Chapter 44

"My Stockton if I failed to like," xxiv. 125

"Noo lyart leaves blaw ower the green," xxiii. 193

"Nor you, O Penny Whistler, grudge," xxiv. 20

"Not roses to the rose, I trow," xxiv. 205

"Not yet, my soul, these friendly fields desert," xxiii. 271

"Nous n'irons plus au bois," rondel, xxiii. 188-9

"Of the many flowers you brought me" (to Miss Rawlinson), xxiv. 227

"Of where or how, I nothing know," xxiii. 232

"O Henley, in my hours of ease," xxiii. 222

"O, how my spirit languishes," xxiv. 299

"O Sovereign of my Cedercrantz," xxv. 278

"Priests' Drought, The," ballad, xxiv. 321

"Song of Rahero," ballad, xxiv. 317, 321, 330, 395; xxv. 58

"Tandem Desino," xxiv. 79 _et seq._ "The pleasant river gushes," xxiv. 32

"There was racing and chasing in Vailima plantation," xxv. 422

"Though I've often been touched with the volatile dart," xxv. 109

"Ticonderoga," ballad, xxiv. 321, 395

"To Felix," xxiv. 189, 190 "We're quarrelling, the villages," xxv. 50

"When from her land to mine she goes" (Songs of Travel), xxiv. 345

"Woodman, The" _(New Review)_, xxv. 18 & _n._ 1, 20

"Youth now flees on feathered foot," xxiv. 172, 181

"Vicar of Wakefield," xxv. 14 _n._ 1

"Vicomte de Bragelonne" (Dumas), xxiv. 398; xxv. 51

Victor Hugo's romances, essay on, xxiii. 56, 124-5, 126, 127, 135

Victoria, Queen, xxiii. 323

Villiers, Lady Margaret, xxv. 228, 236

"Viol and Flute" (Gosse), xxiv. 98

"Virginibus Puerisque," xxiii. 184, 185, 203, 204, 208, 212, 284, 294; xxv. 301 _n._ 1; publication, xxiii. 281; new edition, xxiv. 195, 216; reprint, xxiv. 230

Vitrolles, Baron de, xxv. 288 _n._ 1, 321

Viviani, Emillia, xxiv. 212

Vogelweide, Walther von der (Studies in the Literature of Modern Europe), Gosse's introduction to, xxiii. 221

"Volsungs" (Morris), xxiii. 334

Voltaire, xxiii. 297; on OEdipus, xxiv. 114

_Vossische Zeitung_, xxv. 263

Wachtmeister, Count, xxv. 96

"Waif Woman, The," xxv. 272 & _n._ 1

Walker, Patrick, xxiv. 91

"Walking Tours," xxiii. 202

_Wallaroo_, H.M.S., officers, xxv. 452

Walter, the Skye terrier, and his sobriquets, xxiii. 280, 281, 318; xxv. 41 & _n._ 2, _et alibi_

"Wandering Willie," air, xxiii. 113

"Wandering Willie's Tale" (Redgauntlet), xxiii. 287

"Washington" (Irving), xxv. 30

Watts-Dunton, T., letter to, xxiv. 203

Waverley Novels (Scott), xxiv. 75, 76, 84, 91; xxv. 228

"Waverley" (Scott), xxiii. _intro._ xxiii.; xxiv. 91

"Way of the World" (Trollope), xxiii. 215

Weather and the old woman, xxiii. 175

Webster, essay on (Gosse), xxiv. 45

Week, The, xxiv. 45

"Wegg, Silas," (Our Mutual Friend), xxiii. 226

"Weg," nickname for Gosse, xxiii. 224, 226, 227

"Weir of Hermiston," unfinished, xxiii. _intro._ xx., 12; xxv. 144, 170, 264-5, 274, 281, 284, 287, 293, 306-7, 338, 350, 375, 383, 392, 403, 453, 456-7; scheme for, xxv. 258, 260-1, 270-1

Wellington, Duke of (_see also_ "Life" of), xxiv. 34 _n._ 1; Tennyson's "Ode" on, xxiii. 293

Went, George, xxv. 23 & _n._ 1, 100

"Werther" (Goethe's "Sorrows of Werther"), xxiii. 60

Western Islands, trip among, xxiii. 124

West Highlands, visit to, xxiii. 183

"What was on the Slate," xxiii. 222, 267

"When the Devil was well," xxiii. 167, 168, 186

"Where" and "Whereas," use discussed, xxv. 163

"White Company" (Doyle), xxv. 336

Whitman, Walt, essays on, xxiii. 55, 70, 72, 86, 89, 103, 104, 139, 140; works of, xxiii. 70, 72, 357-8; xxiv. 183

Whitmee, Rev. S. J., missionary xxv. 174, 180, 202, 203; letter to,