INDEX

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y.

Abbey, Edwin, 150 Academy, Royal, 59, 94, 106-7, 143, 146, 245; school of the, 109; duties of the, 127-30 Actors’ Benevolent Fund, 189-90 Adelphi, the, 231 Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, 50 Albany, the, 37 Albemarle Hotel, 259 Albert, Prince Consort, 129 Albery, Mr., 230 Albion Tavern, Drury Lane, 233-35 Algiers, 103-5 Alverstone, Lord, 186-88 American ambassadors, orators among the, 189 Amiens, 154 Aquarium, the, 78 Armstrong, Lord, 50 Armstrong, Thomas, 120 Arnold, Arthur, 28, 35 Arnold, Sir Edwin, 28 Arrowsmith, Messrs., 255 Art Journal, the, 146-49 Arts, relation of the, 210-14 Arts Club, the, 35, 85, 94, 114, 116, 123, 151, 152 Aspinall, Mr., 56 Athenæum, the, 29 Atkinson, 15 Ayrton, Mr., 174 Bancroft, Lady, 233, 261 Bancroft, Sir Squire, 259 Barnes Common, 1-2 Barnum’s Show, 78 Barrère, Camille, 35-36 Barry, 75 Bateman, Dick, 228-29, 232 Bateman, Isabella, 229, 230 Bateman, Richard, 228-35, 254 Bayard, Mr., speech of, 189-91 Beaconsfield, Earl, attack on Mr. Gladstone, 176-78; visits to the Grosvenor, 179-80; anecdote concerning, 180-81; personality, 181-82; style of oratory, 182-83 Beatty-Kingston, William, 42, 44-46 Beaulieu, 285-86 Beefsteak Club, the, 122, 255, 259 Beefsteak Room of the Lyceum, 241, 270 Beere, Mrs. Bernard, 195 Belt trial, the, 51-52 Bernhardt, Sarah, 239, 275, 279-80 Bigham, Lord Justice, 49 Billingsgate, 249 Birmingham University, 33 Black and White, 65 Blake, 74-75 Blandford Square, 121, 255 Bodichon, Madam, 103-4 Book illustration, 109-10 Botticelli, 67, 72, 74 Boughton, G. H., 266 Bow Street, 187 Box Hill, 206 Braid, Mr., 8 Brice, Prof. Stewart, 48 Bright, John, 168-75; speeches on the Reform movement, 170-72; impromptu speeches, 173-74; his allusion to the “Scottish terrier,” 174-75; Millais’s portrait, 175 British Museum, the, 109, 245 Brontës, the, 11 Brookfield, Charles, 215 Brown, Ford Madox, 63, 130 Browning, Robert, 10, 86, 204, 266; poetry of, 199-201; personality, 201-7; Browning senr., 203 Bruce Castle School, 3-9, 38-39, 228 Bruce, Edgar, 255-56 Buchanan, Robert, 282-83 Burke, Mr., murder of, 267 Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, 8, 74, 85, 117, 130, 132, 210, 267, 283; Rossetti on, 67, 69-70; letter quoted, 71-72, 82; the pre-Raphaelite movement, 76; pen-sketches, 78-79; essays in the grotesque, 79-80; personality, 80-82 Buyers, modern, 131-32 Byron, Lord, 181 Café Royal, the, 115, 157-58 Calais, 153 Caldecott, Randolph, 120-21 Callander, 16-17 Cameron, Henry, 193, 198 Cameron, Mrs., 193, 194, 197 Campden Hill, 266 Canning, policy, 177 Caracci, the, 180 Carlyle, 11, 195 Carr, Mr. J. Comyns—boyhood, 1-13; in the City, 13-14; idle hours, 15-25; Junior of the Northern Circuit, 48-58; theatre management, 281-92; Journalistic work—Dramatic and Musical Review, 26-28; Echo, 28, 35; Globe, 28-36, 38, 59, 68, 264; Pall Mall Gazette, 35, 36, 102, 