This volume was ready for publication when my husband died, October 23,1901. In it, in connection with a love story and some foreign travel, hestrove to show how necessary capital and labor are to each other. He hadalways been a friend to labor, and there were no more sincere mourners athis funeral than the persons he employed. He believed capital should beconciliatory and helpful, and co-operate with labor in the most friendlymanner, without either party being arrogant or indifferent.
Mr. Bolton took the deepest interest in all civic problems, and it is acomfort to those who loved him that his book, "A Model Village and OtherPapers," came from the press a few days before his death. He had hopedafter finishing a book of travel, having crossed the ocean many times andbeen in many lands, and doing some other active work in public life, totake a trip around the world and rest, but rest came in another way.
Sarah K. Bolton
Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. W.D. Howells, in reply to a literary society in Ashtabula County,Ohio, said that most people had within their personal experience onebook.
I have often quoted Howells's words to my best friend, who has written ascore of books, and the answer as frequently comes, "Why not write a bookyourself?" Encouraged by Howells's belief, and stimulated by the acceptedchallenge of my friend, to whom I promised a completed book in twelvemonths, I found time during a very busy year to pencil the chapters thatfollow. Most of the book was written while waiting at stations, or on thecars, and in hotels, using the spare moments of an eight-months' lectureseason, and the four months at home occupied by business.
I am aware that some critics decry a novel written with a purpose. Permitme therefore in advance to admit that this book has a double purpose: Totest the truth of Howells's words as applied to myself; and to describe ajourney, both at home and abroad, which may possibly be enjoyed by thereader, the inconveniences of travel being lessened by incidentallytracing a love story to a strange but perhaps satisfactory conclusion;the whole leading to the evolution of a successful experiment, which infragments is being tried in various parts of the civilized world.
CHAPTER I--The Harrises in New York
CHAPTER II--Mr. Hugh Searles of London Arrives
CHAPTER III--A Bad Send-off
CHAPTER IV--Aboard the S.S. Majestic
CHAPTER V--Discomfitures at Sea
CHAPTER VI--Half Awake, Half Asleep
CHAPTER VII--Life at Sea a Kaleidoscope
CHAPTER VIII--Colonel Harris Returns to Harrisville
CHAPTER IX--Capital and Labor in Conference
CHAPTER X--Knowledge is Power
CHAPTER XI--In Touch with Nature
CHAPTER XII--The St BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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