discretion. I cannot pretend that Lord Wolseley was a cautious speaker,
and I think his company would have been much less entertaining than it
was if he had minced his words or hedged his opinions. He had spent
twenty years or more of his life in a prodigious enterprise, no less
than the entire remodelling of the British Army. He had seen with
Napoleonic clearness what sweeping reforms were needed, and he had not
felt the smallest hesitation in setting about their introduction. But he
had originally been quite alone in this perilous enterprise. Hercules
had come to the cattle-yard of Augeas and had found it clogged with the
mire of generations. He set about turning the course of Alpheus and
Peneus, rivers of Whitehall, and he sent their waters rushing through
the stable. With his besom he began to scrub the refuse out of every
corner. But the old-fashioned stablemen were not pleased to be
disturbed, and Augeas, in consternation, refused to give Hercules his
reward. Thereupon there arose loud and lasting clamours, in the midst of
which the work, frustrated as far as mediocrity found possible, went
forward steadily, but in a wind of exasperation. There was rage on both
sides, recrimination, injury; and even the monarch of Elis was not
disengaged from the struggle. If these things are an allegory, it is a
very transparent one, and it need not be translated. It suffices to say
that he would have little insight into human character who should
express surprise at any vehemence of expression, with regard to those
who opposed his cleansing activities, which the Nemean hero might give
way to in private conversation. He was tired with fighting those of his
own household and he was sick from the stupidity of persons clothed with
brief authority.
If, however, Lord Wolseley expended the treasures of what could at call
be a very lively vocabulary on the men who had hindered his life's work,
nothing could exceed his loyal memory of the few who had found courage
to support him. Among the latter, Mr. Cardwell and Lord Northbrook stood
pre-eminent, particularly the former, of whom I remember many tributes
of the warmest appreciation. I have often heard Wolseley say that he
came back from the Crimea with a sense of horror at all the shortcomings
of our military system, and that his criticisms met with none but the
most languid attention except from Cardwell. It was a highly fortunate
circumstance that these two came together, for Cardwell at home in
England had come to the same conclusions as Wolseley had in the four
quarters of the globe. He was able, as Secretary for War from 1868 to
1874, to put into practical shape the ideas which Wolseley had, by his
high gift of imagination, seen in the field itself to be necessary.
Wolseley believed that, but for Cardwell's unflinching support, his
enemies would have contrived to have him honourably deported to some
command at the Antipodes where his tiresome brain would have ceased to
worry the War Office. The fiercest of the fight gathered about the year
1872, when "the old school" would hardly believe that anyone calling
himself a gentleman could make himself so intolerably objectionable as
did this horrible Sir Garnet Wolseley. At this time Cardwell, in the
face of every species of intrigue and resistance, shielded his assistant
from his opponents. Later on he helped him to collect around him the
ablest soldiers of promise on whom the army of the future depended. I
never heard Wolseley speak of anyone with so much regret as of Cardwell,
cut off, by failing health, in the midst of his labours.
It was Lord Northbrook who chiefly aided and abetted Wolseley in his
scheme for sending General Gordon off up the Nile. When the tragedy was
complete, Lord Northbrook inclined to think that their action had been
"a terrible mistake." But Wolseley never would admit that it had been a
mistake. He persisted that it was the only thing to do, and that the
responsibility for failure rested on Mr. Gladstone and his Government.
There was nothing that Wolseley loved better than to recount the
adventure of his seeing Gordon off to the Soudan on November 18th, 1883,
and his dramatic conversation at the London railway station. Gordon was
settled in the train when Wolseley asked: "By the way, General, I
suppose you have plenty of money?" "Not a penny!" And Wolseley would
recount how he dashed in a hansom to his bank, and brought back the
bank-notes just in time for the perfectly indifferent Gordon to slip
them into his pocket as the train went off.
Before he left town in 1900 Lord Wolseley had begun, at the suggestion
of some of his friends who regretted that so much high experience of
life should be wasted, to prepare his own autobiography. As I took a
special interest in this project, I was told (December 1st, 1900), that
he had "written, at odd moments, many pages for the Memoirs, but, of
course, they have still to be pumice-stoned down and put into shape."
