Fogy's Doubts and Questionings

72 XXVII. Under Jeb Stuart's Command—The Legend of the Mamelukes—The Life of the Cavaliers—Tristram Shandy Does Bible Duty—The Delights of the War Game and the Inspiration of It 76 XXVIII. Fitz Lee and an Adventure—A Friendly Old Foe 81 XXIX. Pestilence 86 XXX. Left Behind—A Gratuitous Law Practice Under Difficulties—The Story of Tom Collins—A Death-Bed Repentance and Its Prompt Recall 87 XXXI. Sharp-Shooter Service—Mortar Service at Petersburg—The Outcome of a Strange Story 93 XXXII. The Beginning of Newspaper Life—Theodore Tilton and Charles F. Briggs 99 XXXIII. Theodore Tilton 107 XXXIV. Further Reminiscences of Tilton 111 XXXV. The Tilton-Beecher Controversy—A Story as Yet Untold 115 XXXVI. My First Libel Suit 116 XXXVII. Libel Suit Experiences—The Queerest of Libel Suits—John Y. McKane's Case 119 XXXVIII. Early Newspaper Experiences—Two Interviews with President Grant—Grant's Method 123 XXXIX. Charlton T. Lewis 129 XL. Hearth and Home—Mary Mapes Dodge—Frank R. Stockton—A Whimsical View of Plagiary 131 XLI. Some Plagiarists I Have Known—A Peculiar Case of Plagiary—A Borrower from Stedman 139 XLII. The "Hoosier Schoolmaster's" Influence—Hearth and Home Friendships and Literary Acquaintance—My First Book—Mr. Howells and "A Rebel's Recollections"—My First After-Dinner Speech—Mr. Howells, Mark Twain, and Mr. Sanborn to the Rescue 145 XLIII. A Novelist by Accident—"A Man of Honor" and the Plagiarists of Its Title—A "Warlock" on the Warpath and a Lot of Fun Lost 151 XLIV. John Hay and the Pike County Ballads—His Own Story of Them and of Incidents Connected with Them 157 XLV. A Disappointed Author—George Ripley's Collection of Applications for His Discharge—Joe Harper's Masterpiece—Manuscripts and Their Authors—Mr. George P. Putnam's Story 166 XLVI. Joaquin Miller—Dress Reform à la Stedman 172 XLVII. Beginnings of Newspaper Illustration—Accident's Part in the Literary Life—My First Boys' Book—How One Thing Leads to Another 179 XLVIII. The First Time I Was Ever Robbed—The Evening Post Under Mr. Bryant—An Old-Fashioned Newspaper—Its Distinguished Outside Staff—Its Regard for Literature—Newspaper Literary Criticism and the Critics of That Time—Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Idea of New York as a Place of Residence—My Own Appointment and the Strange Manner of It 186 XLIX. A Study of Mr. Bryant—The Irving Incident 194 L. Mr. Bryant's Tenderness Towards Poets—A Cover Literary Criticism 199 LI. A Thrifty Poet's Plan—Mr. Bryant and the Poe Article—The Longfellow Incident—The Tupper Embarrassment 205 LII. Mr Bryant's Index Expurgatorius—An Effective Blunder in English—Mr. Bryant's Dignified Democracy—Mr. Cleveland's Coarser Method—Mr. Bryant and British Snobbery