power in the Mediterranean. His agent, Catalani, is assured by
Salisbury that England would be willing, but advises “Not yet.”
“Sportsmen,” he says to Catalani, “do not fire until the stag is
within range.”
Crispi thereupon commences an intrigue against the Sultan in
Tripoli with Hassouna Caramanli, representative of the former
Deys of Tripoli, but Italy having sustained a defeat in
Abyssinia, Crispi is driven from office and the project of
Tripoli is for the time abandoned.
1891 The French, defeated in Tonkin, moderate their Colonial policy.
The fortifications at Bizerta are stopped and the policy of a
war of revenge for Alsace Lorraine is practically abandoned.
Comparative quiet in Egypt, the Government is continued on lines
of strict despotism and financial economy. No attempt made to
carry out Dufferin’s “Institutions.” Egypt’s material prosperity
is pushed forward as an excuse for continuing the Occupation.
1892 _7th Jan._—Death of the Khedive Tewfik. Accession of his son,
Abbas II.
Cromer treats the young Khedive with scant consideration.
Resurrection of the Egyptian National Party, headed by Abbas,
who acquires great popularity.
Cromer, fearing lest after the General Election Gladstone should
return to power, has Milner appointed to a place in the Egyptian
Finance Office, his duty being to organize the press and
popularize the policy of retaining Egypt.
Milner’s book, “England in Egypt,” is published. It effects its
purpose with the English Radicals.
Gladstone returns to power in July. He appoints Rosebery to the
Foreign Office, who makes condition that Egypt should not be
evacuated. Grey appointed his Under-Secretary.
1893 The young Khedive attempts to assert his authority in the matter
of appointing Ministers, but is opposed by Cromer, who is
supported by Rosebery.
More than one serious crisis at Cairo.
The new Nationalists demand their promised Constitution. A
strong feeling prevails against the Occupation.
French diplomacy alternately encourages and disappoints the
Khedive, a “policy of pin pricks.”
Kitchener appointed Sirdar of the Egyptian Army. Though in the
Khedive’s pay he takes his orders from Cromer, and a quarrel
ensues.
Cromer threatens the Khedive with violent measures, and,
supported by Rosebery, reduces him to obedience.
1894 Rosebery succeeds Gladstone as Prime Minister in March. Sir
Edward Grey at the Foreign Office.
Riaz Pasha resigns office, and Cromer appoints Mustafa Fehmy as
dummy Prime Minister in his place. English officials multiplied
in Egypt.
In Turkey the Armenians, encouraged by English sympathy, form a
National Committee, with the design of an independent Armenia.
They ally themselves with Katkoff and the Russian Nihilists.
They refuse taxes at Samsun, and are massacred by the Turkish
Governor.
Japan makes war on China and obtains rights in Corea.
Death of Czar Alexander of Russia.
The French under Joffre occupy Timbuctoo.
1895 Rosebery proposes to France and Russia that they should join in
intervention for the Armenians. These, believing Rosebery to be
willing to dismember the Ottoman Empire, agree.
Rosebery out of office. Salisbury Prime Minister.
In Russia Giers dies and is succeeded by Lobanov. Lobanov,
seeing Salisbury unwilling to dismember Turkey, and being
opposed to the creation of a buffer Armenia as likely to prevent
further designs in Asia Minor, backs out of joint action with
England.
The Sultan is privately counselled by Lobanov to initiate
against the Armenians the severities used in Russia against the
Jews and Catholic Poles.
Salisbury reverses Rosebery’s policy, but having inserted a
phrase in the King’s Speech favourable to Armenia, makes a show
of going on with it alone.
The Armenian agitation is continued in England by Gladstone, who
makes his Armenian speech at Chester.
The British fleet is ordered to the Dardanelles. Armenian
risings ensue at Constantinople and are suppressed by methods of
massacre. But Salisbury goes no further. Salisbury commences
with Chamberlain a forward Colonial policy.
Dispute with America about Venezuela.
Ashanti expedition.
Chartered company formed by Rhodes in East Africa.
Matabele War.
Rage of African speculation in England.
1896 The Jameson Raid.
Kaiser Wilhelm congratulates Kruger on the defeat and capture of
Jameson.
Jameson, released by Kruger, is treated as a hero in London.
Zanzibar is bombarded by a British man-of-war.
Heligoland is given by Salisbury to Germany in exchange for the
Zanzibar Hinterland.
Matabele War ended.
The Italians, renewing their attempts on Abyssinia, are totally
defeated by Menelik, and find themselves in peril at Kassala.
The King of Italy appeals privately for help to Kaiser Wilhelm,
who induces Salisbury to order an Egyptian advance up the Nile
on Dongola. The advance is made contrary to Cromer’s advice and
without consulting the Khedive.
1897 Trouble between Moslems and Christians having occurred in Crete,
Greece declares war on Turkey and invades Thessaly, but is
totally defeated by Shefket Pasha. The Powers intervene to stop
the Turkish march on Athens. The Sultan assumes the title of
Ghazi (conqueror), and his prestige is increased throughout the
Mohammedan world.
Kitchener, with an Egyptian army, occupies Dongola, and
constructs a railway from Wady Halfa to Korosko.
Marchand starts on a secret expedition to the Upper Nile.
The Dreyfus Case occupies all attention in France, to the
exclusion of foreign politics.
1898 The road having been prepared by the Egyptian army, British
troops are sent to reinforce Kitchener, who advances against the
Khalifa.
Battle of Omdurman, with immense slaughter of Dervishes.
The Mahdi’s tomb is violated by Kitchener’s order, his body dug
up and thrown into the Nile, he himself retaining the head as a
trophy.
A solemn service is held at Khartoum of thanksgiving for “Gordon
avenged.” The English flag is hoisted with the Egyptian flag,
and the Soudan is declared to be under the Joint Sovereignty of
the Queen of England and the Khedive.
Marchand is discovered in possession of Fashoda. War nearly
ensues between France and England. Marchand is recalled.
War with France having been narrowly avoided, a treaty is signed
at Cairo between Cromer and the Coptic Minister, Boutros, on the
terms of Joint Sovereignty of the Soudan already proclaimed, the
Sultan’s rights being ignored.
Russia occupies Port Arthur.
Kaiser Wilhelm visits Syria and declares himself the friend of
Islam.
Paul Cambon arrives as Ambassador in London on a mission of
reconciliation.
Milner is sent to Cape Town to carry out a policy of reannexing
the Transvaal.
America makes war with Spain. She annexes Cuba and Philippine
Islands.
Much imperialist talk in England of a coming war for the
overlordship of the world.
1899 Curzon appointed Viceroy of India.
He enters into negotiations through Colonel Mead with the
Sheykhs of the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf against the
Ottoman Sultan, and promises British Protection to the Sheykh of
Koweït.
Milner picks a quarrel with Kruger on the pretext of a refusal
of the franchise to Outlanders in the Transvaal. This pretext
obtains the approval of Morley and other Liberals.
Milner delivers an ultimatum to Kruger.
The Queen of Holland writes to Queen Victoria, praying her
intervention in the cause of peace. War is nevertheless
declared.
Buller is sent with a large army in October. It expects no
resistance, but is defeated repeatedly by the Boers.
1900 The Boers having invaded Cape Colony, Roberts is sent with
Kitchener to relieve Buller in South Africa.
Kruger meets with general sympathy in Europe.
The Boers are defeated at Paardeberg, and Roberts occupies
Pretoria.
The War being considered over, Roberts returns to England,
leaving Kitchener to finish with the Boers’ resistance. He
adopts severities (recommended by Kaiser Wilhelm) of burning
farms and constructing concentration camps for the Boer women,
but the Boers still hold the field.
Belgian atrocities on the Congo denounced by Casement.
Stock Exchange scare of a “Yellow Peril.”
The foreign Ambassadors falsely reported to have been murdered
at Pekin, a Joint English, French, German, and Italian force is
sent to Pekin. Kaiser William announces it as a divine mission
entrusted to him by God.
Pekin is stormed, and great atrocities are committed, especially
by the German troops.
The King of Italy assassinated.
Death of the Emir Mohammed Ibn Rashid, chief ruler of Nejd.
Central Arabia revolts against his successor, who is defeated by
Ibn Saoud.
The Hedjaz railway is built by the Sultan, connecting Damascus
with Medina, subscribed for throughout Islam.
The Americans having made peace with Spain, continue to make war
with the Philippine natives.
The Boer War continues under Botha, to the general scandal of
Europe.
1901 Death of Queen Victoria.
The Emperor William attends Queen Victoria’s funeral.
Arabi is pardoned by King Edward’s intervention and returns to
Egypt.
Intrigues in the Arabian Peninsula; guns secretly supplied to
Koweit and Nejd from India.
1902 Methuen is defeated and taken prisoner by Delarey.
Peace of Pretoria.
_July._—Lord Salisbury resigns. He is succeeded by Balfour.
A defensive alliance signed between England and Japan.
1903 The King assumes personal influence in foreign affairs. Hardinge
his chief adviser.