The sudden cessation from all administrative activity had threatened to
be rather disastrous, but, as I have said, he took his retirement to
Glynde very serenely, and this business of the autobiography promised to
be the best antidote to languor. When one saw him in the next years, it
stood always in the background; its progress was reported like the
growth of a slow fruit, which stuck on the bough, but was not swelling
as it should. At last, in his seventy-first year, I received, not
without surprise, the announcement that it was ripe and ready for the
market. A little further delay, and there appeared, in two fat volumes,
_The Story of a Soldier's Life_. The copy which reached me from the
author generously acknowledged the "valuable advice" that I had "so
often kindly given." But I dare not take this tribute to my soul, for,
as a matter of fact, the book bears no trace of external advice. It is a
very strange production, and may be succinctly described as an editing
from earlier records by himself of fragments of a story the details of
which the author had forgotten.
There is no question that, as an autobiography, _The Story of a
Soldier's Life_ is disappointing. It was undertaken too late, and it
could never have been written at all, save for the fact that Wolseley
had, in earlier years, kept copious journals and written long letters
when he was abroad on his various campaigns. These letters and journals
were collected and typed, and a secretary helped to put them together
and give a certain amount of cohesion to the narrative. The book was
strangely edited; the preface appears in the second volume, the
dedication is repeated twice, there is no account whatever of the
circumstances in which the Memoir was compiled. What is more serious is
that the personal and intimate life of the author is entirely neglected.
When he had not before him letters from the Crimea or the Red River,
from China or Ashantee, he had nothing to go upon but the newspapers.
The sad cause of all this cannot be concealed. Although his physical
health, and indeed in essentials his mental health, were unimpaired, he
had begun to suffer from a radical decay of memory. This was already
becoming obvious before he left the War Office, and it grew rapidly in
intensity. It was a very curious infirmity, for it dealt chiefly with
what I may call immediate memory. For instance, in these later years, if
an old friend came to see him on a carefully prepared visit, he would
recognize him instantly, with the old ardour, but would say: "I'm
delighted to see you, no one told me you were coming!" If a little later
on the same occasion he was called away for a few minutes, he would
return with a repeated welcome: "Oh! how nice to see you--nobody told me
you were coming!" This painful affliction has to be mentioned, if only
because it explains the strange construction of _The Story of a
Soldier's Life_. It grew upon him, until it wove a curtain which
concealed him from all intercourse with the world. In perfect physical
health, but needing and receiving the most assiduous attention, he lived
on, mainly at Mentone, until he completed his eightieth year. But his
wonderful and beneficent life had really come to an end ten years
earlier.
1921.
INDEX
A
Aasen, Ivar, his influence on Norse language and literature, 258
Ablancourt, Tallemant des Reaux and, 114
Academic Committee, an English, and its functions, 145
Academie Francaise, and its foundation, 145 _et seq_.
Acton, Lord, 3, 15
_Adam Bede_, 4, 8
_Agatha_, 12
Aitken, George A., 77-78
_Album, The_, by Henry James, 33
_Alcidalis et Zelide_, 116
Alexander, George, 33
Allegory, the, as an essential to fairy poetry, 265
_Alma_, Prior's, 79
_Alps and Sanctuaries_, 74
_Altar of the Dead, The_, 18
_Ambassadors, The_, 44
_American Scene, The_, 45
_American, The_, 25, 31
American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps, Henry James and, 52
_Amos Barton_, 6, 9
_Anactoria_, Swinburne's first draft of, 87 _et seq_.
