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A collection of autobiographical episodes recounts formative experiences before the author turned thirty, focusing on vivid early memories: cramped boarding-house hardships with vermin and hunger, nights sleeping on park benches, chance encounters and petty criminality, and later travels and odd lodging in diverse landscapes. Each chapter presents a discrete scene or emotion that impressed the narrator, combining practical anecdote with reflective observation about memory, resilience, and the sensory impressions—beds, gas-brackets, benches, weather—that fix those youthful moments in lasting detail.

INDEX

  • “A Case of Eavesdropping,” 252
  • Abbott, Dr. Lyman, sermons on the theology of an Evolutionist, 292 et seq.
  • tribute to N.Y. Times report of his sermons, 294
  • Aberdeen, Lord, Governor-General of Canada, 66
  • Advertising extraordinary, 105
  • Ahlwardt, Rector, anti-semitism of, 229
  • his meeting at Cooper Union Hall, 229 et seq.
  • Alden, Mr., and A. H. Louis, 271
  • Amityville, a quasi lunatic asylum at, 226
  • Anti-semitic campaign in New York, 229 et seq.
  • Apples, dried, and hot water, as hunger-appeaser, 111
  • Arson, frequency of, among Jews, 106
  • Barnum and Bailey’s Circus, a banquet at, 226
  • Beattie, Mr., Boyde and, 206
  • Beauchamp, Montague, 23
  • Belloc, Hilaire, an article by, based on author’s book, 224
  • Bennett, Sterndale, A. H. Louis a pupil of, 269
  • Benson, Archbishop, A. H. Louis’s memories of, 268
  • Bernhardt, Sarah, interview with, 106
  • Bernstein, Mrs., a long-outstanding account with, settled, 213
  • and her third floor back, 80
  • reduces rent—and why, 85
  • removes to another house, 209
  • “Bhagavad Gita,” the, world-scripture of, 32
  • Bingham, Billy, former proprietor of the Hub, 17, 39 et seq.
  • Black Forest, schooldays in the, 24
  • Blackwood, Algernon, a childish recollection of his mother, 259
  • a poem in The Week by, 38
  • an earl’s visit to Sun office, 230
  • an interlude of play-acting, 255 et seq.
  • and Boyde: a scene, 161 et seq.
  • and the Hub hotel, 14, 16 et seq., 39 et seq.
  • as reporter in the Tombs, 99 et seq.
  • as story-teller, 222
  • as violinist, 5, 46, 75, 83, 87, 107, 168, 180
  • assigns his interest in the Hub, 61
  • attends a ball at Government House, 66
  • becomes a partner in an eau de Cologne business, 273, 274
  • beginning of friendship with Alfred H. Louis, 266
  • credited with powers of Black Magic, 77
  • “cribs” from an intoxicated reporter, 108
  • death of his father, 35, 231
  • “detachment” method of, 51, 227, 228
  • disagreement with Dr. Huebner, 156
  • discovers Boyde’s forgery, 132
  • dissolves partnership with Cooper, 14
  • Edinburgh University course of, 14, 51
  • eighteen months on staff of New York Times, 288 et seq.
  • essays magazine writing, 84
  • evangelical upbringing of, 20, 23, 27, 71
  • examined on a charge of arson, 286
  • first experience of morphine, 178
  • five months on Lake Rosseau, 73 et seq.
  • free-lance journalism, 252, 274
  • friendship with a dying doctor, 58 et seq.
  • his mother’s letters, 258
  • improvises accompaniment to “Invocation to Opium,” 168
  • interviews a lion, 102
  • interviews in Tombs prison cell before trial, 101
  • learns French, 37
  • literary apprenticeship of, 6
  • loses faith in mankind, and a regretted act, 210 et seq.
  • maiden speech of, 5, 291
  • off to the goldfields, 235 et seq.
  • on staff of Evening Sun, 91
  • parents of, 17, 18, 21 et seq.
  • partner in dairy concern, 10 et seq.
