George Smalley

ANGLO-AMERICAN
MEMORIES

GEORGE W. SMALLEY, M.A.

AUTHOR OF "STUDIES OF MEN,"
"LIFE OF SIR SYDNEY WATERLOW," ETC.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1911

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

PREFACE

These Memories were written in the firstinstance for Americans and have appearedweek by week each Sunday in the New YorkTribune. This may be evident enough from theway in which some subjects are dealt with. Butthey must stand in great part as they were writtensince the book is published both in London andNew York.

They are, in some slight degree, autobiographical,but only so far as is necessary to explain myrelations with those men and women of whom I havewritten, or with the great journal, the New YorkTribune, I so long served. But they are mainlyconcerned with men of exceptional mark andposition in America and Europe whom I have met,and with events of which I had some personalknowledge. There is no attempt at a consecutivestory.

LONDON, December, 1910.

Contents

CHAPTER I

New England in 1850—Daniel Webster

CHAPTER II

Massachusetts Puritanism—The Yale Class of 1853

CHAPTER III

Yale Professors—Harvard Law School

CHAPTER IV

How Massachusetts in 1854 Surrendered theFugitive Slave Anthony Burns

CHAPTER V

The American Defoe, Richard Henry Dana, Jr