CHAPTER the First.
I Am Born and Begin to Take Notice--John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson--James K.Polk and Franklin Pierce--Jack Dade and "Beau Hickman"-- Old Times in Washington Chapter the Second Slavery the Trouble-Maker--Break-Up of the Whig Party and Rise of the Republican--The Key--Sickle's Tragedy--Brooks and Sumner--Life at Washington in the Fifties Chapter the Third The Inauguration of Lincoln--I Quit Washington and Return to Tennessee--A Run-a-bout with Forest--Through the Federal Lines and a Dangerous Adventure--Good Luck at Memphis Chapter the Fourth I Go to London--Am Introduced to a Notable Set--Huxley, Spencer, Mill and Tyndall--Artemus Ward Comes to Town--The Savage Club Chapter the Fifth Mark Twain--The Original of Colonel Mulberry Sellers--The "Earl of Durham"-- Some Noctes Ambrosianae--A Joke on Murat Halstead Chapter the Sixth Houston and Wigfall of Texas--Stephen A.Douglas--The Twaddle about Puritans and Cavaliers--Andrew Johnson and John C.Breckenridge Chapter the Seventh An Old Newspaper Rookery--Reactionary Sectionalism in Cincinnati and Louisville--_The Courier-Journal_ Chapter the Eighth Feminism and Woman Suffrage--The Adventures in Politics and Society--A Real Heroine Chapter the Ninth Dr.Norvin Green--Joseph Pulitzer--Chester A.Arthur--General Grant--The Case of Fitz-John Porter Chapter the Tenth Of Liars and Lying--Woman Suffrage and Feminism--The Professional Female--Parties, Politics, and Politicians in America Chapter the Eleventh Andrew Johnson--The Liberal Convention in 1872--Carl Schurz--The "Quadrilateral"-- Sam Bowles, Horace White and Murat Halstead--A Queer Composite of Incongruities Chapter the Twelfth The Ideal in Public Life--Politicians, Statesmen and Philosophers-- The Disputed Presidency in 1876--The Persona and Character of Mr.
Tilden--His Election and Exclusion by a Partisan Tribunal Chapter the Thirteenth Charles Eames and Charles Sumner-Schurzand Lamar--I Go to Congress--A Heroic Kentuckian--Stephen Foster and His Songs--Music and Theodore Thomas Chapter the Fourteenth Henry Adams and the Adams Family--John Hay and Frank Mason--The Three _Mousquetaires_ of Culture--Paris--"The Frenchman"-- The South of France Chapter the Fifteenth Still the Gay Capital of France--Its Environs--Walewska and De Morny--Thackeray in Paris--A _Pension_ Adventure Chapter the Sixteenth Monte Carlo--The European Shrine of Sport and Fashion--Apocryphal Gambling Stories--Leopold, King of the Belgians--An Able and Picturesque Man of Business Chapter the Seventeenth A Parisian _Pension_--The Widow of Walewska--Napoleon's Daughter-in-Law--The Changeless--A Moral and Orderly City Chapter the Eighteenth The Grover Cleveland Period--President Arthur and Mr.Blaine--John Chamberlin--The Decrees of Destiny Chapter the Nineteenth Mr.Cleveland in the White House--Mr.Bayard in the Department of State--Queer Appointments to Office--The One-Party Power--The End of North and South Sectionalism Chapter the Twentieth The Real Grover Cleveland--Two Clevelands Before and After Marriage--A Correspondence and a Break of Personal Relations Chapter the Twenty-First Stephen Foster, the Song-Writer--A Friend Comes to the Rescu His Originality--"My Old Kentucky Home" and the "Old Folks at Home"-- General Sherman and "Marching Through Georgia" Chapter the Twenty-Second Theodore Roosevelt--His Problematic Character--He Offers Me an Appointment--His _Bonhomie_ and Chivalry--Proud of His Rebel Kin Chapter the Twenty-Third The Actor and the Journalist--The Newspaper and the State--Joseph Jefferson--His Personal and Artistic Career--Modest Character and Religious Belief Chapter the Twenty-Fourth The Writing of Memoirs--Some Characteristics of Carl Shurz--Sam Bowles--Horace White and the Mugwumps Chapter the Twenty-Fifth Every Trade Has Its Tricks--I Play One on William McKinley--Far Away Party Politics and Political Issues Chapter the Twenty-Sixth A Libel on Mr.Cleveland--His Fondness for Cards--Some Poker Stories--The "Senate Game"-- Tom Ochiltree, Senator Allison and General Schenck Chapter the Twenty-Seventh The Profession of Journalism--Newspapers and Editors in America--Bennett, Greeley and Raymond--Forney and Dana--The Education of a Journalist Chapter the Twenty-Eighth Bullies and Braggarts--Some Kentucky Illustrations--The Old Galt House--The Throckmortons--A Famous Sugeon--"Old Hell's Delight" Chapter the Twenty-Ninth About Political Conventions, State and National--"Old Ben Butler"-- His Appearance as a Trouble-Maker in the Democratic National Convention of 1892--Tarifa and the Tariff--Spain as a Frightful Example Chapter the Thirtieth The Makers of the Republic--Lincoln, Jefferson, Clay and Webster--The Proposed League of Nations--The Wilsonian Incertitude--The "New Freedom" Chapter the Thirty-First The Age of Miracles--A Story of Franklin Pierce--Simon Suggs Billy Sunday--Jefferson Davis and Aaron Burr--Certain Constitutional Shortcomings Chapter the Thirty-Second A War Episode--I Meet my Fater--I Marry and Make a Home--The Ups and Downs of Life Lead to a Happy Old Age Illustrations Henry Watterson (About 1908) Henry Clay--Painted at Ashland by Dodge for The Hon.

Andrew Ewing of Tennessee-The Original Hangs in Mr.Watterson's Library at "Mansfield" W.P.Hardee, Lieutenant General C.S.A.
John Bell of Tennessee--In 1860 Presidential Candidate "Union Party"-- "Bell and Everett" Ticket Artemus Ward General Leonidas Polk--Lieutenant General C.S.A.Killed in Georgia, June 14, 1864--P.

E.Bishop of Louisiana Mr.Watterson's Editorial Staff in 1868 When the Three Daily Newspapers of Louisville Were United into the _Courier-Journal_.

Mr.George D.
Prentice and Mr.Watterson Are in the Center Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

From a Photograph by M.B.Brady Mrs.Lincoln in 1861 Henry Watterson--Fifty Years Ago Henry Woodfire Grady--One of Mr.Watterson's "Boys" Mr.Watterson's Library at "Mansfield" A Corner of "Mansfield"-- Home of Mr.Watterson Henry Watterson (Photograph Taken in Florida) Henry Watterson.