Recollections of a Varied Life

by George Cary Eggleston

B

• "Bab Ballads," Gilbert's, [137]
• Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, [220]
• Bar Harbor, [295], [320]-[326]
• "Barnwell C. H.," [242]
• Bates House, Indianapolis, [28], [29]
• Bath, American habits as to, [30], [31]
• Beauregard, Gen., [87], [237]-[241]
• Beecher, Henry Ward, [108]
• "Ben Bolt," [255]
• Benjamin, Judah P., [237]
• Bernhardt, Sara, [229], [230]
• Berry, Earl D., [290]
• "Big Brother, The," [181]-[183]
• Bigelow, John, [188], [228], [289], [303]
• Bludso, Jim, [160]-[162]
• Blunders, compositors', [241]-[243];
  • literary, [222]-[227];
  • telegrapher's, [238], [239]
• Bohemianism, [177]
• Book-editing, [234]-[237]
• Book notices, [190]
• Book reviewers, [190]
• Book reviewing, newspaper, [217]
• Book sales, predicting, [252]-[254]
• Book titles, [154]-[157]
• Books, mutilation of, [271];
  • in Virginia, [66]
• Booth, Edwin, [275], [276]
• Booth, Postmaster of Brooklyn, [125]
• "Boots and Saddles," Mrs. Custer's, [252]-[254]
• Boston, literary center, [148]
• Boucicault, Dion, [153]
• Bound boys and girls, [14], [16]
• Bowen, Henry C., [100], [128]
• Boys' stories, [181]-[185]
• Bragg, Gen., [238]
• "Breadwinners, The," [165]
• Briars, The, [71]
• Briggs, Charles F., [100]-[107]
• British authors visiting America, [265], [268], [269]
• British condescension, [268]
• Broadway Journal, [100]
• Brooklyn. N. Y., [31], [99], [115], [117]
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle, [126]
• Brooklyn Union, [99], [100], [105], [107], [110], [113], [115], [116], [128]
• Brooks, Elbridge S., [185]
• "Browneyes, Lily," [256]-[258]
• Bryan, Wm. J., and the World in 1896, [324]-[326]. Also [335]-[337]
• Bryant, Wm. C., [68], [129], [143];
  • conduct of the N. Y. Evening Post, [187]-[189];
  • as a reviewer of books, [190];
  • appoints G. C. Eggleston literary editor of the Evening Post, [192]-[194];
  • character, [194]-[196];
  • relations with Washington Irving, [196]-[198];
  • consideration for poets, [199]-[202], [205], [206];
  • views of anonymous literary criticism, [203]-[205];
  • estimate of Poe, [207];
  • Index Expurgatorius, [209]-[213];
  • his democracy, [214];
  • opinion of English society, [215]-[217];
  • estimate of Tennyson and other modern poets, [219];
  • his judgment of English literature, [220], [221]
• Bull Run, [78]
• Byron, quoted, [83], [84]

C

• Cairo, Ills., [96], [99]
• "Campaign of Chancellorsville," Dodge's, [208]
• Campbell, Thomas, [254]
• Cannon, Capt. John, [161]
• "Captain Sam," [183]
• Cary, Alice and Phœbe, [137]
• Carlisle, John G., [330], [331]
• Catholicism, [26]
• Cavalry life, [77]-[81]
• Chamberlin, E. O., [329], [330]
• Champlin, John D., [285]
• Chance, its part in literary work, [181]-[185]
• Charleston, S. C., [86], [164], [241]
• Checks, bank, in Virginia, [50]
• Children's stories. See Boys' stories
• Church, Col. Wm. C., [204]
• Civil service system, [235]
• Civil War, changes wrought in Virginia, [73]-[76]
• Clay, Henry, [20]
• Clemens, Samuel L., [150], [160], [259], [265], [281]
• Cleveland, President, [214], [226], [330], [331]
• Coan, Dr. Titus Munson, quoted, [228]
• Cobham Station, [93]
• Cockerill, John A., [122], [308]-[312]
• Co-education, [57]
• Colman, Mr., [198]
• Collins, Tom, [89]-[93]
• Commercial Advertiser. See under New York
• Compositors, [314], [315]
• Condescension, British, [268]
• Congress, U. S., in Tilden-Hayes controversy, [331]-[333]
• Constitution, U. S., [226], [336]
• Conversion, religious, [92]
• Cooke, John Esten, [59], [67], [69]-[72], [151], [240]
• Copy, following, [241]-[243]
• Copyright, [153], [154], [231]-[234], [268]
• Corruption, political, [124]-[126], [334], [335]
• Courtesy in Boston, New York, Virginia, [55], [56]
• Court-martial, [88], [89]
• Coward, Edward Fales, [291]
• Cowley, Abraham, [192]
• Craig, George, [13], [17]
• Creek War, [183]
• Criticism. See Literary criticism
• "Culross," [338]-[344]
• Curtis, George William, [100]
• Curtis, Gen. Newton Martin, [85]
• Custer, Mrs., [252]-[254]
• Cuyler, Dr. Theo. L., quoted, [147]

