And along the same rich Corridors, I would come to nights only less worth preserving in the studios of artists, American and English, who studied and worked and lived in Paris—nights that have bequeathed to me the impression of great space, and lofty ceilings, and many canvases, and big easels, and bits of tapestry, and the gleam of old brass and pottery, and excellent dinners, and, of course, vehement talk, and a friendly war of words—nights with men irrevocably in the movement, whose work was conspicuous on the walls of the New Salon and had probably, a few hours earlier, kept us busy arguing in front of it and writing voluminous notes in our note-books—nights not the least stirring and tempestuous of the many I have spent in Paris, but nights of which my safe rule of silence where the living are concerned forbids me to tell the tale.
And one special year stands out when the little hotel in the Rue St. Roch was deserted for the Grand Hotel, and when all the nights seemed swallowed up in the International Society's business—not the International Society of Anarchists, but the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers in London, which, in those terribly enterprising Nineties, sent its deputation—J. included in it—to collect all that was most individual and distinguished in the Salons for its next Exhibition. It was a year of many wanderings in many directions to many studios of French artists, or foreign artists working in Paris—a year of many meetings of many artists night after night. But this clearly is not a story for me to tell, since the International was J.'s concern, not mine. In the hours away from my work I looked on, an outsider, but an amused outsider, marvelling as I have never ceased to marvel since the faraway nights in Rome, at the inexhaustible wealth of art as a subject of talk wherever artists are gathered together.
And rambling still further into that past, I would stumble into American nights—nights with old friends, established there or passing through and run across by chance—nights of joy in being with my own people again, of hearing not English, but my native tongue and having life readjusted to the American point of view. Nobody knows how good it is to be with one's fellow-countrymen who has not been years away from them. But these also are nights that come within the forbidden zone—the zone where Silence is Golden.
VIII
I have put down these memories of Paris nights and my yearly visit to Paris in the year when, for the first time since I began my work in its galleries, no Salon has opened to take me there in the springtime. With the coming of May the lilacs and horse-chestnuts bloomed with the old beauty and fragrance along the Champs-Elysées outside the Grand Palais, but inside no prints and paintings were on the walls, no statues in the great courts. To those admitted, the only exhibition was of the wounded, the maimed, the dying. Does it mean, I wonder, the end of all old days and nights for me in Paris, as the war that has shut fast the Salon door means the end of the old order of things in the Europe I have known? Shall I never go to Paris again in the season of lilacs and horse-chestnuts? Already I have ceased to meet my old friends by day in front of the picture of the year and to quarrel with them over it by night at a café table, or in the peaceful twilight of the suburban town and park and garden. Am I to lose as well the link with the past I had in the Salon, am I to lose perhaps Paris? Who can say at the moment of my writing, when the echo of shells and bullets is thundering in my ears? The pleasure of what has been becomes the dearer possession in the mad upheaval that threatens to sweep all trace of it away, and so I cling to the remembrance of my Paris nights the more tenderly and even with the hope, if far-fetched, that others may understand the tenderness. Youth sees little beyond youth, but as the years go on I begin to believe youth exists for no other end than to supply the incidents that age transforms into memories to warm itself by. If I have reached the time for looking back, I have my compensation in the invigorating glow, for all its sadness, that I get from my new occupation.
