I
EDWARD THE SEVENTH AS PRINCE OF WALES--PERSONAL INCIDENTS
Everything, or almost everything, has been said about King Edward the
Seventh, every tribute paid him from every quarter of the world; and
the mourning of his people is the best tribute of all. I should like
to add an estimate from a different point of view and a tribute, but
I suppose they would have no proper place in these papers, and I
confine myself therefore to memories. I will go back to the period
when he was Prince of Wales, and to the place where he put off most
of the splendours belonging to his rank, and where most of the man
himself was to be seen; not once nor twice, but for years in
succession.
Homburg was to the Prince of Wales a three weeks' holiday. I do not
think he took the medical side of it very seriously. He drank the
waters and walked, as the doctors bade him, but with respect to diet
he seemed to be his own doctor and his prescriptions were not severe.
But then nobody, the local physicians excepted, ever did take Homburg
{410} very seriously as a cure. What the Prince liked was the
freedom, of which he was himself the author. On occasions of
ceremony and in the general course of his life at home, strict
etiquette was enforced. At Homburg the Prince used his dispensing
power and put aside everything but the essentials. He lived in a
hired villa. He wore lounging suits in the daytime--sometimes of a
rather flamboyant colour--and a soft grey hat. In the evening a
black dining jacket, black tie, black waistcoat, black trousers, and
a soft black Homburg hat. The silk hat and the dress coat and white
tie or white waistcoat were unknown. Most of the officers of his
household were left at home, but General Sir Stanley Clark was always
with him.
His way of life was as informal as his dress. He was there to amuse
himself and it was an art he understood perfectly. Homburg is a
village, but it had, or had at that time, many resources. The three
or four streets of which the place consisted were so many rendezvous
for the visitors. The lawn-tennis grounds were another. The walks
in the woods were delightful. There were drives over the hills and
far away, in the purest air in Germany. If you tired of the little
watering-place or its guests, there was Frankfort, only eight miles
distant, with resources of a more varied kind. But in Homburg itself
the Kursaal, though there had been no gambling since 1869, and the
hotels, were always open and sometimes lively.
What the Prince liked was society, in one form or another. The
open-air life suited him. It was {411} sufficiently formal but less
formal than indoors. He liked strolling about and meeting
acquaintances or friends. When you had once seen His Royal Highness
leaning against the railings of a villa--the villa stood each in its
own ground--and talking to a lady leaning out of the first floor
window, and this interview lasting a quarter of an hour, you felt
that the conditions of life and the relations of royalty to other
ranks in life had taken on a quite new shape in Homburg.
But the attitude of respect was maintained. Certain formalities were
never forgotten. The Prince was always addressed as "Sir" or as
"Your Royal Highness." But these observances were not irksome, nor
was conversation restricted or stiffened by the obligations of
deference or by the accepted conventionalities which, after all, were
more matters of form than of substance. And in his most careless
moods the Prince had a dignity which was the more impressive for
being apparently unconscious. Nobody ever forgot what was due to
him; or ever forgot it twice. It was an offence he did not pardon;
or pardoned only in those who could not remember what they had never
known. A foreigner, an American, who erred in pure ignorance might
count on forgiveness.
The Prince gave many luncheons and dinners, almost always at Ritter's
or at the Kursaal. I should think there was never a day when he did
not play the host. The dinners at the Kursaal were given on the
terrace, always crowded with other dinner-parties. At Ritter's they
were on the {412} piazza. This open-air hospitality was the
pleasanter because it was so seldom possible in England. He had
brought the art of entertaining to perfection. He put his guests,
even those who stood most in awe of royalty, at their ease. The
costume perhaps helped. When a company of people were in dining
jackets and the men wearing their soft black hats, even at table, by
the Prince's command, etiquette became a less formidable thing. The
Prince talked easily, fluently, and well. He might ask a guest whom
he liked to sit next him, ignoring distinctions of rank, but during
the dinner he would talk, sooner or later, to everybody. There might
be a dozen guests, a number seldom exceeded. I will give you one
example of the dialogue which went on, and no more. The late Duke of
Devonshire, at that time the Marquis of Hartington, was sitting
nearly opposite the Prince, but at some distance, and this colloquy
took place:
"Hartington, you ought not to be drinking all that champagne."
"No, sir; I know I oughtn't."
"Then why do you do it?"
"Well, sir, I have made up my mind that I had rather be ill now and
then than always taking care of myself."
"Oh, you think that now, but when the gout comes what do you think
then?"
"Sir, if you will ask me then I will tell you. I do not anticipate."
The Prince laughed and everybody laughed. And Lord Hartington, for
all his gout, lived to be {413} seventy-four, one of the truest
Englishmen of his time or of any time.
Among the Americans who were presented to the Prince at Homburg were
Mr. Depew and Mark Twain. I was not in Homburg when Mr. Depew first
came, but I asked one of the Prince's equerries to arrange the
presentation for Mr. Depew, and I wrote to Lady Cork begging her to
do what she could for him. So the formalities were duly transacted.
The Prince took a liking to the American, asked him to dine, put him
on his right hand, and listened to his stories with delight. He told
me afterward that Depew was a new experience. He asked him again and
again, and the next year also; I believe several years, or as long as
Depew went to Homburg. The Prince said:
"Depew's stories were not all good, but he told the bad ones so well
that they were better than the good."
My letter to Lady Cork had a fate I did not foresee, though I ought
to have foreseen. When she told the Prince that I had written her
about Depew she had my manuscript in her hand. "Is that Smalley's
letter? May I see it?" asked the Prince; took it and read the whole.
It happened that I was staying at the time with one of her married
daughters, and there was a deal good of family gossip in the letter.
When the Prince handed it back there was in his eyes a gleam of that
humour so often seen there, and he said:
"Now I know some of the things I have been wanting to know."
{414}
And Lady Cork answered:
"Sir, we have nothing to conceal from Your Royal Highness."
There was, of course, an intimacy which put the Prince on his honour.
Mark Twain was staying at Nauheim, some twelve miles away. He had
driven into Homburg and was wandering about the place when he was
pointed out to the Prince, and was presented. Mark Twain had at the
time no very great care about his personal appearance, and was very
shabbily dressed. He was the "Tramp Abroad." At first I don't think
he much interested the Prince. His slowness of speech and his
unusual intonations were not altogether prepossessing. However, when
he had taken his leave the Prince seemed to think he wished to see
him again and said:
"I should like to ask him to dinner. Do you think he has a dining
jacket?"
The risk, whatever it might be, was taken, the invitation was sent,
and Mark came to dinner, dining jacket and all. But he did not care
to adapt himself to the circumstances; considering, perhaps, that the
circumstances ought to adapt themselves to him. The meeting was not
a great success, and, so far as I know, was never repeated. Socially
speaking, the Mississippi Pilot was an _intransigeant_ at times, and
this was one of the times. He could not, I suppose, overcome his
drawling manner of speech nor reduce his interminable stories to
dinner-table limits. He had the air of usurping more than his share
of the conversation and of the time, which {415} he certainly did not
mean to. Intentions, unluckily, count for little. Men are judged by
what they do, and the general impression was not as favourable to
Mark on this occasion as it would have been if he had been better
known. Among all Princes and Potentates there was never one more
willing to make allowances or less exacting in respect to trivial
matters than Mark's host. But, after all, he was Prince of Wales and
the future King of England, and if you were not prepared to recognize
that, it was open to you to stay away.
