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The Holy Cross, And Other Tales; Volume 5 Of The Writings In Prose And Verse Of Eugene Field; Eugene Field
Eugene Field, Roswell Martin Field, Horace
C. Scribner's Sons, 1896
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Roswell Martin Field youngest of the six children of Roswell Martin and Frances (Reed) Field, was born in St. Louis and died at his home in Morristown, New Jersey. His father, descended from Zechariah Field, who came to Massachusetts from England about 1629, went to college and studied law in New England, and in 1839 removed to Missouri. Roswell’s mother, though living in St. Louis at the time of her marriage, was also of New England origin. W'hen she died in 1856, the boy and his brother Eugene, a year older than himself, were sent to live with their father’s niece, Miss Mary Field French, in Amherst, Mass. , and their grandmother in Newfane, Vermont.
Education
Roswell was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at the University of Missouri; and he studied law in Vermont in the office of his uncle, Charles Kellogg Field.
Career
Perhaps the chief hero held up before him in his youth was Oliver Cromwell, and he seems always to have been affected by the Cromwellian seriousness. In 1874 he was still enough stirred by his college fraternity ritual to compose for a grand convention of Phi Kappa Psi a poem celebrating love among the brethren and the grief of all of them upon the death of any.
Far later than 1874, he nerved himself, in spite of his devoted love for his brother Eugene, to reprimand him for attempting always to be humorous. On the death of their father in 1869, the two brothers inherited an assured livelihood. Roswell soon put an end to his formal education, and went into journalism. Generally in an editorial capacity, he worked in San Francisco, in St. Louis, and in Kansas City.
Later he worked on newspapers in New York and Chicago, and in the latter city for about fourteen years he conducted in the Post a column called Lights and Shadows. ” He retired six years prior to his death. Beginning in 1891 he published a number of books—-first, in collaboration with his brother Eugene, Echoes from the Sabine harm, a series of verse translations from Horace.
In Sunflower Land, Stories of God’s Own Country (1892), is made up of sketches of village and farm life in Missouri and Kansas, mostly sentimental, but with touches of humor and realism, lie wrote a memoir of his brother prefixed to A Little Rook of Western Verse, the first volume of the ‘‘Sabine Edition” of Eugene Field’s collected works published in 1896.
The Muses Up to Date (1897) comprises six plays for children written by Roswell Field and his wife. Part rhyme and part prose, they are directed in general, as the authors explain in their preface, toward the goal of “plenty to do and little to say. ”
The Romance of an Old Fool (1902) rehearses what came near being a love affair between January and May, but was shifted to a more seemly affair between May and June. The Bondage of Ballinger (1903), and Little Miss Dee (1904) are conventional novelettes showing how young love and antique virtue go hand in hand, but Madeline (1906) is concerned, after the manner of medieval romance, with the affairs of Sir Dives, who finds joy at last as a book collector, and of his poor relation Madeline and his friend Master Pauper, both of whom, after a short moment of matrimony, find joy at last “in the flowering meadow and along the pleasant stream” of Heaven (Madeline, p. 104).