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
"Songs of Religion and Life" (by Blackie), 87
Sothern, E. A., 16; homes of, 36; hospitality of, 36, 37
Spottiswoode (publisher), 53
Stairs (Stanley's officer), 209, 211
Stanley, Sir Henry M., 205-221; address at St. James Hall, quoted,
209-210, 211-212; "American dinner" to, 212-220; character of, 205;
experience with an election crowd, 220-221; famous march into Africa,
209, 210; member of Parliament, 220, 221; portrait of, 46; quoted,
217-219, 220-221; return to London, 205-207; temper of, 205; tribute to
his officers, 211
Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames, 53
Stephen, Leslie, 53
Stephenson, Robert, 100
Stepniak, description of, 49; meeting with Moscheles, 49; portrait of,
46
Stoker, Bram (Irving's manager), 189; handwriting of, 189
Strand, 15
Street cries of London, 14
"Sublime Society of Beefsteaks", 202
Submarine telegraphy, 100, 101
Talma (actor), fame of, 185
Telephone brought to Europe, 106; installed in Lord Kelvin's house, 106
Temple Bar, 15
Tennyson, Hallam (second Lord), son of poet, 53, 126
Tennyson, Lord (the poet), anecdotes of, 121, 122-123, 129-130, 134,
136; brother of, 125; buried in Westminster Abbey, 126; description of,
121; devotion of son, 126; "Dirty Monk" photograph of, 117-118; family
life, 126; letter in _Times_ regarding, 129-130; life at Farringford,
126; memorial to, 127-129; peculiarities of, 125; persons who resembled
him, 125; photographs of, 117-118; proud of his fame, 124; sincerity
of, 130; summer home of, 125
"Tennyson's Down", 127
Tennyson's Lane, 115, 119, 120
Terry, Ellen, achievements as actress, 198; art of, 187; at Irving's
supper parties, 202; at Lyceum Theatre, 187; charm of, 197-198; first
visit to America, 46
Thames Embankment, lighting on, 9
"The Artist's Mother" (Whistler), portrait sold to France, 167
"The Briary" (home of Watts), 115
"The Greatest Thing in the World" (Drummond), 172, 174
_The Pilot_, 247
"The Porch", Lady Ritchie's home, 135
"The Uniform Motion of Heat in Homogeneous Solid Bodies, and Its
Connection With The Mathematical Theory of Electricity" (by Lord
Kelvin), 110
Thomson, James, brother to Lord Kelvin, 98
Thomson, James, father of Lord Kelvin, 98; scholarship of, 98-99
Thomson, William, invented the "Siphon Recorder", 101; _see_ also Lord
Kelvin
_Times_, London, quoted, 129-130
Tottenham Court Road, 16
Tower House, Chelsea (Whistler's home), 158, 161
Travel, comparison of sea, 3, 4-5; in London, 13-14
Tussaud, Madame, 216, 234
Ulster, ideals of, 253; problem of, 253
Van Lorino, Moscheles' teacher, 45
Vaudeville, the, 16
Vaughan, Dean, 53
Very's (restaurant), 16
Victoria (hotel), 15
Victoria Street (London), 11
Victoria Tower, 12
Walker, Robert, 131; theory regarding age of Freshwater, 132-133
Ward, "Ideal", in Freshwater, 122
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