INDEX
Reading edition
Aberdeen, speech at, 192.
Acland, family of, 3.
—— Sir Henry at Oxford, 78.
Aidé, Hamilton, 98, 130.
Alexandria, 228.
Alford, Lady Marian, on society, 119.
America, political visit to, 308.
American architecture, 322.
Amherst, Lord and Lady, 292.
Ardverikie, Sir John Ramsden's lodge, 145, 307.
Aristocracy and Evolution, 265.
Arnold, Matthew, as Mr. Luke in The New Republic, 88.
Ashburton, Louisa, Lady, 117.
—— Rawlin Mallock, Whig member for, 4.
Astor, Mr. John Jacob, in New York, 314.
Austin, Alfred, Poet Laureate, 120.
Baker, Sir Samuel, 226-227.
Baltimore, 309, 320.
Batthyany, Prince and Princess, 241-242.
Beaufort Castle (Lord Lovat's), 129.
Beaulieu, villa at, 203.
Beckett, Ernest, second Lord Grimthorpe, 195.
Benbecula, island of, 304.
Bevan, Mr. (the last of the "dandies"), 60.
Bismarck, Countesses Marie and Helen, 55.
Blatchford, Lord, 30.
Blayney, Lord, friend of Cromwell's, 4.
Blenheim, 132.
Blunt, Wilfrid, poet, and breeder of Arab horses, 53, 129.
Boroughs, rotten Cornish, 159.
Breakfast party at Lord Houghton's, 103.
Bright, John, as land agitator; his absurd statistics, 182.
Brittany, visit to, 329.
Broglio, castle of, 237.
Browning, Robert, 71.
Buller, Emma and Antony, 30.
Bulwer, Sir Henry, in Cyprus, 227.
Burdett-Coutts, Miss, at Torquay, 61.
Bute, Lord, original of Lord Beaconsfield's Lothair, 131;
at Chiswick, 131; at Cardiff Castle, 151.
Butler, Dr. Nicholas Murray, 313.
Byram, Sir John Ramsden's, in Yorkshire, 161.
Cannes, first visit to, 167;
miniature villa at, 167; subsequent visits, 241.
Cardiff Castle, 157.
Carlyle, introduction to, 64.
Carriages, old traveling, 16.
Cary, Mr., of Tor Abbey, and R. Mallock as smugglers, 5.
—— Sir Henry, sells Cockington to R. Mallock, temp. Charles I, 4.
Castles, different classes of, 152.
Catholic society in London, 130.
Champernowne family related to Mallocks, 7.
Chelston Cross, built by Mr. W. Froude, 49.
Chillingham Castle, 155.
Civic Federation of New York, 308.
Clark, Mr. George, meeting at Cardiff, 158.
Cleveland, Duchess of, 149.
Cockington Church, 17.
—— Court, 13.
—— Estate, no building leases granted till 1860, 49.
Cockington village, 15.
Conservative party, besetting weakness of, 214, 268.
Conversation, the arts of, 101.
Country houses, description of various, 146-167.
Currie, Philip, afterward Lord Currie, 130.
Cyprus, winter visit to, 227, 235.
Dandies, 63.
Dartington Hall, 12.
—— Parsonage, 10.
Dartmouth as a rotten borough, 50.
De Vere, Aubrey, 54.
Dempster, Miss C., 241.
Denbury Manor, 7.
"Denzil Place," poem by "Violet Fane," 129.
Diagrams, statistical, used at public meetings, 191.
Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption, 276.
Dorlin, Lord Howard's lodge in the Highlands, 175.
Dreams, poems written in, 259.
Dunrobin, 146.
Eaglehurst, 241.
Eaton, Alfred Montgomery at, 152.
Elvaston Castle, 157.
Erskine, Lady, hostess at Torquay, 54.
Everingham Park, old Yorkshire Catholic house, 154.
Exeter, Henry Philpotts, Bishop of, 31-34.
—— R. Mattock's connection with, temp. Elizabeth and James I, 4.
Famaugusta, enormous ruins of, 233.
"Fane, Violet," 130.
Farmer, Devonshire, on free will, 24;
on the fall of Jericho, 24.
Fielding, a child's imitation of his novels, 35.
Florence, interesting houses in and near, 236.
Froude, Antony, historian, and Carlyle, 64.
—— Archdeacon, equestrian, dilettante, artist, magistrate, 6.
Froude, Hurrell, leader of Tractarian movement, 6.
—— Mr. and Mrs. William, interesting society at their house, 50.
—— William, his discoveries in naval architecture, 51.
Fryston, 161.
Gaskell, C. Milnes; Lord Houghton's characteristic advice to him, 59.
George, Henry, limitations of his attack on private wealth, 173;
his ignorance of statistics, 188.
Georges, Sir Ferdinando:
his immense landed properties in Maine, 4; Mallock's partner temp. Charles I, 4.
Glasgow, the author speaks at, 192.
Glenthorne, its lonely and singular situation, 153.
Governesses, high Tory, 28.
Gratz, 246.
Greenock, Lord, 195.
Grimthorpe, Lord, 194.
