Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Recollections of Fred Leslie, Vol. 1
Burning sun in tke Egyptian desert, a small party of kome-sick Englisk men and women beard of tke deatk of one of tke greatest artists of our time Fred Leslie. Tke news came to us suddenly and curtly, from a stranger in a corner of tko railway carriage, wken, suj'ocated witk intolerable neat, and blinded witk maddening dust, we were making tke best of our way from Cairo to [smailia, t/eere to join tke P. And 0. Skip Bengal, tkat was to transport a kitkerto merry party of new-made friends to Bombay in tke' far East. Tne news fell on us all witk a tkud and a skock, most of all on tko writer of tkese lines, wko kad followed t/ie career of Fred Leslie from t/ie Alkambra days, wken be came to us as an ambitious boy, to Me perfected Gaiety time, wken bad during my last nzgkts in London gone to Box No. 14, time after time, simply to bear kim sing tke romance of tke Looking Glass, and to roar witk laugkter over tko final glee, Tbe Moon kas got kis trousers.
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