Bancrofts, The,16,53,186
Barbour, Robert W., description of Professor Blackie,92-95
Barrie, Sir James,17
Beaconsfield, Lord, quoted,142
Bell, Alexander Graham, brings telephone instruments to Europe,106
Besant, Sir Walter,17
Betterton, fame of,185
Bismarck,139
Black, William,17,53
Blackie, John Stuart,79-95; ancestry and early life,84-85; as a teacher,85-86,90; Barbour's word picture of,92-95; comments on pictures in home,88-89; compiles anthology of Scottish songs,87; conversation of,83-84; description of,79-80,81,91; endows a professorship at Edinburgh,87; home of,87; lecture in Glasgow,91; lecturer in Scotland,86; love for Greek,82,90; novel by,87; patriotism of,87; portraits of,88; quoted,79-80,81,82-83,84,85,86-87,89,90,91,95; study of,90; works of,86-87
Blackwood,53
Booth, Edwin,186; art of,192
Boston Courier, author's first copy published in,28
Boston Herald, author's engagement with,39-41; author's article published in,248
Bottomley, Dr. J. T., assistant to Lord Kelvin,106
Boulanger, General,260-274; address of,273; arrival in London,260-261; as candidate for French Parliament,261,264-265; at café dinner,271; author's impressions of,268,269,270,272,273-274; collapse and flight,272; committed suicide,274; demonstration for, at Alexandra Palace,273; description of,269-270; drawn by Raven-Hill,269,271; elected to Parliament,266; interviewed,273; "man on horseback,"268-269; Minister of War,270; represented France at Centennial Exposition,273
Braddon, Miss,17
Bridge, Sir Frederick, organist at Westminster Abbey,53,55,56
Brixton (London),2,3
Browning, Mrs., quoted,52,54
Browning, Robert, burial in Westminster Abbey,51-56; death of,51; friendship with Moscheles,42,44,47,50; portrait of,46
Bryce, Lord,52
Buildings, discomfort of some English,13; interiors of English,12-13; London public,11,12; warming of English,12-13
Burbage, fame of,185
Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, welcoming Stanley,206,207
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward,53
Burns, John,222; agitator in "Dock Strike,"223,229-234; anecdote of Gladstone,232-233; day with Meredith,224-234,238; dress,234,239; hobbies of,226-227; meetings with author,223,229-234,238,239
Busses,13-14
Butler, Doctor (of Trinity College),53
Cable, first Atlantic,100; broke,101; final success of,102; first message over,101; laid,101; Lord Kelvin's connection with,100; operated,101
Cadogan Gardens, home of Moscheles in,42,47,50
Café Royal,16
Calais,18
Cameron, Mrs.,115; anecdote of,115-116; description of,115,116,117; distributes her photographs,122; encounter with Garibaldi,116; energy of,119; letter quoted,123-124; photographs of Tennyson,117-118
Canterbury,18; Archbishop of,54
Capel, Monsignor,34-39; author's meeting with,35; visit to,37-38; death,39; description of,35-36,37; goes to America,39; home of,36; hospitality of,37; loss of standing,38; pamphlet by,38
Carlton, Hotel,16
Carlyle, Thomas,162; Whistler's portrait of, sold,166-167
Carlyle Mansions,165
Cecil, Hotel,15
Cedar Villa (Kensington), tenants of,36,37
Cederström, Baroness,seePatti
Century Magazine,45
Chelsea Hospital bombed,135
Cheshire Cheese, London,260
Cheyne Walk, Whistler's house in,161; author's home in,49,161,164,222
Cinema, limitations of,186-187
Civil War, American, Gladstone's attitude toward,143
Clémenceau,139,140
Cleveland, Grover, portrait of,46
Coliseum the,16
Colvin, Sir Sidney,52
Committee Room Fifteen,240,241
Comparison of English and American heating,12-13; of French and English,19; of sea travel,3,4-5
Craig-y-Nos Castle (home of Patti),57; beauty of,61; description of,71-72; entertainments at,74; evenings at,70; guests at,58-59,71; lantern show at,77; life at,71; meals at,60,61,67; merriment at,68; orchestrion at,70; party at,76-77; salute to author from,78; theatre in,72; treasures of,75; view from,60
Criterion (restaurant),16
Davy, Sir Humphry,110
De Keyser's Academy (Antwerp),45
