Chapter XXVIII: Conclusion (2)

Natura Mystica, 73

'Nature's Fountain of Youth,' 268

Nature, 'Poetic Interpretation of,' 204; as humourist, 386

Nature-worship, Shintoism, 14, 97; ambition and, 103

'Nature-worshippers,' Dictionary for, 68

Neilson, Julia, 117

Neilson, Lilian Adelaide, Watts-Dunton's criticism of her acting, 117-18

Nelson, 365

'New Day, The,' 92, 107, 162-64, 312, 396, 443

New Year, sonnets on morning of, 409

'News from Nowhere,' 173

'Nibelungenlied,' 176

Nicol, John, 202

Nicoll, Dr. Robertson, 5; collection of Watts-Dunton's essays suggested by, 6, 22; "Significance of 'Aylwin,'" essay by, 372; Renascence of Wonder in Religion, articles on, 22, 375, 445

Neilson, Lilian Adelaide, Watts-Dunton's appreciation of, 117

'Night and Morning,' 349

'Nineteenth Century,' 290, 291, 442

'Nin-ki-gal, the Queen of Death,' 235

Niobe, 323

Niton Bay, 270

'Noctes Ambrosianae, Comedy of,' Watts-Dunton's review of, 190-201; Lowell's opinion of same, 298

Norman Cross, vipers of, 104

Norris, H. E., 'History of St. Ives' (reference to), 25, 40, 51; River Ouse, praise of, 28, 29, 30

North, Christopher: see Wilson, Professor

'Northern Farmer,' 387

Norwich horse fair, 106

'Notes and Queries,' 50, 51, 56, 57, 88, 161, 171, 316, 317, 318

'Notre Dame de Paris,' 125

Novalis, 247, 455

Novel, importance of, 208; of manners, 308; see Fiction.

Novelists, absurdities of popular, 367

Nutt, Alfred, 6

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'Octopus of the Golden Isles,' 148

'Odyssey,' Morris's translation of, 176; 208; 341

'OEdipus Egyptiacus,' 226

Olympic, Robson at, 57

Omar, Caliph, 69

Omar Khayyam Club, 81

Omarian Poems, Watts-Dunton's, 78, 79, 80, 81

'Omnipotence of Love.' The, 287

'Orchard, The,' Niton Bay, 270

O'Shaughnessy, Arthur, 'Marston Nights,' presence at, 136; 161

Ouse, River, poems on, 28, 29, 30; Carlyle's libel of, 28-9

Owen, Harry, 317

Oxford Union, Rossetti's lost frescoes at, 162

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Pain and Death, 173

Palgrave, F. T., 291

'Pall Mall Gazette,' 245

Palmerston, 295

Pamphlet literature, 99

'Pandora,' Rossetti's, 21

'Pantheism': Dr. Hunt's book, 49

Parable poetry, 224

Paradis artificiel, 248, 388

Paragraph-mongers, Rossetti and, 155

Parmigiano, Madonna by, 172

Parsimony, verbal, 418

Partridge, Mrs., 382

Patrick, Dr. David, 5

Penn, William, St. Ives, his death there, 41

'Perfect Cure,' The, 181

'Peter Schlemihl,' 119

Petit Bot Bay, 31, 268

Phelps, 136

Philistia, romance carried into, 327; 386

Philistinism, actresses and, 132

'Piccadilly,' Watts-Dunton writes for, 301, 353

'Pickwick,' trial scene in, 387

'Pines, The,' residence of Watts-Dunton and Swinburne: Christmas at, 93-4; 262 et seq.; works of art at, 266

Plato, 341

Plot-ridden, 'Aylwin' not, 348

Poe, Edgar Allan, on 'homely' note in fiction, 325; 'The Raven,' originality of, 419

'Poems by the Way,' 173, 177

Poetic prose: see Prose

Poetry, wonder element in, 15, 25; English Romantic School, 17; humour in, question of, 24; parables in, 224; blank verse, 239; popular and artistic, 293; Watts-Dunton's Essay on, 340, 354, 393; Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Bacon on, 340, 341; difference between prose and, 339; rhetoric and, 340; poetic impulse, 393; sincerity and, conscience in, 394; imagination in, 397; Zoroaster's definition of, 398; originality in, 419

'Poets and Poetry of the Century,' Mackenzie Bell's study of Watts-Dunton in, 38

Pollock, Walter, contributor to 'Examiner,' 184

Pope, Alexander, periwig poetry of, 25

'Poppyland,' Watts-Dunton visits, 270

Portraiture, ethics of, 141, 143

'Prayer to the Winds,' 81

Pre-Raphaelite movement, definition of, 16; poets, 160-61

Priam, 355

Primitive poetry, 15

Prinsep, Val, his vindication of Rossetti, 145

Printers' ink, taint of, 105

Priory Barn, Robson at 57

Prize-fighters, gypsy, 392

'Prophetic Pictures at Venice,' 94

Prose, poetic, 339: difference between poetry and, 339; see also 'Aylwin,' Bible Rhythm, Common Prayer, Book of Litany; Manu; Ruskin