Joan of Arc canonized.
War in Somaliland.
The Khedive visits the King at Newmarket, and is entertained by
Cassel in London.
Pope Leo dies. Is succeeded by Pope Pius X.
1904 War between Russia and Japan.
Great financial speculations in Egypt.
Gorst’s quarrel with Cromer. He leaves Egypt.
Anglo-French Convention assigning Morocco as her sphere of
interest to France, Egypt to England. It is signed by Balfour
and Lansdowne with Cambon, it being understood that nothing is
to be changed in Egypt’s political status.
Somaliland and Thibet evacuated.
_Oct._—The Dogger Bank incident.
Cromer, confident of his popularity in Egypt, offers to withdraw
the Army of Occupation to Alexandria, but this is refused at the
War Office.
1905 Germany protests against the Anglo-French Agreement about
Morocco, and demands a European Conference.
Kaiser Wilhelm lands at Tangier. He promises his protection to
the Sultan of Morocco. Anger in France. Delcassé forced to
resign.
The Conference meets at Algeciras (England, France, Germany, and
Spain represented), to settle the Moroccan quarrel.
The Act of Algeciras, signed by all four Powers, proclaims the
integrity and independence of Morocco, assigning spheres of
commercial influence to each Power. The help of Austria is
acknowledged by Kaiser Wilhelm in a telegram promising to help
in return. It leads later to the combination against Germany and
Austria.
Fall of Port Arthur. Peace of Portsmouth, U.S.A., between Russia
and Japan.
Attempted revolution in Russia.
Financial help given to the Czar in England, which enables him
to suppress the revolution.
Balfour resigns. He is succeeded by Campbell Bannerman. Grey at
the Foreign Office.
1906 General Election in England with large Radical majority.
Campbell Bannerman confirmed as Prime Minister, with Grey at the
Foreign Office. Morley at the India Office.
Cromer’s quarrel with the Sultan about Akabah. He is supported
by Grey, who mobilizes the Mediterranean Fleet, and delivers an
ultimatum to Turkey.
Cromer invites the Khedive to join him in pressing his claim
about Akabah against the Sultan, but the Khedive refuses, the
claim being ill-founded.
Cromer upon this, and finding native Egypt on the Sultan’s side
and the Egyptian army not to be relied on, calls for additional
English troops, which are sent him.
Grey mobilizes the Mediterranean Fleet, and delivers an
ultimatum which the Sultan, on failing of support from the
Kaiser, yields to.
Much excitement in Egypt.
An English regiment promenading in the Delta, a conflict occurs
with villagers (the affair of Denshawai).
Cromer orders severe punishment to be inflicted on the villagers
and leaves Egypt for London.
The villagers, tried before a packed tribunal, are sentenced,
four to death, four to penal servitude for life, others to fifty
lashes.
The sentences are executed under circumstances of extreme
barbarity.
Cromer receives the Order of Merit.
The whole world shocked at the occurrence.
Mustapha Kamel takes the lead of the National Party in Egypt
demanding Cromer’s recall.
Cromer returns to Egypt in the autumn.
He expresses an intention of administrative reforms, and
appoints Saad Zaghloul, a leading Nationalist, Minister of
Public Instruction.
Meeting of the first Duma in Russia.
The Shah of Persia, Muzaffar ud Din, grants a Constitution. The
Mejliss meets at Teheran.
France begins her pacific penetration of Morocco, French troops
being sent to occupy Ujda.
1907 The Shah of Persia, Muzaffar ud Din, dies. He is succeeded by
his son, Mohammed Ali, who swears fidelity to the Constitution.
A new quarrel having taken place between Cromer and the Khedive,
Cromer threatens to resign unless Abbas is deposed. This being
refused by the King, Cromer resigns.
Repeated lynchings of negroes in America, with growth there of
racial intolerance.
Cromer receives a grant of £50,000 for his public services.
Gorst succeeds him at Cairo with a programme of friendly
relations with Abbas.
The General Assembly is convened at Cairo.
Grey signs a Convention with Russia, partitioning Persia into
two spheres, a Russian in the North and English in the South.
This is resented by the Persian Mejliss.
Bombardment of Casa Blanca in Morocco by the French.
The Hague Convention laying down the rules of warfare, including
the rights and duties of neutrals.
Riots at Lahore. Morley adopts “firm measures.” Arrests without
trial. Severe Press Laws.
A new era of naval activity begins in Germany. England proposes
a limitation of armaments. Kaiser Wilhelm’s letter to
Tweedmouth.
1908 The King of Portugal, having assumed extra Constitutional powers
is assassinated.
He is succeeded by King Manuel.
Mustapha Kamel dying, his funeral is attended by 50,000 persons
at Cairo.
Farid Bey succeeds him, but the Nationalists are much
disorganized.
Nicholas O’Conor dies. He is succeeded by Lowther as Ambassador
at Constantinople. As he is ignorant of Eastern affairs the
Embassy dragoman, Fitzmaurice, directs the policy in an anti-
Islamic sense.
A rising in Southern Morocco. Sultan Mulai Hafiz deposed in
favour of Sultan Abdul Aziz.
_April._—Campbell Bannerman retires.
Asquith Prime Minister. Grey allowed full liberty at the Foreign
Office. Morley at the India Office.
The Italian Government, on a trifling pretext connected with the
Post Office, quarrels with the Sultan and prepares to invade
Tripoli. The Italian Fleet mobilized. This is prevented by the
Emperor William, who persuades the Sultan to yield the point,
and the sailing of the Italian Fleet is countermanded.
Farid Bey visits London. Grey refuses to see him.
_June._—King Edward accompanied by Hardinge, meets the Czar at
Reval. The dismemberment of European Turkey agreed to.
Coup d’Etat at Teheran. The Shah, supported by Liakhoff and his
Cossacks, dissolves the Mejliss. Liakhoff takes command at
Teheran.
The Foreign Office policy in full reaction against Liberal
institutions in the East.
Revolution at Constantinople.
The Sultan is forced to summon a Parliament under the
Constitution of 1877.
Liberal sympathy in England expressed for the Young Turks,
believing them to be anti-Islamic.
For the same reason the King telegraphs to the Sultan to
congratulate him, especially on his appointing Kiamil Pasha his
Grand Vizier.
England’s influence for the moment becomes supreme at
Constantinople, Germany’s credit falling to a low point.
The Egyptians ask, as a province of the Empire, to be
represented in the Ottoman Parliament.
Grey declares that this cannot be granted as Egypt has a
Constitution of her own.
The Bulgarian Government seizes the Orient railroad.
Austria, with the approval of Germany, annexes Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
Albania declares its independence and Crete annexes itself to
Greece.
1909 _April._—Counter-revolution at Constantinople.
Abdul Hamid once more gets the upper hand.
The Ottoman Parliament dismissed.
Many arrests of Young Turks made.
The British Embassy sides with the Sultan, the German Embassy
with the Constitution.
The Young Turks, under Enver Bey, march from Salonika on
Constantinople, the German Embassy providing funds.
They force the Sultan to abdicate and restore the Constitution.
Abdul Hamid’s next heir, Reshad, is proclaimed Sultan Mohammed
V.
Riots at Cairo against new Press Laws. From this point England
loses all popularity at Constantinople.
_July._—Teheran being threatened with a Russian occupation, the
Bakhtiaris march there and depose Mohammed Ali and restore the
Constitution. His son Ahmed, a boy of twelve, is recognized as
Shah.
Grey approves the Russian policy in Persia.
Tabriz is occupied by Russia.
Great atrocities committed.
Deportation Law decreed in Egypt.
Great popular resentment.
The young Indian Dingra assassinates Sir Curzon Wyllie in
London.
The extreme Turkish Party at Constantinople raise up trouble in
the Arabic speaking provinces of the Empire by insisting on
centralizing their power.
King Leopold of Belgium dies, leaving enormous wealth.
1910 Boutros Pasha is assassinated at Cairo.
Roosevelt, passing through Cairo, rouses Nationalist anger by
his violent speeches.
_May 7._—King Edward’s death. George V proclaimed King.
Roosevelt, going on to London, counsels Grey to violent action
in Egypt.
In complicity with Grey he makes a speech in that sense at the
Mansion House, responding to which, in the House of Commons,
Grey recants his policy of conciliation in Egypt, and announces
an era of coercion there and in Persia. This is accepted by his
Radical following in Parliament.
The Egyptian National Congress, announced to be held at Paris,
is forbidden there in deference to English representations, but
meets at Brussels.
Discussion in the General Assembly at Cairo about the Suez
Canal, in which Abaza Pasha opposes the Suez Canal extension
arranged by Gorst and Boutros. The Convention has to be
withdrawn, to English official displeasure.
Revolution in Portugal. A Republic declared.
At a banquet given to Von der Golst at Constantinople
Bieberstein declares the Kaiser Wilhelm’s warm interest in Young
Turkey, and in the strengthening of the Ottoman Empire as a
military Power.
The native press in Persia declares for an alliance with Turkey
and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm entertains the Czar at Potsdam, with great
slaughter of deer.
