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Slason Thompson. Eugene Field: A Study in Heredity and Contradictions
Eugene Field: A Study in Heredity and Contradictions
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Table of Contents
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. PEDIGREE
CHAPTER II. HIS FATHER'S FIRST LOVE-AFFAIR
CHAPTER III. THE DRED SCOTT CASE
CHAPTER IV. BIRTH AND EARLY YOUTH
CHAPTER V. EDUCATION
CHAPTER VI. CHOICE OF A PROFESSION
CHAPTER VII. MARRIAGE AND EARLY DOMESTIC LIFE
CHAPTER VIII. EARLY EXPERIENCES IN JOURNALISM
CHAPTER IX. IN DENVER, 1881–1883
CHAPTER X. ANECDOTES OF LIFE IN DENVER
CHAPTER XI. COMING TO CHICAGO
CHAPTER XII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
CHAPTER XIII. RELATIONS WITH STAGE FOLK
CHAPTER XIV. BEGINNING OF HIS LITERARY EDUCATION
CHAPTER XV. METHOD OF WORK
CHAPTER XVI. NATURE OF HIS DAILY WORK
Volume 2
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. OUR PERSONAL RELATIONS
CHAPTER II. INTRODUCTION TO COLORED INKS
CHAPTER III. SOME LETTERS
CHAPTER IV. MORE LETTERS
CHAPTER V. PUBLICATION OF HIS FIRST BOOKS
CHAPTER VI. HIS SECOND VISIT TO EUROPE
CHAPTER VII. IN THE SAINTS' AND SINNERS' CORNER
CHAPTER VIII. POLITICAL RELATIONS
CHAPTER IX. HIS "AUTO-ANALYSIS"
CHAPTER X. LAST YEARS
CHAPTER XI. LAST DAYS
APPENDIX
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Slason Thompson
Complete Edition (Vol. 1&2)
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The Vermont papers agreed that Colonel Aldace Walker is the very best man in Vermont for the Inter-State Commerce Commission. This may be true. At the same time, however, we fail to see what interest Vermont can possibly take in inter-state commerce. She has no commerce of her own, and she probably never will have. There is a bobbin factory at Williamsville, and a melodeon factory at Brattleboro, but the commerce resulting from them is not worthy of mention. There is talk about the maple-sugar that Vermont exports, but we have noticed that all the "genuine Vermont maple-sugar" in the Western market comes from the South, and is about as succulent as the heel of a gum-boot. In all the State of Vermont there is but one railroad, the Vermont Central; it begins at Grout's Corner, Mass., and runs in a bee-line north until it reaches the southern end of the Montreal bridge. This remarkable road has a so-called branch operating once per week between White River Junction and Montpelier, and a triweekly branch extending to Burlington. Montpelier is the home of Hiram Atkins, the famous "Nestor uv Checkerberry Journalism," and White River Junction is the whistling station and water-tank from which our country gets its election returns every four years. Burlington is located on Lake Champlain, and contains the summer residence of that grand old survivor of the glacial period, George F. Edmunds. Thus in a brief paragraph have we compressed all that can be said of the commerce and the railways of Vermont.
The other view is softened with the haze that hangs over the scenes of childhood in the minds of all men of feeling when interpreted by an artist in expressing the thought "that unbidden rises and passes in a tear." It is from Field's little-known memorial to Mrs. Melvin L. Gray, written while he was in Southern California:
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