EDWARD ABBOTT PARRY
Reading edition
AUTHOR OF “DOROTHY OSBORNE’S LETTERS,” “JUDGMENTS IN VACATION,” “THE SCARLET HERRING,” “KATAWAMPUS: ITS TREATMENT AND CURE,” “BUTTER SCOTIA,” ETC.
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15, WATERLOO PLACE
1912
[All rights reserved]
To
My Partner, Comrade and Wife
This Volume is dedicated
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. FAREWELL MANCHESTER 1
II. HOME 10
III. STUDENT DAYS 32
IV. CALLED TO THE BAR 49
V. EARLY MEMORIES OF MANCHESTER 65
VI. QUARTER SESSIONS 84
VII. THE SENTENCE OF DEATH 105
VIII. JUDGES OF YESTERDAY 125
IX. FIRST BRIEFS 147
X. ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS 163
XI. THE COMPLEAT CITIZEN 179
XII. THAT REMINDS ME 199
XIII. THE PEARK 219
XIV. OVERTIME 238
XV. PHARISEES AND PUBLICANS 257
XVI. THE MANCHESTER STAGE 278
XVII. QUOTATIONS FROM QUAY STREET 293
XVIII. DEALING IN FUTURES 311
INDEX 317
NOTE
The origin of these reminiscences was the appearance of some papers I contributed to the “Manchester Daily Dispatch” in January of this year. These met with considerable favour, and many readers seemed to think that their story was worthy of being set down in a more permanent fashion. It was to meet this suggestion that I have largely added to and re-written the original essays and published them in book form.
EDWARD A. PARRY.
Sevenoaks,
September, 1912.
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