DIAZ
Does the hand lose its cunning? I had practically given up all forms of
rapid journalism, when, on November 24th, 1910, I was suffering from a
cold (which had, by the way, prevented my seeing my own tableaux got up
for a charity at the Court Theatre). The telephone buzzed and fumed.
“Will you speak to the editor of the _Daily Mail_, please, ma’am,
at once?” asked the parlourmaid. Down I went to the ’phone in my
dressing-gown.
“There is a report that Diaz is assassinated.”
“Don’t believe it,” I replied.
“But the telegram is lying before me,” he continued.
“Sorry, but I don’t believe it. I know Diaz. I know his home, and I
know the Mexican people.”
“Would I write fourteen hundred words at once?”
After some persuasion I promised to write something for the next day’s
publication, although stoutly refusing to write an obituary. It so
chanced my secretary was not at hand, so without looking up anything,
I wrote those fourteen hundred words by hand in fifty minutes. The
boy came up from the _Daily Mail_ office to fetch it an hour after my
conversation with the editor, and bore it off, to be telegraphed to
Paris and Manchester.
Then I had some Cambridge friends to luncheon, followed by my “At Home”
day. That night I dined at the “Criterion,” a Society of Authors’
Dinner, went on to a reception, given by the Chairman of the County
Council, Mr. Whitaker Thompson, at the Hotel Cecil, and then to bed.
Of course the cold was worse, but inhaling creosote (of all sweet
scents!) soon improved it again; and I slept peacefully until early tea
began another strenuous day, and brought the following column of type
to my bedside.
Here it is, just as it was scribbled:
PORFIRIO DIAZ.
THE MAN WHO MADE MEXICO.
_By MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE, Author of “Seven Times President of Mexico.”_
That General Diaz was the greatest man the nineteenth century
produced is a bold assertion—and yet I have no hesitation in making
it. The statement is especially bold of a century that recognised
so many great men. But then Diaz rose from humble origin, and
became a dictator, a very Czar and Pope in one, and not only did he
attain such a position, but he has kept it. For over thirty years
he has governed the country he once roamed as a shoeless boy, and
now, as he announced yesterday in a special cable to the _Daily
Mail_, he has suppressed yet another revolt and has established his
rule yet more firmly.
Diaz is a democratic ruler. Without a middle class a successful
democracy is impossible, and Diaz, alive to all such facts, set
himself the task, during the last ten or fifteen years, of building
up a middle class in Mexico. Diaz remains as firm a believer in a
democracy as ever, although his own Republic has practically become
an autocracy. He believes in an Opposition Party; but it is only
now an Opposition Party has actually risen against him. During long
and interesting visits to Mexico I was unceasingly impressed by
the love of the people for their ruler. They revered and esteemed
him as a man, they admired and appreciated his capacity to govern,
and even his political enemies threw party feelings aside and
realised that in him they had an ideal ruler. The Conservatives—who
naturally ought to have opposed him—were tranquilly content to let
the man who had held the helm for over thirty years continue to
steer their bark.
A YOUTHFUL VETERAN
Old in years, Diaz has ever been young in spirit. Those nostrils quiver
and dilate as he speaks, those deep-set eyes seem to penetrate his
listener’s soul. In personality this short, thick-set Mexican appears a
giant of physical strength, while his broad brows denote the thinker.
He is a youthful veteran.
Two months ago (Sept., 1910) this great President assisted at two
celebrations. He stood on the balcony of the Municipal Palace and
rang the bell that clanged forth the centenary of the Independence of
Mexico. Only two months ago he kept his eightieth birthday. Last night
I had the pleasure of sitting next Lord Strathcona, one of the most
remarkable men of his age, and some ten years older than General Diaz;
but then those ten years count for nought in a hardy Scotsman when
pitted against a man of Southern climes. Longevity is an asset of the
North. Diaz is of the South, and that he should still be strong and
vigorous and able to pull the ropes of public affairs after fourscore
years is a remarkable achievement for any man, and the more remarkable
for a man with Indian blood in his veins. Not only that, but one must
remember Diaz had an extraordinarily hard life until a few years ago.
His father was a little innkeeper in a little town in Southern Mexico.
He died of cholera when the boy was only three years old. There were
five other children. The mother’s daily struggle to provide food and
clothing for them was great. Diaz went to the village school. At
fourteen he joined the Roman Catholic seminary with the intention of
entering the Church. It was his mother’s dearest wish. Education in
those early days was free in Mexico where even military students pay no
fees to-day, and education is on a high standard generally.
A LIFE OF ADVENTURE
Then the boy earned a small sum by teaching, which he spent in
acquiring Latin grammar, logic, and philosophy. He found the tenets
of the Church unacceptable. Mexico was at that time seething with
revolution. Troops were continually passing through Oaxaca. The youth
used to slip off in the evening to join the camp fires and listen to
tales of valour and strife that made the blood tingle in his veins.
The call of the bugle fired his soul. One has only to look at the man
to see he was a born soldier beneath the guise of the politician of
to-day. His life is one long story of romance and adventure, of serious
difficulties ably overcome.
In the course of fifty-five years there had been sixty-eight dictators,
presidents, and rulers in Mexico. This all ended in 1876, when General
Diaz, then but a rough soldier, rode up to the City of Mexico at the
head of the revolutionary army and declared himself President.
With the exception of four years he has reigned ever since. He fought
hand to hand for Mexico and liberty. He saw the overthrow of the
Church. He lived to see his beloved country rise from the lowest to
one of the highest rungs of the world’s ladder. It is impossible here
even to hint at the narrow escapes from death he had as a soldier, to
mention the strange and sad story of the Emperor Maxmilian and his
misguided and beautiful wife Carlotta. It is not possible to dwell on
the courtly manners and charming grace of the elder Diaz as compared
with the rough soldier of sixty years ago. One cannot even mention his
ideally happy home life, his love of sport, or his interest in science
and the great questions of this great world. Diaz can only be summed up
here as a man of many parts and many interests.
