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JOHN ELLIOTT

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
[I][The Twilight of the Gods][3]
[II][The Owls][22]
[III][Green Peace][30]
[IV][Schools and Teachers][46]
[V][Uncle Sam Ward][64]
[VI][A Stay at the White House][78]
[VII][Santo Domingo][91]
[VIII][Newport][106]
[IX][Some Painters and Poets][118]
[X][England][138]
[XI][Rome][158]
[XII][Egypt. Palestine. Greece][174]
[XIII][Boston in the Eighties][194]
[XIV][The New Orleans Cotton Centennial][204]
[XV][Chicago and Boston in the Nineties][217]
[XVI][London in the Nineties][232]
[XVII][Arabian Days][248]
[XVIII][Artist Life in Rome, 1894][256]
[XIX][A Year of Travel][271]
[XX][My Mother’s Last Roman Winter][283]
[XXI][Queen Margherita at Our Studio][295]
[XXII][By the Tiber and by the Charles][309]
[XXIII][Washington in 1910][331]
[XXIV][Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party][346]
[XXV][The Art Association of Newport][367]
[Index][393]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Maud Howe][Frontispiece]
[Edwin Booth][40]
[Uncle Sam Ward][68]
[My Father, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe][68]
[Dr. Henry Marion Howe and His Sisters][86]
[Edward Askew Sothern][122]
[Francis Bret Harte][128]
[Francis Marion Crawford][166]
[The Drawing Room at 241 Beacon St.][198]
[Dr. Henry Marion Howe][200]
[Margaret Deland][204]
[John Elliott][216]
[Laura E. Richards][254]
[Florence Howe Hall][254]
[My Mother, Julia Ward Howe][286]
[Queen Margherita of Italy][304]
[Henry James][316]
[Mrs. John Lowell Gardner][378]

THREE GENERATIONS

CHAPTER I
The Twilight of the Gods