Hare, Augustus, his indiscretions as a writer of memoirs, 136.
Harvard, 317-318.
Hatchments in Cockington Church, 17.
Heart of Life, The, 280.
Hebrides, the Outer, 304.
Heligan, the John Tremaynes' house in Cornwall, 159.
Herbert, Auberon, a devotee of "the simple life," 122-124.
—— of Lee, Lady, 177.
Hewel Grange, 160.
Hibbert, Mrs. Washington, 130.
Highlands, the, first visit to, 175.
Hoch-Osterwitz, extraordinary castle of, 245.
Hotels, old-fashioned, private, in London, 94;
extravagant gilding of American, 316.
Houghton, Lord, at Torquay, 58;
his enormous acquaintance, 59; his dry wit and humor, 60; his social advice to the author, 60; breakfast party given in London by, 103; his remarkable defense of one of the author's novels, 172; in the Highlands, 177.
Houghton, old Catholic house in Yorkshire, 155.
—— Sir Robert Walpole's, in Norfolk, 151.
Howard, Kenneth, 96.
Hoy, island of, its colossal cliffs, 300.
Hugel, Baron von, Austrian diplomat, 237.
Human Document, A, 255-278.
Huxley as Mr. Storks in The New Republic, 87-88.
In an Enchanted Island, 229.
Individualist, The, 281.
Ireland, visits in, 164.
Is Life Worth Living? 169.
James, William, at Harvard, 317.
Jerningham, C. E., 200.
Jerome, William Travers, 321.
Jersey, Julia, Lady, 126.
Jowett, as Doctor Jenkinson in The New Republic, 88.
Kidd, Benjamin, on Social Evolution, 264.
Kippax, Yorkshire, a product of architectural rivalry, 162.
Kirkwall and its cathedral, 299.
Knebworth, its pseudo-Gothic architecture, 257, 260;
"Ouida's" visit to, 256; a night of conversation at, 288.
Körmend, castle of, in Hungary, 246.
Labor and the Popular Welfare, 261.
Land agitation in the Highlands, 180.
—— agitator on Fort William coach, 184.
—— the old basis of London society, 93;
decline in rent of agricultural since 1880, 93.
Lane Fox, George, 211.
Larnaca in Cyprus, 229.
Laureateship, competitors for, 121.
Library, secret hours in a, 36.
Limits of Pure Democracy, 333.
Literature and action, 341-371.
Literature and utilitarianism, 343.
—— as speech made permanent, 342.
Littlehampton, private tutor at, 39.
Lloyd Bryce, 310.
Long Island, country house in, 310.
Lowther, Mrs. William, 117.
Lucretius on Life and Death, 366.
Lulworth Castle, 154.
Lyme, 163.
Lytton, as contrasted with Carlyle, 65;
second Lord, early acquaintance with, 66; his poetry and his generous temper, 67; poem composed by him in a dream, 259.
—— first Lord, at Torquay, 54.
Mallock family, 3-5.
—— Richard, as member for Torquay division of Devonshire, 209;
support given him by George Lane Fox and J. Sandars, 211.
Mallocks as members of Parliament for Lyme, Poole, Totnes, and Ashburton, 3.
—— of the eighteenth century: their ecclesiastical patronage, and their patronage of the turf, 5.
Manchester, speech at, on the land question, 192.
Manning, Cardinal, 131.
Marx, Karl, his influence in England about 1880, 173, 179.
Memoirs, difficulties of writing, 135.
Metaphors, the secret of their force in literature, 349.
Molesworth, Sir Louis, 159.
Monte Carlo, 194-208.
Montrose, Duchess of (Caroline), 99.
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 323, 327.
Naval architecture, Mr. Froude's experiments in, 51.
Negro, spiritual ambitions of a, 327.
Nevill, Lady Dorothy, 101.
—— Miss Meresia, her lesson in oratory at Strathfieldsaye, 110.
New Domesday Book, studied by the author at Ardverikie, 187.
Newman, Cardinal, 50.
New Paul and Virginia, The, 90.
New Republic, The, 87.
New York: the opera there a social function, 312;
dinner parties in, and other entertainments, 312; good taste in fashionable entertainments, 316; author's address at Columbia University, 313; Evelyn Nesbit and the Thaw trial, 321; ladies' club in, author's address at opening of, 324.
Nicosia, 230.
Noble, Mr. and Mrs. Saxton, 294.
Noltland Castle, in the Orkneys, 301.
Normans and Saxons, 28.
Oban, 175.
Old Order Changes, The, analysis of, 214-217.
Orford, Lord, his views of society, 97.
Osborne, Father B., son of a prominent Evangelical, 240.
"Ouida" in London, 126;
at Florence, 256; at Knebworth, 256.
Oxford, undergraduate life at, 68;
suppers and concerts at, 70-71; Robert Browning and Ruskin at, 71-79; rejection of dogmatic Christianity at, 82; suicide of Balliol undergraduate at, 80; orthodox apologists at, 83; The New Republic at, 87.
Paget, Sir Augustus and Lady, 228.
Pater, as Mr. Rose, in The New Republic, 88.