146; “Ignotus” articles, 63-64, 71; Saturday Review, 36, 38, 59, 206, 215; Examiner, 36, 38, 46-47, 59; World, 36, 38; Manchester Guardian, 38, 146, 150, 153; editor of the English Illustrated Magazine, 40, 118, 158-65, 257; English editor of L’Art, 140, 146; Art Journal, 146-47, 149; Academy, 150; Portfolio, 149 Dramatic work—King Arthur, 83-84, 279, 284, 287, 291-92; Called Back, 255-56; Dark Days, 256; The United Pair, 257; The Beauty Stone, 285, 287-88; contributions to the performances at St. George’s Hall, 257-58 Carr, Mrs. J. Comyns, North Italian Folk, 120 Cavendish, Lord Frederick, 267 Chalons, 72 Chamberlain, Mr., 152; Mr. Parnell’s attack on, 185-86 Cheyne Walk, Rossetti’s home, 65, 69; Whistler’s home, 135, 136, 141, 142 Child, Mr., 152-53 Choate, Mr., 189 Churchill, Lord Randolph, 240-41 Cleveland, President, the Venezuelan crisis, 189-90 Coal Hole, the, 33 Coleridge, Lord, 56 Collins, Lord Justice, 49 Collins, Prof. Churton, 33-34, 229 Cologne, 243; Custom House, 120 Cologne Gazette, 265 Colvin, Prof. Sidney, 36, 102 Comedy Theatre, 160, 282, 283 Constable, 91 Continental Hotel, 271 Conway, Hugh, The Family Affair, 162; Called Back, 255-56; personality, 257 Cook, Dutton, 231 Cook, Mr., 37 Coquelin, 279 Cornhill Magazine, the, 9-10, 29, 95, 110 Correspondents, special, 39-47 Corry, Montague (Lord Rowton), 267 Cotton, Mrs., prosecution of, 56-57 Crane, Walter, 161 Craven, Hawes, 84, 243 Crawford, Marion, 159 Creighton, Bishop, 47 Crimean remembrances, 3 Croizette, 279 Crompton, Charles, 48, 57 Cumberland, fishing in, 21-22; walking tours, 24-25 Custom House, the, 249 Daily News, the, 40-41 Daily Telegraph, the, 28, 43 Daudet, 282 Débâts, the, 157 Delane, Mr., 277 Delaunay, 278 Delmas, M., 4 Desclée, 239 Design, renewed study in, 111 Dickens, Charles, 9, 11, 77, 89, 137, 205, 223; “Mr. Pecksniff,” 147; his likeness to Tennyson, 194; on Irving, 230 Dilke, Sir Charles, 146 Dochart, Loch, 18 Doyle, Richard, 119-20 Dramatic and Musical Review, the, 26 Drury Lane Theatre, 232 Dublin, 240 Dudley Gallery, 121 Duffield, Richard, 215 Dumas, L’Étrangère, 279 Dumfries, 251 Dungeon Ghyll, 24 Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, 25 Duse, Madame, 280 Easedale Tarn, 24 Echenique, 6 Echo, the, 28, 35 Elgin Marbles, the, 109 Eliot, George, 11 Emerson, 11 English Illustrated Magazine, the, 40, 118, 257; wood-engravings, 158-59; literary contributors, 159-66 Engraving, renewed study of, 111 Erckmann-Chatrian, 230 Examiner, the, 36, 38, 46, 59 Farringford, home of Tennyson, 193, 194, 197 Faulkner, Charles, 8 Fechter, Charles, 232, 273, 274 Fifeshire, 23 Fishing, the Scottish gillie, 18-21; the art of, 22-23 Fleury, Robert, 97 Florence, school of, 75, 76 Forbes, Archibald, 39-42 Français, Theatre, 245 Francillon, the novelist, 29-33 Franco-German War, 40, 157, 278 Freshwater, 193 Froude, 11 Fuseli, 75 Gaiety Restaurant, the old, 30, 259 Gaiety Theatre, the, 229, 232, 246 Gainsborough, 93 Gallery