MODERN ITALIAN POETS

ESSAYS AND VERSIONS

By William Dean Howells

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

ARCADIAN SHEPHERDS

GIUSEPPE PARINI

VITTORIO ALFIERI

VINCENZO MONTI AND UGO FOSCOLO

Notes:

ALESSANDRO MANZONI

SILVIO PELLICO, TOMASSO GROSSI, LUIGI CAREER, AND GIOVANNI BERCHET

GIAMBATTISTA NICCOLINI

GIACOMO LEOPARDI

GIUSEPPE GIUSTI

FRANCESCO DALL' ONGARO

GIOVANNI PRATI

ALEARDO ALEARDI

Notes:

GUILIO CARCANO, ARNALDO FUSINATO AND LUIGI MERCANTINI

CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION.

THE SEQUENCE OF MR. HOWELLS'S BOOKS.

A MODERN INSTANCE.

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A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA

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HIS APPARITION

THE ANGEL OF THE LORD

THOUGH ONE ROSE FROM THE DEAD

INTRODUCTION

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Introduction

The Capture of Andy Proudfoot

The Level of Fortune

Pap Overholt

In the Piny Woods

My Fifth in Mammy

An Incident

A Snipe-Hunt

The Courtship of Colonel Bill

The Balance of Power

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

STORIES OF OHIO

I THE ICE FOLK AND THE EARTH FOLK.

IIOHIO AS A PART OF FRANCE.

IIIOHIO BECOMES ENGLISH.

IVTHE FORTY YEARS’ WAR FOR THE WEST.

VTHE CAPTIVITY OF JAMES SMITH

VITHE CAPTIVITY OF BOONE AND KENTON.

VIITHE RENEGADES.

VIIITHE WICKEDEST DEED IN OUR HISTORY.

IXTHE TORTURE OF COLONEL CRAWFORD

XTHE ESCAPE OF KNIGHT AND SLOVER.

XITHE INDIAN WARS AND ST, CLAIR’S DEFEAT.

XIITHE INDIAN WARS AND WAYNE’S VICTORY.

XIIIINDIAN FIGHTERS.

XIVLATER CAPTIVITIES.

XVINDIAN HEROES AND SAGES.

XVILIFE IN THE BACKWOODS.

XVIITHE FIRST GREAT SETTLEMENTS.

XVIIITHE STATE OF OHIO IN THE WAR OF 1812.

XIXA FOOLISH MAN, A PHILOSOPHER, AND A FANATIC.

XXWAYS OUT.

XXITHE FIGHT WITH SLAVERY.

XXIITHE CIVIL WAR IN OHIO

XXIII   FAMOUS OHIO SOLDIERS

XXIVOHIO STATESMEN

XXVOTHER NOTABLE OHIOANS

XVIINCIDENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Stone Axes

Serpent Mound

Pichawillany, Chief Town of the Miamis

Indians Carry off the Women

Indians Delivering up Captives

Indian War Parties Joining the English

Pioneers

Indian Baptism of James Smith

An Indian Prayer

Daniel Boone Shooting With the Indians

Kenton and Girty

Simon Girty

Massacre of the Christian Indians by The Whites

Execution of Crawford

Knight Escapes

The Defeat of St. Clair

The Escape of Kennan

St. Clair’s Defeat

A White Indian

Wetzel, Indian Fighter

Bearskin Cap on a Ramrod

Brickell Leaves his Indian Father

Alder Returns to his Family

Logan’s Elm

Tecumseh

Tomahawk

Ohio Cabin

Lost in the Woods

Marrieta, Ohio

Admiral Perry on Lake Erie

Aarun Burr and Blennerhassett

Johnny Appleseed

Proclaimed Himself the Lord Jesus Christ

Governor Clinton

Early Railroad

Steamboat Explosion

Indian Evacuation by River

Slavery Issue

John Brown Making Pikes for Slaves

John Morgan Invades Ohio in 1863

Hiding With the Pigs

A Copperhead Walks With General Morgan

Rutherford Hayes

William Tecumseh Sherman

General George A. Custer

James A. Garfield

General Phillip H. Sheridan

Benjamin Harrison

Salmon P. Chase

John Sherman

William Mckinley

Thomas Corwin

Thomas A. Edison

Whitelaw Reid

Harriet Beecher Stowe

George Kennan

ILLUSTRATIONS

• Their joint study of her dancing-card did not help them out
• A lively matron, of as youthful a temperament as the lively girls she brought in her train, burst upon them
• “She shook her head, and said,... ‘Nobody has been here, except—’”
• “No burglar could have missed me if he had wanted an easy mark”
• “‘You shall not say that!’”
• “She glared at editha. ‘What you got that black on for?’”

I. UP THE SAGUENAY.
II. MRS. ELLISON'S LITTLE MANEUVRE.
III. ON THE WAY BACK TO QUEBEC.
IV. MR. ARBUTON'S INSPIRATION.
V. MR. ARBUTON MAKES HIMSELF AGREEABLE.
VI. A LETTER OF KITTY'S.
VII. LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM.
VIII. NEXT MORNING.
IX. MR. ARBUTON'S INFATUATION.
X. MR. ARBUTON SPEAKS.
XI. KITTY ANSWERS.
XII. THE PICNIC AT CHATEAU-BIGOT.
XIII. ORDEAL.
XIV. AFTERWARDS.