Mark Twain, at any rate, was not one of the Americans who followed
the Prince to Homburg. He met the Prince almost by accident, and
returned from Nauheim by the Prince's invitation for this not very
successful dinner. His Republicanism was perhaps of a rebellious
kind, and possibly, though without desiring to, he gave the Prince to
understand as much. Some of Mark's compatriots went far in the
opposite direction, especially one or two American women. There was
a handsome American girl who had found means to be presented to the
Prince; no difficult matter for a pretty woman at any time. Then she
sent him a photograph of himself and begged him to sign it. As I was
passing the Prince one afternoon in the street he stopped me and
pulled a parcel out of his pocket, saying:
"This is a photograph Miss X. sent me to sign, and I have signed it,
and I was just going to leave it for her at the hotel. But I am
afraid to. I {416} don't know what she may not ask me next. Would
you mind leaving it for me?"
The Prince did not see, but as I went in I saw, on the porch, the
girl herself. She must have looked on at what happened and I am not
at all sure she did not hear what the Prince said. None the less,
she accepted the signed photograph joyfully, and it always had a
place of honour in New York. "Wasn't it kind of His Royal Highness
to give it to me?" queried this beautiful being, not knowing that the
true story had been told me. When I made my report to the Prince I
remarked casually that Miss X. had been sitting on the veranda and
might have seen what took place. "I hope she heard also," exclaimed
the Prince. But he did not quite mean that. At any rate, he
relented afterward and was seen to be talking to the girl, whose eyes
he could not but admire.
II
PRINCE OF WALES AND KING OF ENGLAND--THE PERSONAL SIDE
I need not say much about the public life of the late King nor about
the part he played in the Empire of the world. But there are certain
passages in his private life and in his relations with the late Queen
which had an effect on his career, and may be related in whole or in
part.
The greatness of this reign is the more remarkable because experience
of public affairs came to the {417} King late in life. He was in his
sixtieth year when he came to the Throne, and during the forty years
when he might have been acquiring invaluable experience he had been
sedulously excluded by the late Queen from all share in the business
of State. So much is known, and so much is sometimes stated in the
English Press, though stated with caution. It is the truth, but it
is not all the truth. I believe it to be also true, that after the
death of the Prince Consort, in 1861, the Queen desired the Prince of
Wales to take up some portion of the duties of his father, and
offered him a place as her private secretary. The Prince, for
whatever reason, declined it.
He was not much over twenty years of age, and never in any man,
perhaps, was the desire of _la joie de vivre_ stronger. Some years
later a truer sense of his position and duties and opportunities came
to him. He offered to accept, and besought the Queen's permission to
accept, the post she had first offered him. Her Majesty made answer
that the post had been filled, and never from that time onward did
she open to the Prince of Wales the door she then closed. She left
him to amuse himself, to choose his own associates and his own
occupations. She herself spent six hours a day--never less, and
often much more--in reading dispatches and State papers of all kinds.
The Prince saw none of them, was present at no interviews with
Ministers, knew nothing at first hand of the conduct of affairs.
Yet the Prince had, in the face of these {418} discouragements, an
appetite for public business. He was well informed about it, but
only as an outsider is well informed. Naturally, the opinion had
grown up that not much was to be expected of the Prince as King. The
death of the late Queen was thought to close an era. It had not
occurred to any one, except perhaps to his nearest friends, to think
of the new King as well equipped for his Kingship. True, Lord
Salisbury, than whom there could be no higher authority, speaking in
the House of Lords, had said of the new King upon his accession that
he had "a profound knowledge of the working of our constitution and
conduct of our affairs." Lord Salisbury had had his exceptional
means of knowing, and he expressed his own opinion, a true opinion,
but not a general opinion. I suppose Lord Rosebery, long intimate
with the Prince, might have said as much. But to most men such
expressions came as a surprise.
I met Sir Francis Jeune at dinner on the evening after the first
Privy Council held by the King, which Sir Francis had gone down to
Osborne to attend. He began at once to describe the scene:
"The King astonished us all. We had all known him as Prince of
Wales. It became clear we had yet to know him as King. His air of
authority sat on him as if he had worn it always. He spoke with
weight, as a King should speak. It was plain he had come to the
Throne to rule."
Ask the Ministers and other great personages who stood to him in
official relations. Mr. Asquith has answered for them all:
{419}
"I speak from a privileged and close experience when I say that,
wherever he was or whatever may have been his apparent
preoccupations, in the transaction of the business of the State there
were never any arrears, there was never any trace of confusion, there
was never any moment of avoidable delay."
In the opinion of the King their time and his belonged to the public,
and neither was to be wasted.
The whole truth about the late King's mission to Paris has, I think,
never been told. It was not expedient that it should be told at the
time, nor was it generally known. But until it is known full justice
cannot be done to the King's courage and wisdom, or to his direct
personal influence on the course of great affairs. For it was the
man himself, the King himself, who won this great victory; not by
diplomacy, not by statecraft, but because he was the man he was. I
tell the story briefly, but the outlines will be enough.
When the King went to Paris to lay the foundations of a new
friendship between France and England the feeling of the French
against the English ran high. They had not forgotten nor forgiven
the sympathies of England with Germany in 1870. They had not
forgotten their own retreat from Egypt in 1882, and they scored up
their own mistake against England. They had not forgotten Fashoda.
The King was warned not to go. The French Government warned him.
They could protect him, they said, against violence but not against
insult. His own Government thought his visit, {420} in the
circumstances, ill-advised. Against all this he set his own
conviction that the moment had come to make an effort for a better
understanding between the two peoples. Danger did not deter him.
For personal danger he cared nothing, and against the danger that any
discourtesy to himself might embitter the two nations he set the hope
of success. Like the statesman he was, he calculated forces and
calculated wisely. He knew that the French, and especially the
Parisians, had always liked him personally and he resolved to risk it.
Neither his courage nor his sagacity was at fault. At first things
went badly. When he reached the railway station he was received in
silence. When he drove from the station to the Embassy there was not
a cheer. As he went about Paris the next day the attitude of the
Parisians was still sullen, if not hostile. But the presence and
personality of the King began after a time to soften hardness.
Before nightfall a cheer or two had been heard in the streets, and
next day all Paris was once more all smiles and applause. The King
had conquered. He had won over the people. He had convinced
Ministers. He had conciliated public opinion. He had laid a gentle
hand upon old and still open wounds. He had shown himself for the
first time a great instrument and messenger of peace, and had begun
the work to which all the rest of his life was to be devoted.
