan Hale, the 

 Ideal Patriot ; 

 Hollo way's Na- 

 than Hale. NATHAN HALE 



Statue by MacMonnies, in 



HALEVY, ah New York City. 



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(1834-1908), a French novelist and dramatist, 

 who wrote in connection with Henri Meilhac 

 the serious though sensational drama Frou-Frou 

 in 1869, which was one of the greatest theatrical 

 successes of the century. He was born in Paris 

 and first achieved fame as part author of the 

 librettos for Offenbach's light operas, such as 

 La Belle Helene, La Barbe Bleue and La Peri- 

 chole. These, as well as many farces, were the 

 joint work of Meilhac and Halevy; from a lit- 

 erary point of view their best work is Tricoche 

 et Cacolet and La Boule. He wrote novels 

 without collaborators; U Abbe Constantin and 

 Criquette are best known. In 1884 he was 

 elected to the French Academy, was previously 

 made chevalier of the Legion of Honor and 

 became commander in 1900. 



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