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Title: Select Conversations with an Uncle
Author: H. G. Wells
Release Date: July 21, 2009 [EBook #29472]
Language: English
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THE MAYFAIR SET
III
CONVERSATIONS
WITH AN
UNCLE
[Illustration: Title page]
SELECT
CONVERSATIONS
WITH
AN UNCLE
(now extinct)
and two other
reminiscences by
H. G. WELLS
LONDON:
JOHN LANE
NEW YORK
THE MERRIAM COMPANY
1895
_Copyrighted in the United States._
_All rights reserved._
_Second Edition_
TO
MY DEAREST
AND BEST FRIEND
R. A. C.
PREFATORY
He was, I remember, short, but by no means conspicuously short, and of
a bright, almost juvenile, complexion, very active in his movements and
garrulous--or at least very talkative. His judgments were copious and
frequent in the old days, and some at least I found entertaining. At
times his fluency was really remarkable. He had a low opinion of
eminent people--a thing I have been careful to suppress, and his
dissertations had ever an irresponsible gaiety of manner that may have
blinded me to their true want of merit. That, I say, was in the old
days, before his abrupt extinction, before the cares of this world
suddenly sprang upon, and choked him. I would listen to him,
cheerfully, and afterwards I would go away and make articles out of him
for the _Pall Mall Gazette_, so adding a certain material advantage to
my mental and moral benefit. But all that has gone now, to my infinite
regret; and sorrowing, I have arranged this unworthy little tribute to
his memory, this poor dozen of casual monologues that were so
preserved. The merits of the monument are his entirely; its faults
entirely my own.
CONTENTS
SELECT CONVERSATIONS--
OF CONVERSATION AND THE ANATOMY OF FASHION
THE THEORY OF THE PERPETUAL DISCOMFORT OF HUMANITY
THE USE OF IDEALS
THE ART OF BEING PHOTOGRAPHED
BAGSHOT'S MURAL DECORATIONS
ON SOCIAL MUSIC
THE JOY
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