Chapter 8

DETAILED CONTENTS. I. Venice in Venice II. Arrival and first Days in Venice III. The Winter in Venice IV. Comincia far Caldo V. Opera and Theatres VI. Venetian Dinners and Diners VII. Housekeeping in Venice VIII. The Balcony on the Grand Canal IX. A Day-Break Ramble X. The Mouse XI. Churches and Pictures XII. Some Islands of the Lagoons XIII. The Armenians XIV. The Ghetto and the Jews of Venice XV. Some Memorable Places XVI. Commerce XVII. Venetian Holidays XVIII. Christmas Holidays XIX. Love-making and Marrying; Baptisms and Burials XX. Venetian Traits and Characters XXI. Society XXII. Our Last Year in Venice Index

LONDON FILMS BY W. D. HOWELLS

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Fleet Street and St. Dunstan's Church

The Carriages Drawn up Beside the Sacred Close

Sunday Afternoon, Hyde Park

Rotten Row.

A Block in the Strand.

St. Paul's Cathedral.

Westminster Abbey.

The Horse Guards, Whitehall

Westminster Bridge and Clock Tower.

A House-boat Ox the Thames at Henley.

The Crowd of Sight-seers at Henley

The Tower of London.

St. Olave's, Tooley Street.

London Bridge.

The Ancient Church of St. Magnus.

The East India House of Charles Lamb's Time.

Church of the Dutch Refugees.

Bow-bells (st. Mary-le-bow, Cheapside).

Staple Inn, Holborn.

Clifford's Inn Hall.

Ancient Church of St. Martins-in-the-fields.

Hyde Park in October.

Thames Embankment.

SUBURBAN SKETCHES By William Dean Howells Author Of “Venetian Life,” “Italian Journeys” Etc.

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MRS. JOHNSON

DOORSTEP ACQUAINTANCE

A PEDESTRIAN TOUR.

BY HORSE-CAR TO BOSTON

A DAY'S PLEASURE

A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE

SCENE

JUBILEE DAYS

SOME LESSONS FROM THE SCHOOL OF MORALS.

FLITTING

Illustrations

“But I Suppose This Wine is Not Made of Grapes, Signor?”

“Looking About, I Saw Two Women.”

“The Young Lady in Black, Who Alighted at a Most Ordinary Little Street.”

“That Sweet Young Blonde, Who Arrives by Most Trains.”

“Frank and Lucy Stalked Ahead, With Shawls Dragging From Their Arms.”

“They Skirmish About Him With Every Sort of Query.”

“A Gaunt Figure of Forlorn and Curious Smartness.”

“The Spectacle As We Beheld It.”

“Vacant and Ceremonious Zeal.”

SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES By W. D. Howells

CONTENTS

A MODEST LIKING FOR LIVERPOOL

SOME MERITS OF MANCHESTER

IN SMOKIEST SHEFFIELD

NINE DAYS’ WONDER IN YORK

TWO YORKISH EPISODES

A DAY AT DONCASTER AND AN HOUR OUT OF DURHAM

THE MOTHER OF THE AMERICAN ATHENS

ABERYSTWYTH, A WELSH WATERING-PLACE

LLANDUDNO, ANOTHER WELSH WATERING-PLACE

GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH CHARACTER

THE LEATHERWOOD GOD By William Dean Howells

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Nancy Stood Staring at Her, With Words Beyond Saying In Her Heart—words That Rose in Her Throat and Choked Her

“You Believe, Maybe, That You Would Be Struck Dead if You Said the Things That I Do; But Why Ain't I Struck Dead?”

“It's my Cloth! I Spun It, I Wove It, Every Thread! It's All We've Got for Our Clothes This Winter!”

“Now You Can See How It Feels to Have Your Own Husband Slap You.”

She Had Begun to Wash his Wound, Very Gently, Though She Spoke So Roughly, While he Murmured With the Pain and With The Comfort Of The Pain

They Swarmed Forward to the Altar-place and Flung Themselves on the Ground, and Heaped The Pulpit-steps With Their Bodies

“And he Went Down Ag'in, and when He Come up Ag'in, His Face Was All Soakin' Wet, Like He'd Been Crying Under the Water”

THE ALBANY DEPOT A FARCE

By W. D. Howells (THE ACTION PASSES IN BOSTON)

