MY LIFE AS AN AUTHOR ***
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Martin Tupper's Autobiography
MY LIFE
AS AN AUTHOR
BY
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER D.C.L. F.R.S.
_Viri, vivo, vivam._
LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON CROWN BUILDINGS, 188 FLEET STREET, E.C. 1886
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. Page Preliminary--Sonnet--Public Life, not Private--Benjamin Franklin--Samples from Books--Self-judgment 1-6
CHAPTER II.
Infancy and Schooldays--Parentage--Germany and Guernsey, America and Canada--Winsor's Patent Gaslights--King George III.'s Blessing--My Father's Dream--Second Sight--Heredity--First School at Brentford--Next at Brook Green--Third Charterhouse--Dr. Russell--Parson Schoolmasters--Coins and Hoops--Andrew Irvine--Cockshies--Harpies at the Feast--Dr. Stocker--Holt's--M'Neile--Harold Browne 7-25
CHAPTER III.
Young Authorship in Verse and Prose--Melite--Rough Rhymes--Carthage--Umbrella Sapphics--Height of Honesty--Holkar Hall--Melrose Abbey--Heidelberg--Pterodactyles--The Buckstone--Scotch Journal--Vitrified Forts--Ireland--Kingston Caverns--Cornish Letter and Sketches--Penzance--The Logan--Land's End--St. Michael's Mount--Rapid Travel 26-51
CHAPTER IV.
College Days--Voice from the Cloister--Gladstone--Aristotle Class--Giants in those Days--Studentship--A Reading-Man--College Larks--D.C.L.--Dr. Bliss 52-61
CHAPTER V.
Failure as to Orders--Stammering--Blewbury Vicarage--Lincoln's Inn--Lewin's Critique--Brodie's Cacography--Inkpen's Entomology--Duke of Wellington--Walters'--Letter as to India--Barrister and Benedict--A Hoax--Theodore Hook--Old Lady Cork 62-71
CHAPTER VI.
Stammering--Man's Privilege of Speech--Chess Playing--Anecdotes--Angling--Fishing Sonnets 72-78
CHAPTER VII.
Oxford Prize Poems--Verses in the Schools--Parodies--Rhyme and Rhythm--Scriptural Science--Classic Parallels 79-85
CHAPTER VIII.
Sundry Providences--The Small Semisuicide--A Concussion--Horse Accidents--Perils by Land and Sea--Lydstep Cavern 86-89
CHAPTER IX.
Yet more Escapes--White Cross Guild--Evils and Temptations--Potipheras--Heresies--Creeds 90-94
CHAPTER X.
Fads and Fancies--Vegetarian--Teetotalism--The Anglo-Saxon--Opera Colonnade--Moderation--America Revisited--Poem on Temperance and Total Abstinence--Gough--Dr. Hodgkin--A Martyr--Clerical Letter on Pharisaism 95-104
CHAPTER XI.
Sacra Poesis--Geraldine--Critiques--John and Tom Hughes--Donnington Priory--Little Providences 105-110
CHAPTER XII.
Origin of "Proverbial Philosophy"--M'Neile and Stebbing--N.P. Willis--Harrison Ainsworth--Hatchard's--Moxon's--Cassell's--A Prophecy--My Father's Letter and Gift--Sixty Times--Politeuphuia--Parallels--Mr. Orton's Volume--American Laudations, and English--As to _per contra_--Copyright Question--Wedding Gifts--An Elizabethan Author--Seldom Seen, and Few Adventures 111-133
