CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I [First Glimpses of London ] 1
II [London in the Late Seventies ] 9
III [A Norman Interlude ] 18
IV [I Take the Plunge ] 28
V [Browning and Moscheles ] 42
VI [Patti ] 57
VII [John Stuart Blackie ] 79
VIII [Lord Kelvin ] 96
IX [Tennyson ] 114
X [Gladstone ] 138
XI [Whistler ] 157
XII [Henry Drummond ] 170
XIII [Sir Henry Irving ] 185
XIV [Henry M. Stanley ] 205
XV [George Meredith ] 222
XVI [Parnell ] 240
XVII ["Le Brav' Général" ] 260
[Index ] 275