Watts, James Orlando, Watts-Dunton’s uncle, identity of character with Philip Aylwin, [51], [56]–60

Watts, J. K., Watts-Dunton’s father, account of, [50], [53]; scientific celebrities, intimacy with, [50]–53; scientific reputation of, [52]

Watts, William K., description of, [160]

Watts-Dunton, Theodore, memoirs of, [4]; monograph on, reply to author’s suggestion to write, [6], [7]; plan of same, [9]; description of, [278]–9; Boyhood:—birthplace, [26]; Cromwell’s elder wine, [37]; Cambridge school-days, [37], [66]; St. Ives Union Book Club, speech delivered at, [15], [42]–49; family of Dunton, [53]; father and son—the double brain, [53]–5; as child critic, [55]; interest in sport and athletics, [65]; Deerfoot and the Prince of Wales, [67]; period of Nature study, [67]; articled to solicitor, [72]; Life in London:—solicitor’s practice, [88]; life at Sydenham, [89]; London Society, [89], [353]; interest in slum-life, [92]; connection with theatrical world, [117]–35; Characteristics:—Love of animals, [38], [39], [82]–85; interest in poor, [92]–4; conversational powers, [183]; genius for friendship, [443]; indifference to fame, [3], [183], [204]; habit of early rising, [279]; influence, [1], [2], [22], [452]; dual personality, [322], [356]; music, love of, [38], [89]; natural science, proficiency in, [38]; optimism, [9], [457]; identification with Henry Aylwin, [356]; Romany blood in, [361]; Writings:—‘Academy,’ invitation to write for, [187]; ‘Athenæum,’ invitation to write for, [188], [202]; contributions to, [1], [55], [170], [173], [189]–201, [204]; his treatise on Sonnet—Dr. Karl Leutzner on, [205]; critical principles, [205]; ‘Encyclopædia Britannica’ articles, [1], [2], [4], [6], [205], [256], [257]–8; difference between prose and poetry, [339]; [340], [393]; poetic style, [323]; ‘Examiner’ articles, [184]; see also Minto; Critical Work:—Swinburne’s opinion of, [1]; character of, [8], [205]–208; critical and creative work, relation between, [203]; critical and imaginative work interwoven, [370]; School of Criticism founded, [4]; Essays on Tennyson, [290]; Lowell on, [399]; Dramatic Criticism:—[119], [120], [121], [123]–30; Poetry:—[2], [4], [15], [393]–441; Rossetti on, [399]; Prose Writings:—character of, [2], [321]–25, [327]–92, [350], [453]; richness of style, [329], [330], [331], [333], [336]; unity of his writings, [445]; American friends of, [295]–311; Gypsies, description of first meeting with, [61]; Friends, Reminiscences of:—Appleton, Prof: at Bell Scott’s and Rossetti’s; Hegel on the brain; asks Watts to write for ‘Academy,’ [187]; wants him to pith the German transcendentalists in two columns, [188]; in a rage; Watts explains why he has gone into enemy’s camp, [201]; a Philistine, [202]; Black, William: resemblance to Watts, [185]; meeting at Justin McCarthy’s, [186]; Watts mistaken for Black, [186]; Borrow, George: his first meeting with, [95]; his shyness, [99]; Watts attacks it; tries Bamfylde Moore Carew; then tries beer, the British bruiser, philology, Ambrose Gwinett, etc., [100]; a stroll in Richmond Park; visit to ‘Bald-faced Stag’; Jerry Abershaw’s sword; his gigantic green umbrella, [101]–102; tries Whittlesea Mere; Borrow’s surprise; vipers of Norman Cross; Romanies and vipers, [104]; disclaims taint of printers’ ink; ‘Who are you?’ [105]; an East Midlander; the Shales Mare, [106]; Cromer sea best for swimming; rainbow reflected in Ouse and Norfolk sand, [106]; goes to a gypsy camp; talks about Matthew Arnold’s ‘Scholar-Gypsy,’ [108]; resolves to try it on gypsy woman; watches hawk and magpie, [109]; meets Perpinia Boswell; ‘the popalated gypsy of Codling Gap,’ [110]; Rhona Boswell, girl of the dragon flies; the sick chavo; forbids Pep to smoke, [112]; description of Rhona, [113]; the Devil’s Needles; reads Glanville’s story; Rhona bored by Arnold, [114]; hatred of tobacco, [115]; last sight of Borrow on Waterloo Bridge, [115]; sonnet on, [116]; Brown, Madox: [10], [12], [35], [136], [170]; anecdote about portrait of, [274]; Brown, Oliver Madox: his novel, [274]–6; Browning: Watts chaffs him in ‘Athenæum’; chided by Swinburne, [222]; [223]–27; sees him at Royal Academy private view; Lowell advises him to slip away; bets he will be more cordial than ever; Lowell astonished at his magnanimity, [222]–23; the review in question, ‘Ferishtah’s Fancies,’ [223]–26; Groome, Frank: a luncheon at ‘The Pines,’ [79]; ‘Old Fitz’; patted on the head by, [79]; see also [50], [68], [72], [285], [351], [364], [367], [372], [420]; Hake, Gordon: Introduces Borrow, [95]; see ‘New Day’; physician to Rossetti and to Lady Ripon, [90]–91; Harte, Bret: Watts’s estimate of, [302]–11; histrionic gifts, [302]; meeting with; drive round London music halls, [303]; ‘Holborn,’ ‘Oxford’; Evans’s supper-rooms; Paddy Green; meets him again at breakfast; a fine actor lost, [303]; Lowell, James Russell: meets him at dinner, [295]; he attacks England; directs diatribe at Watts; he retorts; a verbal duel, [296]; recognition; cites