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Title: Echoes from the Sabine Farm

Author: Roswell Martin Field and Eugene Field

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Language: English

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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field

ECHOES FROM THE SABINE FARM

by

ROSWELL MARTIN FIELD AND EUGENE FIELD

1899

[Illustration]

INTRODUCTION

One Sunday evening in the winter of 1890 Eugene Field and the writer
were walking in Lake View, Chicago, on their way to visit the library of
a common friend, when the subject of publishing a book for Field came up
for discussion.

The Little Book of Western Verse and The Little Book of Profitable Tales
had been privately printed the year before at Chicago, and Field had
been frequently reminded that the writer was ready and willing to stand
sponsor for any new volume he, Field, might desire to bring out.

"The only thing I have on hand that might make a book," said Field, "are
some few paraphrases of the Odes of Horace which my brother, 'Rose,' and
I have been fooling over, and which, truth to tell, are certainly freely
rendered. There are not enough of them, but we'll do some more, and I'll
add a brief Life of Horace as a preface or introduction."

It is to be regretted that Field never carried out his intention with
respect to this last, for he had given much thought and study to the
great Roman satirist, and what Eugene Field could have said upon the
subject must have been of interest. It is my belief that as he thought
upon the matter it grew too great for him to handle within the space he
had at first determined, and that tucked away within the recesses of his
literary intentions was the determination, nullified by his early death,
to write, _con amore_, a life of Quintus Horatius Flaccus.

This determination to write separately an extended account of Horace
gre