INDEX
Abbey, Edwin A., [54]
Addiscombe, Henley's house at, [137], [145], [149]
"Admiral Guinea," by Henley, [147]
Albano, [66]
Albergo del Sole, Pompeii, [67]
"Allahakbarries," [214], [215]
Aman-Jean, E., [261]
American Consul at Venice, [86]
American tourists, [91]
American visitors, [221]
Anthony, Venice, [97]
Antica Panada, [76]
"Arabian Nights' Entertainment," by Henley, [132]
Arnold, at Venice, [86], [87]
"Arrangement in Trousers," [96]
Arrested, [29]
Art critics in Paris, [227]-[229]
Artists in Rome, [44]-[64]
"Art Journal," London, [129]
"Art Weekly," London, [202]
"Association Books," [214]
Astor, William Waldorf, [152], [153]
"Atlantic Monthly," [83], [96]
Augustine (Mme. Bertin), [218]
Austen, Louis, [174]
Ballantyne & Co., [125]
Barnes, Henley's house at, [149]
Barrie, J.M., [148], [214]
Baseball, [87], [88]
Bauer's, at Venice, [107]
Beardsley, Aubrey, [138], [177]-[191], [197], [211], [228], [260]-[264]
Beardsley's illness, [190]
Beaux-Arts, Paris, [47]
Beerbohm, Max, [185], [187]
Befana Night, [66]
Beggarstaff Brothers, [194]
Belgian exiles, [222]
Belgium, [17]
Béraud, Jean, [239]
Bibi-la-Purée, [276], [281]
Bicycle, [17], [32], [254]
Bisbing, Henry S., [102]
Black magic, [89]
Black and white at the Salons, [239]
Blackburn, Vernon, [152]
Blakie, W.B., [148]
Blanche, J.E., [261]
"Blast, The," [176]
"Bodley Head," [187]
Boer War, [219]
Borghese, The, [29]
"Boys, The," at Venice, [84], [88], [93], [95], [96], [102]
Breton, Jules, [274]
Bridge of Sighs, Venice, [75]
Brillat-Savarin, [245]
British Museum, [65]
Bronsons, the, at Venice, [98]
Brown, Horatio, at Venice, [98]
Brown, Professor Fred, [203]
Bruant, Aristide, [289]-[295]
Buckingham Street, our rooms in, [117], [121], [125], [126], [129]-[223], [142], [158],
[161], [172], [174], [179], [199], [220], [260]
Buhot, Felix, [120], [199], [203]
Bunney at Venice, [92]
Burano, [111]
Burlington House, [228]
Burly, Stevenson's, [134]
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, [178]
Bussy, Simon, [127]
"Butterfly," the, [177], [198]
Cabaret du Mirliton, Paris, [289], [295]
Lyonnais, Paris, [252], [254]
Café d'Harcourt, Paris, [273]
de la Paix, Paris, [273]
de la Régence, Paris, [273]
de Venise, Rome, [41]
Nazionale Aragno, Rome, [41], [43], [49], [52], [67], [121], [274]
Orientale, Venice, [76], [82]-[97], [107], [113], [121], [274]
Royal, London, [121], [176], [208]
Cafés at Rome, [34], [40]-[44]
at Venice, [76]-[113]
Calcino, Venice, [77]
Campagna, the, [33], [35], [65]
Campanile, the, Venice, [75]
Canaletto, [100]
"Captain's Girl," [214]
Carlyle, Thomas, [54]
Carnavalet Museum, [285], [292]
Carolus-Duran, [261]
Carpaccio, [94]
Casa Kirsch, Venice, [73], [74], [75],[77]
Casino de Paris, [280], [296]
Cavour, the, Rome, [38], [43]
Cazin, C., [262]
Cézanne, Paul, [248], [249]
Chamberlain, Dr., [62]
Champ de Mars, [234]
Champs-Elysées, [227], [243], [302]
Chantrey bequest, [119]
Charles V ball, at Munich, [105]
Charpentier, E., [286]
Chat Noir, the, Paris, [285]-[291]
Chéret, Jules, [240]
Cheshire Cheese, the, London, [38]
Chioggia, [111]
"Chronicle of Friendships," by Will Low, [165]
Church of San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice, [94]
Cleopatra's Needle, [147]
Clothes, [31]-[32], [44], [57], [76], [98], [123], [185], [193]-[194], [207], [255], [260], [261]
Cole, Timothy, [221]
Coleman at Rome, [61]
Conder, Charles, [203], [241]
Coney Island, [110]
Constable, T. and A., [213]
Cook, Clarence, [63]
Cookery, the Author's articles on, [142], [149], [158], [186]
Cooking books, [245]
Corder, Rosa, [237]
Cornford, Cope, [128]
"Courrier Français," Paris, [203]
Covent Garden, [125]
Crane, Walter, [138], [204]
Crawford, Marion, [60]
Crockett, S.R., [157]
