INDEX
Reading edition
A.D.C., the, 144, 153.
A. R. at Cambridge, 146.
Abbé Constantin (L’), 92, 305.
Abdul Hamid, dethroned, 397.
Abingdon, 142.
Acropolis, Athens, 254, 256.
Addington, 138.
Adonaïs, Shelley, 161, 163.
Adrienne Lecouvreur, 232;
produced by Sarah Bernhardt, 305;
Scribe and Legouvé’s, 308-9.
Adventures of Sophy, Violet Fane, 247.
Afoo, Chinese servant, 276, 279-80.
Agadir crisis, 212.
Agincourt, Admiral Glyn’s ship, 47.
Aiglon (L’), 233, 243;
first performance, the Hon. Maurice Baring’s article in the Speaker, 199-204;
Sarah Bernhardt in, 305.
Ainger’s (House), Eton, 88.
Airlie, Lady, 62.
Aladin, deputy, 340, 347.
Albani, Madame, 27, 52.
Albanians in Uskub, 415-16.
Albert Hall, 26, 139.
⸺ Prince, 131.
Albo, Pomeranian, 39.
Alexander, butler, 220, 223.
⸺ comic actor, 136.
Alexandra, Queen, 348;
visit to Copenhagen, 225-26.
Alexandria, 168.
Alexei, boot-boy, 220.
Alexeieff, Viceroy, 263.
Alice in Wonderland, 170.
Allen, Mr. J., 154.
Alt, Miss, at San Stefano, 421-29 passim.
Amants, Maurice Donnay, 166.
Âme païenne (L’), Brewster, 250.
American-Spanish War, 71.
Amour de l’Art, Labiche, 86.
Andersen, Hans, 208.
Anderson, Mary, in The Lady of Lyons, 53-54.
Anderton’s Hotel, 151.
André, watchman, 220, 222.
Andromaque, 243.
Angelo, Hugo, 305.
Angelo, Michael, a farmhouse of, 167.
Angers, 198.
Anglo-Saxon Review, poem by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 198.
Anna Karenina, 219.
Annie, nursemaid, 2, 8, 19, 37.
Annunzio, Gabriele d’, poems, 140, 232;
Vernon Lee on, 187;
La Gioconda, 305, 309;
proposed dramatic version of Paolo and Francesca, 246.
Antoine, actor, 197.
⸺ Théâtre, 265.
Antrim, Lord, 24.
Apostles, Society of the, 145-46.
April Fools’ Day memories, 24-25.
Apron Stage, use in Copenhagen theatres, 210.
Aranci Bay, 395.
Arbuthnot, 68.
Archangel, 358, 360.
Archer, Fred, 83.
Archibald, photographer, 276-77.
Arena Nazionale, Florence, 311.
Army, the Russian, condition at opening of the Duma, 340-41;
discontent, 353.
⸺ the Turkish, weapons of the, 413.
Arnaut refugees, 416.
Arnim, Frau von, 136.
Arnold, Matthew, 110, 112, 414.
Art Theatre, Moscow, 265-66, 323-24.
Artemis, Mr. Gladstone’s lecture on, 108.
Arthur, Port, 263, 314.
Arundel Park, a May night, 4-5.
As in a Looking-Glass, 93-94, 232.
Ascot, the school at, 68-86.
⸺ races, 79-80.
Ashburton, Lady, 26.
⸺ Lord, 62.
Asquith, Raymond, The North Street Gazette, 390-95.
Assisi, earthquake at, 158-59.
Assiz Bey, 397.
Assumption, Cathedral of the, Moscow, 334-35. Astrakan, the journey to, 375-79;
atmosphere, 380.
Astrophel, Swinburne, 148.
Atalanta, newspaper, 112.
Athalie, 233, 235-36.
Athens, 254-56.
⸺ Eton, 117.
Atkins, Dr., 41.
Aurèle, Madame, 66.
Austria, Archduke of, assassinated, 438.
Aventurière (L’), 230.
Bach, “Passion Music of St. Matthew,” 103.
Bachelors’ Club, 139.
Baden, Grand Duchess of, 216.
Bagshot, 76.
Baikal, Lake, 269-70, 311.
Baines, Dr., 427.
Balakirev, Russian folk-songs, 408.
Balfour, Reginald, at Angers, 198-99.
Balkan War, 1912, 395.
Balliol, 170-72.
Ballooning experiences, 204-5.
Balzac, 94, 141.
Banck, M., 98.
Bancrofts, the, 51, 53.
Banville, Théodore de, 228;
Camées Parisiens, 243;
La Femme de Claude, 306.
Barbier de Seville, 310.
Baretta, acting of, 93, 230.
Bariatinsky, Princess, 247.
Baring Brothers, the financial crisis, 1890, 113.
⸺ General, 62.
⸺ Rowland, 82.
⸺ the Hon. Cecil, 13, 14, 27, 46, 48, 54, 58, 65, 107.
⸺ the Hon. Elizabeth, 9-13, 22-25, 32, 38, 43-44;
at Ascot, 79-80;
marriage, 85-86;
house of, 113.
⸺ the Hon. Everard, 13, 14, 32, 37, 65;
the “Imp,” 40;
at Eton, 46, 48-49.
⸺ the Hon. Hugo, boyhood, 2-3, 9, 11, 14, 16, 21, 23, 26;
in the schoolroom, 36-41;
yachting, 44;
Mr. Warre and, 46;
Membland, 59-60;
Marlborough House parties, 80;
Ascot school, 81;
Eastbourne, 82;
“Miss Hastings,” 83;
the game of “Spankaboo,” 83-84;
Cowes, 85;
Paris, 93;
Eton, 105, 107, 113, 115.
Baring, the Hon. John (now Lord Revelstoke), 13, 14, 20, 27, 44-46, 65, 68, 102, 107, 135.
⸺ the Hon. Margaret (married Robert Spencer), 8-12, 21-23, 35, 43-44, 85, 107-8.
⸺ the Hon. Susan, 9-13, 16, 21, 23-25, 35, 44, 74, 85, 86, 91-94.
⸺ Windham, 82.
Barnay, Ludwig, 136.
Barnby, Mr. Joseph, organist, 102-3.
Barnes Pool, 95.
Barrack Room Ballads, Kipling, 148.
Bartet in Le Père Prodigue, 140;
in Bérénice, 192.
Bastille, the, 93.
Bath, visits to, 76, 130.
⸺ House, 26, 85.
Battery Cottage, 40.
Bauman, death, 320;
funeral, 321-22.
Bayreuth Festival, 133-35, 153-54, 168.
Beardsley, Aubrey, 144, 149.
Béarn, Madame de, 254.
Beauchamp, editor of the Eton Review, 111.
Beeching, Mr., 148.
Beerbohm, Max, 147-48, 155;
on Rugby football, 74;
correspondence in the Saturday Review, 195.
Beer-drinking rules in Germany, 121-125.
Beethoven, 211.
Beggars, Russian, 377.
Belgrade Station, 406, 408.
Bell, casting of a, 382-85.
Bell, schoolfellow, 77, 79, 83.
Belle Hélène (La), 197.
Belle Maman, 93.
Belle-Isle, a visit to, 216-18.
Belloc, Hilary, at Oxford, 170-72;
“Bad Child’s Book of Beasts,” 171;
Verses and Sonnets, 171;
The North Street Gazette, 390-95;
The Four Men, 391;
The Eye Witness, 395.
Ben Hur, 105.
Benckendorff, Constantine, 263.
⸺ Count, on Delaunay, 67;
in Copenhagen, 208-9;
at the Russian Legation, 212;
personality, 213-15;
invitations to the Hon. Maurice Baring, 218-24;
in London, 261;
on Russia, 268.
Benckendorff, Pierre, 223-24, 268.
Benelli, Signor, 140.
Benson, Arthur, at Eton, 100, 104, 110-12, 116-17, 147, 259;
poems, 138;
house of, 142;
style, 148.
⸺ E. F., Dodo, 138, 149.
⸺ Mrs., 138.
Benzon, Otto, comedies, 210-11.
Bérénice, Racine, 192-93.
Berlin, 133;
rooms in Unter den Linden, 135-37;
Friedrichsstrasse Station, 438.
⸺ University, 136-37.
Berliner Tageblatt, 276.
Berliner Theater, the, 136.
Bernhardt, Sarah, 187, 197;
in Hernani, 53;
As in a Looking-Glass, 93-94;
in La Tosca, 107;
and Eleonora Duse, 136;
at Daly’s, 167;
in L’Aiglon, 199-200, 204;
her home in Belle-Isle, 216-17;
personality, 217-18, 227-44;
her interpretation of Hamlet, 239-41;
in La Dame aux Camélias, 241;
Angelo produced, 305;
in La Femme de Claude, 307;
Fédora, 309;
her greatness, 309-10.
Bertie, Sir Frank, 180.
Bilky, coachman, 40.
Bingen, 133.
Bismarck, 127, 129;
sayings of, 139;
on the English, 173, 175;
remark concerning Constantinople, 419.
Bizet, tomb, 94.
Black Gang, in Moscow, 320-23.
Blackwood, Basil, 71, 171.
Bletchington, Captain, 44-45.
Blunt, Lady Anne, 169.