AN ERA OF PROSPERITY
What have been the results of General Diaz’s long administrations? That
terrible poverty which sapped the life’s blood from the country during
three-fourths of last century has turned to affluence. Peace is the
outcome of revolution. The country, jibed and jeered at abroad, now
holds a position among the leading nations. Lawlessness has given place
to wise jurisdiction. The Mexicans are better governed, they can afford
to pay the taxes imposed for the benefits they receive, and are yet
more wealthy. Instead of money pouring out to repay old debts, foreign
capital is pouring into the country, so secure has Mexican credit
become in the world’s markets.
More important than all, Diaz has taught the Mexicans the benefit of
lasting peace, has set before them an ideal of honest public life which
will survive him as a great monument to a great man. Diaz made modern
Mexico. Roughly dividing his life into three parts, hunger and struggle
were dominant in the earlier years. During the next span he was helping
to make history in one of the wildest and most beautiful countries of
God’s earth. The latter part of his strenuous life he has devoted to
a desk and diplomacy, has thrown aside the soldier’s cloak for the
frock-coat and tall hat of civilisation.
For thirty years President Diaz has been teaching men to govern. He
has made many men. He has modelled a nation. Diaz has always been a
patriot, whether old or young. He has established thirty years of
peace, and made a Presidency famous for its political rule. Not only
do Mexicans love him, but Europeans who have filled their purses with
Mexican gold must honour and respect so remarkable a man. It will be
an evil day when anything happens to General Diaz; but his work will
live. The nation he has moulded and made is too well impressed with the
benefits received to wander from the path of good government or throw
aside his able laws for long. Mexico is no longer a country in the
making. Mexico is made, and it was Porfirio Diaz who made it.
Apropos of the book itself, the late Major Martin Hume wrote some
months before, in a review on the work of some other author:
“Any book that truly and attractively sets forth the life-story
of such a man as Diaz should be worth reading. Mrs. Alec Tweedie,
a few years ago, produced in England an excellent biography and
appreciation of the President, and the book now before us will
certainly not displace it as the standard work in English on the
subject.”
President Diaz himself selected it as his authentic biography.
The following letter from my publisher is, perhaps, therefore, of
interest:
“CRANES PARK, SURBITON,
“_Feb. 25, ’09_.
“DEAR MRS. TWEEDIE,
“I am very glad to hear that the President of Mexico appreciates
your _Life_ of him so highly that he wishes the book brought up
to date, and that it should be translated into Spanish for sale
in Mexico. I remember the day I took the book for the first time
round the trade. No one seemed to take the slightest interest in
_Porfirio Diaz_, in fact, very few seemed to know that he existed,
and it was only when I mentioned the fact that you were the author,
and that the matter for the _Life_ had been supplied to you by the
President himself, and that they would be bound to use copies, as
they all know you have a public of your own, they gave me orders.
“I was surprised myself at the interest the book created, as repeat
orders from both booksellers and libraries commenced almost at
once, and continued to come in.
“I had always an idea that the book had something to do with the
tardy recognition of the President by the English Government.
“Yours very truly,
“HERBERT BLACKETT.”
Diaz was hurled from power in his eighty-first year. It is one of the
saddest episodes in the history of great rulers, and at the same time
one of the most important in the history of a country. His remaining
in office for an eighth term was a fatal mistake, and shrouded in
gloom the close of a career of unexampled brilliancy, both in war and
statesmanship.
Diaz left Mexico in May, 1911, and for fifteen months after that
country did not know one moment’s peace.
His life was verily a moving spectacle of romance.
* * * * *
And so here end snatches of remembrance of thirteen busy years.
No—not quite—see next page.
EPILOGUE
QUITE WELL AGAIN
Just been elected to the Council of the Eugenic Society, and the only
woman to sit on the Council of the Cremation Society of England.
And so ring down the curtain on the “Bakers’ Dozen,” and the
booksellers’ and authors’ thirteen. So ends my tale—no “Spy’s” tail.
AU REVOIR!
P.S.—No woman ever wrote a letter—tradition says—without a P.S.
Above everything I am a woman, so let me hasten to add my P.S.
These pages have been corrected for press during fourteen days of
great strain.
Thousands of invitations were sent from my door between reading
the “galleys.” Thousands of letters and questions were answered
during the correction of the “page proof,” which turned up while
I was acting as Hospitality Honorary Secretary for the FIRST
INTERNATIONAL EUGENICS CONGRESS, held in London, July, 1912.
For the Inaugural Banquet I sent out to all parts of the world
about a thousand invitations, nearly five hundred of which were
accepted. Major Leonard Darwin, son of the great Darwin and nephew
of Sir Francis Galton, presided at the dinner, and Mr. Arthur J.
Balfour and the Lord Mayor (Sir Thomas Crosby) spoke. A Reception,
at which all members attending the Congress were present, followed.
Amongst those who came forward and helped me, by giving delightful
entertainments and each receiving five or six hundred guests in
their beautiful homes, were H. E. the American Ambassador, the
Duchess of Marlborough, the Lord Mayor (the first medical man to
fill that post), Mr. Robert Mond, and Major Darwin.
My part of the festivities ended by my taking a hundred of our
foreign and colonial visitors to tea on the Terrace of the House of
Commons, thanks to the generosity of ten Members of Parliament. The
Speaker kindly lent his gallery, and allowed his Private Secretary
to find seats for the whole number.