Cubists, the, [248]
Cust, Henry, [153]
D'Ache, Caran, [240], [287]
"Daily Chronicle," the, London, [170], [173], [174]
"Daily News," London, [41]
Davies, [59], [112]
Dayrolles, Adrienne (Mrs. W.J. Fisher), [174]
Debussy, Achille Claude, [286]
Degas, H.G.E., [119], [296]
Desboutin, [296]
"Dial, The," London, [177]
Dinners in Paris, [244]-[247]
"Diogenes of London," [215]
Discussions over art, [46]-[65]
Dodge, Miss Louise, [65], [159]
"Dome," the, London, [177]
Donnay, Maurice, [286]
Donoghue the sculptor, [48]-[49], [50], [53]
Dowie, Ménie Muriel, [185]
Drouet, C., [300]
Ducal Palace, Venice, [75], [100]
Duclaux, Madame, [129]
Dumas's Dictionnaire de la Cuisine, [149], [245]
Duret, Théodore, [300]
Duveneck, Frank, [76]-[108]
Edelfelt, [239]
Eighteen-eighties, [27]-[114]
Eighteen-nineties, [115]-[304]
Their so-called decadence, [118]
English tourists, [92]
Etty, William, [123]
"Evergreen," the, London, [177]
Falcone, the, Rome, [37], [38], [43]
Fig-Tree House, [130]
Fighting nineties, [118]
Finck, Henry T., [245]
"Finsbury, Michael," [131], [132]
Fisher, W.J., [174]
Fitzgerald, Edward, [62]
Flaubert, Gustave, [173]
Florence, [29], [74], [84], [97]
Florian's, Venice, [77], [82], [99]
Florizel, Prince, [163], [168], [173], [232]
Folies-Bergère, Paris, [280]
Fontainebleau, Forest of, [271]
Forain, [203], [240]
"Forepaugh," [52]-[56], [89]
Frederic, Harold, [156], [214], [215]
Furse, Charles W., [200], [201], [211], [228], [269], [270]
Futurists, the, [248]
Garnett, Dr. Edward, [65]
Gauguin, [249]
Gautier, Theophile, [268]
Gavarni, [257]
"Gazette, Pall Mall," [153]
"Gentle Art of Making Enemies, The," [85], [217]
"Germ, The," [176]
German tourists, [77], [270]
Germany, [17]
Ghetto, Rome, [30]
Gigi, [53]
Gosse, Edmund, [174], [188]
Goupil Gallery, London, [119]
Graefe, Meier, [204]
Grahame, Kenneth, [148], [185], [213]
Grand Palais, Paris, [302]
"Graphic," the, London, [203]
Great College Street office, Henley's, [130]-[137], [139], [149]
"Greedy Autolycus," [186], [254]
Guardi, [100]
Guilbert, Yvette, [280]
"Gypsy, The," [176], [281]
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, [188]
Hamilton, Lord Frederick, [153]
Harland, Henry, [160], [172]-[177], [197], [211], [228], [257], [258], [264], [265], [266],
[290]-[294], [297]
Harrison, Alexander, [250]
Harte, Bret, [51]
Hartrick and Sullivan, [196], [198], [222]
Henley, Madge, [214]
Henley, William Ernest, [118], [125]-[149], [163], [166], [196], [197], [211], [213], [240]
Henley's "Young Men," [125], [133], [134], [142], [145], [149], [150], [176], [179], [196],
[213], [214]
Hill, L. Raven, [198]
Hobbes, John Oliver (Mrs. Cragie), [185]
"Hobby-horse," the, [176]
Horne, Herbert P., [278]
"Hospital Verses," [126], [147]
Hostess, author as, [126], [198]
Hotel de l'Univers et Portugal, Paris, [233]
d'Italie, London, [185], [187]
Howells, William Dean, [83], [109]
Hueffer, Ford Madox, [209]
Hugo, Victor, [268]
Hunt, Holman, [204], [239]
Hunt, Violet, [158]
Huysmans, Joris Karl, [89], [238]
Ibsen, [199], [251]
Impressionism, [238]
Indolence, [22], [60], [84], [86], [108], [112], [122]
"Inland Voyage, An," [165]
International Exhibitions, [19]
International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers, [301]
Italian Primitives, [204]
Italy, [17], [29]
Iwan-Müller, [154], [211]
"J—" (Joseph Pennell), [13], [20], [24], [29], [40], [44], [45], [53], [73], [81], [85], [91],
[98], [108], [113], [117], [120], [121], [122], [129], [130], [137],
[154], [161], [174], [178], [179], [184], [204], [205], [210], [214],
[217], [227], [228], [245], [254], [301]
James, Henry, [188]
Japanese art, [178]
Jobbins, [90], [95], [111]
Journalism, [19], [117], [228]-[229]
Journeyings in Europe, [15]-[19]