Psalms, Watts-Dunton on, 228-41

Publicity, evils of, 262

Purnell, Thomas, acquaintance with J. O. Watts, 59

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'Quarterly Review,' on Renascence of Wonder, 16-17; on friendship between Morris and Watts-Dunton, 173

Queen Katherine, Watts's sonnet on Ellen Terry as, 122

Quickly, Mrs., 382

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Rabelais, 196-200, 387

Racine, 132

Rainbow, The Spirit of the, 101

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 423; on 'command of the sea,' 427

Rappel, Le, 123

Reade Charles, 325, 348; hardness of touch, 351

Rehan, Ada, 131

Reid, Sir Wemyss, 185

'Relapse, The,' 259

Relative humour: see Humour, absolute and relative

Religion, Renascence of Wonder in, 375; poetic, 455

'Reminiscence of Open-Air Plays,' Epilogue, 133

Renascence, decorative, connection with pre-Raphaelite movement, 16

Renascence, Jewish-Arabian, connection with instinct of wonder, 14

Renascence of religion, 22

Renascence of Wonder, exemplified in 'Aylwin,' 2; origin of phrase, 11; meaning of phrase, 13, 17, 374; Garnett on, 11, French Revolution, cause of, 13; pre-Raphaelite movement, connection with, 16; Watts-Dunton's article on, 20, 25; in Philistia, 327, 328; in religion, 22, 375; 'Coming of Love, The,' the most powerful expression of, 25; Watts-Dunton's Treatise on Poetry, 257; 'Aylwin,' passages on, 446; foreign critics on, 374; 9, 325

Repartee, comedy of, 259

Representation, imaginative, 398

Rhetoric, Poetry and, 340

RHONA BOSWELL, see Boswell.

'Rhona's Letter,' 402

Rhyme colour, 412

Rhys, Ernest, 'Aylwin' dedicated to, 312; 'Song of the Wind,' paraphrase by; 313; 377

Rhythm, 239, 412: see Bible Rhythm

Richardson, 367

Richmond Park, Borrow in, 100

Ripon, Lady, 91

'Rip Van Winkle,' 121

'Rivista d'Italia': see Galimberti, Madame

'Robinson Crusoe,' 307

Robinson, F. W., 12

Robson, actor, J. O. Watts's admiration for, 57; 127, 129

Rogers, S., 39

'Roi s'Amuse, Le,' 123

Romanies, Gorgios and, 389; see Gypsies

Romantic movement, 16-25

'Romany Rye,' 367

'Romeo and Juliet,' 293

'Roots of the Mountains,' 173

'Rose Mary,' Watts-Dunton's advice to Rossetti concerning, 139

Rosicrucian Christmas, 94

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1, 2; Watts-Dunton on, 17, 18, 19, 21; 'Spirit of Wonder' expressed by, 18, 19; 'Pandora,' 21; Poems of, lack of humour in, 24; 'Watts's magnificent Star Sonnet,' his appreciation of, 29; Omar Khayyam, translation discovered by, 79; his insomnia; Dr. Hake as his physician; grief for his wife's death; his melancholia; cock-and-bull stories as to his treatment of his wife; their origin; wild and whirling words; 90-91; stay at Roehampton, 91; Cheyne Walk reunions, 137; Watts-Dunton, affection for, 138-69; Watts-Dunton's influence on, 139, 140, 149, 150, 154; type of female beauty invented by, 140; dies in Watts-Dunton's arms, 150; illness of, anecdote concerning, 153; Watts Dunton's elegy on, 157; Cheyne Walk green dining-room, description, 161; Watts-Dunton's description of his house, 165-69; his wit and humour, 169; 'Spirit of the Rainbow,' illustration to, 276; references to, 9, 10, 27, 35, 262, 263; Watts-Dunton's reminiscences of:--at Marston symposia; the Gallic Parnassians; he advises the bardlings to write in French, 136; interest in work of others; reciting a bardling's sonnet, 137; wishes Watts to write his life, 140; letter to author about Rossetti, 140; Charles Augustus Howell (De Castro), Rossetti's opinion of, 142; portrait as D'Arcy in 'Aylwin'; not idealized; ethics of portraiture of friend; amazing detraction of, 144; too much written about him, 145; relations with his wife; Val Prinsep's testimony, 145; 'lovable--most lovable,' 145; a pious fraud, 153; alleged rudeness to Princess Louise, 155; attitude to a disgraced friend, 210; the dishonest critic; 'By God, if I met such a man,' 211; a generous gift, 267; dislike of publicity; abashed by an 'Athenaeum' paragraph, 263

