"In Bohemia with George du Maurier" (by Moscheles),44
Individuals and the masses,197
Ireland, argument for majority rule in,252-253; attitude in World War,251; author's views on,250-257; conditions in,250; exempted from conscription,251; Home Rule in,251,252; ideals of,253; parties in,254; racial differences with Great Britain,252; vital part of England's political organism,252
Irish question,138,143; ignorance of Americans concerning,247,249,250,254
Irving, Sir Henry,16,52,185-204; air of authority,201; achievements,191; appeal to the eye,192; as actor-manager,193,194; at Drury Lane,190; author's opinion of acting,191,192,193; burial at Westminster Abbey,190; death,188,190,204; delineation of character,192; first-night customs,204; first visit to America,46; handwriting,188,189; hospitality,202; in "Merchant of Venice",193,194,195,198; in private life,201-202; limitations,191; loss of popularity,190; loyalty of public,190-191,197; management of Lyceum Theatre,190; mannerisms,188,191,194,199-201; national figure,188; place as an actor,187-188,204; signature,189; supper parties,203-204
Israels, portrait of,46
Jefferson, Joseph,186
Jephson (Stanley's officer),209-211
Jewett, Sarah Orne, on Tennyson Memorial Committee,128
Joachim, violinist, friend of Moscheles,45
Joule, James Prescott,110; appreciated by Kelvin,111
Journalist, as a party man,146
Jowett, Professor,53
Kelvin, Lord,96-113; achievements of,99,112; acquires White's business,100; addresses Royal Society in London,104-105; ancestry,98; appointed professor of Natural Philosophy, at Glasgow University,97; character of,97,98,108,112; chooses title,99; early days,98; energy of,96-97,113; enters university at ten,97; fiftieth anniversary at Glasgow,109; first published papers,110; fondness for asking questions,108-109; greatest master of natural science of 19th century,97,107; installs telephone in home,106; introduces electric lighting in home,105; inventions of,100,106; lameness of,103,108; made a peer,99; method of conducting classes,103-104,108; outlines plan of boy's education,97-98; practicality of,99-100,103-104,105; prophecy regarding electricity,102-103; quoted,110,112, regarding energy,111; Sir William Ramsay's opinion of,103-104; study of,112; theory of existence of organic life,107; typical day of,113; work on Atlantic cables,100; yachtsman and master navigator,106
Kendals, the,16,186
Kinglake, A. W.,52
Kingsway,11
Kipling, Rudyard,17
Knight, Professor (of St. Andrews University),53
Knowles, James, of Nineteenth Century, designer of Tennyson's home at Aldworth,125
Lablache, singer, friend of Moscheles,45
Lalla Rookh, Lord Kelvin's yacht,106
"Language and Literature of the Scottish Highlands" (by Blackie),87
Lathrop, George Parsons, Boston editor,28
Law Courts, the,15
Leadenhall Street (London),1,2
League of Nations,140
Lecky (historian),52
Leighton, Lord,53
"Letters, Poems, and Pensées" (Barbour),92
"Life" of Gladstone, Morley's, quoted,141
Li Hung Chang, as a questioner,108-109
London, architecture of,10-13; charm of,10,13; description of,1,2,10; drawbacks,9; Esperanto Club of,48; "finest site in Europe",11; former leisure of travel in,13-14; hats in,15; hotels in,15-16; improvements of,11; interiors of buildings,12-13; in the late seventies,9-17; lighting of,9; most livable place in world,9; music halls,16; public buildings of,11; regiments in,17; restaurants,16; street cries in,14; theatre crowds,194,195-196,197; ugliness of modern,11; views in,12; writers in,16-17
London Bridge,17
"London Letters" of author,29,30
Lowell Institute, Boston, Drummond lectures at,175
Lubbock, Sir John (Lord Avebury),52
Lyceum Theatre,187,202; author's experiences in attending,194,195-196; great productions at,193,194,200; management of Irving,190
Mackenzie, Sir Morell, description of Patti's throat,69
Macmillan (publisher),53
