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Part 14

Chapter 141,259 wordsPublic domain

London, blizzard, 9; fog, 140

Longfellow, Henry W., story of, 99

Lonsdale, Frederick, 76

_Lord Dundreary_, 167

Lowell, J. R., 147

Lucas, E. V., 191

Lucy, Sir Henry, 114; appearance, 115

Lucy, Lady, 114

Lyceum Theatre, 149, 166, 182

Lyttelton, Hon. Alfred, 135

Lytton, Bulwer, 32, 34; _Money_, 66, 173, 212

Macduff, Viscount, 118

Mackenzie, Sir Morell, 202

Macready, General Sir Nevil, 160

Macready, Jonathan, 160

Macready, Major, 160

Macready, W. C., opinion of Salvini's acting, 159; of Marie Wilton's, 219

Malibran, Maria, 20

Marienbad, 13, 16

Mario, G., 20

Marks, Henry Stacey, 86

Marlborough Club, 7

Marlborough House, dinner at, 7

Marshall, Robert, plays, 113

Mary, H.M. Queen, 117, 242; at Sandringham, 13

Mathew, Lord Justice, 70

Mathews, Charles, Public Prosecutor, 75

Mathews, Charles, 149; speech at a banquet, 150; letter from, 151; opinion of _Our Boys_, 153; character of his acting, 153

Mathews, William, 67, 75

Maude, Cyril, 200

Maurice, Sir Frederick, biography of Lord Wolseley, 127

Maurier, George du, Trilby, 86, 92; drawings in Punch, 91

Maurier, Sir Gerald du, 153; at the funeral of Lady Bancroft, 237

Maxwell, Mrs., 31. _See_ Braddon

Maxwell, W. B., 35

May, Phil, 185

McConnell, W. R., 168

McDonnell, Schomberg or "Pom," 137

Melba, Dame Nellie, 20; story of, 128

Meredith, George, _Diana of the Crossways_, 125

Merewether, Mr., 67

Meyerbeer, G., 20

Millais, Sir John Everett, 67; President of the Royal Academy, 78; pictures, 78, 79; portraits, 79, 187; landscapes, 79

Milnes, Monckton, 100. _See_ Houghton

Modjeska, Helena, character of her acting, 27

Mohammedan legend, sermon on, 51

Monckton, Lionel, 195

Montague, Henry, character of his acting, 172; death, 173

Monte Carlo, 11, 90

Morley, Rt. Hon. Arnold, Postmaster-General, 68

Morley, Viscount, 68

Morris, Clara, 30

Mounet-Sully, M., 162

Nevill, Lady Dorothy, 35; reminiscences, 36

Nevill, Ralph, 36

Neville, Henry, 7

Nijinsky, 27

Norton, Mrs., 125

O'Connor, Rt. Hon. T. P., 142

Ohnet, Georges, 22

_Olivia_, 214

Onslow, Lord, 120

Orchardson, Sir W. Q., pictures, 84

Orton, Arthur, claimant in the Tichborne trial, 71

"Ouida," 31; novels, 32; views on female suffrage, 32; letter from, 33. _See_ Ramée

Oxford and Cambridge cricket match, 135

Paderewski, I. J., 20

Page, Dr. W. H., 147

Paris, siege of, 173

Parker, Dr. Joseph, 50

Parker, Louis N., 203

Parnell Commission, 67

Parratt, Sir Walter, 54, 55, 96

Parry, John, 196

Parry, Serjeant, 71

Partridge, Bernard, 186

_Passing of the Third Floor Back, The_, 115

Patti, Adelina, 20

Peel, Sir Robert, conversion to Free Trade, 125

Pellegrini, Carlo, caricatures, 2, 93; death, 94

Phelps, Mr., 147

Phelps, Samuel, 155, 160

Phillips, Stephen, 203

Piatti, 60

Pickersgill, the engraver, 87

Pierson, Blanche, 22

Pigott, Edward, Reader of Plays, 22

Pinero, Sir Arthur W., 14, 202; _Lords and Commons_, 177; _The Profligate_, 199; knighthood conferred, 200; _The Second Mrs. Tanqueray_, 203-207; _The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith_, 214; _The Gay Lord Quex_, 214; tribute to the memory of Lady Bancroft, 226-232; at her funeral, 237

Planché, J. R., _The King of the Peacocks_, 149

Plat, Sir Charles du, at Sandringham, 12

Plunket, David, 132. _See_ Rathmore

Poe, Edgar Allan, lines from, 74

Pontresina, 95

Poynter, Sir Edward, 188; President of the Royal Academy, 80; pictures, 81

Prince of Wales's Theatre, 2, 101, 117, 213, 227, 243

Prince's, 110

Princess's Theatre, 194

Prinsep, Anthony, 87

Prinsep, Val, 77, 86

Probyn, Sir Dighton, 7, 12

_Punch_, 59, 91, 110, 145; editors, 111

Queen's Theatre, 139

Ramée, Louise de la, 31. _See_ Ouida

Rathmore, Lord, 132. _See_ Plunket

Reade, Charles, 172; _The Cloister and the Hearth_, 102; characteristics, 103; _Masks and Faces_, 225

Regnier, M., 162

Rehan, Ada, 28, 30

Réjane, Madame, character of her acting, 26

Ridge, W. Pett, 75

Ridgeway, Dr., Bishop of Chichester, 54

Ristori, Madame, 157

Rivière, Briton, pictures, 86

Roberts, Field-Marshal Earl, 126

Robertson, Madge, 108, 201. _See_ Kendal

Robertson, T. W., 104; comedies, 1, 101, 105, 217, 224, 227; _Ours_, 8, 222, 233; _Caste_, 105, 119, 139, 227; _School_, 138, 164, 233; _Society_, 216; death, 217