An understanding come to by the two Emperors about Persia.
The project of a railway is announced through Persia to the
Indian frontier.
Kaiser Wilhelm’s warlike speech to his officers at Koenigsberg
asserting his “Divine Right.”
1911 Farid Bey is sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for having
published a few words of introduction to a volume of poems, and
Saad Zaghloul having refused to act with Gorst in this matter
resigns office.
The question of the Bagdad railway causes much friction with
Germany.
Debate in the Lords about it and the Persian Gulf, brought on by
Curzon.
The French on the pretext, proved to be false, of danger to
Europeans, send an army to occupy Fez.
The German Ambassador at Paris protesting that the Algeciras
Convention would have to be respected, he is told by Delcassé
that the French march on Fez would be continued whether Germany
like it or not.
The French propose to withdraw their opposition to Germany on
the question of the Bagdad railway.
The Emperor William visits London and is received with much
official empressement.
The Catholic Mirdites in Albania join the Albanian rebellion.
Goltz publicly expresses confidence in the Ottoman army.
The Ottoman Parliament sends a deputation to the Emperor
William.
The Russo-German Agreement about the Bagdad railway.
Sir Eldon Gorst dying, Kitchener is appointed to Cairo.
A German man-of-war is sent to Agadir on the Atlantic coast
south of Morocco. Great official anger at this in England,
objection being raised to Germany’s acquiring a naval station on
the northern Atlantic.
Asquith’s Cabinet with one dissentient voice, Loreburn’s,
decides to defy Germany about Agadir.
Lloyd George makes a warlike speech against Germany at the
Bankers’ dinner.
France is invited to join England on the question and a land
force of 160,000 men is secretly promised in case of a war with
Germany; Antwerp to be occupied.
The French Government, however, not being ready for war, does
not agree to this, and Grey compromises the matter with Germany
by offering Germany compensation in West Africa.
England insisting, the German man-of-war _Panther_ is recalled
from Agadir. Great indignation in Germany against England, the
Crown Prince taking the lead. Kaiser Wilhelm abandons his policy
of peace in Europe, and prepares for war rather than submit to
another rebuff.
Stolypin is assassinated at Kief in presence of the Czar.
The Italian raid on Tripoli, consented to by France and connived
at by Grey, but disapproved at Berlin.
The Italians commit atrocities on landing at Tripoli, massacring
several thousand Arab peasants with women and children.
The Turkish Ambassador appeals to Grey on the strength of
international treaties to intervene, which Grey refuses,
informing him that England’s attitude is one of neutrality.
He denies in Parliament that he has “official information.”
The Sultan, having appealed in vain to England and to The Hague,
declares war on Italy.
An Italian fleet parades the Eastern Mediterranean bombarding
Ottoman coast towns.
Churchill appointed to the Admiralty works up the navy in
preparation for war.
Kitchener is instructed, contrary to the terms of the Sultan’s
firman appointing the Khedive, to declare Egypt’s neutrality and
to refuse the passage of Ottoman troops by land to Tripoli. This
causes great dissatisfaction in Egypt where large subscriptions
are raised to help the Sultan in the war.
Revolution in China against the Manchu dynasty.
The Russians insist by an ultimatum to Persia on the dismissal
of the American, Schuster, charged with restoring the Persian
finances. To this, notwithstanding Schuster’s ability and
honesty, Grey consents.
The Russians invade northern Persia.
They occupy Tabriz and advance on Teheran, where they deliver an
ultimatum to the Mejliss, which refuses to comply.
Grey publicly approves the Russian action.
Great massacre at Tabriz by the Russians, with public executions
under revolting circumstances.
It is announced that the seat of Government in India is to be
moved to Delhi.
China declares itself a Republic.
1912 Haldane is sent on a secret mission to Berlin with a view to
allaying Liberal apprehension of a coming war and appeasing
Mohammedan anger in India.
Grey receives the Garter.
Kitchener deals autocratically with Egypt, favouring the
Italians in the war.
The Italians occupy Rhodes and the Ægean Islands. They blockade
the Dardanelles, causing great inconvenience to neutral
shipping.
Kitchener demands English reinforcements at Cairo.
Asquith, Churchill, and Kitchener meet at Malta where they
concert measures in case of a war with Germany.
An agreement is come to with France that in case of war with
Germany the French fleet shall police the Mediterranean, the
English fleet guarding the North Seas.
Southern Morocco rises against the French, Mulai Hafiz
abdicates.
A reported plot to assassinate Grey and Kitchener.
Sazonoff, the Russian Ambassador, Grey, and Kitchener meet King
George at Balmoral.
_8th Oct._—Montenegro declares war on Turkey and is followed by
the other Balkan states.
Turkey makes peace with Italy at Ouchy, ceding the province of
Tripoli.
Servia and Bulgaria join with Greece in an attack on Turkey.
The Turkish army relying on assurances given to Kiamil, the
Vizier, by Lowther, that the prosecution of war will be
prevented by the Powers delays mobilization, and, taken
unprepared, is defeated by the Bulgarians outside Adrianople,
its able commander, Shevket Pasha, having been replaced by Nazim
Pasha.
The Bulgarians threaten the Chatalja lines in front of
Constantinople.
Grey invites a Peace Conference of Ambassadors.
Poincaré speaks publicly at Paris of asserting French rights of
intervention in Syria.
A bomb is dropped on the Viceregal procession at Delhi injuring
Hardinge, the new Viceroy.
The Palace of Peace opened at the Hague.
1913 _1st Jan._—Acting under advice given by the English and Russian
Embassies, Kiamil summons a Grand Council of the Empire, which
agrees to cede Adrianople to Bulgaria, but the Turkish army
refuses to evacuate the place and Enver Pasha carrying their
refusal to the Porte, Nazim Pasha is shot by Enver’s aide-de-
camp. Enver then proceeds to the palace and forces the Sultan to
dismiss Kiamil as a traitor and to name Shevket Vizier in his
place.
War is then renewed with Bulgaria.
Much popular resentment in France against the increased
conscription and talk of war with Germany rather than submit to
it.
The Bulgarians threaten Gallipoli.
King George of Greece is assassinated.
Adrianople surrenders to Bulgaria in March.
Germany intervenes to bring about peace between Bulgaria and
Turkey.
A quarrel breaks out in May between the Bulgarians, Greeks, and
Servians over a division of the Ottoman spoils in Europe.
The Bulgarians, beaten by the Servians, come to terms with
Turkey.
Adrianople is restored to Turkey, and peace is made.
Grey disturbed at the failure of his joint policy with Russia at
Constantinople and the growing influence of the Central Powers,
recalls Lowther from Constantinople and attempts a policy of
conciliation with the Turkish Government.
He attempts to arrange the question of the Bagdad railway with
Germany, but fails through the unwillingness of his ally Russia,
jealous of German expansion in the direction of Persia.
His obstinacy, too, about Egypt prevents a real accommodation
with Turkey.
Kiamil, encouraged by Russia, attempts to regain power at
Constantinople.
Shevket Pasha, the Vizier, is assassinated.
The death of Shevket a severe blow to the Young Turks, he being
their ablest commander, a man of high character and an
enlightened Moslem, is attributed to the Anglo-Russian intrigue
with Kiamil and is a final blow to English influence at
Constantinople. From that point his successors, seeing nothing
to hope from the conjunction of England, France, and Russia,
decide to throw in their lot with Germany as the least of the
two perils threatening Islam and the Ottoman Empire.
