Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber’s Note: A few obvious printer’s mistakes have been corrected (in particular in the Index, where entries often didn’t match the spelling given in the main text, and have been changed to do so); any remaining errors are the author’s own. THE PUPPET SHOW OF MEMORY [Illustration: COOMBE COTTAGE] THE PUPPET SHOW OF MEMORY BY MAURICE BARING BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1922 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN NOTE My thanks are due to Messrs. Methuen for allowing me to use in Chapters XVI.-XIX. some matter which has already appeared in _A Year in Russia_ and _Russian Essays_, two books published by them; to Mr. Leo Maxse for allowing me to use an article on Sarah Bernhardt which appeared in the _National Review_, and has been re-written for this book; to Father C. C. Martindale and Mr. Desmond MacCarthy for kindly correcting the proofs. M. B. TO J. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. THE NURSERY 1 II. THE NURSERY AND THE SCHOOLROOM 14 III. MEMBLAND 31 IV. MEMBLAND 46 V. SCHOOL 68 VI. ETON 87 VII. GERMANY 118 VIII. ITALY, CAMBRIDGE, GERMANY, LONDON 138 IX. OXFORD AND GERMANY 165 X. PARIS 181 XI. COPENHAGEN 208 XII. SARAH BERNHARDT 227 XIII. ROME 245 XIV. RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA 263 XV. BATTLES 287 XVI. LONDON, MANCHURIA, RUSSIA 305 XVII. RUSSIA: THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION 332 XVIII. ST. PETERSBURG 356 XIX. TRAVEL IN RUSSIA 367 XX. SOUTH RUSSIA, JOURNALISM, LONDON 386 XXI. CONSTANTINOPLE (1909) 397 XXII. THE BALKAN WAR, 1912 406 XXIII. CONSTANTINOPLE ONCE MORE (1912) 418 XXIV. THE FASCINATION OF RUSSIA 430 INDEX 439 ILLUSTRATIONS COOMBE COTTAGE _Frontispiece_