Chapter XXX: Appendix: III

Mr. Herbert Spencer to Mr. Blunt

[Recd. _October 4_, 1898]

5, Percival Terrace,

Brighton.

DEAR SIR,

For some years I have been casting about for a poet who might fitly undertake a subject I very much want to see efficiently dealt with. At one time I thought of proposing it to Mr. Robert Buchanan, who, in respect of vigour of expression and strength of moral indignation seemed appropriate, but I concluded that the general feeling with regard to him would prevent a favourable reception—would, in fact, tend very much to cancel the effect produced. Afterwards the name of Mr. William Watson occurred to me as one who had shown feelings of the kind I wished to see expressed. But admirable as much of his poetry is, the element of power is not marked; he does not display a due amount of burning sarcasm. Your recent letter in “The Times,” and since then a review in “The Academy,” in which there were quotations from your poem, “The Wind and the Whirlwind,” lead me to hope that you may work out the idea I refer to.

This idea is suggested by the first part of Goethe’s “Faust”—“The Prologue in Heaven,” I think it is called. In this, if I remember rightly (it is now some fifty years since I read it), Mephistopheles obtains permission to tempt Faust: the drama being thereupon initiated. Instead of this I suggest an interview and dialogue in which Satan seeks authority to find some being more wicked than himself, with the understanding that if he succeeds this being shall take his place. The test of wickedness is to be the degree of disloyalty—the degree of rebellion against divine government.

Satan gives proof that his rebellion has been less flagitious than that of men.

He confesses to having been a rebel, but an avowed one.

He has not, like men, professed to worship the Christian God while perpetually worshipping the pagan gods; he has not day by day sacrificed with zeal to Thor and Odin, while nominally sacrificing to Jehova.

He is not like men who, tepidly joining in praises of Christ as a model on one day in the week, on the other six days bring up their sons in glowing admiration of blood-stained Homeric heroes.

He is not like men who, nominally admitting on Sunday that forgiveness is a virtue, emphatically insist on and practice on all other days the duty of blood-revenge.

He has never done like men who, professing the Christian principle of submitting to injuries, ridicule as idiots the few Christians who propose to act on that principle.

He has not, while professing to relinquish the savage law of retaliation—a life for a life—adopted the far more savage law—for one life many lives.

Satan goes on to urge that he has never with rebellion joined perpetual insults as men have done.

I have never turned your churches of mercy into pagan temples by hanging up in them the torn flags of conquered peoples.

I have never blasphemed by thanking you for aiding in mowing down tens of thousands of men who worshipped you under another name.

I have never blasphemed by calling you Omniscient while ascribing to you unutterable stupidity—the stupidity of being ready to accept perpetual professions of obedience as sufficient to cancel perpetual acts of absolute disobedience: being so pleased with laudations, prayers, and obeisances as to overlook the contemptuous disregard of peremptory commands.

THE REPLY

If while sacrificing to me in name men have sacrificed to Pagan gods in act, it is your doing. You have betrayed them into this rebellion. Only by your delusions has it been possible to make them think that I should accept words in place of deeds. Joined though it is with lying and hypocrisy, the rebellion of these beings is not worse than your rebellion, because you have prompted it.

SATAN

But if I deceived them it was only because they wished to be deceived. They wished to gratify their revenge while having the blessings promised to those who forgive.

REPLY

You cannot be pardoned.

SATAN

But may I mete out their punishments according to their own measure? They ask to be forgiven their sins as they forgive the sins of others. May I torture them in proportion to their unforgiveness? For every time they have professed the religion of love and practised the religion of hate, may I thrust them a step lower down in hell?

Might not some such ideas as these, presented with power, produce considerable effects upon a few men, though not perhaps on many?

I am faithfully yours,

HERBERT SPENCER.

END OF APPENDICES

INDEX TO VOLUME I

Abbas II, Khedive of Egypt, 63, 64, 84-93, 97, 98, 101, 108, 110, 113,
116-131, 134-138, 141, 142, 144, 165-168, 195, 207, 208, 210-213,
218-223, 242-244, 246, 247, 268, 271, 277, 285, 286, 363, 366, 368,
369, 374

Abdallah, the Khalifa of Omdurman, 13, 126, 196, 201, 219, 242, 287,
296, 305, 341, 342

Abdu, Sheykh Mohammed, afterwards Grand Mufti of Egypt, 31, 45, 48,
49, 64, 90, 91, 97, 122, 125, 135, 138, 166, 206, 209, 214, 219-221,
225, 243-247, 277, 285, 288, 289, 338, 343, 344, 346, 347, 349, 374

Abdul Hamid, Ottoman Sultan, 96, 99, 100, 102, 105, 113, 119-121, 123,
127, 133, 142, 168, 190, 206-208, 215, 227, 239, 244, 246, 277, 278,
285, 305, 306, 309

