INDEX

“A Case of Eavesdropping,” 252

Abbott, Dr. Lyman, sermons on the theology of an Evolutionist, 292 et seq.

tribute to N.Y. Times report of his sermons, 294

Aberdeen, Lord, Governor-General of Canada, 66

Advertising extraordinary, 105

Ahlwardt, Rector, anti-semitism of, 229

his meeting at Cooper Union Hall, 229 et seq.

Alden, Mr., and A. H. Louis, 271

Amityville, a quasi lunatic asylum at, 226

Anti-semitic campaign in New York, 229 et seq.

Apples, dried, and hot water, as hunger-appeaser, 111

Arson, frequency of, among Jews, 106

Barnum and Bailey’s Circus, a banquet at, 226

Beattie, Mr., Boyde and, 206

Beauchamp, Montague, 23

Belloc, Hilaire, an article by, based on author’s book, 224

Bennett, Sterndale, A. H. Louis a pupil of, 269

Benson, Archbishop, A. H. Louis’s memories of, 268

Bernhardt, Sarah, interview with, 106

Bernstein, Mrs., a long-outstanding account with, settled, 213

and her third floor back, 80

reduces rent—and why, 85

removes to another house, 209

“Bhagavad Gita,” the, world-scripture of, 32

Bingham, Billy, former proprietor of the Hub, 17, 39 et seq.

Black Forest, schooldays in the, 24

Blackwood, Algernon, a childish recollection of his mother, 259

a poem in The Week by, 38

an earl’s visit to Sun office, 230

an interlude of play-acting, 255 et seq.

and Boyde: a scene, 161 et seq.

and the Hub hotel, 14, 16 et seq., 39 et seq.

as reporter in the Tombs, 99 et seq.

as story-teller, 222

as violinist, 5, 46, 75, 83, 87, 107, 168, 180

assigns his interest in the Hub, 61

attends a ball at Government House, 66

becomes a partner in an eau de Cologne business, 273, 274

beginning of friendship with Alfred H. Louis, 266

credited with powers of Black Magic, 77

“cribs” from an intoxicated reporter, 108

death of his father, 35, 231

“detachment” method of, 51, 227, 228

disagreement with Dr. Huebner, 156

discovers Boyde’s forgery, 132

dissolves partnership with Cooper, 14

Edinburgh University course of, 14, 51

eighteen months on staff of New York Times, 288 et seq.

essays magazine writing, 84

evangelical upbringing of, 20, 23, 27, 71

examined on a charge of arson, 286

first experience of morphine, 178

five months on Lake Rosseau, 73 et seq.

free-lance journalism, 252, 274

friendship with a dying doctor, 58 et seq.

his mother’s letters, 258

improvises accompaniment to “Invocation to Opium,” 168

interviews a lion, 102

interviews in Tombs prison cell before trial, 101

learns French, 37

literary apprenticeship of, 6

loses faith in mankind, and a regretted act, 210 et seq.

maiden speech of, 5, 291

off to the goldfields, 235 et seq.

on staff of Evening Sun, 91

parents of, 17, 18, 21 et seq.

partner in dairy concern, 10 et seq.

pawnbroking experiences, 88, 110, 120, 252

plays in Drinkwater’s “Oliver Cromwell,” 256

poses in studios, 44, 158

reads Patanjali’s “Yoga Aphorisms,” 28 et seq.

receives a visit from Pauline, 152

reports a raid on a quasi lunatic asylum, 226

reports Dr. Lyman Abbott’s sermons, 292 et seq.

resumes duties on Evening Sun, 209

returns from Muskoka lakes, 78

returns to England, 304

secretary to James Speyer, 297 et seq.

tackles Boyde re a forged cheque, 138 et seq.

talks with Boyde in his cell at Tombs prison, 202

teaches French, 5, 7

translates French stories, 102, 124, 128, 129

unhappy days in New York, 288

visited by a banker: further disclosures concerning Boyde, 148

visits of an eccentric German doctor, 116, 120, 125

visits winter quarters of Barnum and Bailey’s circus, 226

warned against Boyde, 112, 135, 136, 147

warns a pastor’s daughter against Boyde, 139

“Whitey’s” useful hints to, 96, 97, 98

why an opening in C.P.R. did not eventuate, 66 et seq.

works by, 53, 78, 102, 123, 163, 182, 223, 224, 252

Blackwood, Sir Arthur (father), a disregarded counsel of perfection of, 76

and the Hub venture, 40

death of, 35, 231

farewell to author, 40

fêted in New York, 5

marriage of, 21

religious and temperance views of, 17, 18, 21 et seq., 30

Bond, Bligh, his “Gate of Remembrance,” 228

Bookkeeping, author’s frank opinion of, 298

Borden, Lizzie, interview with, 100

Bostock’s Circus, a lion escapes from: reporting the episode, 102 et seq.

