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Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great (1); By Elbert Hubbard
Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great By Elbert Hubbard - 1 Author:Elbert Hubbard Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Subjects: Authors, English Art / Criticism Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Philosophy / Metaph... more »ysics Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: As the aloe is said to flower only once in a hundred years, so it seems to be but once in a thousand years that nature blossoms into this unrivalled product and produces such a man as we have here. Gladstone -- Lecture on Homer. ment comes to the homesick traveller in an American hotel, to whom can he turn for consolation ? Alas, the porter is afraid of the " guest," and all guests are afraid of the clerk, and the proprietor is never seen, and the Afri-Americans in the dining-room are stupid, and the chambermaid does not answer the ring, and at last the weary wanderer hies him to the barroom and soon discovers that the worthy "barkeep" has nothing to recommend him but his diamond pin. How different, yes, how different this would all be if Boots were only here! At the quaint old city of Chester I was met at the "sti-shun" by the boots of that excellent though modest hotel which stands only a block away. Boots picked out my baggage without my looking for it, took me across to the Inn, and showed me to the daintiest, most homelike little room that I had seen for weeks. On the table was a tastefully decorated " jug," evidently just placed there in anticipation of my arrival, and in this jug here, when the step of Boots was heard in the doorway. I turned and saw that mine own familiar friend had lost a little of his calm self-reliance --...« less