  Abershaw, Jerry, 100 Abiogenesis, 373 Absolute humour: see Humour, absolute and relative Accent, English verse governed by, 344 Acceptance, instinct of, 14; Horace as poet of, 15 Acton, Lord, place given ‘Aylwin’ by, 5 Actors, two types of, 127 Actresses, English prejudice against, 131 Adams, Davenport, 132 Addison, ‘softness of touch’ in portraiture, 350 ‘Adonais,’ 157 ‘Æneid,’ 208 Æschylus, reference to, 15, 45, 324 ‘Agamemnon,’ 323 Alabama, Lowell and, 295 Allen, Grant, 207, 269, 309, 361 Allingham, William, 213 Ambition v. Nature-Worship, 103 America, Watts-Dunton’s friends in, 295; his feelings towards, 297, 301 Anacharsis, 384 AnapÆsts, Swinburne and, 383 Anglomania and Anglophobia, Lowell’s, 299 Anglo-Saxon, law-abidingness of, 309; conception of life, 381 Animals, man’s sympathy with 38–9, 82–86 ‘Anne Boleyn,’ Watts-Dunton’s criticism of Lilian Adelaide Neilson’s acting in, 117 Anonymity in criticism, 209 Anthropology, 14 Apemantus, 250 Appleton, Prof., Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—met 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 ‘Arda Viraf,’ 219 ‘Argonauts of the New Age,’ 457 Argyll, Duchess of: see Louise, Princess Argyll, Duke of, 291: see Lorne, Marquis of Aristocrats, in ‘Aylwin,’ 351 Aristotle, unities of, 18; 177; 340, 341 Armada, 423 ‘Armadale,’ 348 Arnold, Matthew, ‘The Scholar Gypsy,’ Borrow’s criticism of, 108; Rhona Boswell and, 114; 157 Artifice, 239 Augustanism, 15, 16; pyramid of, 23 Austen, Jane, 367 ‘Australia’s Mother,’ 4 ‘Ave Atque Vale,’ 157 Avon, River, Watts-Dunton’s love for, 31 ‘Aylwin,’ Renascence of Wonder exemplified in, 2; popularity of, 7; principles of romantic art expressed in, 8; Justin McCarthy’s opinion of, 9; ‘Renascence of Wonder,’ original title of, 11; attempted identification of characters in, 50, 88; ‘Veiled Queen,’ dominating influence of author, 56; Cyril Aylwin, identification with A. E. Watts, 87; genesis of, 89; nervous phases in, 90; D’Arcy, identification with Rossetti, 139, 140–45; description of Rossetti in, 165–169; landslip in, 270; Welsh acceptation of, 312–318; Snowdon ascent, 317; ‘Encyc. Brit.’ on, 321; naÏvetÉ in style of, 328; youthfulness of, 328; richness in style, 330–38; Galimberti, Mme., criticism of, 338; ‘AthenÆum’ canons observed in, 338, 343; begun in metre, 342; critical analysis of, 345–362; ‘softness of touch’ in portraiture, 351; love-passion, 362; Swinburne on, 363; Meredith on, 364; Groome on, 367; novel of the two Bohemias, 368; editions of, 368, 377; enigmatic nature of, 373; Dr. Nicoll on, 375; Celtic element in, 378; Jacottet on, 380; two heroines of, 363; spirituality of, 372, 375, 378, 380; inner meaning of, 372–81; heart-thought of contained in the ‘Veiled Queen,’ 374; ‘Saturday Review’ on, 377; motive of, 389, ‘Arvon’ edition, restoration of excised passages, 445–50; modern Sufism of, 454; quotations from, 330, 331, 333, 336 Aylwin, Cyril, 168 Aylwin, Henry, at 16 Cheyne Walk, 165; autobiographical element in, 322, 356; see ‘Aylwin’; his mother, 352 Aylwin, Philip: see Watts, J. O. Aylwin, Percy, contrasted with Henry Aylwin, 361; the part he plays in the ‘Coming of Love,’ 401–11; autobiographical element in—see description of Swinburne swimming, 268 Aylwinism, Mr. Balfour and, 373, 446, 450; growth of, 445 Bacon, 43 BadakhshÂn, ruby hills of, 329 Balfour, A. J., Aylwinism and, 373, 446, 450 Ballads, old, wonder in, 16 ‘Ballads and Sonnets,’ Rossetti’s, 271 Balliol, Jowett’s dinner parties at, 280 Balzac, 18 Banville, his ‘Le Baiser,’ 133 Basevi, 95 Bateson, Mary, her paper on Crab House Nunnery, 53 