⸺ Sir Wilfrid, 169.
Board of Trade, offices of the, 157.
Bobrinsky, Count, 280.
⸺ Count André, 388.
⸺ Count Lev, 388-90.
⸺ Countess, 389-90.
Boer War, feeling between Germany and England, 174-75.
Boileau, reading of, 152.
Bois de Boulogne, 16, 67, 92.
Boissier, 36.
Boito, opera, 310.
Bonn, 133.
Borthwick, Oliver, 268.
Boris Godounov, 310.
Bosanquet, editor of the Parachute, 111.
Boswell, a quotation, 185.
Bouchier, Mr., 104.
Bouffons (Les), 233.
Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 75.
Bourget, parody on, 194-95.
Bourke, Harry, 43.
Bowden, Father Sebastian, 395-96.
Brachet, Grammaire Historique, 114.
Brackley, Lord, at Eton, 89.
Braisne, 89.
Brandes, Dr. George, 211.
⸺ Frau, 133.
Braun, boy at Hildesheim, 120-21;
explains beer-drinking, 121-23.
Breguet watches, presents of, 55-56, 115.
Brewster, 139, 184;
works of, 249-51;
L’Âme païenne, 250;
on Verlaine, 251;
on the production of Shakespeare, 251-52;
the Prison, 252;
in Rome, 259-60.
Bridges, Robert, pamphlets of verse, 148.
Brinkman prize, the, 91.
British Encyclopædia, article by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 226.
Brizzi, Signor, 52.
Broadwood, at Ascot, 78-79;
at Eastbourne, 82-85;
at Eton, 87.
⸺ Colonel, 76.
Brocken, climbing the, 128.
Brohan, Madeleine, 230.
Brompton Oratory, 395-96.
Brontë, Charlotte, 228;
Jane Eyre, 106.
Brooke, Guy, 269, 271, 280, 292.
Brothers Karamazov (The), Dostoievsky, 293.
Broughton Castle, 204.
Brown, Mrs., sock-shop, 95-96, 105, 117.
Browne, Miss Pinkie, 61-62.
Browning, Oscar, 153.
⸺ Robert, 151, 169.
Brusa, 404-5.
Bucharest, 418.
Buckstone, art of, 51.
Bulgarians, spirit of the, 416-17.
Bullock, Mr., guard at Paddington, 6-7.
Bulteel, Bessie, 48, 54, 58, 61, 66.
⸺ Effie (Aunt), 34, 47.
⸺ Lady Elizabeth, 29-30.
⸺ (Uncle Johnny), 34, 40, 57-58, 176.
Burcher, Mr., librarian at Eton, 110, 116.
Burlington House, 56.
Burne-Jones, 56, 232, 235.
Burschenschaft, 125-26.
Butat, M., 27, 28.
Byron, 50, 58, 126, 186;
quoted, 50, 282;
Arthur Benson and, 112;
Professor Ihne on, 163;
the singer of Greece, 255.
Café de Paris, 92.
Cairo, the Agency, 168-69.
Califano, 95.
Calverley, 145.
Cambridge, 141;
King’s College, 143-45;
debating societies, 143;
Society of the Apostles, 145-46;
work done by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 151-53.
Cambridge A B C, newspaper, 144.
Cambridge University Press, pamphlet of poems by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 199.
Camées Parisiens, Banville, 243.
Cameron, Miss Violet, 28.
Campbell, Herbert, 24, 83.
⸺ Mrs. Patrick, 56, 149;
in The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, 157-58;
in Magda, 167;
in Pelléas, 305.
⸺ minor, Ascot, 79.
⸺ Niall, 71.
Captain Swift, at the Haymarket, 107.
Card games, German, 124.
Carducci, 140.
Carlyle, Arthur Benson and, 112.
Carmen, 187.
Carnac, temple of, 169.
Carr, editor of the Parachute, 111.
Carr-Bosanquet, parody on Kipling, 144;
humour of, 144-45;
rooms of, 153.
Carregi, 167.
Carroll, Lewis, 180.
Caruso, 52.
Castellane, Count Boni de, 206.
Castiglione, Madame de, 196.
Catherine ii., 339, 355.
Cavalleria Rusticana, 133.
Cecil, Lord Sackville, 166-67.
Cemented Bricks Society, 151.
“Cercle de l’Union,” 184, 196, 206.
Cercle des Débats (Le), 113.
Certosa, the, 159.
Cetonia, schooner, 45.
Chaika, by Tchekov, 323.
Chaliapine, 263, 309-10, 376-77.
Chantilly, 205.
Charles, Prince and Princess, of Denmark, 225.
Châtelet, the, Paris, 92.
Chérie, French governess, 9-138 passim.
Chernaya, village of, 325-26.
Cherry Orchard, Tchekov, 266, 268.
Chesterton, Cecil, The New Witness, 395.
⸺ Gilbert, 395.
Chevrillon, André, 195.
Childe Harold, 112.
Children, notes on, 373-74.
Children of the Sun, Gorky, 323.
Chinese Catholic priests, 283.
Chit-Chat Debating Society, 144.
Cholera in San Stefano, 419-29.
Chough’s Nest, Lynton, 197-98.
Christians in Uskub, massacre prevented, 414-16.
Christie, Mrs., education of the children, 11-158.
Christmas in Germany, 155-56.
Church, Stories from Homer, 46.
Churchill, Winston, at Ascot, 71.
Civil Service Commission, 177.
Clairin, 217.
Clapshaw, Mr., 89.
Clarendon, Lady, 55.
Clarke, at Eton, 103.
⸺ Rev. Dawson, 154.
Clarkson, Mr., 153.
Clemenceau, M., 195.
Cleopatra, the M.S., 169.
Clifford, Lady de, 62.
Clothes, nationality and, 373.
Clubs in Heidelberg, 125.
Cluny Musée, 92.
Coblenz, 133.
Cocart et Bicoquet, 92.
Coleridge, 240;
“Ancient Mariner” quoted, 270.
Coliseum, Rome, 246.
Collins, an essay on, by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 142.
Cologne, 133.
Colonial Office, 177.
Comédie française, 230, 265.
Compiègne, 198.
Congreve, 148.
“Conscripts’ Farewell (The),” 61.
Constantinople, rebellion 1909, 397-98;
Russian pilgrims in, 400-1;
the new Sultan, 401-4;
Adrianople Gate, 402;
November impressions, 418-20;
cholera at San Stefano, 419-429.
Contrexéville, 56, 65-67, 81, 153.
Coombe Cottage, near Malden, 3-7, 10, 12, 14, 17.
Copeman, Miss, at Eton, 87, 99-100, 112.
Copenhagen, British Legation, 207-26;
Tivoli music-hall, 209;
the Bred Gade, 212.
Coppée, François, Le Passant, 228.
Coquelin in L’Étourdi, 107;
in L’Abbé Constantin, 305;
art of, 51, 199, 230, 243.
Corfu, 256.
Corinth, 254.
Cornish, Gerald, 116.
⸺ Hubert, at Heidelberg, 118, 124-26, 128, 133;
in Naples, 141;
Cambridge, 143, 146;
journalism, 144;
criticism of the new poets, 150;
Devonshire, 198.
⸺ Mr., at Eton, 88, 98, 117, 141-42, 180.
⸺ Mrs., 114.
Cosham, 114.
Cossacks, fire on crowd at Bauman’s funeral, 322;
attitude during the Revolution, 353;
on the Volga steamers, 375.
Country Girl in St. Petersburg, 324.
Covent Garden Opera House, Aïda, 53.
Coventry, Willie, 110, 112, 115-16.
Cowes Regatta, 44, 85.
Cowley, 155.
Cowper, “Hark my Soul,” 50.
⸺ Lord, 176.
Crackenthorpe, 147.
Crawford, Marion, Mr. Isaacs, 50;
a favourite author, 105-6.
Crawshay, Mrs., 245.
Creçy, forest of, 205.
Cremer’s, Bond Street, 5;
Regent Street, 7.
Crime and Punishment, Dostoievsky, 293.
Croizette, 230.
Cromer, Lord, 82, 396;
Modern Egypt, 168-69;
on Lord Salisbury’s Foreign policy, 178.
Croome Court, 112.
Crosbie, Mr., 40, 135.
Crowds, Russian, 383-85.
Cruises in 1908, 395.
Crum, at Eton, 116.
Cuckoo Weir, 95.
Cunliffe, at Eton, 108.
Cuppy, Mr. Hazlitt Alva, 124, 127.
Curçin, Dr. Milan, 410-11, 412, 417.
Currie, Lady, 245-47, 261-62.
⸺ Lord, in Rome, 245-47, 261-62.
Cust, Harry, 62, 149.
Cuyp, 16.
Cyrano de Bergerac, 200-3, 243.
Daily Mail, 275.
Daily News, 148.
Daily Telegraph, 276.
Daly’s Theatre, Sarah Bernhardt at, 167.
Damala, M., 53.
Dame aux Camélias, Sarah Bernhardt in, 136, 231, 241;
Duse in, 235, 309.
Damozel Blanche, by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 113.
Dancing lessons, 25-26.
Dante, quoted, 140, 404.
Darmesteter, Madame, 195.
Dart, the, 374.
Dartmoor, 31, 57.
Datchet, regatta, 142.
