deadly horror. One day Max Beerbohm had arranged with Frank to lunch
with him at the club. Max arrived at a few minutes before one o’clock
and went into the smoking-room, where sat Thomas Barratt, head of the
Pears’ Soap firm, one of the best of men, who possessed a colossal
white, spade-shaped beard that swept half way to his waist. Beerbohm
did not know who Barratt was, but he saw at a glance his patriarchal
beard, so he went out into the hall, and pretended to be thoroughly
overwhelmed. At that moment Richardson entered and dashed up to him.
“What’s the matter, Max?” he asked anxiously.
“Hold my hand, hold my hand,” replied Beerbohm with simulated
breathlessness. “_I’ve just seen Gawd!_”
In another of Frank Richardson’s jokes I myself participated. He had
just written his book on whiskers and was having a deadly feud with
“Tatcho Sims” as he called him. A few days before Christmas when I
entered the club, the porter handed me a large square parcel. I cut
the string to find what appeared to be a handsome jewel-box, which,
on opening, I found to contain three bottles of a much advertised
tooth-wash, lying on a bed of apricot velvet.
Inside was a letter from the enterprising firm asking me to accept
the little present, and if I obtained any benefit from their
preparation would I kindly send them a line or two, which they might
use when advertising. It was not an unusual request. I have had many
such.
“Hulloa! William!” I heard Richardson exclaim behind me, “then you’ve
got a box too. I had mine a week ago.”
“Oh!” I said. “What did you write to the people?”
He took from his wallet a copy of his letter, the firm’s reply, and
his reply. Richardson wrote:
“Sirs,--I am very grateful to you for sending me your wonderful
preparation. I have used it on my hair with marked effect. It is
turning my hair quite grey.--Yours very truly, Frank Richardson.”
To this the firm replied regretting that Mr. Richardson had not read
the directions, and that the preparation was intended for the teeth,
and not the hair.
Frank’s reply was:
“Sirs,--I have your letter, and I have thoroughly tested your
preparation. I am glad to tell you that I have found it equally
efficacious in dysentery and backache, in bleaching the hair, and in
putting a shine on my brown boots.--Yours truly, Frank Richardson.”
Mr. Lewis Edmunds, K.C., who interests himself very much in the
Devonshire Club, tells me some quaint stories of the Bar.
One he told at the fireside in the smoking-room the other day was
distinctly humorous.
“Once I was junior with Sir Frank Lockwood in a divorce case heard
in camera before Mr. Justice Butt--oh! a dreadful case!” he said.
“Well, you know that the legal maxim is that a client must come into
court with clean hands. During the course of the case, Lockwood, who
was a marvellous caricaturist, drew a picture of our client with his
hands dripping with ink! When the case was over the parties went away
in two cabs which raced down the Strand and collided. Thereupon the
parties got out and came to fisticuffs, the end being that they came
up at Marlborough Street on cross-summonses for assault.”
Rupert Grayson, who is a director of Eveleigh Nash’s publishing
company, told me at the Guards’ Club, where I was dining with him one
night, a very interesting story of Monte Carlo.
Many stories of luck and fortune at Monte Carlo have been told, but
this one that Grayson tells is even better, in my opinion, than most.
An Englishman punting at roulette placed five francs _en plein_ on
number seventeen. The number turned up. He understood very little
French, and when the croupier inquired whether he wished to leave
his winnings on the number, he called across the table “Two, two,”
meaning leave two and return the rest. The croupier, misunderstanding
him, imagined it “_Tout, tout_,” and began piling up the entire
winnings on seventeen. When the Englishman saw that he was replacing
more than two plaques he shouted excitedly, “Two--enough, enough.”
The croupier, thinking he said “_Tout--neuf, neuf_,” transferred
the whole of his winnings to number nine. “_Neuf, rouge, impair, et
manque!_” cried the croupier a moment later. The Englishman had won
over 6,000 francs with his original five francs in two coups.