of Illustration, Regent Street, 258 Gambetta, 35 Garrick Club, the, 90, 164, 183, 184 Garrison, William Lloyd, 170 Gauthiot, M., 157-58 George III., 128 German Reeds, the, 121, 257-59 Gilbert, Sir John, 109, 119 Gilbert, Sir William, 53-54, 288 Giorgione, 180 Giotto, 73 Gladstone, W. E., 190; Burne-Jones on, 76; Millais’s portrait, 175; style of oratory, 175-76; his reply to Disraeli’s attack quoted, 176-78; visits to the Grosvenor, 178-79; his treatment of Parnell, 188 Glasgow, 255 Glebe Place, 143 Glenesk, Lord, 20 Glenmuick, 20 Globe, the, the author’s work as dramatic critic, 28-38, 59, 68, 264; “Ignotus” articles, 63, 71 Got, 278 Gothard Pass, 21 Grain, Corney, 258-59 Grange, the, home of Burne-Jones, 73, 83 Granville, Dr. Mortimer, 28 Grasmere, 16, 24 Great Russell Street, 45 Greenwood, Frederic, 36-37 Grosvenor Gallery, establishment, 65, 127, 129-32, 266, 268-69; exhibitions, 76, 89-90, 120, 133, 143, 146, 178-80, 198; Millais’s works, 89-90 Grove End Road, house of Sir L. Tadema, 267-68 Gully, see Selby, Viscount Gurney, Overend, 12 Guy Fawkes, 2 Hake, George, 64 Hall, Mrs., 147-48 Hall, Samuel Carter (“Mr. Pecksniff”), 146-49 Hallé, Sir Charles E., 89, 126, 132, 146 Hamerton, Philip, 149-50 Hamilton, Lady, 264 Hannen, Mr. Justice, the Parnell trial, 186-88 Harcourt, Sir William, 23, 180-81 Hare, Sir John, 233, 236, 259 Harrop Tarn, 21 Harte, Bret, 159, 223-24 Harwood, Mr., 7, 37-38 Hawtrey, Charles, 256 Haydon, 75 Haymarket Theatre, the, 257, 281-82 Henley, relations with Stevenson, 215, 218-19; Irving and, 219-21 Henschell, 119 Herschell, Lord, 49, 55-56 Hertfordshire, 23 High White Stones, 24 Hill, Arthur, 3, 5, 6 Hill, Dr. Birkbeck, 6-8, 170 Hill, Sir Rowland, 3 His Majesty’s Theatre, 270 Holker, Lord Justice, 49, 54-55 Hollingshead, John, 232 Home Rule movement, the, 184-85 Hope, Beresford, 37 Horsman, Mr., 174-75 Horton, Miss Priscilla (Mrs. German Reed), 258 Houghton, Lord, 270-71 Howell, Charles, 141-42 Hughenden, 180-81 Hunt, Holman, 75, 111-13, 130 Huxley, Professor, 159 Hyde Park, 170 Ibsen, 208 Illustrated London News, the, 97 Indian Mutiny, 2-3 Inglis, Mr., 186 Inner Temple, 14 Irving, Sir Henry, 52, 83, 152, 196; production of Becket, 195-96; attack on Henley, 219-21; anecdotes concerning, 221-23, 234-36; Bob Gassett in Dearer than Life, 229; in Fanchette, 230; Digby Grant in The Two Roses, 230, 235-36; in The Bells, 231-34, 239; personality, 236-38, 241-43, 270-72; in Hamlet, 239-41; visit to Nuremberg, 243-44; in Charles I., 254; Ellen Terry and, 279-80; his request to the author, 283-84 Italy, Northern, aspects of character in, 19 James, Edwin, 167 James, Henry, 159 Jameson, Frederick, 206, 260 Jefferies, Richard, 159; “The Gamekeeper at Home,” 163-64 Jesmond Dene, 50 Jeune, Sir Francis, see St. Helier, Lord Jeykell, Miss, 103-5 Johnson, Dr., 7 Jonby, 15 Journalism, relation to literature, 47 Junior of the Circuit, the, 49-50, 56 Keats, 68, 200 Keene, Charles, 118, 