All this was most enjoyable, but it was not good for careful
proof-reading.
[Illustration: HERE ENDS THE TALE. SKETCH IN “SPY,” 1912]
INDEX
A
Aberconway, Lord (John Brown & Co.), 19
Aberdeen, Earl of, 116, 241
— Countess of, 116
Africa, 194
Agnew, Sir William, 120
Alarcon, Colonel, 130
Albemarle, The, 213
Alexander, Mrs. (see Hector), 92
— Miss, 92
Algiers, 111
Allen, Grant, 111
Allingham, Mr., 276
America, 18, 100, 123, 125, 206, 292
Anderson, Miss A. M., M.A., 294, 295
— Mr. Percy, 47, 155
Andrews, St., 58
Angelo, Michael, 164
Antrim, Countess of, 287
Argentina, 231
“Arms and the Man,” 260
Arnold, Matthew, 19
Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 176
Ascot (Prologue, 5), 58, 253
_Assaye_, P. & O. steamer, 183
Atherton, Gertrude, 239
Aurelius, Marcus, 271
Austin, L. F., 69
Australia, 145
Avon, The, 206
Ayrton, Mrs. Hertha, 294
Aztec ruins, 125
B
_Bab Ballads_, 148
Balaclava, 40
Balfour, A. J. (Prime Minister), 87, 229
— Lady Frances, 216
Barlee, Miss Ellen, 42, 43
Barrett, John, 230, 233
Barry, J. M., 87
Bate, Percy, 158
Bateson, Mary, 236, 295
— Tom, 236
Battersea Park, 276
Bavaria, 28
Beale, Dorothea, 78
Bedford, Mr. Herbert, 153
Beecham, Sir Thomas, Mus. Doc., 297
Beerbohm, Max, 270
_Behind the Footlights_, 108, 205, 233
Belgium, 281
Bell, Mr. Moberly, 268
— Miss G., 295
Benson, 200, 203
Berkshire, 150
Berlin, 15, 113, 155, 257
Bertie, Sir Francis, 252
Besant, Sir Walter, 80
Biarritz, 114
Birmingham, George, 259, 277
Bismarck, 15, 16, 17, 18
Björnson, 51, 55
“— Björnstjerne,” 134
Blackett, Herbert, 354
Blackie, Professor, 44
Blake, Dr. Jex, 78
Bompas, Mr., 274
Bond, Sir Thomas, 20
Bonne, 114
Booth, General, 161
Bordon, 255
Borkum, 47
Boston, U.S., 206
Bothnia, Gulf of, 66
Boughton, George, 168
Bourchier, Arthur, 280
Boyce, Sir Rubert, 157
Braddon, Miss, 30, 289 (Mrs. Maxwell)
Braille, 114
Brampton, Bryan, 12
Brandes, Georg, 52
Breitmann, Hans, 31
Bret Harte, 30, 242
Brewster, Sir David, 19
_Broken Hearts_, 151
Bruges, 167
Bryant, Mrs. Sophie, D.SC., 294
— Miss Margaret, 295
Buccleuch, Duchess of, 287
Buckingham Palace, 97, 101, 224
Buckinghamshire, 150, 264
Buckland, Frank, 32, 274
Burmah, 150
Burne-Jones, 120
Burns, 74
Buszard, 40
Butt, Clara, 216
Byron, 74
C
Cacahuimilpa, Caves of, 127-9
Caird, Mr. Patrick, 181. See Cunard
Cairo, 150
Calthrop, Dr., 347
Cambridge, 111, 193, 199, 272, 296
Camden Society, 12
Campden Hill, 168
Canada, 117, 123, 194, 246, 255
Carlton, The, 280
Carlyle, 111.
See _Sartor Resartus_, 170, 276
Carnegie, 231
Castle, Edinburgh, 39
Catania, 263
Cellini, Benvenuto, 166
Chaillu, Paul du, 273
Charles V, 157
Charterhouse, 103, 247
Chelsea, 276
Chesterton (_Illustrated London News_), 69
Chicago, 125, 153, 208, 232
China, 190, 193, 230
Chisholm, Hugh. See _St. James’s Gazette_, 105, 294, 295
Choate, Mr., 230
Christian Scientists, 237
Christiania, 49, 153
Christison, Sir Alexander, 39
— Sir Robert, 40
_Chronicle, The Daily_, 74, 102
Clarence Memorial, The, 166
Clarke, Sir Edward, K.C., 312
— Sir Andrew, 21
— Miss Agnes (the late), 295
Clifford, Mrs. W. K., 294
Clodd, Mr. Edward, 152
Clyde, The, 180
College, Queen’s, Harley Street, 27, 264
— Bedford, 294
— Girton, 294
— Newnham, 294
— Somerville, 294
Colombia, 231
_Comedy and Tragedy_, 151
Congo River, 268
Connaught, Duke of, 100
— Duchess of, 100
Constable, 120
Copenhagen, 55
Corelli, Marie, 205, 207, 304
_Coriolanus_, 203
Corney Grain, 58
Coronet Theatre, 203
Courtney, W. L., 104, 105.