Talking of Monte Carlo, Louis Drexel, Rupert Grayson’s
brother-in-law, tells a good story of his father, “Tony” Drexel, who
was staying at the Hôtel de Paris. At three o’clock every morning his
father was awakened by a man in the room above throwing his boots
violently on to the floor. This practice became so unbearable that
at last complaints were addressed to Fleury, who was then manager at
the Paris. The Frenchman apologized. M. Fleury could rest assured it
would not happen again. Next morning, punctually at three o’clock,
the Frenchman returned to his room. Unthinkingly following his usual
custom, he hurled his right boot to the floor before he remembered,
with horror, his promise. In the room below, “Tony” Drexel, awakened
as usual, lay waiting for the second boot. Long, dreary hours passed,
till a message reached the Frenchman: “As Mr. Drexel would like to
get to sleep, would the gentleman have the goodness to throw down the
second boot as soon as possible.”
The late Sir George Lewis, the famous solicitor, once declared to me
in the Devonshire:
“The Divorce Court is the biggest blackmailing court in all Europe.
In half the cases there is blackmailing, and a general square-up all
round before the parties go into court. The public never see divorce
proceedings in their true light. The lawyers know, but the public is
unaware.”
Next day he used the same words in giving evidence before the Divorce
Commission.
This view is borne out by my friend Lord Birkenhead, who quite
recently declared to me that he had long reached the conclusion that
our divorce laws are almost the worst in the civilized world.
In discussing the question with the Divorce Law Reform Union, of
which the brilliant ex-Lord Chancellor is president, he told them
that:
“There is no chicanery and no trickery to which judges in the Divorce
Court have not been compelled to resort. This does not apply to the
judges in any other court of law. There is no room in this country
for a clergy established by law who deny the right of marriage to
people, freed by law, in a Church established by law,” he asserted.
Another fellow-clubman at the Devonshire is a tall, cheery, athletic
golf-player, well known in business circles in London. Mr. A. Noel
Mobbs, brother of the famous Colonel E. R. Mobbs, D.S.O., who was ten
years ago popular as wing-three-quarter in the English Rugby Football
Team. When Colonel Mobbs died, a subscription fund for a memorial
reached £2,600, and a bust was a year ago put up to his memory in
the Market Square in Northampton, the balance being given to various
charitable institutes in which he was interested.
“My chief claim to fame is being Edgar’s brother,” Noel Mobbs is fond
of saying. But Noel Mobbs has another distinction, that of finance,
for after the war he and a few friends gave the British Government
seven and a half million pounds sterling for the “dump” at Slough.
In addition, he is chairman of half-a-dozen other big companies, to
which he attends, with his merry laughter, in his intervals between
golf and bridge.
I was with him ski-ing in Mürren last year, and I witnessed one of
the funniest sights I ever saw on the snow. Mobbs, tall, thin, and
athletic, in proper ski garb, had picked up the art of ski-ing in a
marvellous manner, and started to run down the Allmendhubel slope,
which is very steep, as any ski-runner knows. As he approached the
raised snow-bank at the bottom, he saw a pretty young lady in sweater
and cap seated on the bank admiring the view across to the Jungfrau.
He made an attempt to “telemark,” and thus stop dead, but he bungled
it at about twenty-five miles an hour, crossed his skis, rammed them
home in the snow, and landed plump in the astonished girl’s lap!
There he remained in an undignified position, and with many
apologies, for a full ten minutes before he could be extricated, his
skis being so deeply imbedded!
Many stories are told in clubs and elsewhere of men who, by
surreptitious means, obtain a larger share of spirits than others not
so cute.
Colonel F. J. Agabeg, of the Chota Nagpore Regiment, who was so well
known in India before he retired and came to live in Bedfordshire,
told me in Mürren last winter a very good example of this.
A brother officer of his one day after polo was seated on Agabeg’s
verandah, about to take a peg. The native servant was pouring out the
whiskey into a big, thirst-quenching glass, and asked,
“How much, sahib?”
“Oh! just cover the ice,” was the careless reply.
The Indian servant poured on, being unaware that ice floats.
