Memories of Victorian London

Résumé : In my former volume of "Recollections [of a Scottish Novelist]," [(1910)] no reference was made to certain episodes which must always rank among the great days of my life, yet which did not fit in with the general tenor of that book. They had an interest all their own. They coulde not be dismissed with a passing tribute. They merited more-much more. They haunted me in many a lonely Highland glen, or by the waters of some lapping lake-and the time seems now come when they can be put on record. (Preface)