“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune…. they are mainly concerned with men of exceptional mark and position in America and Europe whom I have met, and with events of which I had some personal knowledge. There is no attempt at a consecutive story.” (Preface) Smalley was an American journalist born in Massachusetts in 1833; he wrote from and about many places in America (including the Civil War) and Europe. - Summary by Book Preface and David Wales
Chapters
1 Preface 1 min 2 New England in 1850, Daniel Webster 16 min 3 Massachusetts Puritanism, The Yale Class of 1853 15 min 4 Yale Professors, Harvard Law School 15 min 5 How Massachusetts in 1854 Surrendered the Fugitive Slave Anthony Burns 19 min 6 The American Defoe, Richard Henry Dana, Jr 16 min 7 A Visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson 18 min 8 Emerson in England, English Traits, Emerson and Matthew Arnold 19 min 9 A Group of Boston Lawyers, Mr. Olney and Venezuela 16 min 10 Wendell Phillips 18 min 11 Wendell Phillips and the Boston Mobs 14 min 12 Wendell Phillips, Governor Andrew, Phillips's Conversion 15 min 13 William Lloyd Garrison, A Critical View 13 min 14 Charles Sumner, A Private View 14 min 15 Experiences as Journalist during the Civil War 12 min 16 Civil War, General McClellan, General Hooker 12 min 17 Civil War, Personal Incidents at Antietam 12 min 18 A Fragment of Unwritten Military History 13 min 19 The New York Draft Riots in 1863, Notes on Journalism 14 min 20 How The Prussians after Sadowa Came Home to Berlin 13 min 21 A Talk with Count Bismarck in 1866 26 min 22 American Diplomacy in England 31 min 23 Two Unaccredited Ambassadors 13 min 24 Some Account of a Revolution in International Journalism 24 min 25 Holt White's Story of Sedan and How it Reached the "New York Tribune" 12 min 26 Great Examples of War Correspondence 12 min 27 A Parenthesis 3 min 28 'Civil War?', Incidents in the 'Eighties, Sir George Trevelyan, Lord Barrymore 11 min 29 Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Alaska Boundary 27 min 30 Annexing Canada, Lady Aberdeen, Lady Minto 11 min 31 Two Governors-General, Lord Minto and Lord Grey 13 min 32 Lord Kitchener, Personal Traits and Incidents 13 min 33 Sir George Lewis, King's Solicitor and Friend, A Social Force 13 min 34 Mr. Mills, A Personal Appreciation and a Few Anecdotes 13 min 35 Lord Randolph Churchill, Being Mostly Personal Impressions 28 min 36 Lord Glenesk and 'The Morning Post' 17 min 37 Queen Victoria at Balmoral, King Edward at Dunrobin, Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton, Other Anecdotes 11 min 38 Famous Englishmen Not in Politics 19 min 39 Lord St. Helier, American and English Methods, Mr. Benjamin 10 min 40 Mrs. Jeune, Lady Jeune, and Lady St. Helier 12 min 41 Lord and Lady Arthur Russell and the 'Salon' in England 18 min 42 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Queen Alexandra 9 min 43 A Scottish Legend 11 min 44 A Personal Reminiscence of the Late Emperor Frederick 12 min 45 Edward the Seventh as Prince of Wales, Personal Incidents; Prince of Wales and King of England, The Personal Side; As King, Some Personal and Social Incidents and Impressions 36 min
