Glances Back Through Seventy Years 2 Volume Paperback Set: Volume SET

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.