Rossetti, W. M., 149, 154

Rossetti, Mrs. W. M., 275

Rous, 232

Ruskin, 340

Russell, Lord John, 295

Ryan, W. P., 378

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'Salaman' and 'Absal' of Jami, 21

Saltabadil, Febvre as, 129

St. Aldegonde, Disraeli's 'softness of touch' in, 351

St. Francis of Assisi, 38

St. Ives, birthplace of Watts-Dunton, 26; old Saxon name for, 35; George Dyer and, 40-41; printing press at, 40; Union Book Club, Watts-Dunton's speech at, 42; History of, 51; East Anglian sympathies of, 78

St. Peter's Port, visit of Swinburne and Watts-Dunton to, 268

Sainte-Beuve, Watts-Dunton compared to, 2; 399

Sais, 331

Samary, Jeanne, as Maguelonne, 129

Sampson, Mr., Romany scholar, 367

Sancho Panza, 382

Sandys, Frederick, 267

Sark, Swinburne and Watts-Dunton's visit to, 269

'Saturday Review,' 34, 245, 257, 382

Savile Club, 202

Schiller, 221

'Scholar Gypsy, The,' 108

Schopenhauer, 247

Science, man's good genius, 47-9

Science, Watts-Dunton's speech on, 42-9

Scott, Sir Walter, his humour, 195; tribute to, 220, 221, 307; 346; 'softness of touch' in portraiture, 350; 367

Scott, William Bell, anecdote of, 184

'Scullion, Sterne's fat, foolish,' 249

'Semaine Litteraire, La,' 347, 374, 380

Sex, witchery of, 391

'Shadow on the Window Blind,' 164: first printed in Mackenzie Bell's Study of Watts-Dunton in 'Poets and Poetry of the Century,' q.v.

Shakespeare, spirit of wonder in, 16; 126; 186; 293; richness in style, 328; 355; 382; 394

'Shales mare,' 106

Shandys, the two, 350

Sharp, William, 29; scenery and atmosphere of 'Aylwin,' 72, 75; 276, 284; influence of Watts-Dunton on Rossetti, 399

Shaw, Byam, 'Brynhild on Sigurd's Funeral Pyre,' illustration of, 366

Shaw, Dr. Norton, intimacy with J. K. Watts, 52

Shelley, 157; 293; 'Epipsychidion,' 419

Shintoism, 14

Shirley: see Skelton, Sir John

Shirley Essays, 202

'Shirley,' Watts-Dunton's criticism of, 365

Shorter, Clement, his connection with Slepe Hall, 35

Sibilant, in poetry, 286-88

Siddons, Mrs., 131

Sidestrand, visit of Swinburne and Watts-Dunton to, 269

Sidney, Sir Philip, 365

'Sigurd,' 173, 176; 366

'Silas Marner,' public-house scene in, 387

Sinfi Lovell, see Lovell

Skeleton, the Golden, 422 et seq.

Skelton, Sir John, his 'Comedy of the Noctes Ambrosianae,' Watts-Dunton's review of, 190-201; Rossetti 'Reminiscences,' 202; Watts-Dunton's friendship with, 202

Sleaford, Lord, 353

Slepe Hall, Clement Shorter's connection with, 35; story told in connection with, 36

Sly, Christopher, 388

Smalley, G. W., his article on Whistler, 302

Smart set, 353

'Smart slating,' Watts-Dunton on, 207

Smetham, James: see Wilderspin

Smith, Alexander, 44; Herbert Spencer and, 213

Smith, Gypsy, 351

Smith, Sydney, 43, 196

Smollett, 304, 367

Snowdon, 315

Socrates, 45

'Softness of touch' in fiction, 350

Sonnet, The, Essay on, reference to, 205

Sophocles, 323, 394

Sothern, 118

Spencer, Herbert, Alexander Smith and, 'Athenaeum' anecdote, 212-14

Spenser, Edmund, Spirit of Wonder in poetry of, 16

Spirit of Place, 26

'Spirit of the Sunrise,' 450

Sport, 65-67; definition of, 68

Sports, field, 65

Squeezing of books, 191

Stael, Madame de, her struggle against tradition of 18th century, 18

Stanley, Fenella, 362, 363

Stead, William Morris and, 181

Stedman, Clarence, his remarks on 'The Coming of Love,' 4, 10, 301

Sterne, his humour, 246-55; his indecencies, 253; his 'softness of touch,' 350; 367, 387