Baudelaire, 135 Baynes, invites Watts to write for ‘Encyc. Brit.,’ 256–7 ‘Bedouin Child, The,’ 448 ‘Belfast News-Letter,’ 4 ‘Belle Dame Sans Merci, La,’ wonder and mystery of, 19 Bell, Mackenzie: on Watts-Dunton’s study of music: see ‘Poets and Poetry of the Century,’ 38: also ‘Shadow on the Window Blind’ ‘Bells, The,’ Watts on, 119 Benson, A. C, his monograph on Rossetti, 138–40 Beryl-Songs, in ‘Rose Mary,’ 139–40 Betts Bey, 85 Bible, The, Watts-Dunton’s essay on, 228–41 Bible Rhythm, 238 Biogenesis, 373 Bird, Dr., 306 Birdwood, Sir George, 409 Bisset, animal trainer, 38 Black, William, 119; Watts-Dunton’s friendship with, 185; their resemblance to each other, 185; an amusing mistake, 186 Blank verse, 239 Boar’s Hill, 282 Bodleian, 282 Body, its functions—humour of, 387 Bognor, 91 Bohemians, in ‘Aylwin,’ 351 Bohemias, Novel of the Two, ‘Aylwin’ as, 368 Borrow, George, 10; method of learning languages, 58; Watts-Dunton’s description of, 95–106, 108–16; characteristics of, 99–106, 368; his gypsy women scenic characters, 390; Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—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, 101–2; 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 Boswell, Perpinia, 110–12 Boswell, Rhona, her ‘Haymaking Song,’ 33–5; her prototype, first meeting with, 63; description from ‘Aylwin,’ 64; East Anglia and ‘Cowslip Land’ linked by, 72, 108; description of in unpublished romance, 110–15; her beauty, Boswell, Sylvester, 110 Bounty, mutineers of, 310 Boxhill, Meredith’s house at, 283 Bracegirdle, Mrs., 131 ‘Breath of Avon: To English-speaking Pilgrims on Shakespeare’s Birthday,’ 31 British Association, 373, 445, 450 BrontË, Charlotte and Emily, Nature instinct of, 97; novels of, 346, 367 Brown, Charles Brockden, 308 Brown, Lucy Madox: see Rossetti, Mrs. W. M. Brown, Madox, 10, 12, 35, 170; his Eisteddfod, 136; portrait of, story connected with, 274 Brown, Oliver Madox, 274–6 Browne, Sir Thomas, 337 Browning, Robert, 4; compared with Victor Hugo, 126; 144; Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—chaffs him in ‘AthenÆum’; chided by Swinburne, 222, 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; the review in question, ‘Ferishtah’s Fancies,’ 223–26 Brynhild, 365 ‘Brynhild on Sigurd’s Funeral Pyre,’ 366 Buchanan, Robert, his attacks on Rossetti, 145–6; Watts-Dunton’s impeachment of, 148 ‘Buddhaghosha,’ Parables of, 218 Buddhism, 14 Burbage, 124 Burgin, G. B., his interview with Watts-Dunton, 205 Burns, Robert, 38 Butler, Bishop, share in Renascence of Wonder, 22 ‘B.V.,’ 161 ‘Byles the Butcher,’ 215–16 Byron, 307 ‘By the North Sea,’ 271 Caine, Hall, Rossetti ‘Recollections’ by, 150, 151–4 Calderon, 219 Cam, Ouse and, 79 ‘Cambridge Chronicle,’ 51 Cambridge University, 1; George Dyer, Frend, Hammond and, 40; Prince of Wales at, 67 Campbell, Lady Archibald, open-air plays organized by, 132 Capri girl, Rhona Boswell like, 110 Carew, Bamfylde Moore, 99 Carlyle, Thomas, River Ouse, libellous description of, 27, 28; his heresy of ‘work,’ 68–71; ‘Frederick the Great,’ Watts-Dunton on, 192 Carr, Comyns, contributor to ‘Examiner,’ 184 Casket Lighthouse, girl in—poems by Swinburne and Watts-Dunton, 413 Cathay, pyramid of, 25 ‘Catriona,’ 217 ‘Caught in the Ebbing Tide,’ 82 Cavendish, Ada, 118 ‘Celebrities of the Century,’ memoir of Watts-Dunton in, 4 Celtic temper, ‘Aylwin,’ 313–15; 378; 398 Chalk Farm, Westland Marston’s theatrical reunions at, 117; Parnassians at, 135 ‘Chambers’s CyclopÆdia of English Literature,’ Watts-Dunton’s ‘Renascence of Wonder’ article, 13, 20, 25; 173; Douglas, James, article