FOOTNOTES:

FOOTNOTES:[1]See Lord Chesterfield's Letters.[2]Dr. Johnson, "The Idler," No. 84.[3]Epitaph at Hurstmonceaux.[4]Principal of New Inn Hall, and afterwards Rector of Hurstmonceaux.[5]The 4th Earl of Crawford.[6]In her marriage contract (of 1792) with Lord Edward Fitz Gerald, Pamela was described as the daughter of Guillaume de Brixey and Mary Sims, aged nineteen, and born at Fogo in Newfoundland. In Madame de Genlis's Memoirs, it is said that one Parker Forth, acting for the Duke of Orleans, found, at Christ Church in Hampshire, one Nancy Sims, a native of Fogo, and took her to Paris to live with Madame de Genlis, and teach her royal pupils English. An Englishman named Sims was certainly living at Fogo at the end of the last century, and his daughter Mary sailed for Bristol with an infant of a year old, in a ship commanded by a Frenchman named Brixey, and was never heard of again.[7]Edward Fox Fitz Gerald died Jan. 25, 1863: his widow lived afterwards at Heavitree near Exeter, where she died Nov. 2, 1891.[8]I have dwelt upon the first connection of Madame Victoire Ackermann with our family, not only because her name frequently occurs again in these Memoirs, but because they are indebted to notes left by her for much of their most striking material. I have never known any person more intellectually interesting, for the class to which she belonged, than Victoire. Without the slightest exaggeration, and with unswerving rectitude of intention, her conversation was always charming and original, and she possessed the rare art of narration in the utmost perfection.[9]Francis Hare and his father had both been born abroad.[10]See the chapter called "Home Portraiture" in "Memorials of a Quiet Life."[11]Edward Leycester had taken the name of Penrhyn with the fortune of his father's cousin, Lady Penrhyn of Penrhyn Castle. His wife was Lady Charlotte Stanley, daughter of the 13th Earl of Derby.[12]Second daughter of Sir John Stanley, afterwards 1st Lord Stanley of Alderley, and niece of the Rev. Edward Stanley, Maria Leycester's brother-in-law.[13]Edward Stanley, Rector of Alderley and afterwards Bishop of Norwich, had married my mother's only sister, Catherine Leycester ("Kitty"), who was seven years older than herself.[14]"Maurice was by nature puzzle-headed, and, though in a beautiful manner, wrong-headed; while his clear conscience and keen affections made him egotistic, and, in his Bible reading, as insolent as any infidel of them all."—Ruskin, "Præterita."[15]R. Holt Hutton.[16]The child was only three.[17]George Herbert.[18]This half-aunt of mine was living in 1894, having long been the widow of the Rev. F. D. Maurice. I had not seen her for more than thirty years before her death. I could not say I adored all the Maurices: it would have been an exaggeration. So she did not wish to see me.[19]The Rev. R. Chenevix Trench, afterwards Archbishop of Dublin. The fact was, his were very pleasant children, and therefore I liked them; but I was expected to like all children, whatever their characters, and scolded if I did not.[20]My uncle Julius Hare's Recollections.[21]From the notes of Francis Hare's life by Madame Victoire Ackermann.[22]See Crabbe Robinson's Diary.[23]He died Rector of North Creake, April 1894.[24]Merry Wives of Windsor.[25]Afterwards Mrs. Chatterton.[26]Ann, Viscountess Hill, died Oct. 31, 1891.[27]Recollections of Canon Venables, his sometime curate.[28]Long afterwards I learned that it is recorded in legal proceedings, how Giles de Fienes (of Hurstmonceaux) brought a suit against Richard de Pageham for the violent abduction of his wife Sybil, daughter of William Filiol, on August 30, 1223. I suppose Richard employed the gipsies as his intermediaries.[29]She had told Landor so.[30]The Rev. Adam Sedgwick, Prebendary of Norwich and Woodwardian Professor of Geology, died Jan. 27, 1873.[31]Mrs. Vaughan.[32]De Quincey says that Wordsworth was the only poet he ever met who could do this, and certainly it is my experience.[33]To be without (a husband) is bare but it's easy.