The Puppet Show of Memory (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Puppet Show of Memory

We used to go in the summer to Coombe Cottage, near Malden, an ivy-covered, red-brick house, with a tower at one end, a cool oak hall and staircase, a drawing-room full Of water colours, a room next to it full of books, with a drawing-table and painting materials ready, and a long dining-room, of which the narrow end was a Sitting-room, and had a verandah looking out on to the garden. There was also a kitchen garden, lawns, a dairy, a gardener, Mr. Baker, who made nosegays, a deaf-and dumb under-gardener who spoke on his fingers, a farmyard, and a duck-pond into which I remember falling.

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Messrs. Methuen for allowing me to use in Chapters XVI.-XIX. some matter which has already appeared in AY ear in Russia and Russian Essays, two books published by them; to Mr. Leo Maxe for allowing me to use an article on Sarah Bernhardt which appeared in the National Review and has been re-written for this book; to Father C. C. Martindale and Mr. Desmond Mc Carthy for kindly correcting the proofs. M. B.
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