HALE, Edward Everett, American Uni tarian clergyman, and author: b. Boston, Mass.,' d. 10 June 1909. His father was Nathan Hale (q.v.), the first editor of the Boiton Daily 'Advertiser, and the son was educaped at the Boston Latin School and Har vard College. Later he studied theology and was pastor of the Church of the Unity, Wor cester,. Mass., 1846-56. He then became pastor of the South Congregational Society in Boston, a Unitarian Church, and was its pastor emeritus from 1901 until his. demise. In the Unitarian body he. was long one of its foremost men, of a radical rather than a conservative type, while yet strongly loyal to the Unitarian faith. As a preacher he was always popular, and his talents for organization bore fruit in such humanitarian societies as the Harry Wadsworth Clubs, King'sDaughters, Look Up Legions, and others. For several years he edited Old and New, a magazine afterward merged in Scrilmer's Monthly, and• has edited Lend a Hand, a journal of organized charity, since. 1886; After his retirement from active pas-, tonal work he was active in various denomina tional and other religious and social enterprises, and lectured at frequent intervals. His 80th birthday was celebrated by a gathering in Sym phony Hall, Boston, composed of representa tive; persons from all denominations in his na tive city, as well as of• civic and 'state officials, assembled to testify to the regard in which he was held, irrespective of creed or race. To Americans in general, however, he is best known as an author, and in spite of his count. less clerical labors he has been ono of the most volurhinbus of American writers. Much of his work is , from necessity ephemeral in its nature, but when he had consciously wrought with an artistic end in view his level of attain-: went has been high. His short story, 'The Man Without; a Country,' has long been accounted an American classic, and even more skilful in construction and perfect in finish was 'My Double and How he Undid Me' ; 'In His Name' has been almost equally .popular. In
extravaganza like 'The Brick Moon,' such an absolute air of verisimilitude is preserved that the absurdest of the tale appear more .than half credible. ',The Man Without a Country' was indeed accepted as a record of fact by many readers on its first appear ance in 1863, although the theme is in its con ception most improbable, and its author was obliged to state at a later date that it had no foundation in fact. The list of his published works is a long one, including nearly 70 titles, arid besides those already named may be cited 'Margaret Percival in America' (1850) • 'Ele ments of Christian Doctrine' (1860) ; 'If, Yes, and Perhaps' (1868) ; 'Sybaris and Other Homes' (1869); 'The Ingham Papers' (1869); 'His Level Best and Other Stories' (1872) ; 'Philip Nolan's Friends' (1876) ; 'The For tunes of Rachel' (1884) ; 'Boys' Heroes' (1886); (Life of George Washington Studied Anew' (1887); 'They Saw a Great Light' (1889); (The Story of Christopher Columbus' (1891) • 'The Story of Massachusetts' (1891); 'The New Harry and Lucy' (1892) • 'East and West or the New Ohio.' (1892); New England Boyhood' (1893) ; 'Fifty Years: Poems' (1893); 'If Jesus Came to Boston' (1894); 'Susan's Escort' (1895) ; 'Historic Boston' (1898) ; 'Lowell and His Friends' (1899); Memories of a Hundred Years' (1900). With his sister Susan Hale he wrote a series of travel books entitled 'Family Flights through France, Germany, etc.,' and he also edited numerous volumes from (The Rosary' (1848) to 'Unpublished Essays of Emerson' (1895). See MAN WITHOUT A COUN TRY, THE.