Boyde, Arthur Glyn, an echo of, 299

arrest of, 198

author’s attachment to, 108, 111

committed for trial to General Sessions, 201

communicates with Sir A. Blackwood, 202

confessions of, 139, 144, 206

disguises himself, 160

duplicity of, 132, 138 et seq., 149, 160, 206, 207, 211

his varied experience of New York, 86 et seq.

hunt for, 182 et seq.

last sight of, 207

letters to author from Tombs prison, 203 et seq.

meeting with, 86

sentenced, 203

telegraphs news of his marriage, 151

uneasy suspicions regarding, 119, 122, 124, 129, 131, 134

warrant for arrest of, 163

Brodie, as salesman, 275

heavy insurances of—and a fire, 278 et seq.

how he obtained recipe for eau de Cologne, 273

introduction to, 272

social aspirations of, 273

Bronx Park, Sundays in, 216 et seq.

Brooklyn Bridge, reflections on, 81

Buddhism, a German doctor’s opinion of, 170

author’s interest in, 8, 51, 54

Dr. Withrow and, 8

Calder, introduces himself, 210

uninvited, sleeps in author’s bed, 211

Campbell, Sir Alexander, Governor of Ontario, 66

Canada, social customs unwittingly broken by author in, 66

Canadian Pacific Railway, how an opening in, was lost, 65 et seq.

Canoeing on Canadian lakes, 74

Carey, Mr., manager of New York Times, 291

Clay, Cecil, introduction to, 90

Clothes, interchangeable, 110

Conversion, reflections on, 23 et seq.

Cooper, Alfred, partner in Islington Jersey Dairy, 10 et seq.

Cooper, Mr., news-editor of Evening Sun, 95

Cox, Cleveland, posing for, 158

Crayford, home life at, 33, 40

Croker, Boss, head of Tammany, 232

Dana, Charles A., editor of Evening Sun, 93

Davies, Acton, 211

and the Boyde story, 201

Davis, Richard Harding, a play by, 86

an interview with, 83

Boyde and, 206

Davis, R. H., witnesses capture of an escaped lion, 103

de Chaillu, M., 297

De Quincey’s “Confessions,” Dr. Huebner and, 125, 168

Dixon, his tight-rope walk across the Niagara, 130

Dodge, William E., a chance meeting with, 295 et seq.

Drug stores and their attraction, 97

Drummond, Professor, Sunday lectures at Edinburgh of, 32

Dufferin, Lord, a photograph of, in Hub hotel, 43

Duluth, and the gold rush, 240

“Earth’s Earliest Ages,” Pember’s, 30

Easter Day in the Black Forest, 25

Eau de Cologne business, author and, 272 et seq.

Edinburgh University, author at, 14, 51

“Education of Uncle Paul, The,” 123

Elephants, their fear of rats, 226

Eliot, George, and her Sunday receptions, 269

Etruria, launching of, 5

Evening Sun, slogan of, 91

Evening World, the, a scoop in, 98

Evolutionist theology, sermons on, 292 et seq.

Ffoulkes, Maude, author’s indebtedness to, 224

“Final Word, The” (poem), 267

Free-lunch counters, 87, 90

Freytag, German reporter, 202, 229

his advice to author, 100

Frohman, Daniel, and Angus Hamilton, 222

Gallup, a half-breed guide, 240

camp-fire stories of, 242

Galt, Sir Thomas, 6

Germans, talkative, 251

Gibson, Charles Dana, author poses for, 158

Gilmour, jealousy of—and a realistic performance, 256-7

Gilmour, organizes a theatrical touring company, 112, 116

Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., A. H. Louis and, 268

Goff, John, replaces Judge Smythe as Recorder, 232

Gold, a quest in search of, 235 et seq.