Long before that ever-memorable visit, in France as in England, the
Prince knew all sorts of people, {421} and was popular with all, and
did not mind being of service now and then to the people whom he did
not know at all. Dining one night with the Duc de la
Rochefoucauld-Bisaccia in the Faubourg St. Germain, he was asked by
his host to go with him to the opening reception at the house of a
banker in the Boulevard Haussmann. The banker had made a great
fortune and had great social ambitions. The Prince knew very well
why he was asked, but good-naturedly went. His going was chronicled
and blazoned next day in every one of the seventy daily papers of
Paris; and the banker's ambition was satisfied.
That was one incident. Another was his presence of course in the
Prince of Wales period, at a supper given by the _Figaro_ in its new
offices. Celebrities of all sorts were there, and the Prince had to
sit still while a too well-known actress from the Bouffes proposed
the Queen's health. He raised his glass drank the toast, and said
nothing. It was no fault of his. This also found its way into the
French papers; not into the English. He had many friendships among
artists, men of letters, soldiers, statesmen. Between the Prince and
the late Marquis de Galliffet, the Marshal Ney of this last
generation, there was a close tie; two chivalrous souls who
understood each other from the beginning. He was often to be seen in
studios--M. Detaille's, M. Rodin's, and many others. He knew the
theatres in Paris as well as he knew the theatres in London; perhaps
better. He went to the theatre primarily, I think, to be amused, and
the theatres {422} in Paris are more amusing than the theatres in
London. The most patriotic Englishman may be content to admit that.
If the Prince had any politics abroad they were kept for his private
use. To the French Republic, as Republic, and to successive
Presidents of the Republic, he showed nothing but good-will. To
French statesmen the same; to Gambetta, to Waldeck-Rousseau, and to
M. Clemenceau, whose originalities and courage interested him long
before that energetic individuality had become Prime Minister. They
all liked the Prince, but not one of them ever guessed that from him
when King would spring the new impulse of friendship which was to
make France and England in all but name allies, and so impose peace
upon the restless ambitions of another great sovereign. Gambetta, it
is true, foretold a splendid future for the Prince, without
explaining how it was to be splendid.
I think if you moved about among Englishmen one thing would impress
you more than all others in their tributes to their late King. Not
their full testimony to his greatness as King. Not their admiration
of his capacities. Not their pride in him as a Ruler. Not their
sense of the incalculable services he has rendered. Not their
gratitude for these services, deep as that is. Not the Imperial
spirit and the new value they set upon the Unity of the Empire. Not
his virtues of any kind, though to all of them they bear witness.
The one thing which would impress you beyond all this is the
affection they bore to him in his lifetime {423} and now bear to his
memory. He had known how to establish new relations between King and
People, relations which had a tenderness and a beauty unknown before.
They belonged to an earlier period of history. They were not quite
patriarchal, as in really ancient days, but were like the relations
which exist in an old family: ties of blood and of long descent.
They did not exist in the last reign. There was immense respect for
Queen Victoria; not much sentiment. She had withdrawn herself too
much from general intercourse, and even from the ceremonial part of
her royal duties. But this King, her son, went among the people,
lived among them, lived for them, gave them his constant thought, won
their hearts. His loss is to them a personal loss. They mourn for
him as for a King, and they mourn for him as for a Friend who is
gone. That seems to me the finest tribute of all.
III
AS KING--SOME PERSONAL AND SOCIAL INCIDENTS AND IMPRESSIONS
I met at luncheon one of the King's friends, in some ways one among
the most intimate of the innumerable friends he had; a man, however,
not readily yielding to emotion nor likely to take what is called the
sentimental view. We began to talk of the King. Suddenly he broke
off:
"I cannot say much. I loved him."
I don't know that I can tell you anything more {424} characteristic
or illuminating than that. It is the kind of tribute the King
himself would have liked. And there are millions of Englishmen
to-day whose hearts are full of the same feeling.
The King--the late King--was a great master of kingly graces. He
knew, I suppose, more men and women than any man of his time. He
knew the exact degree of consideration to which each one of them was
entitled, and exactly how to express it. If you desire to form to
yourself a conception of the interval which divides a king, with the
inherited traditions of a thousand years, from the elected Chief
Magistrate of yesterday, you might do worse than watch the ceremonial
customs of personal intercourse. We know what the indiscriminate
handshakings by the President are. We know that the custom, aided by
the incredible stupidity of the police about him, cost one of them
his life. We read the other day that a President, after enduring
this exaction for a time, had to stop it. His right hand was all but
paralysed. We have all listened to the Presidential, "I am very glad
to see you," repeated to all comers. It may be unavoidable but it
all detracts something from the dignity of the office and the man.
This King who is gone gave his hand more often than any other; but at
his own choice and discretion. It was thought abroad he went great
lengths, and some of the Continental sovereigns and the courtiers
about them criticized him. They also after a time imitated him, and
sometimes at once. The present German Emperor was one of those who
took the {425} hint from his uncle as soon as it was given. I told
long ago how the Emperor and the then Prince of Wales in 1889 came on
board the White Star steamship _Teutonic_ lying at Spithead, with a
great company of naval guests, there to witness the great naval
review which never took place. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr.
Chamberlain, Lord Charles Beresford, Mr. Ismay, Mr. Depew, and many
other persons of distinction were grouped on the main deck. The
Emperor came up the steps first, and by way of acknowledging their
salutations raised his white cap. The Prince of Wales shook hands
with all those I have named and with some others, the Emperor looking
on astonished. Then came a prolonged inspection of the _Teutonic_,
the finest passenger ship then afloat, the pioneer of all modern
comfort and splendour on the Atlantic, Mr. Ismay's creation. There
had been much talk in which Emperor and Prince had both taken part,
and by the time they were ready to leave, the great German sovereign
had learned his lesson. He shook hands cordially with Mr. Ismay, in
whom he had recognized a kindred spirit of greatness, other than his
own but not less genuine, and with others. The faces of his staff
were the faces of men amazed, perplexed, almost incredulous.
At drawing-rooms and Courts and levees; in private houses where he
was a guest, whether in town or country, on the turf, in the theatre,
at a public ceremonial, at a Marlborough House or Windsor
garden-party, the same habit prevailed. Prince of Wales or King of
England, he met his {426} friends as a friend, and for acquaintances
with any title to recognition he had a pleasant welcome. It added
immensely to his popularity among those who knew him, and among the
millions who never saw him, but heard. They thought of him as a man
among men, which he was in every sense, and as one who thought
manhood an honourable thing. Ask, moreover, any of the equerries or
others of his household. They will all tell you he was considerate.
He expected each officer to do his duty, and it was done. It is
often an irksome duty; but he made it needlessly so.
The human side of him was never long hidden. It is a remark one is
tempted to repeat again and again. It came out in the services he
was for ever doing; public in their nature, but from a private
impulse. He met to the full the expectation of the public, and
discharged to the full the obligation of the Crown in respect of all
charities and ceremonials; and always with a kindly grace which made
his presence and his gifts doubly welcome.