Daudet, Alphonse, 105.
Davantientung, life in, 283-86.
David Grieve, Mrs. H. Ward, 148.
Davidson, John, 147-48, 151.
Day of My Life at Eton (A), 144.
Deacon, Mr., 6, 27, 39, 63.
Debating Societies, Eton, 113;
Cambridge, 143-44.
Decemviri Debating Society, 143-44, 153.
Delaunay, art of, 51, 67, 230.
Delcassé, M., 184.
Delos, 256.
Delphi, rocks of, 254.
Denmark, King of, 209-10;
and King Edward VII., 224-25.
Der Wald, Ethel Smyth, 215.
Derby, the, 167.
Desclée, 52.
Devonshire, visits to, 5, 6;
scenery compared with South Russia, 386.
Devonshire House, fancy dress ball, 1897, 176.
Dickens, Charles, reading of, 53;
humour of, 298.
Die Alte Tante, 119.
Die Ehre, Sudermann, 136.
Dillon, Dr., 324.
Dimitri, servant, 282.
Dimitriev-Mamonov, Alexander, 314.
Dimmock, 9-135 passim.
Diplomatic Service, examinations for the, 153-56.
Dittel, Herr, 169.
Dodo, Benson, 138, 149.
Doll’s House, Ibsen, 136;
in Copenhagen, 210-11;
Duse in, 309.
Don Giovanni, 186, 211.
Donizetti, 52.
Donnay, Maurice, Amants, 166.
Donne, lines quoted, 226.
Dostoievsky, novels of, 261, 293;
Nazarenko’s opinion of, 343.
Dowson, Ernest, 149;
poem by, 150.
Doyle, Conan, 381.
Drachman, Holger, Gurre, 210, 211.
Drake, Ingalton, 95.
Dresden, 118, 133;
picture gallery, 135.
Drew, Mr., 97.
Dreyfus campaign, 184-85, 195-97, 209.
Drury Lane Pantomimes, Mother Goose, 8, 83, 245;
Duse at, 167.
Du Lau, M., 192, 206-7.
Du Maurier, 55;
cited, 321.
Duckworth, at Ascot, 73.
Dudley, Georgiana, Lady, 196.
Duels in Heidelberg, 127-28.
Dufferin, Lord, in Paris, 166.
Duma, the Russian, opening of first, 332, 339-41;
dissolution, 341-42;
discussions about the, 353-54;
the third, 390.
Dumas fils, Alexandre, 141, 230;
Comme Elles sont Toutes, 85-86;
Dame aux Camélias, 136, 231, 309;
La Femme de Claude, 235, 305-8;
La Visite de Noces, 305, 308.
Dunglass, at Eton, 89, 102, 105-6, 115-16.
Durnford, Mr. Walter, 46, 63, 116.
Duse, Eleonora, art of, 52-53, 136, 167, 309-10;
in La Dame aux Camélias, 184;
as Magda, 210, 234-35;
in Fédora, 231, 309;
at the Waldorf Theatre, 305;
in La Femme de Claude, 306-8;
in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 309;
in La Gioconda, 309.
Dutch Reformed Church, Constantinople, 422.
Dyce, his Shakespeare, 185.
E. at Timmes, 161-64.
Eagle, shop in Edgware Road, 28.
Earthquake at Assisi, 158-59.
“East and West,” Hilary Belloc, 391-92.
Easter in Russia, 155;
Moscow festivities, 334-39.
Ebb Tide, Stevenson, 148.
Edgcumbe, Colonel, 15, 60-61.
Edgcumbe, Lady Ernestine, 61.
⸺ Lord Mount, 60-63.
Edinburgh, Duchess of, 348.
Édouard, Les Enfants d’Édouard, 21.
Edward VII., in Denmark, 224-25.
Edwin and Angelina, Violet Fane, 245.
Egerton, Francis, 98.
Egypt, 168.
Egyptian Red Crescent, 427-28.
Eiffel Tower, 93.
Ekaterinoslav Regiment, the, 335.
Eldorado Paris Music Hall, 66.
Elgin, Lord, 255.
Eliot, George, 106, 112.
Elliot, Charles, 191.
Ellis, Colonel, 60.
⸺ Edwin, 149.
⸺ Gerald, 60.
⸺ Mr., carpenter, 42, 59.
Elsinore, 224-25.
En Paix, 197.
Encyclopædia Britannica, articles by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 261.
English Lyrics, Le Gallienne, 149.
Enver Pasha, 397.
Epic of Hades, Lewis Morris, 98.
Esclangon, M., 154-55.
Eton, Warre’s House, 13, 14;
4th of June, 65, 106-7;
Lower Chapel, 89;
first summer half, 94-95;
sock-shops, 95-96;
duty of the prepostor, 96, 100;
masters, 96-100;
religious instruction, 100-1;
music lessons, 101-3;
ragging of masters, 103-4;
breakfasts with the Head Master, 107;
New Schools opened by Queen Victoria, 108;
Mr. Gladstone’s speech on classical education, 108-9;
system of punishments, 109-10;
the School library, 110, 116;
the boats, 112-13;
Debating Societies, 113-14;
Tercentenary, 1891, 114;
the Prince Consort prize (1891) won by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 114-16;
House matches, 115;
the playing fields, 117;
Mr. Cornish Vice-Provost, 141-42;
newspapers and books about, 144;
compared with Cambridge, 170;
Cloisters, 180.
Eton and Harrow match, 64-65, 115.
Eton Boating Song, 103.
Eton Chronicle, 144.
Eton Review, the, 111.
Eton Volunteers, 108.
Étourdi (L’), Coquelin, 107.
Evans’ House, Eton, 88.
Executions, Turkish, 398-99.
Exhibition, the Paris, 1900, 93.
Eye Witness (The), editors, 395.
Eyoub, Mosque of, 402, 403.
Faguet, M. Émile, 242;
Propos de Théâtre, 243.
Fair at Nijni-Novgorod, 371-73.
Falka, 28.
Fanshawe, Miss, 50.
Fantasio, Ethel Smyth, 216.
Fargeuil, 53.
Farms in South Russia, 387.
Fashoda crisis, 178.
Faure, President, death of, 187.
Faust, Goethe, 26, 136, 164;
Gounod, 136.
Favart, Madame, 230.
Febvre, 230.
Fechter, 51.
Fédora, Sardou, 231, 305, 309.
Femme de Claude (La), Duse in, 305-9.
Feodor, peasant, 348-49.
Feuillet, Octave, 106.
Fidelio, 324.
Field, Michael, 151.
Fielding, 111.
Figaro, the, 143.
Fires, Russian village, 382.
First Siberian Corps, 298.
Fish, Hamilton, 71.
Fisher, Commander, 395.
Fitzgerald, Arthur Benson and, 112.
Fletcher, 171.
Flete, 33-34.
Florence, 140-41, 158;
June nights, 4;
the earthquake, 158-60;
Giotto’s Tower, 167.
Foire de Jambon, La, Paris, 92.
Foix, Gaston de, statue at Milan, 302.
Folkestone, Lady, 54.
Fontaine, La, Fables, 20, 352.
Fontainebleau, 205;
forest of, 198.
Fontanka, the, Countess Shuvaloff’s house, 263.
Food of the Gods, Wells, 285.
Ford, Major, 420-29.
Foreign Office, African Department, 177-80;
the Commercial Department, 260-61.
Forster, Birket, 16.
Fort des Poulains, house of Sarah Bernhardt, 216-17.
Fortune-telling, 352.
Forum, the, 259.
Four Men (The), Belloc, 391.
Foyod, 92.
France, Anatole, works, 141;
criticism by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 156-57;
parody on, 194-95, 213;
his receptions, 184-85, 195-96;
Count Pasolini and, 249.
Franconia, the, 125.
Franco-Prussian War, 51, 129.
Frank, footman, 27.
Frank Fairleigh, 68.
Frankfort, 133.
Frascati, 259.
Fräulein Schmidt und Mr. Anstruther, 370.
Frederick, Empress, 88, 129.
⸺ the Great, rooms at Potsdam, 129.
Frew, Mr., 422-29.
Fullerton, Lady Georgiana, Too Strange not to be True, 48.
Fun-chu-Ling, village, 299.
Gaedke, Colonel, 276-77, 281.
Galata Bridge, executions, 398-400.
Gale, Norman, 153;
Country Lyrics, 148.
Galgenberg, the, 119.
Gallienne, Richard le, 147;
English Lyrics, 149;
“What of the Darkness,” 150;
friendship of, 151.
Galliffet, General, 184, 196-97, 206-7.
⸺ Madame de, 193.
Gamberaia, villa, 167.
Garrick, 227.
⸺ Chambers, London, 154, 156.
⸺ Club, 154.
⸺ Theatre, 157, 310.
Geissler, Dr., 422.
Gémier, actor, 197.
Genesis, Andrew Lang, 148.
“Georgian poets,” 412;
Books of Georgian Poetry, 147.
Géradmer, 67.
Géricault, tomb, 94.
German Crown Prince, in Jubilee procession, 85.
⸺ Emperor, 44;
visit to Eton, 108;
at Queen Victoria’s funeral, 216.
Germany, antipathy towards England, 129;
remarks on, 172-73.
