Chapter I: Front Matter

_Memories of an Old Etonian 1860-1912_

[_Frontispiece._]

_MEMORIES OF AN OLD
ETONIAN :: 1860-1912_

_By George Greville :: Author of “Society Recollections
in Paris and Vienna” and “More Society Recollections.”_

_WITH 22 ILLUSTRATIONS
ON ART PAPER_

_LONDON: HUTCHINSON & CO._
_:: :: PATERNOSTER ROW :: ::_

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I. 1

Early Recollections—Thackeray—The Princess Liegnitz—The
Austrian Bandmaster—Society at Homburg—Frankfurt—Goethe and
Beethoven—A Racing Coincidence

CHAPTER II. 18

An Adventure in the Oden Wald—The Coiners of the Black
Forest—Kirchhofer’s School

CHAPTER III. 27

Brussels—Ostend—General Sir John Douglas—Spa—“Captain
Arthy”—Boulogne

CHAPTER IV. 40

A Painting by Romney—Hunter’s School at Kineton—Corporal
Punishment—A Sporting Parson—My Schoolfellows at Kineton—The
Warre-Malets—Lord Charleville

CHAPTER V. 54

My Mother’s Recollections—The Cercle des Patineurs—Patti—Our
_Appartement_ in the Rue d’Albe

CHAPTER VI. 63

I go to Eton—New Boy Baiting—My House Master—Mr. James’s
“Jokes”—My Room at Eton—Some Eton Masters—A Disorderly
Form—Lacaita’s Silk Hat—“Billy” Portman

CHAPTER VII. 80

An Amusing Incident—Lady Caroline Murray—An Anecdote of Queen
Victoria—Lord Rossmore’s Wager—The Match at the Wall—Practical
Jokes—Some Boys at James’s

CHAPTER VIII. 94

Athletic Sports at Eton—A “Scrap”—Lord Newlands—An Old Boy on
Eton of To-day

CHAPTER IX. 103

Lady Grace Stopford—Tipperary in 1870—Robbed at Punchestown
Races—I get my own back

CHAPTER X. 110

Dieppe under Prussian Rule—A Toilette by Worth—A Confirmed
Gambler

CHAPTER XI. 116

The Princess von Metternich—The Lady of the Luxembourg Gardens

CHAPTER XII. 123

Bonn—An Anecdote of Beethoven—The King’s Hussars—The Howard
Vyses—A German Professor on England—Domesticated Habits of
German Girls—Professor Delbrück

CHAPTER XIII. 136

The Countess Czerwinska—The Countess Broel Plater—Mlle.
de Laval—The Duchesse de Grammont—An Absent-Minded
Gentleman—Dusauty, the Fencing Master—The Marquis of
Anglesey—Charming Venezuelans—Miss Fanny Parnell

CHAPTER XIV. 155

Captain Howard Vyse—An Anecdote of Paganini—New Hats for Old
Ones—Albert Bingham—Baron Alphonse de Rothschild—Madame Alice
Kernave—Gambetta

CHAPTER XV. 168

My First Night at Mess—Life at Shorncliffe—The Charltons

CHAPTER XVI. 175

An N.C.O. of the Old School—Major Blewett—Captain
Byron—Sandhurst

CHAPTER XVII. 183

I sail for India—Kandy—Dangerous Playmates—I arrive at Murree

CHAPTER XVIII. 190

My Brother-Officers—“The Oyster”—In High Society—Our Menagerie

CHAPTER XIX. 198

A Subalterns’ Court-Martial—A Terrible Experience—High
Mess-bills

CHAPTER XX. 205

Sialkote—Amateur Theatricals—An Ingenious Thief—Death of Albert
Phipps—Agra—Voyage to England

CHAPTER XXI. 217

Baroness James Édouard de Rothschild—At Carlsbad—Transferred to
the 3rd Battalion

CHAPTER XXII. 222

My Brother-Officers—A _Mésalliance_—Christy Minstrels and
Tobogganing

CHAPTER XXIII. 229

Sarah Bernhardt in _Phèdre_—Vienna and Buda-Pesth

CHAPTER XXIV. 233

Percy Hope-Johnstone—A “Special” to Aldershot—A Costume-Ball at
Folkestone

CHAPTER XXV. 238

The Oppenheims—St. James’s and Winchester—The Colonel and
Beauclerk

CHAPTER XXVI. 244

Paris Again—Eccentricities of Captain “Rabelais”—A Fire in
Barracks—A Trying Inspection

CHAPTER XXVII. 252

Madrid and Cordova—Seville—General von Goeben and the
Bull-fight—A View from the Alhambra—I rejoin my Regiment