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...cannot read without a sense of appreciation that Mr. Howe has approached his task in that perfect spirit of tribute which can immortalize without exaggerating. His purpose has been not only to commemorate these boy-men, but to picture for us the traits of boyhood, those facets of character which make us see the boy in the man, and in the boy judge what the man would have been--had there been only time. The ideals of the writer are the ideals which led the men of whom he writes, the ideals we like to claim as cherished by Harvard...
...father was employed, and so on his mother's death, Enrico, aged fifteen, left home and became a scugnizzo, a wandering singer of the streets, singing for a few soldi or for the pure joy of song. He was called "Arichetielli," and soon became known as the best boy singer in Naples. After that comes the story of his swift rise to fame, too familiar now to need repeating here...
...settling of the great stretches of farm land just beyond the Mississippi, which were opened up to the world when the Erie Canal was put in operation. In an easy narrative style that is at the same time picturesque and readable, he tells the story of a small boy, born in a village in Central New York, near the great canal, who is drawn into the rush westward. The early chapters on the life along the canal, the story of the young man's journey, and the description of the troubles of the settler culminating in the brief description...
...they wanted to be au courrant as to the color of the young man's coat; but more went, doubtless, out of a sentimental curiosity to see the painting which had commanded such a breath-taking price and was making its "positively last appearance in England". If the Blue Boy had not been about to sail away, no one would have called to say good...
...horse, "raking" him and "fanning" him at every buck, and finally riding him "out", after he had been scraped against several fences, carried through others, and carried round, and round the arena. Then there was a cowboy, the best rider in the West, who because he was a Pendleton boy had to "ride out" four of the worst horses in a period of forty-five minutes before the judges would award him the championship for that year. And this in spite of the fact that he had entered the contest with a broken right forearm...