قراءة كتاب Recollections of a Varied Life
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RECOLLECTIONS OF A VARIED LIFE
BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1910
Copyright, 1910
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Published March, 1910
TO
MARION MY WIFE
I DEDICATE THESE RECOLLECTIONS
OF A LIFE THAT SHE HAS LOYALLY
SHARED, ENCOURAGED, AND INSPIRED
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Introductory | 1 |
| II. | The Country as I First Knew It—Intensity of Its Americanism—The Lure of New Orleans | 2 |
| III. | Provincialism—A Travel Center—Road Conditions—Mails—The Estrangement of Communities and Other Isolating Conditions | 4 |
| IV. | The Composite West—Dialect—The Intellectual Class | 7 |
| V. | The Sturdy Kentuckians and Their Influence | 9 |
| VI. | A Poor Boy's Career | 13 |
| VII. | "Shooting Stock" | 14 |
| VIII. | A Limitless Hospitality | 16 |
| IX. | Industrial Independence and Thrift | 18 |
| X. | Early Railroads—A Precocious Skeptic—Religious Restriction of Culture | 20 |
| XI. | Culture by Stealth | 24 |
| XII. | Civilization on Wheels | 26 |
| XIII. | A Breakfast Revolution | 28 |
| XIV. | A Bathroom Episode | 30 |
| XV. | Western School Methods | 32 |
| XVI. | "The Hoosier Schoolmaster"—A Bit of Literary History | 34 |
| XVII. | The Biggest Boy—A Vigorous Volunteer Monitor—Charley Grebe | 38 |
| XVIII. | What's in a Name? | 42 |
| XIX. | A Buttermilk Poet | 43 |
| XX. | Removal to Virginia—Impressions of Life There—The Contradiction of the Critics in Their Creative Incredulity | 45 |
| XXI. | The Virginian Life | 48 |
| XXII. | The Virginian Attitude Toward Money—Parson J——'s Checks—The Charm of Leisureliness | 49 |
| XXIII. | The Courtesy of the Virginians—Sex and Education—Reading Habits—Virginia Women's Voices | 55 |
| XXIV. | The Story of the West Wing—A Challenge to the Ghosts—The Yellow-Gray Light—And Breakfast | 60 |
| XXV. | Authors in Richmond—G. P. R. James, John Esten Cooke, Mrs. Mowatt Ritchie, John R. Thompson, etc.—John Esten Cooke, Gentleman—How Jeb Stuart Made Him a Major | 66 |
| XXVI. | The Old Life in the Old Dominion and the New—An Old |