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  • Aberdeen, speech at, 192.
  • Acland, family of, 3.
  • —— Sir Henry at Oxford, 78.
  • AidÉ, Hamilton, 98, 130.
  • Alexandria, 228.
  • Alford, Lady Marian, on society, 119.
  • America, political visit to, 308.
  • American architecture, 322.
  • Amherst, Lord and Lady, 292.
  • Ardverikie, Sir John Ramsden's lodge, 145, 307.
  • Aristocracy and Evolution, 265.
  • Arnold, Matthew, as Mr. Luke in The New Republic, 88.
  • Ashburton, Louisa, Lady, 117.
  • —— Rawlin Mallock, Whig member for, 4.
  • Astor, Mr. John Jacob, in New York, 314.
  • Austin, Alfred, Poet Laureate, 120.
  • Baker, Sir Samuel, 226-227.
  • Baltimore, 309, 320.
  • Batthyany, Prince and Princess, 241-242.
  • Beaufort Castle (Lord Lovat's), 129.
  • Beaulieu, villa at, 203.
  • Beckett, Ernest, second Lord Grimthorpe, 195.
  • Benbecula, island of, 304.
  • Bevan, Mr. (the last of the "dandies"), 60.
  • Bismarck, Countesses Marie and Helen, 55.
  • Blatchford, Lord, 30.
  • Blayney, Lord, friend of Cromwell's, 4.
  • Blenheim, 132.
  • Blunt, Wilfrid, poet, and breeder of Arab horses, 53, 129.
  • Boroughs, rotten Cornish, 159.
  • Breakfast party at Lord Houghton's, 103.
  • Bright, John, as land agitator; his absurd statistics, 182.
  • Brittany, visit to, 329.
  • Broglio, castle of, 237.
  • Browning, Robert, 71.
  • Buller, Emma and Antony, 30.
  • Bulwer, Sir Henry, in Cyprus, 227.
  • Burdett-Coutts, Miss, at Torquay, 61.
  • Bute, Lord, original of Lord Beaconsfield's Lothair, 131;
    • at Chiswick, 131;
    • at Cardiff Castle, 151.
  • Butler, Dr. Nicholas Murray, 313.
  • Byram, Sir John Ramsden's, in Yorkshire, 161.
  • Cannes, first visit to, 167;
    • miniature villa at, 167;
    • subsequent visits, 241.
  • Cardiff Castle, 157.
  • Carlyle, introduction to, 64.
  • Carriages, old traveling, 16.
  • Cary, Mr., of Tor Abbey, and R. Mallock as smugglers, 5.
  • —— Sir Henry, sells Cockington to R. Mallock, temp. Charles I, 4.
  • Castles, different classes of, 152.
  • Cath 179.
  • Memoirs, difficulties of writing, 135.
  • Metaphors, the secret of their force in literature, 349.
  • Molesworth, Sir Louis, 159.
  • Monte Carlo, 194-208.
  • Montrose, Duchess of (Caroline), 99.
  • Morgan, J. Pierpont, 323, 327.
  • Naval architecture, Mr. Froude's experiments in, 51.
  • Negro, spiritual ambitions of a, 327.
  • Nevill, Lady Dorothy, 101.
  • —— Miss Meresia, her lesson in oratory at Strathfieldsaye, 110.
  • New Domesday Book, studied by the author at Ardverikie, 187.
  • Newman, Cardinal, 50.
  • New Paul and Virginia, The, 90.
  • New Republic, The, 87.
  • New York: the opera there a social function, 312;
    • dinner parties in, and other entertainments, 312;
    • good taste in fashionable entertainments, 316;
    • author's address at Columbia University, 313;
    • Evelyn Nesbit and the Thaw trial, 321;
    • ladies' club in, author's address at opening of, 324.
  • Nicosia, 230.
  • Noble, Mr. and Mrs. Saxton, 294.
  • Noltland Castle, in the Orkneys, 301.
  • Normans and Saxons, 28.
  • Oban, 175.
  • Old Order Changes, The, analysis of, 214-217.
  • Orford, Lord, his views of society, 97.
  • Osborne, Father B., son of a prominent Evangelical, 240.
  • "Ouida" in London, 126;
    • at Florence, 256;
    • at Knebworth, 256.
  • Oxford, undergraduate life at, 68;
    • suppers and concerts at, 70-71;
    • Robert Browning and Ruskin at, 71-79;
    • rejection of dogmatic Christianity at, 82;
    • suicide of Balliol undergraduate at, 80;
    • orthodox apologists at, 83;
    • The New Republic at, 87.
  • Paget, Sir Augustus and Lady, 228.
  • Pater, as Mr. Rose, in The New Republic, 88.
  • Pelham (Lord Lytton's novel), social advice to her son from the hero's mother, 97.
  • Philpot, Mr., private tutor at Littlehampton, 39;
    • his taste for poetry, 39;
    • the author's happy years under tuition of, 39-49;
    • his professed Radicalism in polities and religion, 43;
    • his fastidiousness in choice of pupils, 43.
  • Philpotts, Henry, Bishop of Exeter, examples of his polished wit, 32.
  • Poetry, author's early devotion to, 35-37.
  • Poor, the rural, of Devonshire, 20-THE END


