‘Salaman’ and ‘Absal’ of Jámi,21
Saltabadil, Febvre as,129
St. Aldegonde, Disraeli’s ‘softness of touch’ in,351
St. Francis of Assisi,38
St. Ives, birthplace of Watts-Dunton,26; old Saxon name for,35; George Dyer and,40–41; printing press at,40; Union Book Club, Watts-Dunton’s speech at,42; History of,51; East Anglian sympathies of,78
St. Peter’s Port, visit of Swinburne and Watts-Dunton to,268
Sainte-Beuve, Watts-Dunton compared to,2;399
Saïs,331
Samary, Jeanne, as Maguelonne,129
Sampson, Mr., Romany scholar,367
Sancho Panza,382
Sandys, Frederick,267
Sark, Swinburne and Watts-Dunton’s visit to,269
‘Saturday Review,’34,245,257,382
Savile Club,202
Schiller,221
‘Scholar Gypsy, The,’108
Schopenhauer,247
Science, man’s good genius,47–9
Science, Watts-Dunton’s speech on,42–9
Scott, Sir Walter, his humour,195; tribute to,220,221,307;346; ‘softness of touch’ in portraiture,350;367
Scott, William Bell, anecdote of,184
‘Scullion, Sterne’s fat, foolish,’249
‘Semaine Littéraire, La,’347,374,380
Sex, witchery of,391
‘Shadow on the Window Blind,’164: first printed in Mackenzie Bell’s Study of Watts-Dunton in ‘Poets and Poetry of the Century,’ q.v.
Shakespeare, spirit of wonder in,16;126;186;293; richness in style,328;355;382;394
‘Shales mare,’106
Shandys, the two,350
Sharp, William,29; scenery and atmosphere of ‘Aylwin,’72,75;276,284; influence of Watts-Dunton on Rossetti,399
Shaw, Byam, ‘Brynhild on Sigurd’s Funeral Pyre,’ illustration of,366
Shaw, Dr. Norton, intimacy with J. K. Watts,52
Shelley,157;293; ‘Epipsychidion,’419
Shintoism,14
Shirley: see Skelton, Sir John
Shirley Essays,202
‘Shirley,’ Watts-Dunton’s criticism of,365
Shorter, Clement, his connection with Slepe Hall,35
Sibilant, in poetry,286–88
Siddons, Mrs.,131
Sidestrand, visit of Swinburne and Watts-Dunton to,269
Sidney, Sir Philip,365
‘Sigurd,’173,176;366
‘Silas Marner,’ public-house scene in,387
Sinfi Lovell, see Lovell
Skeleton, the Golden,422et seq.
Skelton, Sir John, his ‘Comedy of the Noctes Ambrosianæ,’ Watts-Dunton’s review of,190–201; Rossetti ‘Reminiscences,’202; Watts-Dunton’s friendship with,202
Sleaford, Lord,353
Slepe Hall, Clement Shorter’s connection with,35; story told in connection with,36
Sly, Christopher,388
Smalley, G. W., his article on Whistler,302
Smart set,353
‘Smart slating,’ Watts-Dunton on,207
Smetham, James: see Wilderspin
Smith, Alexander,44; Herbert Spencer and,213
Smith, Gypsy,351
Smith, Sydney,43,196
Smollett,304,367
Snowdon,315
Socrates,45
‘Softness of touch’ in fiction,350
Sonnet, The, Essay on, reference to,205
Sophocles,323,394
Sothern,118
Spencer, Herbert, Alexander Smith and, ‘Athenæum’ anecdote,212–14
Spenser, Edmund, Spirit of Wonder in poetry of,16
Spirit of Place,26
‘Spirit of the Sunrise,’450
Sport,65–67; definition of,68
Sports, field,65
Squeezing of books,191
Staël, Madame de, her struggle against tradition of 18th century,18
Stanley, Fenella,362,363
Stead, William Morris and,181
Stedman, Clarence, his remarks on ‘The Coming of Love,’4,10,301
Sterne, his humour,246–55; his indecencies,253; his ‘softness of touch,’350;367,387
Sternhold,229
Stevenson, R. L.,10; Watts-Dunton’s criticism of ‘Kidnapped’ and ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,’215–21; letter from,216
Stillman, Mrs., Rossetti’s picture painted from,172
Stone, E. D., “Christmas at the ‘Mermaid,’” Latin translation by,147
‘Stories after Nature,’ Wells’s,53–55
Stourbridge Fair,65
Strand, the symposium in the,185
Stratford-on-Avon, Watts-Dunton’s poems on,31,32; see also “Christmas at the ‘Mermaid,’”423
Stress in poetry,344
Strong, Prof. A. S., references to,1,5,132; article on ‘The Coming of Love,’444;445
Style, le, c’est la race,233
Style, the Great,234
Sufism,449; in ‘Aylwin,’454
‘Suicide Club, The,’220
Sully, Professor, contributor to ‘Examiner,’184
