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St. Andrews (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 15
c jaw—eyes and mouth full of mobility and sensitiveness, the most winning voice and manner, as much American as English, and speaking so nobly and sweetly and humanly. I never felt more the power of the Roman Catholic Church than in seeing how it evolves its man and keeps the type. May 18. I went to a reception at Mr. Martineau's (James) chiefly his students and parishioners. . . . It was rather stiffish and the person I liked best was a very pleasing young Professor, Knight of St. Andrew's (Scotland) who to my surprise had my Epictetus and knew all about it. To the interesting trial of Mrs. Besant's claim to her child—a case between a Christian husband (clergyman) and an atheist wife, to be tried before a Jewish magistrate on the Jewish Sabbath . . . . It was strange waiting in the Court and seeing the wigged barristers come in. Conway says the wig is a survival of the patriarchal idea of seniority, to give a symbolical age to all concerned in administering justice. Several
Newport, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
where he represented his old University of Harvard. A little time afterward I was visiting the Mayor of Winchester and describing the Alfred celebration, he said, There was an American named Higginson who made quite the speech of the occasion, and he added, Rosebery and he were the speakers, and the rest were nowhere. This record of journeys would be incomplete without some account of two visits to the Southern States. In the winter of 1878, while Colonel Higginson's home was still in Newport, he revisited his old haunts at the South. He wrote to his sister that their Virginia cousins gave such interesting accounts of their war life, when the two sides alternately occupied Culpeper; and when either [garrison] left, they hurried to the camp for boxes of hard-bread or salt left behind. They liked to have a garrison there, for they always lived better and the soldiers almost always behaved well. They were months without bread—living on potatoes, squashes and milk and sometime
Lake City (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
old) because she was used to sitting by poets. He said, She will wish to give me my tea with a spoon! and managed to have the arrangement changed, and an unprofessional neighbor substituted. Both she and the son spoke strongly of the practical character of Browning and said he was always ready to help every one, while Tennyson lived more in the clouds; but they testified to the unbroken friendship between the poets. In July we were back in England, dipping into Wales and exploring the Lake region. From Grasmere Colonel Higginson wrote:— My wife and I drove out to Rydal Mount, Wordsworth's later home, and as we stood looking through the gate a very pleasing man came from among the rosebushes and asked if we would not like to see the place. As we entered I told him that I had heard with pleasure that Rydal Mount was again occupied by some of the Wordsworth family. When I said that I had heard it from the present William Wordsworth at Capri my host became quite interested
Russia (Russia) (search for this): chapter 15
attractive woman and a most adoring wife of a loving husband. There is something un-English about Arnold, perhaps from his long life in the East and his poetic nature. He is delightful when not talking politics, but there he is so vehement as to be a little fatiguing though always in a gentle, graceful way. He is a small man with a pleasing face. . . . He is somewhat egotistic about the Telegraph which has brought all England round to it he thinks and perhaps it is true—says The Empire of Russia is an anachronism which I hope to destroy. He claims to be liberal and even radical, but thinks the thing now to be done is to save the colonial empire which only Beaconsfield can do. He thinks that Beaconsfield is not selfish, or vain in a petty way, but has a sublime self confidence and thinks he (B.) alone can save this nation of stupid snub-nosed Englishmen —and A. seems to think the same of Beaconsfield's policy. To save the British Empire from the Russians is to Arnold like saving Ro
Vesuvius (Italy) (search for this): chapter 15
r. In the journey of 1901, we sailed direct for Italy, and from Castellamare Colonel Higginson wrote:— Our visits to Madeira, Gibraltar, Tangier and Granada were perfectly successful and each of them worth crossing the ocean for. At Granada we lived close to the Alhambra and found it more beautiful even than we had imagined, especially the ceilings of the rooms which were carved and colored like a celestial bee hive. . .. We are spending a week at this beautiful place. Vesuvius is only a few miles away; between us and it stretches a beach of exquisite curve, with a slight line of surf. Behind it lies a level plain and a long row of grayish houses, and this is Pompeii. Think of seeing Pompeii at last! From the same place his family reported:— He suffers very much from not being allowed to tip everybody; but after being suppressed all the time in Tangier, on our way to the boat there a handsome little Moorish girl smiled on him, and walked along with him
