| CONTENTS | |
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| CHAPTER I | |
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| EARLY DAYS | page |
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| I come into the world.—The story of my ancestry.—My
mother.—Wilkie Collins.—The Collins
family.—Slough and Upton.—The funeral of the Duchess
of Kent.—The marriage of the Princess Royal.—Her
Majesty Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.—Their visits
to my parents' studios.—The Prince of Wales.—Sir
William Ross, R.A.—Westminster Abbey.—My
composition.—A visit to Astley's Theatre.—Wilkie
Collins and Pigott.—The Panopticon.—The Thames frozen
over.—The Comet.—General Sir John Hearsey.—Kent
Villa.—My father.—Lady Waterford.—Marcus Stone
and Vicat Cole.—The Crystal Palace.—Rev. J. M.
Bellew.—Kyrle Bellew.—I go to school.—Wentworth
Hope Johnstone. | [1] |
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| CHAPTER II | |
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| ETON AND AFTER | |
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| Eton days.—Windsor Fair.—My Dame.—Fights and Fun.—Boveney
Court.—Mr. Hall Say.—Boveney.—Professor and Mrs. Attwell.—I
win a useful prize.—Alban Doran.—My father's frescoes.—Battle
Abbey.—Gainsborough's Tomb.—Knole.—Our burglar.—Claude
Calthrop.—Clayton Calthrop.—The Gardener as Critic.—The Gipsy
with an eye for colour.—I attempt sculpture.—The Terry
family.—Private theatricals.—Sir John Hare.—Miss Marion
Terry.—Miss Ellen Terry.—Miss Kate Terry.—Miss Bateman.—Miss
Florence St. John.—Constable.—Sir Howard Vincent.—I dance with
Patti.—Lancaster Gate and Meringues.—Prayers and Pantries. | [27] |
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| CHAPTER III | |
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| MY FATHER'S FRIENDS | |
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| My father's friends.—The Pre-Raphaelites.—Plum-box
painting.—The Victorians.—The
Post-Impressionists.—Maclise.—Sir Edwin Landseer.—Tom
Landseer.—Mulready.—Daniel Roberts.—Edward Cooke.—Burgess and
Long.—Frith.—Millais.—Stephens and Holman
Hunt.—Stanfield.—C. R. Leslie.—Dr. John Doran.—Mr. and Mrs.
S. C. Hall.—The Virtues, James and William.—Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Taylor.—A story of Tennyson.—Sam Lover.—Moscheles père et
fils.—Philip Calderon.—Sir Theodore and Lady
Martin.—Garibaldi.—Lord Crewe.—Fechter.—Joachim and Lord
Houghton.—Charles Dickens.—Lord Stanhope.—William Hepworth
Dixon.—Sir Charles Dilke. | [48] |
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| CHAPTER IV | |
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| WORK AND PLAY | |
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| School-days ended.—A trip to Paris.—Versailles and the
Morgue.—I enter the office of Sydney Smirke, R.A.—Montagu
Williams and Christchurch.—A squall.—Frith as arbitrator.—I
nearly lose my life.—William Virtue to the rescue.—The
Honourable Mrs. Butler Johnson Munro.—I visit Knebworth.—Lord
Lytton.—Spiritualism.—My first picture in the Royal Academy.—A
Scotch holiday with my friend Richard Dunlop.—Patrick Adam.—Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Lewis.—Mr. George Fox and Harry Fox.—Sir
William Jaffray.—Mr. William Cobbett.—Adventures on and off a
horse.—Peter Graham.—Cruikshank.—Mr. Phené Spiers.—Johnston
Forbes-Robertson and Irving.—Fred Walker.—Arthur Sullivan.—Sir
Henry de Bathe.—Sir Spencer Ponsonby.—Du Maurier.—Arthur
Cecil.—Sir Francis Burnand.—The Bennett Benefit. | [67] |
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| CHAPTER V | |
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| SPY | |
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| My coming of age.—The letter.—The Doctor's verdict.—The
Doctor's pretty daughter.—Arthur Sullivan.—"Dolly"
Storey.—Lord Leven's garden party.—Professor Owen.—Gibson
Bowles.—Arthur Lewis.—Carlo Pellegrini.—Paolo
Tosti.—Pagani's.—J. J. Tissot.—Vanity Fair.—Some of the
Contributors.—Anthony Trollope.—John Stuart Mill.—The
World.—Edmund Yates.—Death of Lord Lytton.—Mr.
