“Adela, Adela, Adela Chart,” xxv. 109

“Bells upon the City are ringing in the night,” xxiv. 167

“Blame me not that this Epistle,” letter in verse to Baxter, xxiii. 46

“Brave lads in olden musical centuries,” xxiii. 304

“Dear Henley, with a pig’s snout on,” xxiii. 330

“Do you remember—can we e’er forget?—,” xxiv. 376

“Far have you come, my lady, from the town,” rondel, xxiii. 188

“Feast of Famine” (Ballads, 1890), xxiv. 298-9, 321, 330, 395

“Figure me to yourself, I pray,” xxiii. 287

“He may have been this and that,” xxiv. 190

“Here’s breid an’ wine an’ kebbuck,” xxiii. 257

“Home no more home to me, where must I wander?” (Songs of Travel), xxiv. 303

“I heard the pulse of the besieging sea” (to Colvin), xxiv. 366; xxv. 23 & n. 1

“In the beloved hour that ushers day” (Songs of Travel), xxiv. 240

“I was a barren tree before,” xxv. 366

“I would shoot you, but I have no bow,” xxiii. 360

“Let us who part like brothers part like bards” (Songs of Travel), xxiv. 378, 380

“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 Œdipus, 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, xxv. 174

Wick, at, xxiii. 12, 15

“Widdicombe Fair,” song, xxv. 391

Wiesbaden, visit to, xxiii. 182

“Wild Man of the Woods,” xxiii. 249

“Will o’ the Mill,” xxiii. 184, 207, 248, 268

Williams, Dr., of Nice, xxiv. 59

Williams, Mr. and Mrs., xxiii. 353

“William Wilson” (Poe), xxiii. intro. xxiii.

“Wiltshire” (Beach of Falesá), xxv. 187

“Window in Thrums” (Barrie), xxv. 276, 362 & n. 1

Winslow Reef, xxiv. 362

“Winter and New Year” (Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh), xxiii. 216

“Winter’s Walk, The,” unfinished, xxiii. 201, 202

Wise, ——, xxv. 55

“Witch of Prague” (Crawford), xxv. 275

“Wogg” (see Walter), other names for, xxiii. 280-1, 318

Wolseley, Viscount, xxiv. 81

“Woman killed with Kindness” (Heywood), xxiii. 354

Women characters, dissatisfaction with, xxiv. 398

Women, thoughts on (see also Elgin marbles), xxiii. 162-4, 358

Wood, Sir Evelyn, xxiv. 81

“Wrecker” (with Lloyd Osbourne), xxiii. 12, 275; xxiv. 362, 367-8, 379, 380, 389, 396, 399, 402; xxv. 5, 11, 24, 33, 84, 87, 108, 110, 115, 128, 138, 141, 152, 171, 210, 215, 221, 224, 274, 376, 378; finished, xxv. 111-2 & n. 1, 113, 115, 120, 122; comments, xxv. 146; discussed, xxv. 437 & n. 1; publication of, xxv. 87, 144; success of, xxv. 238, 258, 357

Wreck of the Susannah, xxiii. 308

“Wrong Box, The,” or “The Finsbury Tontine,” or “The Game of Bluff” (with Lloyd Osbourne), xxiv. 235, 249-50, 256, 258, 282, 291, 320, 322, 328, 360, 370

Wurmbrand, Captain Count, xxv. 354, 369, 370, 383, 415

Wyatt, Mr., xxiii. 6


Yeats, W. B., letter to, xxv. 390

“Yellow Paint,” xxiii. 141

Yelverton, ——, xxiii. 275

“Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum” (Treasure Island), xxiii. 326

Yoshida Torajiro, essay on (Familiar Studies), xxiii. 229, 262, 264, 265

“Young Chevalier,” unfinished, xxv. 144, 171 n. 1, 187-8, 189, 192, 216-7, 264, 281, 305; characters in, xxv. 190-1

Young Folks, contributions to, xxiii. 328, 329, 332, 339; xxiv. 31, 55, 148

Yule-Tide, contribution to, xxv. 57


Zassetsky, Madame, xxiii. 97, 99, 102, 105, 108, 110, 113, 114, 115, 118, 122

Zassetsky, Nelitchka, xxiii. 98, 102, 104, 107, 108, 112, 114, 115, 116

Zola, Emile, xxiii. 346-7; xxiv. 396; xxv. 250 n. 1, 318, 319, 379