INDEX TO VOL. II
Abaza, Ismaïl Pasha, Egyptian statesman, 208, 316, 334, 359, 360
Abbas II, Khedive of Egypt, 12, 14, 35, 40, 41, 42, 44, 61, 77, 80,
82, 84, 88, 94, 106, 110, 111, 142, 146, 150, 151, 160, 162, 163, 167,
178, 202-204, 212, 217, 243, 251, 268, 316, 323, 352, 354, 355, 359,
360, 390
Abbey Theatre, 100
Abdu Mohammed, Grand Mufti of Egypt, 12, 13, 35, 36, 66, 67, 76-80,
82, 84-88, 93, 110, 114, 115, 117, 119, 151, 350, 438
Abdul Ghaffar, 396
Abdul Hamid, Sultan of Turkey, 35, 36, 92, 138, 141, 146, 150-152,
154, 162, 163, 172, 200, 207, 214, 243, 244, 250, 315, 320, 402, 439,
441, 460
Aberdeen, Lord, 193
Adam, Mme. Juliette, 155, 158, 166, 169, 173
Afridis, The, 195
Agadir, 351, 358, 366
Agha Khan, Prince, Leader of Mussulman opinion in India, 212, 383, 421
Akabah, 133, 138, 139, 141-146, 151, 152, 162, 439-442
Albania, 215, _see_ Balkan War
Alexandra, Queen, 125, 251, 305, 312
Algeciras Convention, 346
Algeria, 385, 386
Ali Fehmy, 13
Ali Yusuf Sheykh, 110, 111, 165
Allan, Maud, 338
Alsace-Loraine, 222, 417
America, _see_ United States
American tourists, 89, 90
Andrews, Dr., Director of the Natural History Museum, 102
Angell, Norman, 430
Annunzio, Gabriel d’, 73
Aosta, Duchess of (Princess Hélène de Paris), 3, 212
Apsley House, 25
Arabi Pasha, 7, 8, 12-14, 43, 44, 191, 279, 362
Arabia, 333, 356
Arabic Poetry, 42
Armenia, 244
“_Arms and the Man_,” 195
Ashburnham MSS., 8, 9
Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., M.P., 134, 157, 168, 193, 194, 197-201, 214,
225, 275, 278, 285, 287, 289-291, 293, 298-300, 305, 313, 325, 330,
332, 333, 338, 340, 351, 356, 358, 361, 369, 384, 389, 423, 426-433,
456
Asquith, Margot, (Mrs. H. H.), 103, 123, 145, 158, 193, 197, 235-237,
275, 282, 338, 372, 373, 382, 391
Assassination, Political, 115, 253, 258, 299
“_Astarte_,” 23, 71, 124, 125
Atlanta lynching, 154
“_Atrocities of Justice_,” 149, 153, 167
Austin, Alfred (Poet Laureate), 58, 60, 213, 214
Austria, 215, 216, 218, 228, 241, 242, 429
Baalbek, 89
Bagdad and Persia Railway, 329, 342, 343, 344, 348, 378, 413, 417, 420
Balfour, Rt. Hon. Arthur James, M.P., 30, 45, 64, 73, 74, 99, 100,
118, 120, 123-127, 135, 137, 138, 145, 157, 158, 166, 168, 270, 278,
285, 289, 291, 292, 300, 302, 308, 313, 338, 339, 348, 356, 361, 365,
370, 401
Balkan War, 214-219, 228, 396, 399-403, 405-413
Balkans, 215, 228, 240, 241
Ball at Cairo, 40, 41
Balmoral, diplomatic meeting with King at, Sept. 1912, 395
Balzac, Honoré de, 394
Bannerman, Campbell, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry, 134, 141, 159, 192, 193,
197-202
Baring, Hon. Maurice, 205, 290, 345
Barker, H. Granville, 101, 297, 298
Barker, Mrs. Granville (Lillah McCarthy), 357
Baroda, Gaekwar of, 407
Beauchamp, Lord, 29, 328
Beauclerk, Lord Osborne, 204, 224, 248, 250, 313, 320, 326, 344, 370,
403
Belgium, 432, 433
Bell, Moberly, 153, 154, 171, 189, 191, 345
Belloc, Hilaire, M.P., 29, 151, 156, 164, 194, 196, 205, 207, 208,
210, 213, 214, 223, 243, 261, 270, 274, 279, 284, 286, 290, 292, 299,
311, 315, 332, 341-343, 345, 346, 349, 351, 353, 355, 361, 365, 370,
374, 377, 379, 384, 390, 394-396, 402, 405, 410, 423, 426, 429, 430
Bendor, _see_ Westminster
Bengal, 165, 373
Bernhardt, Sarah, 197
Beyrout, 93
Bieberstein, Gen. Marschall von, 322, 330, 396
Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine, 143, 172, 192, 193, 332, 335, 336, 337,
421
Blavatsky, Madame, 260, 310
Blériot, Louis, flies across the channel, 261
Boer War, 2, 7, 11, 17, 18, 25, 26, 33, 208, 222
Bosnia, 215, 218, 219, 308
Bourke, The Hon. Algernon (“Button”), 109, 118, 122, 123, 152, 189,
253
Bourke, The Hon. Terence, 147, 190, 207, 232, 281, 367, 397
Bourne, Archbishop, 203, 256, 257
Boutros Pasha, Coptic Prime Minister in Egypt, 292, 299, 309
Brailsford, H. N., 154, 155, 159, 167, 195, 199, 202, 204, 205, 232,
280, 299
Brand, Harry, _see_ Hampden
Brémond, Abbé, French Modernist friend of Tyrrell, 259, 283
Brewster Bey, Private Secretary to Khedive Abbas II, 62
Briand, M. Aristide, 323
“_Bride of the Nile_,” 174
British Empire, 21, 47, 185, 194, 277, 284, 325, 326, 341, 401, 421,
424, 457
Broderick, St. John, afterwards Lord Middleton, 119, 275
Brown, Peploe, 18, 19, 238, 239
Browne, Professor, 38, 42, 101, 210, 232, 240, 244, 245, 257, 344,
373, 378, 383
Bryce, Viscount, 134, 159
Budget, 168, 244, 269, 272, 275, 278, 282-285, 289, 291, 293, 295-300,
313, 331, 361
Buddhist doctrine, 96, 97
Bulgaria, 214-219, 396, 405, 406, 411
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, Bart., 211, 370
Burns, Rt. Hon. John, M.P., 153, 157, 278
Burton, Sir Richard, 128-132
Butler’s “_Conquest of Egypt by the Arabs_,” 35
Butler, Sir William, 21
“Button,” _see_ Bourke, Algernon
Byron, Lord, 23, 248, 250
Caine, Sir Hall, 273
Cairo, 79, 241, 315
Caisse de la Dette, 85
Cambon, M. Paul, French Ambassador, 192, 193, 382
Cardigan, Countess of, 273, 281, 300, 301, 302, 305, 306, 312, 317
Carson, Sir Edward, 377
Casa Blanca, 188, 223
Casement, Sir Roger, 424, 426, 455-457
Cassel, Sir Ernest, 61, 78, 81, 85, 94, 319, 323
Cecil, Lord Hugh, 120, 124, 126, 127, 158, 356, 358
Chamberlain, Austen, 338, 339, 357, 366, 370
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, M.P., 3, 4, 18, 25, 27, 30, 45, 46, 49,
51-53, 56, 57, 72, 74, 75, 120, 123, 126, 127, 157, 165, 191, 270, 283
Chesterton, Cecil, 384, 409
China, 225, 304, 367, 369, 373, 374, 376
Chitty Bey, Egyptian official, 151, 155
Christian, King of Denmark, 125
Chronology of Events, 1876-1914, App. VIII, 460-476
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 75, 104, 124
Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston, M.P., 44, 74, 75, 98, 104, 124, 157, 199,
201, 202, 210, 213, 214, 243, 269-271, 275-280, 283, 284, 287-289,
292, 293, 295-298, 300, 301, 303, 305, 313, 315, 316, 319, 321, 322,
324, 326, 332, 334-336, 342, 367, 368, 373, 377, 378, 389, 392, 394,
398-401, 412, 422, 423, 431
Clouds, 105, 137, 168, 179
Cochrane, Burke, 41
Colley, General, 327
Colum, Padraic, 364, 393
Congo, 148, 313, 425
Congress, Egyptian, 269, 272, 317-319, 323, 412
Connaught, Duke of, 262, 267
Constantinople, 207, 214, 228, 232, 243, 250, 265, 320, 322, 323, 333,
364, 365, 392, 402, 405, 407, 408, 413
Constitutional govt. for Egypt, 151, 152, 208, 210, 212, 218, 221,
223, 225, 274, 299, 316, 319, 350, 354, 355, 382, 390, 396
Constitutional govt. for Turkey, 265
Coquelin, Père, 103
Coroner’s Inquest, 208, 209
Corunna, Centenary of, 229
Cotton, Sir Henry, M.P., 165
Crabbet, 9, 61, 75, 100, 106
Crewe, 199, 328
Crispi’s Memoirs, 388
Cromer, Earl of, 11, 14, 23, 34, 41, 44, 55, 72, 77, 78, 80, 84, 88,
94, 95, 106, 110, 111, 117, 133, 140-143, 147-149, 151-171, 173, 174,
176, 178, 189, 190, 196, 197, 203, 205, 214, 225, 227, 233, 252, 265,