244; sketch of, 114-15 Kelly, Mr., 255 Kelmscott, home of Rossetti, 64 Kennedy, Lord Justice, 49 Kensington Gardens, 90 Killin, 19 Kinsmen Club, the, 223 Knight, Joseph, 264 Labour News, the, 27-28 Lambs Club, the, 117, 259-61, 263 Landor, Rossetti on, 68-69 Landseer, Sir Edwin, 72, 88; personality, 105-7 Langdale Pikes, 24 L’Art, 140, 146 L’Art en Province, 153 Lawson, Cecil, exhibitions at the Grosvenor, 133, 143; the “Minister’s Garden,” 143; the “Pastoral,” 143; personality, 144-45 Leech, John, 89, 118 Leigh’s School, 109 Leighton, Sir Frederick, 44, 275; Rossetti on, 67-68; personality, 93-96; letter to the author quoted, 97-99 Leslie, George, letters to the author quoted, 103-7 Lewis, Lady, 79-80, 267 Lewis, Leopold, 230 Lewis, Sir George, 51, 80, 183, 187, 267 Leyland, Mr., 134 Liddon, Canon, 167 Lindsay, Lady, 137, 266-67 Lindsay, Sir Coutts, 119, 132, 143, 146, 266-67, 284 Literature, its relation to music, 211 Locker, Frederick, 198-99 Lockwood, Sir Frank, 190 London University, 14 Louvre, the, 245 Lowe, Mr., M.P., 174-75 Lowell, James Russell, 189 Luib, 18 Lyceum, the, 84, 152, 195, 221, 229, 241, 254, 270, 274, 279, 284 Lynn-Linton, Mrs., 265 M’Connell, Mr., 50, 55 Macfarlane, Mr., 251 Maclure, Macdonald and Macgregor, Messrs., 166 Macmillan, Messrs., 158 Macready, 232 Maidenhead, 117 Malory, Sir Thomas, 83, 283 Manchester Art Gallery, the, 153 Manchester Guardian, the, 38, 146, 150, 153 Manor House, Barnes Common, 1-2 Marlborough, Duke of, 240 Marshall, Gen. Henry, 3 Marston, Dr. Westland, 263-65 Martineau, James, preaching of, 167-69 Maurier, M. Du, 114; personality, 116-17; work on Punch, 117-18; his love of music, 118-19; drawing of Frederick Locker, 199 Mecklenburg Square, 43 Men of the Time, 97 Meredith, George, 159; Evan Harrington, illustrations, 114; “The Old Chartist,” illustration, 115; personality, 205-8; sonnets on Modern Love, 207; comment on Ibsen, 208 Michael Angelo, 73, 180 Mill, J. S., 11, 176 Millais, Sir J. E., 63, 75, 116, 138; Rossetti on, 67, 87; the author’s early criticism on, 85-86; the “Carpenter’s Shop,” 86; “Feast of Lorenzo,” 86; “The Huguenots,” 86, 90, 92, 93; “Ophelia,” 86, 92, 93; personality, 86-89, 90-92, 99-101; the Grosvenor Gallery exhibitions, 89-90; his special power, 91-93; contrasted with Leighton, 93-96; black and white work, 111-13; attitude towards the Royal Academy, 130; portrait of John Bright, 175; of Gladstone, 175; of Tennyson, 193; of Dickens, 194 Miller, Joachim, 264 Millet, Frank, 150 Milton, 200 Minto, Professor, 46-47 Mitre Tavern, Temple Bar, 158 Monnet, 279 Montague, Henry, 234-35 Montague, H. J., 260-61, 273 Monte Carlo, 285 Moore, Albert, 66, 138 Morris, William, 72; The Defence of Guinevere, 10, 208; poetry of, 208-9; personality, 209-10 Music, claims of, 210-12 National Gallery, the, 128, 245 Neilson, Adelaide, 264 New Gallery, 126-27, 131-32, 178, 179 Newman, Messrs., 126 North, Mr., 164 Northern Circuit, the, 48-58 