[Illustration: George Smalley] ANGLO-AMERICAN MEMORIES BY 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 Copyright, 1911 BY GEORGE W. SMALLEY The Knickerbocker Press, New York PREFACE These Memories were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the _New York Tribune_. This may be evident enough from the way in which some subjects are dealt with. But they must stand in great part as they were written since the book is published both in London and New York. They are, in some slight degree, autobiographical, but only so far as is necessary to explain my relations with those men and women of whom I have written, or with the great journal, the _New York Tribune_, I so long served. But they are mainly concerned with men of exceptional mark and position in America and Europe whom I have met, and with events of which I had some personal knowledge. There is no attempt at a consecutive story. 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 the Fugitive Slave Anthony Burns CHAPTER V The American Defoe, Richard Henry Dana, Jr CHAPTER VI A Visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson CHAPTER VII Emerson in England--English Traits--Emerson and Matthew Arnold CHAPTER VIII A Group of Boston Lawyers--Mr. Olney and Venezuela CHAPTER IX Wendell Phillips CHAPTER X Wendell Phillips and the Boston Mobs CHAPTER XI Wendell Phillips--Governor Andrew--Phillips's Conversion CHAPTER XII William Lloyd Garrison--A Critical View CHAPTER XIII Charles Sumner--A Private View CHAPTER XIV Experiences as Journalist during the Civil War CHAPTER XV Civil War--General McClellan--General Hooker CHAPTER XVI Civil War--Personal Incidents at Antietam CHAPTER XVII A Fragment of Unwritten Military History CHAPTER XVIII The New York Draft Riots in 1863--Notes on Journalism CHAPTER XIX How The Prussians after Sadowa Came Home to Berlin CHAPTER XX A Talk with Count Bismarck in 1866 CHAPTER XXI American Diplomacy in England CHAPTER XXII Two Unaccredited Ambassadors CHAPTER XXIII Some Account of a Revolution in International Journalism CHAPTER XXIV Holt White's Story of Sedan and How it Reached the "New York Tribune" CHAPTER XXV Great Examples of War Correspondence CHAPTER XXVI A Parenthesis CHAPTER XXVII "Civil War?"--Incidents in the 'Eighties--Sir George Trevelyan--Lord Barrymore CHAPTER XXVIII Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Alaska Boundary CHAPTER XXIX Annexing Canada--Lady Aberdeen--Lady Minto CHAPTER XXX Two Governors-General, Lord Minto and Lord Grey CHAPTER XXXI Lord Kitchener--Personal Traits and Incidents