Set Down in Malice: A Book of Reminiscences

								

SET DOWN IN MALICE

                SET DOWN IN MALICE

             A BOOK OF REMINISCENCES

                        BY

                GERALD CUMBERLAND

                        ❦

   “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I

    contradict myself.”

                                Walt Whitman.

                    BRENTANO’S

                     NEW YORK

                    MDCCCCXIX

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED EDINBURGH

UXORI HORAS AMISSAS REDDO

PREFATORY NOTE

Very many of the following pages were written in the trenches and
dug-outs of Greece and Serbia. I added a chapter or two in Port Said,
Alexandria and Marseilles. That is to say, I wrote far away from books
and without reference to documents, and I wrote to refresh a mind
dulled by the conditions of Active Service in the Near East. A few
chapters were written in London and a few in Winchester.
Here and there may be found factual inaccuracies, though if these
exist I am not aware of them. But the spirit of the book is as near
the truth as I can bring it.



                                                  Gerald Cumberland


Winchester

    2nd June 1918

CONTENTS

  CHAPTER                                              PAGE

      I. Mr George Bernard Shaw                          11



     II. Miscellaneous                                   22

           Mrs Annie Besant—Mr Marcus Stone—Mr Lloyd

           George—Bishop Welldon—Dr Walford Davies



    III. Mr Frank Harris                                 32



     IV. Miscellaneous                                   47

           Madame Yvette Guilbert—Sir Victor Horsley—

           Mrs Pankhurst—Mr Jacob Epstein—Madame Aïno

           Ackté



      V. Mr Stanley Houghton and Mr Harold Brighouse     55



     VI. Some Writers                                    68

           Mr Arnold Bennett—Mr G. K. Chesterton—

           Mr Lascelles Abercrombie—Mr Harold Monro—

           Mr John Masefield—Mr Jerome K. Jerome—Sir

           Owen Seaman—Mr A. A. Milne



    VII. Sir Edward Elgar                                79



   VIII. Intellectual Freaks                             88



     IX. Fleet Street                                   102



      X. Mr Hall Caine                                  117



     XI. More Writers                                   128

           Rev. T. E. Brown—Mr A. R. Orage—Mr Norman

           Angell—Mr St John Ervine—Mr Charles Marriott

           —Mr Max Beerbohm—Mr Israel Zangwill—Mr

           Alphonse Courlander—Mr Ivan Heald—Mr Dixon

           Scott—Mr Barry Pain—Mr Cunninghame Graham



    XII. Musical Critics                                143



   XIII. Manchester People                              153



    XIV. Chelsea and Mr Augustus John                   166