the Side of the Angels (1915) but these are generally anonymous, second-hand or otherwise unverifiable. However, war regulations prevented naming of military personnel. Political views In 1902 and 1903, Begbie, together with J. Stafford Ransome and Michael Henry Temple wrote, under the pseudonym Caroline Lewis, two parodies based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, entitled Clara in Blunderland and Lost in Blunderland. These novels deal with British frustration and anger about the Boer War and with Britain's political leadership at the time. By 1916, dismayed by the attacks being made on Lord Haldane by Leopold Maxse in the National Review, he began to question the government's domestic policy. In 1917, he publicly defended the rights of pacifists and conscientious objectors to oppose the war. Before the First World War Begbie was an outspoken Liberal social reformist, but he moved rapidly to the right in the post-war period. In a series of books written under the pseudonym "Gentleman with a Duster", he denounced sexually suggestive literature (such as the early plays of Noël Coward), lamented the precarious economic state of the middle classes and the prospective disintegration of the British Empire, and called for a strong hand against left-wing subversives even if this meant restricting some traditional British liberties. Works Besides the "Gentleman with a Duster" books, Begbie wrote Broken Earthware, Other Sheep, In the Hands of the Potter, and Life of General Booth, a book about William Booth. He also wrote a novel, The Great World, which was published in September 1925 by Mills & Boon and acted as ghostwriter for the memoir of the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. The Political Struwwelpeter, 1898 The Story of Baden-Powell: 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps''', 1900 Bundy in the Greenwood, 1902 Clara in Blunderland, 1902 (New edition 2010, ) Lost in Blunderland, 1903 (New edition 2010, ) On the Side of the Angels, 1915 The life of William Booth, the Founder of the Salvation Army, 1920 The Bed-Book of Happiness, 1914 The Proof of God, 1914 The Vindication of Great Britain, 1916 Twice Born Men: A Clinic in Regeneration (A Footnote in Narrative to Professor William James's 'Varieties of Religious Experience'), 1909 The Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster, 1921 The Glass Of Fashion: Some Social Reflections by A Gentleman With A Duster, 1921 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) Shackleton: A Memoir, 1922