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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
School report, 1870-Friends of my parents-Tennyson,
Carlyle, Thackeray, Dickens-A few of my father's
stories-Westminster School-Thanksgiving Service at
St. Paul's, 1872-Archbishops Tait and Thomson
PAGE
I-20
CHAPTER II
I leave school-Paris and the Palais Royal-The Examiner
-I make the acquaintance of a promising young man
-The Savile Club-Besant-Rudyard Kipling-A
village editor-Robert Louis Stevenson-The Rabelais
Club-Sir Frederick Pollock and Lord Houghton-
George Venables and Francis Garden
21-35
CHAPTER III
Cambridge-The long-haired Achæans-The free-thinking
student and the Senior Dean-The 'Bucks'-' Bank'
-An averted misalliance-A Cambridge riot-Instruc-
tion in the use of the truncheon by the late Master of
Trinity-My University distinction-My uncle Joseph
-Weston's walk through Cambridge-Dick Mason's-
Cricket at Fenner's-My ' annual average 10'
36-64
CHAPTER IV
Holidays-In the Ardennes-A wild-boar battue-Hints on
foreign venery-The fox, and how to slay him-The
boar, and how to elude him-Norway-Camping on
the Doverfjeld-Freya-His lordship's valet-My very
obedient servant-The power of imagination-Charley
Buller-An incident at Lord's-March strawberries-
Lionel Tennyson and the smuggler
65-90
CHAPTER V
'Adopting the stage as a profession '—Expert advice—The
calling then and now 'Touring' — Discomforts
Typhoid fever-Sir William Jenner-A pantomime
engagement-A 'stage-name'-The Haymarket Theatre
-The Bancrofts at rehearsal-Frank Marshall—As a
maker of salad
91-109
CHAPTER VI
Odell-His discretion-His medical science-His suscepti-
bility-His visit to America-His reticence-His ap-
preciation of detail-My experience as a teacher of
elocution-As a stage-manager to amateurs-An aspirant
who was to take London by storm
110-124
CHAPTER VII
The leading juvenile'-His social popularity-His wiles-
His trysts-His imagination-The Thames Valley-A
colony of dipsomaniacs-A young man who lived by
his wits
125-138
Percy Vernon-Stone's-The sporting tailors-The Café
de l'Europe-The teetotum, and how to spin it-Half-
crown - hunters and their methods-The Haymarket
flower-girls-Polly
139-156
CHAPTER IX
'Summer season' at the Haymarket-The meanness of the
'dead-head''House full' - Bold advertisement-
Stage-door beggars-A pious crossing-sweeper-A dis-
tressed foreigner
157-170
CHAPTER X
Bohemian amenities-Mrs. Alfred Wigan and Mrs. Keeley-
'Bottle on it'-My earliest recollection of Beerbohm
Tree-An unchronicled conflagration at Her Majesty's
Opera-House-One or two Bancroft stories-A con-
scientious 'extra-lady' — Harry Kemble and Arthur
Cecil and the New Year-Cecil as an equestrian
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171-188
CHAPTER XI
Maurice Barrymore-A conjugal reproof-Justice in the Far
West-A bigamy trial in Pennsylvania-The Burglar
and the Judge'-Stage burglars and real ones-
Criminal lines of business'-Card-sharping-An old
American 'sport'-The road to wealth-Millionaires at
play-Mr. Lowenfeld
189-215
CHAPTER XII
Music-halls-The variety artist's coachman The Great
Vance-An original prestidigitator-Mr. Samuel French
and his entertaining friends-Eric Lewis as a dog-fancier
-Alfred Cellier-The tale of a cheque `-216-233
CHAPTER XIII
A Customers' Protection Society'-Charing Cross Hospital
-An operation-An unwarrantable intrusion at West-
minster Hospital-A lady who changed her doctor-
Firemen and their ways-How to make out a fire
assurance inventory-Fires in theatres
234-249
CHAPTER XIV
A political programme-Trial by jury-Justice shuts her
eyes-An adroit 'get-out '-A company case-A peevish
Judge-The jury disagree-In the Isle of Wight-
Shipwrecks-A zealous coastguard-The Irex-The
Complete Reciter at fault-A trip to Madeira-A burial
at sea-Hospitality at Funchal-Dutch courage
250-269
CHAPTER XV
Sunny
Monte Carlo - The enchantment of the place
memories-A giant in those days-The dégringolade of
the croupier-A disputed stake-Playing on a system-
The only sure way to win-French detectives-Their
naïveté-A French confidence-man' - 270-287
America-The extraordinary hospitality of the natives-The
adventures of a night-In gaol-A novel drive-A
cageful of malefactors-My health breaks down-Con-
sumption, and how to cure it: by one who has still got
it-Bordighera-Pleurisy-The Black Forest-Chopin's
'Funeral March'-My obituary notices
288-305