on Watts-Dunton by, 393 ‘Chambers’s EncyclopÆdia,’ article on Watts-Dunton in, 1; Watts-Dunton’s contributions to, 2; Sonnet, Watts-Dunton’s essay on, 205 Chamisso, 119 Channel Islands, visit of Swinburne and Watts-Dunton to, 268–9 Chapman, George, 267 Chaucer, his place in English poetry, 15, 43, 294, 394 Chelsea, Rossetti’s residence at, 137, 155, 161, 162, 165 Cheyne Walk, 16: see Chelsea ‘Children of the Open Air,’ 96, 97, 98, 116 Children, Rossetti on, 168 Chinese Cabinet, Rossetti’s, 267 ‘Christabel,’ wonder and mystery of, 19; quotation from, 20 Christmas, ‘The Pines’ and, 93, 94; Rosicrucian, 94 “Christmas Tree at ‘The Pines,’ The,” 94 “Christmas at the ‘Mermaid,’” 32; metrical construction of, 422; Watts-Dunton’s preface to sixth edition, 424; written at Stratford-on-Avon, 423; opening chorus, 423; description of Shakespeare’s return to Stratford-on-Avon, 425–26; quotations from, 423–40; chief leit-motiv of, 436; Wassail Chorus, 438; ‘The Golden Skeleton,’ 428–34, 436–37; Raleigh and the Armada, 434–36; letter from Thomas Hardy about, 440–41 Circumstance, as villain, 125, 349; as humourist, 248; as harlequin, 387 Civilization, definition of, 71 Climate, English, Lowell on, 300 Clive, Kitty, 131 Cockerell, Sydney C., 179 Coincidence, long arm of, 348 Cole, Herbert, 440 Coleridge, S. T., 19, 20, 38; Watts-Dunton’s poetry, kinship to, 417, 419; 324, 338; on accent in verse, 344 Coleridge, Watts-Dunton’s Sonnet to, 417; Meredith’s opinion of same, 417 Collaboration, 415 Collier, Jeremy, 259 Collier, John P., 55 Collins, Wilkie, fiction of, 348, 367 Colonies, Watts-Dunton on, 273 Colvin, Sidney, 216 ComÉdie FranÇaise: see ThÉÂtre FranÇaise Comedy: and Farce, distinction between, 258; of repartee, 259 ‘Coming of Love, The’: Renascence of Wonder exemplified in, 2; popularity of, 7; principles of Romantic Art explained in, 8; humour in, 24; locality of Gypsy Song, 33; publication of, 178, 389; history of, 395; inner meaning of, 400; form of, 411; opening sonnets, incident connected with, 413; quotations from, 402–11, 450; references to, 5, 361, 376 Common Prayer, Book of, 231 Congreve, his wit and humour, 258–60 Coombe, open-air plays at, 132 Cooper, Fenimore, 306 Corneille, 132 Cosmic humour, 204 Cosmogony, New, 9; see Renascence of Wonder, 373 Cosmos, joke of, 386 Cowper, W., 38 Cowslip Country, Watts-Dunton’s association with, 27, 32 Craigie, Mrs., intellectual energy of the provinces asserted by, 50; 325 Criticism, anonymity in, 209, 210; new ideas in, 344 Cromer, 106; Swinburne and Watts-Dunton visit, 270 Cromwell, Oliver, Slepe Hall, supposed residence at, 35; his elder wine, 36–7 Cruikshank, 387 ‘CyclopÆdia of English Literature’: see ‘Chambers’s CyclopÆdia’ ‘Daddy this and Daddy that, It’s,’ 181 Dana, 371 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 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 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, 345 et seq.; epic and dramatic methods in, 346; ‘softness of touch’ in, 349 et 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 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 Gawtry, in ‘Night and Morning,’ 349 Gelert, 82–5 Genius, wear and tear of, 175 ‘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 ‘Glittering Plain,’ 173 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; superiority 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 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 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 Heywood, 439 Higginson, Col., 301 Hodgson, Earl, 30 