_Analogy of Religion_, Joseph Butler's, 73
_Anaxandre et Orazie_, 154
Andersen, Hans Christian, 261
Angelo, Michel (_see_ Michel Angelo)
Angennes, Charles d' (_see_ Rambouillet, Marquis)
Anglican revival, the, its opposite school, 64
Anglo-Catholic movement, the, 186
Antilly, Arnauld d', 161
Arago, Etienne, Clemenceau's introduction to, 227
_Ariane_, Desmarets's, 154
_Arion_, G. Eliot's, 13
Ariosto, 263, 267
Arnold, Matthew, 3, 203
Arthur, Sir George, and the memoirs of Lord Wolseley, 273
Asbjoernsen, Norwegian folk-lorist, 253
Aschehoug, Prof. Torkel, 248, 258
Asquith, Right Hon. H. H., 53
_Assommoir, L'_, 24
_Atalanta in Calydon_, 95
_Atlantic Monthly_, the, Henry James as contributor to, 21
Aubigne, Agrippa d', and Malherbe, 143 his definition of satire, 102
Aubrey, John, as memoir-writer, 113
Auchy, Vicomtesse d', 110, 137
_Au Fils des Jours_, 242
_Author of Beltraffio, The_, 30
_Authoress of the Odyssey, The_, 74
_Avenir de la Science, L'_, 237, 243
_Awkward Age, The_, 38, 43
B
Bach, J. S., Samuel Butler and, 70
Baetzmann, Samuel, editor of _Dagbladet_, 249
Bage, Robert, 173
Balzac, Honore de, 6, 211
Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de, 137, 160-168
Banville, Theodore de, 201
_Barde de Temrah, Le_, 198
Barres, Maurice, 38
Bartas, Salluste du (_see_ Du Bartas)
Baudelaire, 222
Bautru, 165
Beardsley, Aubrey, 269
_Beast in the Jungle, The_, Henry James's, 45
Bedford, Countess of, and her _salon_, 100
Beethoven, Samuel Butler's contempt for music of, 70
Bellay, J. du (_see_ Du Bellay)
Bellini, Gentile, 70
Benson, Archbishop, and Henry James, 38
Bentley, Mr. Richard, 280
_Berger Extravagant, Le_, 161
Bertaut, Jean, 134, 138
_Better Sort, The_, 45
Beuil, Honorat de (_see_ Racan)
Birkeland, Michael, 251-259
Bjoernson, Bjoernstjerne, 252-3
Blake, William, 69
Boiardo, 267
Boileau, and Desmarets, 154
Boisrobert, Francois de Metel de, 154-158, 163
Bologna, the Otiosi at, 146
_Bostonians, The_, 29
Botten-Hansen, Norwegian biographer, 254
Boulanger, General, Clemenceau and, 229
Bourget, M. Paul, 38, 43, 215
Brabazon, Captain, execution of, by a Chinese escort, 282
Brebeuf, 161
Brisson, Mathurin, 226
Brissot, Pierre, 226
Broglie, Duc de, and Malherbe's visits to Hotel de Rambouillet, 109
Brooke, Rupert, Henry James's friendship with, 48
_Brother and Sister_, a sonnet from, 13 privately printed by George
Eliot, 12
Browning, Robert, and George Eliot, 3
Brunetiere, Ferdinand, 162, 203-4
Brunot, M. Ferdinand, 131
Bryce, Lord, conveys insignia of Order of Merit to bedside of Henry
James, 53
Buffon, 212
Burke, Edmund, 169 _et seq_.
Burlamacchi, 10
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, 43
Burnouf, 198
Burton, John Hill, and Rousseau, 188
Burton, Sir Frederick, his paintings of George Eliot, 7
Butcher, S. H., 145
Butler, Canon Thomas, 63-65
Butler, Samuel, 60-73
C
_Cabinet Satirique_, 165
_Caleb Williams_, 173
California, Henry James on, 46
Calvin, Jean, 124
_Camees Parisiens_, Theodore de Banville's, 201
Camoens, 263
Camusat, Jean, 165
_Canterbury Settlement, A First Year in, Butler's_, 66
Cardwell, Mr., Lord Wolseley's tributes to, 287
Carlyle, Thomas, and Rousseau, 184
_Case Stated, A_, 79
Cayer's portrait of Catherine de Rambouillet, 104
Cerisy, Habert de, 148
Chabot, Catherine, Racan and, 109
_Chantefable_, Albert Mockel's, 269
Chapelain, Jean, 100, 105, 118, 119, 148, 149, 153, 158, 159
_Chastelard_, Swinburne's original MS. of, 89
Chastelet, Hay du, 166
Chelsea Old Church, funeral service of Henry James at, 53
Chenier, Andre, 194
Children and their love of fairy tales, 261 _et seq_.
