_Memories of an Old Etonian 1860-1912_ [Illustration: The Rev. D. Hornby, Provost of Eton. [_Frontispiece._] _MEMORIES OF AN OLD ETONIAN :: 1860-1912_ _By George Greville :: Author of “Society Recollections in Paris and Vienna” and “More Society Recollections.”_ [Illustration] _WITH 22 ILLUSTRATIONS ON ART PAPER_ _LONDON: HUTCHINSON & CO._ _:: :: PATERNOSTER ROW :: ::_ CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I. 1 Early Recollections—Thackeray—The Princess Liegnitz—The Austrian Bandmaster—Society at Homburg—Frankfurt—Goethe and Beethoven—A Racing Coincidence CHAPTER II. 18 An Adventure in the Oden Wald—The Coiners of the Black Forest—Kirchhofer’s School CHAPTER III. 27 Brussels—Ostend—General Sir John Douglas—Spa—“Captain Arthy”—Boulogne CHAPTER IV. 40 A Painting by Romney—Hunter’s School at Kineton—Corporal Punishment—A Sporting Parson—My Schoolfellows at Kineton—The Warre-Malets—Lord Charleville CHAPTER V. 54 My Mother’s Recollections—The Cercle des Patineurs—Patti—Our _Appartement_ in the Rue d’Albe CHAPTER VI. 63 I go to Eton—New Boy Baiting—My House Master—Mr. James’s “Jokes”—My Room at Eton—Some Eton Masters—A Disorderly Form—Lacaita’s Silk Hat—“Billy” Portman CHAPTER VII. 80 An Amusing Incident—Lady Caroline Murray—An Anecdote of Queen Victoria—Lord Rossmore’s Wager—The Match at the Wall—Practical Jokes—Some Boys at James’s CHAPTER VIII. 94 Athletic Sports at Eton—A “Scrap”—Lord Newlands—An Old Boy on Eton of To-day CHAPTER IX. 103 Lady Grace Stopford—Tipperary in 1870—Robbed at Punchestown Races—I get my own back CHAPTER X. 110 Dieppe under Prussian Rule—A Toilette by Worth—A Confirmed Gambler CHAPTER XI. 116 The Princess von Metternich—The Lady of the Luxembourg Gardens CHAPTER XII. 123