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Title: Recollections
With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of
Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and
another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in
facsimile

Author: David Christie Murray

Release Date: August 1, 2007 [EBook #22200]

Language: English

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Produced by David Widger

RECOLLECTIONS

By David Christie Murray

With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original
Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis
Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile.

London

John Long Norris Street, Haymarket

1908

[Illustration: Frontispiece-Portrait]

[Illustration: Titlepage]

CONTENTS

Chapter I........9

The Unlucky Day of the Fool's Month--High Street, West Bromwich--My
First Pedestrian Triumph--The Common English Bracken--The Sense of
Beauty.

Chapter II........14

My Father--The Murrays--The Courage of Childhood--The Girl from the
Workhouse--Witchcraft--The Dudley Devil--The Deformed Methodist--A
Child's Idea of the Creator--The Policeman--Sir Ernest Spencer's
Donkey--The High Street Pork Butcher.

Chapter III........28

My Father's Printing Office--The Prize Ring--The Fistic Art--First Steps
in Education--A Boy's Reading--Carlyle--Parents and Children--A School
Chum--Technical Education--Plaster Medallions.

Chapter IV........42

A First View 01 London--Charles Dickens--The Photograph--On the Coach
to Oxford--The Manuscript of Our Mutual Friend--An Unpublished
Chapter--Dickens as Reader--The British Museum Reading-Room.

Chapter V........53

I Enlist--St George's Barracks--The Recruits--From Bristol to
Cork--Sergeants--The Bounty and the Free Kit--Life in the Army--My
Discharge--A Sweet Revenge.

Chapter VI........67

Towards Journalism--Dr Kenealy as Parliamentary Candidate--The
Wednesbury Advertiser--George Dawson--The First Private
Execution--Misprints--The Black Country Sixty Years Ago--Aunt Rachel Old
Servants--Local Poets--Mining Dangers.

Chapter V