‘Daddy this and Daddy that, It’s,’181
Dana,371
Dante,208,293,412,418
D’Arcy (see Rossetti, D. G.), character in ‘Aylwin’ originally ‘Gordon’ (Gordon Hake),91; Rossetti as prototype of,91–2,139,140–45,165,336
Darwin, Charles,52,97,373,455
Darwin, Erasmus,455
Death, Pain and,173
‘Débats, Journal des,’27,374,400
De Castro,141–43,166: see Howell, C. A.
Decorative renascence,16
Deerfoot, the Indian, race won at Cambridge by,65
‘Defence of Guinevere,’177
Defoe,307,367
De Lisle, Leconte,124
‘Demon Lover, The,’ wonder and mystery expressed by,19
Dénouement in fiction, dialogue and,346
De Quincey,175,197,220,340
Dereham, Borrow as,95
Destiny, in drama,125
Devil’s Needles,113
Dialect in poetry—Meredith on Rhona Boswell’s letters,418
Dialogue in fiction,346
Dichtung, Wahrheit and, in ‘Aylwin,’50
Dickens, Lowell’s strictures on,295;325; hardness of touch in portraiture,350;367,384,387
‘Dickens returns on Christmas Day,’93
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, on the sibilant in poetry,287; substance and form in poetry,341
Disraeli, ‘softness of touch’ in St. Aldegonde,351;353
‘Divina Commedia,’208
‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,’ Watts-Dunton’s criticism of,218
Dogs, telepathy and,82–6
Döppelganger idea,30
Drama, surprise in,120; famous actors and actresses,117; table talk about ‘The Bells’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle,’119: see Actors, Actresses, Æschylus, Banville, Burbage, Comedy and Farce, Congreve, Etheredge, Ford, Garrick, Got, Hamlet, Hugo, Kean, Marlowe, Robson, Shakspeare, Sophocles, Cyril Tourneur, Vanbrugh, Webster, Wells, Wycherley
Dramatic method in fiction,346
Drayton,438
Drury Lane, ragged girl in,93
Dryden, the first great poet of ‘acceptance,’25
Du Chaillu,52
Duffield, contributor to ‘Examiner,’184
Dukkeripen, The Lovers’,73
Dumas,346
Du Maurier,301
Dunn, Treffry, De Castro’s conduct to,143; Watts-Dunton’s portrait painted by,171; drawings by,161,277
Dunton, family of,53
Dyer, George, St. Ives and,40,41
‘Earthly Paradise, The,’177
East Anglia, gypsies of,63; Omar Khayyàm and,79;72–85; Watts-Dunton’s poem on,82–5; road-girls in,390
Eastbourne, Swinburne and Watts visit,270
East Enders, in ‘Aylwin,’351
Eliot, George,372
Ellis, F. S.,179
Emerson,8
‘Encyclopædia Britannica,’ Watts-Dunton’s connection with,1,2,4,6,205,256; his Essay on Poetry,340,393; on Vanbrugh,258
‘Encyclopædia, Chambers’s’: see ‘Chambers’s Encyc.’
England, its beloved dingles,69–70; Borrow and,102; love of the wind and,370
‘English Illustrated Magazine,’287
Epic method in fiction,346
Erckmann-Chatrian, ‘Juif Polonais’ by,119
Erskine, his pet leeches,39
‘Esmond,’328
Etheredge,259
‘Examiner,’ contributors to,184; Watts-Dunton’s articles in,184
‘Fairy Glen,’315
‘Faith and Love,’ Wilderspin’s picture,331
Falstaff,382
Farce, comedy and, distinction between,258
Farringford,286
‘Father Christmas in Famine Street,’92
Febvre, as Saltabadil,129
Fens, the, description of,62
Feridun,225
‘Ferishtah’s Fancies,’ Watts’s review of,223
Ferridoddin,447
Fiction, genius at work in,7; importance of,208; beauty in,221; atmosphere in,308; ‘artistic convincement’ in,325; methods of,345et seq.; epic and dramatic methods in,346; ‘softness of touch’ in,349et seq.
