Ukko, the Sky God,73
‘Under the Greenwood Tree,’ rustic humour of,186
‘Ups and Downs of an Old Nunnery,’53
Vacquerie, Auguste, ‘Le Roi s’Amuse’ produced by,123
Vanbrugh, Irene,131
Vanbrugh, Watts-Dunton’s article on,258
Vance, the Great,182
Vaughan, his ‘Hours with the Mystics,’58
‘Veiled Queen, The,’57,229,374,375
Vernunft of Man, the Bible and the,230
Verse, English, accent in,344
Vezin, Hermann,118; Mrs.,131
Victoria, Queen, Watts-Dunton’s tribute to,274
Villain in Hugo’s novels,125; ‘Aylwin,’ a novel without a,349
Villon,388
Virgil, wonder in,15;208
Vision, absolute and relative,354; in ‘Aylwin,’357et seq.
‘Vita Nuova,’412
‘Volsunga Saga,’176
Voltaire,259
Wagner,89,412
Wahrheit and Dichtung, in ‘Aylwin,’50
Wales, Watts-Dunton’s sympathy with,312; popularity of ‘Aylwin’ in,314; descriptions of,315,317,318; Welsh accent,319–20
Wales, Prince of, anecdote of,67
Warburton,69
‘Wassail Chorus,’438
Waterloo Bridge, Borrow on,115
‘Water of the Wondrous Isles,’181
Watson, William, Grant Allen on,207
Watts, A. E., Watts-Dunton’s brother, articled as solicitor,72; Cyril Aylwin, identification with,87; his humour,88; death,89
Watts, G. F., Rossetti’s portrait by,161
Watts, James Orlando, Watts-Dunton’s uncle, identity of character with Philip Aylwin,51,56–60
Watts, J. K., Watts-Dunton’s father, account of,50,53; scientific celebrities, intimacy with,50–53; scientific reputation of,52
Watts, William K., description of,160
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, memoirs of,4; monograph on, reply to author’s suggestion to write,6,7; plan of same,9; description of,278–9; Boyhood:—birthplace,26; Cromwell’s elder wine,37; Cambridge school-days,37,66; St. Ives Union Book Club, speech delivered at,15,42–49; family of Dunton,53; father and son—the double brain,53–5; as child critic,55; interest in sport and athletics,65; Deerfoot and the Prince of Wales,67; period of Nature study,67; articled to solicitor,72; Life in London:—solicitor’s practice,88; life at Sydenham,89; London Society,89,353; interest in slum-life,92; connection with theatrical world,117–35; Characteristics:—Love of animals,38,39,82–85; interest in poor,92–4; conversational powers,183; genius for friendship,443; indifference to fame,3,183,204; habit of early rising,279; influence,1,2,22,452; dual personality,322,356; music, love of,38,89; natural science, proficiency in,38; optimism,9,457; identification with Henry Aylwin,356; Romany blood in,361; Writings:—‘Academy,’ invitation to write for,187; ‘Athenæum,’ invitation to write for,188,202; contributions to,1,55,170,173,189–201,204; his treatise on Sonnet—Dr. Karl Leutzner on,205; critical principles,205; ‘Encyclopædia Britannica’ articles,1,2,4,6,205,256,257–8; difference between prose and poetry,339;340,393; poeticstyle,323; ‘Examiner’ articles,184; see also Minto; Critical Work:—Swinburne’s opinion of,1; character of,8,205–208; critical and creative work, relation between,203; critical and imaginative work interwoven,370; School of Criticism founded,4; Essays on Tennyson,290; Lowell on,399; Dramatic Criticism:—119,120,121,123–30; Poetry:—2,4,15,393–441; Rossetti on,399; Prose Writings:—character of,2,321–25,327–92,350,453; richness of style,329,330,331,333,336; unity of his writings,445; American friends of,295–311; Gypsies, description of first meeting with,61; Friends, Reminiscences of:—Appleton, Prof: at Bell Scott’s and Rossetti’s; Hegel on the brain; asks Watts to write for ‘Academy,’187; wants him to pith