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 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 ‘Idler,’ interview with Watts-Dunton in, 205 ‘Illuminated Magazine,’ 55 Imagination, lyrical and dramatic, in ‘Aylwin,’ 356–61 Imaginative power in ‘Aylwin,’ 345 Imaginative representation, 208, 398 Imperialism, 273 Incongruity, basis of humour, 385 Indecency, definition of, 255 Ingelow, Jean, 369 Interviewing, skit on, 263 Ireland, hero-worship in, 3 Irony, Anatole France’s, 204; in human intercourse, 251 Isis, 332 Isle of Wight, Swinburne and Watts-Dunton visit, 270 Jacottet, Henri, 347, 374, 380 JÁmi, 21 Japanese, race development of, 14 Jaques, 250 ‘Jason,’ 177 Jefferson, Joseph, 121 Jeffrey, Francis, 2 Jenyns, Soame, 387 Jessopp, Dr., ‘Ups and Downs of an Old Nunnery,’ reference to Dunton family in, 53 Jewish-Arabian Renascence: see Renascence ‘John the Pilgrim,’ 416 Johnson, Dr., 326 Jolly-doggism, 199 Jones, Sir Edward Burne, 180 Jonson, Ben, 423 ‘Joseph and His Brethren,’ 55 Joubert, 221 Journalism, mendacious, 263 Jowett, Benjamin, Watts-Dunton’s friendship with, 279; pen portrait of, 280; see ‘Last Walk from Boar’s Hill,’ 282 ‘Jubilee Greeting at Spithead to the Men of Greater Britain,’ 31 ‘Juif-Polonais,’ 119 Keats, John, spirit of wonder in poetry of, 19, 293; richness of style, 329 Kelmscott Manor, Rossetti’s residence at, 155, 161, 162, 164, 165; identification of Hurstcote with, 170; causeries at, 173 Kew, Lord, Thackeray’s, 351 Keynes, T., 267 ‘Kidnapped,’ Watts-Dunton’s review of, 215; letter from Stevenson concerning same, 216 Kisagotami, 456 ‘Kissing the May Buds,’ 406 Knight, Joseph, acquaintance with J. O. Watts, 60; as dramatic critic, 122, 123 Knowles, James, 290: see also ‘Nineteenth Century’ ‘Kriegspiel,’ 364 ‘Kubla Khan,’ wonder and mystery of, 19, 20 Kymric note, in ‘Aylwin,’ 313–15 Lamb, Charles, 41, 59, 250, 387 Lancing, Swinburne and Watts visit, 270 Landslips at Cromer, 270 Lane, John, wishes to compile bibliography of Watts-Dunton’s articles, 6; publication of ‘Coming of Love,’ 396; 440 Lang, Andrew, critical work of, 207; 415 Language, inadequacy of, 323 ‘Language of Nature’s Fragrancy,’ 269 Laocoon, 323 ‘Last Walk from Boar’s Hill, The,’ 282 Latham, Dr. R. G., acquaintance with J. O. Watts, 58 ‘Lavengro,’ 368 Le Gallienne, R., 1 Leighton, Lord, 172 Leslie, G. D., 301 Leutzner, Dr. Karl, 205 Lever, 367 Lewis, Leopold, 119 Ligier, as Triboulet in ‘Le Roi s’Amuse,’ 124 Lineham, 95 Litany, 231 ‘Literature of power,’ 208 ‘Liverpool Mercury,’ article on ‘Aylwin,’ 12 Livingstone, J. K. Watts’s friendship with, 52 Llyn Coblynau, 317 London, Watts-Dunton’s life in, 87 et seq.; its low-class women, humourous pictures of, 383 Lorne, Marquis of, 453: see Argyll, Duke of ‘Lothair,’ 353 Louise, Princess (Duchess of Argyll), Rossetti’s alleged rudeness to, 156 ‘Love brings Warning of Natura Maligna,’ 414 ‘Love is Enough,’ 177 Love-passion in ‘Aylwin,’ 362 ‘Lovers of Gudrun,’ written in twelve hours, 176 ‘Loves of the Plants,’ 455 ‘Loves of the Triangles,’ 455 Lovell, Sinfi, Nature instinct of, 97; ‘Amazonian Sinfi,’ 107; true representation of gypsy girl, 317; Meredith’s praise of, 363; Groome on, 364; Richard Whiteing on, 364; dominating character of, 363, 365; prototype of, 368–9; beauty of, 391 Low, Sidney, 244 Lowell, James Russell, 222; Watts-Dunton’s critical work, appreciation of, 399; sonnet on the death of, 300; Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—meets him at dinner, 295; Lowestoft, 106 Luther, his pigs, 39 Lyell (geologist), 45; J. K. Watts’s acquaintance with, 50, 52 Lytton, Bulwer, novels of, 349 McCarthy, Justin, ‘Aylwin,’ criticism of, 9; hospitality of, 186 MacColl, Norman, invites Watts-Dunton to write for ‘AthenÆum,’ 188; 243, 418 Macready, 136 Macrocosm, microcosm and, 26, 27, 35 ‘Madame Bovary,’ 89 Madonna, by Parmigiano, 172 ‘Magazine of Art,’ 290 Magpie, hawk and, 109 Maguelonne, Jeanne Samary as, 129 Man, final emancipation of, 47: see also Renascence of Wonder, ‘Aylwinism.’ ‘Man and Wife,’ 348 Manchester School, 273 ‘Mankind, the Great Man,’ 46 Manns, August, Crystal Palace Concerts conducted by, 89 Manu, 219 ‘M.A.P.,’ 278 Mapes, Walter, 388 Marcianus, 104 Marlowe, Christopher, spirit of wonder in poetry of, 16; 329; friend of, 426 Marot, Clement, 229 Marryat, 367 Marshall, John, medical adviser to Rossetti, 152 Marston, Dr. 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 Marston, Philip Bourke, Louise Chandler Moulton’s memoir of, 4, 10, 157; Oliver Madox Brown’s friendship with, 276 Martin, Sir Theodore, 156 Matter, dead, 411, 452; new theory of, 451 Meredith, George, 6; Watts-Dunton’s friendship with, 283, 284; literary style of, 325, 328; Watts-Dunton’s Sonnet on Coleridge, opinion of, 417; ‘Coming of Love,’ opinion of, 418 ‘Meredith, ‘To George, Sonnet, 284 Meredithians, mock, 325 ‘Merry Wives of Windsor,’ 293 Methuen, A. M. S., 216 Metrical art, new, 343, 344, 412 Microcosm, of St. Ives, 26–7; 35; characters in the, 50–60 Middleton, Dr. J. H., his friendship with Morris, 172; ‘EncyclopÆdia Britannica,’ collaboration in, 173 Mill, John Stuart, education of, Watts-Dunton’s early education compared with, 50 Miller, Joaquin, 301 Milton, John, 3; period of wonder in poetry ended with, 25; 157; 293 Montaigne—value of leisure—quotation, 68 Morley, John, 27 Morris, Mrs., Rossetti’s picture painted from, 172; reference to, 179, 180 Morris, William, ‘Quarterly Review’ article on, 16; ‘Chambers’s CyclopÆdia,’ article on, 173; ‘Odyssey,’ his translation of, 176; Watts-Dunton’s criticism of poems by, 176; intimacy with Watts-Dunton, 170; Watts-Dunton’s monograph on, 170, 173–77; indifference to criticism, 173; anecdotes of, 179–82; generosity of, 179; death of, 178–79; Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—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 Moulton, Louise Chandler, 4, 301 Mounet-Sully, as FranÇois I in Le Roi s’Amuse, 125 ‘Much Ado about Nothing,’ 260 ‘Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts,’ 220 Music, Watts-Dunton’s knowledge of, 38, 89 Myers, F. W. H., 291 ‘Natura Benigna,’ 97; the keynote of ‘Aylwinism,’ 411 ‘Natura Maligna,’ 408; Sir George Birdwood on, 409 Natura Mystica, 73 ‘Nature’s Fountain of Youth,’ 268 Nature, ‘Poetic Interpretation of,’ 204; as humourist, 386 Nature-worship, Shintoism, 14, 97; ambition and, 103 ‘Nature-worshippers,’ Dictionary for, 68 Neilson, Julia, 117 Neilson, Lilian Adelaide, Watts-Dunton’s criticism of her acting, 117–18 Nelson, 365 ‘New Day, The,’ 92, 107, 162–64, 312, 396, 443 ‘News from Nowhere,’ 173 ‘Nibelungenlied,’ 176 Nicol, John, 202 Nicoll, Dr. Robertson, 5; collection of Watts-Dunton’s essays suggested by, 6, 22; “Significance of ‘Aylwin,’” essay by, 372; Renascence of Wonder in Religion, articles on, 22, 375, 445 Neilson, Lilian Adelaide, Watts-Dunton’s appreciation of, 117 ‘Night and Morning,’ 349 ‘Nineteenth Century,’ 290, 291, 442 ‘Nin-ki-gal, the Queen of Death,’ 235 Niobe, 323 Niton Bay, 270 ‘Noctes AmbrosianÆ, Comedy of,’ Watts-Dunton’s review of, 190–201; Lowell’s opinion of same, 298 Norman Cross, vipers of, 104 Norris, H. E., ‘History of St. Ives’ (reference to), 25, 40, 51; River Ouse, praise of, 