[ 7 ] PREFATORY NOTE

[ 9 ] CONTENTS

[ 11 ] CHAPTER I GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

[ 22 ] CHAPTER II MISCELLANEOUS

[ 32 ] CHAPTER III FRANK HARRIS

[ 47 ] CHAPTER IV MISCELLANEOUS

[ 55 ] CHAPTER V STANLEY HOUGHTON AND HAROLD BRIGHOUSE

[ 68 ] CHAPTER VI SOME WRITERS

[ 79 ] CHAPTER VII SIR EDWARD ELGAR

[ 88 ] CHAPTER VIII INTELLECTUAL FREAKS

[ 102 ] CHAPTER IX FLEET STREET

[ 117 ] CHAPTER X HALL CAINE

[ 128 ] CHAPTER XI MORE WRITERS

[ 143 ] CHAPTER XII MUSICAL CRITICS

[ 153 ] CHAPTER XIII MANCHESTER PEOPLE

[ 166 ] CHAPTER XIV CHELSEA AND AUGUSTUS JOHN

[ 175 ] CHAPTER XV MISCELLANEOUS

[ 187 ] CHAPTER XVI CATHEDRAL MUSICAL FESTIVALS

[ 199 ] CHAPTER XVII PEOPLE OF THE THEATRE

[ 212 ] CHAPTER XVIII BERLIN AND SOME OF ITS PEOPLE

[ 226 ] CHAPTER XIX SOME MUSICIANS

[ 239 ] CHAPTER XX TWO CHELSEA "RAGS," 1914 AND 1918 1914

[ 246 ] CHAPTER XXI SOME MORE MUSICIANS

[ 263 ] CHAPTER XXII PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO MEET

[ 273 ] CHAPTER XXIII NIGHT CLUBS

[ 283 ] INDEX

Transcriber's Note

BY
GERALD CUMBERLAND

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“Do I contradict myself?  Very well, then, I contradict myself.”
Walt Whitman.

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