[34]Harriet survived all her sisters for many years, as the wife of Edward Plumptre, Dean of Wells. She died in 1890. A charming account of her has appeared in Boyd's "Twenty-five Years at St. Andrews:" I thought her most unlike it.[35]Actual cases.[36]Memoires de "Madame," Lettre du 18 Juillet 1700.[37]R. Browning.[38]He afterwards married my cousin Lady Elizabeth Yorke.[39]Robert Smith, who afterwards married my connection Isabel Adeane.[40]Afterwards Lord Radstock.[41]Son of the Bishop of London, Alfred Blomfield, afterwards himself Bishop of Colchester.[42]Afterwards 4th Earl of Mount Edgecumbe.[43]Afterwards 14th Lord Saye and Sele.[44]This account is not the least exaggerated. I remember the storm as one of the most awful things I ever saw. At this time and long afterwards I was always very ill in a thunderstorm.—1894.[45]Dr. Whately.[46]This eccentric Lord Shrewsbury lived in great pomp at Alton Towers, with an intense parade of magnificence. Once a large party staying there included a French Countess of very noble lineage. One day after breakfast he went up to her in his courteous way and said, "Madame, what will you be pleased to do to-day? will you walk, or ride, or drive?"—"Oh, it is a delightful day, I should like to drive."—"Then, madame, would you prefer an open or a close carriage?"—"Oh, an open carriage, if you please."—"And, madame, how many horses will you have?"—"Oh, four-and-twenty horses of course," she said laughing, "you know I never go out without four-and-twenty horses." The afternoon came, and at the appointed hour Lord Shrewsbury came to the lady and said, "The carriage is at the door, madame, the horses are there, but I must apologise for having only one outrider." She rushed to the window, and, to her horror, saw a carriage to which four-and-twenty grey horses were harnessed, each pair being furnished with a postillion. Utterly terrified, the lady declared that nothing should make her drive with them, but her fellow-guests assured her she must. So at last she got in, and the twenty-four horses took her for a short drive in the park. Then Lord Shrewsbury had pity upon her, and twenty-two were unharnessed, and she finished her drive with a pair.—Mr. E. Hussey's Reminiscences.[47]A very kind friend of mine, afterwards Precentor of Lincoln.[48]William Wentworth Buller of Strete Raleigh in Devonshire.[49]Hon. R. J. Harris Temple, eldest son of the second marriage of the second Lord Harris with Miss Isabella Helena Temple of Waterstown.[50]"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."—Carlyle, "Sartor Resartus."[51]There is really no end to the absurd calumnies which I have heard circulated during my life about dear old Mr. Landor, the kindest, most refined, most courteous, and most genial, though most irascible of men. But nothing that ever was said about him was so utterly absurd as Mr. Adolphus Trollope's statement that he neglected the use of the letterhin conversation. I lived with him in close intimacy for years, and I never once traced the slightest indication of his ever dropping the aspirate; indeed, no one was more particular in inculcating its proper use.[52]The vaults of St. Martin's Church have been emptied since.[53]Hugh Stuart Brown.[54]Eldest daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Courtenay Boyle, brother of the 8th Earl of Cork. The brothers had married sisters, daughters of W. Poyntz of Midgeham—our distant cousins.[55]NéeCaroline Amelia Poyntz.[56]Miss Mary Boyle died in 1890.[57]Mrs. FitzGerald's.[58]My Uncle Wentworth married the Countess Marie Benningsen, whose father was one of those who murdered the Emperor Paul of Russia. They had four children.[59]Thomas à Kempis.[60]"Walks in London."[61]Parnell, "Rise of Woman."[62]August 4, 1851.[63]A well-known starting-point in the valley below where the Holborn Viaduct now is.[64]Seventh daughter of the 1st Lord Ravensworth, whose wife was my grandmother's only sister.[65]Grandson of my adopted grandfather's elder brother.[66]Madame de Staël.[67]Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 5th son of George III.[68]The 8th Earl of Denbigh, as Lord Feilding, married, 1st, Louisa, daughter of David Pennant, Esq., and Lady Emma Pennant.