Chapter I: Front Matter

THREE GENERATIONS

THREE
GENERATIONS

BY
MAUD HOWE ELLIOTT

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1923

_Copyright, 1923_,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved_

Published October, 1923

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To
JOHN ELLIOTT

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I TWILIGHT OF THE GODS 3

II THE OWLS 22

III GREEN PEACE 30

IV SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS 46

V UNCLE SAM WARD 64

VI A STAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE 78

VII SANTO DOMINGO 91

VIII NEWPORT 106

IX SOME PAINTERS AND POETS 118

X ENGLAND 138

XI ROME 158

XII EGYPT. PALESTINE. GREECE 174

XIII BOSTON IN THE EIGHTIES 194

XIV THE NEW ORLEANS COTTON CENTENNIAL 204

XV CHICAGO AND BOSTON IN THE NINETIES 217

XVI LONDON IN THE NINETIES 232

XVII ARABIAN DAYS 248

XVIII ARTIST LIFE IN ROME, 1894 256

XIX A YEAR OF TRAVEL 271

XX MY MOTHER’S LAST ROMAN WINTER 283

XXI QUEEN MARGHERITA AT OUR STUDIO 295

XXII BY THE TIBER AND BY THE CHARLES 309

XXIII WASHINGTON IN 1910 331

XXIV THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY 346

XXV THE ART ASSOCIATION OF NEWPORT 367

INDEX 393

ILLUSTRATIONS

MAUD HOWE _Frontispiece_

EDWIN BOOTH 40

UNCLE SAM WARD 68

MY FATHER, DR. SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE 68

DR. HENRY MARION HOWE AND HIS SISTERS 86

EDWARD ASKEW SOTHERN 122

FRANCIS BRET HARTE 128

FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD 166

THE DRAWING ROOM AT 241 BEACON ST. 198

DR. HENRY MARION HOWE 200

MARGARET DELAND 204

JOHN ELLIOTT 216

LAURA E. RICHARDS 254

FLORENCE HOWE HALL 254

MY MOTHER, JULIA WARD HOWE 286

QUEEN MARGHERITA OF ITALY 304

HENRY JAMES 316

MRS. JOHN LOWELL GARDNER 378

THREE GENERATIONS