_Chinese Literature, History of_, Prof. H. A. Giles's, 283
Chinese War (1860), the, Lord Wolseley's reminiscences of, 282
_Chrysaor_, 198
Classical reaction, the, Malherbe and, 123 _et seq_.
Claudel, M. Paul, 200
Clemenceau, Benjamin, 226
Clemenceau, Georges, 225-245
"Cleomire," the pseudonym of Mme. de Rambouillet in _Cyrus_, 104
_Clovis_, Desmarets's, 154
Cobham, Viscount, Congreve's posthumous _Letter_ to, 85
Coleridge on Rousseau, 176
Collas, M., and the memorials of the Hotel de Rambouillet, 100
_College Breakfast Party, A_, 13
Collin, Sebastian, 226
Colporteur, Le, Guy de Maupassant's, 45
_Commentaire du Discours sur les Passions_, Faguet's, 213
Compton, Edward, 31
Comte, Auguste, 227
Concini, murder of, 108
_Confessions_, Rousseau's, 170
Congreve, William, 77-85
Conrart, Valentin, 100, 147, 148, 165, 166
_Contes pour les Enfants d'hier_, 269 _et seq_.
_Contrat Social_, Rousseau's, 172, 174, 176
Cook, Sir Edward, his _Life of Ruskin_, 189
Coppee, Francois, and Henry James, 24
Corneille, Pierre, 100, 161
Cospeau, at Hotel de Rambouillet, 100
_Cote de chez Swann_, Marcel Proust's, 58
Courtois, M. Louis J., 170 (note), 190
Cowley, Abraham, 139, 263
Crabbe, compared with Verhaeren, 194
_Cranford_, 2
Crawford, Marion, 43
Cross, Mrs. (_see_ Eliot, George)
_Culte de l'Incompetence, Le_, 214
_Culture des Idees, La_, 218
Curtis, Daniel, 31, 48
D
Daa, Prof. Ludwig Kristensen, 252, 257
Daae, Ludwig, 252-256
_Daisy Miller_, Henry James's, 17, 25
D'Angennes, Charles, Marquis of Rambouillet and Pisani (_see_
Rambouillet, Marquis)
Daniel, Samuel, and the Countess of Bedford's _salon_, 100
_Daniel Deronda_, 6, 14
D'Antilly, Arnauld (see Antilly)
Darwin, Charles, 73, 233, 234
D'Aubigne, Agrippa (_see_ Aubigne)
Daudet, Alphonse, 24, 31, 37
_Dawn in Britain_, Mr. Doughty's, 268
D'Epinay, Madame (_see_ Epinay)
_Deracines, Les_, 38
Descartes, 117, 161, 210.
_Desert, Le_, a poem by Leconte de Lisle, 196
Desmarets, Jean, and the French Academy, 153, 165
Desportes, Philippe, 129-138
De Vere, Aubrey, 23
De Voguee (_see_ Voguee)
_Diary of a Lover of Literature, The_, 173, 174
Dickens, Charles, 2, 11
Diderot, 183
_Discours sur l'Amour_, 120
_Disengaged_, a comedy by Henry James, 32
Disraeli, Isaac, and the beauty of fairyland, 261
_Dix-huitieme Siecle_, Faguet's, 211
Dobson, Austin, 79, 146 (note), 282
_Dolores_, 94
_Don Juan_, 182
Donnay, Auguste, illustrates _Contes pour les Enfants d'hier_, 269
Donne, John, 100
_Double Dealer, The_, dedication of, 80
Doumic, M. Rene, Faguet and, 212
Dowden, Edward, 145
_Dream of Poliphile, The_, 265
Dreyfus affair, the, 239
Dryden, 80, 81, 199
Du Bartas, Salluste, 126-128
Du Bellay, J., 125
Du Maurier, George, 27
Dumur, M. Louis, 218
Du Perier, M., Malherbe's "Consolation" to, 139, 140
Du Perron, Cardinal, Malherbe and, 134
Du Vair, M., Malherbe on, 133
E
Easter, and the question of its retardation, 10
_Edinburgh Review_, 174, 175, 176, 183, 187
Elgin, Lord, and the perfidy of Chinese rulers, 282
Eliot, George, 1-16
_Emile_, 173
_En lisant Corneille_, Faguet's, 209
_En lisant les Beaux Vieux Livres_, Faguet's, 209, 210
_Endymion_, Gombauld's, 150
_English Poets, Historical Account of the_, Giles Jacob's, 78, 79
_Epilogues_, Remy de Gourmont's, 221
Epinay, Madame d', _Memoires et Conversations_ of, 183
_Epistle to Halifax_, Congreve's, 80
_Erewhon_, Samuel Butler's, 60
_Erinnyes, Les_, Leconte de Lisle's tragedy of, 196
_Esprit des Lois_, 209
_Esthetique de la Langue Francaise, L'_, publication of, 218
_Etudes Litteraires_, Faguet's, 206
_Europe, Literature of_, Hallam's, 188
_Europeans, The_, 25
Evangelical movement in England, the, 185 _et seq_.
