SOURCE: "Mr. Baring-Gould's Memoirs," in Mainly Victorian, Books for Libraries Press, 1925, pp. 303-07.

In the following essay, first published in 1923, Ellis favorably reviews Baring-Gould's Early Reminiscences, 1834-1864.

The Rev. S. Baring-Gould has much to be thankful for. He has lived, at the present time, until nearly ninety years of age, and has ever found life set in pleasant places and full of varied interests. He had the privilege of being born a member of a notable Devon family and, after his twelfth year, having for home a beautiful Devonian Manor House, Lew Trenchard, which had been in the possession of his forebears since the early seventeenth century; so here was an inheritance of tradition and romance. Further, Mr. Baring-Gould had the advantage as a boy of much travel on the Continent during the period 1837-1851, and he must be one of the last survivors who can remember Europe...