[69]The whole of this account was corrected by Lord Feilding, then Earl of Denbigh.[70]"He spoke of the twin brothers George and James Macdonald as two simple, single-minded, and veracious men, and more than this, as eminently godly men. He described how the healing of their sister occurred. She had lain for long bedridden and entirely helpless. One day they had been praying earnestly beside her, and one of the brothers, rising from prayers, walked to the bed, held out his hand, and, naming his sister, bade her arise. She straightway did so, and continued ever after entirely healed, and with full use of her limbs."—J. C. Shairp, "Thomas Erskine."[71]Cecil, widow of the 7th Marquis.[72]Under Dean Powys.[73]How seeing many people and characters makes one sympathise with the observation of the Duchesse d'Orleans: "En fait de dévotion, je vois que chacun suit son humeur; ceux qui aiment à bavarder veulent beaucoup prier; ceux qui ont l'âme libérale veulent toujours faire des aumônes; ceux qui sont gais pensent très bien servir Dieu, en se rejouissant de tout, et en ne se fachant de rien. En somme, la dévotion est, pour ceux qui s'y adonnent, la pierre de touche qui fait connaître leur humeur."[74]Grote's History was coming out at this time, and I had got into terrible disgrace with the Stanleys from knowing nothing about it.[75]The Spitz dog.[76]There are 6000 Béguines in Belgium, nuns bound by no vow, and free to return to the world if they wish. While they wear the habit of their Order, they live in a colony, but in separate houses, and devote their whole lives to temporal works of mercy.[77]Carl Friedrich Meyer, for some time German secretary and librarian to Prince Albert.[78]Louisa, eldest daughter of Sir William Clinton of Cokenach.[79]Louisa Dorothea, widow of Lieutenant-General Sir William Clinton, was daughter of the 1st Baron Sheffield, and younger sister of Maria Josepha, 1st Lady Stanley of Alderley. We had always visited her on the way to Norwich.[80]Afterwards (1878) Master of Balliol. He died October 1893.[81]Dr. Plumptre.[82]Authoress of "Sickness, its Trials and Blessings," &c.[83]Afterwards Canon of Windsor.[84]Mother of Mrs. Marcus Hare.[85]William Henry Milligan, afterwards of the Ecclesiastical Commission Office.[86]Minor Canon of Westminster (1894).[87]Eldest son of Sir J. Barrow.[88]Fourth son of Sir Robert Sheffield of Normanby in Lincolnshire.[89]Kingsley's "Saint's Tragedy," which Uncle Julius had read aloud to us, and afterwards Montalembert's Life, had made me very familiar with her story.[90]An old monastic farm on the Levels, between Hailsham and Eastbourne. The internal interest of the Wartburg has long since been "restored" away, and its rooms blaze with gilding and colour.[91]See p. 289.[92]I was altogether a disappointment to Professor Jowett. I did not get on in the line in which he wished me to get on, and in what I was able to do in after life he had no interest whatever. He dropped me after I left Oxford. I seldom saw him again, and he never knew, perhaps, how grateful I felt for his long-ago kindness. Professor Benjamin Jowett died at Headley Hall, in Hampshire, October 1, 1893.[93]Of Eccles Greig, near Forfar.[94]It would be impossible to discover a more perfect old "gentleman" than Dr. Plumptre, though he was often laughed at. When he was inquiring into any fault, he would begin with, "Now pray take care what you say, because whatever you say I shall believe." He had an old-fashioned veneration for rank, and let Lord Egmont off lectures two days in the week that he might hunt—"it was so suitable."[95]Dr. Hawkins.[96]Dean Gaisford.[97]Walter Berkeley, 4th son of the 1st Viscount Portman.[98]This was so at that time: now it would be thought nothing of.[99]Wife of John Henry Parker, the publisher, a peculiar but excellent person.[100]The portrait of Mrs. Hare Naylor by Flaxman, now at Holmhurst.[101]Afterwards Mrs. Owen Grant.[102]Coleridge.[103]The High Church author, son of my father's first cousin, Charles Shipley.