  • pawnbroking experiences, 88, 110, 120, 252
  • plays in Drinkwater’s “Oliver Cromwell,” 256
  • poses in studios, 44, 158
  • reads Patanjali’s “Yoga Aphorisms,” 28 et seq.
  • receives a visit from Pauline, 152
  • reports a raid on a quasi lunatic asylum, 226
  • reports Dr. Lyman Abbott’s sermons, 292 et seq.
  • resumes duties on Evening Sun, 209
  • returns from Muskoka lakes, 78
  • returns to England, 304
  • secretary to James Speyer, 297 et seq.
  • tackles Boyde re a forged cheque, 138 et seq.
  • talks with Boyde in his cell at Tombs prison, 202
  • teaches French, 5, 7
  • translates French stories, 102, 124, 128, 129
  • unhappy days in New York, 288
  • visited by a banker: further disclosures concerning Boyde, 148
  • visits of an eccentric German doctor, 116, 120, 125
  • visits winter quarters of Barnum and Bailey’s circus, 226
  • warned against Boyde, 112, 135, 136, 147
  • warns a pastor’s daughter against Boyde, 139
  • “Whitey’s” useful hints to, 96, 97, 98
  • why an opening in C.P.R. did not eventuate, 66 et seq.
  • works by, 53, 78, 102, 123, 163, 182, 223, 224, 252
  • Blackwood, Sir Arthur (father), a disregarded counsel of perfection of, 76
  • and the Hub venture, 40
  • death of, 35, 231
  • farewell to author, 40
  • fêted in New York, 5
  • marriage of, 21
  • religious and temperance views of, 17, 18, 21 et seq., 30
  • Bond, Bligh, his “Gate of Remembrance,” 228
  • Bookkeeping, author’s frank opinion of, 298
  • Borden, Lizzie, interview with, 100
  • Bostock’s Circus, a lion escapes from: reporting the episode, 102 et seq.
  • Boyde, Arthur Glyn, an echo of, 299
  • arrest of, 198
  • author’s attachment to, 108, 111
  • committed for trial to General Sessions, 201
  • communicates with Sir A. Blackwood, 202
  • confessions of, 139, 144, 206
  • disguises himself, 160
  • duplicity of, 132, 138 et seq., 149, 160, 206, 207, 211
  • his varied experience of New York, 86 et seq.
  • hunt for, 182 et seq.
  • last sight of, 207
  • letters to author from Tombs prison, 203 et seq.
  • meeting with, 86
  • sentenced, 203
  • telegraphs news of his marriage, 151
  • uneasy suspicions regarding, 119, 122, 124, 129, 131, 134
  • warrant for arrest of, 163
  • Brodie, as salesman, 275
  • heavy insurances of—and a fire, 278 et seq.
  • how he obtained recipe for eau de Cologne, 273
  • introduction to, 272
  • social aspirations of, 273
  • Bronx Park, Sundays in, 216 et seq.
  • Brooklyn Bridge, reflections on, 81
  • Buddhism, a German doctor’s opinion of, 170
  • author’s interest in, 8, 51, 54
  • Dr. Withrow and, 8
  • Calder, introduces himself, 210
  • uninvited, sleeps in author’s bed, 211
  • Campbell, Sir Alexander, Governor of Ontario, 66
  • Canada, social customs unwittingly broken by author in, 66
  • Canadian Pacific Railway, how an opening in, was lost, 65 et seq.
  • Canoeing on Canadian lakes, 74
  • Carey, Mr., manager of New York Times, 291
  • Clay, Cecil, introduction to, 90
  • Clothes, interchangeable, 110
  • Conversion, reflections on, 23 et seq.
  • Cooper, Alfred, partner in Islington Jersey Dairy, 10 et seq.
  • Cooper, Mr., news-editor of Evening Sun, 95
  • Cox, Cleveland, posing for, 158
  • Crayford, home life at, 33, 40
  • Croker, Boss, head of Tammany, 232
  • Dana, Charles A., editor of Evening Sun, 93
  • Davies, Acton, 211
  • and the Boyde story, 201
  • Davis, Richard Harding, a play by, 86
  • an interview with, 83
  • Boyde and, 206
  • Davis, R. H., witnesses capture of an escaped lion, 103
  • de Chaillu, M., 297
  • De Quincey’s “Confessions,” Dr. Huebner and, 125, 168
  • Dixon, his tight-rope walk across the Niagara, 130
  • Dodge, William E., a chance meeting with, 295 et seq.
