Project Gutenberg 2025-07-13 Public domain in the USA. 173 Nichols, Beverley 1898 1983 Nichols, John Beverley 26005923 25 : $b Being a young man's candid recollections of his elders and betters Twenty-five $aNew York :$bGeorge H. Doran Company, $c1926. Alan, Hannah Wilson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "25: Being a young man's candid recollections of his elders and betters" by Beverley Nichols is a memoir written in the early 20th century. It offers spry, often irreverent portraits of prominent figures the author met while young—statesmen, poets, critics, society leaders—told with wit, candor, and an eye for revealing detail. Expect lively travel impressions, literary and political sketches, and a self-aware narrator measuring his youthful enthusiasms against the reputations of his “elders and betters.” The opening of this memoir follows a 19-year-old Nichols on a British Universities Mission to the United States near the end of the war, mixing shipboard vignettes and first impressions of New York with brisk encounters: a precise, weary Woodrow Wilson; a jovial, crowd-pleasing Taft; and the principled Elihu Root. He contrasts Harvard’s wealth with Britain’s austerity, witnesses premature Chicago Armistice celebrations, and notes the color of American media and millionaires—highlighted by J. P. Morgan handing him a strand of Keats’s hair and a Detroit paper inventing an interview. Back at Oxford, he sketches a cluster of literary greats: Masefield’s generosity and humility, Bridges’s leonine severity, Yeats’s dreamy otherworldliness, and the Sitwells’ sharp modernist mischief. He then captures G. K. Chesterton’s paradox-strewn stance on marriage, the Asquiths’ contrasting temperaments at a Liberal rally, Winston Churchill’s disciplined advice on writing and post-speech anxieties, and Horatio Bottomley’s raw, irresistible oratory. The section closes as he begins an exuberant, waspish portrait of Mrs. Patrick Campbell. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/25beingyoungmans00nich 20240602114401nichols 1926 us Reading ease score: 79.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography Nichols, Beverley, 1898-1983 -- Childhood and youth PR Text Category: Biographies 443466 2025-09-30T07:58:26.494409 text/html 418410 2025-07-13T13:51:57 text/html 453309 2025-09-30T07:58:33.324372 application/epub+zip 450715 2025-09-30T07:58:27.795486 application/epub+zip 435625 2025-09-30T07:58:27.156393 application/epub+zip 1084797 2025-09-30T07:58:37.482359 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1045740 2025-09-30T07:58:32.788416 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 399711 2025-09-30T07:58:25.538445 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 379806 2025-07-13T13:51:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16413 2025-09-30T07:58:37.622370 application/rdf+xml 14830 2025-09-30T07:58:27.361407 image/jpeg 2248 2025-09-30T07:58:27.255419 image/jpeg 422053 2025-09-30T07:58:26.535404 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia