My Life as an Author
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Chapter 1 PRELIMINARY.
Chapter 2 INFANCY AND SCHOOLDAYS.
Chapter 3 YOUNG AUTHORSHIP IN VERSE AND PROSE.
Chapter 4 COLLEGE DAYS.
Chapter 5 ORDERS AND LINCOLN'S INN.
Chapter 6 STAMMERING AND CHESS.
Chapter 7 PRIZE POEMS, ETC.
Chapter 8 SUNDRY PROVIDENCES.
Chapter 9 YET MORE ESCAPES.
Chapter 10 FADS AND FANCIES.
Chapter 11 SACRA POESIS AND GERALDINE.
Chapter 12 PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY.
Chapter 13 A MODERN PYRAMID.
Chapter 14 AN AUTHOR'S MIND PROBABILITIES.
Chapter 15 THE CROCK OF GOLD, ETC.
Chapter 16 SOP SMITH.
Chapter 17 STEPHAN LANGTON-ALFRED.
Chapter 18 SHAKESPEARE COMMEMORATION.
Chapter 19 TRANSLATIONS AND PAMPHLETS.
Chapter 20 PATERFAMILIAS, GUERNSEY, MONA.
Chapter 21 NEVER GIVE UP, AND SOME OTHER BALLADS.
Chapter 22 PROTESTANT BALLADS.
Chapter 23 PLAYS.
Chapter 24 ANTIQUARIANA.
Chapter 25 HONOURS-INVENTIONS.
Chapter 26 COURTLY AND MUSICAL.
Chapter 27 F.R.S.
Chapter 28 PERSONATION.
Chapter 29 HOSPITALITIES-FARNHAM, ETC.
Chapter 30 SOCIAL AND RURAL.
Chapter 31 AMERICAN BALLADS.
Chapter 32 AMERICAN VISITS.
Chapter 33 SECOND AMERICAN VISIT.
Chapter 34 ENGLISH AND SCOTCH READINGS.
Chapter 35 ELECTRICS.
Chapter 36 THE RIFLE A PATRIOTIC PROPHECY.
Chapter 37 AUTOGRAPHS AND ADVERTISEMENTS.
Chapter 38 KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.
Chapter 39 ORKNEY AND SHETLAND.
Chapter 40 LITERARY FRIENDS.
Chapter 41 A FEW OLDER FRIENDSHIPS.
Chapter 42 POLITICAL.
Chapter 43 A CURE FOR IRELAND.
Chapter 44 SOME SPIRITUALISTIC REMINISCENCES.
Chapter 45 FICKLE FORTUNE.
Chapter 46 DE BEAUVOIR CHANCERY SUIT AND BELGRAVIA.
Chapter 47 FLYING.
Chapter 48 LUTHER.
Chapter 49 FINAL.
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Chapter 47 FLYING.

A lecture which I gave at the Royal Aquarium on September 28, 1883, on the Art of Human Flight, attracted at the time a good deal of newspaper notice; my friend Colonel Fred. Burnaby being in the chair, supported by several other aeronautical notables. From a rough copy by me I have thought fit to preserve the exordium here, just as spoken.

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