The Granite Monthly, Vol. 18: A New Hampshire Magazine, Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress (Classic Reprint) - Livres de poche

Excerpt from The Granite Monthly, Vol. 18: A New Hampshire Magazine, Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress

Some paths of literature are avoided because they are unprofitable: some are closed by legal enactments: and some are attempted with great caution, because they are marked "Dangerous." The guide-board to the path for biographical sketches of living men should have, besides the signal of danger, this caution, "Don't prod an editor." Whether he has an innate love of truth for its own sake, or claims a monopoly of lies and the exclusive privilege of telling them, it is always unsafe to serve him up with sauces. Skating on thin ice. chumming with rattlesnakes, teasing elephants, ballooning among cyclones, picking up bombs, and holding up targets may be harmless amusements or attended with slight risks compared with any attempt to delineate the personal traits and characteristics of a live editor, without strict adherence to absolute verities.

The following sketch has been prepared with full consciousness of the dangers and probable results, near and remote, of any untrue or unfair treatment of the subject. The sketcher has been content to walk on solid ground, and with his feet, not with his eyelids. Personal acquaintance with the young man from the time he was three years old until now, and an intimate acquaintance with his parents, afford a substantial basis for this daring attempt to write up an editor.

Christopher Henry Wells was born in Somersworth, N. H., July 6, 1853. He came of fine, sturdy New England stock, his parents being Nathaniel and Eliza Thom Wells.

The Wells, or Welles, family in England is of very ancient origin, being clearly traceable back to the time of the Norman conquest. It is pretty well established that Thomas Wells, a physician, who came to Ipswich, Mass., in 1635, was the earliest emigrant of that name who settled in this country, though several other families of Wells came over soon after.

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