Sternhold, 229

Stevenson, R. L., 10; Watts-Dunton's criticism of 'Kidnapped' and 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' 215-21; letter from, 216

Stillman, Mrs., Rossetti's picture painted from, 172

Stone, E. D., "Christmas at the 'Mermaid,'" Latin translation by, 147

'Stories after Nature,' Wells's, 53-55

Stourbridge Fair, 65

Strand, the symposium in the, 185

Stratford-on-Avon, Watts-Dunton's poems on, 31, 32; see also "Christmas at the 'Mermaid,'" 423

Stress in poetry, 344

Strong, Prof. A. S., references to, 1, 5, 132; article on 'The Coming of Love,' 444; 445

Style, le, c'est la race, 233

Style, the Great, 234

Sufism, 449; in 'Aylwin,' 454

'Suicide Club, The,' 220

Sully, Professor, contributor to 'Examiner,' 184

Sunrise, Poet of the, 398

Sunsets, in the Fens, 62

Surtees, 367

Swallow Falls, 315

Swift, his humour the opposite of Sterne's, 250

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, acquaintance with J. O. Watts, 58; intercourse and friendship with Watts-Dunton, 89, 268-74; 'Jubilee Greeting' dedicated to, 273; partly identified with Percy Aylwin, see description of his swimming, 268; 279-84; at Theatre Francaise, 124; dedications to Watts-Dunton, 271, 272; offensive newspaper caricatures of, 263; championship of Meredith, 284; on 'Tom Jones,' 'Waverley,' 'Aylwin,' 346; on 'Aylwin,' 363; references to, 1, 12, 27, 117, 123, 139, 147, 157, 170, 180, 181, 184, 328, 413; ANECDOTES OF:--chambers in Great James St., 89; never a playgoer, 117; life at 'The Pines,' 262 et seq.; the great Swinburne myth, 263; the American lady journalist, 264; an imaginary interview, 265; an unlovely bard; painfully 'afflated'; method of composition; 'stamping with both feet,' 265; friendship with Watts began in 1872, 268; inseparable since; housemates at 'The Pines'; visit to Channel Islands; swimming in Petit Bot Bay, 268; Sark; 'Orion' Horne's bravado challenge, 269; visits Paris for Jubilee of 'Le Roi s'Amuse,' 269; swimming at Sidestrand; meets Grant Allen, 269; visits Eastbourne, Lancing, Isle of Wight, Cromer, 270; visits to Jowett; Jowett's admiration of Watts, 279; Balliol dinner parties, 280; at the Bodleian, 282; great novels which are popular, 273

Swinburne, Miss, 299

Symons, Arthur, 'Coming of Love,' article on, 257

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Table-Talk, Watts-Dunton's, Rossetti on, 183

Tabley, Lord de, 277

Taine, 232

'Tale of Beowulf,' 173

Taliesin, 'Song of the Wind,' 313

Talk on Waterloo Bridge,' 'A, 116

Tarno Rye, 351, 391

Tate and Brady, 232

Telepathy, dogs and, 82-6

Temple, Lord and Lady Mount, 270

Tenderness, in English hero, 365

'Tennyson, Alfred, Birthday Address,' 32

'Tennyson, Alfred,' sonnet to, 286

Tennyson, Lord, 4, 32, 144; dishonest criticism, opinion of, 211; Watts-Dunton's friendship with, 285; Watts-Dunton's criticism of and essays on, 289, 290; 'Memoir,' Watts-Dunton's contribution, 291; anecdotes concerning, 287-89; 'The Princess,' defects of, 290; portraits of, Watts-Dunton's articles on, 290; 'Maud,' compared with Rhona Boswell, 413; WATTS-DUNTON AND:--sympathy between him and, 285; sonnet on birthday, 286; meeting at garden party; open invitation to Aldworth and Farringford; his ear not defective, 286; sensibility to delicate metrical nuances, 287; challenges a sibilant in a sonnet, 287; 'scent' better than 'scents,' 287; his morbid modesty, 288; a poet is not born to the purple, 288; reading 'Becket' in summer-house; desired free criticism, 288; alleged rudeness to women, 289; detraction of, 289; could not invent a story, 289; the nucleus of 'Maud,' 289

Terry, Ellen, Watts-Dunton's friendship with, 117, 121; sonnet on, 122

Thackeray, 295, 305, 325, 328; 'softness of touch,' 350-53

Theatre Francaise, Swinburne and Watts at, 123-29

Thicket, The, St. Ives, 30, 32

Thoreau, teaching of, 69; love of wind, 371; 442

Thuthe, the, Kisagotami and, 455-6

'Thyrsis,' 157

Tieck, 19

'Times,' 89, 245, 301, 370

'Toast to Omar Khayyam,' 79

Tooke, Horne, 39

'T. P.'s Weekly,' 89

'Torquemada,' motif of, 125

Tourneur, Cyril, 'spirit of wonder' in, 16

Traill, H. D., his criticism, 207; Watts-Dunton's meeting with, 243; review of his 'Sterne,' 246-55; his letter to MacColl, 243; meets him at dinner, 243; picturesque appearance; boyish lisp; calls at 'The Pines'; interesting figures at his gatherings; 'a man of genius'; asks Watts to write for 'Literature'; his geniality as an editor, 244; why 'Literature' failed, 245