Evans, Isaac, the original of Tom Tulliver, 13
Evans, Marian (_see_ Eliot, George)
Evans, Mrs. Samuel, the original of Dinah Morris, 4
Evelyn's _Diary_, publication of, 115
_Evolution, Old and New_, Butler's, 73
_Excursion, The_, Wordsworth's, 176
F
_Faerie Queene, The_, 261-266
Faguet, Emile, 203-214
_Fair Haven, The_, Butler's attack on Christianity in, 73
Fairyland, the spell of, 261 _et seq_.
Faret, Nicolas, 152-4
_Felix Holt_, 8, 11
Feuillet, Octave, as rival to George Eliot, 8
Ficino, Marsiglio, and the Florence Academy, 146
Flaubert, Gustave, 10, 23, 24
_Fleetwood_, an English example of a Rousseau novel, 173
Florence, foundation of an Academy in, 146
Fontenay-le-Comte, 226
France, Anatole, 197, 204
_Francion_, and its author, 161
French Academy, foundation of, and its founders, 147 _et seq_.
French Classic School, when and how it came into being, 123 _et seq_.
_French Revolution, Reflections on the_, Burke's, 169
French Revolution, the, Rousseau and, 174
_Friend, The_, Coleridge's strictures on Rousseau in, 176
_Friendship Improv'd_, Charles Hopkins's last play, 83
Furetiere's _Roman Bourgeois_, 117
G
_Gamle Kristiania_, Ludwig Daae's, 251, 252
Gaskell, Mrs., 2
Gautier, Theophile, Faguet and, 212
_Gebir_, Landor's, 195
Gethin, Lady, 84
Giles, Prof. H. A., his _History of Chinese Literature_, 283
Giry, Louis, and the French Academy, 156
Godeau, Antoine, 100, 147, 148
Godwin, William, 173
_Golden Bowl, The_, 18, 44, 45
Gombauld, 148-150
Gomberville, 160
Gomboust, 107
Goncourt, Edmond de, 23, 31
Gordon, General, his Nile expedition, and the result, 288
Gourmont, Gilles de, 221
Gourmont, Remy de, 214-224
Gournay, Mlle. de, 150, 164
_Grand Cyrus, Le_, a description of Catherine de Rambouillet in, 104
_Grand Pan, Le_, Clemenceau's, 234, 237
Green, John Richard, 56
Green, Thomas, his _Diary of a Lover of Literature_, 173, 174
Green, T. H., 56
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup, 253
Grimm's _Correspondence_, 178
_Guirlande de Julie_, 118, 151
_Gunlaug_, 198
_Guy Domvile_ produced at St. James's Theatre, 33, 34
H
Habert, Germain, and the French Academy, 151
Habert, Philippe, and the inception of the French Academy, 149, 151
Hald, Dr. Neils Christian, 254
Halifax, Charles Lord, rewards Congreve for dedication of _The Double
Dealer_, 80
Hall, Bishop Joseph, on Du Bartas, 127
Hallam, on Rousseau, 188
_Hamadryad, The_, 195
Handel, Samuel Butler's infatuation for music of, 70
Hardy, Thomas, compared with Alfred de Vigny, 194
_Hawthorne_, publication of Henry James's, 17, 27
Hazlitt, William, 12, 179, 180, 265
_Helps to Composition_, Simeon's, 186
Henri IV, 98, 99, 134, 135
Herbert, George, 116
_Hermsprong_, Bage's, 173
Higginson, Colonel, his definition of a cosmopolitan, 28
_History of Chinese Literature_, Lord Wolseley and, 283
Holcroft, Thomas, _Hugh Trevor_ of, 173
Homer, Samuel Butler's enthusiasm for, 69
_Honnete Homme, L'_, Faret's, 153
Hopkins, Charles, 82, 83
Hopkins, Ezekiel, Bishop of Derry, 82
Hotel de Chevreuse, Paris, 107
Hotel de Rambouillet, the, 97 _et seq_.