the German transcendentalists in two columns,188; in a rage; Watts explains why he has gone into enemy’s camp,201; a Philistine,202;Black, William: resemblance to Watts,185; meeting at Justin McCarthy’s,186; Watts mistaken for Black,186;Borrow, George: his first meeting with,95; his shyness,99; Watts attacks it; tries Bamfylde Moore Carew; then tries beer, the British bruiser, philology, Ambrose Gwinett, etc.,100; a stroll in Richmond Park; visit to ‘Bald-faced Stag’; Jerry Abershaw’s sword; his gigantic green umbrella,101–102; tries Whittlesea Mere; Borrow’s surprise; vipers of Norman Cross; Romanies and vipers,104; disclaims taint of printers’ ink; ‘Who are you?’105; an East Midlander; the Shales Mare,106; Cromer sea best for swimming; rainbow reflected in Ouse and Norfolk sand,106; goes to a gypsy camp; talks about Matthew Arnold’s ‘Scholar-Gypsy,’108; resolves to try it on gypsy woman; watches hawk and magpie,109; meets Perpinia Boswell; ‘the popalated gypsy of Codling Gap,’110; Rhona Boswell, girl of the dragon flies; the sick chavo; forbids Pep to smoke,112; description of Rhona,113; the Devil’s Needles; reads Glanville’s story; Rhona bored by Arnold,114; hatred of tobacco,115; last sight of Borrow on Waterloo Bridge,115; sonnet on,116;Brown, Madox:10,12,35,136,170; anecdote about portrait of,274;Brown, Oliver Madox: his novel,274–6;Browning: Watts chaffs him in ‘Athenæum’; chided by Swinburne,222;223–27; sees him at Royal Academy private view; Lowell advises him to slip away; bets he will be more cordial than ever; Lowell astonished at his magnanimity,222–23; thereview in question, ‘Ferishtah’s Fancies,’223–26;Groome, Frank: a luncheon at ‘The Pines,’79; ‘Old Fitz’; patted on the head by,79; see also50,68,72,285,351,364,367,372,420;Hake, Gordon: Introduces Borrow,95; see ‘New Day’; physician to Rossetti and to Lady Ripon,90–91;Harte, Bret: Watts’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;Lowell, James Russell: meets him at dinner,295; he attacks England; directs diatribe at Watts; he retorts; a verbal duel,296; recognition; cites Watts’s first article,298; his anglophobia turns into anglomania,299; likes English climate,300;Marston, Westland: symposia at Chalk Farm; famous actors and actresses,117; table talk about ‘The Bells’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle,’119; on staff of ‘Examiner,’184; the sub-Swinburnians at the Marston mornings; the divine Théophile; the Gallic Parnassus,136;Meredith, George:6,283,284,325,328,417,418;Minto, Prof.: neighbours in Danes Inn; editing ‘Examiner’; secures Watts; first article appears; Bell Scott’s party; Scott wants to know name of new writer,184; Watts slates himself,185; Minto’s Monday evening symposia,185;Morris, William: Marston mornings at Chalk Farm; ‘nosey Latin,’136; Wednesday evenings at Danes Inn; Swinburne, Watts, Marston, Madox Brown and Morris,170; at Kelmscott,170; passion for angling,171; snoring of young owls,171; causeries at Kelmscott,173; the only reviews he read,173; the little carpetless room,175; writes 750 lines in twelve hours,176; the crib on his desk,177; offers to bring out an édition-de-luxe of Watts’s poems; gets subscribers; a magnificent royalty,179; presentation copies; extravagant generosity; ‘All right, old chap’; ‘Ned Jones and I,’180; ‘Algernon pay £10 for a book of mine!’181; disgusted with Stead, the music-hall singer and dancer; ‘damned tomfoolery,’181;Rossetti, Dante Gabriel: at Marston symposia; the Gallic