273, 308, 311, 353, 440, 442
Crown Jewels, Theft of in Dublin, 192
Crown Prince of Germany, 347
Cuckoo, phenomenal song of, 301
Currie, Sir Philip, afterwards Lord, 64, 144
Curzon, Rt. Hon. George, M.P. afterwards Earl Curzon, of Kedlestone,
17, 62, 99, 119, 120, 165, 170, 202, 261, 262, 267, 268, 275, 276,
298, 341, 343, 344, 357, 361, 365, 371, 372, 398
Cust, Henry, M.P., 254, 258, 270, 274, 275, 277, 278
Cyprus, 279, 280
Damascus, 88-92
Dardanelles, 386, 392
Davenport, Homer, of the “New York World,” 311
Davitt, Michael, 48-51, 145
De Bary, Father Angelo, 272, 302
De Broke, Willoughby, 361
Delcassé, M., 123, 341, 346
Delhi, 267, 406
del Val, Cardinal Merry, 107
de Morgan, William, 374
Denshawai Case, 146-149, 152-154, 156, 157, 159-161, 163-165, 178,
189, 190, 205
Deportations, Indian, 221, 226, 313, 319
Egyptian, 269
“_De Profundis_,” 121
Desborough, Lady, 353
Desert journeys, 36-38
Devonshire, Duke of, 72, 74, 197, 198
“Die Hards,” 356, 357, 366
Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles, M.P., 191, 334, 335
Dillon, John, M.P., 20, 26, 44, 48, 51, 54, 134, 144, 145, 147, 148,
156, 157, 159, 160, 166, 193, 194, 236, 258, 294-296, 299-301,
311-315, 330, 337, 339, 342, 345, 346, 355, 358, 359, 381, 383, 384,
388, 390, 395, 424, 426-428
Dingra, 253, 259, 261, 263, 265, 266, 277, 443
Disraeli, Benjamin, 16, 17, 71, 72, 325, 460
“_Doctor’s Dilemma_,” 158
Dogger Bank episode, 108, 117
Driving tours, 10, 31, 103, 105
Dublin Convention, 48-50, 172
Dudley, Lord, 273, 274
Dufferin, Marquess of, 17, 18, 262
Duma, The First, 161
Dunraven, Earl of, 45, 56, 57, 60, 102, 106, 116, 127, 289
“_Eclipse of Russia, The_,” 228, 328, 333, 334, 348, 383
Edward VII, King, 1-3, 14, 25, 28, 32, 33, 62, 64, 71, 87, 167, 173,
175, 204, 205, 214, 215, 223, 233, 241, 265, 285, 287-291, 297-309,
312, 333
Egremont, Earl of, 206
Egypt, _see_ Abbas; Abdu, Mohammed; Congress, Constitutional govt.;
Cromer, Earl of; Evacuation; Nationalism, Protectorate
“_Egypt_,” 295, 335, 337, 339, 340, 341, 345, 347, 383, 388, 402,
404-407, 409, 410, 412
“_Egyptian Standard, The_,” 154, 160, 161, 163, 166, 167, 217, 229
Elections General, 125, 286, 332, 333
Ellis, Arthur, 143
England, 98, 215, 216, 241, 242, 251
Entente Cordiale, 85, 95, 157, 168, 190, 216, 341, 342, 410
Enver Bey, afterwards Pasha, 244, 397, 408
Eugénie, Empress, 123, 158, 293
Eugenist, 399
European War, 32, 200, 216, 242, 365, 369, 370, 398, 400, 422, 429-433
Evacuation of Egypt, 110, 141, 157, 159, 203, 269, 271, 301, 304, 311,
316, 322, 326, 332, 348, 351
Evans, Dr., 158
Evelyn, William John, M.P., 205
Eversley, George Lefevre, Lord, 190, 332, 385
“_Everyman_,” 21
“_Fand_,” 28, 31, 105, 115, 154, 169
Fane, Violet, 120
“_Fannie’s First Play_,” 352
Farid Bey, Mohammed, Egyptian Nationalist leader, 161, 195, 196, 202,
203, 210, 217, 221, 242, 243, 279, 313, 318, 334, 364, 382, 385, 412
Fashoda affair, 123
Faure, Felix, French President, 282
Fenianism, 160, 424; _See_ Sinn Fein
Ferrar, Execution of, 281
Fez, 346, 348
FitzGerald’s translation from Calderon, 114
Flushing, 338, 341
Fox Hills, 186
Fox hunting case, 9, 11, 15, 24
France, 93, 123, 173, 188, 215, 216, 222, 223, 241, 315, 345, 346,
351, 417, 430-432; _See_ Entente Cordiale
“_Francesca da Rimini_,” 73
Freedom, personal, 24
“_Freeman, The_,” 51, 172
French, General, 366
Fry, Roger, 330
“_Future of Islam_,” 226
Futurist pictures, 382
Gallifet, Marquis de, 253
Galloway, Countess of, 68
Galway, 445, 446
Gambetta, M., 379
Gaols, 446
Garibaldi, General, 399
Gauguin, Paul, 329
George V, King of England, 14, 302, 303, 309, 312, 330, 332, 336, 339,
351, 423
Gerard, Father John, S.J., 19
Germany, 170, 175, 210, 215, 216, 219, 223, 240, 241, 251, 293, 304,
322, 324, 326, 338, 346, 350, 351, 354, 356, 357, 362, 363, 365, 369,
370, 376, 378, 379, 392, 397, 398, 400, 409, 410, 412, 413, 416, 417,
419, 420, 429-432
Ghaleb, Osman Bey, Egyptian Nationalist, 161, 163, 279, 317, 323, 354,
355
Ginnell, 337
Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., M.P., 190, 241, 280, 281, 390
Gobineau, Count, 422
Gokhale, Indian Reform Leader, 218, 221, 227, 232, 237, 392
Gordon, Colonel Bill, General Gordon’s nephew, 171, 360
Gordon, General, 171, 287
“_Gordon at Khartoum_,” 286-288, 367, 369, 370
Gore, Bishop, 272
Gorst, Sir Eldon, 85, 87, 88, 101, 152, 164, 166, 170, 176, 178, 214,
217, 221, 223, 269, 274, 279, 281, 299, 301, 304, 310, 311, 315, 317,
322, 334, 347, 350, 359, 360
Gorst, Sir John, 33, 94
Gosse, Edmund, 197
Gough, General, 423
Goumah, Lutfi, 272, 279, 295, 315, 318, 393
Graham, Robert Cunninghame, 148, 188, 196, 197, 251, 281
Greece, 215, 400; _See_ Balkan War
Gregory, Lady, 19, 53, 100, 166, 172, 251, 287, 310, 312, 351, 352,
412
Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward, Bart. M.P., afterwards Lord Grey of
Falloden, 133, 134, 139, 142-146, 148, 149, 152-154, 159, 160, 165,
166, 184, 189, 190, 193, 200, 202-204, 208, 210, 214, 216-218, 221,
223, 227, 232, 240-242, 251, 289, 295, 308, 309, 311, 312, 314-317,
319, 323, 330, 336-338, 342, 343, 352, 354, 359, 362, 363, 366, 367,
369, 372-374, 376, 377, 379, 383, 388, 392, 395, 399, 400, 401,
405-408, 410, 412, 413, 416-423, 428-431, 453
Griffin, Sir Lepelo, 186
Griffiths, Arthur, 457
Gros Bois, 12, 30, 108
Guiccioli, Count, 98
Haeckel, Prof. Ernst Heinrich, 126, 137, 229, 230
Hafiz, Awwad, Cairo Editor of Mimbar, 177, 178
Haldane, Rt. Hon. Richard, M.P., afterwards Lord, 39, 134, 154, 157,
193, 276, 289, 295, 377, 423
Halil Hálid, Turkish Reformer, 252, 363, 365
Halsbury, Earl of, 356, 357, 361, 366
Hamilton, Sir Edward, 213
Hamilton, Sir Ian, afterwards General, 153, 326
Hampden, Lord (Henry Brand), 3, 8, 11, 15, 158
Harcourt, Loulou, 157
Harcourt, Sir William, M.P., 107
Hardie, Keir, M.P., 148, 157, 271, 272, 314, 319, 332, 346
Hardinge, Sir Charles, afterwards Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, K.G.,
Viceroy of India, 176, 204, 241, 311, 324, 350, 410
Harmsworth, afterwards Lord Northcliffe, 213
Harrison, Frederic, 19, 110, 120, 125, 153, 190, 240
Hartington, 385
Hassan Nasir ed Din, 286
Hearn Lafcadio, 96, 166
Henley, W. E., 63, 310
Herbert, Hon. Auberon, 82, 83, 156, 195
Herzegovina, 215
Hewlett, Maurice, 138
Hicks-Beach, Ellice (Michael), 7, 31
“_Hippolytus_,” 100, 101
Hobhouse, Miss, 19, 22
Hohenzollerns, prediction as to, 429
Holland, 338
Home Rule, Irish, 24, 31, 47, 54, 107, 134, 135, 169, 172, 193, 197,
201, 267, 271, 284-286, 288, 289, 291, 297, 300, 313, 323, 330, 331,
332, 333, 336, 342, 356, 361, 381, 383, 394, 395, 397, 398, 424-427,
429, 430, 456, 457
“_Hour Glass_,” 53
Housman, A. E., 371, 372
Howard, Hon. Oliver, 47, 107, 215
Howeyti Suliman, and his wife Aida, 113, 114
Hozier, Miss Nellie, 174, 210
Hudson, W. H., 210, 236, 287
