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 No. 1883 Mayfair. September, 1916. 



Mr. Edward Arnold's 



AUTUMN 

 ANNOUNCEMENTS, 1916. 



MY OFFICIAL LIFE. 



By SIR C. RIVERS WILSON, G.C.M.G. 

 Edited by E. MAcALISTER. 



One Volume. With Portraits. Demy 8vo. Cloth. 125. 6d. net. 



The autobiography of Sir C. Rivers Wilson covers a long 

 period and touches on many interesting historical events. Sir 

 Rivers, who was born in 1831 and died in 1916, passed the greater 

 part of his life in the service of his country. While still a young 

 man at the Treasury, he was for some time private secretary to 

 Mr. Disraeli, of whom he has some good stories to tell, and he has 

 much to say about the celebrated "Bob Lowe," whose notorious 

 "match tax" has lately been passed by Mr. McKenna. For over 

 twenty years Sir Rivers Wilson was the head of the National 

 Debt Office, but his most interesting work during that time was 

 when he was specially detached for financial diplomacy in Egypt, 

 and his account of his difficult dealings with the Khedive Ismail 

 Pasha brings much that is new to light. It is particularly 

 relevant at the present time, when Prince Hussein, the son of 

 Ismail Pasha, has been established as independent Sultan of 

 Egypt under the British Protectorate. Sir Rivers gives us most 

 entertaining chapters on Ferdinand de Lesseps, le Grand 

 Fran9ais, whom he knew intimately, and on many other Parisian 

 celebrities of later days. At the age of sixty-four Sir Rivers 

 became connected with America, first through C. P. Huntington 

 and the Central Pacific Railway, then as President of the Grand 

 Trunk Railway, which he raised to a position of great prosperity. 

 All this he tells in a modest and unassuming way, with many 

 touches of humour. His style is "chatty" and genial, and it is 

 obvious that Sir Rivers Wilson was a man of few enemies and 

 many friends. 



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