The Days Before Yesterday

by Frederick Spencer Hamilton

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360 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1920

About the author

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, the sixth son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane Russell.
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Reviews

[Avis Black · Rating 4 out of 5]

Frederick Hamilton wrote two very good memoirs, The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday, and The Day Before Yesterday. His third memoir, Here, There, and Everywhere is not quite so good but is still solid.

Frederick's brother Ernest also wrote a trio of memoirs, and Ernest's book The Halcyon Era: A Rambling Reverie of Now and Then, is quite good. Ernest's other two memoirs, Old Days and New, and Forty Years On, are also good but not quite as good as the Halcyon Era.

[Ethan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very pleasant reflections on an aristocratic childhood and youth in the early Victorian years. It feels like spending an afternoon with a pleasant, mild, cultured old man. It lacks the exciting parts of "The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday," his first memoir, containing his best stories from decades in the Foreign Service, so I'd recommend starting there. If you find yourself liking Hamilton personally, as you probably will, then definitely continue with "The Days Before Yesterday."

[Michael Heath-Caldwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting and well written memoir of life in the 1860s and 1870s from a front line seat.

[Muaz Jalil · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have the 3 Volume 1931 edition by Hodder and Stoughton procured from Juniper Bookstore in Windsor.

The story of Mrs Montagu (street and Square are named after her) and how she got back are kidnapped son, who fell down the chimney as a chimney sweeper and realised it was his home.

Hamilton's maternal uncle was Lord John Russell, grandfather of Bertrand Russell.

He states original Cinderella had rabbit fur shoes and the translator's error turned it into glass. From pantoufles de vair it became verre.

The Bourbon monarchy could have returned to France around 1874 but thanks to the pigheadedness of Comte De Chambord, for refusing to accept the tricolour as the national flag.

Bowdlerized apparently comes from Thomas Bowlder who published an expurgated version of Shakespeare. The same goes with Captain Boycott, the Irish land agent.

In 1884 he visited Ontario and Quebec. And talks about Dufferin Terrace and the Citadel of Quebec. He worked for Lord Dufferin.