A——,21,51,82,97,98,121,158,206,285,298"Academy," The,23,24,106,296Adventure in Search of Health, An,260A Kempis, Thomas,28Albert Hall, Hag, The,147Ambition,29"American Naturalist,"295American Neighbour, An,251Apologia pro mea vita,145Archæopteryx and Mudflats,289Aristotle's Lantern,19At a Public Dinner,175At C——, a tiny little village by the Sea in N——,65At Home,82At the Albert Hall,127Austen, Jane,268Average Day, An,172B——,102,107,114,118,119Baby-Girl, A,263Bad Listener, A,246Baring, Maurice,188Bathing,60Baudelaire,60,62,173,183,197,198,258Beerbohm, Max,269Beethoven's Fifth Symphony,161,186Benson, A.C.,249Bergson,47,55,78,183,198Berkeley,275Blind Mathilde,139Boeltzig, R.,103Bradford, Sir John Rose,54Brieux,162"Brilliant Career," A,62British Museum,26,29,49,57,59,61,79,94,132,174,178,225,274,282,283,295British Museum Reading Room, The,100Brooke, Rupert,266Browne, Sir Thomas,146,183,238Buchanan, Robert,251Bunyan,166Burke,2Burlington House,29Burton,125Butler, Samuel,143,171,185,291Buxom Rogue in Earthenware, A,216By the Sea,61Byron,266Camping out at S—— Sands,91Carlyle,120,171Cassell'sNatural History,13Chalcidoidea, The,221Character, A,39Chinese Lanterns,280Chipples,220Chopin,157Clever Young Man, The,207Coleridge,266Confession, A,74Conrad,50,223Crowd Fever,278Cynicism,288D——,69,180Darwin,6,55Day in Autumn, A,51Death,33,84,275,286Debussy,161,162,167De Goncourt,227,228De Guérin,200,277,282De Maupassant, Guy,63,266Depression,89De Quincey,10,42,126,187,196,286Devonshire Club,32Dinosaurs,129Disraeli,258Dr. Spurgeon,90Dostoieffsky,132,163,167,187Duke, Mr., K.C.,17E——,68,78,79,107,171,191,192,193,194,201,209,220,223,226,228,233,235,236,238,240,251,253,254,255,256,257,259,260,261,263,274,277,283,291,292,294,298,299,300,301,302,303,304Early Boughies,66Empress of Ireland,127English Review,101,105,142Equilibrium Restored,245Entomological Society, The,110Father,34,50,51,137Finis,225,285Fire Bogey, The,170Foolish Bird, A,118"Fortnightly,"61"Forum,"296Foster, Sir Michael,209From one Maiden Lady to another (authentic),37G——,78,197,215Gardening,83Gaskel,23,55Gibbon,129,258Gibbon's Autobiography,268Gissing, George,32Goethe,146Graph of Temperament, The,287H——,7,8,13,38,51,60,75,76,77,78,79,80,82,83,89,92,94,114,180,196,206,218,285Haeckel,23,300Harmsworth Encyclopædia,294HarmsworthSelf-Educator,10Hardy,24,282Hardy's Poetry,264Hearing Beethoven,172Hegel,146Henley,208,209Herdman, Prof.,46Hervey,170Horton, Max Kennedy,141Housefly Problem, The—1916,231Humble Confession, A,115Huxley,37,163"Illustrated London News,"53In a Crowd,184In London,59In London again,93,99J——,78,263James,163,166Jefferies, Richard,44,233Jeremiad, A,294Johnson,2,10,180,181,196,230Johnsonv.Yves Delage,181Jolt, A,247Jonson, Ben,171Joubert,291Justifiable Mendacity,52K——,80,99,138,225Kant,257Keats,10,145,146,258L——,1,3,4,43,98Lacépède,146Lamb, Charles,13,120,227,230Landor, W.S.,265La Rochefoucauld,31Leap-frog,302Lodge, Sir Oliver,286Liebestod,302Lice