Kelly, FitzMaurice, [148]
Kelmscott Press, [178], [213]
Kennedy, E.G., [218], [219]
Kensington Gardens, London, [52], [176]
Khayyam, Omar, [62], [63]
Khnopf, [240]
Kipling, Rudyard, [148], [213]
Kitchener, Lord, [155]
La Pérouse, Paris, [247]
Lagoon, the, Venice, [77], [107], [111], [112]
Lamb, Charles, [22]
"Land of the Dollar," [215]
Lane, John, [185], [187]
Lang, Andrew, [41], [63]
"Lantern Bearers, The," [165], [173]
Latin Quarter, [194]
Lavenue's, Paris, [249]
Le Puy, [18]
Legge, James G., [159]
Legrand, Louis, [203], [240]
Leighton, Lord, [195]
Leland, Charles Godfrey, [20], [56]
Lhermitte, [239]
Lido, the, [76], [88], [112]
London, [38], [115]-[223], [253]
"London Impressionists," [199]
"London Voluntaries," by Henley, [147]
Low, Will, [165]
Lucca, [74]
Luska, Sydney (Henry Harland), [173]
Luxembourg, Paris, [103]
MacColl, D.S., [201], [227], [241]
"Mademoiselle Miss," [290], [294], [296]
"Magazine of Art," London, [129]
Manet, Edouard, [249], [280]
Margherita, Queen, [66]
Marguery's, Paris, [250]
Marino, [66]
Marriott-Watson, Rosamund, [157]
Martin, at Venice, [86]
May, Phil, [191]-[199], [211], [222]
McFarlane, Venice, [97], [98], [100], [106], [107]
Meissonier, J.L.E., [236]
Merceria, the, Venice, [99]
Meynell, Mrs. Alice, [158], [159]
Millet, F.D., [54]
Mistral, [65]
Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir, [142]
Monet, Claude, [238]
Montepulciano, [42]
Montmartre, [297]
Moore, George, [159], [185], [215], [229]
Morelli, [46]
Morin, Louis, [287]
Morris, William, [209]
Morrison, Arthur, [148], [213]
"Morte d'Arthur," illustrated by Beardsley, [178]
Moulin Rouge, [280], [281], [296]
Munich, [84], [97], [98], [102]
Accident at ball, [105]
Murano, [111]
Mürger, Henri, [257]
Music of "Carmen," the, [106]
Naples, [66], [67], [74], [110]
"Nation," the, London, [228], [229]
"National Observer," London, [125], [128], [130], [135], [136], [137], [138], [141],
[151], [155], [157], [211], [214], [229], [267]
New English Art Club, London, [119], [199], [200], [201], [269]
New Gallery, [227]
New York "Times," [156]
Nicholson, William, [127], [128], [194]
Norman, Henry, [159]
Norwegian at Rome, the, [60]
Nouvelle Athènes, the, Paris, [249]
"Observations in Philistia," by Harold Frederic, [156]
Orvieto, [74]
Ostia, [66]
Oulevey, H., [300]
"Pageant," the, London, [177]
Palais Royal, [243]
Pall-Mall, the, "Budget," "Gazette" and "Magazine," [142], [149], [152], [155],
[161], [186], [227], [254]
"Pan," London, [204]
Panada, the, Venice, [78]-[82]
Paris, [19], [227]-[303]
Studios, [102]-[103]
"Parson and the Painter, The," [197]
Parsons, Harold, [152]
Paulus, [280]
"Penn, William," [123], [157], [185]
Philadelphia, [13], [23], [34], [37], [40], [50], [64], [137], [242], [255]
Piazza Navona, Rome, [66]
"Pick-me-up," [198]
Pincian, the, Rome, [33], [59]
Pisa, [74]
Pistoia, [74]
Pointillism, [238]
Pollock, Wilfred, [152]
Pompeii, [67]
Porta del Popolo, Rome, [29]
"Portfolio, The," [59]
Posta, the, Rome, [43]
Post-impressionism, [204], [248]
Pre-Raphaelitism, [204], [207]
Preston, Miss Harriet Waters, [65], [159]
"Private Life of the Romans," [65]
Prunier's, Paris, [252]
Pryde, James, [194]
Pulcinello, [67]-[69]
"Punch," [213]
"Rape of the Lock," illustrated by Beardsley, [182], [213]
Rat Mort, Paris, [296]
Renouard, Paul, [203]
"Return of the O'Mahoney," [215]
Reynière, Grimod de la, [245]
Rico, [100]
Rivière, [287]
Robinson, Miss Mary, [129]
Rocca di Papa, [66]
Rodin, Auguste, [128], [240], [271], [284]
Rome, [27]-[69], [121]
Rooms at Rome, [33]-[34], [64]
Roque, Jules, [203]
Rosicrucianism, [238]
Ross, Robert, [182]
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, [207], [209]
Rossetti, William Michael, [209]
