Midnight until 2 a.m. was the hour of the Rat 2 a.m. ” 4 a.m. ” ” Ox 4 a.m. ” 6 a.m. ” ” Tiger 6 a.m. ” 8 a.m. ” ” Hare 8 a.m. ” 10 a.m. ” ” Dragon 10 a.m. ” 12 noon ” ” Snake 12 noon ” 2 p.m. ” ” Horse 2 p.m. ” 4 p.m. ” ” Ram 4 p.m. ” 6 p.m. ” ” Ape 6 p.m. ” 8 p.m. ” ” Cock 8 p.m. ” 10 p.m. ” ” Hog 10 p.m. ” midnight ” ” Fox [11] See my “Tales of Old Japan: the Loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki.” [12] _Morning Post_, May 8th, 1915. [13] Quoted in the _Spectator_, May 8th, 1915. [14] Lord March, afterwards “Old Q.” [15] The Duke of Queensberry. [16] Mr. Thrale’s profits from the brewery were estimated at £30,000 a year. [17] Mügge, pp. 131, 134. [18] “As when upon a trancèd summer night Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-chainèd by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.” HYPERION, I., 72. [19] Tomini later quarrelled with Napoleon and entered the service of Alexander. [20] The craze for absolute uniformity was exemplified in the Kurros (snub-nosed) Grenadier Regiment of the Emperor Paul. Not only was every nose in the regiment tip-tilted, but the meter-like brass shakos of the old pattern seen in Hogarth’s pictures—“The March to Finchley,” for example—each has a bullet-hole exactly in the same place. This was to commemorate an attempt on the Tsar’s life. The bullet missed him, but found its billet in the shako of one of his guards. Whether the snub-noses and the shakos still exist I know not. They were very conspicuous in my time. [21] The Emperor Louis Napoleon. [22] The word, “Nihilist” first appeared in Turgénieff’s story, “Fathers and Sons,” in 1861. [23] “The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield,” Vol. IV., p. 342. [24] Buckle’s “Life of Disraeli,” _ut supra_, Vol. IV., p. 343. INDEX INDEX Abdul Hamid, Sultan of Turkey, 138, 274. Aberdeen, George H. Gordon, 4th Earl of, 269, 270. Abrantès, Junot, Duc d’, 173-4. Addison, Joseph, 114. Albert, Prince Consort, 141-2. Alexander I., Emperor of Russia, 247-8, 253 _et sq._, 258 _et sq._ Alexander II., Emperor of Russia, 264, 284 _et sq._, 296. Allard, Father, 87. Ananda, 25, 35, 40, 42. Anatha Pindaka, 35. Angeli, Von, 144. Arnold, Sir Edwin, 18, 23. Aryans, The, 49 _et sq._, 59 _et sq._ Asōka, King, 18, 51. Aston, Molly, 241. Aston, Sir Thomas, 241. Bacon, Francis (Lord Verulam), 62, 189. Bagatelle, 162-3, 175, 190-1, 193, 195. Balfe, Michael William, 294. Balfe, Victoire, 294-5. “Bamboo Garden, The,” Lord Redesdale’s, ix. Barbosa, 49. Baring, Maurice, 203-4. Barlaam and Josaphat, The Story of, 27 _et sq._