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Chapter VIII: Preface: Stories of Ohio

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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

BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE DAYLIGHT Romances by W.D. Howells 1907 CONTENTS CHAP.

A Sleep and a Forgetting
The Eidolons of Brooks Alford
A Memory that Worked Overtime
A Case of Metaphantasmia
Editha
Braybridge’s Offer
The Chick of the Easter Egg

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?’”

A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE. BY W. D. HOWELLS. 1873. CONTENTS

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.

A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN BY W. D. HOWELLS ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1893 CONTENTS

First Paper Second Paper ILLUSTRATIONS

Tourists at Montreux

Sign of the White Cross Inn

Entrance to Villeneuve

Post-office, Villeneuve

The Castle of Chillon

A Railroad Servant

A Bit of Villeneuve

The Prisoner of Chillon

One of the Fountains

"They helped to make the hay in the marshes"

Cattle at the Fountains

Washing Clothes in the Lake

Flirtation at the Fountains

The Wine-press

Castle of Aigle

The Market at Vevay

The Market, Vevay—A Bargain before the Notary

Germans at Montreux

Church Terrace, Montreux

Tour up the Lake

A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS By W. D. Howells CONTENTS

A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS THE PURSUIT OF THE PIANO. A DIFFICULT CASE. THE MAGIC OF A VOICE. A CIRCLE IN THE WATER.

THE STORY OF A PLAY A Novel BY W. D. HOWELLS 1898 CONTENTS CHAPTER I.

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