Abdullah Pasha Nedj, Ibn Thenneyan Ibn Saoud, 93, 105, 206, 209, 211

Abu Naddara, _see_ Sanua

Abdul Huda, Sheykh, 206, 209, 285

Achmetega, 7, 8

Afghan Frontier, 283

Afridis, The, 285

_Afrits_, 36

Albania, 9

Alexandra, Queen, 382

Ali Bey Kamel, 95

Ali Pasha Sherif, 166, 167, 210, 245

Alsace-Lorraine, 4, 21, 305, 401, 403, 404

Amir Ali, 80

Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 290, 291

Animals, rights of, 343, 346

Aosta, Duchess of, _see_ Hélène, Princess of Paris

Aosta, Duke of, 170, 171

Arabi Pasha, 4, 12, 16, 17, 30, 31, 32, 45, 54, 74, 75, 80, 93-95,
193, 198, 203, 209, 219, 223, 250, 363

Armenia, 103, 106, 173, 185-192, 214, 215, 219, 238, 239, 244

Asquith, H. H., M.P., 72, 117, 140, 141, 145, 146

Asquith, Margot, (Formerly Margot Tennant), 63, 69, 72, 75, 76, 83,
110, 111, 140, 141, 145, 170, 230, 231, 314

Athens, 7, 8, 98

Austin, Alfred, Poet Laureate, 144, 212, 214, 279, 280, 369

Australia, 321

Automobiles, 371

Baggaras tribe, the, 196

Balfour, Rt. Honble. Arthur James, M.P., 22, 53, 54, 72, 281, 290,
291, 322-324

Balfour, Rt. Honble. Gerald, M.P., 60, 70, 172

Bannerman, Rt. Honble. Campbell, M.P., 322, 323

Baring financial crisis, 54

Baring, Sir Evelyn, _see_ Cromer

Barre, celebrated French tennis champion, 396, 397

Beauclerk, Father, 300, 301

Bedouins, The, 221

Belgian treaty, 404

Benedetti, M., French Ambassador at Berlin, 388, 389

Berbers, The, 200, 201, 219

Berlin, Congress of, 109

Bernhardt, Sarah, 102, 103

Bismarck, Prince, 10, 18, 238, 295, 305, 381, 382, 388, 389, 404

Bizerta, 155

Bloemfontein, 326

Blunt, General Walter, Pasha, A.D.C. to the Sultan, 101, 187, 189

Boer War, 327, 328, 331-336, 340, 341, 344, 346, 347, 350, 351, 365,
368, 372, 375, 376, _see also_ Transvaal

Boulanger, General, 2, 3, 4, 20, 57

Bourke, Honble. Algernon, _see_ “Button”

Bourke, Honble. Terence, 153-159

Boutros Pasha, 312

Bowen, Sir George, 89, 90

Brand, Harry, _see_ Hampden

Brandes, Georg, 232

Branicka, Countess, 181, 182, 183

Brewster, Bey, Khedive Abbas’ private secretary, 130, 131

“_Bride of the Nile_,” 113

British Empire, 212, 214, 233, 285, 288, 290, 311, 333, 342, 344, 375,
376

Broadwood, Captain, afterwards General, 127, 128, 199, 200, 201

Browning, Letters of Mrs., 373

Buckle, George Earle, Editor of the “Times,” 226, 328

Budge. Dr., 332

Bulgaria, 179

Buller, General Sir Redvers, 333, 334, 346, 350, 366

Bulwer’s Island, 185

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, 67, 111, 229, 240, 294, 315

Burton, Sir Richard, 292

“Button,” Honble. Algernon Bourke, 278, 296, 366

Cambon, M., French Ambassador in London, 308, 309, 314

Canterbury Cathedral, 232

Carthage, Site of, 154

Castletown, Lord and Lady, 77, 78

Chamberlain, Rt. Honble. Joseph, M.P., 211, 218, 222, 226, 278, 280,
281, 306, 322, 325, 327, 332, 350, 351, 372

Chess, 156

“Chibine” wreck of, 352-361

China, 369, 375

Churchill, Lord Randolph, M.P., 31, 50, 52, 97, 142

Churchill, Rt. Honble Winston, M.P., 321, 322

Cisterna, 28

Clarendon, Lord, 385

Coal War, 116

Cockerell, Sidney, 293, 294, 351, 352, 358, 365

Cogordan, M., French Minister at Cairo, 209, 215, 287, 364

Congo, The, 376

Constantinople, _see_ also Abdul Hamid, 98, 184, 187, 190

Convention, the Drummond Wolff, 12, 58, 60, 102, 109, 173, 185, 407

Coup d’état (Egypt) 86, 87, 125

Crabbet Club, The, 41, 42, 68, 112, 145, 375

Crete, 296

Crispi, Signor, 217, 365

Cromer, Lord, (now Earl Cromer—formerly Sir Evelyn Baring), 11, 17,
30, 31, 34, 35, 43-50, 61-64, 72, 76, 82, 84-95, 97, 98, 107-110, 116,
118-120, 124-126, 128-132, 135-138, 141, 165, 204-206, 211-213,
218-224, 227, 244-247, 285, 288, 307, 310, 312, 313, 324, 334, 344,
347, 350, 362, 363, 407-409

Currie, Francis Gore, 2, 43, 383, 403

Currie, Sir Philip, afterwards Lord, Ambassador at Constantinople,
112, 184-186, 188, 189, 191, 215, 231

