Produced by Peter Vachuska, Malcolm Farmer, Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net MEMOIRS OF LIFE AND LITERATURE [Illustration] Books by W. H. MALLOCK Memoirs of Life and Literature The Limits of Pure Democracy _5th Edition_ Religion as a Credible Doctrine The Reconstruction of Belief _Novels_ The Individualist _3rd Edition_ The Heart of Life _3rd Edition_ A Human Document _9th Edition_ [Illustration: ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE] MEMOIRS OF LIFE AND LITERATURE BY W. H. MALLOCK AUTHOR OF "RECONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF" ETC. ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON MCMXX MEMOIRS OF LIFE AND LITERATURE Copyright, 1920, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published September, 1920 CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I FAMILY ANTECEDENTS 1 The Mallocks of Cockington--Some Old Devonshire Houses--A Child's Outlook on Life CHAPTER II THE TWO NATIONS 20 The Rural Poor of Devonshire--The Old Landed Families--An Ecclesiastical Magnate CHAPTER III A PRIVATE TUTOR DE LUXE 9 Early Youth Under a Private Tutor--Poetry--Premonitions of Modern Liberalism CHAPTER IV WINTER SOCIETY AT TORQUAY 53 Early Acquaintance with Society--Byron's Grandson, Lord Houghton--A Dandy of the Old School, Carlyle--Lord Lytton, and Others--Memorable Ladies CHAPTER V EXPERIENCES AT OXFORD 68 Early Youth at Oxford--Acquaintance with Browning, Swinburne, and Ruskin--Dissipations of an Undergraduate--The Ferment of Intellectual Revolution--_The New Republic_ CHAPTER VI THE BASIS OF LONDON SOCIETY 92 Early Experiences of London Society--Society Thirty Years Ago Relatively Small--Arts and Accomplishments Which Can Flourish in Small Societies Only CHAPTER VII VIGNETTES OF LONDON LIFE 113 Byron's Grandson and Shelley's Son--The World of Balls--The "Great Houses," and Their New Rivals--The Latter Criticized by Some Ladies of the Old Noblesse--Types of More Serious Society--Lady Marian Alford and Others--_Salons_ Exclusive and Inclusive--A Clash of Two Rival Poets--The Poet Laureate--Auberon Herbert and the Simple Life--Dean Stanley--Whyte Melville--"Ouida"--"Violet Fane"--Catholic Society--Lord Bute--Banquet to Cardinal Manning--Difficulties of the Memoir-writer--Lord Wemyss and Lady P---- --Indiscretions of Augustus Hare--Routine of a London Day--The Author's Life Out of London CHAPTER VIII