Chapter 11

Labour News, the,27-28Lambs Club, the,117,259-61,263Landor, Rossetti on,68-69Landseer, Sir Edwin,72,88;personality,105-7Langdale Pikes,24L’Art,140,146L’Art en Province,153Lawson, Cecil, exhibitions at the Grosvenor,133,143;the “Minister’s Garden,”143;the “Pastoral,”143;personality,144-45Leech, John,89,118Leigh’s School,109Leighton, Sir Frederick,44,275;Rossetti on,67-68;personality,93-96;letter to the authorquoted,97-99Leslie, George, letters to the authorquoted,103-7Lewis, Lady,79-80,267Lewis, Leopold,230Lewis, Sir George,51,80,183,187,267Leyland, Mr.,134Liddon, Canon,167Lindsay, Lady,137,266-67Lindsay, Sir Coutts,119,132,143,146,266-67,284Literature, its relation to music,211Locker, Frederick,198-99Lockwood, Sir Frank,190London University,14Louvre, the,245Lowe, Mr., M.P.,174-75Lowell, James Russell,189Luib,18Lyceum, the,84,152,195,221,229,241,254,270,274,279,284Lynn-Linton, Mrs.,265M’Connell, Mr.,50,55Macfarlane, Mr.,251Maclure, Macdonald and Macgregor, Messrs.,166Macmillan, Messrs.,158Macready,232Maidenhead,117Malory, Sir Thomas,83,283Manchester Art Gallery, the,153Manchester Guardian, the,38,146,150,153Manor House, Barnes Common,1-2Marlborough, Duke of,240Marshall, Gen. Henry,3Marston, Dr. Westland,263-65Martineau, James, preaching of,167-69Maurier, M. Du,114;personality,116-17;work onPunch,117-18;his love of music,118-19;drawing of Frederick Locker,199Mecklenburg Square,43Men of the Time,97Meredith, George,159;Evan Harrington, illustrations,114;“The Old Chartist,” illustration,115;personality,205-8;sonnets on Modern Love,207;comment on Ibsen,208Michael Angelo,73,180Mill, J. S.,11,176Millais, 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,194Miller, Joachim,264Millet, Frank,150Milton,200Minto, Professor,46-47Mitre Tavern, Temple Bar,158Monnet,279Montague, Henry,234-35Montague, H. J.,260-61,273Monte Carlo,285Moore, Albert,66,138Morris, William,72;The Defence of Guinevere,10,208;poetry of,208-9;personality,209-10Music, claims of,210-12National Gallery, the,128,245Neilson, Adelaide,264New Gallery,126-27,131-32,178,179Newman, Messrs.,126North, Mr.,164Northern Circuit, the,48-58Nuremberg,243Ogilvie, Mr. Stuart,282Old Masters, value of,131-32Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn,41Oliphant, Lawrence,159,164-65Oliphant, Mrs., “The Lake of Tiberias,”164-65Once a Week,107,110,113-14,117O’Neil, Arthur,26-28O’Neil, Henry,26Oratory, the art of,167-92Orsini, defence of,167Oxenford, John,276-78Oxford Union Debating Society,177-78Pagani’s Italian Restaurant,121Palais Royal Theatre,100Pall Mall exhibitions, the,134Pall Mall Gazette,35,36,47,102,146,163,231Pall Mall Restaurant,158Parnell, C. S., the trial,186-88;character,188;the forged letter, reply to Mr. Chamberlain,183-86Parry, Mr.,258Parsons, Alfred,151,152,164Patterdale,24Payne, Bernal,102Pellegrini, Carlo,121-25Penzance, Lord,49Perugini, Mrs.,194Phelps,232,244Pigott,186,187Pinero,The Beauty Stone,285,287-88Poe, Edgar Allan,257Poetry, music in,210-12Poets, some Victorian,193-214Pollock, Walter Herries,37,215Pope, Sam,49,56Portfolio, the,149Power, Richard,184Pre-Raphaelites, the,60,63,75-76,130Previtale’s,81Prince of Wales’s Theatre,255-56,261Princess’s Theatre,244Punch,114,117-18Purnell, Thomas,254;anecdotes concerning,28-34;story told by,147-48Queen’s Theatre,229Rabelais Club,221Rachel, Madame,275Rae, Mr., of Birkenhead,63,65Raleigh Club,258Rannoch,23Raphael,180Rasselas, mountains of,182Reade, Charles,280Reed, Alfred,258Reform