: Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray David Christie - Novelists English 19th century Biography; M

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The Unlucky Day of the Fool's Month--High Street, West Bromwich--My First Pedestrian Triumph--The Common English Bracken--The Sense of Beauty.

My Father--The Murrays--The Courage of Childhood--The Girl from the Workhouse--Witchcraft--The Dudley Devil--The Deformed Methodist--A Child's Idea of the Creator--The Policeman--Sir Ernest Spencer's Donkey--The High Street Pork Butcher.

My Father's Printing Office--The Prize Ring--The Fistic Art--First Steps in Education--A Boy's Reading--Carlyle--Parents and Children--A School Chum--Technical Education--Plaster Medallions.

A First View 01 London--Charles Dickens--The Photograph--On the Coach to Oxford--The Manuscript of Our Mutual Friend--An Unpublished Chapter--Dickens as Reader--The British Museum Reading-Room.

I Enlist--St George's Barracks--The Recruits--From Bristol to Cork--Sergeants--The Bounty and the Free Kit--Life in the Army--My Discharge--A Sweet Revenge.

Towards Journalism--Dr Kenealy as Parliamentary Candidate--The Wednesbury Advertiser--George Dawson--The First Private Execution--Misprints--The Black Country Sixty Years Ago--Aunt Rachel Old Servants--Local Poets--Mining Dangers.

George Dawson as Editor--Birmingham Politicians--John Bright's Nervousness--The Black Lake Rescue--The Pelsall Hall Colliery Disaster--Archibald Forbes--Out of Work--Edmund Yates and The World--The Hangman--Human Oddities--A Mislaid Cheque--Hero Worship--Three Stories of Carlyle--Journalism.

The House of Commons Press Gallery--Disraeli as Orator--The Story of the Dry Champagne--The Labour Member--Dr Kenealy's Fiasco--Mr Newdigate's Eloquence--Lord Beaconsfield's Success--"Stone-Walling"--Robert Lowe's Classics--The Press Gallery and Mr Gladstone.

The Russo-Turkish War--Constantinople--His Friend the Enemy--Col. Archibald Campbell--The Courage of Non-Combatants--Father Stick--Turkish Economy--Memories of Constantinople.

Constantinople--The Massacre of Kesanlyk--A Sketching Expedition--Failure of Supplies--Correspondent for the Scotsman and the Times--Adrianople--The Case of the Gueschoffs--The Bulgarians.

Retrospect--Return to London--Interview with Mr Gladstone at Ha warden--Reminiscences.

First Fiction--A Life's Atonement--The Casual Tramp--Poor Law Relief--Charles Reade--The Cloister and the Hearth--Wilkie Collins--The Figure in Mediaeval Costume--Joseph's Coat--At Roche-fort--Rainbow Gold--The Anarchist--The Police--The Text of Scripture.

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