In telling these stories I hope I have not taken the reader too
frequently under the spreading chestnut tree; but if I have recounted
an anecdote he knows, well I ask him to forgive me, particularly if I
have told it in an inferior way.
Perhaps I may print some further reminiscences one day. But for the
present these must suffice.
THE END.
INDEX
Abö University, 190
Abruzzi, Duke of the, 18
Adams, Davenport (dramatic critic), 163, 188
Adams, Doctor (of Essex), 225–229
Adcock, St. John, 93
Adelphi Terrace, 288
Adler, Dr. (Chief Rabbi), 189
Admiralty, the, 237, 259
Adrianople, 116
Aerodrome, Croydon, 103
Afzelius, Professor, 190
Agabeg, Colonel F. J. (of the Chota Nagpore Regiment), 306
Ahmed, Prince (brother of the Crown Prince of Johore), 119
Albacete, Léon (the most daring and expert jewel thief in Europe),
213
Albania, 10, 32, 44;
the unchanging, 56;
brigands of, 45;
laws of hospitality, 60;
mountains of, 116
Albion, 64
Aldershot, 160
Alexandra, Her Majesty Queen, 30
Alexandrovsk, 269
Algeria, 10
Alhambra Theatre, 101, 292
America, 18, 189
Amers, Captain (musical conductor), 202
Andrade. _See_ Albacete, Léon, 212
Angier, Sir Theodore V. S., 248
Anglia, East, 245
Anthony, Doctor, 230
Argentina, Jews in, 27
Argonauts Club, 294
Argyll, His Grace the late Duke of, 201, 248
Argyll Hotel, 201
Armenia, 113
Armstrong, Herbert Rowse, (poisoner) 234
Armstrong, Sir George (Proprietor of the Globe), 164, 176
Aruwimi, 100, 168. _See_ Harding, George
Ashburton, 149
Askew, Charles (the American millionaire), 223;
an ornithologist, 224;
his gift of rare Greek gem to Le Queux, 225
Asquith, H. H. (Home Secretary), 191
Astrakhan, Arcadia Garden, 97
Aswân, 148
Atlay, Sir Wilfred, 296
Austin, Stanley (of the _Daily Mirror_), 278
Australia, 248
Austria, Francis Joseph, Emperor of, 35
Austria, Karl Franz Joseph, Emperor of, 35;
succeeded to the throne during the war, 39;
a boon companion of the German Ex-Crown Prince in many
disgraceful escapades, 39
Austria, Maria Josephs, Archduchess of, 39
Austria, Otto, Archduke of, 39
Avory, Mr. Justice, 180
Baccelli, Enrico, 126
Baccelli, Signora, 125
Bachelors’ Club, 133
Baden, 35
Baily, Mr. F. E. (Editor _Royal Magazine_), 278
Balfour, Lord, 90, 170
Balfour, General Sir A., 296
Balfour, Mr. A. J., 16
Balkans, 34, 222
Balliol, 119
Baring, Sir Godfrey, 296
Barmouth, North Wales, 183
Barratt, Thomas J., 301
Barrington, Rutland, 290
Barry, M.P., Sir Francis Tress, 248
Bath Club, 202
Battenberg, Prince Louis of, 236, 242
Bazaine, Marshal (traitor, surrendered Metz to Germans in 1870), 210
Beaconsfield, Lord, 132
Beefsteak Club, 183
Beerbohm, Max, 301, 302
Beggars’ Club, 286
Belgium, Albert, King of, 103
Belgium, Elizabeth, Queen of, 103
Belgium, Leopold, King of, 100;
audience with King Albert, 104;
