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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ...ng they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERIC... ... occupied by descendants of his to this day. I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and sev- enth from Samuel. Mathew Grant’s first wife die... ...ountered a ferocious dog that frightened the horses and made them run. The new animal kicked at every jump he made. I got the horses stopped, however,... ...em a little rest, to quiet their fears, we started again. That instant the new horse kicked, and started to run once more. The road we were on, struck... ...wenty years after the close of the most stupendous war ever known, we have writers —who profess devotion to the na- 89 U. S. Grant tion—engaged in tr... ... of that place. His tactics have been se- verely criticised by Confederate writers, but I do not believe his fallen chief could have done any better u... ...e not so unjust to the Union troops engaged at Shiloh as are many Northern writers. The troops on both sides were American, and united they need not f...

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...ing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...rd of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sin cerely, it must have been in ... ...nd Sandwich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are said to live in New England; something about your condition, especially your outward condi ... ...l it becomes impossible for them to re sume their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stom ach”... ...ou cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fet... ...ow enough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the glo... ...seen fit to print the bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with writers, I got only my labor for my pains. However, in this case my pains w... ...ith all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiq uity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they... ...s solidly done, and as beautiful almost as the morn ing itself; for later writers, say what we will of their genius, have rarely, if ever, equalled t...

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......................................................................... 301 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ......................................................................... 315 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded b... ...idual man is one more incarnation. All its properties consist in him. Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of ... ...ow. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in; for they said that the soul of man, embodied here on ... ...luminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing ... ...iced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers. For they are poets by the free course which they allow to the info...

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...ed about the lattice side-work and the iron roof of the railway-line, hung from invisible staging under the bellies of the girders, clus- tered round ... ...contractors by the half-hundred—fitters and riv- eters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subo... ...g as remorse- lessly as they worked themselves. Findlayson thought it over from the beginning: the months of office-work destroyed at a blow when the ... ...nd so brought to ruin at least half an acre of calculations—and Hitchcock, new to disappointment, buried his head in his arms and wept; the heart-brea... ... who had saved the girder of Number Seven pier from de- struction when the new wire rope jammed in the eye of the crane, and the huge plate tilted in ... ...ed to it by this time. Only a tar. It ought to be Ralli’s answer about the new rivets … . Great Heavens!” Hitchcock jumped to his feet. “What is it?” ... ...men who went on shooting expeditions and never came back; factors, agents, writers, and ensigns of the Honourable the East India Company by hundreds a... ...es. They’ll be askin’ me to haul a vestibuled next!” “They made you in New Jersey, didn’t they?” said Poney. “Thought so. Commuters and truck-wagons a... ...ore. For there lay scattered over the landscape, from the burst cars, type-writers, sewing-machines, bicycles in crates, a consign- ment of silver-pla...

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...e streams? Rickie rebuked his own groveling soul, and turned his eyes away from the night, which had led him to such absurd conclusions. The fire was ... ...e. The door opened. A tall young woman stood framed in the light that fell from the passage. “Ladies!” whispered every-one in great agitation. “Yes?” ... ...et me introduce Miss Pem- broke—don’t all go!” For his friends were flying from his visitor like mists before the sun. “Oh, Agnes, I am so sorry; I’ve... ...s rather careful when he drove up to the fa- cade of his shop. “I like our new lettering,” he said thoughtfully. The words “Stewart Ansell” were repea... ...to-date were said to be combined. The school doubled its numbers. It built new class-rooms, laboratories and a gymna- sium. It dropped the prefix “Gra... ...ped the prefix “Grammar.” It coaxed the sons of the local tradesmen into a new founda- tion, the “Commercial School,” built a couple of miles away. An... ...athing-drawers, that showed how far a boy could swim; his the hierarchy of jerseys and blazers. It was he who instituted Bounds, and call, and the two... ... knew them, and their admirable muscles showed clear and clean beneath the jersey. The face, too, though a little flushed, was uninjured: it must be s... ...ten. Varden, because he was ill at the time, had been taken seriously. The writers declared that his illness was fulfilling some mysterious purpose: s...