Sunrise, Poet of the,398
Sunsets, in the Fens,62
Surtees,367
Swallow Falls,315
Swift, his humour the opposite of Sterne’s,250
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, acquaintance with J. O. Watts,58; intercourse and friendship with Watts-Dunton,89,268–74; ‘Jubilee Greeting’ dedicated to,273; partly identified with Percy Aylwin, see description of his swimming,268;279–84; at Théâtre Française,124; dedications to Watts-Dunton,271,272; offensive newspaper caricatures of,263; championship of Meredith,284; on ‘Tom Jones,’ ‘Waverley,’ ‘Aylwin,’346; on ‘Aylwin,’363; references to,1,12,27,117,123,139,147,157,170,180,181,184,328,413;Anecdotes of:—chambers in Great James St.,89; never a playgoer,117; life at ‘The Pines,’262et seq.; the great Swinburne myth,263; the American lady journalist,264; an imaginary interview,265; an unlovely bard; painfully ‘afflated’; method of composition; ‘stamping with both feet,’265; friendship with Watts began in 1872,268; inseparable since; housemates at ‘The Pines’; visit to Channel Islands; swimming in Petit Bot Bay,268; Sark; ‘Orion’ Horne’s bravado challenge,269; visits Paris for Jubilee of ‘Le Roi s’Amuse,’269; swimming at Sidestrand; meets Grant Allen,269; visits Eastbourne, Lancing, Isle of Wight, Cromer,270; visits to Jowett; Jowett’s admiration of Watts,279; Balliol dinner parties,280; at the Bodleian,282; great novels which are popular,273
Swinburne, Miss,299
Symons, Arthur, ‘Coming of Love,’ article on,257
Table-Talk, Watts-Dunton’s, Rossetti on,183
Tabley, Lord de,277
Taine,232
‘Tale of Beowulf,’173
Taliesin, ‘Song of the Wind,’313
Talk on Waterloo Bridge,’ ‘A,116
Tarno Rye,351,391
Tate and Brady,232
Telepathy, dogs and,82–6
Temple, Lord and Lady Mount,270
Tenderness, in English hero,365
‘Tennyson, Alfred, Birthday Address,’32
‘Tennyson, Alfred,’ sonnet to,286
Tennyson, Lord,4,32,144; dishonest criticism, opinion of,211; Watts-Dunton’s friendship with,285; Watts-Dunton’s criticism of and essays on,289,290; ‘Memoir,’ Watts-Dunton’s contribution,291; anecdotes concerning,287–89; ‘The Princess,’ defects of,290; portraits of, Watts-Dunton’s articles on,290; ‘Maud,’ compared with Rhona Boswell,413;Watts-Dunton and:—sympathy between him and,285; sonnet on birthday,286; meeting at garden party; open invitation to Aldworth and Farringford; his ear not defective,286; sensibility to delicate metrical nuances,287; challenges a sibilant in a sonnet,287; ‘scent’ better than ‘scents,’287; his morbid modesty,288; a poet is not born to the purple,288; reading ‘Becket’ in summer-house; desired free criticism,288; alleged rudeness to women,289; detraction of,289; could not invent a story,289; the nucleus of ‘Maud,’289
Terry, Ellen, Watts-Dunton’s friendship with,117,121; sonnet on,122
Thackeray,295,305,325,328; ‘softness of touch,’350–53
Théâtre Française, Swinburne and Watts at,123–29
Thicket, The, St. Ives,30,32
Thoreau, teaching of,69; love of wind,371;442
Thuthe, the, Kisāgotámī and,455–6
‘Thyrsis,’157
Tieck,19
‘Times,’89,245,301,370
‘Toast to Omar Khayyám,’79
Tooke, Horne,39
‘T. P.’s Weekly,’89
‘Torquemada,’ motif of,125
Tourneur, Cyril, ‘spirit of wonder’ in,16
Traill, H. D., his criticism,207; Watts-Dunton’s meeting with,243; review of his ‘Sterne,’246–55; his letter to MacColl,243; meets him at dinner,243; picturesque appearance; boyish lisp; calls at ‘The Pines’; interesting figures at his gatherings; ‘a man of genius’; asks Watts to write for ‘Literature’; his geniality as an editor,244; why ‘Literature’ failed,245
‘Travailleurs de la Mer, Les,’370
‘Treasure Island,’220
Triboulet, Got as,124–29
‘Tribute, The,’289
‘Tristram of Lyonesse,’ dedicated to Watts-Dunton,272
Troubadours and Trouvères, The,204
Trus’hul, the Romany Cross,101
Turner,299
Twentieth Century, Cosmogony of,373