I. MR. AND MRS. EDWARD ROBERTS; THE CHOREWOMAN

II. ROBERTS AND WILLIS CAMPBELL

III. THE McILHENYS, ROBERTS, AND CAMPBELL

IV. ROBERTS AND CAMPBELL

V. MRS. ROBERTS, MRS. CAMPBELL, ROBERTS, AND CAMPBELL; THEN THE COOK AND McILHENY

THE MINISTER'S CHARGE OR, THE APPRENTICESHIP OF LEMUEL BARKER

By William Dean Howells

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ROMAN HOLIDAYS

AND OTHERS By W. D. Howells ILLUSTRATED

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ROMAN HOLIDAYS AND OTHERS

I. UP AND DOWN MADEIRA.

II. TWO UP-TOWN BLOCKS INTO SPAIN

III. ASHORE AT GENOA

IV. NAPLES AND HER JOYFUL NOISE

V. POMPEII REVISITED

VI. ROMAN HOLIDAYS

I. HOTELS, PENSIONS, AND APARTMENTS

II. A PRAISE OF NEW ROME

III. THE COLOSSEUM AND THE FORUM

IV. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE SPANISH STEPS

V. AN EFFORT TO BE HONEST WITH ANTIQUITY

VI. PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH THE PAST

VII. CHANCES IN CHURCHES

VIII. A FEW VILLAS

IX. DRAMATIC INCIDENTS

X. SEEING ROME AS ROMANS SEE US

XI. IN AND ABOUT THE VATICAN

XII. SUPERFICIAL OBSERVATIONS AND CONJECTURES

XIII. CASUAL IMPRESSIONS

XIV. TIVOLI AND FRASCATI

XV. A FEW REMAINING MOMENTS

VII. A WEEK AT LEGHORN

VIII. OVER AT PISA

IX. BACK AT GENOA

X. EDEN AFTER THE FALL

ILLUSTRATIONS

01 Glimpse Outside of Modern Rome

02 Funchal Bay

03 Boats and Diving Boys, Funchal

04 Gibraltar from the Bay

05 Gibraltar from the Neutral Ground

06 Daughters of Climate Along the Riviera

07 Typical Monument in the Campo Santo

08 Naples and Her Joyful Noise

09 Out-door Life in Old Naples

10 Up-stairs Street in Old Naples

11 Naples and the Castel St. Elmo from The Mole

12 Excavating at Pompeii

13 the Street of Tombs, Pompeii

14 the Capuchin Church, Rome

15 Glimpse Inside of Imperial Rome

16 Interior of Colosseum from the South

17 the Sacred Way Through The Forum

18 the Roman Forum

19 Spanish Steps

20 Toward the Pincian Hill

21 Sepulchre of Romulus, Forum

22 Trajan's Forum and Column

23 the Rostra in The Forum

24 the Mosaics Under The Capuchin Church

25 Santa Maria Sopra Minerva

26 Church Op Ara Coeli

27 Church of Santa Maggiore

28 Michelangelo's “moses” in San Pietro In Vincoli

29 the Little Stadium With Its Gradines

30 Casino of the Villa Doria and Gardens

31 the Carnival (as It Once Was)

32 the Fountain of Trevi

33 Colonnade and Fountain at St. Peter's

34 Sistine Chapel, Vatican Palace

35 Piazza Del Popolo from the Pincian Hill

36 the Baths of Diocletian

37 Church of St. John Lateran and Lateran Palace

38 Stairway and Fountain, Villa D'este

39 Villa Falconieri, Entrance, Frascati

40 in the Gardens of The Villa Falconieri

41 the Marble Faun

42 Marcus Aurelius With Out-stretched Arm

43 in the Villa Medici

44 the Baths of Caracalla

45 Piazza Victor Emanuel, Leghorn

46 the Canal at Leghorn

47 the Cathedral, Baptistery, and Leaning Tower, Pisa

48 With Almost Any of My Backgrounds

49 Washing in the River, Genoa

50 Realistic Group in the Campo Santo

51 Monaco

52 the Casino, Monte Carlo

FAMILIAR SPANISH TRAVELS

By W. D. Howells

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FAMILIAR SPANISH TRAVELS

I. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES

II. SAN SEBASTIAN AND BEAUTIFUL BISCAY

III. BURGOS AND THE BITTER COLD OF BURGOS

IV. THE VARIETY OF VALLADOLID

V. PHASES OF MADRID

VI. A NIGHT AND DAY IN TOLEDO

VII. THE GREAT GRIDIRON OF ST. LAWRENCE

VIII. CORDOVA AND THE WAY THERE

IX. FIRST DAYS IN SEVILLE

X. SEVILLIAN ASPECTS AND INCIDENTS

XI. TO AND IN GRANADA

XII. THE SURPRISES OF RONDA

XIII. ALGECIRAS AND TARIFA

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01 Puerta Del Sol—gate of the Sun—toledo