  • Drug stores and their attraction, 97
  • Drummond, Professor, Sunday lectures at Edinburgh of, 32
  • Dufferin, Lord, a photograph of, in Hub hotel, 43
  • Duluth, and the gold rush, 240
  • “Earth’s Earliest Ages,” Pember’s, 30
  • Easter Day in the Black Forest, 25
  • Eau de Cologne business, author and, 272 et seq.
  • Edinburgh University, author at, 14, 51
  • “Education of Uncle Paul, The,” 123
  • Elephants, their fear of rats, 226
  • Eliot, George, and her Sunday receptions, 269
  • Etruria, launching of, 5
  • Evening Sun, slogan of, 91
  • Evening World, the, a scoop in, 98
  • Evolutionist theology, sermons on, 292 et seq.
  • Ffoulkes, Maude, author’s indebtedness to, 224
  • “Final Word, The” (poem), 267
  • Free-lunch counters, 87, 90
  • Freytag, German reporter, 202, 229
  • his advice to author, 100
  • Frohman, Daniel, and Angus Hamilton, 222
  • Gallup, a half-breed guide, 240
  • camp-fire stories of, 242
  • Galt, Sir Thomas, 6
  • Germans, talkative, 251
  • Gibson, Charles Dana, author poses for, 158
  • Gilmour, jealousy of—and a realistic performance, 256-7
  • Gilmour, organizes a theatrical touring company, 112, 116
  • Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., A. H. Louis and, 268
  • Goff, John, replaces Judge Smythe as Recorder, 232
  • Gold, a quest in search of, 235 et seq.
  • Gosse, Edmund, “Father and Son” of, 22
  • Grant, and author, 114
  • hears and witnesses Boyde’s confession, 140 et seq.
  • warns author against Boyde, 135, 136, 147
  • Hamilton, a clergyman publicly thrashed in, 233
  • Hamilton, Angus, 221, 222
  • and author’s stories, 223, 224
  • suicide of, 224
  • Harcourt, Sir William, president of Cambridge Union, 268
  • Harper’s Magazine, publication of A. H. Louis’s poems in, 267
  • Harris, Carlyle, electrocuted, 101
  • Haschisch, an experiment with, 182
  • Haultain, Arnold, private secretary to Goldwin Smith, 37
  • Henry, O., his conception of New York, 109
  • “Hereafter,” poem by A. H. Louis, 270
  • Hopf, Max, 298, 300
  • Hub hotel, advice to new proprietors of, 41
  • early customers at, 45
  • in hands of a receiver, 61
  • its former proprietor, 17, 39 et seq.
  • opening of, 43
  • purchase of, 41, 42
  • Huebner, Dr. Otto, a disappointment for, 149
  • administers morphine to author, 178, 181
  • and Boyde, 122, 127, 155, 166
  • called in by Boyde, 116 et seq.
  • confesses himself a morphine taker, 171
  • death of, 213
  • friendship with, 164 et seq.
  • his wife and daughter, 164, 165
  • joins in search for Boyde, 183 et seq.
  • life-story of, 174
  • urges author to become a doctor, 127
  • varying moods of, 125, 153, 155, 165, 170, 173, 185
  • Hypnotism, experiments in, 51, 52
  • Irving, Henry, interview with, 106
  • Irvington, Mr. Speyer’s country house at, 299
  • Islington Jersey Dairy, partnership in, 10
  • James, General, a dinner to Sir A. Blackwood, 5, 291
  • James, William, “Varieties of Religious Experience” by, 22, 217-18
  • Jews, a campaign against, 229
  • author’s admiration of, 300
  • “Jimbo,” author’s, 223
  • “John Silence,” 53, 78, 223
  • effects of haschisch described in, 182
  • publication of, 224
  • Jones, Colonel, 291
  • Joseph Lake, Northern Ontario, 74
  • “Julius Le Vallon,” 53
  • Kay, John, and the “Hub” venture, 16 et seq., 39 et seq., 46
  • effect of morphine on, 179
  • his immunity to “night-attacks,” 109
  • histrionic bent of, 46, 75, 90, 111, 112, 255
  • in search of Boyde, 189
  • poses to Smedley, 112
  • served with a blue writ, 64
  • Kingsley, Charles, baptizes A. H. Louis, 266
  • Laffan, Mr., of New York Sun, 91
  • Lake Rosseau, departure for, 63
  • five months on, 74 et seq.
