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
Israels, portrait of, 46
Jefferson, Joseph, 186
Jephson (Stanley's officer), 209-211
Jewett, Sarah Orne, on Tennyson Memorial Committee, 128
Joachim, violinist, friend of Moscheles, 45
Joule, James Prescott, 110; appreciated by Kelvin, 111
Journalist, as a party man, 146
Jowett, Professor, 53
Kelvin, Lord, 96-113; achievements of, 99, 112; acquires White's
business, 100; addresses Royal Society in London, 104-105; ancestry,
98; appointed professor of Natural Philosophy, at Glasgow University,
97; character of, 97, 98, 108, 112; chooses title, 99; early days, 98;
energy of, 96-97, 113; enters university at ten, 97; fiftieth
anniversary at Glasgow, 109; first published papers, 110; fondness for
asking questions, 108-109; greatest master of natural science of 19th
century, 97, 107; installs telephone in home, 106; introduces electric
lighting in home, 105; inventions of, 100, 106; lameness of, 103, 108;
made a peer, 99; method of conducting classes, 103-104, 108; outlines
plan of boy's education, 97-98; practicality of, 99-100, 103-104, 105;
prophecy regarding electricity, 102-103; quoted, 110, 112, regarding
energy, 111; Sir William Ramsay's opinion of, 103-104; study of, 112;
theory of existence of organic life, 107; typical day of, 113; work on
Atlantic cables, 100; yachtsman and master navigator, 106
Kendals, the, 16, 186
Kinglake, A. W., 52
Kingsway, 11
Kipling, Rudyard, 17
Knight, Professor (of St. Andrews University), 53
Knowles, James, of Nineteenth Century, designer of Tennyson's home at
Aldworth, 125
Lablache, singer, friend of Moscheles, 45
_Lalla Rookh_, Lord Kelvin's yacht, 106
"Language and Literature of the Scottish Highlands" (by Blackie), 87
Lathrop, George Parsons, Boston editor, 28
Law Courts, the, 15
Leadenhall Street (London), 1, 2
League of Nations, 140
Lecky (historian), 52
Leighton, Lord, 53
"Letters, Poems, and Pensées" (Barbour), 92
"Life" of Gladstone, Morley's, quoted, 141
Li Hung Chang, as a questioner, 108-109
London, architecture of, 10-13; charm of, 10, 13; description of, 1, 2,
10; drawbacks, 9; Esperanto Club of, 48; "finest site in Europe", 11;
former leisure of travel in, 13-14; hats in, 15; hotels in, 15-16;
improvements of, 11; interiors of buildings, 12-13; in the late
seventies, 9-17; lighting of, 9; most livable place in world, 9; music
halls, 16; public buildings of, 11; regiments in, 17; restaurants, 16;
street cries in, 14; theatre crowds, 194, 195-196, 197; ugliness of
modern, 11; views in, 12; writers in, 16-17
London Bridge, 17
"London Letters" of author, 29, 30
Lowell Institute, Boston, Drummond lectures at, 175
Lubbock, Sir John (Lord Avebury), 52
Lyceum Theatre, 187, 202; author's experiences in attending, 194,
195-196; great productions at, 193, 194, 200; management of Irving, 190
Mackenzie, Sir Morell, description of Patti's throat, 69
Macmillan (publisher), 53
Maiden's Croft, Farringford, Isle of Wight, 120
Malibran, singer, friend of Moscheles, 45
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