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Remembered Yesterdays

by Robert Underwood Johnson. 626 pgs.

Contributors:

   Robert Underwood Johnson

Publisher:

   Little, Brown, and Company

Place of Publication:

  Boston  

Publication Year:

  1923

Subjects:

Johnson, Robert Underwood,--1853-1937

	CONTENTS
	FOREWORD	ix
	LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS	xix
I	RECORDS OF A HAPPY BOYHOOD (1853-1867)
	Soil and Seed	3
	My Father	16
	A Touch of Romance	18
	The Companionship of a Father	20
	The Awakening of the Imagination	29
	My Mother	32
	Social Traits in Indiana	34
	The Fun of Being a Boy	36
	Village Characters	48
	The Coming of the Civil War	52
II	LIFE AT A QUAKER COLLEGE (1867-1871)
	Tranquil Days at Earlham	63
III	PEEPS AT THE BIG WORLD (1871-1873)
	Chicago and the Great Fire	71
	Washington and the Credit Mobilier	75
IV	FORTY YEARS OF EDITING (1873-1913)
	"The White Company"	81
	Doctor J. G. Holland, Leader of Public Opinion	85
	Richard Watson Gilder, Poet and Patriot	88
	Roswell Smith, a Publisher of Imagination	96
	A. W. Drake, Father of American Wood Engraving	99
	Mrs. Dodge, Friend of Children	102
	Frank R. Stockton, a Joyous Humorist	104
	De Vinne, Master Printer of America	108
	Work and Diversion in the Sanctum	112
	Literary Secrets	118
	Editorial Personnel and Methods	120
	Buel and the Lottery	123
	Principles of Editing	124
	Cole's Engravings	131
	My Succession as Editor of the Century	132
	A Poet in Prison	142
	Editorial Methods	145
V	NEW YORK IN THE SEVENTIES
	Outdoor Rambles and the Footlights	153
	A Study in Contrasts	161
	Stirrings of Progress	164
VI	TWO ACTORS OF ITALY
	The Great Salvini	173
	The Incomparable Duse	182
VII	SPECIAL PROJECTS OF THE CENTURY
	The War Series: Origin and Character of the Project	189
	Humor by the Way	194
	Old Commanders	199
	Maps and Other Difficulties	203
	Could the Confederacy Have Lasted?	20
	How General Grant Came to Write	209
	Grant on the Failure of His Firm	211
	Shaping the Articles	213
	Grant's Modesty	216
	How the Century Co. Lost the Book	217
	The General's Magnanimity	219
	General Grant's Humor	221
	Grant's Last Battle	222
	Kennan's Siberian Papers	224
	The Century and the Kaiser	225
	The Suppressed Interview with the Kaiser	229
VIII	"SPIRITUAL LOBBYING" AT WASHINGTON
	How International Copyright Was Won	241
	The Spirit and Humor of the Struggle	260
	Real Security for Continental Authors	275
	John Muir and Our Activities in Forest Conservation	278
	With Muir in the Sierra	279
	The Character of Muir	284
	The Origin of the Yosemite National Park	287
	Fighting for the Yosemite	289
	The Retrocession of the Yosemite	291
	A Digression to the Adorondacks	292
	Larger Movements in Conservation	293
	The Sargent Commission' Great Service (1896-97)	296
	How the White House Conference Originated	300
	The Fight for the Hetch Hetchy	307
	A Visit from Muir	313
	Muir's Writings	314
IX	MEN AND WOMEN OF DISTINCTION
	Mark Twain	319
	Ralph Waldo Emerson	325
	James Russell Lowell	329
	Walt Whitman	332
	John Burroughs	339
	Edmund Clarence Stedman	342
	Richard Henry Stoddard	352
	William Dean Howells	354
	Horace Howard Furness	358
	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	362
	A Note on Marion Crawford	364
	Wayne MagVeagh	365
	Joseph Jefferson	373
	Some Letters of Joel Chandler Harris	377
	A Glimpse of Lord Morley	383
	Theodore Roosevelt	385
	Mrs. Fields, Sarah Jewett and Madamme Blanc	392
	Rod and Brunetière	395
	A Letter of Kipling's	397
	Nikola Tesla	399
	Paderewski	402
	Maurice Francis Egan	403
	Henry U. Johnson. Thomas B. Reed	407
	A Letter of Woodrow Wilson	411
	Bryan at the Baltimore Convention	413
	Some Heroes of the Spanish War: Sampson, Hobson, Cervera	416
X	ITALIAN ACTIVITIES
	The Keats-Shelley Memorial in Rome	425
	War Relief Work for Italy	431
XI	THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
	Origin and Founding of the Academy	439
	Personnel and Work of the Academy	443
XII	DELIGHT AND HUMOR OF FOREIGN TRAVEL
	The First Trip	455
	A Whiff of Provence	456
	Our First Roman Days	458
	Vedder and Ezekiel	462
	A Trip to Athens	463
	The Months of Months	465
	Athens to Messina	468
	Some Anecdotes of Travel	471
	Florence	474
	The Blue Nuns, and the Ceremony of the Car	476
	High Lights of Venice	478
	Asolo	479
	First Presentations at Court	480
	The Jubilee of Pope Leo XIII in St. Peter's	482
	A Note on Food	486
	Boutet De Monvel	488
	L'Académie Française	490
	A Call upon Daudet	492
	A Little Shopping	494
	Here and There in England	495
	A Luncheon with Browning	504
	A Meeting with Anne Thackeray	505
	A Glimpse of Whistler	507
	Coronation Week	509
XII	DIPLOMATIC SERVICE IN ITALY'
	Designation as Ambassador	513
	The San Remo Conference, April 19-26, 1920	517
	First Official Audience at the Quirinal	519
	Reception by the Conference	521
	Unrecorded History	526
	The Armenian Mandate	528
	A Setlement That Did Not Settle	530
	A Memorable Debate	533
	The Conquering Heroes Come	535
	Doctoring the Sick Man	536
	Russian Commercial Overtures	537
	The Closing Hours	538
	Dominant Impressions	540
	Official Life in Rome	543
XIV	SPECIAL EXPERIENCES IN ROME
	The Celebration of Vittorio Veneto	561
	Ratification of the Treaty of Rapallo by the Senate	565
	Dinner at the Quirinal to the King and Queen of Denmark	568
XV	TWO FLIGHTS IN THE "ROMA"
	First Trip: Over the City	577
	Second Trip: Rome To Capri and Return	580
XVI	THE BROWN HOUSE
	Making a Home in New York	589
	INDEX	599

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