My Autobiography: A Fragment

PREFACE

For some years past my father had, in the intervals of more serious work, occupied his leisure moments in jotting down reminiscences of his early life. In 1898 and 1899 he issued the two volumes of _Auld Lang Syne_, which contained recollections of his friends, but very little about his own life and career. In the Introductory Chapter to the Autobiography he explains fully t...