28, 29, 30 North, Christopher: see Wilson, Professor ‘Northern Farmer,’ 387 Norwich horse fair, 106 ‘Notes and Queries,’ 50, 51, 56, 57, 88, 161, 171, 316, 317, 318 ‘Notre Dame de Paris,’ 125 Novel, importance of, 208; of manners, 308; see Fiction. Novelists, absurdities of popular, 367 Nutt, Alfred, 6 ‘Octopus of the Golden Isles,’ 148 ‘Odyssey,’ Morris’s translation of, 176; 208; 341 ‘Œdipus Egyptiacus,’ 226 Olympic, Robson at, 57 Omar, Caliph, 69 Omar KhayyÀm Club, 81 Omarian Poems, Watts-Dunton’s, 78, 79, 80, 81 ‘Omnipotence of Love.’ The, 287 ‘Orchard, The,’ Niton Bay, 270 O’Shaughnessy, Arthur, ‘Marston Nights,’ presence at, 136; 161 Ouse, River, poems on, 28, 29, 30; Carlyle’s libel of, 28–9 Owen, Harry, 317 Oxford Union, Rossetti’s lost frescoes at, 162 Pain and Death, 173 Palgrave, F. T., 291 ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’ 245 Palmerston, 295 Pamphlet literature, 99 ‘Pandora,’ Rossetti’s, 21 ‘Pantheism’: Dr. Hunt’s book, 49 Parable poetry, 224 Paragraph-mongers, Rossetti and, 155 Parmigiano, Madonna by, 172 Parsimony, verbal, 418 Partridge, Mrs., 382 Patrick, Dr. David, 5 Penn, William, St. Ives, his death there, 41 ‘Perfect Cure,’ The, 181 ‘Peter Schlemihl,’ 119 Phelps, 136 Philistia, romance carried into, 327; 386 Philistinism, actresses and, 132 ‘Piccadilly,’ Watts-Dunton writes for, 301, 353 ‘Pickwick,’ trial scene in, 387 ‘Pines, The,’ residence of Watts-Dunton and Swinburne: Plato, 341 Plot-ridden, ‘Aylwin’ not, 348 Poe, Edgar Allan, on ‘homely’ note in fiction, 325; ‘The Raven,’ originality of, 419 Poetic prose: see Prose p???s??, 341 p???t??, 340 Poetry, wonder element in, 15, 25; English Romantic School, 17; humour in, question of, 24; parables in, 224; blank verse, 239; popular and artistic, 293; Watts-Dunton’s Essay on, 340, 354, 393; Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Bacon on, 340, 341; difference between prose and, 339; rhetoric and, 340; poetic impulse, 393; sincerity and, conscience in, 394; imagination in, 397; Zoroaster’s definition of, 398; originality in, 419 ‘Poets and Poetry of the Century,’ Mackenzie Bell’s study of Watts-Dunton in, 38 Pollock, Walter, contributor to ‘Examiner,’ 184 Pope, Alexander, periwig poetry of, 25 ‘Poppyland,’ Watts-Dunton visits, 270 Portraiture, ethics of, 141, 143 ‘Prayer to the Winds,’ 81 Pre-Raphaelite movement, definition of, 16; poets, 160–61 Priam, 355 Primitive poetry, 15 Prinsep, Val, his vindication of Rossetti, 145 Printers’ ink, taint of, 105 Priory Barn, Robson at 57 Prize-fighters, gypsy, 392 ‘Prophetic Pictures at Venice,’ 94 Prose, poetic, 339: difference between poetry and, 339; see also ‘Aylwin,’ Bible Rhythm, Common Prayer, Book of Litany; Manu; Ruskin Psalms, Watts-Dunton on, 228–41 Publicity, evils of, 262 Purnell, Thomas, acquaintance with J. O. Watts, 59 ‘Quarterly Review,’ on Renascence of Wonder, 16–17; on friendship between Morris and Watts-Dunton, 173 Queen Katherine, Watts’s sonnet on Ellen Terry as, 122 Quickly, Mrs., 382 Racine, 132 Rainbow, The Spirit of the, 101 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 423; on ‘command of the sea,’ 427 Rappel, Le, 123 Reade Charles, 325, 348; hardness of touch, 351 Rehan, Ada, 131 Reid, Sir Wemyss, 185 ‘Relapse, The,’ 259 Relative humour: see Humour, absolute and relative Religion, Renascence of Wonder in, 375; poetic, 455 ‘Reminiscence of Open-Air Plays,’ Epilogue, 133 Renascence, decorative, connection with pre-Raphaelite movement, 16 Renascence, Jewish-Arabian, connection with instinct of wonder, 14 Renascence of religion, 22 Renascence of