(Excerpt from Syria From the Saddle
In December, 1893, fo...)
Excerpt from Syria From the Saddle
In December, 1893, foreign consuls throughout Asia Minor were directed officially to enforce a decree order ing the expulsion from the Sultan's domains, within ten days, of all who, once Turkish subjects, had become naturalized citizens of other countries. English and American residents in Jerusalem, Beirut, Damascus, and other Syrian towns, at once took alarm and predicted serious trouble in Armenia. It was said; once and again, in my careless hearing, that the imperial man date could mean but one thing it was aimed directly at Armenian Christians. The Turkish government hoped to avoid complications with Christian nations by ridding the land of those who, in the event of a move ment against the doomed race, would be, nominally at least, under the protection of foreign flags.
The order was not a despotic caprice, but the pro logue to the bloodiest tragedy that has been enacted within five centuries. Calling to mind what has hap pened since the ominous decree, it seems incredible that neither England nor the United States protested against, or so much as instituted formal inquiry into the meaning of, an act that was clearly either arbitrary in cruelty, or else a useless display of authority. It is of course too late to speculate as to what would have been the result of such prompt and humane action. Yet, with the facts in the case before them, the sadly enlightened public will murmur, and the private Chris tian citizen will draw his own conclusions.
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(This early work by Albert Payson Terhune was originally p...)
This early work by Albert Payson Terhune was originally published in 1917. 'Dollars and Cents' is a novel about the pursuit of money. Terhune was a famous American author, dog breeder, and journalist, best known for his adventure novels about collies.
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As a respected dog breeder whose famed collie line is s...)
As a respected dog breeder whose famed collie line is still winning awards today, Albert Payson Terhune knew the value of a perfect canine specimen whose attributes were sure to win plaudits at the top shows. But as a tender hearted dog lover, Terhune recognized that all pups -- not just the pretty ones -- offer something of value to their owners. This fantastically action-packed novel centers on Bruce, a collie that wasn't blue-ribbon material, but whose loyalty and bravery mattered more. Bruce charts the story of an unwanted puppy who becomes loved by the mistress of the family. He then becomes enlisted as a carrier dog in World War 1, completing heroic tasks and coming home a war hero.
Chapters:
The Coming of Bruce
The Pest
The War Dog
When Eyes Were No Use
The Double Cross
The Werewolf
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Gray Dawn, a blue merle collie born in Sunnybank, never...)
Gray Dawn, a blue merle collie born in Sunnybank, never does things as the others do, or as the others before him. Early on, the Master is convinced that Gray Dawn is a hopeless case, and is about to sell him to another breeder, despite his wife's protests. But Gray Dawn is spared at the last moment by performing a courageous deed that wins his Master's heart.
A reissued paperback edition of the stories written by Albert Payson Terhune for The Ladies' Home Journal in 1927 in serial form.
Albert Payson Terhune was an American author, and journalist.
Background
Albert Payson Terhune was born in New Jersey on December 21, 1872. He was the second son and youngest of six children of Edward Payson Terhune, a Presbyterian minister of French Huguenot ancestry, and Mary Virginia (Hawes) Terhune. His mother was a successful popular author under the name "Marion Harland, " and all three of the children who reached adulthood (Albert and two of his sisters) became writers. After a family sojourn in Europe (1876-78) for the sake of his mother's health, Albert grew up chiefly in Springfield, Massachussets, and, after 1884, in Brooklyn, N. Y. , where his father held successive pastorates. His summers he spent at Sunnybank, his parents' country home in Pompton Lakes, N. J. His love for Sunnybank with its horses and dogs became the dominant theme in his life.
Education
Terhune had wanted to go to Yale, but because his mother wished to keep her last child closer to home, he was sent to Columbia. He was an undistinguished student and derived little from his college experience except from the literature courses given by Brander Matthews and George E. Woodberry, which "enthralled" him. He also enjoyed his extracurricular lessons in boxing, wrestling, and fencing. He graduated with the A. B. degree in 1893.
