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Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
hadow land of tales uncertified and improbable, but nevertheless haunting the imagination. It is well to add that the family say that an elder sister of this boy, who died several years since at the age of fourteen, had the same faculty in a yet greater degree. The mother says that they were both born with a veil over their eyes, but whether this is meant literally or symbolically I do not know. Two letters that follow were written during the Ogden educational trip of 1904. Fortress Monroe, Virginia, April 21 . . A fine meeting in a great gymnasium with a great army of pupils all singing in a superbly rousing way the negro spirituals I love. The leader, a magnificently big and strong fellow, could fill the Stadium, I think, with his voice alone. On talking with him later, I found that he had studied my Young folks' history of the United States. Besides singing we had speeches, and one superb one from a Richmond professor, wholly modern and enthusiastic in new thoughts .
Accomack (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
e and on her return missed a diamond ring. She returned and looked all about the flume and pool in a rain. Hearing of the boy she drove to Campton, some twenty miles away, and visited him. He said, looking in the fire, that he saw the ring lying under the piazza at the Flume House, where it had slipped through a crack of the floor, after falling from her hand. On looking beneath the piazza it was found. Several such incidents happened, and one day, when some men came from Lancaster to Plymouth to follow up inquiries about a watch that had been stolen from a dwelling-house, they were advised by the railway conductor aforesaid to consult the strange boy. They accordingly drove up to Campton and bade the boy look in the fire. He said at once, I see the watch in the house from which it was stolen; you go through a front room with a black shut — up bed in it, then through a passage, then into an unfinished room with a cupboard in the corner; there you will find the watch. The men la
Habersham (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
he said that this was owing to the great repression in their homes, and there was great improvement in this respect over a year before. And she told of one of the fathers, who told her he could not live there any longer because his children were so changed since they went to school. Formerly they were perfectly quiet and silent; now they came home laughing and wanted to play, and he could n't stand it. We are now just passing from South Carolina into Georgia and just in that valley of Habersham of which Lanier sang so beautifully, though none of our hard-working educational party seem to have heard of him. . . . All this is the New South region where cotton mills and villages are growing up and you see new buildings and schoolhouses everywhere. . ... To-day we had the Governor of South Carolina, as yesterday of Virginia. People hardly seem to remember the war at all. Cambridge, March 6, 1902 Prince Henry of Prussia here, and great gathering. He is an attractive, slenderis
Napoleon (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
cal fighting there is always a relief in store for the defeated — the worst that can happen is death. In moral fighting it is not so. The defeated lives to brood over his shame. One thing, however, I must remember. I cannot live a past experience over again. Life is a spiral, not a circle. If I try for an instant to reproduce a past experience, except in a higher form, I shall fail. .. I have a passion for red tape and lists and the arrangement of details; understand perfectly Napoleon's loving to read over his army lists, in moments of leisure; give me something that interests me, to codify and arrange, and I am perfectly happy; with a shade less of the element of action, I should be a perfect librarian, in bliss among pamphlets and gluttonous of work. October 30, 1860 Why should we all (save Emerson) be so impatient to speak? Why not wait till next moment or next sphere, if necessary, and say it deliberately and well? But no, the terrible throb of eager desire fo
Carmans River (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
the boy receiving for his services whatever the applicant may choose to give. This very summer a child was lost from Haverhill, New Hampshire, and the woods were searched for him far and near; some friends came to D to inquire. Looking in the fire, as usual, he said, I see him lying by a brook, almost dead, and described the brook. That night a violent storm occurred; and going to the brook in the morning, they found it much swollen, and the lifeless body of the boy was found in the Connecticut River, just below the brook. In this case a large reward (five hundred dollars) had been offered for news of the lost child, and ten dollars were paid to the diviner. The boy is now sixteen or seventeen years old, and of rather dull aspect; the parents are poor, he has had little reading or instruction, and has scarcely ever been away from home, and the stories I give, which I have set down carefully from the narrative of people who know the child, in whom they inspire only a vague wonder
