=Hale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha [Buell].= _N. H._, 1788-1879. A once well-known writer of Philadelphia who was editor of The Lady’s Book for forty years. It was largely through her influence that Thanksgiving became a national festival. Among her numerous books Woman’s Record, a large biographical and critical work, is the most important. Others are, The Genius of Oblivion, and Other Poems; Northwood, a novel; Sketches of American Character; Traits of American Life; Flora’s Interpreter; The Way to Live Well; Grosvenor, a Tragedy; Manners, or Happy Homes; Love, or Woman’s Destiny, with Other Poems; The White Veil; The Judge, a drama; Three Hours, or the Vigil of Love; Harry Gray, a Sea Story; Alice Ray, a Romance in Rhyme. She also edited cookery books, compilations, annuals, and the letters of Madame de Sévigné and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Har._ =Hale, Susan.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. Sister of E. E. Hale, _supra_, and co-author with him of the Family Flight series of travels for young people. She has also published The Life and Letters of Thomas Gold Appleton, _supra_. _Ap. Lo. Rob._ =Hall, Abraham Oakey.= _N. Y._, 1826-1898. A once prominent Tammany politician of New York city, of which he was at one time mayor. He was subsequently on the staff of The World, but for many years lived in Europe. The Manhattaner in New Orleans; The Congressman’s Christmas Dream; Ballads; Old Whitey’s Christmas Trot, a story for the holidays. _Har._ =Hall, Arethusa.= _Ms._, 1802-1891. An educator in New England, and subsequently in the Packer Institute, Brooklyn. The poet Whittier was one of her early pupils. Manual of Morals; Life of Sylvester Judd; Memorials of S. Judd, Senior; Thoughts of Pascal, a translation. _See Memorial of, edited by F. E. Abbot, 1892._ =Hall, Arthur Crawshay Alliston.= _E._, 1847- ----. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont. He was for many years in charge of the mission of the Cowley Fathers in Boston. Confession and the Lambeth Conference; Meditations on the Creed; Meditations on the Collects; The Example of the Passion. =Hall, Baynard Rush.= _Pa._, 1798-1863. An educator of New Jersey and New York. A Latin Grammar; The New Purchase of Life in the Far West, long a very popular book; Something for Everybody; Teaching a Science; The Teacher an Artist; Frank Freeman’s Barber’s Shop. =Hall, Benjamin Franklin.= _N. Y._, 1814-1891. A New York jurist, chief justice of Colorado, 1861-64. The Land Owner’s Manual; The Republican Party; Methodism, its Source and Power. =Hall, Benjamin Homer.= _N. Y._, 1830-1891. Brother of Fitzedward Hall, _infra_. A lawyer of Troy, New York. College Words and Customs; History of Eastern Vermont; Bibliography of the United States: Vermont.