CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE

I.Mr George Bernard Shaw11

II.Miscellaneous22

Mrs Annie Besant—Mr Marcus Stone—Mr Lloyd George—Bishop Welldon—Dr Walford Davies

III.Mr Frank Harris32

IV.Miscellaneous47

Madame Yvette Guilbert—Sir Victor Horsley—Mrs Pankhurst—Mr Jacob Epstein—Madame Aïno Ackté

V.Mr Stanley Houghton and Mr Harold Brighouse55

VI.Some Writers68

Mr Arnold Bennett—Mr G. K. Chesterton—Mr Lascelles Abercrombie—Mr Harold Monro—Mr John Masefield—Mr Jerome K. Jerome—Sir Owen Seaman—Mr A. A. Milne

VII.Sir Edward Elgar79

VIII.Intellectual Freaks88

IX.Fleet Street102

X.Mr Hall Caine117

XI.More Writers128

Rev. T. E. Brown—Mr A. R. Orage—Mr Norman Angell—Mr St John Ervine—Mr Charles Marriott—Mr Max Beerbohm—Mr Israel Zangwill—Mr Alphonse Courlander—Mr Ivan Heald—Mr Dixon Scott—Mr Barry Pain—Mr Cunninghame Graham

XII.Musical Critics143

XIII.Manchester People153

XIV.Chelsea and Mr Augustus John166

XV.Miscellaneous175

Mr Arthur Henderson, M.P.—Lord Derby—Miss Elizabeth Robins—Mr Frank Mullings—Mr Harold Bauer—Mr Emil Sauer—Mr Vladimir de Pachmann

XVI.Cathedral Musical Festivals187

XVII.People of the Theatre199

Sir Herbert Tree—Mr Gordon Craig—Mr Henry Arthur Jones—Mr Temple Thurston—Miss Janet Achurch—Miss Horniman.

XVIII.Berlin and Some of its People212

XIX.Some Musicians226

Edvard Grieg—Sir Frederick H. Cowen—Dr Hans Richter—Sir Thomas Beecham—Sir Charles Santley—Mr Landon Ronald—Mr Frederic Austin

XX.Two Chelsea Rags, 1914 and 1918239

XXI.More Musicians246

Professor Granville Bantock—Mr Frederick Delius—Mr Joseph Holbrooke—Dr Walford Davies—Dr Vaughan Williams—Dr W. G. McNaught—Mr Julius Harrison—Mr Rutland Boughton—Mr John Coates—Mr Cyril Scott

XXII.People I would like to meet263

XXIII.Night Clubs273

Index283