Excerpt from Twenty Years Ago: A Book of Anecdote Illustrating Literary Life in London My memory of my Catherine Street days is vivid. At that time literary Bohemianism was decadent. The pulse still throbbed, but one could feel that the beat was failing. There were Ambrosia] Nights - and days - but the banquets were fast becoming Barmecidal feasts. Bohemian ism-in-the-strand is now merely a memory. Not only are the times and the men changed, but the manners and the methods of the literary world of to-day are as different from those of the 'seventies and the early 'eighties as if a century had elapsed, or as if the periphery of the Strand had been shifted fifty' degrees west. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.