With people whom he knew well and liked he was glad to lay aside
etiquette. I could give you, but must not, the names of friends to
whom he would often send word in the afternoon that he was coming to
dine that evening and to play bridge after. Even a king, and a great
king, must sometimes relax. He cannot always appear in armour. His
hostess would meet him at the door with a curtsey, and then welcome
him as a friend; and the talk all through dinner was intimate and
free. Those were delightful hours. So were the days in country
{427} houses where the King was a guest. Always, no doubt, a certain
hush in the atmosphere, a certain constraint if the party was large,
but so far as the King was concerned, if people were not at their
ease it was their own fault. Everybody knew where the line was
drawn. Nobody in his senses over-passed it. One flagrant instance
there was, not in the country, but at a house in London, at supper--a
large party. The hour grew late and the Prince still sat at his
table. A guest who had found the champagne to his liking staggered
across the room, steadied himself by a chair and stuttered out:
"I don't know whether Your Royal Highness knows how late it is, but
it's past two o'clock, and I am going home. Good-night, sir!"
The Prince sat still and answered not. He saw the man's condition.
Nobody knew better the rule that such a company did not break up till
the Prince gave the signal. He was a man with a great social
position, and not social only. When he had departed the Prince
finished his interrupted sentence and the talk went on as before.
Not an allusion to the offence or the offender.
His sense of social responsibility showed itself in an unexpected
form during the Boer War. There grew up among the aristocracy a
passionate patriotism which sent heads of great families and elder
and younger sons into the field. The King thought this feeling
threatened to have grave consequences. He approved it, of course,
and encouraged it, but he thought limits ought to be set to a fervour
which {428} seemed not unlikely to extinguish an important part of
the nobility. He sent for a number of men in great position who had
resolved to go and advised them to wait, saying, with his usual good
sense:
"Enough men of your class have gone already to show your devotion;
more than are really needed for the purposes of war. Wait a little.
If matters go badly it will be time enough then for you to depart."
One secret of the extraordinary social power of both Prince and King
lay in his knowledge of social matters. Nobody was so well informed.
He had about him numbers of men, and of women, who took pains to send
him, or bring him, the earliest account of any social incident or
gossip. It was known that he had these sources of information, and
that whatever was known to any one was known to him. Such knowledge
as that was a weapon. It was not one of which he made use, or needed
to use. The fact that he had it was enough.
He liked news also, and took pains to get it. If there were a
political or Ministerial crisis, you might be sure that Marlborough
House knew all about it. He had a certain number of men in his suite
or of his acquaintance from whom he expected, and generally got,
early intelligence. There was a sort of competition in supplying
him. If you were first you were thanked. If you had been
anticipated, he remarked dryly and with a good-humoured twinkle in
his very expressive eyes: "Oh, yes, very interesting but I heard it
an hour ago."
{429}
When I was leaving England in 1895 for America the Prince gave me his
cipher address and asked me to cable him as often as there was news I
thought might interest him. That may serve to show us Americans how
much he cared for American matters, and how completely he returned
the good-will we have always borne him since his visit to the United
States in 1860. I told the Prince my first duty was to _The Times_,
since I was going home as their correspondent. Subject to that, I
should be glad to send him what I could. The difference of time was
such that he might well enough get a dispatch before midnight at
Marlborough House, which could not appear in print till next morning.
"But you know that's just what I should like," said the Prince.
From beginning to end the late King has lived his life, ever a full
life, possibly not always a wise life. Who can be wise always? Who
likes a man who is always wise? His faults in youth were of a kind
which were recognized as belonging to men. The blood which flowed in
his veins came down to him through centuries of ancestors to whom the
restrictions and pudencies, often hypocritical, of modern days were
unknown. And if we look at the result, at the crown of all, at the
matured character which made him one of the greatest servants of the
State, of any State, ever known in history, need there be any
criticism or any regret? Not perhaps the white flower of a blameless
life, but was there ever one? But a great human life, compact of
good and ill, and so flowering into the {430} greatness of a great
King. Perhaps the best summary is Pascal's:
"_Qu'une vie est heureuse quand elle commence par l'amour et qu'elle
finit par l'ambition._"
For the King's ambition was never for himself; he had no need to wish
to be other than he was. It was an ambition for the good of his
people.
INDEX
NDX
A
Aberdeen, Lady, influence of, in Canada--her zeal for Irish Home
Rule, 279-280
Aberdeen, Lord, Governor-General of Canada, 279; succeeded by Lord
Minto, 281
Abolitionists, the, counsels of, governed by Phillips, 104; desire to
adopt legal measures, 108; meetings held by, 33-35, 85; unprotected
by police against the rioters, 99, 100
Adams, Charles Francis, American minister in England, 49; his
services to his country, 194-5; introduction to, 196
Adams, John, rank of, as a diplomatist, 194
Agassiz, Professor, influence of, on thought in Massachusetts, 11, 212
Airlie, Earl of, remarkable legend in family of, 396-401
Alaskan Boundary Question, 260-276
Alcott, Mr., attempt of, to enter Boston Court House during the riot,
35
Allibone, Mr., on writings of R. W. Emerson, 67
Allingham, Mr., poem of, _The Talisman_, recited by Emerson, 70
Alverstone, Lord, British fairness of--settles dangerous
controversy--speech on arbitration, 270-271; distinguished career of,
271-272; Canadian attacks upon, 272-273
Ampthill, Lord, diplomatic feat performed by, 379
Andrew, Governor, 1, 4, 121; declines to act against the rioters,
101-102; compared with Gambetta, 106; Phillips's opinion of, 90
Anti-Slavery Society, riot at meeting of, 99-103
Arnim, Count von, Bismarck's distrust of, 387; anecdotes, 387-388
Arnold, Matthew, discourses of, on Ralph Waldo Emerson, 51, 67-69;
death of, 64
Asquith, Mr., his eulogy of King Edward, 419; supported by the
Bishops in his temperance legislation, 391
Astor, Mr., 322
B
Balfour, Mr., Leader of House of Commons, 333
Banks, Mr., elected Speaker in Congress, 84
Barlow, Sir Thomas, consultation with, 353-355; honours conferred
