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IN offering this little book to that public for which it is intended - a public made up of young men from fifteen to twenty years of age - the author fears that he may seem presumptuous. He intends to accentuate what most of them already know, not to teach them any new thing. And if he appear to touch too much upon the trifles of life, it is because experience shows that it is the small things of our daily intercourse with our fellow-beings which make the difference between success and failure. He gratefully acknowledges his obligation to the Reverend editor of the/1715 Maria for permis sion to use in the last part of this volume several of the Chats with Good Listeners.
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There were then memories. He recalled the day he had been saucy to his mother. It was at twilight in the evening, and his mother had refused him some more dessert. He had sulked and pouted, and said.
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Open Letter of the Catholic Archbishops of A merica, A pril, 1917 The Voice of the Hierarchy STANDING firmly upon our Catholic tadition and history from the very foundation of this nation, ive reaffirm this hour of stress and trial our most sacred and sincere lojaltjf and patriotism to our country our government and our flag. Moved to the very depths of our hearts by the stirring appeals of the President of the United States and by the action of ourN ational Congress. ie accept wholcheartedljn and unreservedly the decree of that legislative authority proclaiming our country to be in a state of I vor. We have prayed that ive might be spared the dire necessity of the conflict; but now that war is declared we how in obedience to the sumr mom to bear our part in iU with fidelity, with courage and with the spirit of sacrifice which as loyal citizens we are bound to manifest for the defense of the most sacred rights and the welfare of the whole nation.
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1924. Scholar, poet, critic, United States Minister to Denmark and most delightful of companions, Maurice Francis Egan pours out his happiest moments of a rich life in this volume. Egan has great skill in drawing portraits of people, little sketches which are true to life and make you feel the person. He hates scandal, but loves good humored gossip. A joke is dear to him, even if it is on himself. This is a wonderful book of American reminiscences.
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Poetry as an art form predates written text, with the earliest poetry having been recited or sung, and employed as a way of remembering oral history. The oldest examples of epic poetry include the Epic of Gilgamesh from Bablylon and the Greek epics The Iliad and The Odyssey, and the Indian Sanskrit epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata. The longest epic poems in history were the Mahabharata and the Tibetan Epic of King Gesar. Aristotle's Poetics considered that there were three genres of poetry—the epic, the comic, and the tragic. Later aestheticians identified: epic poetry, lyric poetry, and dramatic poetry. One of the most popular form since the Late Middle Ages, is the sonnet, which by the 13th century had become standardized as fourteen lines following a set rhyme scheme. The form had crystallized further by the 14th century and the Italian Renaissance, under the guidance of Petrarch.
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Mrs. Watson, of the country, - as Uncle William called her in his talk with Alice, was likewise a Philadelphian by birth, and Uncle William made Alice laugh by repeating some of her stories of her earlier life and that of older friends in the old-fashioned part of that city, where, according to Longfellow, All the air is balm, and the peach is the emblem of beauty.
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Ten years near the German frontier; a retrospect and a warning
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Confessions of a Book-Lover
Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning
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The ghost in Hamlet: and other essays in comparative literature
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The Chatelaine of the Roses: A Romance of St. Bartholomew's Night, and Other Tales
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A Pilgrim’s Progress Through Bookland – Little-known an...)
A Pilgrim’s Progress Through Bookland – Little-known anecdotes about old and new books, authors and characters and a volume that will delight the general reader as well as the bibliophile.
“A diplomat and a wide reader, Maurice Francis Egan combines polish with a rather general enthusiasm.” -The Ladies' Home Journal, September, 1922
To get the best out of books, I am convinced that you must begin to love these perennial friends very early in life. It is the only way to know all their "curves," all those little shadows of expression and small lights. There is a glamour which you never see if you begin to read with a serious intention late in life, when questions of technique and grammar and mere words begin to seem too important.
Then you have become too critical to feel through all Fenimore Cooper's verbiage the real lakes and woods, or the wild fervor of romance beneath dear Sir Walter's mat of words. You lose the unreclaimable flavor of books. A friend you may irretrievably lose when you lose a friend--if you are so deadly unfortunate as to lose a friend--for even the memories of him are embittered; but no great author can ever have done anything that will make the book you love less precious to you.
The new school of pedagogical thought disapproves, I know, of miscellaneous reading, and no modern moralist will agree with Madame de Sévigné that "bad books are better than no books at all"; but Madame de Sévigné may have meant books written in a bad style, or feeble books, and not books bad in the moral sense. However, I must confess that when I was young, I read several books which I was told afterward were very bad indeed. But I did not find this out until somebody told me! The youthful mind must possess something of the quality attributed to a duck's back! I recall that once "The Confessions of Rousseau" was snatched suddenly away from me by a careful mother just as I had begun to think that Jean Jacques was a very interesting man and almost as queer as some of the people I knew. I believe that if I had been allowed to finish the book, it would have become by some mental chemical process a very edifying criticism of life.
