GORE, Christopher, American statesman: b. Boston, 21 Sept. 1758• d. Waltham, 1 March 1827. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1776, and studying law, was soon engaged in good practice. In 1789 he was appointed the first United States district attorney for Massa chusetts; in 1796 was chosen one of the com missioners to settle the claims of the United States upon Great Britain for spoliations, and remained in London, successfully engaged in the duties of this office, about eight years. In 1803 he acted as chargé-d'affaires during the ab sence of the American Minister; in 1809 was chosen governor of Massachusetts; and in 1814 was elected to the United States Senate. He left about $100,000 to Harvard College. Gore Hall, the library building at Harvard, is named in his honor.
Eva, Irish author: b. Tissadel, Sligo, Ireland. She is well known as an advocate of women's suffrage and as a trade union worker and writer. For years she has been known also as a poet of extraordinary power and charm. Her early verse was thor
oughly Irish in spirit, and one of her poems, 'The Perilous Light,' a simple but exquisite little lyric, has received such high praise and has been so widely quoted that it may be called a contemporary classic. Her published works include 'The One and the Many); 'The Egyptian Pillar' ; 'The Sorrow ful Princess); 'The Agate Lamp' ; 'The Three Resurrections and the Triumph of Mauve' ; and 'The Death of Fionavar> (1916). The last named is a poetic drama, which may be de scribed as a plea for peace, a glorification of non-resistance, a Goethe-like defense of thought against action. There is a touch of irony in the fact that this most passionately pacific work should be illustrated by so convinced and prac tical a direct actionist as the author's sister, the Countess Markiewicz, the most picturesque figure of the Irish uprising of 1916.