  • Lawler, Detective, 163, 186, 189, 200, 201
  • Lewes, George Henry, A. H. Louis’s talks with, 269
  • Lexow, Senator, and a Tammany investigation, 232
  • Liebesmahl, the, of Moravian Brotherhood, 25
  • Lightfoot, Bishop, A. H. Louis and, 268.
  • Lion, an escaped, a “strong man” and, 104
  • “Listener, The,” author’s, 163, 266
  • Louis, Alfred H., advice re eau de Cologne business, 277
  • and politics, 268, 269
  • arrives, and a description of, 213
  • as editor, 269
  • breakdown of, 269
  • buried in a Hebrew cemetery, 266
  • Cambridge days of, 268
  • claims to be original of Daniel Deronda, 209
  • condemns Gladstone, 268
  • “Hereafter” of, 270
  • his farewell to author, 304
  • legal attainments of, 269
  • meeting with, 262
  • “Night Song” of, 264, 265, 271
  • self-chosen epitaph of, 267, 290
  • “The Final Word” of, 267
  • unfailing guidance of, 301
  • Lowry, Mrs., marries James Speyer, 304
  • Lunatic asylum (a quasi), raid on, 226 et seq.
  • Manchester, Duchess of, marries Sir A. Blackwood, 21
  • Manning, Cardinal, A. H. Louis and, 269
  • Mantell, Bob (Shakespearean actor), 85
  • introduces author to Cecil Clay, 90
  • “Max Hensig, Bacteriologist and Murderer,” author’s story of, 102, 163
  • McCloy, Mr. (managing editor of Evening Sun), 91
  • and author, 221
  • interview with, 92
  • recollections of, 94, 95
  • McKay, owner of olive-oil warehouse, 262, 263
  • Messe noire, a, and its performers, 215
  • Methodist Magazine, author on staff of, 6 et seq.
  • Miller, C. W., editor in chief of New York Times, 291
  • Mitchell, Fire-Marshal, examines author, 286
  • prosecutes Brodie, 282
  • Moody and Sankey visit England, 23
  • Morning Post, an article on the genus “ghost story” in: its writer, 224
  • Morphine, and its effects, 172 et seq., 178, 179
  • Morris (a reputed “stiff” and cut-throat), 248
  • an instance of his kindness, 249
  • Mosquitoes of Rainy Lake City, 247
  • Muldoon, Mr., and author’s report of a students’ concert, 292
  • City editor of New York Times, 285, 291
  • joins staff of Brooklyn Eagle, 300
  • Mullins, editorial writer on Evening Sun, 284
  • Muskoka Lakes of Northern Ontario, 73, 74
  • Mystical minor poet, a, 55 et seq.
  • Nash, Eveleigh, publishes stories by author, 224
  • Nature, spell of, and its influence on author, 32, 35, 49 et seq., 169, 218, 233, 236, 238, 240
  • New York, a lively anti-semitic meeting at, 229
  • horrors of, 108, 109
  • miseries of summer heat in, 231
  • New York Times, author on staff of, 288
  • slogan of, 91, 291
  • Newspaper reporting, reminiscences of, 225 et seq.