CONTENTS
I. MY BOYHOOD READING Early Recollections. The Bible. Essays and Essayists.
II. POETS AND POETRY France--Of Maurice de Guérin. Dante. English and American Verse.
III. CERTAIN NOVELISTS
IV. LETTERS, BIOGRAPHIES, AND MEMOIRS
V. BOOKS AT RANDOM
Maurice Francis Egan was an American writer and diplomat. He was a prolific writer and had a long and successful career as a Catholic journalist, literary critic, and novelist. He was a professor of English at two universities, and served as United States Minister in Copenhagen.
Background
His mother, Margaret MacMullen, of a Scotch-Irish family long settled in Philadelphia, was a constant reader and in later years a devout Catholic.
He inherited his mother’s religious feeling and love of literature, both of which were dominant influences in his life.
From his father, Maurice Florent Egan, a handsome Irishman of good family who landed in Philadelphia in 1825 and made his own way, came a democratic spirit, humor, and irrepressible geniality, which found him ever a host of friends.
Education
At St. Philip’s Parochial School and at La Salle College, where he graduated B. A. in 1873, he enjoyed classical studies, but he profited most from wide independent reading.
For three years, 1875-78, he taught and studied philosophy at Georgetown University, also seeing much of social and diplomatic life in Washington.
Career
At seventeen he had an essay, “On Roses, ” in Appletons’ Journal, and was soon writing regularly for Philadelphia papers.
Always a facile writer, he was again busy in newspaper work toward the close of this period, turned out two or three novels, and published sonnets of distinction in Scribner’s.
After desultory study of law and a journey to Texas, he went to New York in the spring of 1878, settling definitely on a journalistic career.
He was first sub-editor of Magee’s Weekly, then, after 1881, associate editor of the Freeman’s Journal, and in 1888 editor and part-proprietor.
Meanwhile, for newspapers and magazines of more general circulation he wrote “ten to fifteen thousand words a week, ” consisting of book reviews, miscellaneous articles, and verse.
Welcomed into the Century Magazine circle, he numbered the Gilders, Robert Underwood Johnson, James Huneker, and Augustin Daly among his closer friends.
Partly on account of the children, partly because of the desire for quiet and study, Egan accepted in 1888 a professorship of English literature at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind.
Here he found change, if not rest.
To both McKinley and Roosevelt he was of service in adjusting the problem of the friars’ lands in the Philippines.
With Roosevelt an old friendship was renewed at frequent White House luncheons (see Egan, “Theodore Roosevelt in Retrospect, ” Atlantic Monthly, May 1919), and it was Roosevelt who in 1907 appointed Egan minister to Denmark.
He was to work for the purchase of the Danish West Indies, and from Copenhagen, “the whispering gallery of Europe, ” keep the administration in touch with European affairs.
At Copenhagen his social gifts, political shrewdness, and ardent patriotism found full play.
Declining from both Taft and Wilson an ambassadorship at Vienna, he became in 1916 senior diplomat at Copenhagen, and administered his post with great success until the close of the World War.
The story of his service, Ten Years Near the German Frontier (1919), was an immediate success.
This was followed by Confessions of a Book Lover (1922).
Best of his books is his Recollections of a Happy Life (1924), for it most closely reflects the man, and with Egan interest must center, not in his writings primarily, but in the charm of his personality and in his career of varied service.
Achievements
Prominent among liberal Catholics and familiar with European conditions, he became, in Roosevelt’s phrase, “unofficial diplomatic adviser” of three presidents.
Quotations:
“I was always, ” he writes halfjokingly, “devoted to all kinds of ceremonials. ”
Membership
Century Magazine circle
Personality
Egan and his sister spent a pleasant, yet rather bookish and secluded childhood. He inherited his mother’s religious feeling and love of literature, both of which were dominant influences in his life. From his father, Maurice Florent Egan, a handsome Irishman of good family who landed in Philadelphia in 1825 and made his own way, came a democratic spirit, humor, and irrepressible geniality, which found him ever a host of friends. In the son, democracy mingled happily with love of good wine and good food, of both of which he was a connoisseur, and with fondness for good music and good society. “I was always, ” he writes halfjokingly, “devoted to all kinds of ceremonials. ” In this and more important ways, he was admirably fitted for diplomacy.
Connections
After his marriage, in September 1880, to Katharine Mullin of Philadelphia, he lived in Brooklyn, where his three children were born.
