(8 works of Josiah Gilbert Holland
American novelist and p...)
8 works of Josiah Gilbert Holland
American novelist and poet (1819-1881)
This ebook presents a collection of 8 works of Josiah Gilbert Holland. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents:
Bitter-Sweet
Gradatim
Lessons in Life - A Series of Familiar Essays
My Children
Sevenoaks - A Story of Today
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
The Mistress of the Manse
Wanted
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Josiah Gilbert Holland i...)
The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Josiah Gilbert Holland is a comprehensive biography of Abraham Lincoln, covers Lincoln’s life in rich detail. From his birth and early years in Kentucky, to Indiana, and his life in Decatur, New Salem, and lastly Springfield, Illinois before starting his life in the White House as the 16th President of the United States, during the country’s most turbulent and uncertain period of its history, the Civil War.
This fascinating biography, which Holland began while Lincoln was still alive, and completed not long after his death, contains many anecdotes and reminiscences told by many of Lincoln’s friends and contemporaries, still fresh in their minds and bring him to life off the pages of history. Many of Abe Lincoln’s quotes and speeches are detailed, as well as details of his own premonitions of his death, how (and where) he got his well-deserved nickname “Honest Abe”, and how the country was first introduced to his ax-wielding skills. Even those who consider themselves knowledgeable of facts about Abraham Lincoln are likely to make surprising discoveries.
In addition to firsthand accounts related about Abraham Lincoln there are many details about all events leading up to the Civil War regarding slavery; and exactly how, and why events regarding the war turned out as they did.
Complete and unabridged, this paperback edition of J. G. Holland’s The Life of Abraham Lincoln was painstakingly prepared from the original 1866 book, completely and accurately, and is without typos or hard to read copies. This edition is true to the original, and contains all endnotes and illustrations of the original work.
From the book’s author himself:
"Holland’s Life of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States, comprising a full and complete history of his eventful life, with incidents of his early history, his career as a lawyer and politician, his advancement to the Presidency of the United States and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy through the most trying period of its history, together with an account of the tragical and mournful scenes connected with the close of his noble and eventful life.
By Dr. J. G. Holland, the widely known and favorite author of the “Timothy Titcomb” letters, “Bitter Sweet,” “Gold Foil,” &c., & c. The author’s aim will be to describe as graphically as may be the private and public life of the humble citizen, the successful lawyer, the pure politician, the far-sighted Christian statesman, the efficient philanthropist, and the honored chief Magistrate. The people desire a biography which shall narrate to them with a measurable degree of symmetry and completeness, the story of a life which has been intimately associated with their own and changed the course of American history through all coming time. Such a narrative as this it will be the author’s aim to give – one that shall be sufficiently full in detail without being prolix, and circumstantial without being dull."
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Every-Day Topics - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
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History of western Massachusetts. The counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire. Embracing an outline aspects and leading interests, and ... histories of its one hundred towns VOL 1
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History of western Massachusetts. The counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire. Embracing an outline aspects and leading interests, and separate histories of its one hundred towns. Volume 1
Josiah Gilbert Holland was an American writer who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb. He was the author of numerous novels and editor of Scribner's Monthly.
Background
Josiah Gilbert Holland was born on July 24, 1819 in Belchertown, Massachussets, United States. He was a descendant of John and Judith Holland who established themselves in New England in 1630, and a son of Harrison and Anna (Gilbert) Holland. His father seems to have been a hard-working but unthrifty man who always remained in poor circumstances.
Education
As a boy Holland worked for a time in a factory, spent a brief period at the Northampton High School, which he was forced to leave on account of poor health, and tried his hand at such gentleman-like occupations as the times offered to a young fellow in his teens--school teaching, taking daguerreotypes, conducting writing-schools. At the age of twenty-one he began the study of medicine, not apparently because of any scientific bent. In 1844 he was graduated from the Berkshire Medical College, and tried, unsuccessfully, to establish a practice in Springfield, Massachussets.