Career
After graduating, Terhune went to Europe and then with his mother to the Near East, where he helped her collect material for a book on the Holy Land. During this adventurous year he visited a leper house in disguise, traveled throughout Syria on horseback, lived for a time with a Bedouin tribe, and collected Arabic folktales, experiences that he recounted in his first book, Syria from the Saddle (1896), and later used in some of his stories. He returned to the United States in 1894 and became a reporter for the New York Evening World, a post he disliked but held for more than twenty years. In his newspaper post, Terhune wrote news stories and book reviews and ghost-wrote personal accounts by celebrities in the theatre and sports worlds. For one assignment, he described his experiences in fighting six specially arranged bouts with leading heavyweight boxers of the time, including James J. Corbett.
He added to his income by free-lance work, producing joke columns, serial sketches such as "Fifty Blackguards of History, " and novelized versions of popular plays. Terhune had hoped to become a serious writer and in collaboration with his mother had produced a novel, Dr. Dale: A Story without a Moral (1900), but his sporadic efforts at other fiction at first met with little success.
Since boyhood he had also dreamed of becoming financially independent so that he could settle at Sunnybank, and in 1905 he began a sustained effort to earn the necessary money by writing. By 1912 he was able to buy Sunnybank and by 1916, when he retired from the Evening World, he had increased his annual income to some $30, 000 by producing each year twenty short stories and five or more 60, 000-word serials, besides novelizing motion picture serials for the Pathé Company. Among his better works of the period were a series of stories about a philosopher-crook for Smart Set (1913 - 15) and several novels: The Fighter (1909), which he considered his best; Caleb Conover, Railroader (1907), for which a fellow newspaperman, Irvin S. Cobb, unofficially supplied two chapters; and Dad (1914), to which Sinclair Lewis similarly contributed.
Terhune's three collections of essays are superficial homilies; his more than 150 short stories are virtually indistinguishable from one another. Terhune had long wanted to write tales based on his experiences with his beloved collies, but editors had discouraged him, and not until 1915 did he publish "His Mate, " in Red Book magazine, the earliest of his many dog stories. First collected in Lad, A Dog (1919), these finally brought him fame. Their popularity was long-lived; more than half a century after the first appearance of Lad, eighteen of his dog books were still in print. Terhune had not intended his stories for children, but young people quickly identified the adventures of their own pets with those of the collies in his brief, lively episodes and became his chief audience. Terhune attributed an almost psychic sense to some of his dogs, but remembering the strictures of Professor Matthews, he avoided sentimentality and the pathetic fallacy, remarking that he never knew a dog with sense enough to unwind its own tangled chain. It is this "blend of super-and-subintelligence" which probably explains the continuing appeal of the Sunnybank stories.
With the success of his dog stories Terhune abandoned all attempts at serious literature. He came to recognize that he lacked creative talent and as he reached middle age believed that he had never discovered his true vocation. His greatest pleasures were life at Sunnybank, his friends, and travel.
In 1928, while taking an evening walk, Terhune was hit by a car and suffered injuries from which he never fully recovered. He did little more writing, save for a highly readable autobiography, To the Best of My Memory (1930); a life of Jesus, The Son of God (1932), and The Book of Sunnybank (1934).
Having developed cancer and heart trouble, he died of a heart attack at Sunnybank in his seventieth year. He was buried in the Dutch Reformed Cemetery at Pompton Lakes, N. J.
Achievements
He wrote over 30 books the most famous being "Lad: A Dog".
Terhune was a staunch Presbyterian and deeply religious.
Views
Quotations:
"Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. "
"Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger. "
"I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not to hang around waiting for it. Inspiration is merely a pretty phrase for the zest to work. And it can be cultivated by anyone who has the patience to try. Inspiration that will not come at its possessor's summons is like a dog that cannot be trained to obey. The sooner both are gotten rid of, the better.
Personality
Terhune was a handsome, husky man over six feet two inches tall and in middle life weighing some 220 pounds.
Connections
On January 10, 1898, he married Lorraine Marguerite Bryson, who died in the same year, shortly after giving birth to Terhune's only child, Lorraine. He was married again, on September 2, 1901, to Anice Morris Stockton, a concert pianist, composer (Songs of Sunnybank), and writer.