Ghosts, Ibsen, 323.
Gievko, 386-88.
Gilbert and Sullivan operas, 24, 25.
“Gilles,” 67.
Gioconda, D’Annunzio, 305;
Duse in, 309.
Giorgione, 185.
Giroux, 35.
Gladstone, Hon. W. E., Lady Dorothy Nevill on, 15;
reputation at Ascot, 77-78;
lecture at Eton, 108-9.
Glenesk, Lord, 268.
Gluck, 185, 210;
Orpheo, 211.
Glyn, Admiral, 47.
Godziadan, 312.
Goethe, poetry of, 51, 126;
Faust, 136, 164, 311.
Gogol, novels, 261, 364;
humour of, 298;
on Russia, 430, 431.
Golden Horn, view, 397.
Goldoni, La Locandiera, 305.
Goomes, Captain, 44.
Gorky, The Children of the Sun, 323-24.
Goschen, Sir E., 208, 209;
work of the Legation, 214-15, 225.
Gosse, Mr. Edmund, 142, 147-48;
verses published 1894, 148;
friendship, 151;
literary discussions, 155-57, 185;
in Copenhagen, 209;
Hypolympia, 209.
Got, art of, 51, 230.
Gotha, school at, 130-31.
Gounod, Faust, 136.
Grace, 19, 37.
Graham, 106.
Grain, Corney, 17.
Grand d’Hauteville, at Eton, 114.
Granier, Jeanne, in Amants, 166.
Granville, Lady, 26.
⸺ Lord, 62.
Grassina, village, 159.
Gray’s Elegy, 18.
Great Western Railway, Swindon works, 76.
Greece, Sarah Bernhardt on, 217;
visits to, 254.
⸺ King of, 225.
Greek Church, Paris, 187.
⸺ School, San Stefano, cholera hospital, 421-29.
⸺ traders in Kharbin, 275.
Green, Mr. Nathaniel, 22.
⸺ C. A., 149.
Greffuhle, Madame, 199.
Grévin, Musée, 92.
Grey, Lady de, 60.
Grey, Lady Georgiana, 58, 59.
Grisi, 52.
Grosvenor House parties, 54.
Guatemala, 180.
Guidarelli, Guidarello, statue at Ravenna, 302.
Guildhall concerts, 27.
Guitry in Amants, 166.
Gunchuling, 312.
Gunter, A. C., That Frenchman, 106.
Gurko, Colonel, 283.
Gurre, Holger Drachman, 210-11.
Gymnase, Paris, 93, 265.
Gymnasium, Hildesheim, 120-21.
H. B., 195.
Haggard, Rider, 105, 107, 155.
Haichen Station, 281-82.
Hale, Mr. Badger, 97.
Halévy, 199;
L’Abbé Constantin, 106.
Half-hours in the Far South, 75.
Halifax, Lord, 88.
Hallé, Sir Charles, 62.
Hamilton, Leslie, 116.
⸺ war correspondent, 269.
Hamlet, review in North Street Gazette, 392-93;
Sarah Bernhardt’s, 231, 233, 239-41.
Hammonet, M., 114.
Hampton Court residences, 58.
Hands, Charles, 275-76.
Hanover, 118.
Harben, at Eton, 98.
Harbin, 275, 293.
Harbord family, 59.
Hardinge, Arthur, 191.
Hardy, Thomas, 126;
works, 146;
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 148.
Hare, Sir John, art of, 51, 157;
in The Colonel, 53;
in A Pair of Spectacles, 310.
Harland, Henry, 155.
⸺ The Yellow Book, 157.
Harriet, housemaid, 27.
Harris (Uncle Willie), 34.
Harz Mountains, 128, 175.
Hasse, Hildesheim, 121, 129.
Hatchard’s, 20.
Hatfield, garden-parties, 178.
Hauptmann, Lonely Lives, 266.
Hawthorne, Julian, Mrs. Gainsborough’s Diamonds, 106.
Haymaking near Moscow, 349-51.
Haymarket Theatre, 53;
Captain Swift, 107.
Hearts of Men (The), 260.
Hedda Gabler, Ibsen, 210-11.
Heidelberg, 4, 133, 135, 163-64;
view of the Castle, 124;
the University, 124-26.
Heine, Heinrich, 119, 156, 172, 228.
Hele, M., 86.
Heligoland, cession, 173.
Hems, Mr. Harry, 40.
Hengler’s Circus, 17.
Henley, 148.
⸺ Antony, at Oxford, 170-72.
Hennings, Fru, in the Doll’s House, 210-11.
Henry, Mlle Ida, 12-13.
Herbert, Auberon, at Oxford, 170, 176;
experiences, 284-85.
⸺ Aubrey, 402.
⸺ First Secretary, Copenhagen, 215.
⸺ Michael, 212;
in Paris, 181, 183;
personality, 190-92.
Heredia, poems, 255.
Hermann and Dorothea, 126.
Hernani, 35, 229.
Hervieu, Paul, 199.
Herz, at Eton, 103.
Hetherington, Grace, nursery maid, 2, 8.
Heygate, Mr., 87, 96.
Heywood-Lonsdale, 88.
Hildesheim, life at, 118-31, 135, 153-161, 172.
Hildesheim, pamphlet by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 195.
Hillier, Arthur Cecil, 149.
Hilly, nurse, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 37, 39, 41.
Hliebnikov, officer, 289, 290-91, 300.
Hobbes, John Oliver, 147, 149.
Hofteater Theatre, Karlsruhe, 216.
Holberg, comedies, 210.
Holywell, Oxford, 170.
Hook, poem by, 50.
Hope, schoolfellow, 70.
Horace, Odes, 100, 259.
Houghton, Lord, 110.
Hound of Heaven, Thompson, 150.
House Debating Society, Eton, 113.
Houses in South Russia, 386-87.
Houssaye, Henry, 199.
Hua, M., 97, 114;
Eton, 87;
Le Cercle des Débats, 113.
Hugo, Victor, 230, 233, 242-43;
Angelo, 21, 305;
his tomb, 92;
Ruy Bias, 114;
“La Chanson d’Eviradnus,” 237-39.
Humanists’ Library, 261.
Hunter, Mrs. Charles, 139.
Huret, Jules, or Sarah Bernhardt, 217-218.
Hurstmonceux, 83.
Ibsen, The Doll’s House, 136-37, 210, 309;
Hedda Gabler, 210;
Ghosts, 323.
Ida, Mlle, 15, 21-22, 26, 66.
Idiot (The), Dostoievsky, 293.
Ihne, Professor, at Hildesheim, 124-26, 133, 135, 163-64, 173.
Illustrated London News, 148.
Impey, Mr., 107.
Indomitable, the, 395.
Innerste River, the, 129.
International Law, examination in, 207.
Invalides, the, 92.
Iphegenie auf Tauris, 126.
Iphigénie, Racine, 228.
Irkutsk, the journey to, 269-72, 314.
Irving, Sir Henry, art of, 24, 51-52;
as Becket, 310.
Italian language learned at Florence, 140.
⸺ Opera, appreciation of, 52.
Italy, childish impressions, 38-39.
Ito, Marquis, 273.
Ivan the Little Fool, Russian story, 272-73.
Ivan the Terrible, 310.
Ivan Veliki, Cathedral of, 335.
Ivanov, Tchekov, 265.
Ivy Bridge, 31, 41.
Jagow, Herr, 248.
James, Henry, 147-49;
The Tragic Muse, 228.
Jane Eyre, 105.
Janiculum, the, 259.
Janotha, Mlle, 24.
Japan, Russian policy, 261-62;
the attack on Port Arthur, 263.
Jardin d’Acclimatation, 92.
Jaucourt, Françoise de, 206.
⸺ Madame de, 205-6.
⸺ Monsieur de, 21, 82-83, 194, 205-6.
⸺ Pierre de, 82, 84.
Jen-tsen-Tung, 312-14.
Jerome, J. K., 381;
Paul Clever, 324.
Jessen, M. de, 275, 277.
Jews, discussions concerning, 354-55;
Count Witte and the, 367-68;
pogroms, 389-90.
Joachim, 55.
John, Father, of Kronstadt, 325.
John Inglesant, 50.
Johnson, Dr. 127, 213;
Lives of the Poets, 185-86;
opinions of, 252-53.
⸺ Lionel, 149-50.
Johnstone, Sir Alan, 209, 215.
Joie fait peur (La), 189.
Journal, the, Ludovic Naudeau, correspondent, 276.
Jowett, quoted, 364.
Joynes, Jimmy, 89.
Jubilee year festivities, 85.
Jump, Mr., 22.
Jusserand, M., 208.
Justinian, Palace of, 398.
Kadets, the, 332;
opening of the Duma, 340-41;
Count Witte and the, 367-68.
Kalnikoff, General M., 414-15.
Kama River, the, 374.
Karlovna, Marie, 347-48.
Karlsruhe, 216.
Kasten’s Hotel, Hanover, 118.
Kazan, 374-75.
Keate’s’ Lane Papers, 111.
Keats, 4, 5, 110, 140, 235, 246.
Keeley, Mrs., 51.
Kendal, Mr. and Mrs., 28.
⸺ Mrs., art of, 51, 310-11;
in The Ironmaster, 53;
in The Likeness of the Night, 310.