Husseyn, Prince, later Sultan of Egypt, 294
Hyndman, H. M., 208, 284, 293
Imperialism, 15, 24, 47, 194
India, 99, 120, 170, 172, 194, 195, 202, 204, 207, 211, 212, 216,
218-221, 223, 226, 227, 232, 237, 238, 253, 258, 259, 262-267, 269,
270, 273, 275-277, 279-281, 283, 286, 290, 293, 294, 299, 380, 383,
394, 406, 407, 409, 420, 421, 428, 443, 444; _See_ Nationalism
“_India under Ripon_,” 283, 284
Insurance Bill, 365
Ireland, 17, 20, 24, 26, 31, 33, 44, 98, 115, 116, 126, 127, 145, 160,
192, 294, 296, 297, 300, 308, 336, 337, 357, 377, 422-430, 455-457;
_See_ Home Rule Land Bill, Nationalism, Ulster
Isaacs, Rufus, M.P., afterwards Lord Reading, 410
Ismaïl, Khedive of Egypt, 186, 460
Islam, 226, 412, 419
Italy, 200, 215, 363, 366-372, 376, 378, 390, 396, 397, 430, 452, 453,
454
Italy and Tripoli War, 200, 363-374, 378, 392, 397
Jabarti’s Chronicle, 79, 81
Jameson, Dr., 15, 27, 334
Japan, 18, 184, 225; _see_ Russo-Japanese War
Jennings, Miss Frances, 263, 387, 388, 458, 459
Jesuits, 371, 427
Joan of Arc, 34, 248, 257
“_John Bull’s other Island_,” 108, 164
Joint Note of 1881, 379
Jupp, 200
Kamel, Mustapha Pasha, Egyptian Nationalist Leader, 149-152, 154,
160-165, 167, 169, 178, 195, 196, 244, 254
Kenmare, Lady Gertrude, 409, 410
Keppel, Mrs., 306
Kerr, William, 371
Khaparde, Indian Philosopher, 237, 238, 259-263, 267, 299, 302, 313,
314
Khartoum, 115
Khedive of Egypt; _see_ Abbas II
Kiamil Pasha, 207, 214, 216, 232, 396, 400, 402, 405, 407, 408, 413,
418, 419
Kilmainham Prison, 446, 447, 448
Kipling, John Lockwood, father of Rudyard, 211
Kitchener, Field Marshall Lord, 3, 34, 120, 195, 270, 276, 290, 298,
301, 302, 312, 351-355, 357, 359, 360, 367, 379, 384, 387-391, 393,
395
Knollys, Sir Francis, afterwards Lord, 300, 312, 330
Kruger, Pres., 2
Labouchere, Rt. Hon. Henry, M.P., 16, 29, 270, 377
Lahore, riots at, 170
Lajpat, Rai, 170, 172, 174, 218-221, 237
Lambton, Admiral The Hon. Sir Hedworth, afterwards Meux, 7, 9, 14
Land Bill (Irish), 20, 21, 31, 41, 44-61, 63, 64, 99, 170, 236, 267,
296
“_Land War in Ireland_,” 394, 395, 397
Landon, Perceval, correspondent to the “Daily Telegraph,” 26, 27
Lane, Sir Hugh, 352
Lansdowne, 10, 46, 95, 157, 168, 282, 348, 361
Lascelles, Rt. Hon. Sir Frank, 9, 33, 205, 221, 233, 283, 288, 330,
338, 344
Law, Rt. Hon. Andrew Bonar, M.P., 370, 401
Lawson, Sir Wilfrid, Bart. M.P., 135, 148
Layard, Sir Henry, 172
Lebanon, 89, 90
Leo X, Pope, 64, 65
Leopold, King of Belgium, 285, 313, 425
Leslie, Shane, 306, 307
Lesseps, M. de, 171
Liberia, 316
Lichnowsky, Prince, 416
Lloyd George, Rt. Hon. David, M.P., 54, 143, 244, 277, 278, 289, 298,
300, 305, 326, 356, 358, 366, 397, 398, 400, 401, 410, 428
Lodge, Sir Oliver, 137
Logue, Cardinal, 331
London, 15, 28, 44
Long, Rt. Hon. Walter, M.P., 126, 338, 339, 370
Lonsdale, Lord, 338
Lords, (House of), 69, 269, 275, 282-285, 287, 289, 291, 293, 295-297,
300, 305, 313, 323, 329, 330, 333, 339, 341, 344, 348, 354, 356, 361,
398
Loreburn, Lord, Lord Chancellor, 358
Lôti, Pierre, 155, 166, 253, 372
Louise, Princess of Sleswig Holstein, 10, 26, 27
“_Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun_,” 227
Lovelace, Ralph, Earl of, 23, 71, 124, 125, 150
Lowther, British Ambassador at Constantinople, 318, 320, 412, 419
Lucas, E. V., 203, 213
Lyall, Sir Alfred, 345
Lydekker, 102
Lynching, 154
Lytton, Robert, Earl of, 9, 145, 155, 337
MacCarthy, Desmond, 330
MacDonald, J. Ramsay, M.P., 337, 339, 428
Macdonnell, Sir Anthony, afterwards Lord, 127, 160, 192
Mahdi’s Head, 34, 270, 357, 360
Mahmud, Syud, 286, 409, 413
Majuba Hill, Battle of, 327
Malet, Sir Edward, 189, 205
Malony, Irish journalist, 217, 228, 242, 368
“_Man and Superman_,” 363
“_Manchester Guardian_,” 143, 144, 146-148, 152, 153, 159, 169, 214,
217, 253, 301, 358
Mankind, primitive races of, 10
Manning, Cardinal, 248
Manuel, King of Portugal, 193, 321
Marchand, Colonel, 173
Marconi Scandal, 410
Marmora, 405, 406, 407, 410, 411
Mazzini, 253
Mercier, Cardinal, 211, 212
Meredith, George, 115, 120, 121, 246-249, 394, 404, 405
Metternich, Count, 219
Mexico, 343, 424
Meynell, Wilfrid, 58, 63, 71, 104, 105, 120, 143, 149, 171, 177, 179,
181-184, 201, 203, 210, 214, 218, 235, 247-249, 256, 257, 263, 285,
302, 311, 317, 337, 347, 349, 353, 355, 364, 371, 374, 378
Midhat Pasha, 36, 77, 78
Milner, Sir Alfred, afterwards Lord, 25, 27, 70, 115, 290
Minto, Lord, 276, 281
Mivart, Dr., 257, 272
“_Modern Love_,” 120, 404
Modernism, 203, 211, 212, 248
Mohammed Abdu, _see_ Abdu
Mohammed Ali, Prince of Egypt, 173, 309, 310
Mohammed Ali, Shah of Persia, 257
Mohammed, Duse, 345
Mohammed, Saïd Pasha, 294
Molony, the painter, 238
Monist philosophy, 230, 231
Montenegro, 396
Morley, Hon. John, M.P., Lord Morley of Blackburne, 134, 170, 172,
174, 191, 195, 197, 199, 204, 207, 218, 220, 226, 227, 232, 238, 270,
278, 279, 283, 287, 298, 314, 325, 328, 341, 344, 362, 372, 423
Morocco, 93-95, 160, 167, 184, 188, 196, 261, 315, 345, 346, 348, 349,
350, 351, 354, 362, 363, 365, 383, 389, 417
Mukhtar Pasha Ghazi, 145, 151, 162, 163, 252
Mulhall, the statistician, 131
Mullah, the Mad, of Somaliland, 281, 288, 400
Munshi, Queen Victoria’s Indian, 13
Murray, Gilbert, 100, 101, 373
Murray, John, 125
Mustafa Fehmy Pasha, 14, 90
Napier, The Hon. Mark, 17, 167, 170, 174, 225, 280, 285, 306, 326,
365, 366, 398
Natal, 11, 135, 142, 270
Nationalism and Nationalists
Indian, 220
Irish, 17, 24, 45, 160, 288
Egyptian, 142, 155, 156, 170, 190, 195, 199, 202, 241, 268, 292, 311
_see_ Home Rule
Nazim Pasha, 92, 408
Negro question, 265
Nejd, 39
Neville, 136, 148, 181, 188, 189, 192, 281, 282, 340
Nevinson, Henry W., 216, 218
Newbuildings, 7, 28, 29, 118, 146, 164, 179, 245
Newman, Cardinal, 233, 236, 379, 380
Newstead Abbey, 248-250
Nigeria, 47
Nizam of Hyderabad, 261, 262, 264
Norfolk, Duke of, 30
Novikoff, Madame, 240
Nubar Pasha, 34
O’Brien, William, M.P., 45, 48, 51, 53, 55, 102, 134, 288, 289, 294,
298
O’Conor, Nicholas, 197
Omdurman, 400
Osborne, Professor, of New York, 254
O’Shea, Mrs., 280, 281, 381, 425, 426
Ouida, 192
Paget, Lady, 12, 175
Palgrave, Gifford, 225
Parnell, Charles Stuart, M.P., 135, 145, 280, 331, 381, 385, 390, 425
Pasteur Treatment, 6
Patmore, Coventry, 183, 272
Peace at Pretoria, 25
“_Peace and War_,” 331
Pepys’s Diary, 243
Percy, Lord, 287, 291
Persia, 184, 204, 210, 224, 228, 232, 240, 242, 244, 245, 251, 257,
323, 324, 325, 328, 330, 332, 333, 342, 344, 361, 367, 372, 373, 376,
378, 417, 420
Petre, Miss Maud, 178, 179, 191, 255-257, 321, 326, 328, 331, 403
Pius X, Pope, 64, 161, 203, 248, 300, 340, 391
“_Playboy of the Western World, The_,” 166, 172, 252
Poincaré, President, 406
Political offenders, 449, 450
Portugal Revolution, 321
Post-Impressionist Exhibition, 329, 330
Potocki, Joseph, 161
Powell, York, 69
Press Law, 204, 243