Wonder, exemplified Repartee, comedy of, 259 Representation, imaginative, 398 Rhetoric, Poetry and, 340 Rhona Boswell, see Boswell. ‘Rhona’s Letter,’ 402 Rhyme colour, 412 Rhys, Ernest, ‘Aylwin’ dedicated to, 312; ‘Song of the Wind,’ paraphrase by; 313; 377 Rhythm, 239, 412: see Bible Rhythm Richardson, 367 Richmond Park, Borrow in, 100 Ripon, Lady, 91 ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ 121 ‘Rivista d’Italia’: see Galimberti, Madame ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ 307 Robinson, F. W., 12 Robson, actor, J. O. Watts’s admiration for, 57; 127, 129 Rogers, S., 39 ‘Roi s’Amuse, Le,’ 123 Romanies, Gorgios and, 389; see Gypsies Romantic movement, 16–25 ‘Romany Rye,’ 367 ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ 293 ‘Roots of the Mountains,’ 173 ‘Rose Mary,’ Watts-Dunton’s advice to Rossetti concerning, 139 Rosicrucian Christmas, 94 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1, 2; Watts-Dunton on, 17, 18, 19, 21; ‘Spirit of Wonder’ expressed by, 18, 19; ‘Pandora,’ 21; Poems of, lack of humour in, 24; ‘Watts’s magnificent Star Sonnet,’ his appreciation of, 29; Omar KhayyÀm, translation discovered by, 79; his insomnia; Dr. Hake as his physician; grief for his wife’s death; his melancholia; cock-and-bull stories as to his treatment of his wife; their origin; wild and whirling words; 90–91; stay at Roehampton, 91; Cheyne Walk reunions, 137; Watts-Dunton, affection for, 138–69; Watts-Dunton’s influence on, 139, 140, 149, 150, 154; type of female beauty invented by, 140; dies in Watts-Dunton’s arms, 150; illness of, anecdote concerning, 153; Watts Dunton’s elegy on, 157; Cheyne Walk green dining-room, description, 161; Watts-Dunton’s description of his house, 165–69; his wit and humour, 169; ‘Spirit of the Rainbow,’ illustration to, 276; references to, 9, 10, 27, 35, 262, 263; Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—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; letter to author about Rossetti, 140; Charles Augustus Howell (De Rossetti, Mrs. W. M., 275 Rous, 232 Ruskin, 340 Russell, Lord John, 295 Ryan, W. P., 378 ‘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 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 ‘Silas Marner,’ public-house scene in, 387 Sinfi Lovell, see Lovell Skeleton, the Golden, 422 et 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 Snowdon, 315 Socrates, 45 ‘Softness of touch’ in fiction, 350 Sonnet, The, Essay on, reference to, 205 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 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 ‘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,’ 262 et 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 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; 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, KisagotÁmi and, 455–6 ‘Thyrsis,’ 157 Tieck, 19 ‘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 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 ‘Vita Nuova,’ 412 ‘Volsunga Saga,’ 176 Voltaire, 259 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; poetic 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 Whittlesea Mere, 104 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 Work, heresy of, 68 ‘World,’ The, Rossetti’s letter to, 155 ‘World’s Classics,’ edition of ‘Aylwin’ in, 374 Wynne, Winifred, character of, 314, 315, 363; love of the wind, 371 Yarmouth, 106 Yorickism, 250 Zoroaster, heresy of work, 68; definition of poetry, 398 Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London. |
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