presented to King Leopold by H. M. Stanley, 100
Belgrade, 67
_Belgravia_, the, 188
Bell, Mr. Graham (inventor of telephones), 16
Bengesco, Madame Zoe, 92
Bennett, Sir H. Curtis, 296
Benzie, Mr. G. W. G. (of Peterculter, Aberdeen), 159
Beresford, Lord Charles, 90, 236, 251, 260
Berlin, 115, 242
Bernhardt, Madame Sarah, 205, 219
Besant, Walter, 94
Beutner, Dr. (Steinhauer the spy and the Kaiser’s bosom friend), 269
Bexhill, 274
“Biffy.” _See_ Ismail, Crown Prince, 118
Binns (American wireless hero), 161
Birkenhead, Lord, 170, 273, 299, 304
Black Mountains, Land of the, 33
Bleriot (aviator), 151
Blood-feud. _See_ Marashut, Mrika Kol, 59
Blücher, Field-Marshal von, 242
Blyth, Lord, 275
B----, Monsieur, Baron de Hirsch’s confidential Secretary, 26;
his admiration of the great financier’s generous treatment of
himself and others, 27;
beautiful house at Enghien, 27
Bodkin, Sir Archibald, 180
Bolshevism, 16
Bond Street, 104, 140
Boodles Club, 246
Bosphorus, 113
Bottomley, Horatio, 164, 267
Bouchier, Mr. James (of _The Times_), 88
Boul’ Mich’, 220, 286
Boyd, Rev. Halbert (author of _Men and Marvels_), 280
Boyle, D.S.O., Colonel Joseph Wentworth, (“The King of the
Klondike”), 282, 283
Brabazon, General Sir John, 275
Brandenbourg, Georges (of the _Figaro_), 287
Brassey, Lord, 248, 249
Bray, Mr. Justice, 170
Brazil, Dom Pedro of, 35
Brex, Twells, his pathetic story of a spider, 100;
death, 100
Bridge House Hotel, Staines, 181
Brieux, Eugène (dramatic author), 221
Brigands, the Skreli, 44
Brighton, 54, 198
Brighton Pier, 202
_Britain’s Deadly Peril_, 262
Broström, a Swede, 189
Brown, Mr. E. P. (land telephone expert), 157
Brown’s Hotel, 67
Brudenell-Bruce, young, 132
Brussels, 152
Brussi, Enrico, 23, 24
Buchanan, Sir George (British Minister to Bulgaria), 84
Buchanan, Lady Georgina (wife of Sir George), 84
Bucharest, 84, 96
Buckingham Palace, 236
Budapest, 96
Buenos Ayres, 123
Bulgaria, 37;
intrigues of, 34
Bulgaria, Ferdinand King of, 13, 85;
at heart an Anglophile, 89;
estranged from England by blunders made at Whitehall, 89, 116
“Bundle” (Countess of Cardigan’s dog), 135
Burbridge of Harrod’s, 155
Burbury, Mr. H. H. T. (of Wakefield), 159
Burgin, Mr. G. B., 294, 295
Burleigh, Bennett, 183
Burnham, Mr. W. W. (of Blackheath), 159
Butcher, Sir George, 90
Butt, Mr. Justice, 303
Buxton, lecture at, 257
“Bwab.” _See_ Brabazon, General Sir John
Café Vachette, 286
Cairo, 148
Calabria, 216;
earthquake, 20
Calea Victoriei, 98
California, 149
Campbell-Bannerman Government, 246
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir. H., 246
Canada, 248
Cann, Dr. (the eccentric physician), 277
Cannes, 26, 298
Cantacuzen, George, 98
Capsa’s Restaurant, 97
Carava, Signor M., 215
Cardigan, Countess of (widow of Lord Cardigan of Balaclava fame),
131;
her appearance, 132;
her “risky” stories, 132;