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...the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. OF THE FRENCH WRITERS OF ROMANCE of the latter part of the nineteenth century no one made... ...7 Selected Writings incidents which prompted them, that he also suf- fered from an excess of nervous emotionalism. Nine times out of ten, what is the ... ...ketches of brutal customs with an element of delicate scorn, preserves him from coarseness. It is this constant and involuntary antithesis which gives... ...or who is growing old and an ob- scure junior, whose renown is increasing. From 10 De Maupassant generation to generation, envy reascends no less tha... ...the phase of literature mentioned he would not be distinguished from other writers of the group called “naturalists.” His true glory is in the extraor... ...m and lear, so gorgeous yet so sober, so supple and so firm, he equals the writers of the seventeenth century. His method, so deeply and simply French... ... when fixed upon the most ordinary phases of human conduct, could see some new motive or aspect of things hitherto unnoticed by the careless crowd. It... ...l its tones could 17 Selected Writings present aught that could be called new, if ungifted with a viewpoint totally out of the ordinary plane. Cold a... ...the intensity, the grace, and the insight with which the writer treats the new aspects of human nature which he finds in the life he describes.” And a...

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...eConcordandMerrimackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and h... ... pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here, in pine houses, built of new fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.” ... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...te so good author ity, “rises in the south part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between ... ...e meadows in his “Wonder working Providence,” which gives the ac count of New England from 1628 to 1652, and see how matters looked to him. He says o... ... too hard for her to learn. It is remarkable, that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or to ac... ... and one may ride on horseback through the openings. All the distinguished writers of that period possess a greater vigor and naturalness than the mor... ...nn, in the barren society of ostlers and travellers, I could undertake the writers of the silver or the brazen age with confidence. Almost the last re...

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...erly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, which, from the nature of things, cannot be regarded as premature. The fact is tha... ...d, which was but a de- cent thing to do, but in no way polished, extending from the year ’98 to the year ’20, a thin array (for such a stretch of time... ...ttle dusty (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reason... ...in the world were a source of proud and unholy joy unto some of the modern writers. That frame of mind is not the proper one in which to approach seri... ... languor or violence in its force, never running back upon itself, opening new visions at every turn of its course through that richly inhab- ited cou... ...s loves and its hates about every twenty-five years—at the coming of every new and wiser generation. One of the most generous of the dead is Daudet, w... ...n their droll way, but are by no means so momen- tous and profound as some writers—probably for the sake of Art—would like to make us believe. There i... ...tless as the eyes of any wise generation that has in its hands the fame of writers. Yes, they are seen, and the man who is not an artist is seen also ... ...ome he secured for his tales in this country was from Mr. W. Henley in the New Review and later, towards the end of his life, from the late Mr. Willia...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...d has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler, as that which belonged t... ...o sudden life on our first awaking, and is to all in- tents and purposes a new and not an old affliction—one which brings with it the old original sho... ...hich I had ever been solaced. On the other hand, it will be obvious that a new hope at the same time arose to take its place, viz., the reasonable one... ...nd Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that French writers err by pro- lixity. They have done so in this case. The present nar... ...o grandeur to him who has no space in the theatre of his own brain. I know writers who report the marvels of velocity, &c., in such a way that they be... ...: for it takes the shape of a dream; and this most brilliant of all German writers wanted in that field the severe simplicity, that horror of the too ...

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................................................................ 121 VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. ................................................................ ........................................... 135 SANDYS’ GHOST;82 OR, A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID’S METAMORPHOSES: AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE TRANSL... ................................................................. 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ............................................................. ...ifetime have been at once so much admired and so much abused as Pope. Some writers, des- tined to oblivion in after-ages, have been loaded with laurel... ... Pope’s ardent friends erred in classing him with or above these great old writers; and on the other, his enemies were thus provoked to thrust him too... ...peare, Spenser, Milton, and Dryden, to fill the six va- cant places in the New Palace of Westminster. This does not substantiate the assertion, that P... ...atue beside those of the acknowledged masters of English poetry. But apart from this, we do think that Lord Carlisle has exaggerated the “De- cline an... ...g through and above the Real, and that lights the poet on to form within a new and more gorgeous nature, the fresh creation of his own inspired mind, ... ...notony of manner and versification, he is one of the most interest- ing of writers, and many find a greater luxury in reading his pages than those of ...

