Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long looked for Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, whose "Rip Van Winkle" has made his name a household word. No more interesting record of a life upon the stage could be laid before the public. Mr. Jefferson is the fourth in a generation of actors, and, with his wife and grandchildren, there are six generations of actors among the Jeffersons. His story of the early days of the American stage, when as a boy, travelling in his father's company, they would settle down for a season in a western town, playing in their own extemporized theatre-the the particulars...
...history, although its object is to magnify some popular hero. Letters have been saved from a dim sense of their future use. The separation of the Germans and the French after the dismemberment of the Empire of Charlemagne is shown unconsciously by a treaty between Louis and Charles, his grandchildren, which was sanctioned by an oath repeated by each sovereign in the language of the other. Thus was shown that two nations had arisen. The German of the one was clear and distinct from the French of the other. This fact comes to us through the Eatin chronicler, who unconsciously...
...Minister Lowell makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. Edward Burnett, at her beautiful and commodious villa in Southborough, near Boston. His library is on the third floor of the building, away from the noise of his grandchildren, with whom he is a great favorite. He still keeps his house at Cambridge, where some of his most famous poems were written. His long absence from this country has served to make him more of an American than ever in his feelings and tastes. Those who have seen him in his delightful retreat at Southborough come away with the impression that...