Prince Imperial, Napoleon III’s Son, 122
Prison Reform, 289, 292, 295, 296, 315, 321, 322, 445, 451
Privy Council, Meeting upon death of King Edward VII, 302, 303
Prize Fight between Lang and Langford, 340
Protectorate of Egypt, 217, 221, 223, 352, 362, 412
Rafiuddin Ahmed, leader of the Mohammedan community in London, 13
Raisuli, 160
Redmond, John, M.P., 8, 16, 20, 21, 48-53, 55-60, 99, 134, 135, 139,
143, 145, 170, 196, 197, 199, 201, 203, 285, 288, 290, 291, 295, 298,
299, 323, 329, 330, 331, 358, 423, 424, 426, 427
Redmond, Willy, M.P., 85, 174, 176
Renner, Dr., 395
Reshad Effendi, later Sultan Mohammed V, 244, 318
Rhodes, Cecil, 7, 8, 15, 20-22, 331
Riaz Pasha, 189, 350
Rifaat, Dr., Egyptian Nationalist, 349
Ripon, Marquess of, 159, 254, 262
Riza Bey Tewfik, Turkish M.P., 264, 265, 319, 320, 323, 332, 333, 355,
392
Roberts, General, Lord, 2, 8, 423
Robertson, M.P., 149, 152, 153, 157, 159-161, 164, 165, 176, 205, 221
Rodd, Sir Rennell, 14, 60, 392
Roosevelt, Theodore, 16, 299, 310, 312, 316
Rosebery, Earl of, 15, 16, 18, 50, 54, 120, 291, 203-205, 348
Ross, Robert, 121, 122
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 249, 364
Rothstein, Theodore, 165, 195, 205, 218, 241, 242, 321, 324, 345, 358,
376, 405, 411, 424
Roumanians, 406
Rousseau’s Confessions, 246
Rowton, Montague Corry, Lord, 16, 17, 25, 77
Royal Academies, 171
Rudolph, Crown Prince of Austria, 185, 186, 306
Ruffer, Dr., 6
Rumbold, Rt. Hon. Sir Horace, 159, 175, 176, 185, 219, 326, 338
Russell, Lord, 22
Russia, 115, 161, 184, 215, 216, 228, 241, 242, 244, 257, 304, 308,
323, 324, 329, 332, 344, 367, 372, 373, 376, 412, 413, 415, 417,
418-420, 429, 430, 433
Russo-Japanese War, 82, 86, 96, 99, 113, 114, 117
Rutherford, Dr., M.P., 311, 312
Ryan, Frederick, 243, 405, 407, 410, 411
Sabir, Hassan Bey, 350
Sabunji, Louis, secretary to Sultan Abdul Hamid, 226, 250, 251
Sackville, Lady Margaret, 55, 58, 174, 217, 428
Sackville case, 234, 235
St. Winifreds, Well, 458
Sadyk, Mufettish Ismaïl, 186
Salisbury, Robert, Marquess of, K.G., 1, 13, 15, 23, 30, 33, 68-70,
123, 454
Salisbury, Lady, 70
Sarajevo, assassination at, 428
Sargent, J. S., R.A., 55, 171
Savarkar, 294, 299, 314, 318, 321, 341
Sazonoff, 395
Scherbatoff, Prince, 57, 58
Schuster, Morgan, American Financial Adviser, in Persia, 372, 378
“_Secret History_,” 172, 174, 189, 199, 226
Seely, Colonel, M.P., 370, 373, 422, 423
Senussia, 367, 379, 397
Serbia, 241, 396, 417, 429, 430
Sexton, 50, 51, 116, 134
Sharp, Cecil, 200
Shaw, Bernard, 28, 108, 136, 158, 164, 195, 205, 273, 357, 363
Shefket, Mahmud, Pasha, 400, 407, 408, 418, 419
Sheykh Obeyd, 1, 12, 34, 43, 76, 95, 110, 117
“_Shropshire Lad, The_,” 371
Sinai Peninsula, 140, 142, 440
Sinn Fein, 172, 313, 317, 404, 457
Siwah, 281
Smith, Rt. Hon. F. E., M.P., afterwards Lord Chancellor, 356, 366
Socialism, 28, 31, 272, 281, 293, 321
Somaliland, 51, 87, 89, 93, 98, 99, 105, 170, 279, 281, 283, 288, 400,
427
_Song of Solomon_, 169
Soudan, 319
South Africa, 1-3, 21, 27, 135, 194, 266, 270, 308, _see_ Boer War
Spain, 261
Spencer, Herbert, 66, 67, 80, 83, 100
Spencer, Lord, 317
Staal, M. de, Russian Ambassador, 166
Stanley, Henry, Lord of Alderley, 80, 81
Stanley, G. M., 103, 282, 283
Stead, William, 240, 241, 261, 369, 386
Steinheil, Madame, 281, 282
Stevens, Dr. Lyne, 265
Stolypin, Russian Prime Minister, 362
Stonor, Monsignor, 248, 380
Strikes, 321, 323, 329, 362, 380, 383, 384
Suez Canal Convention, 294, 298, 313, 314, 316, 317, 322, 354
Suffragettes, 233, 235, 237, 271, 275, 280, 332, 335, 408, 450
Sultan of Turkey, _see_ Abdul Hamid
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 242
Switzerland, German plan of occupying, 365
Sykes, Major, 224, 328, 344
Synge, John M., 166
Tabah affair, _see_ Akabah
Tabriz, 373, 374
Tangier, French fleet at, 160
Tariff question, 120, 126, 192, 292
Tel-el-Kebir, Field of, 37
Tennant, Edward, Lord Glenconner, 215
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 394
Theosophist, 259, 260
Thompson, Francis, 179-185, 187, 189, 190, 201, 203, 214, 222
Tichborne, Sir Roger, “the claimant,” 129, 130
Tilak, Indian reformer, 207, 237
“_Times, The London_,” 184, 189
Titanic, wreck of, 386
Tolstoy, Count Leo, 106, 331, 437
Torregiani, Marquese de, 96
Transvaal _see_ South Africa: Boer War
Treaty of Berlin, 69, 218
Triple Alliance, 365
Tripoli, 200, 362, 363, 364, 365, 367, 369, 370, 372, 374, 376, 385,
386, 392, 393, 397, 452-454, _see_ Italy-Tripoli War
Tunis, 76, 77, 147, 190, 207, 281
Turkey, 95, 143, 144, 200, 207, 214-218, 229, 232, 241, 242, 251, 265,
315, 319, 320, 324, 325, 326, 329, 333, 346, 349, 363, 368, 373, 378,
390, 391, 396, 397, 400, 401, 403, 406, 409-412, 416, 418, 419; _see_
Abdul Hamid
Tyrrell, Father George, 173, 176-179, 187, 188, 211, 212, 216, 222,
224-226, 236, 254-259, 272, 321, 403
Ulster, 17, 337, 394, 422, 423, 424, 426, 428, 456
United States of America, 154, 184, 225, 296, 315, 343, 424
Vatican and France, 104, 160, 161
Vaughan, Cardinal, 248, 257
Veto Bill, _see_ Lords, House of
Vicars, 192, 193
Victoria, Queen, 1-3, 13, 27, 32, 167, 174, 243, 262
Volunteers, National, 424-429, 455-457, Ulster, 423, 426
Von der Goltz, 330
Wagram, Alexandre de, 12, 69, 107, 109
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 10, 236
Walsh, Archbishop, 48, 51, 135, 331
War, _see_ Balkan, Boer, European, Italy and Tripoli, Russo-Japanese
Ward, 379, 380
Wardani, Ibrahim, 292, 299
Watts, George Frederick, R.A., 103
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 243
Wedderburn, Sir William, 165
West, Lionel, 234
Westminster, Duke of (Bendor), 8, 102, 356, 380
Wiart, Carton de, 44, 94
Wilde, Oscar, 121, 122, 223, 310
William II, Emperor of Germany, 1, 2, 3, 9, 33, 55, 144, 159, 162,
175, 184, 200, 205, 210, 215, 219, 222-224, 242, 304, 308, 310, 311,
315, 318, 325, 328, 338, 343, 347, 366, 384, 396, 416, 417, 419, 429
Wilson, Sir Charles Rivers, 170, 186, 188, 189, 283, 292, 325, 326,
379
Wilson, Woodrow, 424
Wingate, General Sir Reginald, 115, 214
Wolves in Egypt, 4-6, 37, 43
Wyllie, Sir Curzon, 253, 259
Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George, M.P., 3, 7-9, 11, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 31,
44-60, 62, 63, 70, 71, 73, 98, 107, 115, 116, 118, 120, 123-128, 135,
148, 153, 156, 157, 159, 165, 166, 169, 170, 176, 192, 193, 201, 211,
218, 219, 236, 240, 252, 280, 283, 286, 287, 290, 292-294, 302, 304,
320, 338, 339, 341, 356, 361, 365, 381, 393, 395, 398, 408, 409, 412,
413, 414, 433
Yeats, William Butler, 22, 28, 53, 100, 102, 115, 172, 252, 310
Young Turks, 243, 244, 318, 320, 322, 330, 408, 419
Ysabel, Queen of Spain, 95
Zaghloul, Saad, 156, 161, 163, 202, 295, 325, 350, 385
Zulus, 135, 142
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1: See my “Secret History.”]
