Cheerful Yesterdays

Contents

• • [covers]
  • Cheerful Yesterdays
  • [frontispiece]
  • [title page]
  • [dedication] p. v
  • Preface — by Frederick Edwin Smith p. vii
  • Contents p. xi
  • [illustrations] p. xvii
• • Part I
    • Chapter I — Introductory p. 3
    • Chapter II Denmark and the Danes p. 8
    • Chapter III — How I Learned English p. 20
    • Chapter IV — School Days p. 32
    • Chapter V — College Days p. 49
    • Chapter VI — Teaching p. 67
      • [teaching] p. 67
      • Some Memories p. 79
    • Chapter VII — Journalism p. 84
    • Chapter VIII — Samuel Butler p. 101
    • Chapter IX — Literary Hack-Work p. 112
    • Chapter X — Some Harmless Cranks And a Knavish Impostor p. 121
  • Part II
    • Chapter XI — A Layman Among the Lawyers p. 139
    • Chapter XII — 'Prentice Days in the Courts p. 154
    • Chapter XIII — At the Bar in Christchurch p. 165
    • Chapter XIV — Judges I Have Known p. 183
    • Chapter XV — Cross-Examination p. 203
    • Chapter XVI — Juries p. 224
    • Chapter XVII — The Western Circuit p. 243
    • Chapter XVIII — Some Genial Crooks p. 253
    • Chapter XIX — My Friend Parkinson p. 270
    • Chapter XX — A Murder Charge that Failed p. 283
    • Chapter XXI — The Mystery of the Severed Hand p. 300
    • Chapter XXII — Two Famous Poisoning Trials p. 315
    • Chapter XXIII — My Appointment to a Judgeship p. 339
• • Appendix
  • Index p. 365

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