Gosse, Edmund, “Father and Son” of, 22

Grant, and author, 114

hears and witnesses Boyde’s confession, 140 et seq.

warns author against Boyde, 135, 136, 147

Hamilton, a clergyman publicly thrashed in, 233

Hamilton, Angus, 221, 222

and author’s stories, 223, 224

suicide of, 224

Harcourt, Sir William, president of Cambridge Union, 268

Harper’s Magazine, publication of A. H. Louis’s poems in, 267

Harris, Carlyle, electrocuted, 101

Haschisch, an experiment with, 182

Haultain, Arnold, private secretary to Goldwin Smith, 37

Henry, O., his conception of New York, 109

“Hereafter,” poem by A. H. Louis, 270

Hopf, Max, 298, 300

Hub hotel, advice to new proprietors of, 41

early customers at, 45

in hands of a receiver, 61

its former proprietor, 17, 39 et seq.

opening of, 43

purchase of, 41, 42

Huebner, Dr. Otto, a disappointment for, 149

administers morphine to author, 178, 181

and Boyde, 122, 127, 155, 166

called in by Boyde, 116 et seq.

confesses himself a morphine taker, 171

death of, 213

friendship with, 164 et seq.

his wife and daughter, 164, 165

joins in search for Boyde, 183 et seq.

life-story of, 174

urges author to become a doctor, 127

varying moods of, 125, 153, 155, 165, 170, 173, 185

Hypnotism, experiments in, 51, 52

Irving, Henry, interview with, 106

Irvington, Mr. Speyer’s country house at, 299

Islington Jersey Dairy, partnership in, 10

James, General, a dinner to Sir A. Blackwood, 5, 291

James, William, “Varieties of Religious Experience” by, 22, 217-18

Jews, a campaign against, 229

author’s admiration of, 300

“Jimbo,” author’s, 223

“John Silence,” 53, 78, 223

effects of haschisch described in, 182

publication of, 224

Jones, Colonel, 291

Joseph Lake, Northern Ontario, 74

“Julius Le Vallon,” 53

Kay, John, and the “Hub” venture, 16 et seq., 39 et seq., 46

effect of morphine on, 179

his immunity to “night-attacks,” 109

histrionic bent of, 46, 75, 90, 111, 112, 255

in search of Boyde, 189

poses to Smedley, 112

served with a blue writ, 64

Kingsley, Charles, baptizes A. H. Louis, 266

Laffan, Mr., of New York Sun, 91

Lake Rosseau, departure for, 63

five months on, 74 et seq.

Lawler, Detective, 163, 186, 189, 200, 201

Lewes, George Henry, A. H. Louis’s talks with, 269

Lexow, Senator, and a Tammany investigation, 232

Liebesmahl, the, of Moravian Brotherhood, 25

Lightfoot, Bishop, A. H. Louis and, 268.

Lion, an escaped, a “strong man” and, 104

“Listener, The,” author’s, 163, 266

Louis, Alfred H., advice re eau de Cologne business, 277

and politics, 268, 269

arrives, and a description of, 213

as editor, 269

breakdown of, 269

buried in a Hebrew cemetery, 266

Cambridge days of, 268

claims to be original of Daniel Deronda, 209

condemns Gladstone, 268

“Hereafter” of, 270

his farewell to author, 304

legal attainments of, 269

meeting with, 262

“Night Song” of, 264, 265, 271

self-chosen epitaph of, 267, 290

“The Final Word” of, 267

unfailing guidance of, 301

Lowry, Mrs., marries James Speyer, 304

Lunatic asylum (a quasi), raid on, 226 et seq.

Manchester, Duchess of, marries Sir A. Blackwood, 21

Manning, Cardinal, A. H. Louis and, 269

Mantell, Bob (Shakespearean actor), 85

introduces author to Cecil Clay, 90

“Max Hensig, Bacteriologist and Murderer,” author’s story of, 102, 163

McCloy, Mr. (managing editor of Evening Sun), 91

and author, 221

interview with, 92

recollections of, 94, 95

McKay, owner of olive-oil warehouse, 262, 263

Messe noire, a, and its performers, 215

Methodist Magazine, author on staff of, 6 et seq.

Miller, C. W., editor in chief of New York Times, 291

Mitchell, Fire-Marshal, examines author, 286

prosecutes Brodie, 282

Moody and Sankey visit England, 23

Morning Post, an article on the genus “ghost story” in: its writer, 224

Morphine, and its effects, 172 et seq., 178, 179

Morris (a reputed “stiff” and cut-throat), 248

an instance of his kindness, 249

Mosquitoes of Rainy Lake City, 247

Muldoon, Mr., and author’s report of a students’ concert, 292

City editor of New York Times, 285, 291

joins staff of Brooklyn Eagle, 300

Mullins, editorial writer on Evening Sun, 284

Muskoka Lakes of Northern Ontario, 73, 74

Mystical minor poet, a, 55 et seq.

