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_