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    Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life)
    Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life)
    Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life)
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    Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life)

    By William Dean Howells

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life)
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    William Dean Howells

    William Dean Howells was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings.

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      Title: Spanish Prisoners of War

      From Literature and Life

      Author: William Dean Howells

      Release Date: October 22, 2004 [EBook #3383]

      Language: English

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      LITERATURE AND LIFE

      SPANISH PRISONERS OF WAR

      BY

      WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

      CERTAIN summers ago our cruisers, the St. Louis and the Harvard, arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with sixteen or seventeen hundred Spanish prisoners from Santiago de Cuba. They were partly soldiers of the land forces picked up by our troops in the fights before the city, but by far the greater part were sailors and marines from Cervera’s ill-fated fleet. I have not much stomach for war, but the poetry of the fact I have stated made a very potent appeal to me on my literary side, and I did not hold out against it longer than to let the St. Louis get away with Cervera to Annapolis, when only her less dignified captives remained with those of the Harvard to feed either the vainglory or the pensive curiosity of the spectator. Then I went over from our summer colony to Kittery Point, and got a boat, and sailed out to have a look at these subordinate enemies in the first hours of their imprisonment.

      I.

      It was an afternoon of the brilliancy known only to an afternoon of the American summer, and the water of the swift Piscataqua River glittered in the sun with a really incomparable brilliancy. But nothing could light up the great monster of a ship, painted the dismal lead-color which our White Squadrons put on with the outbreak of the war, and she lay sullen in the stream with a look of ponderous repose, to

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