Parnassians; he advises the bardlings to write in French,136; interest in work of others; reciting a bardling’s sonnet,137; wishes Watts to write his life,140; Swinburne on Watts’s influence over,139; letter to author about Rossetti,140; Charles Augustus Howell (De Castro), Rossetti’s opinion of,142; portrait as D’Arcy in ‘Aylwin’; not idealized; ethics of portraiture offriend; amazing detraction of,144; too much written about him,145; relations with his wife; Val Prinsep’s testimony,145; ‘lovable, most lovable,’145; dies in Watts’s arms,150; a pious fraud,153; alleged rudeness to Princess Louise,155; described in ‘Aylwin,’165–9; his wit and humour,169; attitude to a disgraced friend,210; the dishonest critic; ‘By God, if I met such a man,’211; a generous gift,267; dislike of publicity; abashed by an ‘Athenæum’ paragraph,263;Swinburne, Algernon Charles: James Orlando Watts and,58; chambers in Great James Street,89; life at ‘The Pines,’262et seq.; offensive newspaper caricature of,263; 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; sonnet to Watts,271; dedicates ‘Tristram of Lyonesse’ to Watts,272; also Collected Edition of Poems,272; visits to Jowett; Jowett’s admiration of Watts,279; Balliol dinner parties,280; at the Bodleian,282; great novels which are popular,273; champions Meredith,284;Tennyson, Alfred: friendship with,285; 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; his articles on portraits of,290;Traill, H. D.: reviews his ‘Sterne’; 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;Whistler,J. McNeill: Cyril Aylwin not a portrait of,88; anecdotes of De Castro,142; neighbour of Rossetti,156; close friendship with Watts,301; hostility to Royal Academy,301–2; his firstlithographs,301–2; engaged with Watts on ‘Piccadilly,’301,353; ‘To Theodore Watts, the Worldling,’353
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, Swinburne’s sonnets to,271,272
‘Waverley,’ Swinburne on; its new dramatic method; cause of its success; imitated by Dumas,346
Way, T., Whistler’s first lithographs,301,302
Webster, ‘Spirit of Wonder’ in,16
‘Well at the World’s End,’173
Wells, Charles,53–55
‘Westminster Abbey, In’ (Burial of Tennyson),291
‘W. H. Mr.,’424–26
‘What the Silent Voices said,’291
Whewell, intimacy with J. K. Watts,52
Whistler, J. McNeill:—Cyril Aylwin not a portrait of,88; anecdotes of De Castro,142; neighbour of Rossetti,156; close friendship with Watts,301; his first lithographs,301–2; hostility to Royal Academy,301–2; engaged with Watts on ‘Piccadilly,’301,353; ‘To Theodore Watts, the Worldling,’353
White, Gilbert,50
Whiteing, Richard,364
‘White Ship, The,’153,154
Whittlesea Mere,104
Whyte-Melville,352,367
Wilderspin,331: see Smetham, James
Wilkie, his realism, humour of,387
Williams,’ Scholar,’ contributor to ‘Examiner,’184
Williams, Smith,275
‘William Wilson,’219
Willis, Parker,264
Wilson, Professor, Watts-Dunton’s essay on his ‘Noctes Ambrosianæ,’190–201
Wimbledon Common, Borrow and,101; Watts-Dunton and,279
Wind, love of the, Thoreau’s,370,371
Women, as actresses,131; heroic type of,365
Wonder: see Renascence of Wonder; old and new,15; Bible as great book of,228; place in race development,14
‘Wood-Haunter’s Dream, The,’276
Wordsworth, William, definition of language,39; his ideal John Bull,224
Word-twisting,325,327
Work, heresy of,68
‘World,’ The, Rossetti’s letter to,155
‘World’s Classics,’ edition of ‘Aylwin’ in,374
‘Wuthering Heights,’342,345
Wynne, Winifred, character of,314,315,363; love of the wind,371