London Days: A Book of ReminiscencesWarren, Arthur
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London Days: A Book of Reminiscences
Warren, Arthur
London (England) -- Intellectual life; London (England) -- Social life and customs
Craig-y-Nos Castle (home of Patti), 57; beauty of, 61; description of,
71-72; entertainments at, 74; evenings at, 70; guests at, 58-59, 71;
lantern show at, 77; life at, 71; meals at, 60, 61, 67; merriment at,
68; orchestrion at, 70; party at, 76-77; salute to author from, 78;
theatre in, 72; treasures of, 75; view from, 60
Criterion (restaurant), 16
Davy, Sir Humphry, 110
De Keyser's Academy (Antwerp), 45
Deland, Margaret, on Tennyson Memorial Committee, 128
"Dimbola" (home of Watts, and later of Mrs. Cameron), 115, 119
Dollis Hill (Lord Aberdeen's home), 153, 154
"Dombey and Son", clothiers, 1
Drummond, Henry, 170-184; achievements of, 178, 182; anecdote of,
181-182; capacity for friendship, 171; death, 184; description of, 172,
174, 176; financial independence, 179; friendship with D. L. Moody,
171, 178; geologist, 174; home, 175; lecturer at Lowell Institute,
Boston, 175; opinion of Gladstone, 184; optimism, 181; popularity of
books, 171, 172, 174; professor in Free Church College, at Glasgow,
174; quoted, 171, 172, 177, 179-181, 182-183, 184
Drury Lane Theatre ("Old Drury"), 16, 90
Du Maurier, George, 53
Edinburth, 79, 80; University, 85
Electricity, first house in Britain lighted by, 105; transmission of,
102-103
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quoted, 109
Emin Pasha, 205
Empire (theatre), 16
English discomforts, 13; ills, 13
"Essays on Social Subjects" (by Blackie), 86
Fame, length of an actor's, 186
Faraday, Michael, discovery of, 101
Farrar, Dean, 53
Farringford (home of Lord Tennyson), 114; description of, 119, 126;
views from, 120
"Felix Mendelssohn's letters to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles", 44
Fenchurch Street Station (London), 1, 7
Field, Cyrus, connection with laying American cable, 101
Fields, James T. (publisher), 130, 131
Fields, Mrs. James T., on Tennyson Memorial Committee, 128
Fleet Street, 8, 15, 26
Flint Cottage, Box Hill (Meredith's home), 223-224
Floyth, Mrs., housekeeper to John Stuart Mill, 7-8
Foch, General, 139
Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston, 16, 187
Ford, Sheridan, pursuit of, by Whistler, 160-161
"Four Phases of Morals" (by Blackie), 86
France formerly considered England's potential enemy, 252
Free Church College, Glasgow, 174
French and English, comparison of, 19
Freshwater, Isle of Wight, 117, 118, 122; author's fondness for, 114,
115; description of, 114; Lady Ritchie's home at, 134-135; life at,
136; Tennyson's home at, 114; Walker's theory regarding its antiquity,
131-133; Watts' home at, 115
Froude J. A. (historian), 52
Garibaldi at Farringford, 116
Garrick, fame of, 185
"Gentle Art of Making Enemies" (by Whistler), 158, 159, 160, 161
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