II........84

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.

CHAPTER VIII.......118

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.

Chapter IX........141

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

Chapter X........159

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.

Chapter XI........177

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

Chapter XII........189

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.

Chapter XIII.......221

Eight Hours in Melbourne--The Australian Born--Australians and the
Mother Country--The Governor--The Sydney Bulletin--The Englishman
in Australia-Australian Journalism--The Theatre--The Creed of
Athleticism--The Future.

Chapter XIV.......257

Mr Rudyard Kipling and "Brugglesmith"--New Zealand--Its
Climate--People--Future--Neds Chum--Sir George Grey.

Chapter XV........268

The Dreyfus Case--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Opinion--Meeting at
the Egyptian Hall--Interview with Zola--Maitre Labori--M. Henri
Rochefort--Major Esterhazy.

Chapter XVI.......285

A Few Letters--George Meredith--J. M. Barrie--Advice on Going to
America--A Statue to Washington--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Right
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.--Robert Louis Stevenson--Mr Edmund Gosse
on the Neo-Scottish School--My Contemporaries in Fiction--Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle--Mr Joseph Hocking--Robert Buchanan--Mr E. Marshall Hall,
K.C.

Chapter XVII.......311

Sixtieth Birthday.

RECOLLECTIONS

CHAPTER I

The Unluck