Curzon, Honble. George, afterwards Earl Curzon of Kedleston, 58, 112,
173, 308

Cust, Harry, M.P., 42, 110, 171, 231, 308, 326

Dalmatia, Parties in, 18

Dawkins, Financial Adviser, 224

Delcassé, M., 306, 309

Delta of the Nile, 374

Dervishes, 200, 205, 210, 296

Desert Journeys, 168, 216, 248-275

DeVere, Aubrey, 337

Dilke, Rt. Honble. Sir Charles, M.P., 108

Dillon, John, M.P., 111, 325, 348

Dongola, 193, 201, 205, 206, 220-224, 231, 233, 238, 243

Doughty, Charles, 273

Dreyfus Case, 289, 304, 327-329

Drinkshops, 49, 120, 121

Driving Tours, 70, 148, 234-237, 282, 283

Dufferin, Marquess of, 30, 51, 59, 80, 112, 177

Duran, Carolus, 79

Edward VII, King, _see_ Wales

Egerton, Secretary, 58, 59, 98

Egypt, brigandage in, 43; evacuation of, 49, 58, 60, 74, 88, 94, 108,
109, 115, 116, 117, 120, 185, 214, 215, 218, 245, 350, 406; increase
of rain in, 133; the law in, 247; military occupation of, 43, 44, 107;
nationalism, 11, 84, 138, 165, 350; political situation in, 11, 12,
43; saved from absorption, 25. _See_ also Abbas, Cromer, Tewfik, Abdu
Mohammed, Desert trips, Sheykh Obeyd

El Bekri, Sheykh of Cairo, 87, 89, 90, 96, 123, 124, 285

Ellis, The Honble. Sir Arthur, Equerry to the Prince of Wales, 98, 141

Emin Pasha, 102

Empire, _see_ British Empire

English language, 396

Esterhazy, M., 289

“_Esther_,” 81, 83

Estournelles, M. Constant d’, 109, 110, 308

Eugénie, Empress, 176, 392, 393, 394, 395, 401, 405

Eversley, Lord, 311

European War, 50

Fashoda, 287, 298, 299, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 369

Faure, President, 313

Fayoum, The, 249

Fellahin, The, 45, 46, 48, 194, 408

Fenwick, Pasha, 87, 165

Ferdinand, Prince, 179

Ferrières, M., 78

Filipinos, The, 331, 376

“_Fire and Sword in the Soudan_,” 242

Fogliano, 28

Ford, Rt. Honble. Sir Clare, British Ambassador at Constantinople, 99,
103, 113

France, the Entente with, 59, 309, _see_ Fashoda

Franco-Prussian War, 382, 387-404

Frankfort, 382

Freemantle, Sir Arthur, 163, 164

Froissart’s _Chronicles_, 285

“Frontier incident, The,” 118, 125-130, 134, 136

Gabez, a Palm Oasis, 161

Gallifet, Gen., 328, 329, 399

Galloway, Countess of, 110, 172, 215

Game laws, French, 77

Garah, 273

German Kings, rage for, 387

Germany, 404; intrigues of, 238

Gifford, 173

Ghaleb, Osman Bey, Egyptian Nationalist, 113, 119, 125-127

Gill, T. P., M.P., 218, 227

Gladstone, Rt. Honble. W. E., M.P., 52, 57, 61, 65, 68, 73, 74, 89,
107, 108, 116, 117, 119, 122, 133, 239, 290, 294, 406, 408

Glen, The, 56, 57

Gordon, General C. G., of Khartoum, 32, 130, 242, 296

Gordon, Colonel Bill, nephew to General Gordon, 129, 130, 225, 288,
313, 317, 320, 330

Gorst, Mr., afterwards Sir Eldon, 88, 165, 193, 209, 224, 276, 287

Gosse, Edmund, 145

Government, National, 407

Grammont, 393, 397

Greece, 7-10; War with Turkey, 276, 278, 284, 286

Greenwood, 279

Gregory, Lady, 65, 125, 290, 291

Grey, Rt. Honble. Sir Edward Bart., afterwards Lord Grey of Falloden,
81, 134, 313

Gros Bois, 26, 175, 302, 360, 370

Halévy, Ludovic, 175, 176

Halim, Prince, 16, 61, 106

Hamilton, Sir Edward, permanent official of the Treasury, 53, 108, 109

Hampden, Harry Brand, Lord, 321, 326, 329, 331, 333, 369, 370

Hanotaux, M., 303, 304

Harcourt, Sir William, M.P., 60, 61, 65, 81, 83, 108, 109, 115, 140,
170, 307, 308, 310, 312, 323, 324

Hardinge, Rt. Honble. Sir Arthur of the Diplomatic Service, 88

Harrison, Frederic, 65, 66, 117, 143, 233, 327, 329

Hassan Abu Tawil, Sheykh, 363, 376

Hassan Sherei, 49

Hawarden, 73

Hélène, Princess of France, Duchess of Aosta, 56, 111, 120, 133, 170,
365

Henley, W. E., poet, 108, 109, 232, 278, 290

Herbert, The Honble. Auberon, 235, 236, 282

Holywell, St. Winifrid’s Well in Flintshire, 292, 293, 300, 301

Home Rule, Irish, 41, 51, 65, 66, 67, 111

Horses, 15, 103, 104, 146, 156, 177, 179, 182, 210, 213, 245, 332,
370, 371

Hoyos, Count and Countess George, 18, 75

Hübner, M. de, 394

Huxley, Professor, 146, 332

Hyndman, H. M., 278, 279

Imperialism, 310

India, 80, 138, 285, 347

International Exhibition, 370

Ireland, 25, 27, 40, 51, 65, 290, 348, 349, 375; _see_ Home Rule

Irving, Henry, 280

Italy, Abyssinian expedition, 207, 217; Colonial policy, 230; King of,
230, 370; treaty with, 53