Fielding,305,321,347; ‘softness of touch’ in,350,367
Findlay,52
FitzGerald, Edward,79; Watts-Dunton’s Omarian poems,80–1
Fitzroy Square, Madox Brown’s symposia at,136–7
Flaubert,89
‘Fleshly School of Poetry,’145–46
‘Florilegium Latinum,’147
Fonblanque, Albany,185
Ford, spirit of wonder in,16
‘Fortnightly Review,’442
Foxglove bells, fairies and,74
France, Anatole, irony of,204
France, dread of the wind,370
Fraser, the brothers, water-colour drawings by,33
Freedom, modern,71
French Revolution, its relation to the Renascence of Wonder,13
Frend, William, revolt against English Church,40
Friendship, passion of,146–48; sonnet (Dr. Gordon Hake),444
Gainsborough, ‘softness of touch’ in portraits by,350
Galimberti, Alice, her appreciation of Watts-Dunton’s work,204,338,339,347
Gamp, Mrs.,384
‘Garden of Sleep,’270
Garnett, Dr., his views on ‘Renascence of Wonder,’11; contributions to ‘Examiner,’184
Garrick, David,127
Gaskell, Mrs., softness of touch,350
Gautier, Théophile,135,136
Gawtry, in ‘Night and Morning,’349
Gelert,82–5
Genius, wear and tear of,175
Gentility,25,109
‘Gentle Art of Making Enemies,’353
German music, fascination of,89
German romanticists, the terrible-grotesque in,126
Gestaltung, Goethe on,398
Ghost, laughter of,387
Gladstone,175
Glamour, Celtic,313–15;378
‘Glittering Plain,’173
Glyn, Miss,118,136
God as beneficent Showman,387
Goethe, his critical system, Watts-Dunton’s treatise on Poetry compared to,257; his theory as to enigmatic nature of great works of art,373,394; Gestaltung in art,398
‘Golden Hand, The,’73
‘Gordon,’ Dr. G. Hake as,91,95
Gordon, Lady Mary, Swinburne and Watts-Dunton’s visits to,270
Gorgios and Romanies,389
Gosse, Edmund, contributes to ‘Examiner,’184; his study of Etheredge,259
Got, M., Watts on his acting in ‘Le Roi s’Amuse,’127
Grande dame, Aylwin’s mother as type of,352
Grant, James,367
‘Graphic,’100
‘Grave by the Sea, A,’157
‘Great Thoughts,’61
Grecian Saloon, Robson at,57
Greek mind, the,44
Green Dining Room at 16 Cheyne Walk,161
Groome, F. H., account of J. K. Watts by,50; intimacy with Watts-Dunton,68; Watts-Dunton and the gypsies,72; Watts-Dunton’s obituary notice of,79; on gypsies in ‘Aylwin,’351; ‘Kriegspiel,’364; his review of ‘Aylwin,’367,372; gypsy humour—anecdote,420
Grotesque, the terrible-, in art,126
Gryengroes: see Gypsies
‘Gudgeon, Mrs.,’ humour of,382–84,388; prototype of,383
‘Guide to Fiction,’ Baker’s,374
Gwinett, Ambrose,99
Gwynn, David,423
‘Gypsy Folk-tales,’420
‘Gypsy Heather,’75
Gypsies, Watts-Dunton’s acquaintance with,61,67; superstitions of,101; ‘prepotency of transmission’ in,362; in ‘Aylwin,’ Groome on,367; ‘Aylwin,’ gypsy characters of,368; ‘Times’ on,370; superiorityof gypsy women to men,392; characteristics of same,390; music,392; humour of,420
Hacker, Arthur, A.R.A., illustration of ‘John the Pilgrim’ by,415
Haggard, Rider, telepathy and dumb animals,82; Watts-Dunton’s influence on writings of,415
Haggis, the stabbing of,193
Hake, Gordon,12; ‘Aylwin,’ connection with,90; physician to Rossetti,90–91; his view of Rossetti’s melancholia and remorse—cock and bull stories about ill-treatment of his wife,91; physician to Lady Ripon,90; Borrow and Watts-Dunton introduced by,95; poems connected with Watts-Dunton,92; ‘The New Day’ (see that title)
Hake, Thomas St. E., author’s gratitude for assistance from,10;11,12; ‘Notes and Queries,’ papers on ‘Aylwin’ by,50; J. O. Watts identified with Philip Aylwin by,51,56; account of J. O. Watts by,57; A. E. Watts, description by,88; ‘Aylwin,’ genesis of, account by,89; account of his father’s relations with Rossetti,90–91; Hurstcote and Cheyne Walk, ‘green dining room,’ identified by,161; William Morris, facts concerning, given by,171
Hallam, Henry,281
‘Hamlet,’293
Hammond, John,40–1
‘Hand and Soul,’172
Hardy, Thomas,27,186,325; letter from,440–41
‘Harper’s Magazine,’122,442
Harte, Bret,301; Watts-Dunton’s estimate of,302–11; histrionic gifts,302; meeting with; drive round London music-halls,303; ‘Holborn,’ ‘Oxford’; Evans’s supper-rooms; Paddy Green; meets him again at breakfast; a fine actor lost,303
Hartley, on sexual shame,255
Hawk and magpie, Borrow and,109
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,305
‘Haymaking Song,’34
Hazlitt, W.,261
Hegel,187
Heine,232
Heminge and Condell,293
Hemingford Grey,33
Hemingford Meadow, description,32,33
Henley, W. E.,284,322
Herder,19
Herkomer, Prof. H.,100
Herne, the ‘Scollard,’402,405
Herodotus,340
Hero, English type of,365
‘Hero, New,’ The,287
Heroines, ‘Aylwin,’ a story with two,363
Hesiod,221,394
Heywood,439
Higginson, Col.,301
Hodgson, Earl,30
Homer,177,208,323,355
Hood, Thomas,1
Hopkins, John,233
Horne, R. H.,137; challenge to Swinburne and Watts-Dunton,269
Hotei, Japanese god of contentment,385
‘House of the Wolfings,’173
Houssaye, Arsène,218
Houghton, Lord,183
Howell, Charles Augustus, prototype of De Castro, q.v.
Hueffer, Dr. F., Wagner exponent,89; Watts-Dunton’s intimacy with,89
Hueffer, Ford Madox, testimony to the friendship of Watts-Dunton and Rossetti,154
Hugo, Victor, ‘Le Roi s’Amuse,’123–30; Watts-Dunton’s sonnet to,129; dread of the wind,370
Humboldt,45
Humour, Watts-Dunton’s definition of,196; absolute and relative,16,23,384; cosmic,204; renascence of wonder in,242; metaphysical meaning of,246–55
Hunt, Holman,19
Hunt, Leigh,261
Hunt, Rev. J.,49