[104]I have always thought that Sir John Paul must have been rather mad. After he had done his best to ruin all his family, and had totally ruined hundreds of other people, he said very complacently, "This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes."[105]My mother in her youth had often visited the ladies at Plas Newydd—Lady Eleanor Butler (ob. 1829, æt. 90) and Miss Sarah Ponsonby (ob. 1831, æt. 76). They always wore men's hats and waistcoats, short petticoats and thick boots.[106]William Owen Stanley, twin brother of Edward-John, 2nd Lord Stanley of Alderley.[107]"Quite untrue, probably."—Note by the Dean of Llandaff, formerly head-master of Harrow, who read this in MS.[108]Hon. Carolina Courtenay Boyle[109]The declaration had already been made in private to Lady Stratford de Redcliffe at Constantinople.[110]Rectors of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, and St. Barnabas', Pimlico.[111]Daughters of the Dean of Bristol.[112]Daughter of my great-great-uncle T. Lyon of Hetton.[113]How little those who idolise him in theory attend to the precept of their beloved Luther: "If anywhere Sunday is made holy for the mere day's sake,—if any one anywhere sets up its observance as a Jewish foundation, then I order you to work on it, to dance on it, to do anything that shall remove this encroachment on Christian liberty."—Table-Talk.[114]Count Aurelio Saffi died 1890, and is buried at Forli.[115]Princess Charlotte of Belgium.[116]Since well known from the tragic death of the Crown Prince Rudolph.[117]Now a crowded resort of royalty.[118]In 1895 I retain the lakes of Gosau in recollection as amongst the most beautiful places I have ever visited.[119]From "Northern Italy."[120]From "Central Italy."[121]From "Central Italy."[122]From "Central Italy."[123]From "Days near Rome."[124]Teresa, Princess Borghese, survived by two years the ruin of her house, and died July 1894.[125]Whose beautiful tomb, by Miss Hosmer, is in the Church of S. Andrea delle Fratte at Rome.[126]Whose fine portrait of himself is in the Uffizi at Florence.[127]From "Days near Rome."[128]From "Southern Italy."[129]The familiar term expressing "a rascal of a boy."[130]From "Southern Italy."[131]From "Southern Italy."[132]From "Central Italy."[133]From "Central Italy."[134]From "Northern Italy."[135]Ruskin, in his "Præterita," describes his father's astonishment when he brought the maid of honour's petticoat, parrot, and blackamoor home, as the best fruit of his summer at the court of Sardinia.[136]From "Northern Italy."[137]Walter Savage Landor was tried for libel at the suit of a lady, to whom he had once shown great kindness, but of whom he had afterwards written abusively. He fled from England to evade the severe fine imposed upon him, which, however, was afterwards paid.[138]Wordsworth, Lines written in Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."[139]She had passed some time at Neuchâtel with her father in 1818, and had seen much of the society there.[140]The Marquise de Gabriac was daughter of the Maréchale Sebastiani, and only sister of Madame Davidoff.[141]He died at Lille, July 1891, aged 85.[142]From "Paris."[143]This story of the dream was only told me by the Duchess Wilhelmine of Cleveland in 1887.[144]From "Paris."[145]From "Days near Paris."[146]A year afterwards I had occasion to visit Panizzi upon other business, and I shall never forget the sharpness with which the astute old man, recollecting the Archdeacon's letter, and entirely refusing to recognise any other claim upon his time, turned upon me with, "Well now, what do you know?—how many languages? what?—answer at once;" and I could with difficulty make him understand that I did not want the clerkship. Sir A. Panizzi died April 8, 1879. It was this Antonio Panizzi who had the honour of being hanged in effigy by the Government of Modena, after having escaped from an imprisonment (which would doubtless have ended in his corporeal execution), for his efforts for the regeneration of Sicily. He was declared liable for all the expenses of the process, and the Cabinet of Modena, in all simplicity, wrote to him in his security at Liverpool calling upon him to pay them!