'Travailleurs de la Mer, Les,' 370

'Treasure Island,' 220

Triboulet, Got as, 124-29

'Tribute, The,' 289

'Tristram of Lyonesse,' dedicated to Watts-Dunton, 272

Troubadours and Trouveres, The, 204

Trus'hul, the Romany Cross, 101

Turner, 299

Twentieth Century, Cosmogony of, 373

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Ukko, the Sky God, 73

'Under the Greenwood Tree,' rustic humour of, 186

'Ups and Downs of an Old Nunnery,' 53

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Vacquerie, Auguste, 'Le Roi s'Amuse' produced by, 123

Vanbrugh, Irene, 131

Vanbrugh, Watts-Dunton's article on, 258

Vance, the Great, 182

Vaughan, his 'Hours with the Mystics,' 58

'Veiled Queen, The,' 57, 229, 374, 375

Vernunft of Man, the Bible and the, 230

Verse, English, accent in, 344

Vezin, Hermann, 118; Mrs., 131

Victoria, Queen, Watts-Dunton's tribute to, 274

Villain in Hugo's novels, 125; 'Aylwin,' a novel without a, 349

Villon, 388

Virgil, wonder in, 15; 208

Vision, absolute and relative, 354; in 'Aylwin,' 357 et seq.

'Vita Nuova,' 412

'Volsunga Saga,' 176

Voltaire, 259

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Wagner, 89, 412

Wahrheit and Dichtung, in 'Aylwin,' 50

Wales, Watts-Dunton's sympathy with, 312; popularity of 'Aylwin' in, 314; descriptions of, 315, 317, 318; Welsh accent, 319-20

Wales, Prince of, anecdote of, 67

Warburton, 69

'Wassail Chorus,' 438

Waterloo Bridge, Borrow on, 115

'Water of the Wondrous Isles,' 181

Watson, William, Grant Allen on, 207

Watts, A. E., Watts-Dunton's brother, articled as solicitor, 72; Cyril Aylwin, identification with, 87; his humour, 88; death, 89

Watts, G. F., Rossetti's portrait by, 161

Watts, James Orlando, Watts-Dunton's uncle, identity of character with Philip Aylwin, 51, 56-60

Watts, J. K., Watts-Dunton's father, account of, 50, 53; scientific celebrities, intimacy with, 50-53; scientific reputation of, 52