Kenmare river, 85.
Kerensky, 341.
Kershaw at Balliol, 176.
Kharbin, 274-75, 311, 314.
Kharkov, 386.
Kholodovsky, General, 275.
Khovantincha, 310.
Kiev, 388.
Kilkov, Prince, 315.
Killarney, 85.
King Lear, 163.
King Solomon’s Mines, 107.
Kingsley, Charles, Westward Ho!, 106.
Kipling, 152;
popularity of, 126, 200;
parody on, 144;
publications 1891-92, 148;
The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, 309.
Kirsanov, 222, 314.
Kislitsky, Lieutenant, 283, 287-91, 295-96, 299, 302, 313.
Knagenhjelm, M. de, 209.
Kneipe, entertainment, 125-26, 129, 133, 161.
Kologrivo, village, 345.
Kongelige Theatre, Copenhagen, 210-211.
Kotz, Marie Karlovna von, 263-64, 325, 328.
Kousnetsk, 315.
Kovolievsky, Professor, 340, 342.
Kraus, Mlle, 92.
Kremlin, Moscow, 334-36;
Nijni-Novgorod, 371;
Kazan, 374.
Kronstadt, disorders at, 359-60.
Krumbacher, Professor, 254, 256.
Kuan-chen-tse, 293.
Kuhn, Mr. Otto, 124.
Kumanovo, battle of, 407, 412-16.
Kuprulu, 414.
Kuroki, his turning move, 291.
Kuropatkin, General, 274, 280, 287, 312.
Kursk, 352, 385.
Kutchuk, Tchekmedche, 419.
Labiche, La Grammaire, 43.
Labour meeting at Terrioki, 345-47.
Lady Windermere’s Fan, Wilde, 148.
Lamb, Charles, 145.
Lambton, Claud, 48.
Lamsdorff, Count, 273.
Lane, Mr. John, 151.
Lang, Andrew, writings, 148;
and the Dreyfusards, 197.
Langtry, Mrs., 25.
Lansdowne, Lady, 62.
⸺ Lord, 62.
Last Abbot of Glastonbury (The), 71.
Latude, escape, 93.
Lays of Ancient Rome, 158, 167.
Leavenworth Case (The), 74.
Lee, Vernon, 141, 147, 256, 259, 370;
Belcaro, 20;
a saying of, 142;
and the earthquake, 160;
home of, 167;
on Wagner, 186-87.
Lee-Hamilton, Eugene, 167.
Legouvé, 305.
Leigh, R. Austen, 91, 144.
Leighton, Sir Frederick, 55.
Leighton’s in Windsor, 95.
Leipzig, 133; an incident at, 154.
Lemaître, Jules, 199;
on Duse’s Magda, 210;
on Sarah Bernhardt, 227, 231, 233-34;
Les Rois, 233;
on Duse in La Dame aux Camélias, 235;
on Rostand, 242.
Lemerre, publisher, 194-95.
Léna, 232.
Lenin, 341.
Leno, Dan, 245.
Lenôtre, 168.
Leo XIII., Pope, 253.
Leopardi, 140.
Lermontov, 365;
“The Demon,” 295.
Lewes, Life of Goethe, 126.
Liao-he, the, 374.
Liaoyang, 282, 286;
the Hôtel International, 280.
⸺ battle of, 287-92.
Liberty, 7.
Lido, the, 141.
Lieskov, 294.
Life’s Handicap, Kipling, 148.
Likeness of the Night (The), 310.
Limfa, 256.
Linevitch, General, 311.
Livre de Mon Ami, France, 156-57.
“Lira,” musical instrument, 387-88.
Lisle, Lecomte de, 203.
Lister, Reginald, reminiscences, 182-83, 194;
personality, 188-90.
Liszt, the Erlkönig, 211.
Little Russians, 371-72, 386 et seq.
Littré, 117.
Locandiera (La), Goldoni, 308.
Lohengrin, 153.
Lokal Anzeiger, 276.
London Library, 11.
Lonely Tree Hill, 298-99, 302.
Longman’s Magazine, 148.
Lord of the Isles, 91.
Lords, the Eton Eleven at, 115-16.
Lorelei, rocks of the, 133.
Lorenzaccio, 231, 233;
Sarah Bernhardt in, 233-34.
Loti, Pierre, 137;
parody on, 194-95;
attack on the Serbiana, 411.
Louvre, 92;
Mona Lisa, 67;
Galérie d’Apollon, 67.
Low Mass in Notre Dame, 199.
Lowther, Lady, 404.
Lucas Stanley, music shop of, 12.
Ludwig, Herr, 13.
Luxmoore, Mr., at Eton, 116-17.
Luxor, 169.
Lyall, Edna, 105.
Lyceum Theatre, La Tosca, 107-8.
Lycidas, 161.
Lynton, 197-98.
Lyttelton, Edward, at Eton, 104.
Lytton, Bulwer, Harold, 75;
Last Days of Pompeii, 106.
M’Cullagh, 292.
Macmillan’s Magazine, essay sent to, 142.
Macready, 51.
Madeleine, the, 187.
Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle, 229.
Maeterlinck, 232.
Magasin du Louvre, 67.
Magda, Mrs. Patrick Campbell in, 167;
Sarah Bernhardt and Duse compared in, 233-35, 242, 309.
Magpie Debating Society, 143.
Maisy, coachman, 26.
Maître Guérin, 93.
Malcolm, at Eton, 90.
Malinovsky, 283, 287.
Mallet, Sir Edward, in Berlin, 136;
his “Villa White,” 166-67.
Malten, 134.
Mamonov, 316, 329-30.
Manchuria, 311, 363.
⸺ Station, 274.
Manège, the, Moscow, Easter festivities, 335-36.
Mannheim, 133.
Mantle, maid, 18.
Many Inventions, Kipling, 148.
Marcello, 185.
Marie Feodorovna, Empress, 348.
Marindin, 105.
Mario, 52.
Maritch, Alexander, 412-413.
Marlborough House parties, 24-25, 80-81.
Marmora, Sea of, 419.
“Marseillaise,” the, in Moscow, 320.
Maskelyne and Cook, 17.
Mason, Mrs., 25.
Materna, 134.
Maubant, 230.
Maupassant, Guy de, 141, 155, 343;
Boule de Suif, 317.
Maxse, Admiral, 195.
Mayfly, the, 111.
Medd, Cubby, 170.
Meistersinger, 133-34, 186.
Membland, life at, 6, 8, 14, 31-42, 58-62, 75, 135, 137;
lines on Christmas at, by Godfrey Webb, 42-43;
“my path,” 55-56;
visitors to, 62;
the organ, 86;
visit of Willie Coventry, 112;
Christmas 1890, 113;
good-bye to, 177.
Memnon, temple, 169.
Men I Have Met, Jessen, 276.
Mendès, Catulle, La Vierge d’Avilon, 217.
Mensur, the, Heidelberg, 127-28.
Meredith, 126, 148.
Merimée, 141.
Merrymount Press, Boston, 261.
Metternich, 202, 204.
Mewstone, the, 40.
Michel Strogoff, 92.
Miskchenko, General, 292.
Middlemarch, 267.
Mikado, at Frankfort, 133;
in Moscow, 265.
Mildmay, boys at Eton, 88.
Mildmay, Mr. H. B., 1.
⸺ Mrs. Bingham (Aunt Georgie), 33-34, 59-60.
Milioukov, deputy, 340.
Millard, 276.
Milton, 162, 163;
Lycidas, 112;
Paradise Lost, 118, 127.
⸺ at Eton, 87, 89.
Mint, a visit to the, 76.
Mirski, Prince, 386-87.
Mitre, a dinner at the, 176.
Modern Egypt, Lord Cromer, 168-69.
Moe-tung, village, 290.
Molière, 210, 230;
L’Avare, 114.
Mona Lisa, the, 67.
Monde ou l’on s’ennuie (Le), 92.
Mongolia, borders of, 313;
singing in, 351.
Monro, Harold, stories of, 332-33.
Monson, Sir Edmund, in Paris, 181-84;
personality, 190.
Montagu House, 176.
Monte Carlo, 166-67.
Monte Cristo, 96, 105.
Montesquieu, Robert de, 199;
on L’Aiglon, 203-4.
Montgomery, Mr. Alfred, 15.
Montmartre, 197.
Moonstone (The), 74.
Moore, George, 147, 149, 155.
Moreau, 232.
Moritzberg, the, 119.
Morley, John, Compromise, 381.
Morning Post, the Hon. Maurice Baring correspondent in Manchuria, 268-304;
Whigham correspondence, 275;
Mr. Baring’s dramatic criticisms, 305;
Mr. Baring correspondent in Moscow, 332;
in St. Petersburg, 356, 381;
and in Turkey, 395.
Morris, Lewis, Epic of Hades, 98.
Morsh, Mr., Eton, 102.
Moscow, the Kremlin, 224, 334;
Testoff’s restaurant, 224;
life in, 263-64;
the Art Theatre, 265-66, 323-24;
train journey from Pensa, 318-19;
the Hôtel Dresden, 319-20, 329;
the Emperor’s manifesto read, 319-20;
the Métropole Restaurant, 320, 323;
Bauman’s funeral, 321-22;
the University, 322;
the Riding School, 322;
the Black Gang, 322-23;
events of December 1905, 324, 328-29;
Nikolayev Railway Station, 329, 331;
Riask Station, 331;
rooms of the Hon. M. Baring, 332;
Easter festivities, 334-39;
markets, 338-39;
the journey to, 363-64.