Macquoid.—Luke Fildes.—Small.—Gregory.—Herkomer.—The
Graphic.—Gladstone.—Disraeli, etc. | [89] |
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| CHAPTER VI | |
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| CARICATURE | |
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| Cannot be taught.—Where I stalk.—The ugly man.—The handsome
man.—Physical defects.—Warts.—Joachim Liszt and Oliver
Cromwell.—Pellegrini, Millais and Whistler.—The characteristic
portrait.—Taking
notes.—Methods.—Photography.—Tattersall's—Lord
Lonsdale.—Lord Rocksavage.—William Gillette.—Mr. Bayard.—The
bald man.—The humorous sitter.—Tyler.—Profiles.—Cavalry
Officers.—The Queen's uniform.—My subjects' wives.—What they
think.—Bribery.—Bradlaugh.—The Prince of Wales.—The tailor
story.—Sir Watkin Williams Wynn.—Lord Henry Lennox.—Cardinal
Newman.—The Rev. Arthur Tooth.—Dr. Spooner.—Comyns
Carr.—Pigott.—"Piggy" Palk and "Mr. Spy." | [109] |
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| CHAPTER VII | |
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| PORTRAITURE | |
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| Some of my sitters.—Mrs. Tom Caley.—Lady Leucha Warner.—Lady
Loudoun.—Colonel Corbett.—Miss Reiss.—The late Mrs. Harry
McCalmont.—The Duke of Hamilton.—Sir W. Jaffray.—The Queen of
Spain.—Soldier sitters.—Millais.—Sir William Cunliffe
Brooks.—Holman Hunt.—George Richmond.—Sir William
Richmond.—Sir Luke Fildes.—Lord Leighton.—Sir Laurence Alma
Tadema.—Sir George Reid.—Orchardson.—Pettie.—Frank
Dicksee.—Augustus Lumley.—"Archie" Stuart Wortley.—John
Varley.—John Collier.—Sir Keith Fraser.—Sir Charles
Fraser.—Mrs. Langtry.—Mrs. Cornwallis West.—Miss Rousby.—The
Prince of Wales.—King George as a boy.—Children's
portraits.—Mrs. Weldon.—Christabel Pankhurst. | [140] |
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| CHAPTER VIII | |
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| MY CLUBS | |
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| The Arts Club.—Mrs. Frith's funeral.—The sympathetic
waiter.—Swinburne.—Whistler.—Edmund Yates.—The Orleans
Club.—Sir George Wombwell.—"Hughie" Drummond.—"Fatty"
Coleman.—Lady Meux.—The Prize Fighter and her nephew.—The
Curate.—The Theobald's Tiger.—Whistler and his
pictures.—Charles Brookfield.—Mrs. Brookfield.—The Lotus
Club.—Kate Vaughan.—Nellie Farren.—The Lyric Club.—The
Gallery Club.—Some Members.—The Jockey Club Stand.—My plunge
on the turf.—The Beefsteak Club.—Toole and Irving.—The
Fielding Club.—Archie Wortley.—Charles Keene.—The Amateur
Pantomime.—Some of the caste.—Corney Grain.—A night on Ebury
Bridge.—The Punch Bowl Club.—Oliver Wendell Holmes.—Lord
Houghton and the herring. | [161] |
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| CHAPTER IX | |
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| THE LAW | |
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| The Inspiration of the Courts.—Montagu Williams.—Lefroy.—The
De Goncourt case.—Irving.—Sir Frank Lockwood.—Dr. Lampson, the
poisoner.—Mr. Justice Hawkins.—The Tichborne case.—Mr. Justice
Mellor and Mr. Justice Lush.—The Druce case.—The Countess of
Ossington.—The Duke's portrait.—My models.—The
Adventuress.—The insolent omnibus conductor.—I win my
case.—Sir George Lewis.—The late Lord Grimthorpe.—Sir Charles
Hall.—Lord Halsbury.—Sir Alfred Cripps (now Lord Parmoor).—Sir
Herbert Cozens-Hardy.—Lord Robert Cecil.—The late Sir Albert de
Rutzen.—Mr. Charles Gill.—Sir Charles Matthews.—Lord
Alverstone.—Mr. Birrell.—Mr. Plowden.—Mr. Marshall Hall.—Mr.
H. C. Biron. | [194] |
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| CHAPTER X | |
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| THE CHURCH AND THE VARSITIES--PARSONS OF MANY
CREEDS AND DENOMINATIONS | |
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| Dean Wellesley.—Dr. James Sewell.—Canon Ainger.—Lord
Torrington.—Dr. Goodford.—Dr. Welldon.—Dr. Walker.—The Van
Beers' Supper.—The Bishop of Lichfield.—Rev. R. J.
