Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910
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- RECOLLECTIONS OF A BUSY LIFE
- PREFACE.
- A FOREWORD.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS.
- CHAPTER II. VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.
- CHAPTER III. LIVERPOOL.
- Liverpool in 1860-1870.
- The Dock Board.
- The Liverpool Exchange.
- Commerce.
- The American War.
- The Southern Bazaar.
- The Volunteer Movement.
- Intellectual Life.
- Society in Liverpool.
- CHAPTER IV. BUSINESS LIFE.
- Voyage in the "Great Eastern."
- Arrested in New York in 1861.
- Leech, Harrison and Forwood.
- CHAPTER V. PUBLIC LIFE.
- Chamber of Commerce.
- American Chamber of Commerce.
- Joint Committee on Railway Rates.
- The United Cotton Association.
- International Cotton Convention.
- Mayor of Liverpool.
- Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
- Lord Mayor.
- CHAPTER VI. THE FENIAN TROUBLES.
- CHAPTER VII. THE TOWN COUNCIL.
- The Town Hall—Its Hospitality.
- Work in the City Council.
- The Burning of the Landing Stage.
- The Water Committee.
- Parliamentary Committee.
- Manchester Ship Canal.
- Corporation Leaseholds.
- CHAPTER VIII. LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND ARTS COMMITTEE.
- The Walker Art Gallery.
- Among the Studios.
- CHAPTER IX. KNIGHTHOOD AND FREEDOM OF LIVERPOOL.
- Honorary Freedom of Liverpool.
- CHAPTER X. POLITICAL WORK.
- CHAPTER XI. JUDICIAL WORK.
- Walton Jail.
- High Sheriff of Lancashire.
- CHAPTER XII. BLUNDELLSANDS, CROSBY AND BROMBOROUGH.
- Crosby Grammar School.
- Bromborough.
- CHAPTER XIII. DIRECTORSHIPS.
- The Overhead Railway.
- Opening by the Marquis of Salisbury.
- The Bank of Liverpool.
- The Cunard Company.
- Vibration.
- Castle Wemyss.
- The Liverpool and Mediterranean Trade.
- The White Star Line.
- Mr. T. H. Ismay.
- Sir Alfred Jones, K.C.M.G.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE CHURCHES.
- The Building of a Cathedral.
- Foundation-Stone Laid by the King.
- Consecration of the Lady Chapel.
- York House of Convocation.
- Church Congress.
- New York Cathedral.
- CHAPTER XV. PHILANTHROPY, CHARITABLE AND SOCIAL WORK.
- CHAPTER XVI. THE SEAMEN'S ORPHANAGE, Etc.
- The Royal Commission on Motors.
- CHAPTER XVII. THE EARL OF DERBY.
- Appointments to the County Bench.
- Prince Fushimi of Japan.
- CHAPTER XVIII. TRAVELS.
- The Franco-German Battlefields.
- Costa Rica.
- Jamaica.
- Mexico.
- America in 1905.
- Miscellaneous Tours.
- The Desert of Sahara.
- The Count's Garden, Biskra.
- Egypt.
- Impressions of India.
- Lord Clive.
- CHAPTER XIX. RECREATIONS.
- Yacht Racing Association.
- Royal Canoe Club.
- Gardening.
- CHAPTER XX. OBITER DICTA.
- Success in Life.
- Observation.
- Imagination.
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