head of the Church Army, swooping' down like a huge vulture upon the devoted heads of English visitors to Hyères, Cannes, Nice, and Mentone must be as gall and vinegar to the unfortunate chaplains. However, I have said enough on this matter. I used to give my entertainments as a rule in the hotel lounges, and it often required considerable confidence in one's own power and devotion to one's cause to suddenly break in upon people reading, playing the piano or a game of bridge with a ringing announcement that " Mr. Alfred Capper will now give his entertainment on behalf of the Waifs and Strays " ; but on the whole people, though grumbling perhaps for the first three minutes, speedily settled down to an evening of hearty and often enthusiastic enjoyment.
The change from the Riviera to the winter sports resorts in Switzerland, where I often gave my enter-tainments for Captain Gibbs' Society, was very marked. I quite revelled in the brilliant sunshine and the champagne-like atmosphere of a Swiss winter day, and I really loved the delightful people I met there in such glowing profusion. Of course, the leading spirits in these sports were Sir Henry Lunn and Lord Lyveden, who started them ; Lord Lytton, Mrs. Asquith, Mr. E. F. Benson, Mr. Hall Caine, and many others. Sir Henry Lunn is a remarkable man, and I must just pause a moment upon the personality which is most responsible for the foundation of these wonderful sports, and which fascinates by its vitality and its brilli-ance. The son of a Lincolnshire man of business and once a medical missionary in India, who had taken high honours at Trinity College, Dublin, Dr. Lunn came to his remarkable career in the world of touring and travel by way of the famous religious conferences which he started, in company with the late Bishop Perowne
