vl OBITUARY NOTICES. 
nant repartee and playful irony, he was never a controversialist. 
No one ever succeeded in drawing him into a personal dispute, and 
his charity was of the nature that ‘‘ thinketh no evil.’’ So it may 
well be said of him that among all his writings ‘‘ nihil tetigit quod 
non ornavit,’’ and that ‘‘dying he left no line he need wish to 
blot.”’ 
From Dr. James Darrach’s masterly and excellent biographical 
sketch of Dr. Hartshorne, read before the Coilege of Physicians, 
June 2, 1897, and from memoranda also most kindly furnished by 
his daughter, who accompanied her father to Japan, I have drawn 
up this account of our late friend, and to Miss Hartshorne I am 
also largely indebted for the approximately complete bibliography 
which follows. 
His poems, while not marked by lofty flights of ambition, excel 
in purity of thought and elegance of diction. They have a flavor 
all their own, and hence will find fullest appreciation among kindred 
minds and spirits, especially those who may know what the higher 
school of Quakerism stands for. It is pleasant to think that among 
these appreciative minds, as shown by their letters to him, were such 
different men and accomplished critics as John G. Whittier, E. C. 
Stedman and Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
His most useful works, and I may add profitable in a pecuniary 
sense, were treatises and compendiums of practical medicine for 
the use of students and families. Many of these ran through 
numerous editions, some of them having also been translated into 
Japanese and proving highly successful among the efforts made to 
plant Western learning in the far Orient. 
Some of his active interests were displayed also in humanitarian 
questions arising out of slavery and the civil war, etc., such as the 
Freedmen’s Association, the Institute for Colored Youth (of which 
he was a Manager), the Indian Rights Association (of whose 
Executive Committee he was for many years a member), and with 
the Education of Feeble-minded Children as Manager of the 
Training School at Elwyn, and with those affecting public health, 
water supply, milk supply, etc., or with education in general, as 
Manager of Haverford College or of Friends’ Select School, 
or as Overseer of the public schools, Director of Penn Charter 
School, etc. 
Intellectually he always reminded me of a Damascus blade, with 
his keen, polished wit and imperturbable good humor, bending 
