The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-22
HOME LIFE OF GRANT
lT Is WILDLY PAINTED IN MRS.
GRANTS FORTHCOMING BOOK.


Volume Intended Chiefly ss . Msmsnto
For the Writer'S Chiidren-A strong
Personal Quality Psrvades the Nara
| tive-New Lights ON Familiar Topics.
| Mrs. y. s. Grant has written book.
The book is one that will prove of more
than ordinary interest to the reading
public. 1t is not 80 much the chronicle
Of the wife of 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 as it has never been told be-
fore. When General Grant in his Ia
nous book touched upon his courtship
and married life with the womanwhose
image lived warm in his heart to the
end Of his days, it was but briei,
snatchy glimpses at best Of that subject
9 in which readers are always interested.
i In Mrs Grants book the real inner
!, nature of the great general will for the
!. first time come TO be known. The book
A is one written for her own pleasure III
"a the subject, first and foremost. After
that it has been compiled for her chill
ID dren and grandchildren to preserve ioi
to the value of new lights thrown on his
OF toric events and deeds with which thu
10 public was long ago familiar from I'M
. historians standpoint. This time
will be the woman's view OF thes
40 things that will come to light. lt VII
or he the proud wife who comes before tn
he public in these pages to tell OF the ten
m derness that underlay the strength
her husbands character.
ng With the accounts Of the battles Ii
.,.s nous in the history OF this couhtr,
' .y when the United States was III u
IN tbroes of the civil war, Mrs. Grant WI
10 tell of the generals conversation WI
her There will be extracts from lette
mes received from him when it SO happeh'
on that she could not follow him i'll u
Ike yicissitudes of war, when there W
me truly no place for her i'll the ten,
'o ,n quarters in which he was compeiieo
iced live.
: IN The life in the White House ana
Ter tonr If the world will come i'll for tn
aw- share of mention, and through II
and will RIM that vein of strong personal
| in that is so indissolubly part OF
W. writer. .
New Mrs Grant. when asked recently c
,a, corning her forthcoming book' repi
nber pleasantly, with smile;
st in Eyes. it is true l have WRITER
hook Int have decided nothing az
in regard TO the publishers. Perhal
shall not have it published at all
vcral children will, you say? Yes, supp
1T in co The book is for them. Ihey cal
ley as as they wish i'll the matter
nited Solelv for my own pleasure, never
VIII publication i'll any paper OF nias'Ni
r to- II have been gradually gettihg
, 'riI gether for years. While 1t oeais
h con. tbe generals career as soluler
locted stateemal. of course, the reason
Olson, nudcrlies everything else has pee
and onahle my children to have tha'
terms, INSIGHT into their fathers chal
to I'LL that 7 alone could give them. 1
mum. NOT vet decided anything about u
, pred. tie " ,. ora
chair. Mrs. Grant IL az 20 hnno
sidents writer, with u Keen s'hoV -. ,,,.;of
thur a happy faculty OF nalt",iie -,
sill be the same time selecting 'he eApio'
4th of best adapted to conveying her me ;'
). Con Much of the book was first comp
wenty- p y, 80 = of a frapmentary diary
csident lhe i0i - .. limo during many
sting to from .iiio W eowina in easy
ed, but past the sen,Sh' :, Converse
These ion, generaily III ,,o,sou
ugh he style, as of an lh'erus'i's p thos,
lring well stored mind, teiilliS W -
first ap tored about her a story 'ho Oi'
Quincy ,,,l,ich fingers long Ill the hilh'
If repre-, the voice of the narrator mas ce'
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