Selections From the Miscellaneous Writings of Dr. George W. Bagby (Volume 1) - Softcover

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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. 1884. Excerpt: ... that sat in the council, looking steadfastly at him,, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel." During this period he composed and delivered several of his best lectures,--" The Old Virginia Gentleman" and " The Virginia Negro" The latter was intended for delivery North; but he found, after a brief but sufficient experience, that the North thought they knew more of the negro than he did. Returning, he wrote the most merry and exquisite of all his creations,--"Meekinses' Twinses"--a fiction founded upon fact. Mr. Meekins acquired in a week as wide an acquaintance as Mr. Addums in a dozen years; and the feed sto' in Rocketts had as good a title to a place in the limbus of genius as the "Old Curiosity Shop," or the City Mildendo. Hereabouts also belongs the sketch which has given him his widest and most graven fame,--the sketch of "Rubenstein at the Piano" which Mr. Watterson has admitted into his compilation of Southern humor, and which is found already in many "Readers." I am told it has been translated into a German musical magazine. It has always reminded me, in structurer--though the themes are wide enough apart,--of the "Dream Fugue" attached to De Quincey's " Vision of Sudden Death." After these writings, Dr. Bagby made for the State newspaper, then edited by Capt. John Hampden Chamberlayne, (brother of his wife, and one of the brightest and best of the knights whose accolade was given on the two fields of battle and labor), a trip through Virginia, describing each stage in letters, whose power of paint and of thought surpassed any production of the kind in the history of Virginianjournalism. A like series of letters, entitled, "New England Through the Back Door" written for the BaltimoreSun, gave us a Yankee-land more gracious, fresh and gen...