A life worth living. Memorials of Emily Bliss Gould, of Rome

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

MEMORIALS OF

EMILY BLISS GOULD,

II. June — November, i860

SEEKING A COUNTRY:

Through the Low Countries— A Ruhens Nightmare — Baden-Baden ~— Palace and Dungeon — Switzerland — Alps t Alps ! I — Bad News and Back to Paris — Ecole Evangdlique — First Day in Italy — The Waldenses — Church and Schools — Viva Italia ! , . . i6

III

Recollections of Mrs. Gould's Parents — Emily's Forty Children in the Sunday-school — Marriage to Dr. James B. Gould — Declining Health— Aggravations of the Voyage— Invigoration by Mountain IValks, 36

IV. November, i860— February, 1861

ROME, MY COUNTRY ! "

To Milan — The Plain of Lomhardy — Milan Cathedral — The '•'• Last Supper'^ — Genoa: Strange Sights and Queer Pecple — Panorama of ''''La Superba''^ — Garibaldiatts — Florence — The Glory of the Boboli Gardens — To Rome by Siena — Home at Last, 45

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V. 1861— 1865

Evil Days at Roms— Literature, Art, and Society — yournal at Rome — A Wealthy Madonna — Churches and Ruins — The Cardinal and the Lambs at St. Agnes'' — Feet-washings — St. Peter'' s Illuminated — Excursions: i. To Subiaco and its Convent; 2. To Valombrosa ; 3. To the Painted Tomb of Veii., ... 60

VI. The Waldenses

Rebuilding- a Ruined Church — Visit to the Valleys of the Waldenses — The Stronghold of Angrogno — The Glorieuse Rentr^e — A Sabbath in the Temple of the Balsille — The Lord's Supper — A B.xptism, . 104

VII. 1866— 1870.

THE FLORENCE ORPHANAGE:

An Exile caring for the Orphans of Exiles— A Paternal Government— An American Woman before a Roman Tribunal — A Christmas Tree in an Alpine Village — The Florence School and Orphanage — A Memorial Stone, 114

VIII. 1859— I87i

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY:

Austro-Italian War, 1859 — Annexation to Piedmont of Lombardy and Tuscany — Kingdom of Italy — Insurrection ift Sicily and Conquest of Naples by Garibaldi, i36o — Annexation of the Two Sicilies, the Marches and Umbria — Capture of Gaeta, i860 — A View of the Ruins in 1861 — The'"'' Six Weeks' War,'"' i866— Annexation of Venice— Garibaldi at Mentana, 1867 — Vatican Council, i86g-'70 — Franco-Prussian War, i8yo-yi — Liberation of Rome, Septe7nber 20, 1870 — Mrs. Gould'' s Literary Labors — Hopes of Usefulness at Rome, 124

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IX. 1870— 1871

Beginning the Italo-American Schools — A Six Months' ReJ>ort — Dense Ignorance at Rome — Conflicts with Religious Intolerance — Abduction of a Girl— The First Roman Kindergarten — An International Christmas Tree — A Sunday-school — Patriotic Little Romans — The Planting of the Asylum^ 142

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Friends and Enemies— A Breaking down of Health — Helpers in Time of Need^A Christmas Tree, and 3Iary Howitfs Address — ^ Sunday-school Festival, and a Lady'^s Lay-Sermon — Prayer and Providence — The Children'' s Home begun in a Maronite Convent — Teaching Trades — The Liberality of Friends— The Love of the Scholars, 171

XI. 1874— 1875

Mrs. GoulcCs Delight in the Heme — Growth and Prosperity — An Italian Friend — Rest and Labor in the Apennines — Boscolungo— Lessons in Charity — Marietta and Beppino — Letters from the Children — A nd Mrs. Gould's A nswer — A Report Broken Off, . 197

XII. April, 1875

A LETTER FROM A SICK-BED:

American Citizens Abroad in War-time — Forbearance from Hard Words— Letter to a Colored Citixen— The Church of Rome and Slavery — Prospect of Liberty in Romanism — The Regenera^ Hon of a Race, 222

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XIII. May — August, 1875

SHE RESTS FROM HER LABORS:

Perugia — Rome — Perugia again — Sickness and Death — Grief of the Children — Little Bcfj>ino follows his'"'' Dear Lady^'* . • 233

XIV. Her Memory Is Blessed

''^ By Strangers Honored'''' — Expressions of the Italian Press — *■'• A Wreath of Stray Leaves''"' — Words of Mr. Adolphus Trollop e and pf Mrs. Mary Howitt — Honor to her Memory from those of her Own Country — Memorial Service in New York — Address of Dr. Wiliiam Adams — The Grave at Woodlawn^ . 24.-}