Jameson, Dr., 115, 211, 214, 218, 226, 233, 281, 284

Jameson Raid, The, 211, 280, 283, 334

Japan, war with China, 151, 152

Jemal-ed-Din, Afghani, Seyyid, religious leader of Reform at
Constantinople, 100, 101, 105, 206

Jews in Tunis, 160

Johore, Sultan of, 95, 96, 99, 100, 105

Jowdat, Ismaïl Bey, Director of the Cairo police under the Nationalist
Government, 86

Jubilee Day, 279

Jusserand, M., 175

Kamel, Mustafa Pasha, Egyptian National Leader, 95, 138

Kasr-el-Jibali, 250

Keat’s Memorial Meeting, 145

Kelmscott Manor, 23, 24, 72; Press, 55, 67

Kerouan, 157, 158

Khartoum, 287, 310

Khedive, _see_ Abbas and Tewfik

Kiamil Pasha, Grand Vizier, 11, 188, 306

Kiev, 180

Kimberley, 350

Kipling, Rudyard, 216, 333, 373

Kitchener, General Lord, 95, 118, 126, 131, 134-137, 195, 205, 206,
210, 222, 223, 225, 243, 311, 313, 317, 319-324, 330, 341, 342, 344,
349, 366, 373, 375, 376

Knowles, James, Editor of the “Nineteenth Century,” 122, 306, 307

Kruger, President, 212, 325, 326, 331, 332, 339, 372

Labouchere, Rt. Honble. Henry, M.P., 52, 81, 93, 108, 111, 115, 117,
231, 308

Lacretelle, M., French artist, 3, 4

Ladysmith, 333, 346, 351

Lascelles, Rt. Honble. Sir Frank, Ambassador at Berlin, 134, 145, 220,
231, 389, 392

Laureateship, The Poet, 82, 114, 144, 212, 279

Lauzun’s Memoirs, 178

Lawless, Miss, 173

Lawson, Sir Wilfred Bart., M.P., 52, 319, 322, 345, 369

Leboeuf, General, 393, 397

Leclerc, General, 155

Lefevre, George, 311

Legislative Council, Cairo, 122, 123, 124

Leo X, Pope, 17, 27

Lesseps, M. de, 214

Lisbon, 384

Literature, 396

Little Oasis, 256

Loch Kinnaird, 55

Longleat Park, 236

Lord Mayor of London, 177

Loti, Pierre, 314

Luxor, 194

Lytton, Robert Earl of, 22, 26, 40, 58, 59, 403

Lytton, Lady, 171, 227, 366

Mafeking, relief of, 366, 367

Magician, Moorish, 70, 71

Magnusson, 77

Mahdi, The, 13, 195, 196, 242, 313, 317, 320, 323, 324, 330, 344

Maher Pasha, 136

Malet, Rt. Honble. Sir Edward, Ambassador at Berlin, 144, 282, 384

Malta, 163, 164, 165

Mangasheh, King, 223

Manning, Cardinal, 54, 75, 234, 235

Marchand, General, 287, 305, 306

Margot, _see_ Asquith

Matabele War, 114-117, 224, 237

Maxse, Admiral, 314, 326

Maxse, Miss Violet, 144

Memnon, Statue of, 195

Menelik, King, 217, 223

Meredith, George, 83, 143, 340

Metternich, 398

Metz, 400

Meynell, Wilfrid, 75, 76, 147, 148, 298, 368

Meynell, Dr. Charles, 337

Michel, Louise, 5, 6

Middleton, John Henry, 70, 72, 231

Milan, King of Servia, 19

Militarism, 289, 310, 317

Milner, Sir Alfred, afterwards Lord, 44, 61, 85, 140, 325, 326, 328,
334, 351

Minjowar, Sheykh, of Kasr el Jibali, 249-252, 254

Minshatti Bey, 195, 196

Minshawi Pasha, Egyptian Nationalist, 16, 63

Mirage in Desert, 259

Mivart, Professor D. D., 345, 347, 368

Modernism, 76, 83

Moehli, Ibrahim Bey, 12, 87, 99, 101, 105

Moehli, Mohammed, 12, 30, 48, 87, 93, 95, 96, 100, 105, 119, 125

Morley, Rt. Honble. John, M.P., afterwards Lord Morley of Blackburn,
61, 66, 116, 117, 170, 220, 229, 245, 308, 313, 314, 321

Morocco, 59

Morris, William, 23, 24, 25, 52, 55, 57, 66, 67, 72, 77, 82, 111, 116,
149, 173, 212, 227-232, 238, 240, 294, 308, 315