See _Fortnightly_
Crane, Walter, 174
Cremation Society of England, 356
Critchett, Sir Anderson, 44, 122
Cromer, Lord, 229
Crookes, Sir William, 270, 272, 274
Crozier, Dr. Beattie, 248
Cuba, 230
Cunard Company (see Caird), 183, 291
Cushmann, Charlotte (American tragedienne), 18, 19
D
_Daisy Chain, The_, 154
Dalhousie, Earl of, 241
_Daniel Druce_, 151
_Danish versus English Butter-making_, 108
Dante Society, The, 264
Darwin, Charles, 33
Davenport, Mr. Cyril, of the B.M., 147
Davies, Miss Emily, 294
Davis, Mr. William, 233
Delbruck, Professor Hans von, 28
Demos, 57
Denison, Colonel George, 247
Denmark, 50
Devonshire, Duke of, 165, 286
— Duchess of (see Manchester), 205
Diaz, Madame, 125, 131
— (President), General Porfirio, 125, 131, 224, 233, 291, 350
_Diaz, Porfirio, Seven Times President of Mexico_, 109, 114
Dickens, Charles, 18, 19, 178
Dimsdale, Sir Joseph, 227
Disraeli, 20
_Dot, Mrs._, 281
Drummond, Mr., 242
Drury Lane Theatre, 214
Dowie, John Alexander, the Prophet, 236
Dublin, 260
Dunsany, Lord, 257
Dürer, Albrecht, 166
E
Earl’s Court Exhibition, 135, 174
Edinburgh, 40, 44, 158, 170
Egypt, 150
Eliot, George, 19, 114
Ely, Bishop of, 213
Emerson, 31
Emmott, Lord, 218
_Encyclopædia Britannica_, 293, 297
_Engaged_, 151
England, 18
_English Review._ See Harrison, 105
_Epic of Hades_, 259.
See Lewis Morris
Erichsen, John (Uncle John), later Sir John, 11, 71, 141
Eton, 247
Eugenic Society, 356
F
Faraday, 19
Farquharson, Dr., 288, 290
— Joseph, R.A., 188
Faucit, Helen, 19
Fawcett, M. G., 216
— Mrs., 294, 296
Fenwick, Mrs. Bedford, 294
Fergusson, William, 19
Fielding, 209, 251
— Hon. W. S., 250
Fildes, Sir Luke, 161
First Aid Yeomanry Corps, 251
_First College for Women, The_, 108
Finland, 21, 28, 65-7
Fisher, Miss (the late), 295
Foreign Office, The, 161, 283
_Forget-me-not_ (play), 203
_Fortnightly_ (see Courtney), 105
France, 40, 121
_Frederick, Lady_, 281
Furness, Dr. Horace Howard, 239, 334
Furniss, Harry, 117, 152, 178, 270, 302
G
Gainsborough, 120
Gallery, Grafton, 158
— Grosvenor, 42, 177
— Modern (Venice), 158
— National (Brussels), 158,
and Berlin, 158
— New, 158
Galton, Sir Francis, 33, 34
Garvin, J. L. (see _Pall Mall_), 105
Germany, 28, 40, 114
Gibson, Dana, 239
Gilbert, Alfred, 165, 167, 178
— Sir W. S., 88, 148-50, 152, 260
Ginsburg, Dr., 313
_Girl’s Ride in Iceland, A_, 108, 133
Giuliano, Marquis de San, 154
“Gladstone Dock,” 19
— Mr., 19-21
— Mrs., 19
Glasgow, 158, 180
Glencoe, 249
Godwin, Mrs. (Mme. Whistler), 173
Goodbody, Dr. Francis, 20
— Mrs. W. F., 347
Goodwood, 58
Gosse, Mr. Edmund, 152
— Lord, 297
Gossenass, 52
Graham, 19
— Cunninghame, Mr., 156, 157, 259
Grant, 67
— Sir Arthur, of Monymusk, 41
Gray (_Elegy_), 29
Green, Sir Frederick (see Orient), 183
Greenock, 180
Grey, Sir Edward, 229, 284
Grossmith, George, 58
— Weedon, 69, 152, 270
Grub Street, 101
Guerbel, Count de, 201
— Countess, 201
Guildhall, 228
H
_Habitant_, The, 242.
See Drummond
Haddon, 184
Halifax, 250
_Halifax Chronicle_, 250
Halouan, 150
Hampton, Herbert, 161, 162, 283, 299, 343
Hangö, 66
Hannay, Rev. James, 259
_Harley, George, or the Life of a London Physician_, 108
Harley, Sir Robert, Knight of the Bath, 12
— Lady Brilliana, 12 (see note), 13, 42, 50
— Street, 11, 15, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 30, 40, 59, 264
Harmsworth, Mr. See Lord Northcliffe, 134
Harnack, Dr. Adolph, 28
Harris, W. B., 157
Harrison, Austin (see _English Review_), 105
— Frederic, 131, 318
Harrow, 103, 150, 247
Hart, Sir Robert, 189
Harvard House, 206
— John, 206
— Robert, 206
Haselden, W. K., 270
Hawkins, Anthony Hope, 88
Hay, John, 229
Hayes, Catherine, 19
Heaton, Sir Henniker, 249
Hekla, 38
Hector, Mrs. (see Alexander), 92
_Hedda Gabler_ (play), 93
Heinemann, Mr., 171
Hellqvist, Carl Gustav (Swedish artist), 28
Helsingfors, 66
_His Excellency the Governor_, 152
Hennessy, Mrs., 295
H.M. Theatre, 155
Hobbes, John Oliver (Mrs. Craigie), 83, 145
Hogarth, Miss Janet (now Mrs. W. L. Courtney), 295
Holl, Frank, 82
Holland, Sir Henry, 19
—, 281
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 31
Holroyd, Sir Charles, 264
_Home_ (magazine), 68
Hook, Theodore, 19
Hooper, Dr., 297
Hornung, E. W., 88
Hospital, St. Thomas’s, 289
House of Lords, 215
Hudson Bay Company, 249
Huggins, Lady, 295
Humbert, Mlle., Editor of _L’Éclair_, 119
Hume, Major Martin, 108, 305
Hurlingham (Prologue, 5), 59
Hurst Park, 59
Hyde Park, 29, 107, 267
_Hyde Park, Its History and Romance_, 109
I
Ibsen, 51, 93, 176, 236, 249, 260
“Ibsen, Henrik,” 134
Iceland, 37, 38, 43, 194
_Ida, Princess_, 151
Illinois Theatre, 233
Inchcape, Lord (see Mackay), 279
India, 133, 150
_Inferno_, 264.
