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First View 01 London--Charles Dickens--The Photograph--On the Coach to Oxford--The Manuscript of Our Mutual Friend--An Unpublished Chapter--Dickens as Reader--The British Museum Reading-Room.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