Deland, Margaret, on Tennyson Memorial Committee,128
"Dimbola" (home of Watts, and later of Mrs. Cameron),115,119
Dollis Hill (Lord Aberdeen's home),153,154
"Dombey and Son", clothiers,1
Drummond, Henry,170-184; achievements of,178,182; anecdote of,181-182; capacity for friendship,171; death,184; description of,172,174,176; financial independence,179; friendship with D. L. Moody,171,178; geologist,174; home,175; lecturer at Lowell Institute, Boston,175; opinion of Gladstone,184; optimism,181; popularity of books,171,172,174; professor in Free Church College, at Glasgow,174; quoted,171,172,177,179-181,182-183,184
Drury Lane Theatre ("Old Drury"),16,90
Du Maurier, George,53
Edinburth,79,80; University,85
Electricity, first house in Britain lighted by,105; transmission of,102-103
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quoted,109
Emin Pasha,205
Empire (theatre),16
English discomforts,13; ills,13
"Essays on Social Subjects" (by Blackie),86
Fame, length of an actor's,186
Faraday, Michael, discovery of,101
Farrar, Dean,53
Farringford (home of Lord Tennyson),114; description of,119,126; views from,120
"Felix Mendelssohn's letters to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles",44
Fenchurch Street Station (London),1,7
Field, Cyrus, connection with laying American cable,101
Fields, James T. (publisher),130,131
Fields, Mrs. James T., on Tennyson Memorial Committee,128
Fleet Street,8,15,26
Flint Cottage, Box Hill (Meredith's home),223-224
Floyth, Mrs., housekeeper to John Stuart Mill,7-8
Foch, General,139
Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston,16,187
Ford, Sheridan, pursuit of, by Whistler,160-161
"Four Phases of Morals" (by Blackie),86
France formerly considered England's potential enemy,252
Free Church College, Glasgow,174
French and English, comparison of,19
Freshwater, Isle of Wight,117,118,122; author's fondness for,114,115; description of,114; Lady Ritchie's home at,134-135; life at,136; Tennyson's home at,114; Walker's theory regarding its antiquity,131-133; Watts' home at,115
Froude J. A. (historian),52
Garibaldi at Farringford,116
Garrick, fame of,185
"Gentle Art of Making Enemies" (by Whistler),158,159,160,161
Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E.,138-156; achievements of,138; attitude toward American Civil War,143, toward Irish question,143; at Lord Aberdeen's house,153-154; as an actor,152; author's opinion of,140,141-142,144,145,148,150; Burns' story of,232-233; Drummond's opinion of,184; eloquence of,138,140,141-142,156; energy of,145,150; face of,148,151; influence of,138,151,155; integrity of,139; interest in causes,143,153; leadership,141,151,153; letter to Patti,62-63; object of adulation and hatred,142-143; opinion of Turks,138; power of concentration,152,153; quotation from Morley's "Life" of,141; quoted,146-147,150; tribute at Manchester,149-150; unsurpassed as a talker,138
Glasgow University,97,99
Gordon, Gen. C. G., as a fighter,147
Gounod, portrait of,46
Grand Hotel,15
"Great Britain and Rome" (pamphlet by Capel),38
Great Central Hotel,16
Great Eastern(cable-laying ship),112
Greeley, Horace, handwriting of,188-189
Grove, Sir George,53
Hambourg, Mark, description of,47-48
Hanway, Jonas,15
Hare, John,16,53,186
Harrison, Frederic,52
Harte, Bret,53,217
Hats,15
Hay market Theatre,16
Haythornthwaite, Father Peter, friend of Tennyson,122,126
Heating, comparison of English and American,12-13
Helmholtz, quoted,110
Heyermans (artist),45
Hippodrome,16
Holborn Restaurant,16
Holborn Viaduct, lighting on,9
Holmes, Doctor Oliver Wendell, on Tennyson Memorial Committee,128
Holyoake, George Jacob, portrait of,46
Home Rule cause (Ireland),251,252,253,256
"Homer and the Iliad" (by Blackie),86
Hooper(cable-laying ship),112
Hotels,15-16
Houghton, H. O., on Tennyson Memorial Committee,128
Howe, Julia Ward, on Tennyson Memorial Committee,128
Hughes-Stanton, H., R.A.; home of,36
Hunt, Holman,52,216