See Dante Society
_Intellectual Development_ (see Crozier), 248
_Iolanthe_, 149, 151
Irving, Sir H., 149, 161
— Ethel, 281
Italy, 40, 202, 263
J
Jackson, General, 40
Jameson, Dr., 265
Japan, 230, 255
_John Glayde’s Honour_ (play), 112
Judas (Prologue, 6)
K
Kekewich, Mr. Justice, 314
Kelvin, Lord, 161
Kemble, Mrs., 19
Kendal, Mrs., 189, 204
Killowen, Lord Russell of, 314
Kiel, 49
Kimberley (Relief of), 117
King Edward VII, 98, 121, 161, 227, 248, 254
— George V, 167, 284
Kingston, Miss Gertrude, 152
Kinloch, Sir John, 58
Kingsley, Charles, 273
— Miss Mary, 272, 273
— Dr. Henry, 273
Kipling, 242
Knowles, James Sheridan, 18
“Koh-i-noor” (diamond), 99
Königin Augusta Garde, The, 257
Korsör, 49
L
Labouchere, 173
Lady of Guadaloupe (Patron Saint of Mexico), 125
Ladysmith (Relief of), 117
Lankester, Sir E. Ray, 274
Lapland, 70, 194
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, 250, 252
Lavery, John, 155, 156, 158, 270
Legation, 195
Lehmann, Liza, 153
Leighton, Sir Frederick, P.R.A., 145
Leith, 37
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 30, 31, 32
Lemieux, Hon. Rodolphe, K.C., 254
Le Moine, Sir James, 241
Lemmens-Sherrington, 58
Lemon, Mark, 19
Leslie, General K. H., 40
Lesseps, 233
Lewis, Thomas Taylor, M.A., 12 (see note)
Leyland, Mr., 169
Leys, 51
Lichtenfelde, 113
Li Ching Fong, Lord (Chinese Minister), 188
Liebig, Baron Justus von, 18, 28
Li Hung Chang, 189
Lindsay, Sir Coutts, 156
— Violet, 177
Linton, Lynn, Mrs., 89
Liverpool, 18, 19, 125
_Liverpool Post_, 72
Lloyd George, 253
London, 150, 154, 202
Londonderry, Marquis of, 286
Lorimer, John, A.R.A., 147
— J. H., 340
Lourdes, 125, 135
Lover, Samuel, 18, 19
Low, Sydney, 31
Lowe, Miss, 44
Lowell, J. R., 31
Lucy (now Sir Henry), 289
Lugard, Lady, 295
_Lusitania_, The, 183
Luxembourg, The Paris, 158
M
Macbeth, Lady, 200
Macdonald, Sir W., 247
— College, The, 247
Mackay, Sir James (see Lord Inchcape), 279
Mackennall, Bertram, 167
MacWhirter, John, 345
Madrid, 157
_Mail, The Daily_, 102
_Man and Superman_, 258
Manchester, 177-202
— Duchess of (see Devonshire), 205
Mann, Adolph, 33
Mansion House, 118, 264
_Maple Leaves_, 241
Marconi, 270
Marshall, Captain Robert, 152
_Master Builder_, The, 176
Maud, Mr. Cyril, 153
Maugham, Mr. S., 280
Maurier, George du, 82
Maxim, Sir Hiram, 33, 270
Maxse, L. J. (see _National Review_), 105
Maxwell, Mrs. (see Braddon), 289
May, Phil, 167
McCarthy, J. H., 88
Mendelssohn, 297
Mexico, 15, 38, 123, 125, 194, 291
_Mexico as I Saw It_, 108, 131, 256
Meynell, Mrs. Wilfrid, 294
Milan, 202
Millais, Lady, 188
Miller, Mr. W. C., 51
Milton Centenary, The, 264 (_Paradise Lost_, 265)
_Model Mothers_, 134
Mohammed, 146
Montaigne, 76
Montreal, 242, 247, 249, 253
Moore, Mary, 281
Moriarty, 261
Morley, Lord, 279
Morocco, 38, 159
Morris, Mr. Edward, 208
— Clara, 233
— Sir Lewis, 258
Mountains, Thüringian, 114
Mühlberg, Dr. von (German Ambassador), 15
Munich, 155, 158
Murchison, 40
Murray, Mrs., 184, 289
— Willie, 185
_Murray’s Magazine_, 103
Museum, British, 15, 134, 155, 179
— South Kensington, 156
Muspratt, James, of Seaforth Hall, 18, 19
— Emma (daughter), 19
Mussoorie (N.W. India), 133
Muttlebury, Colonel, C.B., K.W., 40
_My Inner Life_, 248.
See Crozier
N
Nansen (Prologue, 6), 50, 54
_Nansen at Home_, 134
Napoleon, 67
_National Review_ (see Maxse), 105
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 216
Newton, Sir Alfred, Lord Mayor of London, 118
New Vagabond Club, 256
New York, 125, 202, 232, 291
Niagara, 125
Nice, Consulate at, 201
Nordeau, Max, 223
Norfolk, Duke of, 284
Northcliffe, Lord (see Harmsworth), 134
Norway, 49
— Queen of, 56
Nova Scotia, 250
O
_Oberammergau Passion Play, The_, 108
_Observer_, The, 102
O’Neil, Mrs., 295
Orchardson, Sir William Q., 147, 334
Orient Line, 183.