Campbell.—Cardinal Vaughan.—Dr. Benson, Archbishop of
Canterbury.—Dr. Armitage Robinson.—Varsity
Athletes.—Etherington-Smith.—John Loraine
Baldwin.—Ranjitsinhji.—Mr. Muttlebury.—Mr. "Rudy" Lehmann. | [218] |
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| CHAPTER XI | |
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| IN THE LOBBY | |
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| In the House.—Distinguished soldiers.—The main Lobby.—The
Irish Party.—Isaac Butt.—Mr. Mitchell Henry.—Parnell and
Dillon.—Gladstone and Disraeli.—Lord Arthur Hill.—Lord
Alexander Paget.—Viscount Midleton.—Mr. Seely.—Lord Alington's
cartoon.—Chaplains of the "House"—Rev. F. E. C.
Byng.—Archdeacon Wilberforce.—The "Fourth Party."—Lord
Northbrook and Col. Napier Sturt.—Lord Lytton.—The method of
Millais.—Lord Londonderry. | [236] |
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| CHAPTER XII | |
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| VOYAGE ON H.M.S. HERCULES | |
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| Sir Reginald Macdonald's caricature.—H.R.H. the Duke of
Edinburgh's invitation.—The Lively.—The Hercules.—Admiral
Sir William Hewitt.—Irish excursions.—The Channel
Squadron.—Fishing party at Loch Brine.—The young Princes arrive
on the Bacchante.—Cruise to Vigo.—The "Night Alarm."—The
Duke as bon voyageur.—Vigo.—The birthday picnic.—A
bear-fight on board the Hercules.—Homeward
bound.—Good-bye.—The Duke's visit to my studio. | [252] |
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| CHAPTER XIII | |
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| YACHTSMEN—FOREIGN RULERS | |
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| Lord Charles Beresford.—Cowes.—Lady Cardigan.—Chevalier
Martino.—Lord Albemarle.—Harry McCalmont.—Royal Sailors.—King
Edward VII.—Queen Alexandra.—Prince Louis of Battenberg.—King
of Greece.—Foreign Rulers.—The Prince Imperial.—Don
Carlos.—General Ignatieff.—Midhat Pasha.—Sir Salar Jung.—Ras
Makounan.—Cetewayo.—Shah of Persia.—Viscount Tadasu Hayashi,
etc. | [268] |
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| CHAPTER XIV | |
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| MUSICIANS—AUTHORS—ACTORS AND ARTISTS | |
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| Wagner.—Richter.—Dan Godfrey.—Arthur Cecil.—Sir Frederick
Bridge and bombs.—W. S. Penley.—Sir Herbert Tree.—Max
Beerbohm.—Mr. and Mrs. Kendal.—Henry Kemble.—Sir Edgar
Boehm.—George Du Maurier.—Rudyard Kipling.—Alfred
Austin.—William Black.—Thomas Hardy.—W. E. Henley.—Egerton
Castle.—Samuel Smiles.—Farren.—Sir Squire and Lady
Bancroft.—Dion Boucicault and his wife.—Sir Charles
Wyndham.—Leo Trevor.—Cyril Maude.—William Gillette.—The late
Dion Boucicault.—Arthur Bourchier.—Allan Aynesworth.—Charlie
Hawtrey.—The Grossmiths.—H. B. Irving.—W. L. Courtney.—Willie
Elliot.—"Beau Little."—Henry Arthur Jones.—Gustave Doré.—J.
MacNeil Whistler.—Walter Crane.—F. C. G.—Lady Ashburton and
her forgetfulness. | [283] |
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| CHAPTER XV | |
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| NOTABLE PEERS—TANGIER—THE TECKS | |
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| Peers of the Period.—My Voyage to Tangier.—Marlborough House
and White Lodge. | [303] |
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| CHAPTER XVI | |
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| MARRIAGE—SOME CLERICS—FAREWELL TO VANITY FAIR | |
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| My engagement and marriage to Miss Topham-Watney.—"Drawl" and
the Kruger cartoon.—"The General Group."—Field-Marshal Lord
Roberts.—Archbishops Temple and Randall Davidson.—The Bishop of
London.—Archbishop of York.—Canon Fleming.—Lord Montagu of
Beaulieu.—Lord Salisbury's cartoon.—Mr. Asquith.—Joe
Knight.—Lord Newlands.—Four great men in connection with
Canada.—The Queen of Spain.—Princess Beatrice of
Saxe-Coburg.—General Sir William Francis Butler, G.C.B.—Mr.
