but she would never undertake a third, although she frequently read on behalf of charitable objects. The seventieth anniversary of her birthday was celebrated by a garden party held on June 14, 1882, at the Old Elms, the home of Ex-Governor Chaplin in one of the most beautiful suburbs of Boston. Two hundred of the most distinguished literary men and women of the day assembled in honour of the occasion. Mr. H. O. Houghton, the well-known publisher, was host, and the speakers included Henry Ward Beecher, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Judge Albion W. Tourgee. Poems were read by J. G. Whittier, O. W. Holmes, A. D. T. Whitney, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and others, and Mrs. Stowe made a brief but touching reply. The celebration of her eightieth birthday was also observed in 1892, but Mrs. Stowe was now in infirm health. Professor Stowe died in 1886, but Mrs. Stowe still survives, having attained the venerable age of eighty-two years. Whenever the time arrives for her to cross the narrow river which divides time from eternity, she will pass from earth with the consciousness that she did all in her power to lighten and remove one of the greatest evils which ever afflicted the human race. A true philanthropist in life as well as in written speech, she became a strong tower and a bulwark for the down-trodden and the oppressed, while her literary genius has given her a high and honourable place among the native writers of the New World. V. SISTER DORA. DOROTHY WYNDLOW PATTISON, known to all generations to come as Sister Dora, was one of the voluntary Christian martyrs of the nineteenth century. Her enthusiasm for humanity was first kindled by a lady whose career has already been sketched in this volume-Florence Nightingaleand though her work differed somewhat in kind, it was imbued by the same spirit of heroic devotion. No one ever exercised a greater influence upon those with whom she came into contact, and her life demonstrates the overwhelming influence which a noble example must ever wield as compared with that which follows the inculcation of the most perfect precepts. Sister Dora was born at Hauxwell, near Richmond, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, on January 16, 1832. Her father was the Rev. Mark James Pattison, Rector of Hauxwell, who married a lady named Winn, daughter of a Richmond banker. They had no fewer than twelve children, of whom Dorothy was the youngest but one. It is stated that she inherited beauty of feature from her mother, and from her father a well |