Memoirs of Life and Literature

Byron's Grandson and Shelley's Son--The World of Balls--The "Great Houses," and Their New Rivals--The Latter Criticized by Some Ladies of the Old Noblesse--Types of More Serious...

The So-called Anglican Crisis--_Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption_--Three Novels: _A Human Document_, _The Heart of Life_, _The Individualist_--Three Works on the Philosophy of...

Literature as Speech Made Permanent--All Written Speech Not Literature--The Essence of Literature for Its Own Sake--Prose as a Fine Art--Some Interesting Aspects of Literature a...

"Memoirs" is a word which, as commonly used, includes books of very various kinds, ranging from St. Augustine's _Confessions_ to the gossip of Lady Dorothy Nevill. Such books, h...

Our impressions of the cottagers, to which I have just alluded--and for us the cottagers represented the people of England generally--were not, it is true, derived from our own...

The tutor of whom I have spoken was the Rev. W. B. Philpot, a favorite pupil of Doctor Arnold's at Rugby, an intimate friend of Tennyson's, and himself a devotee of the Muses. H...

Of the men--the noteworthy men--with whom I thus became acquainted before I had escaped from the torture of my last examination at Oxford, most had a taste for literature, while...

My experiences at Oxford I may divide into two groups--namely, those belonging to the social life of an undergraduate, and those consisting of the effects--philosophical, moral,...

Comparing London society as it was when I first knew it with what it has since become, I should say that its two most distinguishing features were its then comparative smallness...

Byron's Grandson and Shelley's Son--The World of Balls--The "Great Houses," and Their New Rivals--The Latter Criticized by Some Ladies of the Old Noblesse--Types of More Serious...

The pleasantest form of society in country houses--I speak here for myself--is not to be found on occasions such as that of a great shooting party or a party for a country ball,...

The sketches which I have just given of my purely social experiences may seem, so far as they go, to represent a life which, since the production of _The New Republic_, was main...

One May morning in London, when I had just completed a fortnight of political speaking in Fifeshire, a friend of mine, Ernest Beckett (afterward the second Lord Grimthorpe), cam...

In spite of the severance of my connection with the St. Andrews Boroughs, I found, when I returned to England from Monte Carlo, that my active connection with politics was not b...

By the time of which I am now speaking Richard Mallock was Member for the Torquay division of Devonshire, and I often still helped him at political and other meetings in his con...

My visit to Cyprus one year, and my visit to Hungary the next, were both of them retreats from the life of political and even philosophical thought. They were frank acts of trua...

The So-called Anglican Crisis--_Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption_--Three Novels: _A Human Document_, _The Heart of Life_, _The Individualist_--Three Works on the Philosophy of...

During the five years occupied in elaborating these philosophical works I enjoyed two intervals of relaxation, which in the landscape of memory detach themselves from other kind...

The invitation which I have just mentioned emanated from the Civic Federation of New York--a body established for the promotion, by knowledge and sober argument, of some rationa...

I began these memoirs with observing that they are in part a mere series of sketches and social anecdotes strung on the thread of the writer's own experiences, and as such illus...

Literature as Speech Made Permanent--All Written Speech Not Literature--The Essence of Literature for Its Own Sake--Prose as a Fine Art--Some Interesting Aspects of Literature a...