Egerton, Sir Edwin, 285 and Miss Maggie Benson, 303 as host, 308 Egypt, visits to, 254, 308 Epidaurus, a visit to, 289 Eton, a second failure for scholarship at, 125 Arthur Benson at, 87, 124, 250, 318 Etretat, holidays at, 86 Fal, the, bathing in, 100 Ford, Lionel, headmaster of Harrow, 226 Frederick, Empress, and author, 284 Friendships of schoolboys, how made and how retained, 151 Fry, Roger, and the _Cambridge Fortnightly_, 231 Geoghehan, Mr., fourth form master at East Sheen school, 83 George V (then Duke of York) dines at Lambeth Palace, 238 (then Prince of Wales) and the death of the Duke of Clarence, 277 George, King of Greece, 281 an audience with, 282 and his sister’s hat, 288 George, Prince (of Greece), 284 Germany, Crown Princess of, and Oscar Browning, 222 Giles, Mrs., her day-school and the scholars, 41, 60 Gimmelwald, arrival at, 133 Gladstone, Mrs., a fateful telegram from, 322 Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., a dissertation on blotting-paper squeezes, 267 and the Chester archæological researches, 261 friendship with Mrs. Benson, 166 Golf on the snow and in a fog, 176 Goodhart, Arthur, at King’s College, 226 Greece, the Court of, 283 author in, 286 _et seq._ the spell of, 308 Greek theatres, German theory regarding, 286 Guinea-pigs reared by Maggie Benson, 93, 94 Halsbury, Lord, at Lambeth Palace, 167 Handel Festival at Crystal Palace, 110, 113 Hare, Thomas, 86 Harrison, Mrs. (“Lucas Malet”), reads _Dodo_, 290 Hatasoo, Queen, and Sen-mut, 316 Hawarden, author interviews Mr. Gladstone at, 267 Gladstone’s tribute to Mrs. Benson at, 166 Hawarden Church, tragic death of the Archbishop in, 323 Headlam, Walter, at King’s College, 226 Henry VI, and King’s College, Cambridge, 213 Hobbies as a preservative of youth, 58 _Image in the Sand, The_, 311 Irish tour of the Archbishop and Mrs. Benson, 321 Irving, Harry, recitations at Marlborough Penny Readings, 202 James, Henry, earlier and later works of, 272 reads _Dodo_, 272 James, Monty, Provost of Eton, as mimic, 226, 229 readings from Dickens by, 229 Jungfrau, the, an ascent of, in thick snow, 249 first glimpse of, 130 Karnak, excavations in the temple of Mut, 312 Kenwyn Church and its organist, 72 Kenwyn Vicarage, 63 King, Dr., Bishop of Lincoln, trial of, 250 King’s College, Cambridge, a notable life-fellow of, 221 eccentric, Fellows of, 214 _et seq._ glee-singing at, 217 life at, 226 _et seq._ the chapel, 233 Lake district, the, a wet holiday in, 209 Lambeth Palace, dinner parties at, 237 Mrs. Benson as hostess at, 164 Leigh, Augustus Austen, Vice-Provost of King’s, 216 Lincoln and early emotions, 32 _et seq._ and demoniacal possession, 52 _et seq._ Sundays at, 45 the Cathedral, 45 _et seq._ trial, the, Archbishop Benson and, 249, 253 Lister, Regie, and a theatrical performance in Athens, 304 author and, 306 his genius for friendship, 305 Llandaff, Hugh Benson at, 318