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
of Colonel Higginson's war experience, he felt a little doubtful as to his reception by Southerners. To find that he was known through his books,—many of which were in Southern libraries—rather than as leader of a black regiment was a delightful surprise. People hardly seem to remember the war at all, he wrote. Never in my life have I been received so warmly and everywhere I have found my books well known, one private school even using my Young Folks History, and one schoolmaster in South Carolina holding my Epictetus to be next to the Bible. To find that certain Southern libraries had been sadly injured in the Civil War appealed to Colonel Higginson's sense of justice; and he interested his friends in replenishing the vacant shelves, contributing many books from his own library. Both white and colored schools were visited on this trip, but Booker Washington's Institution at Tuskegee and the Calhoun school, of which Colonel Higginson was a trustee, were of especial interest
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
trikes now going on at the North, and they all laughed and applauded. In June Colonel Higginson was in Oxford on Commemoration Day and lunched with the new D. C.L's and their wives and other notabilities, a grand affair in the beautiful hall of All Souls College. I sat between Bryce and Mrs. Spottiswode, wife of one of the new D. C.L's, and opposite a young Lord Donoughmore, whose name delighted me because I thought of the statues of Haythen goddesses most rare Homer, Venus and Nebuchadnezzar All standing naked in the open air. The song says of them farther that they are all second cousin to My Lord Donoughmore and here was the real youth. He we have been here twenty-four hours .. . The librarian of the great Bodleian library remembered me twenty-five years ago and says I ought to have had a degree of D. C.L. in place of some of the Colonial premiers. He spent a Sunday at Stratford and wrote:— I went to Shakespeare's church, a lovely place, and there was a v
Jacksonville (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ter and the soldiers almost always behaved well. They were months without bread—living on potatoes, squashes and milk and sometimes even wild onions and garlic and boiled clover. It was so strange, he wrote from Florida, to touch at Jacksonville as a quiet passenger, where I could once have burned the city with a word. However, greatness is always appreciated and a man came on board with a message for the steamboat Captain and insisted on delivering it to me. I have n't had such an hman . . . . Colored church in evening with just such shouting as we used to have in my regiment—I feared it was all gone. Things are so little changed to the eye, it is almost incredible that fifteen years have passed. I have been down to Jacksonville for the day, he wrote from Magnolia. I said in my Army Life that I should feel like a Rip Van Winkle who once wore uniform—but it went beyond my dreams in that way. The city I had last seen deserted and in flames, I found made over into a<
Liberia (Liberia) (search for this): chapter 15
was very interesting and called out strong character and ready speaking. I was on the committee too to draft the Constitution which differs somewhat from our Free Religious Association (as does the name Association of Liberal Thinkers). The best known people in it were Voysey (a small and narrow soul who got alarmed and withdrew), Leslie Stephen (who married Miss Thackeray), Stuart Glennie (who wrote the account of Buckle's Eastern travels), G. J. Holyoke (veteran radical), Mr. Blyden of Liberia (black and Mohammedan who has written on that subject in Fraser), Mrs. Rose (formerly of N. Y.), A. J. Eyres the philologist, and various Unitarian ministers. I spoke several times and twice succeeded in allaying incipient contests by suggesting phrases that reconciled different opinions, so that one speaker proposed to send me as arbitrator to reconcile the strikes now going on at the North, and they all laughed and applauded. In June Colonel Higginson was in Oxford on Commemoration D
Magnolia, Fla. (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ss is always appreciated and a man came on board with a message for the steamboat Captain and insisted on delivering it to me. I have n't had such an honor since my little nephew took me (in uniform) for a policeman . . . . Colored church in evening with just such shouting as we used to have in my regiment—I feared it was all gone. Things are so little changed to the eye, it is almost incredible that fifteen years have passed. I have been down to Jacksonville for the day, he wrote from Magnolia. I said in my Army Life that I should feel like a Rip Van Winkle who once wore uniform—but it went beyond my dreams in that way. The city I had last seen deserted and in flames, I found made over into a summer paradise. . . . I was alone with my ghosts of fifteen years ago and got a horse and went wandering round, searching for my past. The forts we built were levelled, only a furrow here and there in the ground. Where we made a lookout in a steeple, there was the church, but with a
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