Contents
[a]Chapter the Thirteenth]
Charles Eames and Charles Sumner-Schurzand Lamar--I Go to Congress--A Heroic Kentuckian--Stephen Foster and His Songs--Music and Theodore Thomas
[a]Chapter the Fourteenth]
Henry Adams and the Adams Family--John Hay and Frank Mason--The Three Mousquetaires of Culture--Paris--"The Frenchman"--The South of France
[a]Chapter the Fifteenth]
Still the Gay Capital of France--Its Environs--Walewska and De Morny--Thackeray in Paris--A Pension Adventure
[a]Chapter the Sixteenth]
Monte Carlo--The European Shrine of Sport and Fashion--Apocryphal Gambling Stories--Leopold, King of the Belgians--An Able and Picturesque Man of Business
[a]Chapter the Seventeenth]
A Parisian Pension--The Widow of Walewska--Napoleon's Daughter-in-Law--The Changeless--A Moral and Orderly City
[a]Chapter the Eighteenth]
The Grover Cleveland Period--President Arthur and Mr. Blaine--John Chamberlin--The Decrees of Destiny
[a]Chapter the Nineteenth]
Mr. Cleveland in the White House--Mr. Bayard in the Department of State--Queer Appointments to Office--The One-Party Power--The End of North and South Sectionalism
[a]Chapter the Twentieth]
The Real Grover Cleveland--Two Clevelands Before and After Marriage--A Correspondence and a Break of Personal Relations
[a]Chapter the Twenty-First]
Stephen Foster, the Song-Writer--A Friend Comes to the Rescu His Originality--"My Old Kentucky Home" and the "Old Folks at Home"--General Sherman and "Marching Through Georgia"
[a]Chapter the Twenty-Second]
Theodore Roosevelt--His Problematic Character--He Offers Me an Appointment--His Bonhomie and Chivalry--Proud of His Rebel Kin
[a]Chapter the Twenty-Third]
The Actor and the Journalist--The Newspaper and the State--Joseph Jefferson--His Personal and Artistic Career--Modest Character and Religious Belief
[a]Chapter the Twenty-Fourth]
The Writing of Memoirs--Some Characteristics of Carl Shurz--Sam Bowles--Horace White and the Mugwumps
[a]Chapter the Twenty-Fifth]
Every Trade Has Its Tricks--I Play One on William McKinley--Far Away Party Politics and Political Issues
[a]Chapter the Twenty-Sixth]
A Libel on Mr. Cleveland--His Fondness for Cards--Some Poker Stories--The "Senate Game"--Tom Ochiltree, Senator Allison and General Schenck
[a]Chapter the Twenty-Seventh]
The Profession of Journalism--Newspapers and Editors in America--Bennett, Greeley and Raymond--Forney and Dana--The Education of a Journalist
[a]Chapter the Twenty-Eighth]
Bullies and Braggarts--Some Kentucky Illustrations--The Old Galt House--The Throckmortons--A Famous Sugeon--"Old Hell's Delight"
[a]Chapter the Twenty-Ninth]
About Political Conventions, State and National--"Old Ben Butler"--His Appearance as a Trouble-Maker in the Democratic National Convention of 1892--Tarifa and the Tariff--Spain as a Frightful Example
[a]Chapter the Thirtieth]
The Makers of the Republic--Lincoln, Jefferson, Clay and Webster--The Proposed League of Nations--The Wilsonian Incertitude--The "New Freedom"
[a]Chapter the Thirty-First]
The Age of Miracles--A Story of Franklin Pierce--Simon Suggs Billy Sunday--Jefferson Davis and Aaron Burr--Certain Constitutional Shortcomings
[a]Chapter the Thirty-Second]
A War Episode--I Meet my Fater--I Marry and Make a Home--The Ups and Downs of Life Lead to a Happy Old Age