The Son of a Servant

· 1912

I. Fear and Hunger II. Breaking-In III. Away from Home IV. Intercourse with the Lower Classes V. Contact with the Upper Classes VI. The School of the Cross VII. First Love VIII. The Spring Thaw IX. With Strangers X. Character and Destiny A celebrated statesman is said to have described the biography of a cardinal as being like the Judgment Day. In reading August Strindberg's autobiographical writings, as, for example, his _Inferno_, and the book for which this study is a preface, we must remember that he portrays his own Judgment Day. And as his works have come but lately before the great British public, it may be well to consider what attitude should be adopted towards the amazing candour …

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