  • “Night Song,” poem by A. H. Louis, 264, 265, 271
  • Novelists, instances of their creative power, 77
  • Olive-oil, its value as food, 262
  • Opium, the Invocation to, 168, 169, 180
  • Otto, waiter in Krisch’s, 260
  • Palmer, Lynwood, and Boyde, 159, 206, 208
  • attends trial of Boyde, 203
  • kindness to author, 158
  • Patanjali, “Aphorisms” of, 28 et seq., 255
  • Pawnbroking, experiences of, 88 et seq., 110, 120, 252
  • Paxton, 233, 236 et seq., 246, 249
  • Pember, G. H., evangelical writer of prophetic school, 30, 31
  • Police, New York, the Tammany system and, 107, 183
  • Potter, Bishop, officiates at wedding of James Speyer, 304
  • Prison as “a proper vestibule to a city of Damned Souls,” 109
  • Rainy Lake City, arrival at, 246
  • desolateness of, 248
  • Rainy River district, gold discovered in, 232
  • Reporter, a drunken, 108
  • Reporting for New York papers, experiences acquired from, 92
  • Revivalist movement, author and, 23
  • Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, 301
  • Roper, and Boyde, 197, 198, 199
  • Ryan, a Tammany magistrate, 201
  • Schmidt, “Von,” personality of, 276
  • warns author against Brodie, 275, 277 et seq.
  • Scott, Mr., revivalist, 28
  • Scribner’s Magazine, “A Vagrant’s Epitaph” in, 290
  • Selton, Morton, and his understudy, 86
  • Sevenoaks, a reminiscence of schooldays at, 253
  • Shakespearean rehearsals on Lake Rosseau, 75, 77
  • Smedley, Mr., posing for, 112, 158
  • Smith, Goldwin, and his private secretary, 37
  • Smith, Stanley, 23
  • Smythe, Judge, replaced by John Goff as Recorder, 232
  • sentences Boyde, 203
  • “Snipe” hunting, definition of, 214, 215
  • Social reporting, experiences of, 225
  • Sothern advances money to Boyde, 206
  • Spanish-American War, the, 301
  • Spectator reviews author’s published stories, 224
  • Spencer, Herbert, A. H. Louis’s talks with, 269
  • Speyer, James, a letter of introduction to, 297
  • a present to author, 304
  • and the University Settlement movement, 299
  • as friend and employer, 299
  • as philanthropist, 298, 299
  • author becomes secretary to, 297 et seq.
  • marriage of, 304
  • tact and kindly feeling of, 298
  • Speyer, Sir Edgar, 298, 300
  • Spiritualism, a doctor’s exposition of, 52, 53
  • Spiritualist, a cement-maker as, 55
  • Staten Island, a cricket match on, 85, 86
  • Stephen, Sir George, 65
  • Stevenson, R. L., a dictum of, 78
  • Stewart, Sir Donald, 65
  • Storey, Mr., editor of Harper’s Young People, accepts an article by author, 84
  • Strathcona, Lord, 5
  • Studd brothers (cricketers), 23
  • Sullivan, Tim, and his rival saloon, 19
  • Tammany Hall, a Committee of Investigation into methods of, 232
  • Tammany system, the, 97, 107
  • the “Tenderloin” region and, 183
  • Temperance and General Life Assurance Company, author’s post in, 6, 18
  • Terry, Ellen, interview with, 106
  • Theosophical Society meetings, attendance at, 107
  • Theosophy, author’s early interest in, 32
  • “The Interpreters,” by A. E., 218, 219
  • “The Listener,” 163, 266
  • Tombs Police Court and Prison, the, 99
  • trial of Boyde at, 200
  • Toronto, author as hotel proprietor in, 39
  • Understanding, a spiritual wisdom, 270, 271
  • Union League Club dinner, author’s maiden speech at, 5, 291
  • University Settlement movement, the, James Speyer and, 299
  • “Vagrant’s Epitaph, A,” 290
  • van Horne, Sir William, 5, 65
  • Vermin-infested bedroom, an uncomfortable night in a, 85
  • Wallace, Professor, of Edinburgh University, 14
  • Whitey, a parting present of a bottle of rye whisky, 234, 237
  • hints to author, 96-98
  • Withrow, Dr., editor of Methodist Magazine, 6 et seq.
  • Yonkers theatre, a realistic scene in a, 257
  • Zogbaum, illustrator, 158