02 The Casino, San Sebastian, Looks out Upon The Curving Concha and The Blue Bay

03 The Sea Sweeps Inland in a Circle of Blue, to Form The Entrance To The Harbor, San Sebastian

04 Groups of Women on Their Knees Beating Clothes in the Water

05 The Iron-gray Bulk of The Cathedral Rears Itself from Clustering Walls and Roofs

06 The Tomb of Donna Maria Manuel

07 A Burgos Street

08 A Street Leading to the Cathedral

09 The University of Valladolid

10 Church of San Pablo

11 The House in Which Philip Ii. Was Born

12 The Bull-ring, Madrid

13 Guard-mount in the Plaza de Armas, Royal Palace, Madrid

14 Riches of Gray Roof and White Wall Mark Its Insurpassable Antiquity

15 An Ancient Corner of the City

16 The Bridge Across The Yellow Tagus

17 The Town and Monastery of Escorial

18 The Pantheon of The Kings and Queens Of Spain

19 The Ancient City of Cordova

20 The Bell-tower of The Great Mosque, Cordova

21 Gateway of the Bridge, Cordova

22 In Attitudes of Silent Devotion

23 The Cathedral and Tower of The Giralda

24 Ancient Roman Columns Lifting Aloft the Figures of Hercules and Caesar

25 Gardens of the Alcazar

26 The Court of Flags and Tower Of The Giralda

27 To the Alhambra

28 The Court of The Lions

29 Looking Northwest from the Generalife over Granada

30 Looking Across the New Bridge (300 Feet High) over The Guada-laviar Gorge, Ronda

31 View of Algeciras

ANNIE KILBURN A Novel By W. D. Howells

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THE LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK By William Dean Howells

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A FOREGONE CONCLUSION By William Dean Howells

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MODERN ITALIAN POETS ESSAYS AND VERSIONS

By William Dean Howells

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INTRODUCTION

ARCADIAN SHEPHERDS

GIUSEPPE PARINI

VITTORIO ALFIERI

VINCENZO MONTI AND UGO FOSCOLO

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ALESSANDRO MANZONI

SILVIO PELLICO, TOMASSO GROSSI, LUIGI CAREER, AND GIOVANNI BERCHET

GIAMBATTISTA NICCOLINI

GIACOMO LEOPARDI

GIUSEPPE GIUSTI

FRANCESCO DALL' ONGARO

GIOVANNI PRATI

ALEARDO ALEARDI

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GUILIO CARCANO, ARNALDO FUSINATO AND LUIGI MERCANTINI

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A MODERN INSTANCE By William Dean Howells

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A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA Romance

By W. D. Howells 1908

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Published May, 1903 CONTENTS.

HIS APPARITION

THE ANGEL OF THE LORD

THOUGH ONE ROSE FROM THE DEAD

THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE A Romance With An Introduction

By William Dean Howells

1907

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SOUTHERN LIGHTS AND SHADOWS Harper's Novelettes By Various Edited By William Dean Howells And Henry Mills Alden 1907

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Introduction

The Capture of Andy Proudfoot

The Level of Fortune

Pap Overholt

In the Piny Woods

My Fifth in Mammy

An Incident

A Snipe-Hunt

The Courtship of Colonel Bill

The Balance of Power

STORIES OF OHIO By William Dean Howells

1897

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PREFACE.

STORIES OF OHIO

I THE ICE FOLK AND THE EARTH FOLK.

IIOHIO AS A PART OF FRANCE.

IIIOHIO BECOMES ENGLISH.

IVTHE FORTY YEARS’ WAR FOR THE WEST.

VTHE CAPTIVITY OF JAMES SMITH

VITHE CAPTIVITY OF BOONE AND KENTON.

VIITHE RENEGADES.

VIIITHE WICKEDEST DEED IN OUR HISTORY.

IXTHE TORTURE OF COLONEL CRAWFORD

XTHE ESCAPE OF KNIGHT AND SLOVER.

XITHE INDIAN WARS AND ST, CLAIR’S DEFEAT.

XIITHE INDIAN WARS AND WAYNE’S VICTORY.

XIIIINDIAN FIGHTERS.

XIVLATER CAPTIVITIES.

XVINDIAN HEROES AND SAGES.

