Corry, Montagu, 121. See Rowton
Corsican Brothers, The, 155, 183, 186
County Fire Office, demolition, 198
Court Theatre, 195
Courtney, W. L., tribute to the memory of Lady Bancroft, 218-226
Coyne, Stirling, 196
Critchett, Sir Anderson, 61
Criterion Theatre, 211
Cromer, Earl of, 54
Curzon, George, Marquess, 142
Daudet, Alphonse, 22
Davis, Mr., 148
Desclée, Aimée, 24; character of her acting, 25; death, 25
Devonshire House, fancy-dress ball at, 122
Dickens, Charles, 34, 35, 156; Christmas Carols, 12; Household Words, 73; opinion of Marie Wilton's acting, 221
Dickens, "Mamie," 59
Dilke, Sir Charles, 68
Diplomacy, 111, 173, 175, 214, 233
Doyle, Dicky, 59
Duse, Eleanora, 22, 167, 203, 220
Edward VII, H.M. King, date of his birth, 1; at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, 2; illness, 5; attends a Thanksgiving Service, 5; at Chelsea Hospital, 6; entertains actors, 7; stories of, 8-11, 13-16; presented with a cigar box, 8; acts of kindness, 11; at Marienbad, 13, 16; characteristics, 14-16; death, 16
Elgar, Edward, 27
Ellicott, Bishop, story of, 42
Ellicott, Mrs., 42
Elliott, Rev. W. H., address at the Memorial Service to Lady Bancroft, 238-242
Esher, Lord, Master of the Rolls, 65; letter to Lady Bancroft, 63
Esher, Lady, 66
Eze, 11
Falkland, Lord, 68
Farquhar, Gilbert, 118
Farquhar, Horace, 118
Fechter, Charles, character of his acting, 154-156; death, 156; bust, 156
Fergusson, Sir William, 104
Fife, Earl of, 119
Fildes, Luke, 77
Fisher, Viscount, 54, 122; date of his birth, 16; religious views, 123; compliment to Queen Alexandra, 123
Fisher, Lady, 122
Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston, 60; tribute to the memory of Lady Bancroft, 233; at her funeral, 237
Ford, Onslow, 89
Fountains Abbey, 47
Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, 14
Frederick, Empress, illness, 50; relations with her son, 61
Frith, W. P., 84; pictures, 85
Frohman, Charles, 102
Fun, 108
Gardner, Herbert, 68. See Burghclere
Garrick Club, 78, 102, 103, 154, 156, 184
Garrick, David, 164
Gemmaert, Émile, Carillon, 27
Geneva, 61
George V, H.M. King, 17; at Sandringham, 13
Gilbert, Sir W. S., 94, 107, 168; Bab Ballads, 108; plays, 108; comic operas, 108; humorous sayings, 108-111; Sweethearts, 234-236
Gill, Charles, 75
Gleichen, Count, 90
Glenesk, Lord, 132. See Borthwick
Goldschmidt, Otto, 18
Gordon, General, statue of, 90
Goschen, Sir Edward, 14
Got, Edmond, 22, 161; letter from, 161
Gounod, 96
Grace, W. G., 120; testimonial to, 110
Grain, Corney, 196
Granville, Such, 108
Graves, Charles, lines from, 146
Green, Paddy, 71
Grenfell, Field-Marshal Lord, 54
Grisi, Madame, 20
Grossmith, Weedon, 197
Hall, Sir Charles, at Sandringham, 12
Hannen, Lord, 66; President of the Divorce Court, 67
Hare, Sir John, 7, 8, 43, 67, 107, 119, 213; portrait, 79; character of his acting, 213-215
Harrison, Frederick, 200
Hawkins, Henry, 71. See Brampton
Haymarket Theatre, 8, 117, 199
Healy, Father, story of, 70
Herkomer, Sir Hubert, 85; The Last Muster, 6, 86
Herschell, Baron, Lord Chancellor, 70
Hesse, Prince Louis of, illness, 10
Hicks, Seymour, 195
His Majesty's Theatre, 199
Hodson, Henrietta (Mrs. Labouchere), 139
Holker, Lord Justice, 69
Hood, Tom, 168
Hope, Anthony, 202
