Publisher's Synopsis
A long life and a happy one, which is far better than a short life and a merry one, is passed in fragmentary review by Mrs. Joseph Hobson (Elizabeth Christophers Hobson) in a posthumous work reprinted from a privately circulated sheaf of autobiographic chapters written at the repeated request of friends. "Recollections of a Happy Life" gives in a bright and informal way the more significant passages from the eventful and useful life of Mrs. Hobson. A memorable up-bringing, an early marriage, much travel and many sojourns in foreign lands, philanthropic activity, especially" in hospital work, and, through it all, intercourse and friendship with persons of note in many paths of life-of such is the substance of the two-hundred and fifty pages of the book. To the student of literature no passage will prove of greater interest than the true story of the nun who has been made famous in fiction by F. Marion Crawford in his "Casa Braccio." Mrs. Hobson heard this story in Peru, where she met and became interested in a great-granddaughter of the recreant nun. She afterward told the story to Crawford, who pronounced it the only one that he ever had. heard that was suitable for his use. Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler edits, with some additional matter, Mrs. Hobson's fragmentary chapters.
-"The Dial," Volume 61.
