CHAPTER XIV

MUSICIANS--AUTHORS--ACTORS AND ARTISTS

Wagner.--Richter.--Dan Godfrey.--Arthur Cecil.--Sir Frederick Bridge and bombs.--W. S. Penley.--Sir Herbert Tree.--Max Beerbohm.--Mr. and Mrs. Kendal.--Henry Kemble.--Sir Edgar Boehm.--George Du Maurier.--Rudyard Kipling.--Alfred Austin. --William Black.--Thomas Hardy.--W. E. Henley.--Egerton Castle. --Samuel Smiles.--Farren.--Sir Squire and Lady Bancroft.--Dion Boucicault and his wife.--Sir Charles Wyndham.--Leo Trevor.-- Cyril Maude.--William Gillette.--The late Dion Boucicault.-- Arthur Bourchier.--Allan Aynesworth.--Charlie Hawtrey.--The Grossmiths.--H. B. Irving.--W. L. Courtney.--Willie Elliot.-- "Beau Little."--Henry Arthur Jones.--Gustave Dore.--J. MacNeil Whistler.--Walter Crane.--F. C. G.--Lady Ashburton and her forgetfulness. 283