Eveleigh Nash regrets publication of them, 134
Carisbrooke, Marquis of, 122
Carisbrooke, Marchioness of, 122
Carlton Hotel, 151
“Carmen Sylva,” Queen of Roumania, 84;
her private life, 92;
interest in British novelists, 93;
intended to construct model village at Bucharest, 95
Carmichael, Mr. Montgomery (British Consul and author of _In
Tuscany_), 37
Carnarvon, Lord, 147, 149, 150
Carrier pigeons, 256
Casino, at Corfu, 147
Caspar, William (an American), 91, 97, 98;
brought aviation to England, 151;
a dead shot, 156;
characteristics, 153;
dress, 154;
fond of practical joking, 155;
an hustler, 152;
did things on a lavish scale, 153
Cattaro, 31, 44
Cecil Hotel, 151, 189
Cettigné, capital of Montenegro, 31;
the people by law are compelled to wear the national dress, 31;
the women forbidden to wear European hats, 31;
every man armed, 32;
King Nicholas fines a man in the street for being unarmed, and
pockets the money, 65
Chapple, Dr. W. A. (Liberal M.P. for Stirlingshire), 276
Châteauroux, 10
Chatsworth, 170
Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, 139
Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 252
Cimiez, 30
Clanricarde, Lord, 300;
his appearance, 300;
his frugality, 301;
his great fortune, 301
Clarendon, Lord, 90, 261
Claridge’s Hotel, 28, 97, 122
Clémentine, Princess of Cobourg, 36;
appearance of, 36;
ungracious manners, 37
Clichy, Boulevard de, 287
Clifford’s Inn, 201
CLUBS:
Argonauts, 294
Bachelors, 133
Bath, 202
Beefsteak, 183
Beggars, 286
British Ski Association, 11
Crichton, 290
Crimes, 197
Devonshire, 11
Diplomats (Bulgaria), 86
Florence (Florence), 30
Garrick, 183
Guards, 303
Ham-Bone, 297
International Sporting at Monte Carlo, 300
Jockey, 183
Junior-Garrick, 288
Lyric, 291
Magic Circle, 299
Military (Belgrade), 84
Monte Carlo, 300
Motor, 291
Mürren Ski, 11
New Vagabonds, 294
Old Vagabonds, 294
Our Society, 295
Prince of Wales’s, 291
Reform, 246
Savage, 246
St. James, 97
Swiss Alpine, 11
Tatlers, 11
Travellers (Paris), 96
Turf (London), 183
Turf (Cairo), 300
Cody (the pioneer of aviation), 151, 155
Colchester, oyster feast at, 273
Collen, Major-General Sir Edwin, 248
Collins, Professor Churton, 295
Collins, Wilkie, 94
Colwyn Bay, 185
Colwyn, Lord, 268
Constance, Lady de la Warr, 274
Constant, Baron de, 221
Constantinople, 47, 105, 116
Cooper, Sir William (of Castle Carey, Guernsey), dedication, 5
Cooper, Lady Earnshaw, dedication to, 5
Cooper, Miss Gladys, 122
Cornwall, Sir Edwin, 170
Cornwallis-West, Colonel G., 296
Cotroceni, Countess, 99
Courtney, Mr. W. L., 201
Coventry Street, 293
Cowdray, Lord, 275
Cowes, 140
Craig, Mr. J. A. (editor _Great Thoughts_), 280
Crampton, Mr. W. J. (of Weybridge), 159
Crawford, Earl of, 261
Crawfords, the mythical. _See_ Richmond, Mr. Barry, and the Humbert
Case.