[Footnote 2: Afterwards Mrs. Raymond Asquith.]
[Footnote 3: Compare “Home Life with Herbert Spencer,” by Two.]
[Footnote 4: For an account of this episode see my pamphlet, “The
Atrocities of Justice in Egypt.”]
[Footnote 5: The edition privately printed 1915.]
[Footnote 6: See Appendix.]
[Footnote 7: See my “India under Ripon” for an account of the intrigues
by the Indian Foreign Office to get hold of the Berars.]
[Footnote 8: See Appendix III p. 443.]
[Footnote 9: See Appendix VII, p. 458.]
Transcriber's note:
Most of the changes listed below are based on a previous edition
(Martin Secker, London, 1919-1920):
Page 12, Changed: "Berthe’s new automoblie to Vaux" to: "automobile"
Page 12, Changed: "a deal might be profitably made of Arabi" to: "a
great deal"
Page 15, Changed: "Rhodes, Jameson and other of the South African
gang" to: "others"
Page 22, Changed: "see him some day Opposition leaders in the Lords"
to: "leader"
Page 26, Changed: "gave us a long acount of the" to: "account"
Page 27, Changed: "oblige England to destroy the Dutch Republic" to:
"Republics"
Page 32, Changed: "which was not without it diplomatic uses" to: "its"
Page 32, Changed: "settlement of the international differences" to:
"their"
Page 34, Changed: "political crime ever perpetuated in Western Europe"
to: "perpetrated"
Page 37, Changed: "and the genlemen of the 11th Hussars" to:
"gentlemen"
Page 40, Changed: "and we arived among the first" to: "arrived"
Page 59, Changed: "with his hands nursing his great double chin" to:
"hand"
Page 60, Changed: "Theatre to see his play, ‘Flooden Field’" to:
"Flodden"
Page 61, Changed: "make the necessary arangements" to: "arrangements"
Page 69, Changed: "reducton of the House of Commons" to: "reduction"
Page 76, Changed: "arrived at Shekh Obeyd on the 12th" to: "Sheykh"
Page 85, Changed: "railway making between Souakim and Gerber" to:
"Berber"
Page 101, Changed: "Sheykh Hasson I had a long talk in" to: "Hassan"
Page 101, Changed: "he very full of the Montem at Eaton" to: "Eton"
Page 109, Changed: "one now sees in its true porportion" to:
"proportion"
Page 128, Changed: "no child should be be compelled" to: "should be
compelled"
Page 179, Changed: "forty years ago, very what Madeline now is" to:
"very like what Madeline"
Page 180, Changed: "told him how it was with me, and how I still" to:
"it was the same with me"
Page 183, Changed: "used, before I know him, to sleep" to: "knew"
Page 184, Changed: "was gone, leaving no addresss" to: "address"
Page 186, Changed: "shadow of the trees in the moonlight" to: "into
the moonlight"
Page 189, Changed: "been his subordinate in Egypt in 1887" to: "1878"
Page 190, Changed: "my acount of the Egyptian doings" to: "account"
Page 194, Changed: "another vigorus race for which" to: "vigorous"
Page 200, Changed: "can hardly have been acquiescent in Italy’s
ambition" to: "hardly not have been"
Page 202, Changed: "and a few disciples of Mohammed Abdu" to: "and the
few"
Page 212, Changed: "to believe in a divine relation on Church lines"
to: "revelation"
Page 212, Changed: "though certain leaders like Husseyn Bilgrymi" to:
"Bilgrami"
Page 213, Changed: "and Belloc in the afternon" to: "afternoon"
Page 215, Changed: "betwen Austria, Germany, and Italy" to: "between"
Page 218, Changed: "journalist can well afford to me" to: "to be"
Page 220, Changed: "the movement of self-government in Turkey" to:
"for self-government"
Page 223, Changed: "things otherwises much as they are" to:
"otherwise"
Page 226, Changed: "might have affected a reconciliation with" to:
"effected"
Page 238-239, Inserted missing line: "all for him with wonderful
devotion, coming each morning at a very" after: "for the last fifteen
years had done"
Page 262, Changed: "would be difficulty arising from them in a
restoration of self-government" to: "be no difficulty"
Page 266, Changed: "talk about poltical assassination as" to:
"political"
Page 266, Changed: "a more intelligent view of the political position
that I have yet had" to: "than I have"
Page 273, Changed: "not a very re-iable source" to: "reliable"
Page 283, Changed: "representing as it did very grade of society" to:
"every"
Page 288, Changed: "Irish members still sit at Westminister" to:
"Westminster"
Page 295, Changed: "means to start a monthly Nationalist paper in
England" to: "in English"
Page 304, Changed: "sheets of my articles on Gorst’s report" to:
"article"
Page 306, Changed: "the wit the join the National party" to: "wit to
join"
Page 308, Changed: "knowing how upopular it was making" to:
"unpopular"
Page 315, Changed: "week with me here at Newbuldings" to:
"Newbuildings"
Page 316, Changed: "our Jingo paper applauding" to: "papers"
Page 318, Changed: "captured fugitive and her violation of the right
of asylum" to: "captured refugee"
Page 321, Changed: "Portugese revolution has completely" to:
"Portuguese"
Page 323, Changed: "Hakki Pasha, and to Saad Zaghoul" to: "Zaghloul"
Page 337, Changed: "with spies, and subject to arrests and
imprisonments under the new Press Law" to: "with spies, with delation,
arrests and"
Page 341, Changed: "Savarkar’s case has given in favour of the English
demand" to: "has been given"
Page 349, Changed: "He has my ‘Secret History’ translated at his own
cost" to: "He has had"
Page 354, Changed: "is rai-ing an army obviously" to: "raising"
Page 356, Changed: "Bendor has turned Grosevnor House into" to:
"Grosvenor"
Page 360, Changed: "nor in his opinion with Europe" to: "will"
Page 364, Changed: "Mabmur Shefket continues Minister of War" to:
"Mahmud"
Page 372, Changed: "McCullgan, the war correspondent in Tripoli" to:
"McCullagh"
Page 376, Changed: "He says true reason the German Government would"
to: "He says the true"
Page 389, Changed: "and for the stationing of the British man-of-war"
to: "of a British"
Page 389, Changed: "looks very much as if he were meditating a" to:
"if they were"
Page 389, Changed: "English Navy should keep to North Sea" to: "keep
the North Sea"
Page 390, Changed: "Abdul Hamid says, was received with honour" to:
"Abdul Halim"
Page 391, Changed: "the other from Uraguay" to: "Uruguay"
Page 395, Changed: "Foreign affairs, Sazanoff, Grey, and Kitchener"
to: "Sazonoff"
Page 395, Changed: "£550 a year a chief of the Native Medical" to: "as
chief"
Page 400, Changed: "to lie in a vigourous offensive" to: "vigorous"
Page 403, Changed: "bringing with his fresh ideas as well as a huge
nugget" to: "with him"
Page 405, Changed: "only half mobolized until too late" to:
"mobilized"
Page 405, Changed: "whose principles he expounded to us at the latest
counterblast" to: "as the latest"
Page 407-408, Changed: "if that should happen, than to to yield to
Grey" to: "than to yield"
Page 413, Changed: "remaining dominions for forty years. That is still
1953" to: "is till 1953"
Page 424, Changed: "for this, and and that it is demoralizing Irish"
to: "this, and that"
Page 425, Changed: "watched him the the whole time through his
fingers" to: "him the whole"
Page 446, Changed: "Galways gaol was an old-fashioned" to: "Galway"
Page 449, Changed: "which is found in Soctland Yard" to: "Scotland"
Page 451, Changed: "that pereptual longing for a sight" to:
"perpetual"
Page 454, Changed: "immoral agreement canont be enforced" to: "cannot"
Page 462, Changed: "first heard of in Kardofan" to: "Kordofan"
Page 466, Changed: "strong feeling prevails aaginst" to: "against"
Page 471, Changed: "with growth there of radical intolerance" to:
"racial intolerance"
Page 471-472, Inserted missing line: "Liakhoff takes command at
Teheran." after: "his Cossacks, dissolves the Mejliss."
Page 477, Changed: "Andrews, Dr., Director of the Natural Hisory
Museum" to: "History"
Page 478, Changed: "Bériot, Louis, flies across the channel" to:
"Blériot"
Page 481, Changed: "Jesuists" to: "Jesuits"
Some minor changes in spelling and punctuation have been done
silently.