upon, 355-357; duties of President of Royal College of Physicians,
357-358; electioneering story, 359
Barnes, Mr. Justice Gorell, 369
Barrymore, Lord. _See_ Smith-Barry
Bachelder, James, killed during attack on Boston Court House, 35, 38;
Judge Loring charged with responsibility for death of, 39
Bath and Wells, Bishop of, emoluments of, 390
Bathurst, Countess, control of, over _Morning Post_, 340
Bedford, Duke of, 379-382
Beit, Mr., 290
Benjamin, Mr., position of, at English Bar, 366-368
Bennett, James Gordon, ideas of, on methods of news organization, 223
Beresford, Lord Charles, 154; meets Prince of Wales and Emperor
William on board _Teutonic_, 424-425
Bernhardt, Mme. Sarah, friendship of Lord Glenesk with, 342
Bismarck, Prince, conflict with Count von Arnim, 387-388; relations
with Lord R. Churchill, 324-325, 327; epigram of, 117; before
Franco-German War, 230; distrust of Empress Frederick, 407-408;
mastery of French language, 381-382; conflict with King of Prussia,
187-191; my first meeting with, 121-123; message to J. Lothrop
Motley, 202; confidence in Lord Odo Russell, 381; after Sadowa,
170-174; Sumner's interest in, 125; a talk with, 178-193
Bismarck, Princess, 183-185, 186, 193
Blaine, Mr., 84
Borthwick, Miss Lilias. _See_ Bathurst, Countess
Borthwick, Oliver, successfully conducts _Morning Post_, 340-341;
flattering reception of, by President Roosevelt, 343-344; early death
of, 341
Bright, John, conversation with, 125; thunders against the Bishops,
390; speaks in honour of Garrison, 114; resentment of Sumner's
"Claims" Speech, 125
Broadbent, Sir William, story of his attendance upon Mr. Hay,
360-362; his awe of rank, 362; "Broadcloth mob," the, 85, 92, 95
Brodrick, George, at Lord Arthur Russell's breakfasts, 382; sobriquet
of--writes leaders for _The Times_, 382-383; becomes Warden of
Merton, 383
Bromley, Isaac, writes for _New York Tribune_, 16
Brooks, Preston, Senator Sumner assaulted by, 84
Brown, John, of Osawatomie, effect on public feeling of imprisonment
and hanging of, 14, 85-87, 98
Browning, Robert, 119
Buchanan, President, 85
Bücher, Herr Lothar, 179
Buckle, Mr., 327
Burke, Mr., 255
Burns, Anthony, arrest and surrender of, 29, 36, 42; effect of
surrender of, on popular feeling, 36, 37, 84; Theodore Parker's
sermon on surrender of, 38
Burnside, General, 155
Butler, General Benjamin, anecdotes of, 27-28; his announcement as to
negroes being "contraband of war," 132-133; reputation of, at
American Bar, 27-28; rancour of, against Dana, 41-42,48
C
Campbell, Lord Chancellor, Mr. Justice Denham's anecdote of, 351
Canada, Alaskan Boundary dispute, 260-291; bitterness against Lord
Alverstone in, 270-273; talk of annexation, 277-283; two
Governors-general, 284-291; immigration of Americans into, 277-278;
Roman Catholicism in, 261; sensitive feeling in, 284
Canterbury, Archbishop of, emoluments and palaces of, 389-390;
position and career of, 391-393; impressions of 392-393; friendship
of Queen Victoria for, 393-394
Carrington, Lady, 282
Cavendish, Lord F., 255
Chamberlain, Mr., skirmish with Lord R. Churchill, 318-319;
Imperialism of, 281; meets Prince of Wales and German Emperor on
board Teutonic, 424-425
Chandler, Zach, defeat of Dana engineered by, 49
Chelmsford, Lord, 247
Choate, J. H., Minister to England, 50; qualities of, as a Minister,
210-211
Choate, Rufus, 96; anecdotes of, 27
Churchill, Lady Randolph, social miracle performed by, 373-374
Churchill, Lord Randolph, an appreciation of, 332-333; friction with
Prince Bismarck, 324-325; skirmish with Mr. Chamberlain, 318-319;
letter to Lady R. Churchill, 333; drive with, 322-323; his views of
Mr. Gladstone, 324-325; Gladstone's remark on, 333; "I forgot
Goschen," 322; as a host, 325-326; last meeting with, 331-332; his
indifference to money, 327-331; his conception of the political
future, 319-320; his use of the Press, 327-328; his investment in the
Rand mines, 331; speeches of, 321; contest with Lord Salisbury, 321;
his opinion of the working man, 328-329
Churchill, Winston, his biography of his father, 329; compared with
his father, 319; position of, in political life, 253, 319; stipend
of, 390
Clark, Sir Andrew, anecdote of, 362-363; physician to Mr. Gladstone,
362
Clarke, General Sir Stanley, constant attendance of, on Prince of
Wales at Homburg, 410
Clay, Henry, 5
Cleveland, President, anecdote of, 16; political pressure on, 208;
part played by, during Venezuela crisis, 75-79
Cluseret, "General," 133
Coleridge, Emerson's friendship with, 59
Collier, Price, mischievous dictum of, 202, 289, 354
Collins, Patrick, enmity of, to E. J. Phelps, 208
Curzon, Lord, epigram of, 131
D
_Daily News, The_, formerly mouthpiece of Nonconformist Liberalism,
229; exploits of Archibald Forbes in service of, 247-250; connection
of, with _Tribune_, 235, 236, 245, 246; news alliance formed with
_Tribune_, 224-227; I bring Mr. White's account of Spicheren to,
232-234
Dalhousie, Lady, visit to, 395-401
Dalhousie, Lord, 350, 395-401
Dana, Charles A., influence of, 131, 279; journalistic relations
with, 129-130; connection of, with _Tribune_, 153
Dana, Daniel, 41
Dana, Francis, 41
Dana, Paul, editor of Sun, 279; founds society to promote annexation
of Canada, 279
Dana, Richard, 41
Dana, Richard Henry, 41
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., ancestry, 41; anecdotes of, 45-48; my
acquaintance with, 43-48; introduces me to Adams, 196-197; part
played by, in trial of Anthony Burns, 30-33, 41, 42; Butler's enmity
to, 41, 42; unfounded charge against, 48; visits House of Commons,
46; lampooned by Phillips, 108; qualities of, as a lawyer, 28, 46,
47; his letters to me, 42-43; works of, 42, 216-219
Davidson, Rev. Randall. _See_ Canterbury, Archbishop of
Davies, F., 15
Davis, Governor, sobriquet of, 3
Davis, Lieutenant-Governor, 3
Delane, Mr., 48-49
Denham, Mr. Justice, story of Lord Chancellor Campbell, 351
Depew, Mr., presentation of, to Prince of Wales, 413
Desclée, Aimée, histrionic gifts of, 9
Detaille, M., 421
Dickens, Charles, 119
Draft Riots, the, 161-162
Dudley, Lady, 397-399
Dudley, Lord, 350, 398-399
Dufferin, Lord, anecdote of, 214
Dupont, Admiral, 132
Durant, Mr., 81-83
Durham, Bishop of, 390
E
Edward, VII., King, Americans presented to, 413-416; an appreciation
of, 429-430; quarrel with Lord R. Churchill, 333; at Dunrobin Castle,
347; his friends in France, 421; his share in creating the _Entente
Cordiale_, 419-420; conversation with Lord Hartington, 412; national
feeling towards, 421-422; his desire for news, 428-429; incidents of
visit to Paris, 420-422; causes of popularity of, 425-427; cause of
his late experience of public affairs, 416-418; presents me to Crown
Princess of Prussia, 404; public men's opinions of, 418-419; his
sense of social responsibility, 427-428; example set by, to foreign
royalty, 425; stories of, 414-416, 427; effect of inherited
traditions on, 424; visits of, to Homburg and Marienbad, 403, 410-416
Edwards, Jonathan, 2, 213
Ellis, C. M., counsel for Anthony Burns, 31, 32
Ely, Bishop of, 390.
