Many celebrities and a few others ; a bundle of reminiscences / by William H. Rideing.

Author/creator Rideing, William Henry
Format Book
Publication InfoGarden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
Description335 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 24 cm

Contents A boy's ambitons.--First lessons in journalism.--Midnight oil and beach combing.--A handy man of literature.--A corner of Bohemia.--The lureof the play.--Thomas Bailey Aldrich.--Edgar Fawcett.--Mark Twain and E.C. Stedman.--Some Boston memories.--Henry M. Stanley and Paul du Chaillu.--A royal academician [George H. Boughtou] and his friends.--Glimpses of London society.--Charles Reade and Mrs. Oliphant.--James Payn.--Wilkie Collins, Sir Walter Besant and "Ian Maclaren."--Field Marshal Lord Wolselely.--Two famous war correspondents [Archibald Forbes and Sir William Howard Russell]--Lady St. Helier and Thomas Hardy.--"Toby, M.P." and his circle.--The author of "Lorna Doone."--My acquaintance with Mr. Gladstone.
General noteTitle within red border.
LCCN 12004831

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Joyner General Stacks PN4874.R5 A3 1912 ✔ Available Place Hold