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John St. Loe Strachey. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION
J. ST. LOE STRACHEY
POSTSCRIPT TO AMERICAN PREFACE
J. ST. L. S. III.—MY PHYSICAL HOME, MY FAMILY, AND MY GOOD FORTUNE THEREIN. IV.—MY FATHER. V.—MY FATHER'S STORIES OF THE STRACHEY FAMILY. VI.—MY CHILDHOOD AND SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL INCIDENTS
VIII.—THE FAMILY NURSE. IX.—BOYHOOD: POETRY AND METRE. X.—OXFORD. XI.—A CLASSICAL EDUCATION. XII.—AN OXFORD FRIENDSHIP. XIII.—OXFORD MEMORIES. XIV.—PRESS WORK IN LONDON. XV.—THE "CORNHILL" XVI.—MEREDITH TOWNSEND
XVIII.—MY LIFE IN LONDON IN THE 'NINETIES
XX.—THE ETHICS OF JOURNALISM. XXI.—THE PLACE OF THE JOURNALIST IN MODERN LIFE. XXII.—A WAR EPISODE—MY AMERICAN TEA-PARTIES. XXIII.—IDYLLS OF THE WAR. XXIV.—FIVE GREAT MEN
XXVI.—MY POLITICAL OPINIONS
XXVIII.—UNWRITTEN CHAPTERS. INDEX
ILLUSTRATIONS
VIEW OF NORTH FRONT OF SUTTON COURT, IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET, THE FAMILY HOUSE OF THE STRACHEYS
JOHN STRACHEY, THE FRIEND OF LOCKE. THE CLOSE, SUTTON COURT, SOMERSET. SUTTON COURT, SOMERSET. SUTTON COURT, SOMERSET. MRS. SALOME LEAKER—"THE FAMILY NURSE"
J. ST. LOE STRACHEY, ÆTAT. 32. J. ST. LOE STRACHEY AT NEWLANDS CORNER, ÆTAT. 45. THE ADVENTURE OF LIVING
CHAPTER I
HOW I CAME TO "THE SPECTATOR"
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
MY PHYSICAL HOME, MY FAMILY, AND MY GOOD FORTUNE THEREIN
CHAPTER IV
MY FATHER
CHAPTER V
MY FATHER'S STORIES OF THE STRACHEY FAMILY
MY LADY,
CHAPTER VI
MY CHILDHOOD AND SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL INCIDENTS
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
THE FAMILY NURSE
CHAPTER IX
BOYHOOD: POETRY AND METRE
TO THE MUSES
JEAN DUVAL'S LAST WORDS
SONNET
TO THE POWERS OF SONG. I
II
III
IV
CHAPTER X
OXFORD
CHAPTER XI
A CLASSICAL EDUCATION
CHAPTER XII
AN OXFORD FRIENDSHIP
SIR BERNARD MALLET'S MEMORANDUM
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
PRESS WORK IN LONDON
CHAPTER XV
THE "CORNHILL"
CHAPTER XVI
MEREDITH TOWNSEND
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
MY LIFE IN LONDON IN THE 'NINETIES
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
THE ETHICS OF JOURNALISM
CHAPTER XXI
THE PLACE OF THE JOURNALIST IN MODERN LIFE
CHAPTER XXII
A WAR EPISODE-MY AMERICAN TEA-PARTIES
MENU
CHAPTER XXIII
IDYLLS OF THE WAR
CHAPTER XXIV
FIVE GREAT MEN
CHAPTER XXV
J. H
CHAPTER XXVI
MY POLITICAL OPINIONS
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
UNWRITTEN CHAPTERS
BAGEHOT, WALTER, 184–186
MACKAIL, 174–175
NAPIER, SIR CHARLES, 280–281
PAGE, AMBASSADOR, 460
RACINE, 259, 476
SADOWA, 93, 231
TACITUS, 258, 261, 262, 279
UNCLES, SOME, 483–484
VEAL, ISRAEL, 33
WAINWRIGHT, 491
YPRES, 345–347, 353–354
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John St. Loe Strachey
Published by Good Press, 2019
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No doubt the perfectly cautious man would have said, "This is an accident, a mere coincidence, it means nothing and will never happen again." Fortunately people do not argue in that rational and statistical spirit. All my chiefs knew or cared was that I had written good stuff and on a very technical subject, and that I had caught the ear of the man who, considering the subject, most mattered—the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Anyway, my two first trial leaders had done the trick and I was from that moment free of The Spectator. Townsend's holiday succeeded to Hutton's, and when the holidays were over, including my own, which not unnaturally took me to Venice—"Italiam petimus" should always be the motto of an English youth—I returned to take up the position of a weekly leader-writer and holiday-understudy, a mixed post which by the irony of fate, as I have already said, had just been vacated by Mr. Asquith. Here was an adventure indeed, and I can say again with perfect sincerity that for me the greatest delight of the whole thing was this element of the Romantic.
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