This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...the social and intellectual atmosphere of the period, and to the distinctness of the figure of Simms moving about in this environment. Particularly original is the chapter which pictures the ' political nightmares" that convulsed the people of South Carolina just before the war, when the blind were leaders of the blind ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...the social and intellectual atmosphere of the period, and to the distinctness of the figure of Simms moving about in this environment. Particularly original is the chapter which pictures the ' political nightmares" that convulsed the people of South Carolina just before the war, when the blind were leaders of the blind; and there is dramatic intensity in the terrible pageant of the war and the horrors of reconstruction. Through these last scenes Simms, an old man with a brave heart, persistently struggled till death overtook him. It was a sorrowful ending of a career; and yet one feels that Professor Trent has allowed the miseries of those last years to color somewhat all that went before. If you carefully sift thus record of what Simms actually accomplished--and look at his fair measure of recognition, his comfortable homes, his circle of friends, his abounding health, and above all.the eas? with which he did his work, you will conclude that, in the main, he led a happy life; that in many things he was peculiarly fortunate (not the least, posthumously, in having such a biographer). For a long period of his life Sinims's chief sorrow seemed to be that he failed to get full appreciation from the exclusive aristocracy of Charleston. But he had many of the most eminent men, North and South, for his friends, and lived in a fine old mansion, with a library of 10,003 volumes, a large plantation around him, and sixty slaves to do his work. There are many successful men of letters in the North to-day who would envy him his "environment," and get along comfortably without the Charleston aristocracy. Droch. THE REFORMED CIRCUS. 'HE late Mr. Barnuin evidently saw that the circus had reached its limitations in the way of strictly circus performances. Som...
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