Nuremberg, 243 Ogilvie, Mr. Stuart, 282 Old Masters, value of, 131-32 Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn, 41 Oliphant, Lawrence, 159, 164-65 Oliphant, Mrs., “The Lake of Tiberias,” 164-65 Once a Week, 107, 110, 113-14, 117 O’Neil, Arthur, 26-28 O’Neil, Henry, 26 Oratory, the art of, 167-92 Orsini, defence of, 167 Oxenford, John, 276-78 Oxford Union Debating Society, 177-78 Pagani’s Italian Restaurant, 121 Palais Royal Theatre, 100 Pall Mall exhibitions, the, 134 Pall Mall Gazette, 35, 36, 47, 102, 146, 163, 231 Pall Mall Restaurant, 158 Parnell, C. S., the trial, 186-88; character, 188; the forged letter, reply to Mr. Chamberlain, 183-86 Parry, Mr., 258 Parsons, Alfred, 151, 152, 164 Patterdale, 24 Payne, Bernal, 102 Pellegrini, Carlo, 121-25 Penzance, Lord, 49 Perugini, Mrs., 194 Phelps, 232, 244 Pigott, 186, 187 Pinero, The Beauty Stone, 285, 287-88 Poe, Edgar Allan, 257 Poetry, music in, 210-12 Poets, some Victorian, 193-214 Pollock, Walter Herries, 37, 215 Pope, Sam, 49, 56 Portfolio, the, 149 Power, Richard, 184 Pre-Raphaelites, the, 60, 63, 75-76, 130 Previtale’s, 81 Prince of Wales’s Theatre, 255-56, 261 Princess’s Theatre, 244 Punch, 114, 117-18 Purnell, Thomas, 254; anecdotes concerning, 28-34; story told by, 147-48 Queen’s Theatre, 229 Rabelais Club, 221 Rachel, Madame, 275 Rae, Mr., of Birkenhead, 63, 65 Raleigh Club, 258 Rannoch, 23 Raphael, 180 Rasselas, mountains of, 182 Reade, Charles, 280 Reed, Alfred, 258 Reform Bill of 1832, 177; of 1867, 182 Reform, John Bright’s speeches on, 170-75 Restaurants, London, 158 Reynolds, 93 Ristori, Madame, 275-76 Robertson, Tom, 233, 261 Robinson, Sir John, 40-41 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 7, 8, 10-11, 60, 72, 75, 85, 115, 117, 130; the pre-Raphaelite movement, 63, 76; works of, 64-65; friendship with the author, 64-70; expressed opinions of, 66-69, 87; black and white work, 111, 112; illustrations for Tennyson’s poems, 112-13; personality, 264 Rothenberg-on-the-Tauber, 243 Rubens, 80 Ruskin, 11, 60, 113, 138, 141 Russell, Lord, on the Northern Circuit, 49-54, 56-57; the Parnell trial, 186-88 Russell, Sir William, 39 Sadler’s Wells Theatre, 26, 244 St. George’s Hall, 121, 257-59 St. Helier, Lord, 189 St. James’s Hall, 170, 173, 194 St. Paul’s, burial of Sullivan, 288 Sala, George Augustus, 42-44, 46 Salvini, 275, 278-79 Sandys, Frederick, 114-16 Saturday Review, the, 7, 36, 37, 38, 47, 59, 206, 215, 265 Savile Club, the, 215, 219, 223 Savoy, chapel of the, 30 Schlesinger, Dr. Max, 265-66 Scotland, early fishing excursions in, 17-22 Scott, Sir W., 218 Scottish character, some aspects, 17-21, 153-57 Selby, Viscount, 49 Selous, Fred, 4 Severn, Arthur, 121 Shakespeare, 162-63, 200 Shield, Hugh, 55 Simpson’s Restaurant, 158 Skinner, Alan, 41-42, 167 Skinner, Hilary, 41-42 Smith, Prof. Goldwin, 183 Soria, De, 119 South Kensington Museum, 245 Spaniard’s Inn, Highgate, 251 Spurgeon, preaching of, 167-68 