Many celebrities and a few others : a bundle of reminiscences
A boy's ambitions.--First lessons in journalism.--Midnight oil and beach combing.--A handy man of literature.--A corner of Bohemia.--The lure of the play.--Thomas Bailey Aldrich.--Edgar Fawcett.--Mark Twain and E.C. Stedman.--Some Boston memories.--Henry M. Stanley and Paul du Chaillu.--A royal academician [George H. Boughton] and his friends.--Glimpses of London society.--Charles Reade and Mrs. Oliphant.--James Payn.--Wilkie Collins, Sir Walter Besant and "Ian Maclaren."--Field Marshal Lord Wolseley.--Two famous war correspondents [Archibald Forbes and Sir William Howard Russell]--Lady St. Helier and Thomas Hardy.--"Toby, M.P." and his circle.--The author of "Lorna Doone."--My acquaintance with Mr. Gladstone
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