or "Creeping Ferlies,"213Looking for Lice at the Zoo,177Lubbock,7Ludo,104Lupus,125Luxury of Lunacy, The,195M——,12,20,62,69,70,80,81,96,105,106,134,140,156,222,225,226,255,250,259,260Macaulay,30Maeterlinck,42Malpighi,171Marie Bashkirtseff,139,163,175,238Mary,8,23,28Masefield's "Gallipoli,"269Measuring Lice,125Moffat,161Moore, Tom,173More Irony,105Mosenthal,13Mother,34,50,51,59,93,95,97,137Mozart,161My Gastrocnemius,208My Nightmare,105My Sense of Touch,91N——,29,78,121,122,257,261Naming Cockroaches,184Natural History Museum,6,54New Pile in the Pier, A,88Newton,171Nietzsche,137,156Old Diaries,44Omniscience,239On Lighting Chloe's Cigarette,119On Lundy Island,21On the N. Downs,68Our Simian Ancestry,27P——,76,78,79,80Pachmann,234Pascal,293Petticoat Lane,163Piers Plowman,221Plymouth Marine Laboratory,29,32,47,79Pool: a Retrospect, The,189Potted Novel, A,284Prawning,17Preparing a Snake's Skull,50"Punch,"296Punch and Judy Show, The,180R——,81,99,101,104,107,115,119,120,122,123,124,127,128,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,140,141,148,151,154,166,167,169,172,173,174,175,182,197,205,207,208,209,215,216,217,227,228,229,230,239,240,241,295,299,303Raemakers,186Railway Travel,41Raleigh, Sir Walter,129,196Reading Nietzsche,156Reminiscences,270Renunciation,85Resignation,141Restlessness of the Sea, The,90Richepin,57Richelieu, Cardinal,155Rigor Bordis,148Rodin,103,157,160Romney,169Rousseau,63,181,268Ruskin,30,190,208,216S——,1,3Saintsbury, Prof. Geo.,126Sainte-Beuve,200,277Schäfer,110Schopenhauer,34Schubert,173,174Scots Fir, A,111Scott,75,153Service,264Shakespeare,264Shaw, Bernard,59,150,166,249Shelley,196,266,293Sir Henry Wood conducting,159Sleep,206Small Red Viper, A,16Smiles, Samuel,14Smollett,291Sollas's "Ancient Hunters,"72Southey,16Spallanzani,47,71,112Spinoza,16Spring in the Woods,15Staying by the Sea,43Stagnancy,84Stagnant Day, A,111Stevenson,63,106,161,208,209Stockbroker, The,252Strangeness of my Life, The,281Strindberg,139Susan,254Sunset in Kensington Gardens,130Swift,230Swinburne,61,290T——,14,171,246"T.P.'s Weekly,"41Tennyson,154,264Test for True Love, The,157Test of Happiness, A,185Thompson, Francis,266Thoreau,181Too Late,144Tschaikovsky,161,162Turner, J.M.W.,154,167Two Adventures,212Two Months' Sick Leave,80Two People I hate in particular,186Two Young Men Talking,60Une Caractère,53Verlaine,60Villon, Francois,173Voltaire,63,163Wagner,166Wallace,23,37Walton, Isaac,8Wasmann, Father,47Waterton,159Wells, H.G.,291Whistler,222White, Gilbert,159Whitman, Walt,189,253Wilde, Oscar,76,143,152,175,258Windy Ash,35Wiedersheim,106,145,159,257Woman and a Child, A,146Wood, Sir Henry,157,159,172,201Woodward, Dr. Smith,145Yellow Cat, A,241Zola,17
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INTRODUCTIONPART I—THE JOURNAL BEGINS WHEN ITS AUTHOR IS A LITTLE OVER 13 YEARS190319041905190619071908190919101911PART II—IN LONDON1912191319141915PART III—MARRIAGE19161917SYNOPSISINDEX OF NAMES