Recollections

Recollections by David Christie Murray is a collection of short stories that explore themes of love, loss, and the passage of time. The book is known for its concise and direct storytelling style, which allows readers to quickly become immersed in each tale. Murray's use of vivid imagery and evocative language helps bring the characters and their experiences to life, making the stories feel both intimate and universal. Overall, Recollections is a thought-provoking and emotionally resonant work that showcases Murray's skill as a writer.

By David Christie Murray · First published 1893 · Genre: Autobiography, Non-fiction, Memoir · 17 chapters

Contents

• The Unlucky Day of the Fool's Month - High Street, West Bromwich - My First Pedestrian Triumph - The Common English Bracken - The Sense of Beauty
• My Father - The Murrays - The Courage of Childhood - The Girl from the Workhouse - Witchcraft - The Dudley Devil - The Deformed Methodist - A Child's idea of the Creator - The Policeman - Sir Ernest Spencer's Donkey - The High Street Pork Butcher
• My Father's Printing Office - The Prize Ring - The Fistic Art - First Steps in Education - A Boy's Reading - Carlyle - Parents and Children - A School Chum - Technical Education - Plaster Medallions
• A First View of London - Charles Dickens - The Photograph - On the Coach to Oxford - The Manuscript of _Our Mutual Friend_ - An Unpublished Chapter - Dickens as Reader - The British Museum Reading Room
• I Enlist - St George's Barracks - The Recruits - From Bristol to Cork - Sergeants - The Bounty and the Free Kit - Life in the Army - My Discharge - A Sweet Revenge
• Towards Journalism - Dr Kenealy as Parliamentary Candidate - The _Wednesbury Advertiser_ - George Dawson - The First Private Execution - Misprints - The Black Country Sixty Years Ago - _Aunt Rachael_ - Old Servants - Local Poets - Mining Dangers
• George Dawson as Editor - Birmingham Politicians - John Blight's Nervousness - The Black Lake Rescue - The Pelsall Hall Colliery Disaster - Archibald Forbes - Out of Work - Edmund Yates and _The World_ - The Hangman-Human Oddities - A Mislaid Cheque - Hero Worship - Three Stories of Carlyle - Journalism
• The House of Commons Press Gallery - Disraeli as Orator - The Story of the Dry Champagne - The Labour Member - Dr Kenealy's Fiasco - Mr Newdigate's Eloquence - Lord Beaconsfield's Success - "Stone-walling" - Robert Lowe's Classics - The Press Gallery and Mr Gladstone
• The Russo-Turkish War - Constantinople - His Friend the Enemy - Col. Archibald Campbell - The Courage of Non- Combatants - Father Stick - Turkish Economy - Memories of Constantinople
• Constantinople _Continued_ - The Massacre of Kesanlyk - A Sketching Expedition - Failure of Supplies - Correspondent for the _Scotsman_ and the _Times_ - Adrianople - The Case of the Gueschoffs - The Bulgarians
• Retrospect - Return to London - Interview with Mr Gladstone at Hawarden - Reminiscences
• First Fiction - _A Life's Atonement_ - The Casual Tramp - Poor Law Relief - Charles Reade - _The Cloister and the Hearth_ - Wilkie Collins - The Figure in Mediaeval Costume - _Joseph's Coat_ - At Rochefort - _Rainbow Gold_ - The Anarchist - The Police - The Text of Scripture
• * Eight Hours Day in Melbourne - The Australian Born - Australians and the Mother Country - The Governor - _The Sydney Bulletin_ - The Englishman in Australia - Australian Journalism - The Theatres - The Creed of Athleticism - The Future
• Mr Rudyard Kipling and Bruggksmith - New Zealand - Its Climate - People - Fortune - Ned's Chum - Sir George Grey
• The Dreyfus Case - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Opinion - Meeting at the Egyptian-Hall - Interview with Zola - Maitre Labori - M. Henri Rochefort - Major Esterhazy
• A Few Letters - J. M. Barrie - George Meredith - Advice on Going to America - A Statue to Washington - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M. P. - Robert Louis Stevenson - Mr Edmund Gosse on the Neo-Scottish School - _My Contemporaries in Fiction_ - Sir A. Conan Doyle - Mr. Joseph Hocking - Robert Buchanan - Mr. E. Marshall Hall, K. C
• Sixtieth Birthday

More by David Christie Murray

• Cruel Barbara Allen (1882)
• Schwartz: A History (1907)
• Aunt Rachel (1890)
• The Making of a Novelist (1893)
• In Direst Peril (1890)
• An Old Meerschaum (1897)
• The Romance of Giovanni Calvotti (1896)
• Young Mr. Barter's Repentance (1893)
• All works by David Christie Murray