See Green
Orpen, William, 270
Osborne, 130
Ottawa, 246
Oudin, Eugène, 58
P
_Palace of Truth, The_, 151
_Pall Mall Gazette_ (see Straight), 73, 95, 105, 150, 285
Panama, 231, 233
Panes, Miss, 295
Pankhurst, Miss Christabel, 216
_Paradise Lost._ See Milton, 265
_Paradise Regained_ “ “
Paris, 49, 58, 102, 153, 171, 202
Parker, Sir Gilbert, 248, 256, 289
Parkin, Dr., 247
Partridge, Mr. Bernard, 152
Pasteur, 49, 102
“Peacock Room,” 169
Pennell, Mrs. E. K., 30
Pennsylvania, 31
Petersburg, St., 66, 201
Petersen, Ilef, 51
Philadelphia, 125, 158
Philippines, The, 230
Phillips, Mrs. Alison, 295
— J. S. R. (see _Yorkshire Post_), 105
Philpotts, Miss B., 295
Physicians, Royal College of, 21
_Pinafore, H.M.S._ (play), 148
Pinakothek, The (Munich), 158
Pinero, Sir A. W., 152, 270
Pittsburg, 158
Plains of Abraham, 253
Polar Expedition (Prologue, 6)
Pond, Major, 214
Portland, Duke of, 286
_Preussische Jahrbücher_ (Political magazine), 114
Prince Imperial, 42
Propert, Mr. Lumsden, 152
_Punch_ (see Owen Seaman), 105, 215, 295
_Pygmalion and Galatea_, 151
Pyhakoski, 67
Q
Quebec, 125, 241
— Literary and Historical Society, 241
_Queen_, The, 73, 102
Queen Alexandra, 98, 99
— Catherine, 200
— Eleanor, 200
— Elizabeth, 118
— Mary (present Queen), 284
— Victoria, 100, 117, 130, 161
Querétaro, 134
R
Raeburn, 120
Railway, Canadian Pacific, 249
Ramsay, Sir William, 270, 274
— Lady, 274
Ranelagh (Prologue, 5), 59
Red River, 244
Reid, E. T., 270
— Sir George, 249
— Sir Hugh Gilzean, 119
— Whitelaw, Mr., 207, 230
Rhodes Scholarship Trust, 247
— Cecil, 265
Riddell, Mrs. H. J. (novelist), 68, 81, 85, 88, 89
_Right of Way, The_, 256.
See Sir G. Parker.
“Ring,” The, 155
Riviera, The, 201
Roberts, Lord, 152
— Mr. Russell, 157
Robertson, Mr. Forbes, 152, 270
— Professor James, 117, 246
Rodd, Sir Rennell, 331
Rodin, 259
Rogers, Catherine, 206
Rome, 154, 263
Roosevelt, Mr., 219, 224, 239
Root, Elihu, 233
Rothenstein, Will, 157
Rottenburg, Dr. von, 15, 16, 17, 18, 114
Royal Academy (London), 158
Royal Artillery, 149
Royal Geographical Society, 135
Rue du Bac, Paris, 171
Ruskin, 275
Russia, 66, 155
Russo-Turkish War, 20
S
Salisbury, Lord, 161, 283, 286
Sandown (Prologue, 5), 58
Sandwich, 58
San Francisco, 232
San Giuliano, Marquis di, 263, 326
Santley, Sir Charles, 33
_Sartor Resartus._ See Carlyle, 111
Saunders, Sir Edwin, 51
Savoy, The, 149
Schlesinger, Miss, 295
Schmalz, Herbert, 145
Schopenhauer, 65
Scotland, 45, 137, 157, 276
Seaman, Owen (see _Punch_), 105
_Second in Command_, 152
See, König, 28
Selfe, Colonel, R.A., 304
Semon, Sir Felix, 15
Seton, Thompson, 239, 270
Shackleton, Sir Ernest, 314
Shakespeare, 202, 261
Shaw, Mr. Bernard, 257, 260
— Mrs. Bernard, 259
— Mr. Norman, 168
Shelley, 4
Siam, 231
Sicily, 194, 263
Siddons, Sarah, 200
Sidgwick, Mrs. Henry, 295
_Silent Sisterhood_, The, 114
Smiles, Samuel, 74
Smith, Goldwin, 248
— Miss A. L., 295
— Miss Maria Constance, I.S.O., 294
Smollett, 209
Society for the Blind, 29
_Soldiering in Canada_ (see Denison), 247
Solomons, Solomon J., 270
Somers Town Club, 29
_Songs of Two Worlds_, 259
Southampton, 182
Southwark, 206
Spiers, Phené, 170
Staite, W. G., 277
Stanley, H. M., 265
Stanley, Lady Alice, 287
Starey, Mrs., 29
Stefansson, J., 52
Sterling, Madame Antoinette, 18, 58
— Mrs., 19
_St. James’s Gazette_ (see Chisholm), 105
St. James’s, Court of, 193, 263
— Theatre, 112
St. Lawrence, 241
St. Martin’s Town Hall, 214
Stockholm, 28
Strachey, Lady, 294
— Miss, 216
Straight, Sir Douglas, 105.