Watts, William K., description of, 160

WATTS-DUNTON, THEODORE, memoirs of, 4; monograph on, reply to author's suggestion to write, 6, 7; plan of same, 9; description of, 278-9; Boyhood:--birthplace, 26; Cromwell's elder wine, 37; Cambridge school-days, 37, 66; St. Ives Union Book Club, speech delivered at, 15, 42-49; family of Dunton, 53; father and son--the double brain, 53-5; as child critic, 55; interest in sport and athletics, 65; Deerfoot and the Prince of Wales, 67; period of Nature study, 67; articled to solicitor, 72; Life in London:--solicitor's practice, 88; life at Sydenham, 89; London Society, 89, 353; interest in slum-life, 92; connection with theatrical world, 117-35; Characteristics:--Love of animals, 38, 39, 82-85; interest in poor, 92-4; conversational powers, 183; genius for friendship, 443; indifference to fame, 3, 183, 204; habit of early rising, 279; influence, 1, 2, 22, 452; dual personality, 322, 356; music, love of, 38, 89; natural science, proficiency in, 38; optimism, 9, 457; identification with Henry Aylwin, 356; Romany blood in, 361; Writings:--'Academy,' invitation to write for, 187; 'Athenaeum,' invitation to write for, 188, 202; contributions to, 1, 55, 170, 173, 189-201, 204; his treatise on Sonnet--Dr. Karl Leutzner on, 205; critical principles, 205; 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' articles, 1, 2, 4, 6, 205, 256, 257-8; difference between prose and poetry, 339; 340, 393; poetic style, 323; 'Examiner' articles, 184; see also Minto; Critical Work:--Swinburne's opinion of, 1; character of, 8, 205-208; critical and creative work, relation between, 203; critical and imaginative work interwoven, 370; School of Criticism founded, 4; Essays on Tennyson, 290; Lowell on, 399; Dramatic Criticism:--119, 120, 121, 123-30; Poetry:--2, 4, 15, 393-441; Rossetti on, 399; Prose Writings:--character of, 2, 321-25, 327-92, 350, 453; richness of style, 329, 330, 331, 333, 336; unity of his writings, 445; American friends of, 295-311; Gypsies, description of first meeting with, 61; Friends, Reminiscences of:--APPLETON, PROF: at Bell Scott's and Rossetti's; Hegel on the brain; asks Watts to write for 'Academy,' 187; wants him to pith the German transcendentalists in two columns, 188; in a rage; Watts explains why he has gone into enemy's camp, 201; a Philistine, 202; BLACK, WILLIAM: resemblance to Watts, 185; meeting at Justin McCarthy's, 186; Watts mistaken for Black, 186; BORROW, GEORGE: his first meeting with, 95; his shyness, 99; Watts attacks it; tries Bamfylde Moore Carew; then tries beer, the British bruiser, philology, Ambrose Gwinett, etc., 100; a stroll in Richmond Park; visit to 'Bald-faced Stag'; Jerry Abershaw's sword; his gigantic green umbrella, 101-102; tries Whittlesea Mere; Borrow's surprise; vipers of Norman Cross; Romanies and vipers, 104; disclaims taint of printers' ink; 'Who are you?' 105; an East Midlander; the Shales Mare, 106; Cromer sea best for swimming; rainbow reflected in Ouse and Norfolk sand, 106; goes to a gypsy camp; talks about Matthew Arnold's 'Scholar-Gypsy,' 108; resolves to try it on gypsy woman; watches hawk and magpie, 109; meets Perpinia Boswell; 'the popalated gypsy of Codling Gap,' 110; Rhona Boswell, girl of the dragon flies; the sick chavo; forbids Pep to smoke, 112; description of Rhona, 113; the Devil's Needles; reads Glanville's story; Rhona bored by Arnold, 114; hatred of tobacco, 115; last sight of Borrow on Waterloo Bridge, 115; sonnet on, 116; BROWN, MADOX: 10, 12, 35, 136, 170; anecdote about portrait of, 274; BROWN, OLIVER MADOX: his novel, 274-6; BROWNING: Watts chaffs him in 'Athenaeum'; chided by Swinburne, 222; 223-27; sees him at Royal Academy private view; Lowell advises him to slip away; bets he will be more cordial than ever; Lowell astonished at his magnanimity, 222-23; the review in question, 'Ferishtah's Fancies,' 223-26; GROOME, FRANK: a luncheon at 'The Pines,' 79; 'Old Fitz'; patted on the head by, 79; see also 50, 68, 72, 285, 351, 364, 367, 372, 420; HAKE, GORDON: Introduces Borrow, 95; see 'New Day'; physician to Rossetti and to Lady Ripon, 90-91; HARTE, BRET: Watts's estimate of, 302-11; histrionic gifts, 302; meeting with; drive round London music halls, 303; 'Holborn,' 'Oxford'; Evans's supper-rooms; Paddy Green; meets him again at breakfast; a fine actor lost, 303; LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL: meets him at dinner, 295; he attacks England; directs diatribe at Watts; he retorts; a verbal duel, 296; recognition; cites Watts's first article, 298; his anglophobia turns into anglomania, 299; likes English climate, 300; MARSTON, WESTLAND: symposia at Chalk Farm; famous actors and actresses, 117; table talk about 'The Bells' and 'Rip Van Winkle,' 119; on staff of 'Examiner,' 184; the sub-Swinburnians at the Marston mornings; the divine Theophile; the Gallic Parnassus, 136; MEREDITH, GEORGE: 6, 283, 284, 325, 328, 417, 418; MINTO, PROF.: neighbours in Danes Inn; editing 'Examiner'; secures Watts; first article appears; Bell Scott's party; Scott wants to know name of new writer, 184; Watts slates himself, 185; Minto's Monday evening symposia, 185; MORRIS, WILLIAM: Marston mornings at Chalk Farm; 'nosey Latin,' 136; Wednesday evenings at Danes Inn; Swinburne, Watts, Marston, Madox Brown and Morris, 170; at Kelmscott, 170; passion for angling, 171; snoring of young owls, 171; causeries at Kelmscott, 173; the only reviews he read, 173; the little carpetless room, 175; writes 750 lines in twelve hours, 176; the crib on his desk, 177; offers to bring out an edition-de-luxe of Watts's poems; gets subscribers; a magnificent royalty, 179; presentation copies; extravagant generosity; 'All right, old chap'; 'Ned Jones and I,' 180; 'Algernon pay 10 for a book of mine!' 181; disgusted with Stead, the music-hall singer and dancer; 'damned tomfoolery,' 181; ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL: at Marston symposia; the Gallic Parnassians; he advises the bardlings to write in French, 136; interest in work of others; reciting a bardling's sonnet, 137; wishes Watts to write his life, 140; Swinburne on Watts's influence over, 139; letter to author about Rossetti, 140; Charles Augustus Howell (De Castro), Rossetti's opinion of, 142; portrait as D'Arcy in 'Aylwin'; not idealized; ethics of portraiture of friend; amazing detraction of, 144; too much written about him, 145; relations with his wife; Val Prinsep's testimony, 145; 'lovable, most lovable,' 145; dies in Watts's arms, 150; a pious fraud, 153; alleged rudeness to Princess Louise, 155; described in 'Aylwin,' 165-9; his wit and humour, 169; attitude to a disgraced friend, 210; the dishonest critic; 'By God, if I met such a man,' 211; a generous gift, 267; dislike of publicity; abashed by an 'Athenaeum' paragraph, 263; SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES: James Orlando Watts and, 58; chambers in Great James Street, 89; life at 'The Pines,' 262 et seq.; offensive newspaper caricature of, 263; the great Swinburne myth, 263; the American lady journalist, 264; an imaginary interview, 265; an unlovely bard; painfully 'afflated'; method of composition; 'stamping with both feet,' 265; friendship with Watts began in 1872, 268; inseparable since; housemates at 'The Pines'; visit to Channel Islands; swimming in Petit Bot Bay, 268; Sark; 'Orion' Horne's bravado challenge, 269; visits Paris for Jubilee of 'Le Roi s'Amuse,' 269; swimming at Sidestrand; meets Grant Allen, 269; visits Eastbourne, Lancing, Isle of Wight, Cromer, 270; sonnet to Watts, 271; dedicates 'Tristram of Lyonesse' to Watts, 272; also Collected Edition of Poems, 272; visits to Jowett; Jowett's admiration of Watts, 279; Balliol dinner parties, 280; at the Bodleian, 282; great novels which are popular, 273; champions Meredith, 284; TENNYSON, ALFRED: friendship with, 285; sympathy between him and, 285; sonnet on birthday, 286; meeting at garden party; open invitation to Aldworth and Farringford; his ear not defective, 286; sensibility to delicate metrical nuances, 287; challenges a sibilant in a sonnet, 287; 'scent' better than 'scents,' 287; his morbid modesty, 288; a poet is not born to the purple, 288; reading 'Becket' in summer-house; desired free criticism, 288; alleged rudeness to women, 289; detraction of, 289; could not invent a story, 289; the nucleus of 'Maud,' 289; his articles on portraits of, 290; TRAILL, H. D.: reviews his 'Sterne'; his letter to MacColl, 243; meets him at dinner, 243; picturesque appearance; boyish lisp; calls at 'The Pines'; interesting figures at his gatherings; 'a man of genius'; asks Watts to write for 'Literature'; his geniality as an editor, 244; why 'Literature' failed, 245; WHISTLER, J. MCNEILL: Cyril Aylwin not a portrait of, 88; anecdotes of De Castro, 142; neighbour of Rossetti, 156; close friendship with Watts, 301; hostility to Royal Academy, 301-2; his first lithographs, 301-2; engaged with Watts on 'Piccadilly,' 301, 353; 'To Theodore Watts, the Worldling,' 353