Stanley, Dean, 167 Steinle, 97, 98 Stevens, Alfred, 130 Stevenson, R. L., personality, 215-19 Stickle Tarn, 24-25 Stratford-on-Avon, 152 “Student Williams,” 47 Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 283; King Arthur, 283, 287, 291-92; personality, 284-86; The Beauty Stone, 285, 287-88; method of work, 286-87; death, 288 Sully, 279 Swinburne, A. C., 7, 10, 77, 159; the new music in his poetry, 208-12 Switzerland, 21 Tadema, Lady, 267-68 Tadema, Sir Laurence, 80, 82, 267-68 Taylor, Tom, 193 Tebbs, Mr. Virtue, 66 Tenniel, Sir John, 114 Tennyson, Horatio, 198 Tennyson, Lionel, 198 Tennyson, Lord—Poems (edition 1857), 112-13; appearance, 193-94; The Princess, 194-95; The Promise of May, 195; Becket, 195, 196; The Cup, 195, 196; personality, 197-98, 200, 205; Browning’s admiration for, 204 Terriss, William, 3, 5 Terry, Ellen, visit to Nuremberg, 243-44; in Butterfly, 255; Sarah Bernhardt’s compliment to, 279; in King Arthur, 291-92 Terry, Kate, 274 Thackeray, W. M., 9-11, 95-96, 110, 205 The Theatre, 221 Theatre, the, impressions of childhood, 225-28; condition of the stage on the advent of Irving, 232; the actor’s art, 237-49; need for a national theatre, 244-46; rehearsals, 288-91; the question of scenery, 291-92 Thirlemere, 21 Thomson, Hugh, 165-66 Thorne, Tom, 234-35 Times, the, 56, 183-84, 276-77 Tissot, James, 268-70 Titian, 180 Toole, J. L., 229-30, 234-35, 250, 254; friendship with Irving, 241, 246; personality and anecdotes, 246-53; a day’s fun, 247-50 Toole’s Theatre, 255 Tottenham Court Road Theatre, 232, 281 Tower of London, visit of Toole, 248-49 Townsend House, 267 “Trafalgar,” Greenwich, 37 Tree, Beerbohm, 256, 270, 281-82 Tristram, Outram, 281 Turner, 66 Ullswater, 15 Unitarian chapel, Great Portland Street, 167, 169 United States, quality of illustrations in, 159 Vanity Fair cartoons, 121, 165 Vaudeville Theatre, 234-35 Venezuela, 189 Verrey’s Restaurant, 158 Vinci, Leonardo da, 180, 245 Walker, Frederick, 114, 144; personality, 102, 105-7; visit to Algiers, 103-5; his work, 107-10 Walking tours, 23-25 Walton, 267 Water-Colour Society, 74 Watts, G. F., 63, 72, 73, 129, 169, 193 Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 47, 159 Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, 276 Webster, Sir Richard, see Alverstone, Lord Westminster Club, the, 254 Westmoreland, fishing in, 21-22; walking tours, 24-25 Weyman, Stanley, 159-61 Whistler, J. A. M., 114, 115; criticism of (1873), 133-34; public attitude, 134-35; personality 135-38; style, 138-39; his love of contest, 139-42; friends, 142-43; at Lawson’s, 143 Whymper, T. W., 109 Wilde, Oscar, 118; poetry of, 212-13; dramatic work of, 213-14 Wills, W. G., 221-22, 283; Charles I., 254 Wood-engraving, 109-10, 120, 158-59 Wordsworth, 200, 201 World, the, 36, 38, 40 Wurtzburg, 243 Yates, Edmund, 147; founds the World, 36, 38-39, 40, 43, 44; style of oratory, 191-92

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