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Chats in the
Book-room

By

Horace N. Pym

Editor of Caroline Fox's Journals; A Mother's Memoir;
A Tour Round my Book-shelves, etc. etc.

With Portrait by MOLLY EVANS, and Two
Photogravures of the Book-room

"If any one, whom you do not know, relates strange stories, be not too ready to believe or report them, and yet (unless he is one of your familiar acquaintances) be not too forward to contradict him."—Sir Matthew Hale.

Privately Printed for the Author in the Year 1896 by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.

To
My Dearly Loved Son

Julian Tindale Pym

I dedicate these "Chats in the Book-room," to which I ask him to extend that noble "Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill," which gilds and elevates his life.

H. N. P.

Christmas,
Foxwold Chase, 1895.

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"Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers,
Sits by the raked-up ashes of the past,
Spreads its thin hands above the whitening embers,
That warm its creeping life-blood till the last."

O. W. Holmes.

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Introduction 1
CHAT I.
On Richard Corney Grain—His home qualities—His love for children—His benevolence—His power of pathos— His letter on a holiday 3
CHAT II.
On a portrait of General Wolfe—On the use of portraits in country-houses—On a sale at Christie's—A curious story about a curious sale 8
CHAT III.
On holiday trips—Across the Atlantic—Some humours of the voyage—Some stories told in the gun-room 18
CHAT IV.
On a private visit to Newgate prison—In Execution yard— Some anecdotes of the condemned 34
CHAT V.
On Book-binding—Some worthy members of the craft —On over-work and the modern race for wealth—Charles Dickens on work—A Song of the City—Anecdote of Mr. Anstey Guthrie 41
CHAT VI.
On an uninvited guest—Her illness—Her convalescence—Her recovery—Her gratitude—On texts in bedrooms—A welcoming banner 53
CHAT VII.
On some minor poets—On vers de Société— On Praed, C. S. Calverley, Locker-Lampson, and Mr. A. Dobson 58
CHAT VIII.
On Mr. Punch and his founders—Concerning portraits of Jerrold, Kenny Meadows, and Horace Mayhew—On Mr. Sala as a painter—A letter from G. A. Sala 66
CHAT IX.
On our schooldays—On Bedford, past and present— On R. C. Lehmann—A poem by him—A Christmas greeting by H. E. Luxmoore 73
CHAT X.
On John Poole, the author of "Paul Pry"—His friendship with Dickens—His letter to Dickens detailing the French Revolution of 1848 82
CHAT XI.
On Ethie Castle—Its artistic treasures—A letter from Charles II.—A true family ghost story 99
CHAT XII.
On Cardinal Manning—Dramatic effect at his Academia—On Poets who are never read, or "hardly ever" 108
CHAT XIII.
On a true story, called "Jane will return"—On Hamilton's "Parodies"—An unknown one, by the Rev. James Bolton 119
CHAT XIV.
On autographs—Mr. James Payn and his lay-sermons—Mrs. Charles Fox of Trebah—Her friendship with Hartley Coleridge—A letter from him—A letter from John Bright to Caroline Fox—Mr. Ruskin as a mineral collector—Five unpublished letters from him 125
CHAT XV.
On Mrs. Lyne Stephens—The story of her early

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