Chapter I: Front Matter

MEMOIRS OF LIFE AND LITERATURE

Books by W. H. MALLOCK

Memoirs of Life and Literature The Limits of Pure Democracy _5th Edition_ Religion as a Credible Doctrine The Reconstruction of Belief

_Novels_

The Individualist _3rd Edition_ The Heart of Life _3rd Edition_ A Human Document _9th Edition_

MEMOIRS OF LIFE AND LITERATURE

BY

W. H. MALLOCK

AUTHOR OF

"RECONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF" ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON MCMXX

MEMOIRS OF LIFE AND LITERATURE

Copyright, 1920, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published September, 1920

CONTENTS

PAGE
CHAPTER I

FAMILY ANTECEDENTS 1

The Mallocks of Cockington--Some Old Devonshire Houses--A
Child's Outlook on Life

CHAPTER II

THE TWO NATIONS 20

The Rural Poor of Devonshire--The Old Landed Families--An
Ecclesiastical Magnate

CHAPTER III

A PRIVATE TUTOR DE LUXE 9

Early Youth Under a Private Tutor--Poetry--Premonitions of
Modern Liberalism

CHAPTER IV

WINTER SOCIETY AT TORQUAY 53

Early Acquaintance with Society--Byron's Grandson, Lord
Houghton--A Dandy of the Old School, Carlyle--Lord Lytton, and
Others--Memorable Ladies

CHAPTER V

EXPERIENCES AT OXFORD 68

Early Youth at Oxford--Acquaintance with Browning, Swinburne,
and Ruskin--Dissipations of an Undergraduate--The Ferment of
Intellectual Revolution--_The New Republic_

CHAPTER VI

THE BASIS OF LONDON SOCIETY 92

Early Experiences of London Society--Society Thirty Years Ago
Relatively Small--Arts and Accomplishments Which Can Flourish in
Small Societies Only

CHAPTER VII

VIGNETTES OF LONDON LIFE 113

Byron's Grandson and Shelley's Son--The World of Balls--The
"Great Houses," and Their New Rivals--The Latter Criticized by
Some Ladies of the Old Noblesse--Types of More Serious
Society--Lady Marian Alford and Others--_Salons_ Exclusive and
Inclusive--A Clash of Two Rival Poets--The Poet
Laureate--Auberon Herbert and the Simple Life--Dean
Stanley--Whyte Melville--"Ouida"--"Violet Fane"--Catholic
Society--Lord Bute--Banquet to Cardinal Manning--Difficulties of
the Memoir-writer--Lord Wemyss and Lady P---- --Indiscretions of
Augustus Hare--Routine of a London Day--The Author's Life Out of
London

CHAPTER VIII

SOCIETY IN COUNTRY HOUSES 142

A Few Country Houses of Various Types--Castles and Manor Houses
from Cornwall to Sutherland

CHAPTER IX

FROM COUNTRY HOUSES TO POLITICS 168

First Treatise on Politics--Radical Propaganda--First Visit to
the Highlands--The Author Asked to Stand for a Scotch
Constituency

CHAPTER X

A FIVE MONTHS' INTERLUDE 194

A Venture on the Riviera--Monte Carlo--Life in a Villa at
Beaulieu--A Gambler's Suicide--A Gambler's Funeral

CHAPTER XI

"THE OLD ORDER CHANGES" 209

Intellectual Apathy of Conservatives--A Novel Which Attempts to
Harmonize Socialist Principles with Conservative

CHAPTER XII

CYPRUS, FLORENCE, HUNGARY 226

A Winter in Cyprus--Florence--Siena--Italian
Castles--Cannes--Some Foreign Royalties--Visit During the
Following Spring to Princess Batthyany in Hungary

CHAPTER XIII

TWO WORKS ON SOCIAL POLITICS 255

The Second Lord Lytton at Knebworth--"Ouida"--Conservative
Torpor as to Social Politics--Two Books: _Labor and the Popular
Welfare_ and _Aristocracy and Evolution_--Letters from Herbert
Spencer

CHAPTER XIV

RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION 270

The So-called Anglican Crisis--_Doctrine and Doctrinal
Disruption_--Three Novels: _A Human Document_, _The Heart of
Life_, _The Individualist_--Three Works on the Philosophy of
Religion: _Religion as a Credible Doctrine_, _The Veil of the
Temple_, _The Reconstruction of Belief_--Passages from _The Veil
of the Temple_

CHAPTER XV

_From the Highlands to New York_ 292

Summer on the Borders of Caithness--A Two Months' Yachting
Cruise--The Orkneys and the Outer Hebrides--An Unexpected
Political Summons

CHAPTER XVI

POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN AMERICA 308

Addresses on Socialism--Arrangements for Their
Delivery--American Society in Long Island and New
York--Harvard--Prof. William James--President
Roosevelt--Chicago--Second Stay in New York--New York to
Brittany--_A Critical Examination of Socialism_--Propaganda in
England

CHAPTER XVII

THE AUTHOR'S WORKS SUMMARIZED 335

A Boy's Conservatism--Poetic Ambitions--The Philosophy of
Religious Belief--The Philosophy of Industrial
Conservatism--Intellectual Torpor of Conservatives--Final
Treatises and Fiction

CHAPTER XVIII

LITERATURE AND ACTION 343

Literature as Speech Made Permanent--All Written Speech Not
Literature--The Essence of Literature for Its Own Sake--Prose as
a Fine Art--Some Interesting Aspects of Literature as an End in
Itself--Their Comparative Triviality--No Literature Great Which
Is Not More Than Literature--Literature as a Vehicle of
Religion--Lucretius--_The Reconstruction of Belief_

INDEX 373

ILLUSTRATIONS

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE _Frontispiece_

ROBERT BROWNING _Facing p. 30_

THOMAS CARLYLE " 64

JOHN RUSKIN " 86

OUIDA " 126

CARDINAL MANNING " 134

HERBERT SPENCER " 266

THEODORE ROOSEVELT " 318

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