Dublin (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
he unique one was a Madonna with children holding lilies (by Bellini), the Madonna being Mary Thayer, the artist's daughter, who has a singularly beautiful face. Dublin, July 13, 1902 Heard Collyer in a really remarkable sermon in his familiar way on the importance of being our individual selves in the future life. Animals hely-fishing should be over; and of a Reverend Doctor who was dying and asked physician if he could not be kept alive till the season of strawberries was passed. Dublin, July 31, 1905 Evening. Dined . . . with Mr. and Miss Clemens. . . An interesting talk . .. after dinner. Clemens lent three thousand dollars in all to Breto whom B. H. owed three thousand dollars for loans wrote him on his birthday sending all his notes back, and B. wrote one of the most brutal letters he ever saw. Dublin, August 12, 1905 George De Forest Brush lectured at Club — quite delightful, though extravagant. His essential point was that art came from the love of order;
Haverhill (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
e yard of a house. He described the house so that it was recognized, went with them to the yard, showed the pile of chips, and there they found the watch. The house was the abode of a young woman who had worked in the dwelling from which the watch had been lost. These wonders have continued at intervals up to the present year; the family making no trade of it, and the boy receiving for his services whatever the applicant may choose to give. This very summer a child was lost from Haverhill, New Hampshire, and the woods were searched for him far and near; some friends came to D to inquire. Looking in the fire, as usual, he said, I see him lying by a brook, almost dead, and described the brook. That night a violent storm occurred; and going to the brook in the morning, they found it much swollen, and the lifeless body of the boy was found in the Connecticut River, just below the brook. In this case a large reward (five hundred dollars) had been offered for news of the lost child, a
Cilley (search for this): chapter 5
his inability to hear Phillips Brooks, when hardly any one can hear him. It is commonly said that he is making himself unpopular, but I don't see why. He has liked every place where he has lectured but Worcester; he did not wish to lecture there because he had never heard of such a place ; and only two hundred came to hear him. Probably he does not realize that the general disappointment must affect his lectures. December 22, 1883 You'd have been amused to see Pere Hyacinthe and me at Mrs. Cilley's, comparing photographs of ourselves with our babies. His is now the sweetest little boy of eight or nine with the most winning little French ways and the most delicious way of speaking in either dialect. ... I was much pleased with le pere and Mme. Loyson, both; he is short and stout, rosy and beaming, the type of one of Beranger's cheery and kindly priests. He talks with great eagerness and cordiality and had been reading the French version of my history, which his little boy has; he
Thomas Carlyle (search for this): chapter 5
I dine with Bryce at the Charles Perkins's before his lecture; he is very easy and agreeable. June 30, 1883 I have not seen what Mr. Venable has written about Carlyle; but he is doubtless the agreeable old gentleman with whom I dined at Sir Frederick Pollock's and who seemed so much like a living Horace Walpole. He has written the Annual Obituary in the Times for many years and knows everybody. I should think him candid and fair-minded. Mrs. Carlyle I have not read yet, but it must be a tragic book. Charles Norton said of the Reminiscences that he did not think Froude loved Carlyle, or he could not have done anything so cruel. I think you will beCarlyle, or he could not have done anything so cruel. I think you will be surprised at the self-restraint and good taste of Norton's notes to the Emerson-Carlyle Correspondence. For a man so set in his opinions, I think this quite remarkable. We who are complaining of the aftermath of war, so soon after it has actually ceased, may read with surprise this remark of Charles Francis Adams, nearly twe
P. C. Brooks (search for this): chapter 5
Francis Adams, nearly twenty years after the close of the Civil War: August 6, 1883 C. F. Adams, Jr., spent the morning here. He thinks the country not yet recovered from the tremendous excitement of war and demands quiet more than anything; hence the greatest weakness of [Governor] Butler's position. Thinks there must be a class of professional politicians, but that there is never a time of excitement when a man of character and energy cannot ride over them. His grandfather, P. C. Brooks, was at time of death the richest man in New England (over two millions), this thirty-five years ago. But his annual expenses for city and country house, greenhouse, etc., were but six thousand dollars a year. November 28, 1883 This morning I spent in taking Matthew Arnold to schools in Boston: Normal Art, Boys' Latin, Boys' English High, and ditto ditto girls. He is very cordial and appreciative, not in the least cynical or patronizing; shook hands with all the teachers as friendly
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