[Illustration: SIR HENRY HAWKINS AND "JACK." _Photo by Elliot & Fry_.]




THE

REMINISCENCES

OF

SIR HENRY HAWKINS

(BARON BRAMPTON)

EDITED BY

RICHARD HARRIS, K.C.




PREFACE.


As a preface I wish to say only a very few words--namely, that but for
the great pressure put upon me I should not have ventured to write,
or allowed to be published, any reminiscences of mine, being very
conscious that I could not offer to the public any words of my own
that would be worth the time it would occupy to read them; but the