Mukhtar Pasha Ghazi, the Sultan’s representative at Cairo, 87, 96-98,
119, 131, 167

Munir Pasha, in the Sultan’s service, 99, 102

Mustafa Fehmi Pasha, Prime Minister at Cairo, 87, 92, 138, 204, 219,
220, 222, 223

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 81, 176, 311, 392-397, 401

Nassar, Sháhir Ibn, Sheykh of the Harb Bedouins of Hejaz, 32, 33

National Movement, (Egyptian), 11, 84, 135, 138, 165, 350; (Irish),
25, 348

Natural history, 260

Nauplia, 10

Nazli, Princess, 10, 246

Negroes seized in Egypt, 224, 225, 243, 244; “free labour,” 367

Nejd, 206, 207, 286

Nelidoff, M., de, Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, 99, 184, 192

Newbuildings, 170, 227, 278, 293, 306, 371

New Forest, 234, 307

Newman, Cardinal, 338

“New Pilgrimage, A,” 22

“New Review,” 169, 232, 278, 290

“News from Nowhere,” 52

Nietzsche, 346, 347

Nile, Journey to upper, 193-204; valley, 248

Noel, Edward of Eubaea, 9

Noel, Frank of Eubaea, 8, 11, 14

Nölde, Baron de, Russian traveller in Arabia, 140, 143

Norman, Sir Henry, 117

Note, The Joint, 46

Nubar Pasha, Prime Minister at Cairo, 31, 45, 89, 125, 135-137, 167,
204, 313

O’Connor, T. P., M.P., 25, 114

Okeilah, 157-159

Oldhouse, 235

Omdurman, Battle of, 296, 317, 320, 322

Orléans, duc d’, 120, 133

O’Shea, 50, 218

Osman Digna, Mahdist Leader, 13, 17, 29, 348

Osman Pasha, Prince, 10, 208, 288

Ouida, 364, 365

Oxford, 325

Palgrave, Francis, 173

Palgrave, Giffard, 173

Panislamic ideas, 96

Paris, 2, 5, 6, 25, 40, 57, 58, 177, 302, 370, 381, 383-402

Parnell, Charles Stuart, 18, 41, 50, 51, 54, 218, 219

Party, Irish Parliamentary, 348; Liberal, 52

Pasteur, 203, 204

Paul, Kegan, Memoirs of, 337, 367

Peace Congress, 60; Peace and war, 21

Peel, Sir Robert, 170

Pembroke, George, Earl of, 41, 169

“Petticoat, The,” 76

Philæ, 197, 198

Pilgrims, 352, 356, 357, 360-363

Poland, cause of, lost, 183

Politics, 25; American, 107; Bulgarian, 179; Dalmatian, 18; Egyptian,
11, 12, 43; Greek, 8; Irish, 27; Polish, 183; Vatican, 27

Polygamy, 11

Poore, Major, 151

Potocké, Count and Countess Joseph, 177, 178, 180, 280

Powell, York, 316, 325

Pretoria, 368

Prim, General, 386, 387

Purcell, 234, 235

Rashid, Mohammed Ibn, Emir of Nejd, 13, 16, 114, 206, 277, 286

Redmond, John, M.P., 111, 303, 349

“_Resurrection_,” 353

Revelstoke, 54

Reverseaux, M., de, French Minister at Cairo, 86, 124, 125, 129, 138,
144

Rhodes, Cecil, 82, 117, 218, 222, 224, 225, 226, 233, 237, 243, 244,
278, 281, 292, 334, 350, 351

Riaz Pasha, Prime Minister in Egypt, 31, 33, 35, 43, 45, 49, 52, 86,
87, 88, 91, 92, 94, 97, 119, 121, 122, 135, 136, 166, 210

Ripon, Marquess of, 288

Rist, Dr. Edward, 361, 362

Robbers, Attack by, 46-48

Roberts, Lord, 341, 342, 350, 368

Rome, 27, 50, 60

Rosebery, The Earl of, 61, 66, 72, 74, 81-83, 101, 109, 112, 116,
133-135, 138, 140, 169, 170, 191, 215, 241, 308, 372

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 72, 149, 315

Rothschild, Mme., Alphonse, 78, 176

Rothschilds, the, in Egypt, 278, 279

Rouen, 400

Roumelia, Great Plain of Eastern, 106

Rowton, Lord, 312, 327

Rudolph, Crown Prince of Austria, 19

Ruffer, Dr., 195, 203, 204

Rumpenheim, chateau of, 382

Ruskin, John, 149

Russell, George W., (“A. E.,”) Irish poet, 291

Russell, Odo, 404

Russia, Emperor of, 132

Sabunji, Louis, secretary to Sultan Abdul Hamid, 102, 105

Sackville, Lionel, Lord, 90

Saïd Pasha, 215

St. Anthony, Convent of, 168

St. Fagan’s, 282

St. Louis, shrine of, 154

St Winifred’s Well, 292, 293, 300, 301

Saldanha, 384

Salisbury Cathedral, 236

Salisbury, Marquis, 27, 43, 52, 53, 58, 59, 61, 63, 68, 72, 109, 173,
185, 191, 204, 210, 211, 214, 215, 218-222, 247, 286, 290, 298, 303,
307, 309, 311, 313, 327, 328, 406