D

• "Danger in the Dark," [26]
• Daniel, Senator, of Virginia, [85]
• Davis, James, [291]
• Davis, Jefferson, [164], [165], [237]-[241]
• Death-bed repentance, [93]
• Democracy, Bryant's, [214];
  • Cleveland's, [214]
• "Democracy," [269]
• Dictation, [341]
• Dictionaries, [210]
• Dime novel, [275], [276]
• Dodd, Mead, and Co., [244]
• Dodge, Mary Mapes, [131], [132]
• Dodge, Col. Theodore, [208]
• Dranesville, Va., [83]
• Dress, Joaquin Miller on, [175], [176];
  • men's evening, [175]-[178]
• Drinking habits. See Temperance
• Dumont, Mrs. Julia L., [9]
• Dupont, Ind., [21]
• Dutcher, Silas B., [125]
• "Dutchmen," [3]

E

• Eagle, Brooklyn. See under Brooklyn
• Early, Jubal A., [76]
• Editorial responsibility, [207]-[209]
• Editorial writing, [110], [313]-[315], [323], [340]
• Editors and authors, [167]-[172]
• Education, backwoods, [9], [10];
  • modern, [75], [76];
  • present and past in Virginia, [73]-[76];
  • western, in 1850, [32]-[34]. See also Schools and school-teaching
• Eggleston, Edward, [21], [22];
  • origin of "The Hoosier Schoolmaster," [34]-[36];
  • connection with Hearth and Home, [132];
  • first to utilize in literature the Hoosier life, [145], [146];
  • resigns editorship of Hearth and Home, [146];
  • quoted on copyright, [232]-[234];
  • relations with his brother, [266], [267]
• Eggleston, George Cary, early recollections, life in the West in the eighteen-forties, [1]-[20];
  • first railroad journey, [21];
  • free-thinking, [22];
  • early theological thought and reading, [22]-[26];
  • school-teaching, [34]-[45];
  • Virginia life, [46]-[59];
  • occultism, experience of, [60]-[66];
  • creed, [75];
  • army life, [77];
  • cavalry, [77]-[81];
  • two experiences, [81]-[85];
  • artillery, [86], [87];
  • Army of Northern Virginia, [87]-[96];
  • legal practice, [99];
  • Brooklyn Union, [99]-[129];
  • New York Evening Post, [129]-[131];
  • Hearth and Home, [131]-[135], [145], [146], [148], [151], [180];
  • first books, [146];
  • first novel, [151]-[155];
  • New Jersey home, [180], [186];
  • boys' stories, [181]-[185];
  • financial troubles, [186], [187];
  • connection with New York Evening Post, [187]-[231];
  • acquaintance with W. C. Bryant, [192]-[228];
  • adviser of Harper and Brothers, [231], [234], [236];
  • literary editor of the Commercial Advertiser, [287];
  • managing editor, [288];
  • editor-in-chief, [289];
  • health, [292], [306];
  • editorial writer for the World, [306]-[337];
  • retires from journalism, [337];
  • literary habits, [338]-[344]
• Eggleston, Guilford Dudley, [184]
• Eggleston, Joseph, [96], [98]
• Eggleston, Joseph Cary, [9], [14], [15]
• Eggleston, Mrs. Mary Jane, [11]
• Eggleston, Judge Miles Cary, [8]
• Eggleston family, home of, [46]
• Election results, predicting, [326]
• Eliot, George, [255]
• Elliot, Henry R., [291]
• "End of the World," E. Eggleston's, [146]
• English, Thomas Dunn, [172], [255]
• English authors. See British authors
• English language, N. Y. Evening Post's standard, [210]-[214];
  • Virginia usage, [59];
  • Western usage, [8]
• English society, [215]-[217]
• Evening Post, The. See under New York
• Extemporaneous writing, [339]-[341]

F

• "Fable for Critics," [101], [106], [195]
• Familiarity, President Cleveland contrasted with W. C. Bryant, [214]
• Farragut, Admiral, quoted, [77]
• Fawcett, Edgar, [153]
• Fellows, Col. John R., [121], [122]
• Fiction, place in 1840-50, [25], [26];
  • writing of, [341], [342]
• "First of the Hoosiers," quoted, [145]
• First Regiment of Virginia Cavalry, [77], [78], [81]
• "Flat Creek," [37]
• Florida War, [243]
• Folsom, Dr. François, [291]
• Ford, Paul Leicester, [278], [279], [334]
• Foreigners, American attitude toward, 1840-50, [2], [3]
• Francis, Sir Philip, [223]-[225]
• "Franco, Harry," [100], [106]
• Franklin, Benj., [1], [139]
• Free-thinking, [22]
• Free-trade and protection, [20]
• French Revolution, [108], [109]
• Fulton, Rev. Dr., [113]-[115]