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...gunpowder then; but they had swords and spears, and, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long ... ...strong places in the woods, with trunks of trees, cut down to shut them in from the enemy, with all their flocks and cattle; but Caesar did not get in... ...ss, and read and write like themselves, so that they could hardly be known from the Romans. Only the wild ones beyond the wall, and in the mountains, ... ...me one going off as a Sea-King, with all his friends, and trying to gain a new home in some fresh country. One great party of Northmen under a very ta... ...st any one killing his game. The place he thus cleared is still called the New Forest, though it is a thousand years old. An old Norman law that the E... ...olar; and Richard, who was still a lad when he was killed by a stag in the New Forest. Robert, the eldest, was a wild, rude, thoughtless youth; 21 ... ... was a time when there were many very great men living —soldiers, sailors, writers, poets—and they all loved and look up to the queen as the mother of... ... victories abroad. It was a time, too, when there were almost as many able writers as in Queen Elizabeth’s time. The two books written at that day, wh... ...e were a great many newspapers, and every- body was more alive. Some great writers there were, too: the Scottish poet Walter Scott, who wrote some of ...

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...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...mmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purch... ... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...lowed the same privi- lege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such opera- tio... ...its value, to those who pos- sess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of ’ labour which it ca... ...n, and have been more frequently taken notice of by histori- ans and other writers. We must generally, therefore, content our- selves with them, not a... ...mpence, however, seems to have been considered as the whole of it, by many writers who have collected the prices of labour and provisions in ancient t... ...requently at this day a matter of controversy in the wine countries. Their writers on agriculture, indeed, the lovers and pro- moters of high cultivat...

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.......................................................... 92 The Old and the New Music .................................................................... ...came careless and he never became indifferent. I have therefore inserted a new section in which I show how the revolutionary history of West- ern Euro... ... section in which I show how the revolutionary history of West- ern Europe from the Liberal explosion of 1848 to the con- fused attempt at a socialist... ...military, and municipal adminis- tration in Paris in 1871 (that is to say, from the beginning of The Niblung’s Ring by Wagner to the long-delayed comp... ...ess than it appears in Wagner’s Siegfried. I have therefore interpolated a new chapter which will perhaps induce some readers of the original English ... ...s against it must be a rascal. Even the Social-Democrats in Germany differ from the rest only in carrying academic orthodoxy beyond human endur- ance—... ...s it was for Victor Hugo to bombard Napoleon III from his paper battery in Jersey. It was also easy to hold up Felix Pyat and Delescluze as men of muc... ...ric patterns. Nobody claims that the hierarchy of modern impassioned prose writers, from Bunyan to Ruskin, should be placed be- low the writers of pre...

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... long ago as October 7. Against Cummings both private and official advices from Paris state that there is no charge what- ever. He has been subjected ... ... has made among the French soldiers, that even while suffer- ing in health from his unjust confinement, he excuses the ingratitude of the country he h... ...mosphere of in- tense suspicion and distrust that has naturally re- sulted from the painful experience which France has had with foreign emissaries. B... ... ever since I received your cable, arrived this morning. My son arrived in New York on January 1st. He was in bad shape physically as a result of his ... ...l reminder of official hospitality. He is, at present, visiting friends in New 7 e e cummings York. If he were here, I am sure he would join with me ... ...en and the efforts you have made. W S B is, I am happy to say, expected in New York this week by the S. S. Niagara. News of his release and subsequent... ... afternoon. His stocky even tightly-knit person, in its heavy-trousers and jersey sweater, culminated in a bronzed face which was at once as kind and ... ... at that) nothing perhaps is needed save that ancient standby of sob-story writers and thrill-artists alike—the Happy Ending. As a matter of fact, it ...