[1]See Lord Chesterfield's Letters.

[2]Dr. Johnson, "The Idler," No. 84.

[3]Epitaph at Hurstmonceaux.

[4]Principal of New Inn Hall, and afterwards Rector of Hurstmonceaux.

[5]The 4th Earl of Crawford.

[6]In her marriage contract (of 1792) with Lord Edward Fitz Gerald, Pamela was described as the daughter of Guillaume de Brixey and Mary Sims, aged nineteen, and born at Fogo in Newfoundland. In Madame de Genlis's Memoirs, it is said that one Parker Forth, acting for the Duke of Orleans, found, at Christ Church in Hampshire, one Nancy Sims, a native of Fogo, and took her to Paris to live with Madame de Genlis, and teach her royal pupils English. An Englishman named Sims was certainly living at Fogo at the end of the last century, and his daughter Mary sailed for Bristol with an infant of a year old, in a ship commanded by a Frenchman named Brixey, and was never heard of again.

[7]Edward Fox Fitz Gerald died Jan. 25, 1863: his widow lived afterwards at Heavitree near Exeter, where she died Nov. 2, 1891.

[8]I have dwelt upon the first connection of Madame Victoire Ackermann with our family, not only because her name frequently occurs again in these Memoirs, but because they are indebted to notes left by her for much of their most striking material. I have never known any person more intellectually interesting, for the class to which she belonged, than Victoire. Without the slightest exaggeration, and with unswerving rectitude of intention, her conversation was always charming and original, and she possessed the rare art of narration in the utmost perfection.

[9]Francis Hare and his father had both been born abroad.

[10]See the chapter called "Home Portraiture" in "Memorials of a Quiet Life."

[11]Edward Leycester had taken the name of Penrhyn with the fortune of his father's cousin, Lady Penrhyn of Penrhyn Castle. His wife was Lady Charlotte Stanley, daughter of the 13th Earl of Derby.

[12]Second daughter of Sir John Stanley, afterwards 1st Lord Stanley of Alderley, and niece of the Rev. Edward Stanley, Maria Leycester's brother-in-law.

[13]Edward Stanley, Rector of Alderley and afterwards Bishop of Norwich, had married my mother's only sister, Catherine Leycester ("Kitty"), who was seven years older than herself.

[14]"Maurice was by nature puzzle-headed, and, though in a beautiful manner, wrong-headed; while his clear conscience and keen affections made him egotistic, and, in his Bible reading, as insolent as any infidel of them all."—Ruskin, "Præterita."

[15]R. Holt Hutton.

[16]The child was only three.

[17]George Herbert.

[18]This half-aunt of mine was living in 1894, having long been the widow of the Rev. F. D. Maurice. I had not seen her for more than thirty years before her death. I could not say I adored all the Maurices: it would have been an exaggeration. So she did not wish to see me.

[19]The Rev. R. Chenevix Trench, afterwards Archbishop of Dublin. The fact was, his were very pleasant children, and therefore I liked them; but I was expected to like all children, whatever their characters, and scolded if I did not.

[20]My uncle Julius Hare's Recollections.

[21]From the notes of Francis Hare's life by Madame Victoire Ackermann.

[22]See Crabbe Robinson's Diary.

[23]He died Rector of North Creake, April 1894.

[24]Merry Wives of Windsor.

[25]Afterwards Mrs. Chatterton.

[26]Ann, Viscountess Hill, died Oct. 31, 1891.

[27]Recollections of Canon Venables, his sometime curate.

[28]Long afterwards I learned that it is recorded in legal proceedings, how Giles de Fienes (of Hurstmonceaux) brought a suit against Richard de Pageham for the violent abduction of his wife Sybil, daughter of William Filiol, on August 30, 1223. I suppose Richard employed the gipsies as his intermediaries.

[29]She had told Landor so.

[30]The Rev. Adam Sedgwick, Prebendary of Norwich and Woodwardian Professor of Geology, died Jan. 27, 1873.

[31]Mrs. Vaughan.

[32]De Quincey says that Wordsworth was the only poet he ever met who could do this, and certainly it is my experience.

[33]To be without (a husband) is bare but it's easy.

