CONTENTS 13 



CHAPTER XXVII continued PAOB 



Work by Phil May Death of Gordon Defeat of the 

 Gladstonian Government -Joy of Lord Randolph 1 

 Great Scheme for Provincial Papers Lord Randolph 

 President Grievous Disappointment Lord Randolph 

 and Titles Breakdown of Provincial Scheme' Collapse of 

 Stoke Park Club Phil May leaves for Australia I save 

 St Stephen's Review 



CHAPTER XXVIII . . . . -295 



The First Eclipse Stakes Scenes from the Irish Re- 

 bellion Percy Reeve The Taming oj the Shrew The 

 Election our Zenith Great Days Col. McMurdo The 

 Delagoa Bay Railway- Resignation of Lord Randolph 

 Spiritualism and Charles Peace The Middlesex Magi- 

 strates libelled A Crown Prosecution I visit America 

 The Appalachian Mine Racing in the States Hanover 

 James R. Keene Leonard Jerome A Thirsty Day- 

 Return to England 



CHAPTER XXIX . . . . .306 



Scintillae Juris First Impression of Mr Justice Darling I 

 assist at his First Election The Consequences Contempt 

 of Court Bradlaugh and H. H. Asquitb Admonition of 

 Mr Justice Hawkins Result of the Crown Prosecution 1 

 Further Troubles Prosecuted at Bow Street and the v 

 Old Bailey for Libel Found Guilty The Conviction 

 quashed Civil Action for the same Libel Verdict that 

 it is no Libel at all Costs irrecoverable ^1500 sacrificed 



CHAPTER XXX . . . . . 317 



Recollections of Romano's "The Squire" and his 

 Satellites Colonel North's Fancy Dress Ball Return of 

 Phil May Splendid Work Phil May at his Best A great 

 Christmas Number Phil May's Methods- Invention of 

 The Parson and the Painter The Hansard Union Fight 

 An Unsought-for Combat How it was fought Bubbles- 

 Horatio Bottomley, a John Bull Fighter The Publishing 

 Trade warned The Fire-Escape and Parnell The 

 Hansard Union killing St Stephen's before its own Demise 

 I clear out 



CHAPTER XXXI . . . . .331 



Lord Salisbury's Valediction Phil May, 10 Downing 

 Street Dark Days Appreciation of Horatio Bottomley 

 Success of The Parson and the Painter A New Artist I 

 How not to write a Novel With Phil May at New- 



