portrait of, 195-196; secret negotiations of, with Sir R. Walpole, 317 Primrose League, the, its originator, 19; interest in, of the Comte de Paris, 18, 19 Print-collecting, French prints, 205-206; military prints, 295 Public execution, the last, in England, 276 Publicity, modern love of, 27 Queen Anne furniture, 216, 218 Queensberry, Duke of (“Old Q.”), his running footmen, 146 Races won by the author’s father, 54 Raffet’s lithograph of “The Midnight Review,” 95 Railways and the railway mania, 292-293 Ratton Row, a common name for streets, 167 Récamier, Dr., 99 Redgrave, Miss, her artistic gifts, her friends, 191-193 — Mr. Samuel, artistic knowledge of, 191 Reform Bill, changes following, 295 _et seq._ — Disraeli’s, 75-76 Religion, attitude towards, of some non-churchgoers, 53-54 Resurrection men, 280 Richmond, Duke of, coming of age festivities of, 46 — Duke of (the late), rare dogs bred by, 230 Ritchie, Mr. Leitch, his translation of “The Midnight Review,” 95 _et seq._ Robinson, Sir Charles, 183 Roller skating, vogue of, 248-249 Rome, carnival in (1842), 8; a theatrical performance at (1845), 261 Ros, Lord de, 198-199 Rosalba, pastels by, of Walpoles, 180 Rothschild, Miss Alice, French art treasures of, 208 — Mr. Alfred, his French art treasures, 207 Rotten Row, past and present, question of its name, 167-169; some former _habitués_, 170 Rougeville, Chevalier de, his devotion to Marie Antoinette, 101 Rous, Admiral, why he left the navy, 51; his dislikes, 52 Russell, John Scott, his steam car, 295 — Lord John, appearance and manner of, 67; Bernal Osborne’s nicknames for, 68 Rutland, a former Duke of, and his hunting accidents, 273