Crawley, Colonel C. G. Chetwode (of the General Post Office), 160
Crichton Club, 290
Crimes Club, 197, 233
Crippen, Dr., _See_ Adams, Doctor, 225
Cromer, 121
Crookhaven Wireless Station, 161
Cross, Mr. J. H., 139
Crosse, Mr. Herbert, 295
Croydon aerodrome, 103
Curzon Street, 125
Czrnagora (Black Mountain), 33
_Daily Chronicle_, 245, 279
_Daily Mail_, 10, 192, 245, 249
_Daily Sketch_, 189, 221
_Daily Telegraph_, 192, 245
Dartmoor, 148
Daudet, Ernest, 287, 221
Daurignac, Thérèse (one of the greatest adventuresses in French
history), 206
Dead, Book of the, 147
Deanery Street, Park Lane, 131
Deauville, 99
Deene Park, Northamptonshire, 131
Delagrange (aviator), 153
Delloye (Paris bank clerk). _See_ Rebecque, Count de, 219
Deltour, Gaston (artist), 219
Deputies, Chamber of, at Rome, 21
Derby, the Earl of, 248, 170
Deschanel, Paul (President of French Republic), 205, 219, 220, 286
Des Graz, Charles, Mr., now Sir, 32
Devereux (murderer), 298
Devonshire, 82
Devonshire Club, 118, 225, 246, 275, 300, 304, 305
Dimsdale, M.P., Sir Joseph, 248
Diòsy, Arthur, 296;
born in London; son of Martin Diòsy, Hungarian refugee and
patriot, 296;
studied Japanese, 296;
his great knowledge of Japan, 297;
founded the Japan Society, 297;
admired by and friend of Lord Northcliffe, 297;
died at Cannes, 298
Diòsy, Martin, 296
Diplomats’ Club, Bulgaria, 86
Divorce and its laws, 304
Dixon-Hartland (the banker), 181
Djakova, 48
Dobrovitch, Monsieur, 87
Dobson, Austin, his poems, 93
Downing Street, 246
Doyle, Sir A. Conan, 93, 295;
communicating with spirits, 100
Draga, Queen, 67, 69
Dresden, 38, 140;
royal palace at, 13
Drexel, Louis (Rupert Grayson’s brother-in-law), story of his
father, “Tony” Drexel, 304
Drexel, “Tony,” 304
Drummond, Sir Eric, 296
Duchess d’Ussac, 213
Dufferin, Lord, 108
Duff-Gordon, Lady, 199
Duke, Sir Henry (formerly journalist of _Daily Telegraph_), 170, 180
Dulcigno, mountain of, 65
Du Maurier (artist and author of _Trilby_), 287
Duncan, Mr. G. B. (editor), 237
Eckstein, Mrs., 261
Edgington, Miss May (novelist), 278
Edmunds, K.C., Mr. Lewis, 275, 303
Edward VII., King of England, 22, 25;
his exquisite courtliness, 29;
dislike of King “Cléo-pold,” 100;
when Prince of Wales resigned from an exclusive Paris club
because King Leopold had been elected a member, 101, 128,
139, 290
Edwardes, Sir Stanley, 248
Egypt, 147
Elias, Mr., 193
Eliot, George (the novelist), 139
Elmwood, near Broadstairs, 250
Elstree, 198
Empire Theatre, 101
Enver Pasha, his supreme contempt of Britain, 116;
a puppet of the Kaiser, 116
Ernberg, Baroness, 190
Evans, Sir Laming Worthington, 273
_Evening News_, 125
Everett, Percy W. (of _Pearson’s_), 197, 295
Everett & Son (publishers), 193
Exeter, Marquis of, 195
Ezekiel, Book of, 190
Fane, “Cis,” 132
Fascisti, Italian (“The Black Shirts”), 21
Fawside House, Covent Garden, 243
Fell, Dr., a case of “I do not like you,” 202
ffoulkes, Mrs. Maude Chester (authoress), 134, 137, 201, 202
Field, Colonel Cyril (military expert), 245
Fife, the Duke of, 248
Finck, Herman (composer), 202
Flannery, M.P., Sir Fortesque, 248
Fleet Street, 183
Fleury, M. (manager Hôtel de Paris), 304
Florence, 36, 127, 188
Florence Club in Florence, 300;
one of the most exclusive in the world;
its members, British Prince black-balled, 300;
resignation of English members, _en bloc_, 300
Flower, Mr. Newman, 188
Foch, 221
Forbes, Lady Angela, 132
Foreign Office, 259
France, 10
Fraser, Sir John Foster, 273
Fraser, Superintendent (of Scotland Yard), 29
Függer, Countess, 36
Fyvie, Leith, Lord of, 90, 261, 264
Gaiety Theatre, Hastings, 281
Gale, Norman, 188