See _Pall Mall Gazette_
Stratford, 202, 206
Strathcona, Lord, 249
Suez, 233
— Canal, 279
Suffragists, Women, 215
_Sunny Sicily_, 109
Suomi, 65
Sutherland, Sir Thomas, 180
Sutro, 112
Swan, Sir Joseph, 270, 275, 278
Sweden, 50
_Sweethearts_, play by W. S. Gilbert, 68, 151
Switzerland, 40
T
Tadema, Sir L. Alma-, 279, 281
Talleyrand, 31
Tangier, 38, 111, 157
_Tatler_, The, 102
Tehuantepec, Isthmus of, 131
_Telegraph_, The, 74
_Temple Bar_, 132
Templetown, Viscount, 117, 290
Tennyson, 177
_Tents of Shem_, 112
Territorials, The, 251
Terry, Ellen, 177, 204
Thackeray, 19, 179
Thiersch, Julie, 28
— Maler, 28
Thompson, Mrs. W., 343
_Thring, Life of Edward_, 247.
See Dr. Parkin.
_Through Finland in Carts_, 108
_Times, The_, 106
Tittoni, 331
Tolstoi, 59
Toronto, 247
Torop, Sophus, 49
Tower of London, 97
Trafford, George, 114
Tree, Sir Herbert, 27, 70, 93, 149
— Lady, 27, 78, 79
— Viola, 27
Treloar, Sir William, 119
Trübner, Nicholas (publisher), 30
Turner, 120
Twain, Mark, 239
Tweedie, Alec, 29, 37
_Tweedie, Ethel_ (fishing boat), 186
Tweedie, Mrs. Alec, 21, 54, 82, 92, 104, 114, 131, 138, 175, 180,
216, 232, 280, 294, 295, 304, 322, 325
— Dr. Alexander, F.R.S., 39
— Sir John, 122
Twining, Louisa, 78
_Two Orphans, The_, 233
Tyndall, 19
U
_Ulysses_, 155, 264
United States, 124, 206, 224
University, London, 149
— College Hospital, 261
V
Vaughan, 49
Vauxhall (People’s Palace), 214
Vedrenne and Barker, 203
Velasquez, 156, 157
“Volumnia,” 200
W
Waldorf Theatre, The, 232
Wales, Prince of (Albert Edward), 146, 177
— — George (now George V), 284
— Princess of (now Queen Mary), 284
Walter, John (see _The Times_), 106
War, Crimean, 150
— Transvaal, 117
Ward, Miss Geneviève, 161, 199, 202, 310
— Mrs. Humphry, 88, 262, 304
Warsaw, 201
Washington, 125, 173, 229, 231
Watts, R.A., 85, 120, 174
Wedderburn, Sir William, 289
Welby, Miss, 295
Wellington, 67
West Indies, 150
Weston, Miss Jessie, 295
Whistler, James McNeill, 168, 170, 173, 175
— Mme., 172
Whitehall, 165, 283
White House, 224
Whiteing, Richard (Prologue, 6)
White Star Line, 291
_Wicked World_, 151
Wier, Colonel John, 232
Wiggin, K. D., 239
Wilde, Mrs. (Miss A. M. Clay), 295
William III, 284
_Wilton, Q.C._, 108
Wimbledon, 58
Winchilsea, Earl of, 214
Winchester, Marquis of, 287
Windsor, 166
_Winter Jaunt to Norway, A_, 108
Wirgman, Blake, 146
Wolseley, General, 243
Woodhall Spa, 54, 227
X
Xochicalco, 130
Y
_Yorkshire Post_ (see Phillips), 105
Z
Zansig, Mme., 216
Zimmern, Miss A., 295
Zion City, 236
Mexico as I Saw It
By MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE
(_née_ HARLEY)
=Morning Post.=—“In her new volume, Mrs. Alec Tweedie has chosen
fresh subjects for her bright descriptive powers. Of the glorious
amphitheatre she writes like a true artist. The public will, we
believe, heartily welcome this fascinating work, which contributes to
our knowledge of one of the greatest men of the day, and supplies at
the same time the most agreeable reading.”
=Punch.=—“She ‘saw it’ under exceedingly favourable circumstances.
Armed with an introduction to the President she was welcomed with more
than Mexican warmth.... A born traveller, ready when occasion compelled
to put up with hardships and short commons, Mrs. Alec Tweedie took
cheerfully to the private cars provided for her in the railways, to the
semi-official banquets, and to life in palaces. She travelled all over
Mexico with her eyes, as usual, wide open.”
=Sunday Sun= (The book of the week).—“The reading public may
congratulate itself as well as Mrs. Alec Tweedie on the happy
inspiration which directed her to Mexico. For the antiquarian she
contributes information both new and valuable, as she had the good
fortune to be in Mexico at the time of important discoveries of Aztec
remains. We owe this book much gratitude, for there is a practical and
informing value in its crisp, vivid pages.... It shows to a public
curiously ignorant on the subject a great country.”
=Pall Mall Gazette.=—“Mrs. Alec Tweedie is famous for her spirited
‘relations of journeys’ to less get-at-able resorts. Mexico will fully
sustain the reputation which she acquired with ‘Through Finland in
Carts.’ There is no doubt it is just such a relation of a journey as
the general reader likes. It is light, it is long, it is chatty, it
is informing, and is profusely illustrated with really first-rate
photographs. The grave and the gay alternate in her pages, and her
touch is never ponderous. There has been no better book of travel ...
for a long time.”
=Westminster Gazette.=—“That alert and experienced traveller, Mrs.
Alec Tweedie, gives a lively account of recent journeying. A good
deal of historical and archæological lore finds a natural place in
this variegated travel-book. Her vivid description of the Caves of
Cacahuamilpa justifies her rapturous comparison of these wonders of
nature with the mightiest buildings of the world.”