Career
Holland is said to have employed some of his leisure in writing for the Knickerbocker and other magazines, and he founded a weekly paper which failed after six months. Definitely abandoning medicine in 1848 he went South and taught school, first at Richmond, Virginia, then at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
In 1850 he returned to Springfield and became associated with Samuel Bowles in the editorship of the Springfield Republican. It was his part to furnish the material of human interest while Bowles wrote on public affairs, and under this happy combination of editors the Republican attained the high position it long held. It was writings designed for this newspaper that first brought Holland to notice. He began with a series of imaginary letters "from Max Mannering to his sister in the country, " in which he mildly satirized differences between town and rural life. He next published serially a History of Western Massachusetts, issued in book form in 1855; then a novel, The Bay-Path; A Tale of New England Colonial Life, published in book form in 1857; and later, over the signature "Timothy Titcomb, " a series of "Letters to Young People" collected in 1858 under the title Titcomb's Letters to Young People, Single and Married (1858). Several of his later prose works also appeared serially in the Republican.
For a time he was in complete editorial charge, but in 1857 he sold out his financial interest and ceased to hold a regular desk position, though he continued as a contributor and had an undefined editorial connection with the paper. In 1862 when Bowles went to Europe in search of health, Holland became for a time editor-in-chief. It was in the decade following his withdrawal from routine editorial duties that he wrote many of his most popular works: Bitter Sweet, a Poem in Dramatic Form (1858); Gold Foil Hammered from Popular Proverbs (1859); Miss Gilbert's Career (1860); and other.
Soon after the appearance of Titcomb's Letters he became in demand as a lyceum speaker, and lectured in many parts of the country. In 1868-1869 he was in Europe, and here in conjunction with Roswell Smith, who was also traveling abroad, he projected a literary magazine. Charles Scribner had long admired Holland and had already suggested to him the editorship of another periodical, Hours at Home.
On the return of Holland and Smith from Europe they with Scribner became proprietors, and Holland editor, of Scribner's Monthly, which first appeared in 1870. The well-known publishing house of the Scribners while financially interested did not control the new venture, and after the death of Charles Scribner some complications arising out of the use of the name led to the rechristening of the periodical as the Century Magazine. Holland was to continue as editor. He had, however, long known that he was suffering from an incurable heart disease, and he died, suddenly but not unexpectedly, just before the first number of the Century was given to the public.
After 1870 he lived in New York City, with a summer home in the Thousand Islands. In his new residence as in his old he took an active interest in public affairs, and was for some time president of the New York City board of education. The chief writings of his later period were three novels, Arthur Bonnicastle (1873), Sevenoaks (1875), and Nicholas Minturn (1877); several volumes of poems, including The Marble Prophecy and Other Poems (1872), The Mistress of the Manse (1874), The Puritan's Guest and Other Poems (1881); and two series of essays, Every-Day Topics (1876, 1882). Collected editions of his poems appeared in 1873 and 1879.
He achieved his first marked success with his Titcomb's Letters to Young People, Single and Married, and the nature of his message may be inferred from this title and from those of later works like Gold Foil Hammered from Popular Proverbs, Lessons in Life, and Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. In his novels his purpose is the same as in his moralizing essays. His poems, both shorter pieces and longer narratives like Bitter Sweet and Katrina, are usually in facile if undistinguished verse, and continued the didactic tradition common in New England. The timely and popular Life of Abraham Lincoln (1866) enforced the lessons to be drawn from the President's career, as well as recorded biographical facts.
Quotations:
"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. "
"The temple of art is built in words. "
"A mind grows by what it feeds on. "
"Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. "
" 'Work and wait', 'work and wait' is what God says to us in creation. "
"The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started. "
Personality
Holland was not, as has been persistently stated, a clergyman, and though he was in a sense a preacher, his temper of mind was hardly clerical. He was rather intelligent, respected layman, who without feeling the responsibility for mastering and expounding a system of belief, led the adult Bible class and tried to do what he could for the good of the community. His hopeful, somewhat sentimental philosophy grew out of his knowledge of the ordinary problems of ordinary people, and a helpful interest in his fellow men.
Connections
On October 7, 1845, Holland married Elizabeth Luna Chapin of Springfield. They had five children.