Maiden's Croft, Farringford, Isle of Wight,120
Malibran, singer, friend of Moscheles,45
Mann, Tom, portrait of,46
Manning, Cardinal,39
Marchmont Street (London),7
Maris (artist),45
Martin, Sir Theodore,53
Masson, Professor,53
Mazzini, portrait of,46
Memorial to Lord Tennyson,127-129; American contributors to,128; inscription on,128,129
Mendelssohn, friendship with Moscheles,43,45
Meredith, George,16,52,222-239; conversation with John Burns and author,229-234; day with,224-234,238; description of,224-225,234-236; publisher's reader,227,236-237; sensitiveness,236; strength of perception,235; tribute to Thomas Bailey Aldrich,227; voice,225,234
Metropole (hotel),15
Mifflin, George H., on Tennyson Memorial Committee,128
Moody, D. L. (revivalist),171; tour with Sankey and Drummond,178
Morland, George,118
Moscheles, Charlotte, portrait of,46
Moscheles, Felix,42-50; attainments of,43,46; birth,43; celebrated friends of,45; death,43; fellow students,45; friendship with Browning,42,44,47,50; godson of Mendelssohn,43; home in Cadogan Gardens,42,46, in Elm Park Road,47; hospitality of,47,50; interest in Esperanto,48; literary work of,44-45; meeting with Du Maurier,45, with Stepniak,49; moved to Leipzig,45; "Pictures with a Purpose",46-47; portraits painted by,46; study in Antwerp,45, in Paris,45; Sunday afternoons with,44,49-50; visited America with Irving and Terry,46; water colours of,46
Moscheles, Ignaz,43; friendship with Mendelssohn,43,45; moved to Leipzig,45
Muller, Max,52
Murray, Henry, disappointment of,6; in London,7,39; on board theAlsatia,5
Murray, John,53
"Musa Burschicosa" (by Blackie),87
National Gallery,10
Nationalist Party,250,251,253,254; death of,250; speeches of,250
"Natural Law in the Spiritual World" (by Professor Drummond),172,173-174
Neilson, Adelaide,16
Nelson (Stanley's officer),209,211
Newport (Isle of Wight),114
New York Tribune, appeal for Tennyson Memorial in,128; author's article in,49
Niagara, plan to harness,102
Ninetetnth Century,125
Normandy, cottages of,23; ducks of,22-24; hospitality of,21-22,24,25; peasants of,23
Northumberland Ave., London,15
Norton, Professor Charles Eliot, on Tennyson Memorial Committee,128
Old Adelaide Gallery (Gatti's restaurant),16
"On Beauty" (by Blackie),87
"One of Our Conquerors" (Meredith),227
O'Reilly, John Boyle,247
Organic life, Kelvin's hypothesis concerning,107
O'Shea, Captain (divorce case of),240,248,256
"Ouida",17
"Our Boys", run of,16
Paget, Sir James,53
Palazzo Rezzonico, Venice,51
Paris, Election at,261,264-266,271-272
Parke (Stanley's officer),209,211
Parliament Buildings,10
Parnell, Charles Stewart,138,143,240-274; characteristics,257-258; eludes author,242-245; elusiveness of,242,246; love affair,256; "mystery" of,241,257; object of,255; Parliamentary leader of Irish,241,252,253; tastes,258; wife's book about,256-257
Parnell Commission,240
Patti, Mme. Adelina (Baroness Cederström),57-78; appreciation of Scalchi and Annie Louise Carey,77; ancestry,66; as a linguist,61-62; care of voice,69-70; collection of photographs,75; description of,58,59,64-65; first appearance before royalty,65; generosity of,76; gifts to,75-76; illness,67; letter from Gladstone,62-63; London début at Covent Garden in "La Somnambula",65; love of theatre,74; modesty of,64,66; proudest experience,63-64; Rothschild's dinner to,63,66; singing of,68,70-71,72,73; tribute from Prince of Wales (Edward VII),63-64
Pearson, J. L., designer of Tennyson Memorial,128
Penwylt, Wales,57
Phoenician remains at Weston Manor,133-134; route to Cornwall through Freshwater,132-133
"Pinafore", run of,16
Pinero, Sir Arthur,16
Plays and players,16
Plunket, Baron,186
"Poetical Tracts" (by Blackie),87
Politics, author's views on,139,140,145-146,155
Portman Rooms, London,216
Poynter, Sir E. J.,52
Prince of Wales' Theatre,16
Prince of Wales (Edward VII), tribute to Patti,63-64
Punch,162,262