Watts’s first article, [298]; his anglophobia turns into anglomania, [299]; likes English climate, [300]; Marston, Westland: symposia at Chalk Farm; famous actors and actresses, [117]; table talk about ‘The Bells’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ [119]; on staff of ‘Examiner,’ [184]; the sub-Swinburnians at the Marston mornings; the divine Théophile; the Gallic Parnassus, [136]; Meredith, George: [6], [283], [284], [325], [328], [417], [418]; Minto, Prof.: neighbours in Danes Inn; editing ‘Examiner’; secures Watts; first article appears; Bell Scott’s party; Scott wants to know name of new writer, [184]; Watts slates himself, [185]; Minto’s Monday evening symposia, [185]; Morris, William: Marston mornings at Chalk Farm; ‘nosey Latin,’ [136]; Wednesday evenings at Danes Inn; Swinburne, Watts, Marston, Madox Brown and Morris, [170]; at Kelmscott, [170]; passion for angling, [171]; snoring of young owls, [171]; causeries at Kelmscott, [173]; the only reviews he read, [173]; the little carpetless room, [175]; writes 750 lines in twelve hours, [176]; the crib on his desk, [177]; offers to bring out an édition-de-luxe of Watts’s poems; gets subscribers; a magnificent royalty, [179]; presentation copies; extravagant generosity; ‘All right, old chap’; ‘Ned Jones and I,’ [180]; ‘Algernon pay £10 for a book of mine!’ [181]; disgusted with Stead, the music-hall singer and dancer; ‘damned tomfoolery,’ [181]; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel: at Marston symposia; the Gallic Parnassians; he advises the bardlings to write in French, [136]; interest in work of others; reciting a bardling’s sonnet, [137]; wishes Watts to write his life, [140]; Swinburne on Watts’s influence over, [139]; letter to author about Rossetti, [140]; Charles Augustus Howell (De Castro), Rossetti’s opinion of, [142]; portrait as D’Arcy in ‘Aylwin’; not idealized; ethics of portraiture of friend; amazing detraction of, [144]; too much written about him, [145]; relations with his wife; Val Prinsep’s testimony, [145]; ‘lovable, most lovable,’ [145]; dies in Watts’s arms, [150]; a pious fraud, [153]; alleged rudeness to Princess Louise, [155]; described in ‘Aylwin,’ [165]–9; his wit and humour, [169]; attitude to a disgraced friend, [210]; the dishonest critic; ‘By God, if I met such a man,’ [211]; a generous gift, [267]; dislike of publicity; abashed by an ‘Athenæum’ paragraph, [263]; Swinburne, Algernon Charles: James Orlando Watts and, [58]; chambers in Great James Street, [89]; life at ‘The Pines,’ [262] et seq.; offensive newspaper caricature of, [263]; the great Swinburne myth, [263]; the American lady journalist, [264]; an imaginary interview, [265]; an unlovely bard; painfully ‘afflated’; method of composition; ‘stamping with both feet,’ [265]; friendship with Watts began in 1872, [268]; inseparable since; housemates at ‘The Pines’; visit to Channel Islands; swimming in Petit Bot Bay, [268]; Sark; ‘Orion’ Horne’s bravado challenge, [269]; visits Paris for Jubilee of ‘Le Roi s’Amuse,’ [269]; swimming at Sidestrand; meets Grant Allen, [269]; visits Eastbourne, Lancing, Isle of Wight, Cromer, [270]; sonnet to Watts, [271]; dedicates ‘Tristram of Lyonesse’ to Watts, [272]; also Collected Edition of Poems, [272]; visits to Jowett; Jowett’s admiration of Watts, [279]; Balliol dinner parties, [280]; at the Bodleian, [282]; great novels which are popular, [273]; champions Meredith, [284]; Tennyson, Alfred: friendship with, [285]; sympathy between him and, [285]; sonnet on birthday, [286]; meeting at garden party; open invitation to Aldworth and Farringford; his ear not defective, [286]; sensibility to delicate metrical nuances, [287]; challenges a sibilant in a sonnet, [287]; ‘scent’ better than ‘scents,’ [287]; his morbid modesty, [288]; a poet is not born to the purple, [288]; reading ‘Becket’ in summer-house; desired free criticism, [288]; alleged rudeness to women, [289]; detraction of, [289]; could not invent a story, [289]; the nucleus of ‘Maud,’ [289]; his articles on portraits of, [290]; Traill, H. D.: reviews his ‘Sterne’; his letter to MacColl, [243]; meets him at dinner, [243]; picturesque appearance; boyish lisp; calls at ‘The Pines’; interesting figures at his gatherings; ‘a man of genius’; asks Watts to write for ‘Literature’; his geniality as an editor, [244]; why ‘Literature’ failed, [245]; Whistler, J. McNeill: Cyril Aylwin not a portrait of, [88]; anecdotes of De Castro, [142]; neighbour of Rossetti, [156]; close friendship with Watts, [301]; hostility to Royal Academy, [301]–2; his first lithographs, [301]–2; engaged with Watts on ‘Piccadilly,’ [301], [353]; ‘To Theodore Watts, the Worldling,’ [353]

Watts-Dunton, Theodore, Swinburne’s sonnets to, [271], [272]

‘Waverley,’ Swinburne on; its new dramatic method; cause of its success; imitated by Dumas, [346]

Way, T., Whistler’s first lithographs, [301], [302]

Webster, ‘Spirit of Wonder’ in, [16]

‘Well at the World’s End,’ [173]

Wells, Charles, [53]–55