Emerson, Ellen, 61, 65
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 64, 104; Matthew Arnold on, 51; in Boston,
71-72, 212; personal characteristics of, 54, 55; pride of Concord in,
60-61; in England, 62-71; his friends, 58-60, 65; Huxley on, 62;
beloved by London, 218; as an orator, 69-70; replaces Theodore
Parker, 69; from pulpit to platform, 52; his praise of Sumner, 1;
visits to, 53-60; on Daniel Webster, 5; works of, 52, 66-67, 216
Emerson, William, 51, 53
Emmons, Rev. Dr., pastor of church in Franklin, 1; personal
characteristics of, 2
Endicott, Mr., 4
Evarts, Mr., 363
Everett Mr., 1, 4; speech of, quoted by Phillips, 94
F
Fay, Richard S., attempt of, to crush anti-slavery agitation, 37, 85;
breaking up of Anti-Slavery Convention by, 92; Phillips's contempt
for, 93
Felix, Elizabeth Rachel, at Boston Theatre, 9; friendship with Lord
Glenesk, 342
Field, Cyrus, director of Anglo-American Telegraph Company, 166
Fish, Mr. Secretary, 205
Follen, Charles, part played by, in anti-slavery riots, 95, 111
Forbes, Archibald, 225, 241, 247; adventures of, in Russian and
Turkish lines, 247-249; journalistic exploits of, 246-250; interview
of, with Czar, 248-249; narrative of surrender of Metz wrongly
attributed to, 246
Forster, John, 129
Frederick, Emperor, 403, 405, 407-408
Frederick, Empress, Bismarck's distrust of, 407; at Homburg, 403-404;
presentation to, 404-408
Frémont, General, nomination of, by Republican party, 85; foreign
adventures on staff of, 133
G
Galliffet, Marquis de, King Edward's friendship with, 421
Gambetta, comparison of, with Governor Andrew, 106; friendship of
Prince of Wales with, 422
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1, 104; character and career of, 113-115; on
Constitution, 116; position of, in history, 118-120; _Liberator_
founded by, 113, 116-118; Phillips on certain impatiently expressed
opinion of, 114-116; risk of assassination incurred by, 39
Gay, Sydney Howard, connection of, with _Tribune_, 129-130, 162:
sends me back to the Army, 153; report to, 158-160
Gibson, Randall, character of, 18; parallel with Earl Spencer, 19
Gladstone, W. E., 119, 254, 256, 320; on Austrian rule, 200;
oratorical powers of, 45, 70; remark of, about Lord R. Churchill,
333; Lord R. Churchill's views of, 324
Glenesk, Lady, 338-340
Glenesk, Lord, 293-295; acquires _Morning Post_, 335-338; review of
"Lord Glenesk and the _Morning Post_," 341-342; the late Queen's
regard for, 342; friendship of Rachel and Sarah Bernhardt with, 342
Gourko, General, 247-248
Grant, President, nominates Dana as Minister to England, 48; recalls
Motley, 204-205; Sumner's warfare with, 126
Grant-Duff, Sir Mountstuart, Diary of, 380
Granville, Lord, 230
Gray, Horace, wonderful memory of, 80-81
Greeley, Horace, founds _New York Tribune_, 117; his management of
the _Tribune_, 130; remains at his post during the Draft Riots, 162;
Stedman's monody on, 14-15
Greenwood, Frederick, 226
Grey, Lord, in Canada, 282; presents portrait of Franklin to
Philadelphia, 289-290; speech at Waldorf Hotel, 288-289; reception at
White House, 290-291
Grey, Sir Charles, 289
Gull, Sir William, anecdote of, 359-360
H
Hadley, Professor, Hellenism of, 20-21
Halleck, General, 134
Ham, Deputy Chief of Police, 107, 112; dexterous handling of Boston
mob by, 96-97
Hammond, Lord, 230
Hancock, John, 4, 33
Hardwicke, Lord, 397-401
_Harper's Magazine_, my statements in, 226, 247
Harriman, Mr., 309, 310
Hartington, Marquis of, 412
Harvard University, 12-13, 23-28, 51, 213
Hay, John, Mr., Minister to England, 209-210; foreign policy of, when
Secretary of State, 209-210; Queen Victoria's high opinion of, 210;
United States Secretary of State during Alaskan Boundary dispute,
260, 267; talk with, on the Boundary question, 268-270; attended
medically by Sir W. Broadbent, 360-361; adroit diplomatic methods of,
361
Hayes, President, 363
Hayne, Senator, Webster's reply to, 8
Herschell, Lord, ultimatum of, 275, 276
Higginson, Colonel, 35, 216
Hill, Mr. Frank, editor of _Daily News_, 225, 233
Hindlip, Lord, hop-buying on a gigantic scale, 350-351; the beer at
Invermark, 351
Hinton, Mr. Phillips protected against Boston mob by, 95-96
Hoar, Rockwood, opposing counsel, 79-80; Emerson's friendship with, 60
Hoar, Senator, abilities and learning of, 3; read law with, 24, 29
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, a Bostonian, 1, 212; personal popularity of,
amongst Englishmen, 218; popularity of works of, in England, 216
Hooker, General, make acquaintance of, 145-146; carry order for, at
Antietam, 146; conversation with, after Antietam, 148-149; fights
battles of Chancellorsville, 155; comparison with McClellan, 141-142;
sobriquet of, 141-142; stories of, 157-158; wounded, 147; offers me
place on his staff, 156
Howe, Murray, attack of, upon Anti-Slavery Convention in Boston,
86-87, 92
Howells, Mr., leaves Boston for New York, 213; interpreter at times
between England and America, 214; story told of, 219; works of, 215
Hughes, Thomas, author of _Tom Brown's Schooldays_, 65; founder of
Working Men's College, 66
Huntington, Rev. Dr., Rector of Grace Church, N. Y., 3
Huxley, T. H., meeting of, with Emerson, 62-63; visit of, to Lady
Dalhousie, 400
I
Ireland, Alexander, biography of Emerson, 64
Ismay, Mr., meeting of, with Prince of Wales and Emperor William on
board Teutonic, 425
J
Jackson, Stonewall, death of, 155
James, Henry, bracketed with Mr. Howells, 219; popularity of, in
England, 219; works of, 216-217
Jenner, Sir William, place of in medical profession, 359
Jerome, Mr., Lord R. Churchill's difference with, 329-330
Jersey, Lady, 373
Jessel, Sir George, judicial greatness of, 308
Jeune, Mrs., _See_ St. Helier, Lady
Johnson, President, 126, 164
Jowett, Dr., epigrams of, 312
K
Kitchener, Lord, administrative capacity of, 296; "if he were a
Frenchman," 298; German opinion of, 292-293; Gordon College, 294-295;
personality of, 298; traits and incidents, 292-300
L
Lambton, Admiral Sir Hedworth, commands royal yacht, services abroad,
story told of, 347-349
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, Alaskan Boundary dispute, 260-282; criticism of
Lord Alverstone, 272-273; talks on American immigration into Canada,
278-279; personal characteristics, 261-264; statesmanlike views of,