Houghton, Lord, 100. See Milnes
Huddleston, Baron, 67; funeral, 68
Ibsen, H., Hedda Gabler, 205
Incubus, The, 191
Inglefield, Admiral Sir Edward, 124
Inglefield, Lady, 125
Irving, Elizabeth, 192
Irving, Sir Henry, 7, 180; banquet to, 64; portraits, 79, 90, 187, 188; statue, 89; at a fancy-dress ball, 122; in Paris, 181; acting in The Bells, 182; entertained at the Garrick Club, 184; gift from Sir S. Bancroft, 187; spends Christmas Day with him, 183; hospitality, 188; tribute to, 189; sons, 190
Irving, H. B., 190
Irving, Laurence, 190; character of his acting, 191
Irving, Laurence (son of H. B. Irving), 192
Isaacs, Sir Rufus, 65
James, David, 7
James, Henry, 101, 203; Order of Merit conferred, 102; death, 102
James, Lord, of Hereford, 67, 68
Jefferson, Joseph, character of his acting, 165; pictures, 165
Jerrold, Douglas, 160; tribute to Shakespeare, 210
Jeune, Francis, 65, 69. See St. Helier
Joachim, J., 60
Johnson, Dr., 87
Jones, Henry Arthur, 109, 202; plays, 198; comedies, 211
Karsavina, 27
Keeley, Louise, marriage, 74. See Williams
Keeley, Mrs., 74
Keeley, Robert, 74
Kelvin, Lord, 122
Kemble, Henry, stories of, 176; death, 177
Kendal, Madge, 29, 108, 201, 203. See Robertson
Kendal, William, 7, 153, 198, 201; character of his acting, 202
Key, Philip Barton, 146
Kitchener, Field-Marshal Earl, 126; tribute to, 126
Knobloch, Edward, 237
Knollys, Lord, 7
Labouchere, Henry, 68, 139; stories of, 140; "Letters of a Besieged Resident," 140; Privy Councillor, 141
Langtry, Mrs. portrait, 79
Lascelles, Sir Frank, 54, 55; Ambassador in Berlin, 137
Lawson, Edward, 134. See Burnham
Legault, Maria, 22
Leighton, Lord, President of the Royal Academy, 2; death, 77; remarkable gifts, 77; The Slinger, 78
Lemon, Mark, editor of Punch, 111
Lever, Charles, 102
Lewis, Sir George, 63, 68; tribute to, 64
Lincolnshire, Lord, 7
Lind, Jenny, 18; story of, 18-20; medallion, 20
Lindsay, Sir Coutts, President of the Grosvenor Gallery, 143
Linley, Elizabeth, 125
Löhr, Marie, 87
Londesborough, Lord, 119; member of the Coaching Club, 120
Longfellow, Henry W., story of, 99
Lonsdale, Frederick, 76
Lord Dundreary, 167
Lowell, J. R., 147
Lucas, E. V., 191
Lucy, Sir Henry, 114; appearance, 115
Lucy, Lady, 114
Lyttelton, Hon. Alfred, 135
Lytton, Bulwer, 32, 34; Money, 66, 173, 212
Macduff, Viscount, 118
Mackenzie, Sir Morell, 202
Macready, General Sir Nevil, 160
Macready, Jonathan, 160
Macready, Major, 160
Macready, W. C., opinion of Salvini's acting, 159; of Marie Wilton's, 219
Malibran, Maria, 20
Mario, G., 20
Marks, Henry Stacey, 86
Marlborough Club, 7
Marlborough House, dinner at, 7
Marshall, Robert, plays, 113
Mary, H.M. Queen, 117, 242; at Sandringham, 13
Mathew, Lord Justice, 70
Mathews, Charles, Public Prosecutor, 75
Mathews, Charles, 149; speech at a banquet, 150; letter from, 151; opinion of Our Boys, 153; character of his acting, 153
Maude, Cyril, 200
Maurice, Sir Frederick, biography of Lord Wolseley, 127
Maurier, George du, Trilby, 86, 92; drawings in Punch, 91
Maurier, Sir Gerald du, 153; at the funeral of Lady Bancroft, 237
Maxwell, Mrs., 31. See Braddon
Maxwell, W. B., 35
May, Phil, 185
McConnell, W. R., 168
McDonnell, Schomberg or "Pom," 137
Melba, Dame Nellie, 20; story of, 128
Meredith, George, Diana of the Crossways, 125
