Chapter I: Front Matter

SET DOWN IN MALICE

SET DOWN IN MALICE
A BOOK OF REMINISCENCES

BY
GERALD CUMBERLAND

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“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I
contradict myself.”
Walt Whitman.

BRENTANO’S
NEW YORK
MDCCCCXIX

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED EDINBURGH

UXORI HORAS AMISSAS REDDO

PREFATORY NOTE

Very many of the following pages were written in the trenches and dug-outs of Greece and Serbia. I added a chapter or two in Port Said, Alexandria and Marseilles. That is to say, I wrote far away from books and without reference to documents, and I wrote to refresh a mind dulled by the conditions of Active Service in the Near East. A few chapters were written in London and a few in Winchester.

Here and there may be found factual inaccuracies, though if these exist I am not aware of them. But the spirit of the book is as near the truth as I can bring it.

Gerald Cumberland

Winchester
_2nd June 1918_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Mr George Bernard Shaw 11

II. Miscellaneous 22
Mrs Annie Besant—Mr Marcus Stone—Mr Lloyd
George—Bishop Welldon—Dr Walford Davies

III. Mr Frank Harris 32

IV. Miscellaneous 47
Madame Yvette Guilbert—Sir Victor Horsley—
Mrs Pankhurst—Mr Jacob Epstein—Madame Aïno
Ackté

V. Mr Stanley Houghton and Mr Harold Brighouse 55

VI. Some Writers 68
Mr Arnold Bennett—Mr G. K. Chesterton—
Mr Lascelles Abercrombie—Mr Harold Monro—
Mr John Masefield—Mr Jerome K. Jerome—Sir
Owen Seaman—Mr A. A. Milne

VII. Sir Edward Elgar 79

VIII. Intellectual Freaks 88

IX. Fleet Street 102

X. Mr Hall Caine 117

XI. More Writers 128
Rev. T. E. Brown—Mr A. R. Orage—Mr Norman
Angell—Mr St John Ervine—Mr Charles Marriott
—Mr Max Beerbohm—Mr Israel Zangwill—Mr
Alphonse Courlander—Mr Ivan Heald—Mr Dixon
Scott—Mr Barry Pain—Mr Cunninghame Graham

XII. Musical Critics 143

XIII. Manchester People 153

XIV. Chelsea and Mr Augustus John 166

XV. Miscellaneous 175
Mr Arthur Henderson, M.P.—Lord Derby—Miss
Elizabeth Robins—Mr Frank Mullings—Mr Harold
Bauer—Mr Emil Sauer—Mr Vladimir de Pachmann

XVI. Cathedral Musical Festivals 187

XVII. People of the Theatre 199
Sir Herbert Tree—Mr Gordon Craig—Mr Henry
Arthur Jones—Mr Temple Thurston—Miss Janet
Achurch—Miss Horniman.

XVIII. Berlin and Some of its People 212

XIX. Some Musicians 226
Edvard Grieg—Sir Frederick H. Cowen—Dr Hans
Richter—Sir Thomas Beecham—Sir Charles
Santley—Mr Landon Ronald—Mr Frederic Austin

XX. Two Chelsea Rags, 1914 and 1918 239

XXI. More Musicians 246
Professor Granville Bantock—Mr Frederick
Delius—Mr Joseph Holbrooke—Dr Walford Davies
—Dr Vaughan Williams—Dr W. G. McNaught—Mr
Julius Harrison—Mr Rutland Boughton—Mr John
Coates—Mr Cyril Scott

XXII. People I would like to meet 263

XXIII. Night Clubs 273

Index 283