Robins, Elizabeth, 205

Roebuck, Captain Disney, 73

Rogers, Rev. William, 63

Rothschild, Alfred de, 137

Rowe, Mrs. Jopling, portrait, 79

Rowton, Lord, 121. _See_ Corry

Russell, Charles, Lord Chief Justice, personality, 62; tribute to Sir G. Lewis, 63; story of, 64

Russell, Sir William Howard, 132

St. Helier, Lord, President of the Divorce Court, 69

St. Helier, Lady, 69

St. James's Theatre, 202

St. Paul's Cathedral, Thanksgiving Service, 5

Sala, George Augustus, 106

Salvini, T., character of his acting, 156-159; letter from, 158

Sambourne, Linley, drawings in _Punch_, 92

Sanderson, Lord, 64

Sandringham, 8, 12; fire at, 10

Sardou, V., _Fédora_, 22; _Odette_, 26, 177

Sargent, J. S., portraits, 79, 83, 188

Savoy Theatre, 77, 196

Scala Theatre, 108

_School for Scandal_, 85, 87, 173

Schumann, Madame, 60

Scott, Clement, 134, 155

Seaman, Sir Owen, editor of _Punch_, 111

Seymour, Admiral Sir Beauchamp, 124. _See_ Alcester

Shakespeare, W., _Hamlet_, 155, 158; _Othello_, 157, 166; _Macbeth_, 160; _Merry Wives of Windsor_, 174; Tercentenary, 207; address, 207-210; tribute to, 208

Shaw, Bernard, 194

Sheppard, Canon Edgar, 40, 238

Sheppard, Mrs., 40

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 125; _School for Scandal_, 85, 87, 173; _The Rivals_, 165

"Sickles Tragedy, The," at Washington, 145-147

Sims, G. R., 205

Sloggett, General Sir Arthur, 237

Somerleyton, Lady, 130

Sothern, Edward Askew, 167; accident, 168; practical jokes, 168; _Birds of a Feather_, 169

Sothern, Sam, 169

Stanford, Charles, 96

Stanley, Dean, tomb, 88

Stanley, Sir H. M., 138

Stanley, Lady, 138

Stanley, Mrs. John, 69. _See_ St. Helier

Stone, Marcus, 77, 87

Straight, Sir Douglas, 74; popularity, 75

Strettell, Miss, 143

Sullivan, Herbert, 11

Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 59, 94, 108; illness, 11; portrait, 79; personality, 95; funeral, 95

Sutherland, Sir Thomas, Chairman of the P. & O. Co., 137

Sutro, Alfred, 202; compliment to Sir S. Bancroft, 124

Tadema, Alma, 82

Taylor, Tom, editor of _Punch_, 111

Teck, Duchess of, 6, 117

Teck, Prince Francis of, 116; death, 117

Tennant, Laura, 135

Tenniel, Sir John, cartoons in _Punch_, 91

Tennyson, Lord, death, 45; _Becket_, 96

Terriss, William, 214; career, 194; stabbed, 195

Terry, Ellen, 28, 29, 30, 60, 156, 202, 214, 235; on the characteristics of Charles Reade, 102

Terry, Fred, 212

Terry, Kate, 156

Thackeray, W. M., 34, 103; _Vanity Fair_, 107

Thompson, Sir Henry, 68, 135, 136; portrait, 79

Thornton, C. I., 120

Tichborne trial, 59, 71

Toole, J. L., 7; story of, 192

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm, 14, 119, 198; manager of the Haymarket, 199; characteristics, 200; knighthood conferred, 200

Trollope, Anthony, 102

Vanbrugh, Irene, 169, 214

Vaudeville Theatre, 153

Vaughan, Father Bernard, 43

Vestris, Madame, 149

Vezin, Hermann, 7

Victoria, H.M. Queen, attends a Thanksgiving Service, 5; Jubilee, 5; gift to Sir S. Bancroft, 13; voice, 60; Empress of India, 87

Wace, Dr., Dean of Canterbury, 66

Wace, Mrs., 56

Wales, Oliver, 8

Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie, 54, 55

Waller, Lewis, 198, 199

Ward, Barbara, 94

Ward, Leslie, 94

Washington, "The Sickles Tragedy" at, 145

Webb, Sir Aston, President of the Royal Academy, 82

Webster, Richard, 64. _See_ Alverstone

Wellington, Duke of, statue, 88

Wertheimer, Mr., portrait, 79

Westminster Abbey, Jubilee Thanksgiving, 5

Wharncliffe, Lord, 11

Whistler, James McNeill, 90

White, Field-Marshal Sir George, Governor of Gibraltar, 130

White, Lady, 130

White, Rev. Henry, Chaplain of the Chapel Royal, 39

Wigan, Alfred, 73

Wilberforce, Archdeacon, 41; love of animals, 42

Wilberforce, Mrs., 41

Wilde, Oscar, 203; plays, 112

Willard, E. S., 198

William II, ex-German Emperor, treatment of his mother, 51

William IV, King, 15

Williams, Louise, 74. _See_ Keeley

Williams, Montagu, 72; career, 73; _The Isle of St. Tropez_, 73; criminal cases, 73; marriage, 74

Wilson, Sir Rivers, 137

Wilton, Marie, 219. _See_ Bancroft

Wilton, Mrs., story of, 243

Wolseley, Field-Marshal Viscount, 126; career, 127; story of, 128

Wood, Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn, 129

Wood, Mrs. John, 29, 174

Wyndham, Sir Charles, 7, 153, 177, 210; character of his acting, 211; President of the Actors' Benevolent Fund, 212

Wyndham, Lady, 212

Yates, Edmund, 103, 106, 172; death, 107 ENDX