Nash, Eveleigh, publishes stories by author, 224

Nature, spell of, and its influence on author, 32, 35, 49 et seq., 169, 218, 233, 236, 238, 240

New York, a lively anti-semitic meeting at, 229

horrors of, 108, 109

miseries of summer heat in, 231

New York Times, author on staff of, 288

slogan of, 91, 291

Newspaper reporting, reminiscences of, 225 et seq.

“Night Song,” poem by A. H. Louis, 264, 265, 271

Novelists, instances of their creative power, 77

Olive-oil, its value as food, 262

Opium, the Invocation to, 168, 169, 180

Otto, waiter in Krisch’s, 260

Palmer, Lynwood, and Boyde, 159, 206, 208

attends trial of Boyde, 203

kindness to author, 158

Patanjali, “Aphorisms” of, 28 et seq., 255

Pawnbroking, experiences of, 88 et seq., 110, 120, 252

Paxton, 233, 236 et seq., 246, 249

Pember, G. H., evangelical writer of prophetic school, 30, 31

Police, New York, the Tammany system and, 107, 183

Potter, Bishop, officiates at wedding of James Speyer, 304

Prison as “a proper vestibule to a city of Damned Souls,” 109

Rainy Lake City, arrival at, 246

desolateness of, 248

Rainy River district, gold discovered in, 232

Reporter, a drunken, 108

Reporting for New York papers, experiences acquired from, 92

Revivalist movement, author and, 23

Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, 301

Roper, and Boyde, 197, 198, 199

Ryan, a Tammany magistrate, 201

Schmidt, “Von,” personality of, 276

warns author against Brodie, 275, 277 et seq.

Scott, Mr., revivalist, 28

Scribner’s Magazine, “A Vagrant’s Epitaph” in, 290

Selton, Morton, and his understudy, 86

Sevenoaks, a reminiscence of schooldays at, 253

Shakespearean rehearsals on Lake Rosseau, 75, 77

Smedley, Mr., posing for, 112, 158

Smith, Goldwin, and his private secretary, 37

Smith, Stanley, 23

Smythe, Judge, replaced by John Goff as Recorder, 232

sentences Boyde, 203

“Snipe” hunting, definition of, 214, 215

Social reporting, experiences of, 225

Sothern advances money to Boyde, 206

Spanish-American War, the, 301

Spectator reviews author’s published stories, 224

Spencer, Herbert, A. H. Louis’s talks with, 269

Speyer, James, a letter of introduction to, 297

a present to author, 304

and the University Settlement movement, 299

as friend and employer, 299

as philanthropist, 298, 299

author becomes secretary to, 297 et seq.

marriage of, 304

tact and kindly feeling of, 298

Speyer, Sir Edgar, 298, 300

Spiritualism, a doctor’s exposition of, 52, 53

Spiritualist, a cement-maker as, 55

Staten Island, a cricket match on, 85, 86

Stephen, Sir George, 65

Stevenson, R. L., a dictum of, 78

Stewart, Sir Donald, 65

Storey, Mr., editor of Harper’s Young People, accepts an article by author, 84

Strathcona, Lord, 5

Studd brothers (cricketers), 23

Sullivan, Tim, and his rival saloon, 19

Tammany Hall, a Committee of Investigation into methods of, 232

Tammany system, the, 97, 107

the “Tenderloin” region and, 183

Temperance and General Life Assurance Company, author’s post in, 6, 18

Terry, Ellen, interview with, 106

Theosophical Society meetings, attendance at, 107

Theosophy, author’s early interest in, 32

“The Interpreters,” by A. E., 218, 219

“The Listener,” 163, 266

Tombs Police Court and Prison, the, 99

trial of Boyde at, 200

Toronto, author as hotel proprietor in, 39

Understanding, a spiritual wisdom, 270, 271

Union League Club dinner, author’s maiden speech at, 5, 291

University Settlement movement, the, James Speyer and, 299

“Vagrant’s Epitaph, A,” 290

van Horne, Sir William, 5, 65

Vermin-infested bedroom, an uncomfortable night in a, 85

Wallace, Professor, of Edinburgh University, 14

Whitey, a parting present of a bottle of rye whisky, 234, 237

hints to author, 96-98

Withrow, Dr., editor of Methodist Magazine, 6 et seq.

Yonkers theatre, a realistic scene in a, 257

Zogbaum, illustrator, 158

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