Sanderson, Sir Thomas, head of the Foreign Office, afterwards Lord,
327

Sanguscko, Prince and Princess, Polish nobleman, 178-180

Sanua, James (Abdu Naddara) in exile at Paris, 58, 305

Sapieha, Prince John, 181-183

Sargent, J. S., R.A., 314

Sarras, 201, 202

“_Satan Absolved_,” 297, 300, 307, 321, 326, 329, 333, 334, 335, 340,
345, 346

Savernake Forest, 150

Savona, 163, 165

Sedan, 402

Seglawi (horse), 37-39

Selamlik, The, 102

Senussia, The, 251, 254, 272, 276, 363

Sermoneta, The Duke and Duchess of, 28, 29, 218, 230

Sfax, 160

Shahir ibn Nassár, 32, 33

Shaitan, 36

Shakespeare’s house, 148

Shaw, Miss Flora, 226

Shehallion, 56

Sherei Hassan, leader of the Egyptian Fellah Party, 48, 49

Sheridan, Brinsley, 76

Sheykh Obeyd, 11, 13, 30, 43, 46, 85, 118, 137, 165, 193, 204, 217,
226, 243, 275, 284, 338, 374

Siam, French attacking, 112

Siege of Paris, The, 403

Siseranne, M. de la, 305

Sittarah, Lake of, 260

Siwah, Journey to, 244, 247, 266-273

Slatin, Sir Rudolf Pasha, 209, 216, 242

Slavuta, 179, 180

Slivnitza, battle of, 20

Socialism, 5, 6

Soudan, The, 25, 198, 209, 227, 230, 231, 287, 298, 311, 312, 313,
319, 321, 349; _see_ also Dongola

“Souls,” The, 53, 83, 146, 308, 375

South Africa, _see_ Transvaal; Boer War

Spain, abdication of Queen, 386

Spanish-American War, 290, 295, 306

Spencer, Herbert, 297, 317, 318, 319, 326, 333, 342, 410, 411

Staal, M., de, Russian Ambassador to England, 67, 314

“_Stalky_,” 373

Stallion, purchase of a, 37-39

Stambuloff, 179

Stanley Expedition, The, 29

“_Stealing of the Mare_,” 65, 68

Stonehenge, 151

Stonor, Monseignor, 27, 28, 50

Stratford-on-Avon, pilgrimage to, 148, 228

Strickland, Count, 163, 164, 165

Suez Canal, 118

Sus, 159

Sutton Place, 329

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 55, 82, 114, 212, 229, 333

Symonds, John Addington, 72

Tennant, Lady, 57

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 77, 229

“_Tercentenary Sonnet, A_,” 149

Tewfik, Khedive, 12, 13, 17, 31, 43, 49, 62, 63

Thompson, Francis, poet, 147, 148, 297, 298

Tichborne, Sir Roger, “the Claimant,” 292

Tigrane Pasha, Armenian Under-secretary for Foreign Affairs at Cairo,
35, 87, 91, 92, 97, 119, 120, 124, 125, 128, 129, 165, 210, 291

Timbuctoo, French occupation of, 128

Tolstoy, 314, 346, 353

“Tomorrow,” A Woman’s Journal for Men, 83

Tonkin, 51

Toski, battlefield, 199, 200

Tourgueneff, 373

Towfik, Dr. Mohammed, 3, 198

Transvaal, The, 211, 214, 218, 222, 226, 232, 238, 244, 278, 280, 281,
323, 325-329, 335, 372, 375

Tree, Beerbohm, 332

Tricoupi, M., Prime Minister in Greece, 8, 9

Tripoli, 162

Tunis, 153, 154, 156, 160

Turin, 365

Turkey, Rosebery willing to partition, 101; _see_ Abdul Hamid; Greece,
War with

Türr, Mme., 8

Tyrrel, Father, 367, 368

Uganda, 77, 81

Ukraine, capital of the, 181

United States of America, 107, 210, 290, 295, 306, 331, 375; _see_
Spanish-American War

Urquhart, 151

Usedom, Count d’, Prussian Ambassador at Frankfort, afterwards in
Italy, 8, 381, 389

Vambéry, Professor, 189, 190

Vatican, The, 27

Vaughan, Cardinal, 75, 368

Vaux, le Vicomte, Château of, 78, 79

“Veiled Protectorate, The,” 84, 85

Venezuela, quarrel between England and U. S., about, 210

Victoria, Queen, 16, 43, 81, 114, 171, 212, 227, 281, 304, 313, 321,
329, 330, 335, 350, 366, 368

Villiers, Charles, 287, 385

Villiers, Frank, 74

Vincennes, Horse Show at, 370

Vincent, Rt. Honble. Sir Edgar, M.P., 88, 101, 105, 119

Wagram, Prince and Princess, 22, 26, 55, 77, 175, 289, 302, 371

Wales, Prince of, afterwards King Edward VII, 141, 142

Walsh, Dr., Archbishop of Dublin, 51

War, _see_ Boer, Franco-Prussian, Japan, Matabele, Spanish-American,
Turco-Greek

Watson, William, 318, 410

Watts, George Frederick, R.A., 33, 55, 70, 315, 316, 319, 337

Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 55, 82, 373

Webb, Philip, architect, 368

Wells Cathedral, 237

Whitehead, Mr., 18

White Horse Hill, 149

Wiart, Carton de, 245, 247

Wilberforce, Reginald, 234

Wilde, Oscar, 42, 58, 66, 145, 146, 169, 375

Wilhelm I, German Emperor, 388, 389, 398

Wilhelm II, German Emperor, 27-29, 54, 59, 169, 212, 220, 230, 305,
306, 322, 335, 343, 375