Merewether, Mr., 67
Meyerbeer, G., 20
Millais, Sir John Everett, 67; President of the Royal Academy, 78; pictures, 78, 79; portraits, 79, 187; landscapes, 79
Milnes, Monckton, 100. See Houghton
Modjeska, Helena, character of her acting, 27
Mohammedan legend, sermon on, 51
Monckton, Lionel, 195
Montague, Henry, character of his acting, 172; death, 173
Morley, Rt. Hon. Arnold, Postmaster-General, 68
Morley, Viscount, 68
Morris, Clara, 30
Mounet-Sully, M., 162
Nevill, Lady Dorothy, 35; reminiscences, 36
Nevill, Ralph, 36
Neville, Henry, 7
Nijinsky, 27
Norton, Mrs., 125
O'Connor, Rt. Hon. T. P., 142
Ohnet, Georges, 22
Olivia, 214
Onslow, Lord, 120
Orchardson, Sir W. Q., pictures, 84
Orton, Arthur, claimant in the Tichborne trial, 71
"Ouida," 31; novels, 32; views on female suffrage, 32; letter from, 33. See Ramée
Oxford and Cambridge cricket match, 135
Paderewski, I. J., 20
Page, Dr. W. H., 147
Paris, siege of, 173
Parker, Dr. Joseph, 50
Parker, Louis N., 203
Parnell Commission, 67
Parratt, Sir Walter, 54, 55, 96
Parry, John, 196
Parry, Serjeant, 71
Partridge, Bernard, 186
Passing of the Third Floor Back, The, 115
Patti, Adelina, 20
Peel, Sir Robert, conversion to Free Trade, 125
Pellegrini, Carlo, caricatures, 2, 93; death, 94
Phelps, Mr., 147
Phillips, Stephen, 203
Piatti, 60
Pickersgill, the engraver, 87
Pierson, Blanche, 22
Pigott, Edward, Reader of Plays, 22
Pinero, Sir Arthur W., 14, 202; Lords and Commons, 177; The Profligate, 199; knighthood conferred, 200; The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 203-207; The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, 214; The Gay Lord Quex, 214; tribute to the memory of Lady Bancroft, 226-232; at her funeral, 237
Planché, J. R., The King of the Peacocks, 149
Plat, Sir Charles du, at Sandringham, 12
Plunket, David, 132. See Rathmore
Poe, Edgar Allan, lines from, 74
Pontresina, 95
Poynter, Sir Edward, 188; President of the Royal Academy, 80; pictures, 81
Prince of Wales's Theatre, 2, 101, 117, 213, 227, 243
Prince's, 110
Princess's Theatre, 194
Prinsep, Anthony, 87
Punch, 59, 91, 110, 145; editors, 111
Queen's Theatre, 139
Ramée, Louise de la, 31. See Ouida
Rathmore, Lord, 132. See Plunket
Reade, Charles, 172; The Cloister and the Hearth, 102; characteristics, 103; Masks and Faces, 225
Regnier, M., 162
Réjane, Madame, character of her acting, 26
Ridge, W. Pett, 75
Ridgeway, Dr., Bishop of Chichester, 54
Ristori, Madame, 157
Rivière, Briton, pictures, 86
Roberts, Field-Marshal Earl, 126
Robertson, Madge, 108, 201. See Kendal
Robertson, T. W., 104; comedies, 1, 101, 105, 217, 224, 227; Ours, 8, 222, 233; Caste, 105, 119, 139, 227; School, 138, 164, 233; Society, 216; death, 217
Robins, Elizabeth, 205
Roebuck, Captain Disney, 73
Rogers, Rev. William, 63
Rothschild, Alfred de, 137
Rowe, Mrs. Jopling, portrait, 79
Rowton, Lord, 121. See Corry
Russell, Charles, Lord Chief Justice, personality, 62; tribute to Sir G. Lewis, 63; story of, 64
Russell, Sir William Howard, 132
St. Helier, Lord, President of the Divorce Court, 69
St. Helier, Lady, 69
St. James's Theatre, 202
St. Paul's Cathedral, Thanksgiving Service, 5
Sala, George Augustus, 106
Salvini, T., character of his acting, 156-159; letter from, 158