XVILIFE IN THE BACKWOODS.

XVIITHE FIRST GREAT SETTLEMENTS.

XVIIITHE STATE OF OHIO IN THE WAR OF 1812.

XIXA FOOLISH MAN, A PHILOSOPHER, AND A FANATIC.

XXWAYS OUT.

XXITHE FIGHT WITH SLAVERY.

XXIITHE CIVIL WAR IN OHIO

XXIII FAMOUS OHIO SOLDIERS

XXIVOHIO STATESMEN

XXVOTHER NOTABLE OHIOANS

XVIINCIDENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS.

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Stone Axes

Serpent Mound

Pichawillany, Chief Town of the Miamis

Indians Carry off the Women

Indians Delivering up Captives

Indian War Parties Joining the English

Pioneers

Indian Baptism of James Smith

An Indian Prayer

Daniel Boone Shooting With the Indians

Kenton and Girty

Simon Girty

Massacre of the Christian Indians by The Whites

Execution of Crawford

Knight Escapes

The Defeat of St. Clair

The Escape of Kennan

St. Clair’s Defeat

A White Indian

Wetzel, Indian Fighter

Bearskin Cap on a Ramrod

Brickell Leaves his Indian Father

Alder Returns to his Family

Logan’s Elm

Tecumseh

Tomahawk

Ohio Cabin

Lost in the Woods

Marrieta, Ohio

Admiral Perry on Lake Erie

Aarun Burr and Blennerhassett

Johnny Appleseed

Proclaimed Himself the Lord Jesus Christ

Governor Clinton

Early Railroad

Steamboat Explosion

Indian Evacuation by River

Slavery Issue

John Brown Making Pikes for Slaves

John Morgan Invades Ohio in 1863

Hiding With the Pigs

A Copperhead Walks With General Morgan

Rutherford Hayes

William Tecumseh Sherman

General George A. Custer

James A. Garfield

General Phillip H. Sheridan

Benjamin Harrison

Salmon P. Chase

John Sherman

William Mckinley

Thomas Corwin

Thomas A. Edison

Whitelaw Reid

Harriet Beecher Stowe

George Kennan

BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE DAYLIGHT Romances by W.D. Howells 1907 CONTENTS CHAP.

A Sleep and a Forgetting The Eidolons of Brooks Alford A Memory that Worked Overtime A Case of Metaphantasmia Editha Braybridge’s Offer The Chick of the Easter Egg

ILLUSTRATIONS

Their joint study of her dancing-card did not help them out A lively matron, of as youthful a temperament as the lively girls she brought in her train, burst upon them “She shook her head, and said,... ‘Nobody has been here, except—’” “No burglar could have missed me if he had wanted an easy mark” “‘You shall not say that!’” “She glared at editha. ‘What you got that black on for?’”

A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE. BY W. D. HOWELLS. 1873. CONTENTS

I. UP THE SAGUENAY. II. MRS. ELLISON'S LITTLE MANEUVRE. III. ON THE WAY BACK TO QUEBEC. IV. MR. ARBUTON'S INSPIRATION. V. MR. ARBUTON MAKES HIMSELF AGREEABLE. VI. A LETTER OF KITTY'S. VII. LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. VIII. NEXT MORNING. IX. MR. ARBUTON'S INFATUATION. X. MR. ARBUTON SPEAKS. XI. KITTY ANSWERS. XII. THE PICNIC AT CHATEAU-BIGOT. XIII. ORDEAL. XIV. AFTERWARDS.

A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN BY W. D. HOWELLS ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1893 CONTENTS

First Paper Second Paper ILLUSTRATIONS

Tourists at Montreux

Sign of the White Cross Inn

Entrance to Villeneuve

Post-office, Villeneuve

The Castle of Chillon

A Railroad Servant

A Bit of Villeneuve

The Prisoner of Chillon

One of the Fountains

"They helped to make the hay in the marshes"

Cattle at the Fountains

Washing Clothes in the Lake

Flirtation at the Fountains

The Wine-press

Castle of Aigle

The Market at Vevay

The Market, Vevay—A Bargain before the Notary

Germans at Montreux

Church Terrace, Montreux

Tour up the Lake

A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS By W. D. Howells CONTENTS

A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS THE PURSUIT OF THE PIANO. A DIFFICULT CASE. THE MAGIC OF A VOICE. A CIRCLE IN THE WATER.

THE STORY OF A PLAY A Novel BY W. D. HOWELLS 1898 CONTENTS