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FORTY YEARS OF 'SPY'

BY

LESLIE WARD

_Illustrated_

LONDON

CHATTO & WINDUS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

EARLY DAYS

PAGE

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

CHAPTER II

ETON AND AFTER

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

CHAPTER III

MY FATHER'S FRIENDS

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 _pere et fils_.--Philip Calderon.--Sir Theodore and
LadyMartin.--Garibaldi.--Lord Crewe.--Fechter.--Joachim and
Lord Houghton.--Charles Dickens.--Lord Stanhope.--William
Hepworth Dixon.--Sir Charles Dilke. 48

CHAPTER IV

WORK AND PLAY

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. Phene 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

CHAPTER V

'SPY'

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.--_TheGraphic._--Gladstone.--
Disraeli, etc. 89

CHAPTER VI

CARICATURE

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

CHAPTER VII

PORTRAITURE

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

CHAPTER VIII

MY CLUBS

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

CHAPTER IX

THE LAW

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

CHAPTER X

THE CHURCH AND THE VARSITIES--PARSONS OF MANY CREEDS AND DENOMINATIONS

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

CHAPTER XI

IN THE LOBBY

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

CHAPTER XII

VOYAGE ON H.M.S. _HERCULES_

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

CHAPTER XIII

YACHTSMEN--FOREIGN RULERS

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

CHAPTER XIV

MUSICIANS--AUTHORS--ACTORS AND ARTISTS

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 Dore.--J. MacNeil
Whistler.--Walter Crane.--F. C. G.--Lady Ashburton and her
forgetfulness. 283

CHAPTER XV

NOTABLE PEERS--TANGIER--THE TECKS

Peers of the Period.--My Voyage to Tangier.--Marlborough House
and White Lodge. 303

CHAPTER XVI

MARRIAGE--SOME CLERICS--FAREWELL TO _VANITY FAIR_

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