The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-19
HOME LIFE OF GRANT
IT IS Vv!DLY PAINTED IN MRS.
GRANTS FORTHCOMING BOOK.

Volume Intended Chiefly as . Memento
For the Writer'S Chiidren-A Strong
Personal Quality Pervades the Nara.
tive-New Lights ON Familiar Topics.
Mrs. u. S. Grant has written a book.
The book is one that will prove of more
than ordinary interest to tho reading
public. 1t is not SO much the chronicle
of the wife Of a great American soldier
and statesman as it is that of tender,
womanly heart telling its story of the
life led with the man she loved all the
years of her life.
1t is the home story Of General and
Mrs. Grant az it has never been told be-
fore. When General Grant in his ia
nous book touched upon his courtship
and married life with the woman whose
image lived warm in his heart to the
end Of his days, it was but brief,
snatchy glimpses at best Of that subject
in which readers are always interested.
In Mrs. Grants book the real inner
nature Of the great general will for the
first time come to be known. The book
is one written for her own pleasure in
the subject, first and foremost. After
that it has been compiled for her chill
dren and grandchildren to preserve for
the value of new lights thrown OH his
toric events and deeds with which the
public was long ago familiar from the
historians standpoint. This time it
will be the woman's view of these
things that will come to light. 1t will
be the proud wife who comes before the
public in these pages to tell of the ten
derness that underlay the strength of
her husbands character.
With the accounts Of the battles ia
nous in the history Of this country,
when the United States was in the
throes OF the civil war, Mrs. Grant will
tell Of the generals conversation with
her. There will be extracts from letters
received from him when it so happened
that she could not follow him in the
vicissitudes of war, when there was
truly no place for her in the tented
quarters in which he was compelled TO
live.
Lie Illt i'll tDc Nullc ilOQsc anu tlc
tour of the world will come in for their
share of mention, and through it all
will run that vein Of strong personality
that is so indissolubly part of the
writer
Mrs Grant, when asked recently con-
cerning her forthcoming book, replied
pleasantly, with a smile:
so II Lau r-,st4
book, but have decided rothing as yet
in regard to the publishers. Perhaps I
shall not have it published at all. My
children will, you say? Yes, suppose
SO. The book is for them. They can do
az they wish in the matter. write
solely for my own pleasure, never for
publication in any paper or magazine.
II have been gradually getting it to-
gether for years. While it deals with
the generals career as soldier and
statesman, of course, the reason that
underlies everything else has been to
enable my children to have that true
insight into their fathers character
that l alone could give them. 1 have
not yet decided anything about the I'll
tie
Mrs. Grant is an earnest, graceful
writer, with keen sense of humor and
happy faculty of narrating briefly, at
the same time selecting the expressions
best adapted to conveying her meaning.
Much of the book was first compiled in
the form of fragmentary diary, kept
from time to time during many years
past, the sentences flowing in easy fash
ion, generally in a conversational
style, as of All interesting person, with
well stored mind, telling to those clus-
tered about her a story the charm of
which fingers long in the mind after
the voice Of the narrator has ceased
New York Journal.