_Boston Courier_, author's first copy published in, 28 _Boston Herald_, author's engagement with, 39-41; author's article published in, 248 Bottomley, Dr. J. T., assistant to Lord Kelvin, 106 Boulanger, General, 260-274; address of, 273; arrival in London, 260-261; as candidate for French Parliament, 261, 264-265; at café dinner, 271; author's impressions of, 268, 269, 270, 272, 273-274; collapse and flight, 272; committed suicide, 274; demonstration for, at Alexandra Palace, 273; description of, 269-270; drawn by Raven-Hill, 269, 271; elected to Parliament, 266; interviewed, 273; "man on horseback," 268-269; Minister of War, 270; represented France at Centennial Exposition, 273 Braddon, Miss, 17 Bridge, Sir Frederick, organist at Westminster Abbey, 53, 55, 56 Brixton (London), 2, 3 Browning, Mrs., quoted, 52, 54 Browning, Robert, burial in Westminster Abbey, 51-56; death of, 51; friendship with Moscheles, 42, 44, 47, 50; portrait of, 46 Bryce, Lord, 52 Buildings, discomfort of some English, 13; interiors of English, 12-13; London public, 11, 12; warming of English, 12-13 Burbage, fame of, 185 Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, welcoming Stanley, 206, 207 Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, 53 Burns, John, 222; agitator in "Dock Strike," 223, 229-234; anecdote of Gladstone, 232-233; day with Meredith, 224-234, 238; dress, 234, 239; hobbies of, 226-227; meetings with author, 223, 229-234, 238, 239 Busses, 13-14 Butler, Doctor (of Trinity College), 53 Cable, first Atlantic, 100; broke, 101; final success of, 102; first message over, 101; laid, 101; Lord Kelvin's connection with, 100; operated, 101 Cadogan Gardens, home of Moscheles in, 42, 47, 50 Café Royal, 16 Calais, 18 Cameron, Mrs., 115; anecdote of, 115-116; description of, 115, 116, 117; distributes her photographs, 122; encounter with Garibaldi, 116; energy of, 119; letter quoted, 123-124; photographs of Tennyson, 117-118 Canterbury, 18; Archbishop of, 54 Capel, Monsignor, 34-39; author's meeting with, 35; visit to, 37-38; death, 39; description of, 35-36, 37; goes to America, 39; home of, 36; hospitality of, 37; loss of standing, 38; pamphlet by, 38 Carlton, Hotel, 16 Carlyle, Thomas, 162; Whistler's portrait of, sold, 166-167 Carlyle Mansions, 165 Cecil, Hotel, 15 Cedar Villa (Kensington), tenants of, 36, 37 Cederström, Baroness, _see_ Patti _Century Magazine_, 45 Chelsea Hospital bombed, 135 Cheshire Cheese, London, 260 Cheyne Walk, Whistler's house in, 161; author's home in, 49, 161, 164, 222 Cinema, limitations of, 186-187 Civil War, American, Gladstone's attitude toward, 143 Clémenceau, 139, 140 Cleveland, Grover, portrait of, 46 Coliseum the, 16 Colvin, Sir Sidney, 52 Committee Room Fifteen, 240, 241 Comparison of English and American heating, 12-13; of French and English, 19; of sea travel, 3, 4-5