Struggles and Triumphs by P.T. Barnum — Read

Old Friends in Old England -- Albert Smith as a Showman -- His Ascent of Mont Blanc -- Popularity of the Entertainment -- The Garrick Club -- "Phineas Cutecraft" -- The Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne -- Utilizing Incidents -- Subterranean Terrors -- A Panic -- Egyptian Darkness in Egyptian Hall -- William M. Thackeray -- His Two Visits to America -- Friendly Relations with the Novelist -- I Lose His Sympathy -- His Warm Regard for His American Friends -- Otto Goldschmidt and Jenny Lind Goldschmidt -- Tender of Their Aid -- The Forged Lind Letter -- Benedict and Belletti -- George Augustus Sala -- Charles Kean -- Edmund Yates -- Horace Mayhew -- George Peabody -- Mr. Buckstone -- My Exhibitions in England -- S. M. Pettingill -- Mr. Lumley.

On arriving at Liverpool, I found that my old friends, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel, had changed very little during my ten years' absence from England. Even the servants in the hotel were mainly those whom I left there when I last went away from Liverpool -- which illustrates, in a small way, how much less changeable, and more "conservative" the English people are than we are. The old headwaiter, Thomas, was still headwaiter, as he had been for full twenty years. His hair was more silvered, his gait was slower, his shoulders had rounded, but he was as ready to receive, as I was to repeat, the first order I ever gave him, to wit: "Fried soles and shrimp sauce."