Watts-Dunton, Theodore, Swinburne's sonnets to, 271, 272

'Waverley,' Swinburne on; its new dramatic method; cause of its success; imitated by Dumas, 346

Way, T., Whistler's first lithographs, 301, 302

Webster, 'Spirit of Wonder' in, 16

'Well at the World's End,' 173

Wells, Charles, 53-55

'Westminster Abbey, In' (Burial of Tennyson), 291

'W. H. Mr.,' 424-26

'What the Silent Voices said,' 291

Whewell, intimacy with J. K. Watts, 52

Whistler, J. McNeill:--Cyril Aylwin not a portrait of, 88; anecdotes of De Castro, 142; neighbour of Rossetti, 156; close friendship with Watts, 301; his first lithographs, 301-2; hostility to Royal Academy, 301-2; engaged with Watts on 'Piccadilly,' 301, 353; 'To Theodore Watts, the Worldling,' 353

White, Gilbert, 50

Whiteing, Richard, 364

'White Ship, The,' 153, 154

Whittlesea Mere, 104

Whyte-Melville, 352, 367

Wilderspin, 331: see Smetham, James

Wilkie, his realism, humour of, 387

Williams,' Scholar,' contributor to 'Examiner,' 184

Williams, Smith, 275

'William Wilson,' 219

Willis, Parker, 264

Wilson, Professor, Watts-Dunton's essay on his 'Noctes Ambrosianae,' 190-201

Wimbledon Common, Borrow and, 101; Watts-Dunton and, 279

Wind, love of the, Thoreau's, 370, 371

Women, as actresses, 131; heroic type of, 365

Wonder: see Renascence of Wonder; old and new, 15; Bible as great book of, 228; place in race development, 14

