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A series of episodic recollections recounts life and travel in several colonies, including extended experiences in New Zealand and later visits to Natal, Western Australia, Trinidad, and Rodrigues. Personal anecdotes and social sketches describe domestic routines, colonial servants, household and cooking memories, and encounters with administrators and military life, alongside interviews and portraits of public figures. Natural-history notes, especially on birds, appear beside reflections on changing social customs and institutions. The collection balances chatty vignettes, practical detail, and gentle commentary to trace how landscape, society, and everyday colonial experience evolved over time.
My cordial thanks are due—and given—to the Editor of the Cornhill Magazine, within whose pages some of these “Memories” have from time to time appeared, for permission to republish them in this form. Also to the Editor of the Boudoir, where my “Girls—Old and New” made their début last season.
M. A. B.
October 1904