Produced by Iona Vaughan, woodie4, Mark Akrigg and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net [Illustration: LESLIE WARD.] 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 _père 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