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ACCIDENTS OF AN ANTIQUARY’S LIFE
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO
FRENCH CORPORAL DRILLING CRETAN VILLAGE GUARDS (1898).
Frontispiece.
ACCIDENTS
OF AN
ANTIQUARY’S LIFE
BY
D. G. HOGARTH
AUTHOR OF ‘A WANDERING SCHOLAR,’ ETC.
WITH FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR
AND HIS COMPANIONS
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1910
GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
PREFACE
Among many companions in these accidents who arenot named in the text, lest the book should becomea string of names, I have to thank five especiallybecause they have allowed me to use photographstaken when we were together. These are Mr. AlisonV. Armour, owner of the “Utowana,” Mr. RichardNorton, a comrade during the cruise of that yacht andat Siut and in Syria, Messrs. A. W. Van Buren andC. D. Curtis, members of the yachting party, and Mr.J. A. R. Munro, who endured many things with mein Asia Minor in 1891. Four others, Dr. A. C.Headlam, who was the third of Sir W. M. Ramsay’sparty in 1890, Mr. B. Christian, my companion inThessaly before the Graeco-Turkish war broke out,Mr. J. G. C. Anderson, who cruised with me toLycia in 1897, and Mr. A. E. Henderson, who didloyal service at Ephesus, I cannot forbear to name.I have also to express thanks to the proprietors andeditors of three magazines, the Monthly, Cornhill, andMacmillan’s, for their kind consent to my using, infive chapters of this book, the second to the sixth,parts of articles which appeared in their issues priorto 1905. Finally, my friend and critic, Charles RobertLeslie Fletcher, who read this book in proof, knowshow greatly I am beholden to him.
D. G. H.
Oxford, 1909.