Bill of 1832,177;of 1867,182Reform, John Bright’s speeches on,170-75Restaurants, London,158Reynolds,93Ristori, Madame,275-76Robertson, Tom,233,261Robinson, Sir John,40-41Rossetti, 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,264Rothenberg-on-the-Tauber,243Rubens,80Ruskin,11,60,113,138,141Russell, Lord, on the Northern Circuit,49-54,56-57;the Parnell trial,186-88Russell, Sir William,39Sadler’s Wells Theatre,26,244St. George’s Hall,121,257-59St. Helier, Lord,189St. James’s Hall,170,173,194St. Paul’s, burial of Sullivan,288Sala, George Augustus,42-44,46Salvini,275,278-79Sandys, Frederick,114-16Saturday Review, the,7,36,37,38,47,59,206,215,265Savile Club, the,215,219,223Savoy, chapel of the,30Schlesinger, Dr. Max,265-66Scotland, early fishing excursions in,17-22Scott, Sir W.,218Scottish character, some aspects,17-21,153-57Selby, Viscount,49Selous, Fred,4Severn, Arthur,121Shakespeare,162-63,200Shield, Hugh,55Simpson’s Restaurant,158Skinner, Alan,41-42,167Skinner, Hilary,41-42Smith, Prof. Goldwin,183Soria, De,119South Kensington Museum,245Spaniard’s Inn, Highgate,251Spurgeon, preaching of,167-68Stanley, Dean,167Steinle,97,98Stevens, Alfred,130Stevenson, R. L., personality,215-19Stickle Tarn,24-25Stratford-on-Avon,152“Student Williams,”47Sullivan, Sir Arthur,283;King Arthur,283,287,291-92;personality,284-86;The Beauty Stone,285,287-88;method of work,286-87;death,288Sully,279Swinburne, A. C.,7,10,77,159;the new music in his poetry,208-12Switzerland,21Tadema, Lady,267-68Tadema, Sir Laurence,80,82,267-68Taylor, Tom,193Tebbs, Mr. Virtue,66Tenniel, Sir John,114Tennyson, Horatio,198Tennyson, Lionel,198Tennyson, 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,204Terriss, William,3,5Terry, Ellen, visit to Nuremberg,243-44;inButterfly,255;Sarah Bernhardt’s compliment to,279;inKing Arthur,291-92Terry, Kate,274Thackeray, W. M.,9-11,95-96,110,205The Theatre,221Theatre, 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,291-92Thirlemere,21Thomson, Hugh,165-66Thorne, Tom,234-35Times, the,56,183-84,276-77Tissot, James,268-70Titian,180Toole, J. L.,229-30,234-35,250,254;friendship with Irving,241,246;personality and anecdotes,246-53;a day’s fun,247-50Toole’s Theatre,255Tottenham Court Road Theatre,232,281Tower of London, visit of Toole,248-49Townsend House,267“Trafalgar,” Greenwich,37Tree, Beerbohm,256,270,281-82Tristram, Outram,281Turner,66Ullswater,15Unitarian chapel, Great Portland Street,167,169United States, quality of illustrations in,159Vanity Faircartoons,121,165Vaudeville Theatre,234-35Venezuela,189Verrey’s Restaurant,158Vinci, Leonardo da,180,245Walker, Frederick,114,144;personality,102,105-7;visit to Algiers,103-5;his work,107-10Walking tours,23-25Walton,267Water-Colour Society,74Watts, G. F.,63,72,73,129,169,193Watts-Dunton, Theodore,47,159Webster,The Duchess of Malfi,276Webster, Sir Richard,seeAlverstone, LordWestminster Club, the,254Westmoreland, fishing in,21-22;walking tours,24-25Weyman, Stanley,159-61Whistler, J. A. M.,114,115;criticism of (1873),133-34;public attitude,134-35;personality135-38;style,138-39;his love of contest,139-42;friends,142-43;at Lawson’s,143Whymper, T. W.,109Wilde, Oscar,118;poetry of,212-13;dramatic work of,213-14Wills, W. G.,221-22,283;Charles I.,254Wood-engraving,109-10,120,158-59Wordsworth,200,201World, the,36,38,40Wurtzburg,243Yates, Edmund,147;founds theWorld,36,38-39,40,43,44;style of oratory,191-92


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