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"Nothing he ever wrote can be more tender than the reminiscences of this year spent in a log cabin somewhere in Ohio." -Book News Monthly, 1894" Beside the perennial charm of Mr. Howells' style, it has the fascination inherent in all such self-revelation from a writer one knows and loves." - The Literary World, 1893In his 1893 book "My Year in a Log Cabin" William Dean Howells gives another fragment of his early life. The log-cabin was situated on the Miami River, and Mr. Howells' father went there to take charge of a saw-mill and grist-mill for his brothers, who intended to start a paper-mill. All this happened in 1850, and so Mr. Howells came to have some experience of all the interesting features of the nowforgotten frontier life, even then beginning to give way before advancing civilization.The incidents are commonplaces, the country pigs and geese, squirrel shooting, the feigned lameness by which mother quail and mother ducks divert harm from their young, imaginary ghosts, and imaginary Indians. Yet Mr. Howells' style is, as always, far from commonplace. His skillful telling gives these incidents the charm of art. No better evidence could be offered of the genuine sympathy, humor and pathos, with which he makes his most literal transcripts from life.About the author: William Dean Howells (1837 –1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria.Other works by the author include: •Modern Italian Poets •Venetian Life •Italian Journeys •Suburban Sketches •Their Wedding Journey •A Chance Acquaintance •A Foregone Conclusion •A Day's Pleasure •The Parlor Car•A Counterfeit Presentment•Out of the Question •The Lady of The Aroostook •The Undiscovered Country•A Modern Instance•A Fearful Responsibility •Dr. Breen's Practice•A Day's Pleasure•Out of the Question•A Woman's Reason•The Sleeping Car•Niagara Revisited •Three Villages•The Register•Tuscan Cities•The Rise of Silas Lapham •A Sea-Change, or, Love's Stowaway•The Elevator: A Farce •Indian Summer •The Garroters•The Minister's Charge•Modern Italian Poets•April Hopes•A Sea-Change•The Mouse-Trap •Annie Kilburn•A Hazard of New Fortunes•The Shadow of a Dream•A Boy's Town•An Imperative Duty •The Quality of Mercy•The Albany Depot •A Little Swiss Sojourn •A Letter of Introduction•The World of Chance •The Unexpected Guest •My Year in a Log Cabin•Christmas Every Day•The Coast of Bohemia•Evening Dress•A Traveler from Altruria•My Literary Passions •Stops of Various Quills •A Parting and a Meeting•Impressions and Experiences •Stories of Ohio •The Landlord At Lion's Head •An Open-Eyed Conspiracy•A Previous Engagement•The Story of a Play•Ragged Lady•Their Silver Wedding Journey •An Indian Giver•Bride Roses•Literary Friends and Acquaintance

In the fall of the year 1850 my father removed with his family from the city of D——, where we had been living, to a property on the Little Miami River, to take charge of a saw-mill and grist-mill, and superintend their never-accomplished transformation into paper-mills. The property belonged to his brothers—physicians and druggists—who were to follow later, when they had disposed of their business in town. My father left a disastrous newspaper enterprise behind him when he came out to apply his mechanical taste and his knowledge of farming to the care of their place. Early in the century his parents had brought him to Ohio from Wales, and his boyhood was passed in the new country, where pioneer customs and traditions were still rife, and for him it was like renewing the wild romance of those days to take up once more the life in a log-cabin interrupted by forty years’ sojourn in matter-of-fact dwellings of frame and brick. He had a passion for nature as tender and genuine and as deeply moralized as that of the English poets, by whom it had been nourished; and he taught us children all that he felt for the woods and fields and open skies; all our walks had led into them and under them. It was the fond dream of his boys to realize the trials and privations which he had painted for them in such rosy hues, and even if the only clap-boarded dwelling on the property had not been occupied by the miller, we should have disdained it for the log-cabin in which we took up our home till we could build a new house. Our cabin stood close upon the road, but behind it broadened a cornfield of eighty acres. They still built log-cabins for dwellings in that region forty years ago, but ours must have been nearly half a century old when we went into it. It had been recently vacated by an old Virginian couple, who had long occupied it, and we decided that it needed some repairs to make it habitable even for a family inured to hardship by dauntless imaginations, and accustomed to retrospective discomforts of every kind.

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Excerpt from My Year in a Log CabinHe had a passion for nature as tender and genuine and as deeply moralized as that Of the English poets, by whom it had been nourished; and he taught us chil dren all that he felt for the woods and fields and Open skies; all our walks had led into them and under them. It was the fond dream of his boys to realize the trials and privations which he had painted for them in such rosy hues, and even if the only clap-boarded dwelling on the property had not been occupied by the miller, we should have disdained it for the log-cabin in which we took up our home till we could build a new house.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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