[34]Harriet survived all her sisters for many years, as the wife of Edward Plumptre, Dean of Wells. She died in 1890. A charming account of her has appeared in Boyd's "Twenty-five Years at St. Andrews:" I thought her most unlike it.

[35]Actual cases.

[36]Memoires de "Madame," Lettre du 18 Juillet 1700.

[37]R. Browning.

[38]He afterwards married my cousin Lady Elizabeth Yorke.

[39]Robert Smith, who afterwards married my connection Isabel Adeane.

[40]Afterwards Lord Radstock.

[41]Son of the Bishop of London, Alfred Blomfield, afterwards himself Bishop of Colchester.

[42]Afterwards 4th Earl of Mount Edgecumbe.

[43]Afterwards 14th Lord Saye and Sele.

[44]This account is not the least exaggerated. I remember the storm as one of the most awful things I ever saw. At this time and long afterwards I was always very ill in a thunderstorm.—1894.

[45]Dr. Whately.

[46]This eccentric Lord Shrewsbury lived in great pomp at Alton Towers, with an intense parade of magnificence. Once a large party staying there included a French Countess of very noble lineage. One day after breakfast he went up to her in his courteous way and said, "Madame, what will you be pleased to do to-day? will you walk, or ride, or drive?"—"Oh, it is a delightful day, I should like to drive."—"Then, madame, would you prefer an open or a close carriage?"—"Oh, an open carriage, if you please."—"And, madame, how many horses will you have?"—"Oh, four-and-twenty horses of course," she said laughing, "you know I never go out without four-and-twenty horses." The afternoon came, and at the appointed hour Lord Shrewsbury came to the lady and said, "The carriage is at the door, madame, the horses are there, but I must apologise for having only one outrider." She rushed to the window, and, to her horror, saw a carriage to which four-and-twenty grey horses were harnessed, each pair being furnished with a postillion. Utterly terrified, the lady declared that nothing should make her drive with them, but her fellow-guests assured her she must. So at last she got in, and the twenty-four horses took her for a short drive in the park. Then Lord Shrewsbury had pity upon her, and twenty-two were unharnessed, and she finished her drive with a pair.—Mr. E. Hussey's Reminiscences.

[47]A very kind friend of mine, afterwards Precentor of Lincoln.

[48]William Wentworth Buller of Strete Raleigh in Devonshire.

[49]Hon. R. J. Harris Temple, eldest son of the second marriage of the second Lord Harris with Miss Isabella Helena Temple of Waterstown.

[50]"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."—Carlyle, "Sartor Resartus."

[51]There is really no end to the absurd calumnies which I have heard circulated during my life about dear old Mr. Landor, the kindest, most refined, most courteous, and most genial, though most irascible of men. But nothing that ever was said about him was so utterly absurd as Mr. Adolphus Trollope's statement that he neglected the use of the letterhin conversation. I lived with him in close intimacy for years, and I never once traced the slightest indication of his ever dropping the aspirate; indeed, no one was more particular in inculcating its proper use.

[52]The vaults of St. Martin's Church have been emptied since.

[53]Hugh Stuart Brown.

[54]Eldest daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Courtenay Boyle, brother of the 8th Earl of Cork. The brothers had married sisters, daughters of W. Poyntz of Midgeham—our distant cousins.

[55]NéeCaroline Amelia Poyntz.

[56]Miss Mary Boyle died in 1890.

[57]Mrs. FitzGerald's.

[58]My Uncle Wentworth married the Countess Marie Benningsen, whose father was one of those who murdered the Emperor Paul of Russia. They had four children.

[59]Thomas à Kempis.

[60]"Walks in London."

[61]Parnell, "Rise of Woman."

[62]August 4, 1851.

[63]A well-known starting-point in the valley below where the Holborn Viaduct now is.

[64]Seventh daughter of the 1st Lord Ravensworth, whose wife was my grandmother's only sister.

[65]Grandson of my adopted grandfather's elder brother.

[66]Madame de Staël.

[67]Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 5th son of George III.

[68]The 8th Earl of Denbigh, as Lord Feilding, married, 1st, Louisa, daughter of David Pennant, Esq., and Lady Emma Pennant.

