Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Julia Ward Howe. FROM SUNSET RIDGE: POEMS OLD AND NEW. 12mo, $1.50. REMINISCENCES. With many Portraits and other Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $2.50. IS POLITE SOCIETY POLITE? AND OTHER ESSAYS. With a Portrait of Mrs. Howe. Square 8vo, $1.50. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON AND NEW YORK. [Illustration: Photograph of Julia Ward Howe; signature] REMINISCENCES 1819-1899 BY JULIA WARD HOWE WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS [Decorative Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1899 COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY JULIA WARD HOWE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. BIRTH, PARENTAGE, CHILDHOOD 1 II. LITERARY NEW YORK 21 III. NEW YORK SOCIETY 29 IV. HOME LIFE: MY FATHER 43 V. MY STUDIES 56 VI. SAMUEL WARD AND THE ASTORS 64 VII. MARRIAGE: TOUR IN EUROPE 81 VIII. FIRST YEARS IN BOSTON 144 IX. SECOND VISIT TO EUROPE 188 X. A CHAPTER ABOUT MYSELF 205 XI. ANTI-SLAVERY ATTITUDE: LITERARY WORK: TRIP TO CUBA 218 XII. THE CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES: IN WAR TIME 244 XIII. THE BOSTON RADICAL CLUB: DR. F. H. HEDGE 281 XIV. MEN AND MOVEMENTS IN THE SIXTIES 304 XV. A WOMAN'S PEACE CRUSADE 327 XVI. VISITS TO SANTO DOMINGO 345 XVII. THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT 372 XVIII. CERTAIN CLUBS 400 XIX. ANOTHER EUROPEAN TRIP 410 XX. FRIENDS AND WORTHIES: SOCIAL SUCCESSES 428 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE JULIA WARD HOWE _Frontispiece_ _From a photograph by Hardy, 1897._ SARAH MITCHELL, NIECE OF GENERAL FRANCIS MARION AND GRANDMOTHER OF MRS. HOWE 4 _From a painting by Waldo and Jewett._ JULIA WARD AND HER BROTHERS, SAMUEL AND HENRY 8 _From a miniature by Anne Hall._ JULIA CUTLER WARD, MOTHER OF MRS. HOWE 12 _From a miniature by Anne Hall._ SAMUEL WARD, FATHER OF MRS. HOWE 46 _From a miniature by Anne Hall._ SAMUEL WARD, JR 68 _From a painting by Baron Vogel._ FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 138 _From a photograph._