Sackville, Lord, treasures of, at Knole, 223-225 St. Clement Danes church, tomb of Otway in, 286 St. Helena, Napoleon I. at, 85, 87 St. James’s Park, otter hunt in, 160-161 — Square, memories concerning, 151-152 — Street and its clubs, Locker’s verses on, 158-159 Sala, George Augustus, on Paris, 308-309 Samplers, 204 Sancroft, Archbishop, 319 Sandringham, 232-233 Sandwich, Lady, 45 Sardou, Monsieur, his views on the fate of the Dauphin (Louis XVII.), 118 Satan and the church-goer, 54 _Saturday Review_, 304 Savarin, Brillat, on the truffle, 131 Saxe-Weimar, late Prince Edward of, and the financier, 31 Scene-painters afterwards otherwise famous, 194 Scenery in theatres, first use of, in England, 195 Schlieman, Dr., his collections, 186 Scrap-books of the author, 1 Sedan-chair, a, used at Cheltenham in the ’sixties, 128 Seidlitz, Baron von, author of “The Midnight Review,” 94 Selwyn, George, 151 Serjeants’ rings, 271 Sèvres-china, some splendid specimens, 210-211; a famous commode and its adventures, 210 Seymour, Lady, and Lady Shuckburgh, amusing letters between, about a cook, 305 — Lord Henry, in Paris, 309 Shepherd’s Market, 153 Sheppard, Jack, the highwayman, in Mayfair, 153 Sheraton, 212 _et seq._; his opinion of Chippendale, 214; features of his work, 215 Sherbrooke, Lord, lines by, on the “Garden of Friendship,” Cortachy, 245; squibs on his proposed match tax, 6 Sheridan, his suggestion for building in Hyde Park, 168 Sheriffs and Judges, running footmen of, as late as 1851, 147 Shirts, clean, one way of wearing, 126-127 Siamese cats of the author, 226-229 Silhouettes owned by the author, 196-197 Silkworm culture, successful, of the author, 242-243 ’Sixties, ways and customs of the, 155-156 _et seq._ Skin, human, put to gruesome use, 279-280 Smirke, engraved tickets by, 200 Smith, Rev. Sydney, once minister of Berkeley Chapel, 150; political squib attributed to, 4-6 — Sergeant, deserter, execution of, in Hyde Park, 164 Smithurst, the smuggler, 275 Smoking, past and present, 52, 137-138 Smuggling stories, 274-276 Snuff-boxes, Mr. Hawkins’s, 211 Socialism, causes leading up to, 297 Society, modern, 22 — moral status of, 297-298 — of the past, 22; its leaders and noted conversationalists, 23 — pleasures of, 297 _et seq._ Somerset, Duchess of (_née_ Sheridan), her wit and beauty, 14; her use of guinea-pigs as food, 15 — the Protector, letters to, at Longleat, 44 “Souls, The,” Sir W. Harcourt on, 15 Southhill Park, 152 Soyer, famous cook, his artistic wife, their grave and its inscription, 135 Spencer House and its designer, 164 Squarsons, stories of, 13 Stanfield, J. C, as scene-painter, 194 Stanhope, Lady Hester, 163 Steam carriages, 293-295 Stock Exchange, the, as a social power, 30-31, 299 Straight, Sir Douglas, 304 Strawberry Hill, Lady Waldegrave’s “decorations” at, 40 Stuart memorials and portraits collected by Earl of Orford (the late), 195 — papers found by the present Earl, 317 _et seq._