Witherby.—Farewell to Vanity Fair. | [321] |
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| CHAPTER XVII | |
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| A HOLIDAY MISFORTUNE—ROYAL PORTRAITS—FAREWELL | |
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| Belgium.—Accident at Golf.—Portraits of King George V, the Duke
of Connaught, Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr.
Garvin.—Portrait painting of to-day.—Final
reflections.—Farewell. | [332] |
| Leslie Ward | [Frontispiece] |
| James Ward, R.A. | [3] |
| James Ward's Mother | [3] |
| Miniature of my sister Alice and myself painted by Sir William Ross, R.A. | [12] |
| My Father | [14] |
| My Mother | [14] |
| Cartoons from Punch, 1865 | [22] |
| Sir William Broadbent, 1902 | [31] |
| Sir Thomas Barlow, 1903 | [31] |
| Sir James Paget, Bart., 1876 | [31] |
| Gainsborough's Tomb at Kew Churchyard and Tablet to his Memory Inside Church | [35] |
| My Brother, Wriothesley Russell, 1872 | [37] |
| My Sister, Beatrice, 1874 | [37] |
| Bust of my Brother, Wriothesley Russell, 1867 | [39] |
| My Daughter Sylvia | [39] |
| John Everett Millais, R.A., 1874 | [55] |
| C. R. Leslie, R.A. (my Godfather) | [55] |
| Lord Houghton, 1882 | [66] |
| Fred Archer, 1881 | [66] |
| The Duke of Beaufort, cir. 1895 | [66] |
| First Lord Lytton (Bulwer Lytton), 1869 | [77] |
| Mr. George Lane Fox, 1878 | [83] |
| Lord Portman, 1898 | [83] |
| Duke of Grafton, 1886 | [83] |
| Sir William Jaffray, Bart. | [88] |
| Sir William Crookes, 1903 | [93] |
| Sir Oliver Lodge, 1904 | [93] |
| Sir William Huggins, 1903 | [93] |
| Professor Owen, 1873 | [93] |
| Thomas Gibson Bowles, 1905 | [94] |
| Colonel Hall Walker, 1906 | [94] |
| Colonel Fred Burnaby, 1876 | [94] |
| Pellegrini Asleep, etc., cir. 1889 | [99] |
| John Tenniel, 1878 | [105] |
| Anthony Trollope, 1873 | [105] |
| Sir Francis Doyle, Bart., 1877 | [105] |
| "Miles Bugglebury," 1867 | [108] |
| J. Redmond, M.P., 1904 | [113] |
| The Speaker (J. W. Lowther, M.P.), 1906 | [113] |
| Bonar Law, M.P., 1905 | [113] |
| Henry Kemble, 1907 | [119] |
| H. Beerbohm Tree, 1890 | [119] |
| Gerald du Maurier, 1907 | [119] |
| William Gillette, 1907 | [119] |
| Fifth Earl of Portsmouth, 1876 | [123] |
| Major Oswald Ames (Ozzie), 1896 | [123] |
| Earl of Lonsdale, 1879 | [123] |
| The Rev. R. J. Campbell, 1904 | [127] |
| Sterling Stuart, 1904 | [127] |
| Father Bernard Vaughan, 1907 | [127] |
| Canon Liddon, 1876 | [133] |
| Cardinal Newman, 1877 | [133] |
| The Dean of Windsor (Wellesley), 1876 | [133] |
| Dr. Jowett, 1876 | [135] |
| Dr. Spooner, 1898 | [135] |
| Professor Robinson Ellis, 1894 | [135] |
| Buckstone, and other Sketches | [140] |
| Mrs. George Rigby Murray | [144] |
| A Study | [144] |
| The Hon. Mrs. Adrian Pollock | [144] |
| A Midsummer-Night's Dream | [151] |
| Grand Prix | [151] |
| The Beefsteak Club | [164] |
| George Grossmith and Corney Grain, 1888 | [179] |
| C. Birch Crisp, 1911 | [187] |
| Oliver Locker Lampson, M.P., 1911 | [187] |
| Weedon Grossmith, 1905 | [187] |
| The Forty Thieves: programme and photographs | [189] |
