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The BrambleBush Tales; Containing Novelettes Poems and Pen Sketches William 1836 Busch 9781360704883 Books
Since William Busch was my great-great-uncle, the fact might help to understand my perspective. I've been delighted that books of his are slowly being reprinted by Nabu Public Domain Reprints. I searched for a decade for information about William. All I knew was that he was an attorney in St. Louis and Chicago. Then one day about four years ago I looked in the vertical file at the Missouri History Museum on Skinker in St. Louis and found a card with his name and occupation on it. I requested the file from the back room, and found a letter he'd written containing the very names and places in his background that were also mentioned in a letter his brother, my great-grandfather, had written. I knew then that it was my William Busch. William was responding to a request for information on him for a book of profiles of authors. He listed some 30 plays and other writings he had published. This is the fifth, and in my estimation best, book of Uncle William's that has been reprinted. It is also the longest, a collection with 225 pages.It starts with two novelettes, or short stories. The title Rebecca at the Well is of course an allusion to the Biblical story of Isaac and Rebecca, in which Isaac is told that the girl at the well who offers him water for himself and for his camels is the one he is to marry. It is not a Biblical story, but does contain elements of the Isaac and Rebecca story. The narrator tells of his early love for Rebecca while staying with her family as a sort of foster son. Their friendship was progressing nicely and Props, the nickname given the narrator, was assured that Rebecca would be his future bride. Then a seductive stranger came and succeeded in fascinating Rebecca. An opportunist, the stranger told the family that he was a lord and that if Rebecca would be his wife, she would be installed in his castle in another country. The two eloped and thus began a series of hardships and disappointments for Rebecca. Props ended up marrying the older and less pretty sister. The ne'er-do-well in time died and Rebecca went to work for an older man and his family, a judge in America. After two years she married the old judge. The couple spent six years together and the judge died. Rebecca then had thoughts of home and of the grief she had caused her family. She returned. Props was still at the family homestead. His wife, the older sister, had died. The two had never been suited to each other. Of course, this left Props free to finally marry his first love.
Mesdames Cox and Box, the next short story, is a tale of two neighbor couples. Mr. Cox and Mrs. Box, his married neighbor, became infatuated with each other. They began to spend time together and to write letters to each other. But Mr. Box discovered a bundle of letters between the two in his wife's dresser drawer. The errant couple told lies about Mr. Cox being called to work and Mrs. Box needing to host a party while her husband was at work so that they could get together for a tryst. The wronged spouses learned about it through one of the found letters and arranged to be there when the clandestine meeting took place. They interrupted the plans of the wayward spouses and secured promises that they would end the affair.
The collection was published in 1908, three years before William died. There is much in it that alludes to his life and background. Next come two plays. The plays, as those in the other four books that have been reprinted, are farces. They are typical of the time and probably not spectacular. They did remind me of those of one of the authors that I have spent a lot of time reading and studying, William Dean Howells. Paradise Not Lost spans several centuries, from Adam and Eve to Jacob and Joseph to Moses and Aaron to Solomon to Socrates and Plato to Jesus and on to the present. It is written in unrhymed verse. Adam and Eve make a final appearance in the present day to make note of the freedoms we have. The other play, Our Doughty Cantiniers, I found harder to follow.
Several poems are next. Most interesting to me was "Chicago in Flames: Holocaust of 1871". Part of the reason it took me so long to find information on William Busch was that I had assumed he left St. Louis and went to Chicago, staying there. The vertical file pertaining to his life in the Missouri History Museum told me otherwise. William did go to Chicago sometime after 1865 and practiced law there. But the Great Chicago Fire of October 8, 1871, sent him packing back to St. Louis. The poem, with eight stanzas, tells what the sky and the city looked like and how the people reacted during the fire.
I've noticed a couple of recurring themes in William's writing. One is the fickleness of women. Another is the ultimate goodness of mankind. He writes of women in the poem "The Emancipated Woman". In it he proposes that women be allowed to vote and be on juries, to write and be ordained, to teach or be a mechanic or prophet. If allowed this, women will love men truly, and not be so fickle. His poem "The Judgment Bar: or, At the Stygian Shore" offers commentary on his own profession. Lawyers are one of the groups that appear at the Judgment Seat. ". . .That it was man's duty to study nature's laws, And live in harmony with its precepts. Thus did we teach, though our sin we do confess, That often we did our clients charge large fees. . ." Then he goes on to question God: "But know! why mad'st thou men such selfish drones? That they committed crime, robbed and stole, In consequence of which they had to pay large lawyer's bills. Blame thyself if thy handiwork is not perfect. . ."
William Busch's writing shows he was a deep thinker on many subjects. Perhaps if he'd had the ambition or the time, he could have foregone the lawyering and made a national name for himself as a writer.
