Chapter 12

Balfour, James, xxiii. 4

Balfour, Miss Jane, letter to, xxiii. 223

Balfour, Mr., of the Shaws, xxv. 47

Balfour, Mrs. Lewis, xxiii. 4, 5

Balfour of Burley (Old Mortality), xxiii. 130

Balfour, Rev. Lewis, xxiii. 4

"Balfour's Letters," xxv. 293

"Ballade in Hot Weather" (Henley), xxiv. 248

"Ballades, Rondeaus, etc." (collected by Gleeson White), xxiv. 248

"Ballads," xxiv. 380; xxv. 34, 53, 57, 73

Ballantyne, R., xxiii. _intro._ xxiii.

Balzac, xxv. 154; on literary frenzy, xxiii. 173; style of, xxiv. 60

Bamford, Dr. W., xxiii. 271; letter to, xxiii. 272

"Barbara" (Catriona), xxv. 294-5

Barbizon, visits to, xxiii. 174 _et seq._, 183

Barmouth, visits to, xxiii. 124, 146

"Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities" (Billing), xxiv. 270

"Barrack Room Ballads" (Kipling), xxv. 48

"Barrel Organ," xxiii. 171

Barrie, J. M., appreciation, xxv. 276-7: letters to, xxv. 154, 264, 276, 362, 416

Barrie, Mrs. (Margaret Ogilvie), xxv. 417

Bartholomew, Messrs., xxv. 177

Basin, Thomas, xxiii. 203 & _n._ 1

Basselin, Olivier, poems by, xxiii. 193

Bass Rock, xxiii. 207

Bates, --, xxiii. 89

Bates, Edward Hugh Higlee, xxv. 384

Bates, E. M. G., xxv. 384

Bates, J. H., letter to, xxv. 384

Bathgate, the inn maid at, xxiii. 226, 227

"Bauble Shop," play (H. A. Jones), xxv. 385

Baudelaire, --, xxiii. 160, 195

Baxter, Charles, xxiii. 3, 159, 174, 285, 336, 341, 353, 356; xxiv. 14, 47, 79; xxv. 174, 240, 266, 273, 306, 357; letters to, xxiii. 33, 34, 46, 49, 52, 92, 193, 217, 262, 285, 336, 341; xxiv. 14, 121, 122, 200, 251, 260, 268, 286, 294, 296, 301, 303, 322, 327, 343, 344, 369, 375, 384, 392; xxv. 53, 82, 120, 177. 213, 270, 278, 288, 292, 337, 345, 360, 376, 392, 394, 433; literary agency of, xxiv. 252; scheme of, for "Edinburgh Edition," xxv. 372 & _n._ 1, 373

Baxter, Edmund, xxiv. 394; xxv. 54; death of, xxv. 433

Baynes, Professor Spencer, editor "Encyclopædia Britannica," xxiii, 202

"Beachcombers" (with Lloyd Osbourne), xxiv. 361

"Beach de Mar," projected xxv. 187

"Beach of Falesá," xxv. 5, 20, 25, 76, 97, 102, 103 & _n._ 1, 120, 122, 131, 138, 147, 152, 221, 224, 235-6, & _n._ 1, 239, 240, 250, 266, 272, 274, 284; illustrations to, xxv. 253-4, 288; marriage contract in, xxv. 187 & _n._ 1; publication, xxv. 1.

"Beau Austin," play (with Henley), xxiv. 106

Becker, Consul, xxv. 139, 141, 268

"Becket" (Tennyson), xxv. 385

"Bedtime" projected, xxiv. 99

"Beggars" (_Scribner's_), xxiv. 235, 253; xxv. 97, 209, 301

Bell Rock, book on, xxiv. 78; xxv. 322; controversy on, xxiv. 121

Bell, the, in the Vailima woods, xxv. 277

Ben More, xxiii. 318

Bennet, Dr., xxiii. 84, 101

Bentley, publisher, xxiii. 336, 339, 346

Béranger, article on, xxiii. 186, 191, 193

Bereavement, xxiv. 52

Berlin Convention, xxv. 6

Berlioz, paper on (Henley), xxiii. 318

"Bête Humaine" (Zola), xxiv. 396; xxv. 319

"Betteredge" (Moonstone), xxiii. 18

Bickford, Captain, R.N., C.M.G., xxv. 334, 351

Bitter Creek, xxiii. 234

_Black and White_, contributions to, xxiii. 286, 337, 341

"Black Arrow," xxiv. 5, 31, 56, 247, 376, 385 & _n._ 1; serial issue, xxiv. 55; success, xxiv. 68; suggested French version, xxiv. 398

"Black Canyon" (L. Osbourne), xxiii. 347, 348, 349

Blackie, Professor, xxiii. 28, 30, 306

Blacklock, Consul, xxv. 142

"Black Man," xxiii. 308

_Blackwood's Magazine_, xxiv. 370

Blair of Blairmyle (_see_ "Young Chevalier"), xxv. 216

"Blanche Amory" (Thackeray), xxiv. 212

"Bloody Wedding," projected, xxv. 66, 97

Board of Trade Offices, xxiv. 87

Boccaccio, xxv. 301

"Body Snatchers," xxiii. 308, 316, 321; xxiv. 125, 130; xxv. 397

"Bondage of Brandon" (Hemming), xxiii. 333

"Bondman, The" (Hall Caine), xxiv. 396-7

Boodle, Miss Adelaide, xxiv. 375; letters to, xxiv. 231, 259, 267, 284, 297, 339, 401; xxv. 80, 147, 217, 243, 248, 410

"Book, A, of Stories," projected contents, xxiii. 171

"Book of Verses" (Henley), xxv. 121

_Book Reader_, notice of "Prince Otto," xxiv. 195

Books wanted, xxiii. 36, 332; xxiv. 78, 101, 130, 134, 270, 274, 338;