Moscow, River, 336, 350.
Mothecombe Bay, 59.
“Mothecombe” House, 59-60.
Mottl, conductor, 134, 153, 168, 216.
Mounts Bay, 85.
Mozart, 52, 186, 210.
Mozley, Mr., Eton, 103.
Mukden, 292, 304, 362, 410;
Chinese of, 275-76;
life in, 277-80.
Mukden Nichevo, the, 279.
Munkebjerg, 209.
Musset, Alfred de, 184;
tomb of, 94;
On ne badine pas avec l’Amour, 67;
Fantasio, 216;
Lorenzaccio, 233.
Nagasaki, 273.
Nan-chin-tsa village, 298.
Naples, 141, 254.
Napoleon II., 202-3.
National Observer, Henley’s verse, 148.
National Review, articles by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 261.
Naudeau, Ludovic, 276.
Nazarenko, deputy, 342-43.
Nebogatov, Admiral, 349.
Neckar, the, 374;
view of the hills, 124.
Neckarsteinar, 120.
Nemi, lake of, 259.
Nencioni, Professor, praise of the Hon. Maurice Baring, 160.
Neruda, Madame, 24, 28, 42, 43, 54, 55, 62.
Nevill, Lady Dorothy, 15.
New Forest, 79.
New Statesman 1921, 147.
New Witness (The), editors, 395.
New York World, 276.
Newton Ferrers, 39.
Newton village, 6.
Newton Wood, 43.
Nicholls, Harry, 24, 83.
Nick, Herr, 119, 131.
Nietzsche, 187.
Nijni-Novgorod, 369;
the fair at, 371-73.
Nile, the, 374;
a journey up, 169.
Nilsson, 52.
Nish, 408-10;
military hospital at, 416-17.
Norman Tower, Windsor, 110, 114, 117, 124.
Normandy Hôtel, 91.
North Street Gazette (The), 390-95.
Northcourt Nonsense, by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 142.
Noss Mayo, 6;
building of the church, 34, 39-40.
Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, 157-58, 310.
Notre Dame des Victoires, 92, 199.
Nozze di Figaro, 211.
Nuremberg, 133.
Ober-Förster, Frau, 131.
Odéon Theatre, the, 228.
Odette, Sardou, 305;
Duse in, 309.
Odyssey, Virgil, 100.
Ohnet, Georges, La Grande Marnière, 92;
style, 151.
Ole, Dane, at the Legation, 209, 214.
Olympia, 254.
Olympus, Mount, 404.
“One Oak,” house of Miss Ethel Smyth, 140.
“Onkel Adolph,” 119, 129, 131, 135, 216.
Opéra Bouffe, 324.
⸺ Comique, 93.
Oppidans, the, 65.
Organ-building at Charles Street and Membland, 86.
Osborne, the, 224, 225.
Othello, 163;
Dr. Timme on, 127.
Otrante, Charlie d’, 216.
Otway, Mrs., Ascot, 69.
Ourousoff, Princess, 248.
Ours, at the Haymarket, 53.
Ousley, 114.
Owl (The), 147.
Oxford, Smalls at, 141;
rooms at King Edward Street, 170-72.
Paderewski, 211.
Paget, Miss Violet. See Lee, Vernon.
Paillard, Madame, 66.
⸺ Thérèse, 66.
Paine, Harry, 64.
Pair of Spectacles (A), 310.
Palatine, the, 259.
Pall Mall Gazette, 149.
Pamflete, the Bulteels’ house, 34, 58-59.
Panshanger, 167.
Panthéon, Paris, 92.
Papal Guard, the, 253.
Parachute, 111, 144.
Paradis des Enfants, 67.
Paradise Lost, 138.
Paris, childish impressions, 33, 36;
visits, 66-67, 91-94, 166, 236;
the Embassy, 180-207;
exhibition of 1900, 199, 204;
Jardin d’Acclimatation, 204-5.
Paris, Archbishop of, 92.
Parker, Alexander, 65.
Paros, 256.
Parratt, Sir Walter, 103.
Parry, Hubert, 114.
Parsifal, 134, 153-54.
Parthenon, the, 254-55.
Pasca in La joie fait peur, 53.
Pasolini, Count, 248-49.
⸺ Countess, 248-49, 256.
Passant (Le), Coppée, 228.
Pater, 137.
Patmore, Coventry, “Ode,” 193.
Patti, 26-27, 52.
Pechom, Robert, epitaph, 199.
Pekin, 275, 277.
Pelléas et Mélisande, 305.
Pensa, 317, 318.
Pera, the Little Club, 397-98, 420.
Père Lachaise, tombs, 94.
Père Prodigue (Le), 140.
Perlepe, battle of, 416.
Perrin, M., 229.
Persimmon, 167.
Perugia, 158.
Peter, Danish servant, 225.
Peterhof, 342.
Petrukin, deputy, 344-45.
Pheidias, 255.
Phèdre, Sarah Bernhardt in, 227, 229, 231, 233, 243, 305.
Philemonov, Colonel, 283, 287-304 passim.
Philip, Mr., of the U.S.A. Embassy, 420-29.
Phillimore, at Ascot, 75-76.
Piatti, Signor, 24, 55.
Pickwick, reading of, 74.
Pierson, acting of, 93.
Pieterbourski Listok, the, 362.
Pincio, the, 246, 257.
Pinero, The Hobby Horse, 53;
Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 148, 309.
Piræus, 256.
Pitt Club, Cambridge, 153.
Pius IX., Pope, 38.
Planchette writing, 143.
Plarr, Victor, 149.
Plattner Story, Wells, 170.
Plehve, M., 368.
Ploetz, M., 109.
Plutus, 142.
Plymouth, 40, 41, 45.
Plympton, 41.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 112.
Pogroms, 389-90.
Ponsonby, Betty, 35, 54, 65, 88, 110, 112.
⸺ Arthur, 65;
at Eton, 88;
in Berlin, 135-37.
⸺ Sir Henry, 35, 65, 88, 124, 138;
announces result of the Prince Consort prize, 114-15;
quotes Paradise Lost, 138.
⸺ Frederick, 101.
⸺ John, 65, 88.
⸺ Fritz, 65.
⸺ Maggie, 88.
⸺ Lady, 35, 52, 65, 88, 112, 114.
Pope, quoted, 201.
Popoff, Nicholas, 277.
Porte Saint Martin Theatre, 92.
Porter, Mr., 97-98.
Porteuse de Pain (La); Zampa, 93.
Portia, Shakespeare’s, 163.
Potapoff, Colonel, 275-76.
Potemkin, 339.
Potsdam, 129.
Pourtalès, Madame de, 193-94.
Poutilov, General, 298-99.
Princesse Lointaine, 243.
Prison (The), Brewster, 250, 252.
Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (Le), 233.
Prophète (Le), 92.
Prudhomme, Sully, article on, by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 226.
Punch, the “Hornets,” 171.
Pushkin, 248;
prose stories, 257.
Pygmalion and Galatea, 54.
Pyke-Nott, 83.
Pyramids, the, 169.
Quiller-Couch, 149.
Quincey, De, “Our Lady of Sorrows,” 309.
R.Y.S. Club, 45.
Rachel, 52;
genius of, 227-28.
Racine, 203, 228, 230;
Bérénice, 192-93;
resuscitated by Sarah Bernhardt, 243.
Radcliffe’s (House), Eton, 88.
Radford, Ernest, 149.
Ralli, boy, at Tatham’s, 143.
Ram Head, 40.
Ramsay, at Cambridge, 146.
⸺ editor of the Mayfly, 111.
Rashleigh, at Eton, 89-90.
Rawlins, Mr., 104.
Rawlinson, 29.
Reade, Charles, Foul Play, 106.
Reading Biscuit Factory, 76.
Real Gymnasium, the, Hildesheim, 119-20, 128-29.
Recouly, of the Temps, 276.
Reed, German, 17.
Reform Club, 147.
Regattas, 44-45.
Régnier, M. Henri de, on parodies by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 194-195.
Reichemberg, acting of, 92, 230.
Réjane, in Zaza, 197;
as Nora, 210.
“Rekrutskaya,” 408.
Renaissance theatre, 92, 233, 242.
Renan, parody on, 194-95.
Rennes verdict, the, 196-97.
Residenz Theater, 136.
Reske, Jean de, 52, 92.
Retvizan, torpedoed, 263.
Revelstoke Church, 36, 40.
⸺ Lady, 15, 16, 22, 27, 37, 39;
and Madame Neruda, 28;
yachting, 45;
chess-playing, 47-48;
Schiller’s “Die Glocke,” 50-51;
and the opera, 52-53;
at Stafford House, 54-55;
a pantomime, 63-64;
Contrexéville, 66;
the Ascot school, 68-69;
the first half-term report, 73-75;
school incidents, 76, 80-81;
Ascot races, 79-80;
the Eastbourne school, 84;
the organ at Charles Street, 86;
her son’s confirmation, 101;
the financial crisis, 113;
visits to Eton, 114;
and the Prince Consort Prize, 115;
death, 135.