Royal Academy, [77], [119], [200], [212], [227], [232]
Rubaiyat, illustrated by Vedder, [62]
Rubens, [101], [108]
Ruskin, John, [46], [73], [77], [92], [94], [99], [100], [102], [110]
Ruskin, never quoted by artists, [92]
Sailing for Europe, [14]
Salis, [285], [286], [287], [289], [291]
Salisbury, Lord, [165]
"Salome," illustrated by Beardsley, [213]
Salons, the, Paris, [103]
Sandro, [42], [43]
Sandys, Frederick, [121], [204]-[208]
San Francisco Exposition, [84], [97]
San Giorgio, Venice, [75], [82]
San Péladan, [238]
"Saturday Review," London, [202]
"Savoy, The," [189], [190], [198], [281]
Schwabe, Carlos, [239]
"Scots Observer," Edinburgh, [129]
Shannon, J.J., [193]
Shaw, George Bernard, [159], [215]
Shinn, at Venice, [86]
Sickert, Walter, [201]
Simpson's, London, [253]
Sisley, Alfred, [238]
Sixties, illustrations of the, [205], [206], [208]
Societies in the nineties, [134]
Solferino's, London, [232], [233]
South Kensington, London, [58], [90]
"Speaker, The," London, [229]
"Spectator," London, [202], [227]
"Spring-heeled Jack," [160], [164]
Spring in Venice, [108]
"Standard," London, [83], [98]
St. Cloud, Paris, [258], [259], [263]
Steer, Wilson, [203]
Steevens, George W., [154], [211], [213], [215]
Steinlen, [240], [290]
Stennis Brothers, [165]
Stevenson, "Bob" (Robert Alan Mowbray), [160], [162], [170], [173], [197], [211],
[227], [233], [237], [249], [250], [262]
Stevenson, Robert Louis, [127], [128], [136], [146], [160], [163], [164], [167], [181],
[249], [250], [263]
Stewarts, London, [232]
St. Mark's, Venice, [75], [86], [100], [109]
St. Paul's, London, [147]
Street, George S., [148], [213]
"Strike at Arlingford, The," [215]
Stuart, Jack, [152]
"Studio, The," [178]
Symbolism, [238]
Symonds, John Addington, [77]
Symons, Arthur, [183], [190], [278]
"Talk and Talkers," [160]
Talk on Thursday nights, [124]-[125]
Thaulow, Fritz, [273]
Théâtre Français, [220]
Theosophy, [55]
Thompson, Venice, [97]
Thursday nights, our, [117], [122]-[125], [129], [142], [168], [177], [223], [255]
"Times," London, [43]
Tintoretto, [94], [108]
Tivoli, [66]
Tomson, Arthur, [202], [211]
Tomson, Graham R., [157], [158], [214], [215]
Tonks, [203]
Torcello, [111]
Toulouse-Lautrec, H. de, [240], [280], [291]
Tour d'Argent, Paris, [251], [252]
Trattoria Cavour, Rome, [38], [43]
Falcone, [37]-[38], [43]
Posta, Rome, [36]-[39], [43]
"Treasure Island," [127]
Tréteau de Tabarin, Paris, [284]
Tricycle, [15], [16], [29], [254]
Tudor classics, the, [214]
Val di Chiana, [42]
Vale Press, [213]
Vance, the painter, [80]
Van Dyke, John, [221]
Van Gogh, [248], [249]
Vedder, Elihu, [56]-[64]
Velasquez, [132], [169], [173], [215]
"Venetian Life," by W.D. Howells, [109]
Venetian painting, [101]
Venice, [66], [71]-[113]
Verlaine, Paul, [276]-[277], [281]
Versailles, [266], [267], [269], [270], [272]
Vesuvius, [67], [69]
Vibrism, [238]
Victoria, Queen, [62]
Victorian prejudice, [190], [199], [202], [204]
"Views and Reviews," by Henley, [141]
Voisin's, Paris, [246]
"Volpone," illustrated by Beardsley, [182], [213]
Vorticists, [248]
"Wares of Autolycus," [158]
Watson, Marriott, [151], [213]-[215]
Wells, H.G., [148]
Whibley, Charles, [128], [130], [151], [213], [227]
Whibley, Leonard, [213]
Whistler, James McNeill, [20], [91], [93], [94], [95], [100], [102], [119], [128], [139],
[140], [142], [163], [200], [205], [208], [216], [218], [220],
[221], [236], [237], [299], [300]
Wilde, Oscar, [49]
Willes, Adrian, [172]
Willette, [240], [287]
Willis, N.P., [222]
Wilson, Edgar, [198]
Worthing, Henley at, [126]
"Wounded Titan, The," [126]
"Wrecker, The," [165], [249]
"Wrong Box, The," [131]
"Yellow Book, The," [177],[184], [185]-[190], [198]
Zaehnsdorf, [214]
Zola, Emile, [47], [215], [222]