240 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page; book plate of former owner on front free endpaper. Blue cloth covers show very mild corner wear, slight bumping to corners; covers not rubbed, and gold lettering still clear and readable. A series of memories by the author of the rich, famous, accomplished, which includes: Giuseppe Garibaldi; Sir William Crookes; Queen Victoria; Edward VII; Alternon Charles Swinburne; John Ruskin; Alfred Tennyson; Robert Browning; Thomas Hughes; Bernard Quaritch; Napoleon III; Cora Pearl; Charles Robert Darwin; Sir Archibald Geikie; Sir John Lubbock; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Sir Henry Irving; Dame Ellen Alicia Terry; George frederick Watts; William Powell Frith; Benjamin Disraeli; William Ewart Gladstone; Sir Henry M. Stanley; george Smith; John Rae; Sir Archibald Colquhoun; Sir Harry Johnston; James William MacTavish; Sir Richard F. Burton; T. E. Lawrence; Thomas Francis Bayard; Whitelaw Reid; Andrew Carnegie; Joseph Pulitzer; George Augustus Sala; Josh Billings; Robert G. Ingersoll; Viscount Northcliffe; William Jennings Bryan; Major George Haven Putnam; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Adelina Patti; Carrie Jacobs Bond; Frederick Harford; frederick william Farrar; Cardinal Desire Mercier; Mamud Ben Dauod; Sir Edwin Arnold;

Memoirs, Giuseppe Garibaldi; Sir William Crookes; Queen Victoria; Edward VII; Alternon Charles Swinburne; John Ruskin; Alfred Tennyson; Robert Browning; Thomas Hughes; Bernard Quaritch; Napoleon III; Cora Pearl; Charles Robert Darwin; Sir Archibald Geikie