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Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2

by Moncure Daniel CONWAY (1832 - 1907)

Chapter 34 part 1 - Ruskin - Carlyle and Ruskin - Ruskin’s lectures - Contemporary art - “A Caution to Snakes” - The Rossettis - Dante Rossetti’s “Nonsense Verses” - Rossetti’s “Mary Virgin”

Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the years from the US Civil War to roughly 1904. (Summary by JoeD)

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Listen next episodes of Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2:
Chapter 34 part 2 - “Mary Magdalene” - Rev.Dr. Storrs - “The Gate of Memory” - Dante and Beatrice - “The fall of the leaf” - Religion and Preraphaelists - Holman Hunt - Ford and Oliver Madox Brown , Chapter 35 part 1 - “Artimus Ward” - Tom Robertson - Allingham - Mrs. Allingham and Carlyle - Charles Dickens , Chapter 35 part 2 - Mark Twain - Lord Lytton - Church and Stage Guild - Toole - Joseph Jefferson - the “Daily News” - U.S. Minister Johnson - Motley - Sir Henry Taylor - Lady Taylor - Wordsworth and Tennyson , Chapter 35 part 3 - Mrs. Call and George Eliot - Mrs. Bray of Coventry - Emerson - Omar Khayyam Club - Edward Fitzgerald - George Eliot and G.H. Lewes - Mark Twain in London - Dr. and Mrs. Humphrey Sandwith , Chapter 36 part 1 - Paris - Exposition 1867 - Emperor and Empress - Maximilian - July 4 - Tallandier - Ledru Rollin - Louis Blanc - Anti-Russian feeling , Chapter 36 part 2 - Stockholm - St. Petersburg - Moscow - Professor Buslaef - Eugene Schuyler - Baronial hospitality - Among the peasants - Traveling with the Czar - Nijni-Novgorod Fair , Chapter 37 - London scientific circle - Fossil man - Kent’s Cave - A phenomenal mummy - The burial of Lyell in the Abbey - Sir William Grove - Professor Tyndall - Professor Huxley - Sir Joseph and Lady Hooker - Scientific maidens - My Glastonbury thorn - A geological ramble in the Weald , Chapter 38 part 1 - James Anthony Froude - Working with Froude on “Fraser’s magazine” - His early experiences-Letters of Froude - Scepticism - Experiences in Ireland - Froude’s biography of Carlyle , Chapter 38 part 2 - The funeral of Carlyle - Two serious errors in the biography of Carlyle - Impressions of Mrs. Carlyle - My love of Froude , Chapter 39 part 1 - Belgium at the outbreak of the Franco-German war (1870) - Paris and the theatrical war - Strasburg camps - Basle - The International League - Freiburg - The female telegraph corps , Chapter 39 part 2 - Rastadt, Carlsruhe, in war time - The King and Bismarck at St. Avold - The battle of Gravelotte - Otto Gunther - A dreadful night - Travelling on the car roof -“Bonaparte in Hell” , Chapter 40 - The fete of victory at Berlin - Barbarossa tableaux at the opera - Fran Lewald - Lepsius and his circle - Curtius - Wagner’s “Rienzi” at Munich - Kaulbach - Rev. Thomas Arnold the younger - George Meredith , Chapter 41 part 1 - First visit to Rome - An effaced fresco - Catholic piety - Signor Rosa - General Sherman - Hiram Powers - Professor Villari - Trouville - George Sand - “Republican Superstitions” - The French Constitution - French “Communards” in London , Chapter 41 part 2 - Elie Réclus - General De Cecilia - The dead Napoleon - Battlefields revisited - Henry Bacon - The centenary of Voltaire at Paris - Visit to Victor Hugo - The menace of war in England (1878) - Letter from Gladstone , Chapter 42 - George Peabody - Sir Sydney Waterlow - “Fairseat” and “Lauderdale” houses - Julia Ward Howe in London - Professor Seeley - Mrs. Duncan Maclaren - Garrison at a woman suffrage meeting in London - The poet R.H. Horne , Chapter 43 - Visit to America - Washington - Welcome in Virginia - Cinders of the War - Visit to our family Negroes in Yellow Springs - A colored folks’ banquet - My lecture on Demonology - visions of the devil - Lecturing in the West , Chapter 44 - Max Müller at Oxford - His services to mankind - His tolerance - Max Müller and the phonograph - Personal traits - Extracts from letters - Professor Whitney - Bayard Taylor meets Max Müller , Chapter 45 part 1 - Dr. Jowett at Balliol, 1863 - The national Church - Bishop Tait and Martineau - Matthew Arnold - Rev. Stopford Brooke - The English clergy , Chapter 45 part 2 - A walk with Rev. Phillips Brooks and Dean Stanley in Westminster Abbey - Bishop Colenso - “The Sacred Anthology” - “Vox Populi” - Max Müller and my Anthology - “The Earthward Pilgrimage” , Chapter 46 part 1 - Anthropology - Museum at Oxford - Admission of women to membership of the Anthropological Institute - Hunting for flint arrows - ancient coins - Exploring barrows - Contemporary Stone and bronze Ages - Faraday , Chapter 46 part 2 - Helmholtz in London - Psychological wonders - A.J. Ellis on language - J.M. Spear - London school for spirit mediums - Irvingites and their heretics - George Macdonald as Bunyan’s Christian , Chapter 47 part 1 - Sorby and the spectrum - An excursion with Herbert Spencer - Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) - A strange sect in Scotland - A Dutch criticism on my ministry - My “Earthward Pilgrimage” , Chapter 47 part 2 - A visit to Darwin - Darwin in his garden and laboratory - Blank misgivings - The funeral of Darwin - A French Catholic on Darwinism - Science and ethics - The popular reverence for science , Chapter 48 part 1 - Residence at Hamlet House - Sir Charles and Lady Dilke - W.L. Garrison’s visit - Ex-President Grant in London - Wagner in London - “Hugh Conway” - Ballad of Bedford Park , Chapter 48 part 2 - Edwin Abbey - Cambridge University - Minister Lowell and Selwyn College - Karl Pearson’s Passion Play - Positivist festivals - Dr. Congreve - Frederic Harrison and his wife - Frederic Harrison , Chapter 49 part 1 - London as Mars Hill - Professor Clifford’s apostolate - The Liberal Congress - Clifford’s notes for the congress - The Association - Mohammed Bakher - “Ion’s cartoon of the National Church , Chapter 49 part 2 - The death of Clifford - The Church and Freethought Congresses in England - Dr. Ludwig Buchner - Max Müller on Atheism - Renan in London - The Channing Centenary - Kuenen’s lectures in London , Chapter 50 - Carlyle-Emerson letters - Their theft - Their recovery - Letter from Sir James Stephen - Letter from Emerson , Chapter 51 part 1 - Memoranda - Sara Hennell and George Eliot - Berlin - Herman Grimm - Bismark - Hon. Alphonzo Taft in Russia - A saying of Jesus , Chapter 51 part 2 - The mythical pall-bearer of Shakespeare - “Prisons of Air” - “Edmund Randolph” - Historic studies - Andrew Carnegie - Helen Jackson - “Life of Hawthorne” - Thomas Davidson - Rome - Centenary of South Palace chapel , Chapter 51 part 3 - Life of Thomas Paine - Personal liberty - Letters from Herbert Spencer - My wife’s death - Translating my “Paine” into French - Letter from Frances Power Cobbe , Chapter 51 part 4 - Hawthorne centennial at Concord - Paris as a haven of the disillusioned