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[Illustration: _The waterside at Martin's Ferry. Near this spot stood
the little brick house in which Mr. Howells was born._]




                           YEARS OF MY YOUTH

                                  BY
                             W. D. HOWELLS

                  WITH INTRODUCTION AND ILLUSTRATIONS
                   FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN EXPRESSLY
                   FOR THIS BOOK BY CLIFTON JOHNSON

                            [Illustration]

                     HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
                          NEW YORK AND LONDON

                           YEARS OF MY YOUTH

              Copyright, 1916, 1917, by Harper & Brothers
                Printed in the United States of America
                        Published October, 1917

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ILLUSTRATIONS


THE WATERSIDE AT MARTIN'S FERRY                         _Frontispiece_

THE OHIO RIVER AT WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA             _Facing p._  10

HAMILTON, OHIO, THE "BOY'S TOWN" OF MR. HOWELLS'S YOUTH      "     16

THE MIAMI CANAL AT HAMILTON                                  "     22

THE NOW ABANDONED CANAL AT DAYTON AS IT APPEARS
ON THE BORDERS OF THE CITY                                   "     40

THE LITTLE MIAMI RIVER AT EUREKA MILLS, TWELVE
MILES EAST OF DAYTON                                         "     44

OVERLOOKING THE ISLAND WHICH THE HOWELLS FAMILY CULTIVATED   "     54

THE VICINITY WHERE MR. HOWELLS LIVED HIS "YEAR
IN A LOG CABIN"                                              "     60

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