Howells, William Dean, his friendship with Henry James, 21
_Hugh Trevor_, Holcroft's, 173
Hugo, Victor, 193, 199, 210, 243
Hume, Burton's _Life_ of, 188
Hunt, Mrs. Arabella, Congreve's _Ode_ on, 81
Hutton, Richard Holt, editor of the _Spectator_, 252
Hyeres, Henry James visits Paul Bourget at, 43
Hyndman, Mr., and Clemenceau, 230 (note)
I
Ibsen, Henrik, a visit to the friends of, 247 _et seq_.
_Imaginary Conversations_, W. S. Landor's, 184
_Impossible Thing, An_, Mr. Wise's copy of, 78, 79
Inchbold, Mrs., Rousseau's influence on, 173
_Incognita_, Congreve's, 240
_International Episode, An_, 17, 25
_Island of Rest, The_, an outline of, 270
_It is Never Too Late to Mend_, 2
_Ivory Tower, The_, an unfinished novel by Henry James, 48, 52
J
Jaabaek, Soeren, Norwegian politician, 252, 256
_Jack_, Alphonse Daudet's success with, 24
Jacob, Giles, _Historical Account_, 79, 80, 83
Jacobi, Professor, his researches in Sanscrit literature, 198
Jameison, Mrs., comments on Rousseau's _Confessions_, 188
James, Henry, 17-53
James, Henry, the elder, 20
James, William, 19, 20, 48, 49
Jammes, M. Francis, 200
_Jane Eyre_, 2
_Janet's Repentance_, 4
Jansen, Kristoffer, Norwegian poet, 255
Jansenists, the, 219, 220
Jeffrey, Francis, 174, 176, 183, 184
Jesuits, the, Gourmont and, 219, 220
Jesus, Strauss's _Life of_, 6
_John Inglesant_, Shorthouse's, 56
Johnson, Dr., 85, 240
Jones, Mr. Henry Festing, 77 _et seq_.
Jonson, Ben, 100
_Joujou Patriotisme, Le_, Gourmont's article, and its results, 216
_Joyeuse Jeunesse de Tallemant_, 114 (note)
_Judgment of Paris, The_, 86
_Jugement de Konor, Le_, 199
_Juvenal_, Dryden's composite translation of, 81
K
_Kain_, Leconte de Lisle's, 195
Keats, 194, 199
Keyser, J. R., death of, 258
_Khiron_, 195
Kingsley, Charles, 2
Kipling, Mr. Rudyard, Henry James and, 44
Kitchener, Lord, and the Boer War, 283
_Kongsemnerne_, Ibsen's, 259
L
Lactantius, 236
_Lagrime di San Pietro_, author's paraphrase of, 132
Lake Poets, the, and Rousseau, 176
Landor, Walter Savage, 184, 195
Lang, Andrew, 145, 274, 284
Lanson, M., on Chapelain, 149
La Rochefoucauld, Maxims of, 117
Lassen, Pastor, and Soeren Jaabaek, 256
_Laus Veneris_, first draft of Swinburne's, 89
Lavisse, M., 99
"Lawrenny, H." (_see_ Simcox)
Lecky, W, E. H., 56
Lee, Robert Edward, Confederate general, Lord Wolseley's opinion of, 278
Lee, Sir Sidney, and Desportes, 128
Lemaitre, Jules, 204
Leonardo, Samuel Butler on, 70
Les Reaux (_see_ Tallemant)
Lessing, George Eliot and, 6
_Lesson of the Master, The_, 18
_Letter to Viscount Cobham_, Congreve's, 85
_Lettres_, Balzac's, 162
Lewes, George Henry, 1, 6
_Liber Amoris_, Hazlitt's, 179
_Life of Congreve_, Gosse's, 77
_Life of Marlborough_, Wolseley's, 279
Lisle, Leconte de, 193-202
