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_BY THE LATE AUGUSTUS WILLIAM HARE_
_RECTOR OF ALTON BARNES_
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_GEORGE ALLEN, 156, CHARING CROSS ROAD, LONDON_
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
BY AUGUSTUS J. C. HARE
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_PRESS NOTICES_
"The story is full of varied interest.... Readers who know how to pick
and choose will find plenty to entertain them, and not a little which
is well worth reading."—_The Times._
"Mr. Hare gives an idyllic picture of the simple, refined, dignified
life at Lime.... The volumes are an inexhaustible storehouse of
anecdote."—_Daily News._
"The reader rarely comes across a passage which does not afford
amusement or pleasant entertainment."—_The Scotsman._
"One may safely predict that this will be the most popular book of
the season.... We have not space to point out a twentieth part of
the passages that might be described as having a special interest.
Moreover, though the book is, among other things, a repertory of
curious occurrences and amusing anecdotes, it is much more remarkable
as a book of sentiment and character, and a story of real life told
with remarkable fulness."—_The Guardian._
"A book which will greatly amuse the reader."—_The Spectator._
"Much of what the author has to tell is worthy the telling, and is told
with considerable ease and grace, and with a power to interest out of
the common. He introduces us to the best of good company, and tells
many excellently witty stories.... Whenever he is describing foreign
life he is at his best; and nothing can exceed the beautiful pathos of
the episodes in which his mother appears. Indeed, he has the gift of
tenderness for all good women and brave men."—_Daily Telegraph._
"This autobiography could not fail to be exceptionally interesting.
There may be readers who will protest that the more minute details of
daily life might have been abridged with advantage, but the aim of the
book makes this elaborate treatment of the subject indispensable. The
conscientious record of a mental development amid curious surroundings,
would make these volumes valuable if not a single name of note were
mentioned.... Even more interesting than the stories of people and
things that are still remembered are the glimpses of a past which is
quickly fading out of recollection."—_The Standard._
"The book is unexceptionable on the score of taste.... It is
an agreeable miscellany into which one may dip at random with
the certainty of landing something entertaining, rather than an
autobiography of the ordinary kind. The concluding chapter is full of a
deep and tender pathos."—_The Manchester Guardian._
"Mr. Hare's style is graceful and felicitous, and his life-history
was well worth writing. The volumes simply teem with good things,
and in a single article we can but skim the surface of the riches
they contain. A word must also be said of the beauty and delicacy of
the illustrations. Few living men dare brave criticism by giving us
the story of their lives and promising more. But Mr. Hare is quite
justified. He has produced a fascinating work, in some parts strange
as any romance, and his reminiscences of great men are agreeable and
interesting."—_Birmingham Gazette._
"An inexhaustible storehouse of anecdote."—_South-Western News._
"These volumes possess an almost unique interest because of the
striking series of portraits we get in them, not so much of
celebrities, of whom we often hear enough, but of 'originals' in
private life.... They give us a truly remarkable picture of certain
sections of European society, and, above all, introduce us to some
singularly quaint types of human character."—_Glasgow Herald._
"Brimful of anecdotes, this autobiography will yield plenty of
entertainment. We should like to quote many a characteristic little
tale, but must content ourselves by heartily recommending all who care
for the pleasantest of pleasant gossip concerning famous people and
places to procure these three volumes."—_Publisher's Circular._
"Mr. Hare has an easy, agreeable style, and tells a story with humour
and skill."—_The Saturday Review._
"It would be well for all who think the children of to-day
are over-pampered and too much considered, to read Mr. Hare's
life."—_Lady's Pictorial._
"Very delicate, idyllic, and fascinating are the pictures the author
has drawn of daily life in old rectories and country houses."—_The
World._
"Mr. Hare has the gift, the rare gift, of writing about himself
truthfully. Nor can a quick eye for shades of character be denied to
Mr. Hare, who does not seem ready to take people at their own estimate
or even at what may be called their market price. But we do not detect
a touch of malice, but only that knack of telling the truth which is
so hateful to the ordinary biographer, and so distasteful to that
sentimental public which is never so happy as when devouring sugared
falsehoods."—_The Speaker._
"The book has throughout a strong human interest. It contains a great
many anecdotes, and in our opinion, at all events, deserves to take
rank among notable biographical works."—_Westminster Gazette._
"A deeply interesting book. It is the story of a man who has seen much
and suffered much, and who out of the fulness of his experience can
bring forth much to interest and entertain.... The book has a wealth
of apt quotations and graceful reference, and though written in a
scholarly and cultured way, it is always simple and interesting....