Gallop, Constantine, 119
Galway, Lord, 261
Gare, Avenue de la, 29
Garrick Club, 183
“_Gawd_,” 302
Genoa, 163
George V., King of England, 22
George, Mr. Lloyd, 170, 251, 268, 273
German Ambassador, 252
German machinations, 89;
war intended by Kaiser, 90, 113, 237;
his scheming, 116
German Military Attaché, 252
German Naval Attaché, 252
German officers openly survey Kentish hills, and deliberate on
sites for guns, 253;
the party returning to London were entertained by German
Ambassador at Carlton House Terrace, 254;
motor signs on roads from Kentish coast to London were marked by
black and white stripes of German official direction posts,
254
German secret agents in London, 243
German Secret Service, their cunning modes of bribery, 253
Germany, 10, 15
Gibbs, Sir Philip (of the _Daily Chronicle_), 82
Gilardoni, Count, 18
Gill, Charles, practical jokes of, 181
Gilli’s in the Via Tornabuoni, Florence, 127
Gilliot, Jules, 213
Giron, M., 143
Gladstone, W. E., 65;
his kindness, 168
Glasgow, 123
Glenny, Charlie, 288
_Globe_, The, 10, 163;
merged into _Pall Mall Gazette_, 177
Government, Campbell-Bannerman’s, 246
Grand Hotel at Belgrade, 69
Grand Hotel, Bulgaria, 85
Grand Hotel, Cettigné, 32
Graves, C. L., 163
Grayson, Rupert (director of Eveleigh Nash’s publishing Co.), 303;
his stories of luck and fortune at Monte Carlo, 303, 304
Greeley, Horace (of New York), 200
Grey, Sir Edward, 16
Grierson, Mr. W. (of Newnes), 195
Griffith, George (author), 187, 197
Griffith-Jones, Rev. Principal, 280
Grossmith, George, Senior, 288
Grosvenor Square, 125, 127
Guards’ Club, 303
Guilbert, Madame, 209
Guildford, 10, 118, 157, 159
Gun-factory, Düsseldorf, 251
Guy’s Hospital, 168
Haggard, Sir Rider, 93, 281
Hahki Pasha, 111
Haldane, Lord, 236
Hall, Sir John, 296
Halsbury, Lord, 170
Ham-Bone Club, 297;
(London’s only really Bohemian Club and run by Bohemians), 298
Hame, “That damned fellow,” 138
Hamilton, Lord Frederic, 138
Hands, Charles (of the _Daily Mail_), 82, 165, 173
Hansard Union, 173
Hapsburgs, the fatal, 34, 35, 37, 140
Harding, George (a stoker, the unknown and actual discoverer of the
Aruwimi, the Forests of Perpetual Night, and the Pigmies), 166
Hardinge, Viscount, 248
Harris-Burland, J. B., 295
Harris, Mr. (of Odhams), 193
Hassall, John (artist), 199;
differentiates the tonic colours of port wine and Bass, 200
Hatchard’s (booksellers), 93
Hawarden, 170
Haynes, Mr. J. H. (well-known telegraphic engineer), 119
Headley, Lord, 90, 261;
his humour and ventriloquism, 264–267
Heddle, Mr. James, 189
Helicopter, details of our new instrument were known in Berlin two
days after its secret trials, 256
Henderson, Mr., 23
Henley, W. E., 188
Hennell, Colonel Sir Reginald, 248
Henniker-Heaton, 215
Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 144
Herbert, Mrs. of Llanover (mother of Lord Treowen), 275
Herodotus, 147
Herzegovina, 222
Hicks, Sir W. Joynson, 261
Hidden Hand of Germany, 257, 259
Higgs, Mr. T. W., at Bristol, 159
Hirsch, the late Baron de, 26;
his intimate friendship with King Edward, 26;
visits to Monte Carlo, 26;
his death, 27;
left by will one million sterling for poor Jews in Argentina, 27,
101;
his high esteem of Prince of Wales, 28
Hirsch, Baroness de, 27;
her kindness to King Edward (when Prince of Wales), 27;
her wish that when His Royal Highness succeeded to the throne of
Great Britain he would always be kind to the Jews, 28;
her death, 29
Hobbs, Captain E. J. (of Wareham), 159
Hodder-Williams, Sir Ernest, 189
Hoedl, spy of Austria, 82
Hofburg, 42
Hohenzollern, House of, 240
Holland, M.P., Sir William, 248
Home Office, 259