[69]The whole of this account was corrected by Lord Feilding, then Earl of Denbigh.

[70]"He spoke of the twin brothers George and James Macdonald as two simple, single-minded, and veracious men, and more than this, as eminently godly men. He described how the healing of their sister occurred. She had lain for long bedridden and entirely helpless. One day they had been praying earnestly beside her, and one of the brothers, rising from prayers, walked to the bed, held out his hand, and, naming his sister, bade her arise. She straightway did so, and continued ever after entirely healed, and with full use of her limbs."—J. C. Shairp, "Thomas Erskine."

[71]Cecil, widow of the 7th Marquis.

[72]Under Dean Powys.

[73]How seeing many people and characters makes one sympathise with the observation of the Duchesse d'Orleans: "En fait de dévotion, je vois que chacun suit son humeur; ceux qui aiment à bavarder veulent beaucoup prier; ceux qui ont l'âme libérale veulent toujours faire des aumônes; ceux qui sont gais pensent très bien servir Dieu, en se rejouissant de tout, et en ne se fachant de rien. En somme, la dévotion est, pour ceux qui s'y adonnent, la pierre de touche qui fait connaître leur humeur."

[74]Grote's History was coming out at this time, and I had got into terrible disgrace with the Stanleys from knowing nothing about it.

[75]The Spitz dog.

[76]There are 6000 Béguines in Belgium, nuns bound by no vow, and free to return to the world if they wish. While they wear the habit of their Order, they live in a colony, but in separate houses, and devote their whole lives to temporal works of mercy.

[77]Carl Friedrich Meyer, for some time German secretary and librarian to Prince Albert.

[78]Louisa, eldest daughter of Sir William Clinton of Cokenach.

[79]Louisa Dorothea, widow of Lieutenant-General Sir William Clinton, was daughter of the 1st Baron Sheffield, and younger sister of Maria Josepha, 1st Lady Stanley of Alderley. We had always visited her on the way to Norwich.

[80]Afterwards (1878) Master of Balliol. He died October 1893.

[81]Dr. Plumptre.

[82]Authoress of "Sickness, its Trials and Blessings," &c.

[83]Afterwards Canon of Windsor.

[84]Mother of Mrs. Marcus Hare.

[85]William Henry Milligan, afterwards of the Ecclesiastical Commission Office.

[86]Minor Canon of Westminster (1894).

[87]Eldest son of Sir J. Barrow.

[88]Fourth son of Sir Robert Sheffield of Normanby in Lincolnshire.

[89]Kingsley's "Saint's Tragedy," which Uncle Julius had read aloud to us, and afterwards Montalembert's Life, had made me very familiar with her story.

[90]An old monastic farm on the Levels, between Hailsham and Eastbourne. The internal interest of the Wartburg has long since been "restored" away, and its rooms blaze with gilding and colour.

[91]See p. 289.

[92]I was altogether a disappointment to Professor Jowett. I did not get on in the line in which he wished me to get on, and in what I was able to do in after life he had no interest whatever. He dropped me after I left Oxford. I seldom saw him again, and he never knew, perhaps, how grateful I felt for his long-ago kindness. Professor Benjamin Jowett died at Headley Hall, in Hampshire, October 1, 1893.

[93]Of Eccles Greig, near Forfar.

[94]It would be impossible to discover a more perfect old "gentleman" than Dr. Plumptre, though he was often laughed at. When he was inquiring into any fault, he would begin with, "Now pray take care what you say, because whatever you say I shall believe." He had an old-fashioned veneration for rank, and let Lord Egmont off lectures two days in the week that he might hunt—"it was so suitable."

[95]Dr. Hawkins.

[96]Dean Gaisford.

[97]Walter Berkeley, 4th son of the 1st Viscount Portman.

[98]This was so at that time: now it would be thought nothing of.

[99]Wife of John Henry Parker, the publisher, a peculiar but excellent person.

[100]The portrait of Mrs. Hare Naylor by Flaxman, now at Holmhurst.

[101]Afterwards Mrs. Owen Grant.

[102]Coleridge.