AMERICAN PAPERS
=Philadelphia Public Ledger.=—“Mrs. Alec Tweedie is one of the most
vivacious, accomplished and amiable of travellers. She writes with
unflagging spirit and humour, and is never weary. As a result we have
a narrative of incidents and observations from day to day, intimate
as a diary, full of entertainment, portraying scenes, customs and
experiences of unusual interest. Mrs. Tweedie’s progress was almost
royal in the hospitality and service she received from men of every
rank and position. It would be difficult among the books of travel
issued during the past twelve months to find one so amusing and
comprehensive as this.”
=Boston Transcript.=—“A traveller born. Nothing worth seeing or hearing
escapes her. Her first experiences of life in Mexico were on a ranche,
where she had abundant opportunities of studying its various phases at
her leisure.”
=New York Times.=—“The very name of Mexico bears with it a mysterious
breeze and charm. She is happy when she deals off-hand with what her
senses bring her; the ragged ugliness of the beggar, the funeral cars,
the cock and bull fights, the landscapes, and the riot of tropical
verdure, the sharp contrasts of society, the flood of religious
superstition, and happier still when she takes up the doings of high
society.”
=Churchman.=—“The book is an _olla podrida_; social studies of the
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quite as awake to the economic possibilities of Mexico in the future as
to the picturesque relics of Mexico in the past.”
Through Finland in Carts
=Saturday Review= (Books of the week).—“There is something that is
almost, if not quite, fascinating about Mrs. Alec Tweedie and her
manner of making a book. A monument of discursive energy. A mass of
information both useful and entertaining.”
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=Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News= (The book of the week).—“From
first to last there is not a dull page in the volume, which is
admirably written, well illustrated, and full of humour. It is one of
the best books of travel we have read for many a year.”
=The Speaker.=—“There are many vivid pen-and-ink sketches in these
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only a quick eye but ready powers of expression.”
=Pall Mall Gazette.=—“She saw everything and everybody in Finland,
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outlook—escaped her lively observation. Her book is full of information
and entertainment.”
=Literary World.=—“A most valuable book. It is more than a book of
travel, it is the best study of Finland that has yet appeared; like
the Finlanders themselves, it is extremely up to date, indeed it is
difficult to imagine a better-balanced book of travel.”
=Daily Telegraph.=—“A spirited story of adventure in Finland. The
account given of the women of Finland is very curious and instructive.”
=Morning Post.=—“Containing information of a very varied sort imparted
in a very sprightly way. Sportsmen should read what Mrs. Alec Tweedie
has to say about fishing in Finland.”
=The Queen= (The book of the week).—“Mrs. Alec Tweedie has written
several good books of travel, each better than the last. Finland
is really an excellent book—it is about the most entertaining and
instructive travel book of the year.”
“_A BOOK OF ABSORBING INTEREST._”
Hyde Park: Its History
and Romance
=The Academy.=—“In ‘Hyde Park’ Mrs. Tweedie is triumphantly encamped
and any attempt to dislodge her would be quite futile. Her study of
an extraordinarily interesting and attractive subject is thoroughly
complete, and from first to last most delightfully done. It is a wholly
delightful book, and what with the immense interest of the subject, the
pleasant writing, and the number of well-chosen pictures, should have a
really great success.”
=Sunday Sun= (The book of the week).—“Mrs. Alec Tweedie’s book is
altogether delightful. She is frankly a gossip, and while she includes
in her book all that appertains to the Park itself, she can never
resist the temptation to tell a good story. No side of life escapes her
attention.... In short, a great subject is worthily treated. Lovers
of London and lovers of England should be grateful for this memorial
of their great playground. Hyde Park may be called a picture book of
history, and its history has been written with loving care and no
little skill.”
=Pall Mall.=—“Mrs. Alec Tweedie is a capital stage manager of this
wonderful play, bright, cheery, and always entertaining. She has
saturated herself with the atmosphere of each period, and each
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reality.... To watch them is to realise how important Hyde Park is
to our gregarious metropolis; and if distance intervenes and exiles
you, you may still be transported thither on the magic carpet of Mrs.
Tweedie’s most engrossing pages.”
=The Nation.=—“As delectable to the sociable as it is puzzling to the
misanthropic, Hyde Park represents the same spirit of serious trifling
and enforced idleness as in the days when it first became a pleasure
ground for the High-World some three centuries ago. These are among
the ghosts raised by Mrs. Alec Tweedie’s ‘Hyde Park.’ She devotes
considerable space to the painful and gruesome chronicles of Tyburn,
and tells an entertaining account of the evolution of the carriage.”
_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_
Behind the Footlights
TWO EDITIONS
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Mrs. Alec Tweedie touches the moral aspect of the acting life with
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She has many delightful anecdotes.”
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anything about the stage that is not touched upon, it is because it is
not worth troubling about, and there is not a dull page in the book
from start to finish, and scarcely one which is not brightened by an
anecdote.”
=Standard.=—“‘Behind the Footlights’ contains a greater amount of
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=Morning Post.=—“The memoir contains much interesting reading, tracing
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FOUR EDITIONS
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=St. James’s Gazette.=—“... Many interesting details of the history and
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=Saturday Review.=—“... people intent on new fields of travel; Mrs.
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entirely successful results, ought to inspire adventurous ladies to
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with a keen appreciation, and has not forgotten to supply many useful
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⁂ Although much has been written concerning the Empress Josephine,
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Transcriber’s Notes:
In Chapter VII the titles of John Oliver Hobbe’s books have been
amended thus:
_The Gods, Some Mortals and Mr. Wickenham_
Amended to read,
_The Gods, Some Mortals and Lord Wickenham_
_The Dream the Business_
Amended to read,
_The Dream and the Business_
The date given for the quotation from _Punch_ in Chapter XXIV is given
as 1960 in the original and has been amended to read:
“(_From ‘The Times’ of December 20, 1906._)