HOWE  ,.-JULIA

WARD-HOWE, EARL to war . She wrote The World's Own (unsuccessfully played at Wallack's, New York, in 1855, published 1857), and in 1858, for Edwin Booth, Hippolytus, never acted or published . Her lyric poetry, thanks to her temperament, and possibly to her musical training, was her highest literary form: she published Passion Flowers (anonymously, 1854), Wards for the Hour (1856), Later Lyrics (1866), and From Sunset Ridge : Poems Old and New (1898); her most popular poem is The Battle Hymn of the Republic, written to the old folk-tune associated with the song of " John Brown's Body," when Mrs Howe was at the front in 1861, and published (Feb . 1862) in the Atlantic Monthly, to which she frequently contributed . She edited Sex and Education (1874), an answer to Sex in Education (1873) by Edward Hammond Clarke (1820—1877); and wrote several books of travel, Modern Society (188o) and Is Polite Society Polite ? (1895), collections of addresses, each taking its title from a lecture criticizing the shallowness and falseness of society, the power of money, &c., A Memoir of Dr Samuel G . Howe (1876), Life of Margaret Fuller (1883), in the " Famous Women " series . Sketches of Representative Women of New England (19o5) and her own Reminiscences (Boston, 1899) . Her children were: Julia Romana Anagnos (1844–1886), who, like her mother, wrote verse and studied philosophy, and who taught in the Perkins Institution, in the charge of which her husband, Michael Anagnos (1837–1906), whose family name had been Anagnostopoulos; succeeded her father; Henry Marion Howe (b . 1848), the eminent metallurgist, and professor in Columbia University; Laura Elizabeth Richards (b. r85o), and Maud Howe Elliott (b . 1855), wife of John Elliott, the painter of a fine ceiling in the Boston library,—both these daughters being contributors to literature . Mrs Howe died on the r7th of October 191o .