Of the women writers that lived at the time of the Civil War the mind of Harriet Beecher Stowe was the most imaginative; “the vehicle of thought” used by Clara Barton, the best equipped, the most powerful. In war-literature Mrs. Stowe will live through the genius of her great novel; Clara Barton, through her descriptive powers, forceful diction, and patriotic sayings. THE AUTHOR. Learn to be good readers. CARLYLE. God be thanked for books. CHANNING. Mankind are creatures of books, as well of other circumstances. LEIGH HUNT. The true university of these days is a collection of books. HERO AND HERO WORSHIPPERS. Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body. ADDISON. Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but half-a-dozen in a thousand. THOREAU. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. FULLER. Read much, but not many books. SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON. When a new book appears, read an old one. ENGLISH APHORISM. Old wood to burn, old wine to drink. Old friends to trust, old books to read. ALONZO of Arragon. Miss Barton would not rewrite a public address; on looking it over, not a sentence, not a word, could be improved by changing. J. B. HUBBELL, Assistant to Clara Barton. She who desires information can sit down, read, and obtain it. CLARA BARTON. Persons who use their brains, tongues and pens for the improvement of their kind, are those of whom biographies may profitably be written. CLARA BARTON. Miss Barton is in the front rank of American lecturers—excelled by none. AURORA BEACON. The Secretary to President McKinley used to say that in his correspondence at the White House the letters of Clara Barton excelled all others in literary merit. THE AUTHOR. Clara Barton’s lecture is beautifully written. JOHN B. GOUGH. CLARA BARTON IN THE LITERARY FIELD The treasure-house of the world is of books. Books are one’s chosen friends, and friends are of souls with like aspirations. From the contents of books character is made. The legacy in books is what youth bequeaths to maturity. In youth Clara Barton entered the “true university,” that of books. She read not only books from the shelf but found “books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” Her favorite authors were Shakespeare, Longfellow, Milton, Keats, Schiller, Bunyan, Tennyson, Scott and Browning.