The Project Gutenberg EBook of Literary Boston, by William Dean HowellsThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Literary Boston From "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"Author: William Dean HowellsRelease Date: October 22, 2004 [EBook #3396]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITERARY BOSTON ***Produced by David WidgerLITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES—Literary Boston As I Knew Itby William Dean HowellsLITERARY BOSTON AS I KNEW ITAmong my fellow-passengers on the train from New York to Boston, when I went to begin my work there in 1866, as theassistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was the late Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, who created in asubordinate city a journal of metropolitan importance. I had met him in Venice several years earlier, when he wassuffering from the cruel insomnia which had followed his overwork on that newspaper, and when he told me that he wassleeping scarcely more than one hour out of the twenty-four. His worn face attested the misery which this must have been,and which lasted in some measure while he lived, though I believe that rest and travel relieved him in his later years. Hewas always a man of cordial friendliness, and he now expressed a most gratifying interest when I told ...
LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES—Literary Boston As I Knew It by William Dean Howells
Title: Literary Boston From "Literary Friends And Acquaintances" Author: William Dean Howells Release Date: October 22, 2004 [EBook #3396] Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITERARY BOSTON ***
LITERARY BOSTON AS I KNEW IT Among my fellow-passengers on the train from New York to Boston, when I went to begin my work there in 1866, as the assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was the late Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, who created in a subordinate city a journal of metropolitan importance. I had met him in Venice several years earlier, when he was suffering from the cruel insomnia which had followed his overwork on that newspaper, and when he told me that he was sleeping scarcely more than one hour out of the twenty-four. His worn face attested the misery which this must have been, and which lasted in some measure while he lived, though I believe that rest and travel relieved him in his later years. He was always a man of cordial friendliness, and he now expressed a most gratifying interest when I told him what I was going to do in Boston. He gave himself the pleasure of descanting upon the dramatic quality of the fact that a young newspaper man from Ohio was about to share in the destinies of the great literary periodical of New England.