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The BrambleBush Tales; Containing Novelettes Poems and Pen Sketches William 1836 Busch 9781360704883 Books Reviews
Since William Busch was my great-great-uncle, the fact might help to understand my perspective. I've been delighted that books of his are slowly being reprinted by Nabu Public Domain Reprints. I searched for a decade for information about William. All I knew was that he was an attorney in St. Louis and Chicago. Then one day about four years ago I looked in the vertical file at the Missouri History Museum on Skinker in St. Louis and found a card with his name and occupation on it. I requested the file from the back room, and found a letter he'd written containing the very names and places in his background that were also mentioned in a letter his brother, my great-grandfather, had written. I knew then that it was my William Busch. William was responding to a request for information on him for a book of profiles of authors. He listed some 30 plays and other writings he had published. This is the fifth, and in my estimation best, book of Uncle William's that has been reprinted. It is also the longest, a collection with 225 pages.
It starts with two novelettes, or short stories. The title Rebecca at the Well is of course an allusion to the Biblical story of Isaac and Rebecca, in which Isaac is told that the girl at the well who offers him water for himself and for his camels is the one he is to marry. It is not a Biblical story, but does contain elements of the Isaac and Rebecca story. The narrator tells of his early love for Rebecca while staying with her family as a sort of foster son. Their friendship was progressing nicely and Props, the nickname given the narrator, was assured that Rebecca would be his future bride. Then a seductive stranger came and succeeded in fascinating Rebecca. An opportunist, the stranger told the family that he was a lord and that if Rebecca would be his wife, she would be installed in his castle in another country. The two eloped and thus began a series of hardships and disappointments for Rebecca. Props ended up marrying the older and less pretty sister. The ne'er-do-well in time died and Rebecca went to work for an older man and his family, a judge in America. After two years she married the old judge. The couple spent six years together and the judge died. Rebecca then had thoughts of home and of the grief she had caused her family. She returned. Props was still at the family homestead. His wife, the older sister, had died. The two had never been suited to each other. Of course, this left Props free to finally marry his first love.
Mesdames Cox and Box, the next short story, is a tale of two neighbor couples. Mr. Cox and Mrs. Box, his married neighbor, became infatuated with each other. They began to spend time together and to write letters to each other. But Mr. Box discovered a bundle of letters between the two in his wife's dresser drawer. The errant couple told lies about Mr. Cox being called to work and Mrs. Box needing to host a party while her husband was at work so that they could get together for a tryst. The wronged spouses learned about it through one of the found letters and arranged to be there when the clandestine meeting took place. They interrupted the plans of the wayward spouses and secured promises that they would end the affair.
The collection was published in 1908, three years before William died. There is much in it that alludes to his life and background. Next come two plays. The plays, as those in the other four books that have been reprinted, are farces. They are typical of the time and probably not spectacular. They did remind me of those of one of the authors that I have spent a lot of time reading and studying, William Dean Howells. Paradise Not Lost spans several centuries, from Adam and Eve to Jacob and Joseph to Moses and Aaron to Solomon to Socrates and Plato to Jesus and on to the present. It is written in unrhymed verse. Adam and Eve make a final appearance in the present day to make note of the freedoms we have. The other play, Our Doughty Cantiniers, I found harder to follow.
Several poems are next. Most interesting to me was "Chicago in Flames Holocaust of 1871". Part of the reason it took me so long to find information on William Busch was that I had assumed he left St. Louis and went to Chicago, staying there. The vertical file pertaining to his life in the Missouri History Museum told me otherwise. William did go to Chicago sometime after 1865 and practiced law there. But the Great Chicago Fire of October 8, 1871, sent him packing back to St. Louis. The poem, with eight stanzas, tells what the sky and the city looked like and how the people reacted during the fire.
I've noticed a couple of recurring themes in William's writing. One is the fickleness of women. Another is the ultimate goodness of mankind. He writes of women in the poem "The Emancipated Woman". In it he proposes that women be allowed to vote and be on juries, to write and be ordained, to teach or be a mechanic or prophet. If allowed this, women will love men truly, and not be so fickle. His poem "The Judgment Bar or, At the Stygian Shore" offers commentary on his own profession. Lawyers are one of the groups that appear at the Judgment Seat. ". . .That it was man's duty to study nature's laws, And live in harmony with its precepts. Thus did we teach, though our sin we do confess, That often we did our clients charge large fees. . ." Then he goes on to question God "But know! why mad'st thou men such selfish drones? That they committed crime, robbed and stole, In consequence of which they had to pay large lawyer's bills. Blame thyself if thy handiwork is not perfect. . ."
William Busch's writing shows he was a deep thinker on many subjects. Perhaps if he'd had the ambition or the time, he could have foregone the lawyering and made a national name for himself as a writer.
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