    [1] Father Grant, at my suggestion, published one of these Charters in extenso in The National Review.

[2] Another method which I adopted as a supplement to ordinary canvassing was a fortnightly or monthly issue of a printed letter addressed to each voter individually, which dealt with statistics and principles, every letter inviting questions, which would be dealt with in the letter following.

[3] In an early chapter of The Veil of the Temple one of the characters describes the situation as follows:

"(For a long time after the death of Hegel) these separate living species seemed radically separated from one another, or connected only as contrivances of the same deity. Thus the different kinds of life—in especial the life of man—seemed to stand up alone above the waters of science, like island peaks above the sea, the objects of a separate knowledge. But all this while the waters of science were rising slowly like a flood, and were signalizing their rise by engulfing from time to time some stake or landmark that a moment before was protruding from them, or by suddenly pouring over a barrier and submerging some new area. No doubt even by this process many people were frightened, but there was no more general panic than there was in the days of Noah. Men from their superior status watched the tide in security. They ate, they drank at their old sacramental altars. They were married before them and given in marriage. But one fine day—as we look back on it now it seems the work of a moment—something happened which, as I often amused myself by thinking, would have been for a transhuman spectator the finest stage effect in the world. The gradual rise of the waters gave place to a cataclysm. The fountains of the great deep were broken up when Darwin struck the rock, and an enormous wave washed over the body of man, covering him up to his chin, leaving only his head visible, while his limbs jostled below against the carcasses of the drowned animals. His head, however, was visible still, and in his head was his mind—that mind antecedent to the universe—that redoubtable, separate entity—staring out of his eyes over the deluge, like a sailor on a sinking ship. Then came one crisis more. The waters rose an inch or two higher, and all at once, like a sponge, the substance of his head had begun to suck them up—suck them up into the very home of life and thought; and the mind, sodden all through, was presently below the surface, sharing the doom of limpets, and weeds, and worlds."

[4] This work, later in date than the preceding, deals with the religious difficulties arising from the phenomena of multiple personality, a subject which was then being widely discussed in England, on the Continent, and in America.

[5] In connection with the above questions, I may mention certain others, all bearing on the relation of prose to poetry. It was said of Plutarch that his sense of sound was so delicate that if it had been necessary for the sake of mere verbal melody, he would have made CÆsar kill Brutus instead of Brutus killing CÆsar. Closely bearing on this criticism is the fact that in old English tragedies from the days of Dryden onward a careful reader will note that, while parts of the dialogue are in blank verse and parts in prose, the writers themselves show, in many cases, a very defective appreciation of where verse ends and prose begins, many passages which are printed as prose being really unconscious verse. An interesting example of this may be found in a passage from Bacon's Essays, which Macaulay quotes as an example of the literary altitude to which Bacon's prose could rise. This passage is in reality blank verse pure and simple. It is as follows:

Virtue is like precious odors,
Most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Prosperity doth best discover vice.
Adversity doth best discover virtue.

This passage, with Macaulay's comments on it, may be commended to the notice of those who contend that Bacon could not have written Shakespeare, because Bacon's acknowledged verses are of a very inferior kind. If they look in Bacon's prose for verse which was unacknowledged, and which was unintended by himself, they may find reason for modifying this argument.






                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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