CHAPTER IV

WORK AND PLAY

School-days ended.--A trip to Paris.--Versailles and the Morgue.--I enter the office of Sydney Smirke, R.A.--Montagu Williams and Christchurch.--A squall.--Frith as arbitrator. --I nearly lose my life.--William Virtue to the rescue.--The Honourable Mrs. Butler Johnson Munro.--I visit Knebworth.-- Lord Lytton.--Spiritualism.--My first picture in the Royal Academy.--A Scotch holiday with my friend Richard Dunlop.-- Patrick Adam.--Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis.--Mr. George Fox and Harry Fox.--Sir William Jaffray.--Mr. William Cobbett.-- Adventures on and off a horse.--Peter Graham.--Cruikshank.-- Mr. Phene Spiers.--Johnston Forbes-Robertson and Irving.-- Fred Walker.--Arthur Sullivan.--Sir Henry de Bathe.--Sir Spencer Ponsonby.--Du Maurier.--Arthur Cecil.--Sir Francis Burnand.--The Bennett Benefit. 67