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قراءة كتاب The Story of a Life
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THE STORY OF A LIFE
BY
J. Breckenridge Ellis
AUTHOR OF
Wolves," "Shem," "Adnah," "Arkinsaw Cousins," "Twin Starrs,"
"Garcilaso," "In the Days of Jehu," "King Saul," "Stork's
Nest," "The Red Box Clew," Etc.
PRESS OF
REYNOLDS-PARKER CO.
SHERMAN, TEXAS
1910
TO HER GIRLS
and to the
Memory and Perpetuation
of
Carr-Burdette College
Mrs. Carr's Pet—the Child of her
Brain and Heart
this volume is dedicated
CONTENTS.
| INTRODUCTION | |
| CHAPTER I. | A Kentucky Girl |
| CHAPTER II. | Ideals |
| CHAPTER III. | A Kentucky Boy |
| CHAPTER IV. | A School-Girl's Note Book |
| CHAPTER V. | A University Student |
| CHAPTER VI. | Love and Sacrifice |
| CHAPTER VII. | I Will Go |
| CHAPTER VIII. | An English Primrose |
| CHAPTER IX. | The Long Voyage |
| CHAPTER X. | Life in Melbourne |
| CHAPTER XI. | Busy Years in Australia |
| CHAPTER XII. | Experiences in Tasmania |
| CHAPTER XIII. | Travels in the Orient |
| CHAPTER XIV. | Work in Kentucky and Missouri |
| CHAPTER XV. | Lady Principal of the University of Missouri |
| CHAPTER XVI. | In Pursuit of One's Ideal |
| CHAPTER XVII. | Achieving One's Ideal |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | Crowning Monument of a Life |
| APPENDIX |
INTRODUCTION.
The story of any life, if fully portrayed, should be more interesting than the story of a dream-phantom of fiction. In hearing of one who really lived, there is with us the feeling that the sunshine which greets our eyes, the rain which dashes against our window, in brief, the joys and sorrows which like flowers and thistles grow everywhere, were all known to that real character in the world's drama. Therefore, since, in a measure, our experience and his are in common, his life, inasmuch as it touches us at so many points, should lead us into new fields of interest and instruction, as it goes on its way alone.
This is true of any life, if we could know it in its entirety. But how much more strikingly true it is found, when the life selected is one that leads from the twilight dawn of infancy to the twilight close of life, in one straight line of definite desire and inspiring achievement. It is the purpose of this book to trace such a life, from the little bed in the nursery, a bed of weakness and tears, to the huge pile of brick and stone which stands as a monument to that life as if to show what may be accomplished in spite of tears and weakness.
In the story of this life will be found stirring scenes and distant