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. Phené 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