| Johnny Giffard; Alfred Thompson; Corney Grain; "Tom" Bird; Corney
Grain at Datchet; Pellegrini | [191] |
| Augustus Helder, M.P.; Madame Rachel; Lord Ranelagh; Beal, M.P.;
Barnum; First Lord Cowley; Sir H. Cozens-Hardy; The Dean of
Christchurch; Sir Roderick Murcheson | [199] |
| Lord Coleridge, 1870 | [211] |
| Mr. Justice Cozens-Hardy, 1893 | [211] |
| H. C. Biron, 1907 | [211] |
| E. S. Fordham, 1908 | [211] |
| Charles Williams-Wynn, M.P., 1879 | [215] |
| Sir James Ingham, 1886 | [215] |
| Lord Vivian (Hook and Eye), 1876 | [215] |
| Sir Albert de Rutzen, 1909 | [217] |
| Mr. Plowden, 1910 | [217] |
| Canon Ainger, 1892 | [222] |
| 16th Marquis of Winchester, 1904 | [222] |
| Archdeacon Wilberforce, 1909 | [222] |
| Rev. J. L. Joynes, 1887 | [225] |
| Dr. Warre Cornish, 1901 | [225] |
| Dr. Goodford, 1876 | [225] |
| Rev. R. J. Campbell, 1904 | [231] |
| Sam Loates, 1896 | [234] |
| Arthur Coventry, 1881 | [234] |
| Frank Wootton, 1909 | [234] |
| Fordham, 1882 | [234] |
| "Dizzy" and "Monty" Corry (Lord Rowton), 1880 | [241] |
| Campbell-Bannerman and Fowler, 1892 | [247] |
| Gladstone and Harcourt, 1892 | [247] |
| Lords Spencer and Ripon, 1892 | [247] |
| The Fourth Party, 1881 | [251] |
| Baron Deichmann, 1903 | [253] |
| W. Bramston Beach, M.P., 1895 | [253] |
| "Sam" Smith, M.P., 1904 | [253] |
| Percy Thornton, M.P., 1900 | [253] |
| Seventh Earl of Bessborough, 1888 | [261] |
| Rev. F. H. Gillingham, 1906 | [261] |
| Archdeacon Benjamin Harrison, 1885 | [261] |
| "Charlie" Beresford, 1876 | [268] |
| Admiral Sir John Fisher, 1902 | [268] |
| Admiral Sir Regd. Macdonald, 1880 | [268] |
| Captain Jellicoe, 1906 | [268] |
| King Edward VII, 1902 | [270] |
| Sir John Astley | [276] |
| "Jim" Lowther, M.P., 1877 | [276] |
| Peter Gilpin, 1908 | [276] |
| Earl of Macclesfield, 1881 | [276] |
| Chinese Ambassador (Kuo Sung Tuo), 1877 | [280] |
| Ras Makonnen, 1903 | [280] |
| Chinese Ambassador (Chang Ta Jen), 1903 | [280] |
| Richard Wagner, 1877 | [285] |
| The Abbé Liszt, 1886 | [285] |
| Kubelik, 1903 | [286] |
| Sir Frederick Bridge, 1904 | [286] |
| Paderewski, 1899 | [286] |
| Sir Edgar Boehm, Bart., R.A., 1884; and the brass on Sir Edgar Boehm's Tomb | [290] |
| Sir Henry Lucy, 1909 | [292] |
| W. S. Gilbert, 1881 | [292] |
| W. E. Henley, 1892 | [292] |
| Rudyard Kipling, 1894 | [292] |
| From Nursery Rhyme Sketches; Rt. Hon. "Bobby" Low; Mr. Justice
Lawrence; Danckwerts, K.C.; the late Lord Chief Justice Cockburn;
a Smile from Nature; Henry Irving | [297] |
| Lord Newlands, 1909 | [306] |
| Count de Soveral, 1898 | [306] |
| M. Gennadius, 1888 | [306] |
| General Sir H. Smith Dorrien, 1911 | [313] |
| Lord Roberts, 1900 | [313] |
| Lord Kitchener, 1899 | [313] |
| Lloyd George, 1911 | [318] |
| Asquith, 1904 | [318] |
| Rufus Isaacs, 1904 | [318] |
| My Daughter | [322] |
| My Wife | [322] |
| Joseph Knight, and a facsimile letter | [326] |
| Princess Ena of Battenberg, 1906 | [330] |
| Sketches drawn in September, 1899, by Mr. A. G. Witherby | [332] |
| M. P. Grace, Esq., Battle Abbey | [340] |