CHAPTER I. Page Preliminary--Sonnet--Public Life, not Private--Benjamin Franklin--Samples from Books--Self-judgment 1-6 Infancy and Schooldays--Parentage--Germany and Guernsey, America and Canada--Winsor's Patent Gaslights--King George III.'s Blessing--My Father's Dream--Second Sight--Heredity--First School at Brentford--Next at Brook Green--Third Charterhouse--Dr. Russell--Parson Schoolmasters--Coins and Hoops--Andrew Irvine--Cockshies--Harpies at the Feast--Dr. Stocker--Holt's--M'Neile--Harold Browne 7-25…
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