About this book
“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune…. they are mainly concerned with men of exceptional mark and position in America and Europe whom I have met, and with events of which I had some personal knowledge. There is no attempt at a consecutive story.” (Preface) Smalley was an American journalist born in Massachusetts in 1833; he wrote from and about many places in America (including the Civil War) and Europe. - Summary by Book Preface and David Wales
Chapters (44)
1New England in 1850—Daniel Webster
2Massachusetts Puritanism—The Yale Class of 1853
3Yale Professors—Harvard Law School
4How Massachusetts in 1854 Surrendered the Fugitive Slave Anthony Burns
5The American Defoe, Richard Henry Dana, Jr
6A Visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson
7Emerson in England—English Traits—Emerson and Matthew Arnold
8A Group of Boston Lawyers—Mr. Olney and Venezuela
9Wendell Phillips
10Wendell Phillips and the Boston Mobs
11Wendell Phillips—Governor Andrew—Phillips's Conversion
12William Lloyd Garrison—A Critical View
13Charles Sumner—A Private View
14Experiences as Journalist during the Civil War
15Civil War—General McClellan—General Hooker
16Civil War—Personal Incidents at Antietam
17A Fragment of Unwritten Military History
18The New York Draft Riots in 1863—Notes on Journalism
19How The Prussians after Sadowa Came Home to Berlin
20A Talk with Count Bismarck in 1866
21American Diplomacy in England
22Two Unaccredited Ambassadors
23Some Account of a Revolution in International Journalism
24Holt White's Story of Sedan and How it Reached the "New York Tribune"
25Great Examples of War Correspondence
26A Parenthesis
27'Civil War?'—Incidents in the 'Eighties—Sir George Trevelyan—Lord Barrymore
28Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Alaska Boundary
29Annexing Canada—Lady Aberdeen—Lady Minto
30Two Governors-General, Lord Minto and Lord Grey
31Lord Kitchener—Personal Traits and Incidents
32Sir George Lewis—King's Solicitor and Friend—A Social Force
33Mr. Mills—A Personal Appreciation and a Few Anecdotes
34Lord Randolph Churchill—Being Mostly Personal Impressions
35Lord Glenesk and 'The Morning Post'
36Queen Victoria at Balmoral—King Edward at Dunrobin—Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton—Other Anecdotes
37Famous Englishmen Not in Politics
38Lord St. Helier—American and English Methods—Mr. Benjamin
39Mrs. Jeune, Lady Jeune, and Lady St. Helier
40Lord and Lady Arthur Russell and the 'Salon' in England
41The Archbishop of Canterbury—Queen Alexandra
42A Scottish Legend
43A Personal Reminiscence of the Late Emperor Frederick
44Edward the Seventh as Prince of Wales—Personal Incidents; Prince of Wales and King of England—The Personal Side; As King—Some Personal and Social Incidents and Impressions
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