Originally published in 1947, this book presents a series of reminiscences by the distinguished economist Mary Paley Marshall (1850-1944).
The only thing I actually remember about my arrival at the Naval Hospital in Corona was the pain of the lumpy ride on a gurney from the helicopter pad to the emergency room and more doctors, more mumbling, then another spinal tap, ...
I remember taking the most lively interest in the 1857 campaign in Italy against the Austrians, when the French joined forces with the King of Sardinia. From that time Garibaldi, Cavour, and Victor Emmanuel became my heroes, ...
I remember some words of a parody on one of the Republican songs of the day, which had an immense vogue at that time. " On devrait planter le chene" it ran, "pour l'arbre de la liberte" " (it will be remembered that planting " trees of ...
I wrote in 1839— "Very near Treguier, on a spot appropriately selected for such a worship — the barren top of a bleak ... to the demon Hatred; and have continued to the present day to receive an unholy worship from blinded bigots, ...
WHAT I REMEMBER