⸺ Lord, 14, 27, 47, 130, 157;
appreciation of acting, 24, 51-53, 63-64;
yachting, 44;
versatility of, 50-51;
gifts of, 55-56;
bigness of his character, 56-57:
Contrexéville, 65-66;
at Cowes, 85;
the financial crisis, 113;
death, 177.
Rêves de Marguerite (Les), 86.
Revue Bleue, 234.
Rhodes, 256.
Rhymers’ Club, 147-48;
Book of the Rhymers’ Club, 147, 149, 150;
Second Book of the Rhymers’ Club, 147, 150.
Rhys, Ernest, 149.
Riazan Station, 318.
Riazhk, 318.
Ribinsk, 368, 369.
Ries, Mr., 12, 24.
Ristori, Madame, 227, 245-46.
Ritchie children, the, 180.
Ritz Hotel, Sarah Bernhardt at the, 237-39.
Robe Rouge (La), 197.
Robert Macaire, 93.
Roberts, Arthur, 8.
Robertson, Sir Forbes, 239.
Roche, M., on the Hon. Maurice essay, 177.
Rod, Edouard, 184, 195.
⸺ Sir Rennell, 245.
Roe, Mr., 34.
Roebuck shooting in South Russia, 388-89.
Rois (Les), Lemaître, 233.
Rolleston, T. W., 149.
Roman de la Rose (Le), 143, 152.
Romanesques (Les), 233.
Rome, life at the Embassy, 245, 259-60;
Appian Way, 246;
Campagna, 246, 258-59;
Palazzo Sciarra, 248;
Palazzo Antici Mattei, 249-50;
expeditions, 256;
the Pincio, 257;
Villa d’Este, 258-59;
Tivoli, 259.
Romney Weir, 117.
Ronconi, 52.
Rose, Mlle, of the petits chevaux, 66.
Rossetti, 112, 139, 170.
⸺ Christina, 148.
Rossini, 52.
Rostand, M., L’Aiglon, 199-204;
Les Romanesques, 232-33;
Samaritaine, 233;
the creation of Sarah Bernhardt, 242.
⸺ Madame, 204.
Rothschild château, 205.
Rotten Row, 25.
Roublot, M., 98.
Rowland, sock-shop, 95.
Rubini, 52.
Rudel, Geoffrey, 244.
Rundreise, 133.
Runnymede, 114.
Ruskin, 381;
The King of the Golden River, 20;
Arthur Benson and, 112.
Russell, Bertram, 145.
⸺ Claud, 166, 168-70.
⸺ Miss Katie, 62.
⸺ Miss Maud, 62.
Russia, dark nights in Central, 4;
the October manifesto, 212;
the journey to, 218-19, 261;
life among the intelligentsia, 264-65;
the State-paid theatres, 265;
constitutional government promised, 319;
beginning of the Revolution, 332 et seq.;
the Empress at Peterhof, 342;
the people and the priests, 354-55;
effect of M. Stolypin’s policy, 357-58;
the second Duma, 367;
the beggars of, 377;
South Russia, 386-90;
the third Duma, 390;
books on Russian matters, 395;
pilgrims from, in Constantinople, 400-1;
the fascination of, 430 et seq.
Russkoe Slovo, the, 349.
Ruy Blas, Hugo, 228, 243.
St. James’s Hall concerts, 23-24, 139.
St. James’s Theatre, A Scrap of Paper, 28;
Mr. Hare at the, 53;
Mrs. Kendal’s acting, 310-11.
St. John Lateran, church of, 199.
St. Michael’s Mount, 85.
St. Peter’s, 246, 259-60;
Holy Week ceremonies, 253.
St. Petersburg, 269, 311, 324;
the Winter Palace, 263;
Art Theatre, 266;
opening of the Duma, 339-41;
journey from Moscow, 352-55;
a journey down the Volga, 368.
St. Sophia, Constantinople, 398.
Saint Victor, M. Castillon de, 204.
St. Vincent’s School, Eastbourne, 82.
Sainte Beuve, 117.
Sainte Chapelle, 92.
Sainte Geneviève, 92.
Salisbury, Lord, foreign policy, 166, 173, 178-79.
Salle, M. Georges La, 269.
Samara, 314, 315, 375, 378.
Samaritaine (La), 243.
Samary, acting of, 92.
Samsonoff, General, 280.
San Marino, Duchess of, 38.
San Stefano, the cholera at, 419-29.
Sand, George, 235.
Sanderson, Lord, 179-80.
Santley, Sir Charles, 24, 27.
Sappho, “Ode to Aphrodite,” 256.
Saratov, features, 375, 378.
Sarcey, on Sarah Bernhardt, 228-29;
on Racine, 243.
Sardou, 141, 199;
Pattes de Mouche, 28;
Belle Maman, 93;
plays of, 231, 233;
Fédora, 305, 309;
Odette, 305, 309.
Saturday Review, 158, 195;
articles by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 261.
Sazonoff, M., 247-48.
Scenes from Country Life, 267.
Schauspielhaus, the, 136.
Scheidemantel, 134.
Schneider, Madame, at San Stefano, 421-22, 424-29.
Schiller, 126-27;
“Die Glocke,” 50-51;
Wallenstein’s Tod, 120;
Brant von Messina, 128;
compared with Shakespeare, 163;
and Goethe, 164;
quoted, 382.
Schliemann, Dr., 112.
Schön, M., 208.
School, at the Haymarket, 53.
Schools, Russian evening, 326-29.
Schubert, “Der Leiermann,” 388.
Schultzen, Fräulein, 131.
Schumann, Clara, 335.
Schwartz, Lieut. von, 276.
Schwerin, boy, 128.
Scoones, Mr., establishment of, 154-56, 167-69.
Scott, Herbert, 88, 89.
⸺ Sir Charles, 263.
⸺ Sir Walter, 49, 53, 112.
Scribe and Legouvé, Adrienne Lecouvreur, 308-9.
Scyra, 256.
Seagull, Tchekov, 265-66.
Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Pinero, 148, 309.
Sedan, 196.
Servia, occupation of Uskub, 414-16;
patriotism, 416-17;
Bulgarian and Servian language compared, 411-12.
Seven Summers, Carr-Bosanquet, 144.
Sforza, Catherine, 248.
Sha-ho river, battle of the, 297-303.
Shakespeare, German cult of, 126-27;
and Schiller, 163;
in Copenhagen, 210;
Brewster on the production of, 251-52;
Julius Cæsar in Moscow, 266;
Nazarenko’s opinion of, 343;
Sonnets of, 365.
Shaw, Mr. Bernard, on Mrs. Campbell’s acting, 157-58;
Dramatic Opinions and Essays, 234;
on Mrs. Kendal’s acting, 311.
She, 107.
She Stoops to Conquer, 83.
Shelley, 110, 140, 186;
Arthur Benson and, 112;
reputation, 126;
Adonaïs, 161, 163;
grave in Rome, 246.
Shelton, Mr., 83.
Sheppy, housekeeper, 9, 27-28, 81.
Shorthouse, 105.
Shuvaloff, Countess, 263.
Sichkhov, General, 283.
Siddons, Mrs., 227.
Simpson of the Daily Telegraph, 276.
Singing, Russian, 273-74, 351, 432-33.
Sin-min-tin, 292.
Sixtine Chapel, Mass in the, 253.
Skat, card game, 124, 131.
Slap’s band, 176.
Sleuthhound, cutter, 45.
Slough, 84.
Smielo, 388-89.
Smith, George, 113.
⸺ Sidney, 30.
Smyth, Dr., on Tosti’s art, 61.
⸺ General, 139.
⸺ Miss Ethel, her Mass at the Albert Hall, 138-39;
songs, 139-40;
in Copenhagen, 215;
Fantasio, 216.
Sofia, 417;
the railway station, 409-10.
Somotka, 382.
“Song of the Scug (The),” 111.
Sophy, or the Adventures of a Savage, Violet Fane, 245.
So-shan-tse hill, 287-90.
Sosnofka, visits to, 218-24, 260, 382, 438.
Sothern, Sam, 51.
Souris (La), 86.
South African War, 236-37.
Speaker, the, 147, 149;
the Hon. Maurice Baring’s article on L’Aiglon, 200-3.
Spencer, Herbert, works, 343.
⸺ Lady Sarah, 68-69.
⸺ Robert, 15, 135.
Spring-Rice, Cecil, 191, 263, 324.
Stackelberg, General, 288, 292.
Stafford House parties, 54-55, 74.
Stamboul, 397-400, 411.
Standard, the, 304.
Stanislavsky, M., 265, 323.
Stanley, Arthur, 171.
⸺ Miss Maude, 62.
Steamers of the Volga, 375-76.
Stephen, J. K., poem by, 111;
at Eton, 112.
Stevenson, R. L., 53, 105-7, 137, 185;
Ebb Tide, 148;
saying of, quoted, 437-38.
Stewart, at Eton, 89.
Stolypin, M., 332;
and Russia’s future, 341-42;
policy of, 356-57;
Count Witte on, 368.
“Stop-shorts,” 313.
Story-tellers, Russian, 272-73.