Wilson, Sir Charles Rivers, 52, 135

Wingate, General Sir Reginald, 209, 225, 242, 349

Wyndham, George, M.P., Irish Chief Secretary, 22, 42, 53, 67, 68, 108,
109, 140, 143, 145, 169, 172, 226, 228, 231, 232, 244, 278, 290, 299,
302, 306, 307, 308, 314, 321, 322, 332, 336, 348, 366, 372, 375

Wyndham, Madeline, 294, 315

Wyndham, Percy, 294, 343

Yeats, W. B., 291, 292

Yellow Terror, 369

Yildiz, Palace, 99, 104

Yusuf, Sheykh Ali, Cairo journalist, 132, 246

Zaghloul, Saad Effendi, afterwards Pasha, member of the Egyptian
Fellah Party, afterwards minister, 48

Zanzibar, 238

Zebehr, Pasha, 16, 17, 137

Zeyd, Bedouin from Nejd in the Author’s service, 36-39

Zola, Émile, 289

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1:

Next came Anarchy, he rode

On a white horse splashed with blood;

He was pale even to the lips,

Like Death in the Apocalypse.

]

[Footnote 2: N.B.—The camel recovered.]

[Footnote 3: For my memorandum, see Appendix II.]

[Footnote 4: Afterwards Ambassador at Constantinople.]

[Footnote 5: Ismaïl Bey Jowdat, director of the Cairo police under the Nationalist Government in 1882. See my volumes, “Secret History” and “Gordon at Khartoum.”]

[Footnote 6: Sir Arthur Hardinge, then Secretary of Legation at Cairo, afterwards our Minister at Brussels.]

[Footnote 7: Lionel Lord Sackville, formerly of the Diplomatic Service, and Her Majesty’s Minister at Washington.]

[Footnote 8: For Seyyid Jemal ed Din Afghani’s earlier career and his visit to me in London see my volume, “Gordon at Khartoum.” See also Professor Browne’s account of the Seyyid in his book on Persia.]

[Footnote 9: See “Secret History.”]

[Footnote 10: This Osman Ghaleb became afterwards the principal friend and supporter of the National Leader, Mustapha Kamel.]

[Footnote 11: Not long ago, being asked to write a sonnet for the Shakespeare Tercentenary I embodied my impression gathered on this occasion at Stratford in the following:

“A TERCENTENARY SONNET

“SHAKESPEARE, what wisdom shall truth tell of thee,

More than fame speaks? The world thy playhouse is

Packed floor to roof to-night with votaries

Shouting thy author’s name vociferously.

They call thee to the curtain front. Ah me,

Hast thou no word for our sublimities,

No cryptogram of grace to crown our bliss?

Nay speak out all, thou man of mystery.

Tell us the truth.—I seem to hear a voice

From far-off Stratford, pestered at the call,

The voice of a hale man of middle age,

Civic, respected: ‘Who are these lewd boys

Would call me back to their fool’s festival?

Truce to all mummings. I have left the stage.’”

_25 February_, 1916.]

[Footnote 12: Malta had been granted a Constitution of very restricted type by the English Government in 1887, avowedly as an experiment, with the result that many abuses in the government of the island were remedied; but a strong movement having been set on foot by the native Maltese for union with the Italian kingdom the Constitution was subsequently withdrawn.]

[Footnote 13: Mohammed Rashid, afterwards Sultan Mohammed V.]

[Footnote 14: See “Secret History.”]

[Footnote 15: Compare Dr. Dillon’s “Eclipse of Russia.”]

[Footnote 16: A fortnight or three weeks before Beiram.]

[Footnote 17: Compare Dr. Dillon’s “Eclipse of Russia.”]

[Footnote 18: John Henry Middleton, director of the South Kensington Museum.]

[Footnote 19: Now Lord Eversley.]

[Footnote 20: Lord Hampden.]

[Footnote 21: Compare Dr. Dillon’s book, “The Eclipse of Russia.”]

[Footnote 22: “Times,” 1900.]

[Footnote 23: The Honble. Henry Howard, Secretary at Paris.]

