![]() Curtis's birth back to Bohemia, and carried him at an early age to Jerusalem, where Curtis was said to have laid the foundations of his fame and fortune peddling suspenders. Through an actor of the same name who some years before made quite a reputation as Samuel of Posen, he traced Mr. Curtis was a marvel of waggish invention. Curtis executed his sketch of Field in good faith Field's sketch of Mr. Curtis, the noted Washington correspondent, should write each the other's biography for the series. It was arranged that Field and William E. He set little store by genius, as he tells us in one of his letters, and less by "that nonsense called useful knowledge." His peculiar notions as to the field of biography were once illustrated in one he furnished to a New York firm, which proposed a series of biographies of well-known newspaper writers. Relate how I was born of rich yet honest parents, was reared in the 'nurture and admonition of the Lord,' and, according to the bent of a froward youth, have stumbled along to become the cynosure of a ribald age."įield's idea of a perfect memoir was that it should contain no facts that might interfere with its being novel and interesting reading both to the public and its subject. How I love little children and elderly spinsters. "Tell your sister for me," I recall his saying, "what a kind, good, and deserving man I am. From title-page to colophon-on which he would have insisted-the book would have been one studied effort to quiz and queer (a favorite word of his) the innocent and willing-to-be-deluded reader. If he had undertaken to write his own life, as was once his intention, it would probably have been the most remarkable work of fiction by an American author that ever masqueraded in the quaker garments of fact. He would think more of making it reflect the odd personality of the man than rehearse the birth, development, daily life, and works of the author. Not as other memoirs are written would Eugene Field, were he alive, have this study of his life. With Portraits, Views and Fac-Simile Illustrations Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EUGENE FIELD, VOL. With this eBook or online at Title: Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity and Contradictions, Volume I, by Slason Thompson
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