He spent his winters in Cannes and springs in Florence. He could have been a typical character from A Room with a View he who could not embrace the military career his father had ambitioned for him and went on travelling instead. After attending a lycée in Versailles and a boarding school in Cheltenham, he visited destination spas and various health resorts―he did not have a very sound constitution―with his chaperon and a tutor. The son of a naval officer―his father was an admiral in the Royal Navy –, he spent his whole youth travelling around Europe. Sprache―Rasse―Religion, Darms (.)ġ Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a typical member of the 19 th century British gentry but had the most atypical destiny―a destiny which was built around the culture of two countries: England which he left early and Germany which was to become his true home. This book had already been published in (.)

1 Wagner, Richard, Das Judentum in der Musik, Leipzig, 1869.