Memoirs of Life and Literature. W. H. Mallock
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W. H. Mallock
Memoirs of Life and Literature
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066130930
Table of Contents
MEMOIRS OF LIFE AND LITERATURE
CHAPTER III A PRIVATE TUTOR DE LUXE
CHAPTER IV WINTER SOCIETY AT TORQUAY
CHAPTER V EXPERIENCES AT OXFORD
CHAPTER VI THE BASIS OF LONDON SOCIETY
CHAPTER VII VIGNETTES OF LONDON LIFE
CHAPTER VIII SOCIETY IN COUNTRY HOUSES
CHAPTER IX FROM COUNTRY HOUSES TO POLITICS
CHAPTER X A FIVE MONTHS' INTERLUDE
CHAPTER XI "THE OLD ORDER CHANGES"
CHAPTER XII CYPRUS, FLORENCE, HUNGARY
CHAPTER XIII TWO WORKS ON SOCIAL POLITICS
CHAPTER XIV RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION
CHAPTER XV FROM THE HIGHLANDS TO NEW YORK
CHAPTER XVI POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN AMERICA
CHAPTER XVII THE AUTHOR'S WORKS SUMMARIZED
CHAPTER XVIII LITERATURE AND ACTION
ILLUSTRATIONS
| ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE | Frontispiece | |
| ROBERT BROWNING | Facing p. | 30 |
| THOMAS CARLYLE | " | 64 |
| JOHN RUSKIN | " | 86 |
| OUIDA | " | 126 |
| CARDINAL MANNING | " | 134 |
| HERBERT SPENCER | " | 266 |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT | " | 318 |
MEMOIRS OF LIFE AND LITERATURE
CHAPTER I
FAMILY ANTECEDENTS
The Mallocks of Cockington—Some Old Devonshire Houses—A Child's Outlook on Life
"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, however, have all one family likeness. They all of them represent life as seen by the writers from a personal point of view; and in this sense it is to the family of Memoirs that the present book belongs.
But the incidents or aspects of life which a book of memoirs describes represent something more than themselves. Whether the writer is conscious of the fact or no, they represent a circle of circumstances, general as well as private, to which his individual character reacts; and his reactions, as he records them, may in this way acquire a meaning and unity which have their origin in the age—in the general conditions and movements which his personal recollections cover—rather than in any qualities or adventures which happen to be exclusively his own. Thus if any writer attempts to do what I have done myself—namely, to examine or depict in books of widely different kinds such aspects and problems of life—social, philosophical, religious, and economic—as have in turn engrossed his special attention, he may venture to hope that a memoir of his own activities will be taken as representing an age, rather than a personal story, his personal story being little more than a variant of one which many readers will recognize as common to themselves and him.
Now for all reflecting persons whose childhood reaches back to the middle of the nineteenth century, the most remarkable feature of the period which constitutes the age for themselves cannot fail to be a sequence of remarkable and momentous changes—changes alike in the domains of science, religion, and society; and if any one of such persons