Glances Back Through Seventy Years
Autobiographical and Other Reminiscences
2 Volume Paperback Set

Table of Contents

Volume I:
1. When George IV was king
2. School days
3. The reform frenzy and the rick-burnings
4. The flood of penny literature
5. Songs and slang phrases
6. Early pencil and graver work
7. Some struggling artists
8. 'Heads of the people' and 'Illustrious Shakspere'
9. Ribald newspapers and their editors
10. A Derbyshire excursion
11. Alfred Bunn and Alfred Crowquill
12. The origin of the 'Illustrated London News'
13. 'The Pictorial Times'
14. The Chevalier Wikoff and his capture of an heiress
15. My recollections of W. M. Thackeray
16. Disraeli's friendly overtures to 'Punch'
17. 'Pasquin' and the 'puppet show'
18. A fictitious goldfinder's diary
19. A theft from Napoleon's privy purse
20. Macaulay's speeches
21. The Palmer trial
Volume II:
22. The French detective and his smart subordinate
23. An expedition to Homburg
24. The paper duty agitation
25. On board the Great Eastern during the explosion
26. A suspicious fire at Campden House
27. The Shakspeare tercentenary committee and Mr Thackeray
28. French apartments
29. Odd ways of getting a living in Paris
30. New Year's Day in Paris
31. European potentates in Paris
32. At the prefecture of police
33. With the court at Compiègne
34. On and about the boulevards
35. In Brittany
36. The Italian colony
37. Boulevardian journalists
38. In the vineyards of the Médoc
39. A conflagration among the Bordeaux shipping
40. The Pantin tragedy
41. At Troppman's execution
42. In the wake of Rory of the Hills.