Nevill, Lady Dorothy, 101. ---- Miss Meresia, her lesson in oratory at Strathfieldsaye, 110. _New Domesday Book_, studied by the author at Ardverikie, 187. Newman, Cardinal, 50. _New Paul and Virginia, The_, 90. _New Republic, The_, 87. New York: the opera there a social function, 312; dinner parties in, and other entertainments, 312; good taste in fashionable entertainments, 316; author's address at Columbia University, 313; Evelyn Nesbit and the Thaw trial, 321; ladies' club in, author's address at opening of, 324. Nicosia, 230. Noble, Mr. and Mrs. Saxton, 294. Noltland Castle, in the Orkneys, 301. Normans and Saxons, 28. Oban, 175. _Old Order Changes, The_, analysis of, 214-217. Orford, Lord, his views of society, 97. Osborne, Father B., son of a prominent Evangelical, 240. "Ouida" in London, 126; at Florence, 256; at Knebworth, 256. Oxford, undergraduate life at, 68; suppers and concerts at, 70-71; Robert Browning and Ruskin at, 71-79; rejection of dogmatic Christianity at, 82; suicide of Balliol undergraduate at, 80; orthodox apologists at, 83; _The New Republic_ at, 87. Paget, Sir Augustus and Lady, 228. Pater, as Mr. Rose, in _The New Republic_, 88. _Pelham_ (Lord Lytton's novel), social advice to her son from the hero's mother, 97. Philpot, Mr., private tutor at Littlehampton, 39; his taste for poetry, 39; the author's happy years under tuition of, 39-49; his professed Radicalism in polities and religion, 43; his fastidiousness in choice of pupils, 43. Philpotts, Henry, Bishop of Exeter, examples of his polished wit, 32. Poetry, author's early devotion to, 35-37. Poor, the rural, of Devonshire, 20-29. Pope as author's earliest model, 35. Popoff, Admiral, his visit to Mr. W. Froude at Chelston Cross, 51. Primrose League meeting at Cockington, humors of the occasion, 211. Prose, methods of writing good, 347. Prosody, attempts to write English verse according to Latin, 355. _Provence_, the, French transatlantic steamer, 328. Queen of Holland at Cockington, 17. Raby Castle, 150. Ramsden, Lady Guendolen: the author helps her in editing family memoirs, 100; has to reject the most amusing parts, 100. ---- Sir John, an ideal country gentleman, 161. _Reconstruction of Belief, The_, 291. _Religion as a Credible Doctrine_, 284. Religion as an element of civilization, 291. Riegersbourg, castle of, 252. Roden, Lady, the charm of her conversation, 101. ---- Lord and Lady, in Ireland, 164. _Romance of the Nineteenth Century, A_, 169; violent attacks on, 170; analysis of its philosophical purport, 170; defended by Catholic priest and Lord Houghton, 171-172. Roosevelt, President, author's meeting with, at Harvard, 318. Ruskin, meeting with, at Oxford, 78; his extreme charm of manner, 79; temperamentally opposed to Jowett, 79; his insistence on the need of definite religious belief, 86; as Mr. Herbert in _The New Republic_, 88.