_Literature of Europe_, Hallam's, 188
Livet, his history of Hotel de Rambouillet, 101
_Livres des Masques_, Gourmont's, 217
Lodge, Thomas, on Desportes, 129
Lofft, Capel, 176
Loges, Madame de, 110
Lokke, Jakob, 249-259
_Love Triumphant_, Congreve's contribution to, 81
Lubbock, Mr. Percy, 19, 28, 39, 50
_Luthier de Cremone_, Coppee's, 24
Luxembourg, the, modelled on the Hotel de Rambouillet, 107
Lyell, Sir Charles, 232
Lyng, G. V., Norwegian philosopher, 252
M
Mackintosh, Sir James, 172
_Madam Inger at Osterraad_, a threatened pirated edition of, 250
_Madame Bovary_, 24
Maeterlinck, M., Gourmont and, 216; Octave Mirbeau's description of,
269
Magne, M. Emile, 101, 104, 107, 184, 151, 154, 155
_Maison du Berger, La_, Alfred de Vigny's, 210
Malherbe, Francois, 108-110, 132-143
Mallarme, S., 216
Malleville, Claude de, 148, 151, 159
_Man That lost his Heifer, The_, 79
_Mangeront-ils_, tragedy, by Victor Hugo, 243
Marie de Medicis, 108, 150
Marivaux, 21, 211
Marlborough, Duke of, Lord Wolseley's _Life_ of, 279
Marmontel, memoirs of, 175
Mary II, Queen, Congreve's ode on death of, 85
Maucroix on Tallemant, 114
Maupassant, Guy de, 24, 45
Maurice, Sir Frederick, 273
Maurier, George du (_see_ Du Maurier)
Maxse, Admiral, 227
Maynard, 160, 163
_Melee Social, La_, 231, 233
Menage, M., 151, 162
Meredith, George, 89
Merivale, Herman, 188
Merivale, John Herman, 177
Michel Angelo, Samuel Butler on, 70
_Middle Years, The_, 19, 21, 52
_Middlemarch_, 9, 14
Mill, John Stuart, 7, 231, 243
_Mill on the Floss, The_, 4, 8, 13
Mirbeau, Octave, 233, 269
Mockel, Albert, 269 et seq.
Moe, Joergen, appointed Bishop of Christianssand, 253, 254
Moliere, 161
Molza, Francesco, and the heresy of Petrarchism, 129
Monnier's _Influence attribuee aux philosophes_, 174
_Monsieur de Camors_, 8
_Montagne, Lettres de la_, Rousseau's, 170
Montague, Charles, 80
Montaigne, 124, 150
Montausier, Duc de, 103, 118
Montesquieu, Faguet's estimate of, 212
_Morgante Maggiore_, burlesque of, 266, 267
Morillot, Professor Paul, on French poetry, 130
Morley, John (Viscount), 27, 145, 179
Morris, William, 23, 56
_Morte d'Arthur_, Beardsley's, 269
_Mourning Muse of Alexis, The_, Dr. Johnson on, 85
N
Namur, Congreve's ode on the taking of, 84-5
_Narrative of the War with China_, Lord Wolseley's, 282
_Nature and Art_, Mrs. Inchbold's, 173
Nerval, Gerard de, 221
_New Criticism of J. J. Rousseau_, 191
Newdigate, Sir Roger, the original of Christopher Cheverel, 4
Nicholas de Verdun, 141
Nietzsche, 221
_Norges Daemring_, Welhaven's, 254
Norse legends, celebrated collectors of, 253
Northbrook, Lord, Wolseley and, 287, 288
Norwegian Historical Society, the, 255
_Notes of a Son and Brother_, 19
_Nourmahal_, Leconte de Lisle's, 199