Transcriber's note:

Most of the changes listed below are based on a previous edition
(Martin Secker, London, 1919-1920):

Page x, Changed: "his first appearence in English" to: "appearance"

Page xv, Changed: "here are certain passages in it" to: "there"

Page xi, Changed: "denunciation of the Imperal Government" to:
"Imperial"

Page 4, Changed: "Lacetelle began to compliment him" to: "Lacretelle"

Page 12, Changed: "Frank Noel, who had came on to Egypt" to: "come"

Page 25, Changed: "was to the Kidderminister electors" to:
"Kidderminster"

Page 38, Changed: "On Salameh, stay you here on one side" to: "O
Salameh"

Page 46, Changed: "the Mohommedan Reform Party was laid" to:
"Mohammedan"

Page 48, Changed: "Saïd Effendi Zaghloul" to: "Saad"

Page 49, Changed: "afterwards Grant Mufti, whom he" to: "Grand"

Page 49, Changed: "chief hope of Liberal Islam in Egyt" to: "Egypt"

Page 60, Changed: "would have been violation of the" to: "a violation"

Page 63, Changed: "Lord Salibury will have his hand" to: "Salisbury"

Page 78, Changed: "more interesting that I had at first imagined" to:
"than"

Page 84, Changed: "an ingenius plan, adopted from" to: "ingenious"

Page 86, Changed: "thought it dates in its beginning" to: "though"

Page 87, Changed: "Mohammed Bey Zoghi and his brother, Rushti Bey" to:
"Zoghli"

Page 89, Changed: "white turban gombaz and abbo" to: "abba"

Page 97-98, Inserted missing line: "favour of Constitutional measures.
I think I made him understand" after: "He had himself always been in"

Page 103, Changed: "twenty of the best and and sell the others" to:
"best and sell"

Page 108, Changed: "for an exacuation if nothing of this" to:
"evacuation"

Page 121, Changed: "know by sight, and old dog-fox, a vixen" to: "an
old"

Page 155, Changed: "speaks to all with the greatset fluency" to:
"greatest"

Page 155, Changed: "Rifault, the French President in Charge" to:
"Resident"

Page 160, Changed: "was of course only to glad to give" to: "too glad"

Page 162, Changed: "has all the feature of our own garden" to:
"features"

Page 162, Changed: "though really beautifully pieces" to: "beautiful"

Page 166, Changed: "I wished to do so once" to: "at once"

Page 171, Changed: "he had a promise of office as soon" to: "he had
had"

Page 172, Changed: "peal of bells, which seemed to be absurd" to: "to
me"

Page 178, Changed: "himself, who has been re-chistened" to: "re-
christened"

Page 184, Changed: "to Ruvukdereh to call on Nelidoff" to:
"Buyukdereh"

Page 196, Changed: "deal about Salatin (Slatin) and Neufelt" to:
"Neufeld"

Page 205, Changed: "to overburden the Eyptian Budget" to: "Egyptian"

Page 206, Changed: "the Ananzeh he assured me" to: "Anazeh"

Page 210, Changed: "his estate accounts at Melhallet el Roh" to:
"Mehallet"

Page 213, Changed: "of Cromer’s wrong-headed adminstration" to:
"administration"

Page 224, Changed: "for the ‘Ninteenth Century.’" to: "Nineteenth"

Page 237, Changed: "along the Mendlip Hills to Wells" to: "Mendip"

Page 240, Changed: "I do not doubt myself among that number" to: "I do
not count myself among the number"

Page 243, Changed: "There were 200 of then, men got together" to: "of
them"

Page 253, Changed: "who planted the palm tress which still" to:
"trees"

Page 257, Changed: "Merzouk, the northern oasis, and ultimately" to:
"oases"

Page 272, Changed: "chief adversaries on horsebask" to: "horseback"

Page 287, Changed: "laughted at the talk that a French flag" to:
"laughed"

Page 291, Changed: "demonstrationes of which he is organizer" to:
"demonstrations"

Page 307, Changed: "opportuniy of asking Lord Salisbury" to:
"opportunity"

Page 309, Changed: "make acquaintance with Loulou’s _financée_" to:
"_fiancée_"

Page 330, Changed: "Kitchener when they went to Natley Hospital" to:
"Netley"

Page 340, Changed: "they’re coming up to dinner Chrismas Day" to:
"Christmas"

Page 346, Changed: "largely to its connecion with" to: "connection"

Page 353, Changed: "shore of the Sinai penisula" to: "peninsula"

Page 356, Changed: "things might mave been worse" to: "have"

Page 359, Changed: "having complained or his dereliction" to: "of his"

Page 362, Changed: "that place where Pharoah and the Egyptians" to:
"Pharaoh"

Page 362, Changed: "be held at Suez on board H.M.S. _Halycon_" to:
"_Halcyon_"

Page 364, Changed: "probably best even scientically" to:
"scientifically"

Page 367 (x2), Changed: "Keegan Paul" to: "Kegan"

Page 385, Changed: "nice litle girl in charge" to: "little"

Page 386, Changed: "prepossessons were strongly Orleanist" to:
"prepossessions"

Page 388, Changed: "ultimately they make make a counter-charge" to:
"may make"

Page 390, Changed: "the Embassay that the Prussians had" to: "Embassy"

Page 395, Changed: "and M. Perrier, Howard’s valent" to: "valet"

Page 395, Changed: "talking once for twenty minues at" to: "minutes"

Page 396, Changed: "playing in better form that I can remember" to:
"than"

Page 397, Changed: "undergoing restoration by its propretor" to:
"proprietor"

Page 401, Changed: "peut jamais savior au juste" to: "savoir"

Page 408, Changed: "displaced, the demoralized, and extirpated" to:
"displaced, demoralized"

Some minor changes in spelling and punctuation have been done
silently.