274-275; a "Warden of Empire," 260
Lawrence, Amos, hostility of to anti-slavery agitation, 37, 92
Lawrence, William Beach, 48, 49
Le Barnes, Mr., protects Phillips against Boston mob, 95-96
Lee, General Robert, battles of Antietam and South Mountain, 138-143;
generalship of, at Chancellorsville, 155
Leinster, Duchess of, 326
Leopold, Prince, 230
Lewis, Charlton, studies at Yale, versatility of, 15
Lewis, Sir George, engaged in famous cases, 301-304; honours
conferred upon, 302; friendship with King Edward, 302; law reforms
advocated by, 307; principles of conduct, 304-307; Lord Russell of
Killowen's eulogy of, 301; social secrets entrusted to, 305-307
Lincoln, Governor, 3
Lincoln, Mayor, 99
Lincoln, President, 90, 126, 253; draft enforced by, 37, 161;
election of, followed by secession of Southern States, 107; esteem
of, for Grant, 158; Gettysburg speech of, 218
Lloyd-George, Mr., 380, 390
Lodge, Senator, English criticism of, 273
Loewe, Herr, opposition of, to Bismarck, 125, 179
London, Bishop of, 390
Longfellow, in Boston, 212; popularity of works of, in England,
216-218
Loring, Judge Edward Greeley, attempt of, to crush anti-slavery
agitation, 37; Anthony Burns tried by, 29-39, 42; charged with the
death of James Batchelder, 38
Lowe, Mr., 400
Lowell, Mr., attainments of, qualities of, as a Minister, 205-207; in
Boston, 1, 212; popularity personally and as an author, in England,
216-218
Lucas, Reginald, author of _Lord Glenesk, and The Morning Post_,
341-344
M
McClellan, General, generalship of, 138-143, 148, 149; indecision of,
149; his military reputation, 137; succeeded by Burnside, 155
Macdonald, Sir John, services to Canada, 264; compared with Diaz,
264; political corruption organized into a system by, 264-265
McDowell, General, impressions of, 133-134
McGahan, Mr., 241
McKinley, President, 260, 265, 267; talks with, on the Alaskan
Boundary question, 268-270; recalls Mr. Hay, 209
MacMahon, Marshal, 234
MacVeagh, Wayne, offices held by, 16; conversational power of, 16-17
Manning, Cardinal, speech to dock strikers, 327-328
Marlborough, Duchess of, 322
Marlborough, Duke of, 322
Meade, General, interview with, 159-160
Méjanel, M., correspondent for _Tribune_ in Franco-German War, 231;
news of Sedan brought to Tribune London office by, 243-245
Minto, Lady, 262; tact and felicity of, in performance of social
functions, 282
Minto, Lord, Governor-General of Canada, 260, 262; relations with Sir
W. Laurier, 281-282; organizes Canadian contingent for South African
War, 285-288; Viceroy of India, 284
Moltke, General von, return of, to Berlin, after Sadowa, 173-174
Moran, Mr., interview with, 196
Morgan, Pierpont, 309
Morley, Lord, on President Roosevelt, 343
_Morning Post, The_, acquired by Lord Glenesk, 335; control of, by
Countess Bathurst, 340; history of, 334-338; successfully conducted
by Oliver Borthwick, 340-341
Morris, Sir Henry, consultation with, 355-356; masterly skill of,
356; honour conferred upon, 357
Morris, Robert, 30
Motley, John Lothrop, Bismarck's friendship with, 201-202; qualities
and defects as a diplomat, 201; recall of, by President Grant,
204-205; at the Athenæum Club, during Civil War, 203; works of, 200
Müller, Gustav, writes account of surrender of Metz for _Tribune_,
246-247; story of disappearance of, 247
N
Napoleon III, Emperor, 230, 236
Newman, Cardinal, 118-119
_New York Tribune, The_, founded by Horace Greeley, 117; offices of,
attacked during Draft Riots, 161-162; introduction to, 129-130;
experiences as correspondent in the Civil War, 129-136; free
expression of unpopular views in, 353; the search for a general, a
fragment of unwritten history, 153-160; poems of Stedman published
in, 14-15: causes of success at beginning of Franco-German War, 168;
conversations with Bismarck reported in, 121-122, 182-183, 186; a
revolution in international journalism, 220-234; arrangement with
_Daily News_, 224-227; European news-bureau, 252; cabling important
news, 164-165, 167, 242, 245, 251; vexatious restrictions on cables,
165-167; ultimatum to Mr. Weaver, 167-169; account of surrender of
Metz first published by a correspondent of, 246-247; how Holt White's
story of Sedan reached, 235-242
Northcliffe, Lord, 229; creative genius of, 339
O
O'Brien, William, 256
_Observer, The_, 335
Ollivier, Emile, 230
Olney, Richard, part played by, during Venezuela crisis, 75-79
O'Rell, Max, 29
Otis, 4, 33
Oxford, Bishop of, 390
P
_Pall Mall Gazette, The_, contract of _Tribune's_ war correspondent
with, 226-227; part of White's story of Sedan published in, 241
Palmerston, Lady, 373
Palmerston, Lord, 195
Parker, Judge, revises General Statutes of Massachusetts, 26
Parker, Capt. John, 39
Parker, Theodore, discourse on death of Webster, 8; speech at
Abolitionist meeting at Faneuil Hall, 33-34; sermon on surrender of
Anthony Burns, 38-39; attainments and training of, 39-40; replaced
during illness by Emerson and Phillips, 69; quashing of indictment
of, 108; greatest force in American pulpit, 212
Parsons, Theophilus, colleague of Judge Parker, 26
Pattison, Rev. Mark, 310
Pauncefote, Lord, 210
Perkins, Mr., 331
Peyronnet, Mlle. de. _See_ Russell, Lady Arthur
Peyronnet, Vicomte de, 379
Phelps, Mrs., 207
Phelps, E. J., American Minister to England, English regard for, 49;
effect of enmity of Pat Collins on career of, 208
Phelps, W. W., friendship of Bismarck's family with, 184-185
Philip, Admiral, memorable saying of, at Santiago, 142
Phillips, Wendell, 1; leader of Anti-Slavery Party in Boston,
104-106, 113, 121; risks assassination, 39; defends Anthony Burns,
31; on "Broadcloth mob," 86; letter to, and interviews with, 87-91;
experiences with, during Boston riot, 96-103; on Butler's "Contraband
of War" phrase, 132; lampoons Dana, 108; rebukes impatiently
expressed opinion of Garrison, 115; oratorical power of, 213;
replaces Theodore Parker, 69; on religious influences, 11-12;
speeches of, 8, 91-93, 107, 110-112; arguments inducing him to
support the war, 108-112; on George Washington, 7
Pierce, Franklin, 84
Plimsoll, S., 203-204
Poe, Edgar Allan, 216
Poole, Mr. Reginald, 303
Pope, General, demoralization of army of, 137; conversation with,
134; personal characteristics of, 134; qualities as a leader,
