73
VI. CHOICE OF A PROFESSION 91
VII. MARRIAGE AND EARLY DOMESTIC LIFE 103
VIII. EARLY EXPERIENCES IN JOURNALISM 126
IX. IN DENVER, 1881-1883 143
X. ANECDOTES OF LIFE IN DENVER 158
XI. COMING TO CHICAGO 183
XII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS 206
XIII. RELATIONS WITH STAGE FOLK 224
XIV. BEGINNING OF HIS LITERARY EDUCATION 271
XV. METHOD OF WORK 294
XVI. NATURE OF HIS DAILY WORK 314

ILLUSTRATIONS

PORTRAIT OF EUGENE FIELD IN 1885 _Frontispiece_
_Photogravure._

DRAWINGS AND FAC-SIMILES PAGE

"THE PEAR" IN FIELD'S GREEK TEXT 140

DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL COUNCIL OF WAR 213
_From a drawing by Eugene Field._

COMMODORE CRANE 236
_From a drawing by Eugene Field._

FIELD WITNESSING MODJESKA AS CAMILLE 244
_From a drawing by Eugene Field._

TWO PROFILES OF EUGENE FIELD 247
_The upper one drawn in pencil by Field himself;
the lower one drawn by Modjeska. Reproduced from
a flyleaf of Mrs. Thompson's volume of autograph
verse._

A BAR OF MUSIC 295
_Written by Eugene Field._

TWO GOOD KNIGHTS AT FEAST 297
_From a drawing by Eugene Field._

HALF-TONE PLATES FACING PAGE

GENERAL MARTIN FIELD 6
_Eugene Field's Grandfather._

ESTHER S. FIELD 10
_Eugene Field's Grandmother._

ROSWELL MARTIN FIELD 18
_Eugene Field's Father._

CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD 46

EUGENE FIELD'S MOTHER 50
_From a Daguerreotype taken a year or two before
his birth._

EUGENE FIELD'S COUSINS, MARY FIELD FRENCH
AND HER YOUNGER HALF-SISTER, AUGUSTA JONES 54
_From a Daguerreotype taken before Eugene and
Roswell became members of Miss French's family
in Amherst, on the death of their mother._

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