'Wood-Haunter's Dream, The,' 276

Wordsworth, William, definition of language, 39; his ideal John Bull, 224

Word-twisting, 325, 327

Work, heresy of, 68

'World,' The, Rossetti's letter to, 155

'World's Classics,' edition of 'Aylwin' in, 374

'Wuthering Heights,' 342, 345

Wynne, Winifred, character of, 314, 315, 363; love of the wind, 371

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Yarmouth, 106

Yorickism, 250

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Zoroaster, heresy of work, 68; definition of poetry, 398

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FOOTNOTES

{1} 'Studies in Prose.'

{2} 'Chambers's Encyclopaedia,' vol. x., p. 581.

{34} The meanings of the gypsy words are:

baval wind chaw grass chirikels birds dukkerin' fortune-telling farmin' ryes farmers gals girls ghyllie song ghyllie song gorgie Gentile woman gorgies Gentiles kairs homes kas hay kas-kairin' haymaking kem sun lennor summer puv field Romany chies gypsy girls Shoshus hares

{60} 'Notes and Queries,' August 2, 1902.

{73a} Among the gypsies of all countries the happiest possible 'Dukkeripen' (i.e. prophetic symbol of Natura Mystica) is a hand-shaped golden cloud floating in the sky. It is singular that the same idea is found among races entirely disconnected with them--the Finns, for instance, with whom Ukko, the 'sky god,' or 'angel of the sunrise,' was called the 'golden king' and 'leader of the clouds,' and his Golden Hand was more powerful than all the army of Death. The 'Golden Hand' is sometimes called the Lover's Dukkeripen.

{73b} Good-luck.

{74} Child.

{76} Pretty mouth.

{82} A famous swimming dog belonging to the writer.

{88} 'Notes and Queries,' June 7, 1902.

{112} Bosom.

{139} I think I am not far wrong in saying that he whom Mr. Benson heard make this remark was a more illustrious poet than even D. G. Rossetti, the greatest poet indeed of the latter half of the nineteenth century, the author of 'Erechtheus' and 'Atalanta in Calydon.'

{147} As Mr. Swinburne has pronounced Mr. Stone's translation to be in itself so fine as to be almost a work of genius, I will quote it here:--

Greek

Felix, qui potuit gentem illustrare canendo,
quique decus patriae claris virtutibus addit
succurritque laboranti, tutamque periclis
eruit, hostilesque minas avertit acerbo
dente lacessitae; bene, quicquid fecerit audax,
explevisse iuvat: metam tenet ille quadrigis,
praemia victor habet, quamvis tuba vivida famae
ignoret titulos, vel si flammante sagitta
oppugnet Livor quam mens sibi muniit arcem.
quod si fata mihi virtutis gaudia tantae
invideant, nec fas Anglorum extendere fines
latius, et nitidae primordia libertatis,
Anglia cui praecepit iter, cantare poetae;
si numeris laudare meam vel marte Parentem
non mihi contingat, nec Divom adsumere vires
atque inconcessos sibi vindicet alter honores,
dignior ille mihi frater, quem iure saluto--
illum divino praestantem numine amabo.

{157} Philip Bourke Marston.

{286} According to a Mohammedan tradition, the mountains of Kaf are entirely composed of gems, whose reflected splendours colour the sky.

{291} 'Tennyson: A Memoir,' by his son (1897), vol. ii. p. 479.

{339} "Tanto e vero, che 'Aylwin' fu cominciato a scrivere in versi, e mutato di forma soltanto quando l'intreccio, in certo modo prendendo la mano al poeta, rese necessario un genere di sua natura meno astretto alla rappresentazione di scorcio; e che l'Avvento d'amore, ove le circostanze di fatto sono condensate in modo da dar pieno risalto al motivo filosofico, riesce una cosa, a mio credere, piu perfetta."

{383} 'Notes and Queries,' June 7, 1902.

{403a} Mostly pronounced 'mullo,' but sometimes in the East Midlands 'mollo.'

{403b} Mostly pronounced 'kaulo,' but sometimes in the East Midlands 'kollo.'

{404} The gypsies are great observers of the cuckoo, and call certain spring winds 'cuckoo storms,' because they bring over the cuckoo earlier than usual.

{427} 'England is a country that can never be conquered while the Sovereign thereof has the command of the sea.'--RALEIGH.