Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Recollections of a Varied Life
Mr. Howells once said to me: Every man's life is interesting - to himself.
I suppose that is true, though in the cases of some men it seems a difficult thing to understand.
At any rate it is not because of personal interest in my own life that I am writing this book. I was perfectly sincere in wanting to call these chapters The Auto biography of an Unimportant Man, but on re?ection I remembered Franklin's wise saying that whenever he saw the phrase without vanity I may say, some peculiarly vain thing was sure to follow.
I am seventy years old. My life has been one of unusually varied activity. It has covered half the period embraced in the republic's existence. It has afforded me opportunity to see and share that development of physical, intellectual, and moral life conditions, which has been perhaps the most marvelous recorded in the history of mankind.
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