The musings of a disappointed idealist
After more than three hours of inscription hunting, we were just about to throw in the towel and call it a day, and we discovered this amazing inscription from 1894! It gave us chills and David almost cried, what a big old sentimental marshmallow. 🙂
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This amazingly large and heavy tome is also really lovely to look at… and chilling to think about. Translated from the German, it’s titled The Protestantism of the Present, and, from the information we can find online, was published in 1929. Just imagine. Germany. 1929. Before the horrific, awful years to come. We really wish this book could talk and tell us more about its travels, about those who held in their hands through the years.
We included a couple of extra photos so you can see not only how beautiful it is but also how big.
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The initials R.L. stand for Robert Louis, as in Robert Louis Stevenson – the author of such classics as Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. According to book data we found online, “This volume contains all of Stevenson’s more or less autobiographical writings not contained in Memories and Portraits, many of them not published, and some not completed, by the time of his death. Geez, like some others we’ve found, perhaps we should have spent a few more minutes appreciating this book when we had it in our hands.
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We’d love to know the identity of the “favorite Southern singer” mentioned in the inscription, as well as the inscriber’s last name. But we’re going to pass on reading this backwards book.
While doing some research, we came upon this “about the author” on Amazon – Michael Andrew Grissom tells the story of when he was in the fifth grade and teachers were beginning to introduce the students to civics and history. He took his books home and started to wonder about the thing they called the “Civil War.” Finally, his mother sat him down and explained very concisely, “Well, let me tell you how it was. Lee was the good guy, and Grant was the bad guy.” And Grissom says, “It stuck. I remain solidly convinced to this day that my mother was right.” Ohhkay then. Moving right along…