Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Note: A few obvious printer’s mistakes have been corrected (in particular in the Index, where entries often didn’t match the spelling given in the main text, and have been changed to do so); any remaining errors are the author’s own.

THE PUPPET SHOW OF MEMORY

THE PUPPET SHOW
OF MEMORY

BY
MAURICE BARING

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1922

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

NOTE

My thanks are due to Messrs. Methuen for allowing me to use in Chapters XVI.-XIX. some matter which has already appeared in _A Year in Russia_ and _Russian Essays_, two books published by them; to Mr. Leo Maxse for allowing me to use an article on Sarah Bernhardt which appeared in the _National Review_, and has been re-written for this book; to Father C. C. Martindale and Mr. Desmond MacCarthy for kindly correcting the proofs.

M. B.

TO J.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I. THE NURSERY 1
II. THE NURSERY AND THE SCHOOLROOM 14
III. MEMBLAND 31
IV. MEMBLAND 46
V. SCHOOL 68
VI. ETON 87
VII. GERMANY 118
VIII. ITALY, CAMBRIDGE, GERMANY, LONDON 138
IX. OXFORD AND GERMANY 165
X. PARIS 181
XI. COPENHAGEN 208
XII. SARAH BERNHARDT 227
XIII. ROME 245
XIV. RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA 263
XV. BATTLES 287
XVI. LONDON, MANCHURIA, RUSSIA 305
XVII. RUSSIA: THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION 332
XVIII. ST. PETERSBURG 356
XIX. TRAVEL IN RUSSIA 367
XX. SOUTH RUSSIA, JOURNALISM, LONDON 386
XXI. CONSTANTINOPLE (1909) 397
XXII. THE BALKAN WAR, 1912 406
XXIII. CONSTANTINOPLE ONCE MORE (1912) 418
XXIV. THE FASCINATION OF RUSSIA 430
INDEX 439

ILLUSTRATIONS

COOMBE COTTAGE _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

PORTRAITS OF SARAH BERNHARDT BY THE AUTHOR
(AGE 7), DRAWN IN 1881 228

SARAH BERNHARDT IN THE ’EIGHTIES 229

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