Strong, Arthur, and the Dreyfus case, 185-86;
on L’Aiglon, 204.
Studd, at Eton, 103-4.
Students’ Humour (The), 111.
Stump Debating Society, 143.
Sturmer, Miss Van, 22.
Sucher, Rose, 134.
Sudermann, Die Ehre, 136;
Magda, 233.
Sully, Mounet, 92, 230.
Sunflower season in Russia, 381-82.
Sunium, 255.
Surley, 95.
Sveaborg, 362.
Swinburne, 126, 137, 139, 170, 232;
Eton “Ode,” 102, 114;
Atalanta in Calydon, 112;
Astrophel, 148;
opinions on, 155;
Jowett and, 364.
Switzerland, appreciation, 130.
Sylvie and Bruno, 180.
Symons, Arthur, 147-49, 155.
Tauchnitz, Baron, 154, 370.
Taurid palace, meeting of the Duma in, 339-40.
Taglioni, Madame, 26.
Taine, 186;
Voyage aux Pyrénées, 114;
article on, by M. Barry, 226.
Takmakov, officer, 297.
Talaat Bey, 398.
Tambov, 380-81.
Tamburini, 52.
Tannhäuser, 120, 134, 153, 162.
Tarver, Lily, 142.
⸺ Mr. Frank, 99.
Tashichiao, battlefield of, 280-81.
Tasso, 126.
Tatham, Mr., 142-43.
Tchataldja, 419.
Tchekov, tomb of, 264;
plays of, 265-68.
⸺ Uncle Vania, 269;
Chaika, 323.
Tchelabinsk, 352-53.
Tea-drinking in Russia, 350.
Temple Bar, poem by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 113.
Temple, Bishop, 40.
Temps, the, 276.
Tennyson, 110, 126, 148, 150;
“May Queen,” 56.
Terrioki, Labour meeting at, 345-47.
Terry, Ellen, art of, 24, 52, 56;
as Beatrice, 310.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Hardy, 148.
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 112.
Thalers, reckoning by, 129.
“The Game,” 161-63.
The Greatest of These, 310.
Théâtre Antoine, 197.
Théâtre français, 36, 53, 92, 93, 140, 192;
Sarah Bernhardt’s connection with, 228-31.
Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, 187.
Thekla, Schiller’s, 163.
Théodora, Sardou, 231.
Thompson, Francis, The Hound of Heaven, 150.
Thompson, Mr., 39.
Thoughts on Art and Life, Leonardo da Vinci, 260-61.
Tillet, M. J. de, 234.
Times (The), 115, 127, 163, 247, 418;
the Hon. Maurice Baring and, 395.
Timme, Dr., house of, 118-19, 124, 128-32, 135, 154, 160-61, 172-73;
on the English poets, 126-72;
death, 176.
Todhunter, John, 149.
Todten-Insel, 256.
Tolstoy, 137, 219, 235, 248;
War and Peace, 168;
Powers of Darkness, 210;
Nazarenko’s opinion of, 343.
⸺ Alexis, Tropar, 257-58.
Toole, art of, 51.
Toombs, Mr., carpenter, 7-8.
Tosca (La), Sarah Bernhardt in, 107-8, 231-32.
Tosti, art of, 61.
Toula, 315.
Tourgenev, 219, 248, 259.
Tovey, Donald, at Balliol, 171-72, 180.
Transbaikalian railway, 311.
Trans-Siberian railway, experiences, 277, 314.
Traverso, Madame, 140, 156-59.
Treasure Island, 50, 74.
Trebelli, 52.
Tree as Svengali, 310.
Trepov, General, 341, 355.
Tresco, 85.
Trevelyan, Robert, 145.
Trevi, 259.
Trianon, 206.
Triolets, 142-43.
Tristan und Isolda, 134.
Trollope, 48.
Tropar, Alexis Tolstoy, 257-58.
True Cross, a relic of the, 38.
Tsaritsina, near Moscow, 347, 378, 380-81.
Tudgay, Mrs., 38-39, 42, 62.
Turgeniev, 431.
Turkish character, 425-27.
⸺ Red Crescent, 422, 427-28;
British unit, 427-28.
Turkey, Revolution of May 1909, 395, 397-98.
Turin, 169.
Tusini, Mlle, 66.
Tver, 368.
Twain, Mark, in German, 223.
Unbearable Bassington (The), 333.
Uncle Vania, Tchekov, 266-69.
Ushitai, town of, 312.
Uskub, 407, 410, 411;
Serbian occupation, 412-17;
Hôtel de la Liberté, 413.
Vandal, Albert, 199.
Vandyk in Lohengrin, 153.
Vardar river, the, 413.
Vassili, coachman, 326.
Vaudeville, the Paris, 265.
Vaughan, Kate, 24.
Vaux, château of, 206.
Venice, 141;
nights in, 4.
Verdi, 52;
Otello, 120.
Verlaine, Paul, 139;
poetry of, 184;
Brewster on, 250-51.
Verne, Jules, 49;
Michael Strogoff, 220.
Verrall, Dr., on Boileau, 152;
stories by, 152-53.
Versailles, 92, 153, 198.
Vesuvius Mount, 167.
Viatka, 358.
Victoria, Queen, 8;
Jubilee, 85, 176;
opens New Schools at Eton, 108;
bestows the Prince Consort prize on the Hon. Maurice Baring, 114-15;
a story of Prince Albert and, 131;
funeral procession, 215-16.
Vieux Paris (Le), reconstruction of, 93.
Vigny, Alfred de, 203;
Cinq Mars, 114.
Villa Felseck, 124-25.
Vinci, Leonardo da, Thoughts on Art and Life, 260-61.
“Vindt,” game of, 374, 387.
Virginia water, 76.
Visite de Noces (La), Duse in, 308.
Vogt, Heinrich (Tristan), 134.
Vogüé, Melchior de, 195.
Volga, a journey down the, 368;
aspect beyond Nijni, 374;
towns of the Upper, 378-79.
Vologda, a journey to, 358-66.
Voltaire, Zaïre, 229.
Voronezh, 401.
Vranja, 412.
Wagner, 52, 133-35;
Tannhäuser, 120;
Arthur Strong on, 186;
Vernon Lee on, 186-87;
in Copenhagen, 210.
Wagram, battle of, 202.
Waldorf Theatre, Duse at the, 305.
Wales, Prince of (Edward VII.), marriage, 25;
in Paris, 193.
⸺ Princess, 24-25;
parties at Marlborough House, 54-55, 80.
Walkley, Mr., 149;
on Sarah Bernhardt, 232-33.
Wallace, Lew, Ben Hur, 106.
Wallington, 38.
War and Peace, Tolstoy, 168.
Ward, Arnold, 170;
at Eton, 111;
Arthur Benson and, 112.
⸺ Mrs. Humphry, 111;
Robert Elsmere, 106;
David Grieve, 148.
Warre, Dr., at Eton, 14, 46, 81, 99.
Warsaw, 218-19.
Wasp, steam launch, 45.
Waterlooville, home of Chérie, 114.
Waterwitch, the yacht, 44-45, 85.
Watson, Mr., butler, 27.
⸺ William, poems, 147-48, 157.
Watteau, at the Louvre, 67.
Watts, exhibitions, 56.
Webb, Godfrey, 62;
lines on Christmas at Membland, 42-43.
Wells, Mr. H. G., History of the World, 47;
Plattner Story, 170;
Food of the Gods, 285.
Westmacott, Lady, 427.
Westminster Abbey, underground passage to, 390.
Westminster Gazette, 333.
Westwater, Dr., 280, 282.
When we Dead Awaken, 211.
When William Came, 333.
Whibley, Charles, 148.
Whigham, correspondent, 275.
Whyte-Melville, 48, 106.
Wigans, the, 51.
Wilde, Oscar, 324;
Lady Windermere’s Fan, 148.
Wildenbruch, Count, 208.
Williams, stationer, Eton, 95, 117.
Wilton, Marie (Mrs. Bancroft), 53.
Winchester match, the, 112.
Windsor, Norman Tower, 65, 87-88;
shops, 95;
St. George’s Chapel, 103.
Wippern, Eric, 161, 175, 311.
⸺ Hans, 132-33, 161.
Witchcraft, in Moscow, 349-50.
Witte, Count, 332;
interview with, 367.
Wood, Charlie, 88.
⸺ Francis, 88.
Wordsworth, 186.
Worms, 93.
Worthington, schoolfellow, 70, 79.
Wrest, 167-68.
Wyndham, Mr. Percy, 62.
⸺ Mrs. Percy, 62.
Yantai, battle of, 295-96.
Yapsley, Mr., 40.
Yaroslav, journey to, 363-64, 370.
Yashville, Prince, 389.
Yealm River, 6, 39, 44.
Yealmpton, 34.
Yeats, W. B., 149-50.
Yellow Book (The), 147;
article on Anatole France by the Hon. Maurice Baring, 157.
Yonge, Miss, 49.
York, Duke of, at Heidelberg, 135.
Young Turk Party, 397-98.
Zacchoni, actor, 311.
Zacharoff, General, 311-12.
Zaïre, Voltaire, 229.
Zaza, 197.
Zerbini, 24.
Zhilkin, M., 346.
Zola, 163, 343.
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