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The guns of the second action of Bull Run growled a farewell to me as I resigned my horse and equipments to a successor. With a trifle of money, I took passage on a steamer, and landed at Liverpool on the first of October, 1862. Among my acquaintances upon the ship was a semi-literary adventurer from New England.
There is hardly anything less admirable to a reasonable creature than the assemblage at stated times of a number of semi-literary people to potter over Shakespeare and display before each other their second-hand enthusiasm about "the bard of Avon," as they generally delight to call him.
The Adamses may be said to have succeeded the Eameses as leaders in semi-social, semi-literary and semi-political society. There was a trio I used to call them the Three Musketeers of Culture John Hay, Henry Cabot Lodge and Henry Adams.
Not many great things happened to Mark Twain during this long period of semi-literary inaction, but many interesting ones. When Bill Nye, the humorist, and James Whitcomb Riley joined themselves in an entertainment combination, Mark Twain introduced them to their first Boston audience a great event to them, and to Boston. Clemens himself gave a reading now and then, but not for money.
Among the most reverently considered in this sanctified group, Mrs. Gannat was, if not first, the conceded equal. She was the dowager of the ancient noblesse. The young Virginian received in her drawing-rooms carried away a distinction which was recognized throughout the State. The dame admitted to Mrs. Gannat's semi-literary leveés was accepted as all that society demanded of its votaries.
He is quite certain about Charlotte anyhow; she could not have "arrived" had she not met M. Héger. "She went," he says, "to Brussels full of the crude ambitions, the semi-literary impulses that are so common on the fringe of the writing world.
It was an age of intellectual idlers, when men and women, having nothing to do, spent their time in salons, and learned the art of conversation, which was followed by the art of letter-writing. To reach the salons of semi-literary and semi-fashionable people, where rank and wealth were balanced by wit, became the desire of the young Mademoiselle d'Aubigné.
All this means a new opportunity for the farm woman. The Grange is an organization, and its members gain all the development that comes from engaging in the work required to maintain a semi-literary and social organization.
The Adamses may be said to have succeeded the Eameses as leaders in semi-social, semi-literary and semi-political society. There was a trio I used to call them the Three Musketeers of Culture John Hay, Henry Cabot Lodge and Henry Adams.
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