...therefore, affords a living for professional players. His shop was unsuccessful, and my mother, who had once been a lady's maid, became, when I was twelve years...or so it became evident to me that the facilities for higher education that were and still are constantly increasing in England, offered me better chances...

...changes of fortune and position. For most of his life my father kept a little shop in a suburb of London. His shop was unsuccessful, and my mother, who had...thirteen for that purpose. I was apprenticed first to « chemist, and that proving unsatisfactory, to a draper. But after a year or so it became evident...

...affords a living for professional 5 players. His shop was unsuccessful, and my mother, who had once been a lady's maid, became, when I was twelve years...thirteen for that purpose. I was apprenticed first to be a chemist, and, that proving unsatisfactory, to a draper. But after a year or so it became evident...

...therefore, affords a living for professional players. His shop was unsuccessful, and my mother, who had once been a lady's maid, became, when I was twelve years...thirteen for that purpose. I was apprenticed first to be a chemist, and, that proving unsatisfactory, to a draper. But after a year or so it became evident...

...therefore, affords a living for professional players. His shop was unsuccessful, and my mother, who had once been a lady's maid, became, when I was twelve years...thirteen for that purpose. I was apprenticed first to be a chemist, and, that proving unsatisfactory, to a draper. But after a year or so it became evident...

...in England the middle class. I am not a bit aristocratic; I do not know any of my ancestors beyond my grandparents, and about them I do not know very...proving unsatisfactory, to a draper. But after a year or • September 31, 1866. 451 so it became evident to me that the facilities that were and still are...