LADY PRIESTLY'S LIFE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 441, 25 February 1909, Page 3

LADY PRIESTLY'S LIFE.

The Story of a Lifetime," by Lady i - Pnestley, is ,tho autobiography of a beautiful and.capable connected'by. birtli or • manyago-with'many celebrities'and, the friend Her father was the famous Itobert Chambers, , the publisher-who compiled so many valu- - able works "of reference,-which,are still kept V 7;date ...and' enjoy. immense-: sales.'- Sir William Priestley himself was one of the greatest ihen m his-profession'and M.P. for ■•; ''tvT?-'Ahd.^St:? Andrews'; tjiiiyersity;.'Lady' • vfi? s - . y '"Tites with simplicity and - not a ' Mtte.charmi-. She-tells-the story, of'her love-: ; prettily • she,even: gives, their accounts. They-started matried life with a thousand pounds and were not afraid to tako - •-..®. •flpus.Q.pf-a hundr.Gd;and}sixtyj>ounds a year on magnificent capital The'first veir ■ 77.;. tho..brilliant -young'doctor.'only -contrived to ■Lv-'v;-'.'.?? .pounds."?■^The' ; .'fe!BV''a'S' : they: came » ; ;were .collected by her .into-'a-little ebony ;vmoneybox ;.and counted at the end. of the ' y«ar..tfTho-. second- year .ho nuade'; a- hundred :> .■.. Bn( r *1 .y*,i-,-"- s they. -spent..., four hundred- 1 a p. -7. year'thiS'left'them',with/exactly four hundred ani :fen pounds -plus - about' fifty pounds in . cash to face the, future. :But- then success' ? ? I s o 'T? nd T. s ? ven ' y efirs • after they wero mar•jl j ' • I< ? s^*''?ras ma king sixteen hundred. a; year,.. when-, ho was nearly carriod off by diphtheria. The book is full of interest- . in£-; anecdotes. about' all ; sorts : of interesting" personages, because the Priestleys gathered ••• an 'interesting .salon around them.