From Seven to Seventy ❦ [Illustration: EDWARD SIMMONS: IN 1893 ] FROM SEVEN TO SEVENTY Memories of a Painter and a Yankee _By Edward Simmons_ With an Interruption by OLIVER HERFORD FULLY ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] _Publishers_ HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON FROM SEVEN TO SEVENTY Copyright, 1922 By Harper & Brothers Printed in the U. S. A. C-Y CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE INTERRUPTION ix INTRODUCTION.—A YANKEE HERITAGE xiii I. MAKING MY EARLY HISTORY.—CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS 1 II. FINDING MY WINGS.—HARVARD COLLEGE 24 III. IN SEARCH OF A CAREER.—OUT WEST 43 IV. ON BEING A TENDERFOOT.—NORTH OF CALIFORNIA 76 V. ADVENTURES IN ÆSTHETICISM.—PARIS AND STUDENT DAYS 117 VI. THE MIDDLE AGES.—BRITTANY; SPAIN 141 VII. FROM BRETON TO BRITON.—ST. IVES, CORNWALL; LONDON 162 VIII. SUMMER ADVENTURINGS.—I. CARRIÈRE ST. DENISE. II. BARBIZON. III. MONTREUIL. IV. GREZ. V. STUTTGART 184 IX. FIRST DECORATIONS 202 X. DEMOCRACY AND THE FINE ARTS 219 XI. STANFORD WHITE 237 XII. FINE ARTS IN RELATION TO “A NUMBER OF THINGS” 256 XIII. THE PLAYERS 279 XIV. AMERICAN HUMOR 303 XV. PAINT AND PAINTERS 321 XVI. IN RETROSPECT 342