[103]The High Church author, son of my father's first cousin, Charles Shipley.

[104]I have always thought that Sir John Paul must have been rather mad. After he had done his best to ruin all his family, and had totally ruined hundreds of other people, he said very complacently, "This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes."

[105]My mother in her youth had often visited the ladies at Plas Newydd—Lady Eleanor Butler (ob. 1829, æt. 90) and Miss Sarah Ponsonby (ob. 1831, æt. 76). They always wore men's hats and waistcoats, short petticoats and thick boots.

[106]William Owen Stanley, twin brother of Edward-John, 2nd Lord Stanley of Alderley.

[107]"Quite untrue, probably."—Note by the Dean of Llandaff, formerly head-master of Harrow, who read this in MS.

[108]Hon. Carolina Courtenay Boyle

[109]The declaration had already been made in private to Lady Stratford de Redcliffe at Constantinople.

[110]Rectors of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, and St. Barnabas', Pimlico.

[111]Daughters of the Dean of Bristol.

[112]Daughter of my great-great-uncle T. Lyon of Hetton.

[113]How little those who idolise him in theory attend to the precept of their beloved Luther: "If anywhere Sunday is made holy for the mere day's sake,—if any one anywhere sets up its observance as a Jewish foundation, then I order you to work on it, to dance on it, to do anything that shall remove this encroachment on Christian liberty."—Table-Talk.

[114]Count Aurelio Saffi died 1890, and is buried at Forli.

[115]Princess Charlotte of Belgium.

[116]Since well known from the tragic death of the Crown Prince Rudolph.

[117]Now a crowded resort of royalty.

[118]In 1895 I retain the lakes of Gosau in recollection as amongst the most beautiful places I have ever visited.

[119]From "Northern Italy."

[120]From "Central Italy."

[121]From "Central Italy."

[122]From "Central Italy."

[123]From "Days near Rome."

[124]Teresa, Princess Borghese, survived by two years the ruin of her house, and died July 1894.

[125]Whose beautiful tomb, by Miss Hosmer, is in the Church of S. Andrea delle Fratte at Rome.

[126]Whose fine portrait of himself is in the Uffizi at Florence.

[127]From "Days near Rome."

[128]From "Southern Italy."

[129]The familiar term expressing "a rascal of a boy."

[130]From "Southern Italy."

[131]From "Southern Italy."

[132]From "Central Italy."

[133]From "Central Italy."

[134]From "Northern Italy."

[135]Ruskin, in his "Præterita," describes his father's astonishment when he brought the maid of honour's petticoat, parrot, and blackamoor home, as the best fruit of his summer at the court of Sardinia.

[136]From "Northern Italy."

[137]Walter Savage Landor was tried for libel at the suit of a lady, to whom he had once shown great kindness, but of whom he had afterwards written abusively. He fled from England to evade the severe fine imposed upon him, which, however, was afterwards paid.

[138]Wordsworth, Lines written in Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."

[139]She had passed some time at Neuchâtel with her father in 1818, and had seen much of the society there.

[140]The Marquise de Gabriac was daughter of the Maréchale Sebastiani, and only sister of Madame Davidoff.

[141]He died at Lille, July 1891, aged 85.

[142]From "Paris."

[143]This story of the dream was only told me by the Duchess Wilhelmine of Cleveland in 1887.

[144]From "Paris."

[145]From "Days near Paris."

[146]A year afterwards I had occasion to visit Panizzi upon other business, and I shall never forget the sharpness with which the astute old man, recollecting the Archdeacon's letter, and entirely refusing to recognise any other claim upon his time, turned upon me with, "Well now, what do you know?—how many languages? what?—answer at once;" and I could with difficulty make him understand that I did not want the clerkship. Sir A. Panizzi died April 8, 1879. It was this Antonio Panizzi who had the honour of being hanged in effigy by the Government of Modena, after having escaped from an imprisonment (which would doubtless have ended in his corporeal execution), for his efforts for the regeneration of Sicily. He was declared liable for all the expenses of the process, and the Cabinet of Modena, in all simplicity, wrote to him in his security at Liverpool calling upon him to pay them!

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