Pelham (Lord Lytton's novel), social advice to her son from the hero's mother, 97.
Philpot, Mr., private tutor at Littlehampton, 39;
his taste for poetry, 39; the author's happy years under tuition of, 39-49; his professed Radicalism in polities and religion, 43; his fastidiousness in choice of pupils, 43.
Philpotts, Henry, Bishop of Exeter, examples of his polished wit, 32.
Poetry, author's early devotion to, 35-37.
Poor, the rural, of Devonshire, 20-29.
Pope as author's earliest model, 35.
Popoff, Admiral, his visit to Mr. W. Froude at Chelston Cross, 51.
Primrose League meeting at Cockington, humors of the occasion, 211.
Prose, methods of writing good, 347.
Prosody, attempts to write English verse according to Latin, 355.
Provence, the, French transatlantic steamer, 328.
Queen of Holland at Cockington, 17.
Raby Castle, 150.
Ramsden, Lady Guendolen: the author helps her in editing family memoirs, 100;
has to reject the most amusing parts, 100.
—— Sir John, an ideal country gentleman, 161.
Reconstruction of Belief, The, 291.
Religion as a Credible Doctrine, 284.
Religion as an element of civilization, 291.
Riegersbourg, castle of, 252.
Roden, Lady, the charm of her conversation, 101.
—— Lord and Lady, in Ireland, 164.
Romance of the Nineteenth Century, A, 169;
violent attacks on, 170; analysis of its philosophical purport, 170; defended by Catholic priest and Lord Houghton, 171-172.
Roosevelt, President, author's meeting with, at Harvard, 318.
Ruskin, meeting with, at Oxford, 78;
his extreme charm of manner, 79; temperamentally opposed to Jowett, 79; his insistence on the need of definite religious belief, 86; as Mr. Herbert in The New Republic, 88.
St. Andrews Boroughs, invitation to stand for, 191.
St. Helier, Lady, and Duke of Wellington, 108.
St. Hilarion, castle of, 232.
St. Michael's Mount (Cornwall), 148.
St. Vincent, first Lord, 14.
Sartor Resartus, Carlyle's, 64.
Savile, Augustus, 96.
Season in London, 138.
Seaton, first Lord, 14.
Sermon, Jowett's, in The New Republic, 88;
semisocialist, by priest in The Old Order Changes, 219.
Servants, Old World, 18.
Shelley, Sir Percy and Lady, 114.
Sherborne House, 163.
—— Susan, Lady, 163.
—— the late Lord, 163.
Shropshire, county ball in, 142.
Sloane, Mr. and Mrs., of New York, 315.
Smuggling by two country gentlemen in Devonshire, 5.
"Social Democratic Federation," 173.
Social Equality, 181.
Socialism, A Critical Examination of, 329.
—— elements of, in The Old Order Changes, 222.
Society in London, its traditional basis, 92.
Society in the country, 144.
Somers, Lady, 117.
Somerset, Duchess of, her conversational humor, 100.
Spencer, Herbert, letters from, about Aristocracy and Evolution, 266.
Stanway, picture of life at, in the eighteenth century, 162.
"Statistical Monographs," 333.
Stowe, 151.
Strafford, Cora, Lady, 151.
Suicide, her funeral at Monaco, 207.
Summer on the borders of Caithness, 292.
Sutherland, Duchess (Annie), at Torquay, 212.
Swinburne, admiration of his poetry at Littlehampton, 47;
at Jowett's dinner table and afterward, 72; at an undergraduate's luncheon, 74; his humor, 75; recitation of his own verses, 77.
System played at Monte Carlo, 196-197.
Tchiacheff, Madame de, well-known Florentine hostess, 236.
Tennyson, quoted as illustrating the force of metaphor in poetry, 352.
Tiffany's, two queer customers at, 242.
Torquay, extension of, over Cockington and Chelston property, 13-14;
winter society at, 54-55.
Torre a Cona, near Florence, 238.
Trevarthenick, Sir L. Molesworth's, 159.
Trevelyans of East Devon, 3.
Ugbrooke, the Cliffords, in Devonshire, 154.
Valentines, two living, 202.
Vay di Vaya, Monsignor, 314.
Veil of the Temple, passage on Darwin quoted in, 284;
table talk on free will in, 287; verses from, quoted, 288-289; President Roosevelt's interest in, 319.
Verses, three volumes of the author's, 340.
Vicenza, 243.
Villa at Beaulieu, 205.
—— Maser, near Asolo, 244.
Vyner, Clair, 130.
Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 272.
—— Wilfrid, 134.
Wellington, second Duke of, his conversational wit, 105-112;
his last Waterloo banquet at Apseley House, 107; as a translator of Horace, 112.
Wemyss, Lord, 135.
Wentworth, Lord, 53, 69.
Westminster, Constance, Duchess of, 99.
White, Stanford, 321-322.
Whyte Melville, 124.
Will, freedom of, 284.
Wilton, Laura, Lady, 202.
Wordsworth, 35.
Wrath, Cape, 296.
Young, Rev. Julian, 54.
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