Forty Minutes Late and Other Stories (Hardcover)

1909. Illustrated. Smith had several careers: engineer, artist, illustrator and short story writer. His success in engineering included planning the foundations for the Statue of Liberty. He traveled frequently to Europe and became known for his portraits and illustration. Smith was an entertaining after-dinner storyteller and in his fifties he decided to commit his stories to paper and is remembered for his Colonel Carter novels. Contents: Forty Minutes Late; A Gentleman's Gentleman; Abijah's Bubble; A List to Starboard; The Little Gray Lady; The Man in the High-Water Boots; Fiddles; Homo; and The Parthenon by Way of Papendrecht. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.