134-135; a surprise when reconnoitring, 135-136
Porter, Professor, character and influence of, 20-23
Potter, Bishop, 392
R
Rachel. _See_ Felix, Elizabeth Rachel
Ralli, Mr., 293
Reay, Lord, 380
Redpath, Mr., 95-96
Reid, Whitelaw, 217, 309
Remond, Charles Lenox, 7
Renan, M., lectures of, in London, meetings with, 386-387
Robinson, Sir John, reluctance of, to exchange news with _Tribune_,
225-226; Mr. White's account of Spicheren, 232-233; gives me first
news of French catastrophe at Sedan, 236; does not explain his
indebtedness to _Tribune_ for account of surrender of Metz, 246
Rochefoucauld-Bisaccia, Duc de la, entertains Prince of Wales, 421
Rodgers, Captain Raymond, 132
Rodin, M., 421
Roon, General von, 173-174, 179-180
Roosevelt, President, 265; friendship of Lady St. Helier with, 376;
reception at White House of Oliver Borthwick, 343-344; of Lord Grey,
289-291; Lord Morley's remark on, 343
Rosebery, Lord, remark of Lord R. Churchill to, 332; intimacy of,
with King Edward, 418; his opinion of oratory of E. J. Phelps, 208
Rothschild, Lord, 332
Roundell, Charles, 380
Russell, Lady Arthur, French origin of, 379; her _salon_, 384;
distinguished people at receptions of, 386-388
Russell, Lord Arthur, 379-385
Russell, Hastings. _See_ Bedford, Duke of
Russell, Lord John, 195
Russell, Lord Odo. _See_ Ampthill, Lord
Russell, W. H., 134, 241; exposes mismanagement of War Office, 227
Rutson, Albert, 380
S
St. Helier, Lady, anecdotes of, 375-376; at Arlington Manor, 377-378;
friendship of Theodore Roosevelt with, 376; distinction of, as a
hostess, 371-373; influence of on Society, 372-378
St. Helier, Lord, 364-365; friendship of Lord Beaconsfield with, 368;
on King Edward, 418; President of Divorce Court, 369
Salisbury, Bishop of, 390
Salisbury, Marquis of, on King Edward, 418; part played by, during
Venezuela crisis, 77
Sanborne, Frank, 86
Schenck, General, 48
Scudamore, Mr., 168-169
Sedgwick, General, battles fought by, 149-150, 157, 159; character
of, 149-150
Seward, Mr., 195
Shadrach Case, effect of, on opinion in Massachusetts, 30, 36
Shaw, Chief Justice, at trial of Anthony Burns, 31, 47; head of
judiciary of his state, 212
Sherman, General W. T., 132
Shiras, Mr. Justice, 15
Sims Case, effect of, on opinion in Massachusetts, 30, 36
Smalley, Rev. Mr., colleague of Dr. Emmons, 2; passes to First
Presbyterian Church at Troy, 2; death of, 2; liberalism of, 12
Smith, George, owner of _Pall Mall Gazette_, 226
Smith, Goldwin, 263
Smith, Dr. William, 64
Smith-Barry, Mr., plan of campaign, visit to, police protection,
257-259
Spencer, Earl, character of, compared with Randall Gibson, 19
Spencer, Herbert, 120, 380
Stanley, Dean, on J. L. Motley, 204
Stanley, Mrs. _See_ St. Helier, Lady
Stanton, E. M., 134, 138
Steadman, Commodore, 131
Stedman, poet and critic, writes _John Brown of Osawatomie_ and
_Monody_ on death of Horace Greeley, 14
Steevens, G. W., 241
Stephen, Mr. Justice, 375
Sumner, Charles, one of the leaders of the Anti-Slavery Party, 121;
assaulted by Preston Brooks, 84; effect of the assault, 126-127;
conversations with, 121-122, 126-128; Emerson's eulogy on, 1; high
ideals of, 128; journey to Paris, 127-128; Motley recalled because of
his relations with, 205; characteristic speech of, 122-123 cause of
unpopularity in England, 125
_Sun, The_, annexation of Canada preached by, 278-279
Sutherland, Duke of, 347
Suttle, Colonel, Anthony Burns surrendered to, 29, 36
T
Taft, President, what he accomplished as Civil Governor of the
Philippines, 296-297
Taylor, Zachary, political relations of Daniel Webster with, 4, 5
Thacher, Professor, influence of in Yale University, 20
Thomas, Judge, anecdote of, 74-75; takes Richard Olney into his
office, 75-79
Thoreau, friendship of Emerson with, 59
_Times, The_, appeals to a special class, 335; George Brodrick,
leader writer for, 382-383; Lord R. Churchill gives first news of his
resignation to, 327; a free hand in treating Cleveland's message of
war in 1895, 353; Dr. Russell exposes blunders of War Office in, 227
Tocqueville, author of _De la Démocratie en Amérique_, 66
Trevelyan, Sir George, meetings with, 254-256
Turner, Senator, 273
Twain, Mark, presented to Prince of Wales--impressions made by, 364-5
V
Victoria, Princess, 393
Victoria, Queen, life in the Highlands--etiquette at Balmoral,
345-346; resemblance to Empress Frederick--indifference to dress,
404-405; national feeling towards, 423; visits Invercauld House, 346;
relations with Prince of Wales, 416-418
W
Waldeck-Rousseau, M., relations of, with Prince of Wales, 422
Ware, Fabian, editor of _Morning Post_, 340
Washburn, Governor, 3
Weaver, Mr., manager of Anglo-American Telegraph Company, 165-166;
uncertain transmission of cabled news under régime of, 237, 239-240;
ultimatum to, 167-169
Webster, Daniel, leader of the American Bar, 27; Emerson on, 5;
effect of his support of Fugitive Slave Act, 7; comparison with
Gladstone, 6; influence of, 213; his eulogy of Massachusetts, 1, 2;
his masterpieces as an advocate and orator, 8, 9; Wendell Phillips on
pro-slavery views of, 8; personal magnetism of, 9, 10; his political
support of Taylor, 4, 5; "room at the top," 367
Welles, Mr., 131
West, Mrs. George Cornwallis. _See_ Churchill, Lady Randolph
White, Andrew, public offices held by, 16
White, Holt, correspondent of _Tribune_, 231-234; brings story of
Sedan to _Tribune_ London office, 236-242; his story of Spicheren,
232-234
Whiteside, Solicitor-General, 46
Whitman, Sidney, 185
Whitman, Walt, 216,218
Wightman, Mayor of Boston, action of, during Boston riot, 99-102;
incompetency of, 103
William II, Emperor, visits S.S. _Teutonic_, 424-425
Wilson, General, conversation with, 147-148
Wilson, Henry, effect of his election as Governor of Massachusetts, 84
Winthrop, connection, of with Boston, 4
Wolff, Sir H. D., intimacy of Lord R. Churchill with, 326
Wolseley, Rev. Dr., President of Yale University, 13
Y
Yale University, distinguished alumni of, 13-19; rigid discipline at,
24; eminent professors in, 20-28; sectional antagonism in, 25-26;
theological atmosphere of, 13
Young, John Russell, succeeds Gay as managing editor of _Tribune_,
163; adopts suggestion to establish _Tribune_ office in London,
220-221
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