Nothing in the work has been set down in malice; there are excuses for
everybody.... Of course it is hardly necessary to say that the book
teems with entertainment from beginning to end."—_St. James's Budget._
"There is much besides human character and incident in these
well-packed and well-illustrated volumes.... No one will close the
work without a feeling not only of gratitude for a long gallery of
interesting and brilliantly-speaking portraits, but of sympathy with
the biographer."—_The Athenæum._
"It is doubtful whether any Englishman living has had a wider
acquaintance among people worth knowing in England and on the
Continent, than the author of these memoirs. It is also doubtful
whether any man, with equal opportunities, could have turned them to
so good an account.... We have here an incomparable storehouse of
anecdotes concerning conspicuous persons of the first half of this
Victorian age."—_New York Sun._
"This is assuredly a book to read."—_Freeman._
"Singularly interesting is this autobiography.... Altogether it is a
notable book, and may well be recommended to those who are interested
in the intellectual life of our time."—_New York Herald._
"Mr. Hare's excellence, apart from felicity of style and directness
of method, has ever been conspicuous by the excellence that comes of
wide knowledge of his subject, and a keenly sympathetic nature. Alive
as he has ever been to responsive emotion, he possesses also a bright
humour that seizes upon the discrepancies, the nuances and quaintnesses
of whatever comes within the range of his eye and pen. These qualities
have made for Mr. Hare a circle of admirers who, while they have sought
in his pages no very thrilling passages, have felt steadily the growth
of a liking given to an old friend who is always kindly and oftentimes
amusing.... Mr. Hare dwells with a rare and touching love upon his
mother, and these passages are amongst the most appealing in the
book."—_Philadelphia Courier._
"Mr. Hare has given us a picture of English social life that for
vividness, picturesqueness, and completeness, is not excelled in
literature. There is a charming lack of attempt to be literary in
the telling of the story—a refreshing frankness and quaintness of
expression. He takes his readers with him so that they may breathe the
same social atmosphere in which he has spent his life. With their own
eyes they see the things he saw, and best of all they have freedom to
judge them, for Mr. Hare does not force himself or his opinions upon
them."—_New York Press._
"Mr. Hare's memoirs are their own excuse for being, and are a
distinct addition to the wide and delightful realm of biographical
literature."—_Chicago Journal._
"It is rarely that an autobiography is planned on so ample a scale, and
yet, to tell the truth, there are singularly few of these pages which
one really cares to skip."—_Good Words._
"A sad history of Mr. Hare's childhood and boyhood this is for the
most part, but there were bursts of sunshine in Augustus Hare's
life—sunshine shed around him by the kindly, noble-minded lady who is
called mother all through these volumes, and for whom his reverence and
gratitude deepened with years."—_Clifton Society._
"The 'Story of My Life' is no commonplace autobiography, and plunge
in where you may, there is something to interest and attract."—_The
Sketch._
"No one can read these very fascinating pages without feeling that what
their author has written is absolutely that which no other would have
ventured to say of him, and what not one in a million would have told
concerning himself. There is a wonderful charm of sincerity in what he
discloses as to his own feelings, his likes and dislikes, his actions
and trials. He lays open, with photographic fidelity, the story of his
life."—_New York Churchman._
"These fair volumes might be labelled the Literature of Peace. They
offer an outlook on life observant, and yet detached, from the turmoil
of disillusion."—_New York Times._
"Mr. Hare has written an autobiography that will not soon be
forgotten."—_Chicago Tribune._
"The story of Mr. Hare's literary life is most entertaining, and the
charm of the work lies pre-eminently in the pictures of the many
interesting and often famous men and women whom he has known."—_Boston
Congregationalist._
"Mr. Hare's story is an intensely interesting one, and his style,
which at first appears to be diffuse, is soon seen to be perfectly
well adapted to the writer's purpose.... These volumes are full of
the most valuable and attractive material for the student of human
nature."—_The Book Buyer._
"Mr. Hare's story contains no touches of egotism, but is always plain,
honest, and straightforward. It is distinctly worth reading."—_London
Literary World._
_GEORGE ALLEN, 156, CHARING CROSS ROAD, LONDON_