Great Victorians; memories and personalities

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MEMORIES AND PERSONALITIES

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Family accidents or personal chances brought me, from a very early age, into the presence of celebrated or interesting personages, in most cases more or less connected with my native West of England. In less immature life, employments and associations added extension or intimacy to this kind of acquaintanceship, giving me a knowledge that was at least first-hand of not a few among the most characteristic as well as often entertaining products of their time.

In cases like Bishop Phillpotts and the first Duke of Wellington, a tolerably good memory brought before me, as clearly as if I had seen them yesterday, much that was most impressive in their appearance, their manner, and the "habit in which they lived." For their distinctive attributes of various kinds, manifested in the parts they played and the principles for which they stood, I have been fortunate in being able to draw upon their contemporaries or their relatives^ who had the authentic tradition concerning

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them. Such, as regards the Duke, were his son, the second Duke, and his most intimate and Hfelong friend, the Rev. G. R. Gleig, so long the Army Chaplain -General. In the case of the Bishop, I have been similarly helped by his grandson, son of the Archdeacon of Cornwall, James Surtees Phillpotts, formerly a Rugby master, and headmaster of Bedford, now living at Tunbridge Wells, by my old college friend, the Rev. A. L. Eoulkes, long a clergyman in the Exeter Diocese, and by Mr. Edmund Gosse, whose invaluable kindness refreshed a dim recollection of the Bishop as, during his last years, he could be seen in his retirement at Torquay. As a child I had first seen the Bishop with or at the house of my relative, Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, of " Peamore " ; his late son was good enough to check and supplement my own memories, as well as from his own experience to describe the Bishop's oratorical methods and effects on platforms or in Parliament, and their curious resemblance to his private conversation at dinner -tables and in drawing-rooms. The Bishop's alliance with Lord Derby against the Coalition Government of 1853, and the remarkable bitterness of his invective, first placed him high among the chief debaters on the Conservative side in the

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Upper House. The second Earl Granville was one of the few peers belonging to that Administration who lived into my time. To him I was indebted for singularly lifelike accounts of the Bishop's performances. Indeed, without Lord Granville's help, what has been said as to the impression left by the Bishop on his immediate contemporaries would have been less distinct and fresh than I hope is now the case.

As regards many other details, th^ intimacy enjoyed by me from my earliest youth with A. W. Kinglake, Abraham Hayward, and others brought back to me, long before I had any idea 6i writing these pages, many types of their time with whom personal acquaintance on my part would have been impossible, but whose omission from a book bearing the present title must have rendered it grievously incomplete. Finally, while I have not consciously drawn upon any memoirs, autobiographies, or diaries recently published, I would gratefully acknowledge the valuable and interesting private letters in which Sir Donald Stewart's daughter. Lady Eustace, has revived and enlarged my recollection, not only of her distinguished father, but of the other Anglo-Indian generals of his day.

T. H. S. ESCOTT.

West Brighton,

December 191 5.

Chapter I

A memorable confirmation address in the old church, Bideford — Henry of Exeter's watchword for the newly confirmed, " Incorporate " into the Body of Christ, the Church — The skull-cap and episcopal robes in the religious light — Wizard or priest? — An address that reaffirms all those doctrines whose repudiation by the Brampford Speke clergyman, and whose disregard by the Primate, Dr. Howley, had brought about Henry's long war against the Gorham heresies and his excommunication of the Archbishop of Canterbury — Indifference of his diocese to these escapades and local pride — His intrepidity as the champion of the reaction to clerical mediaevalism and the subordination of State to Church — Bishop Phillpotts' position, social and political, as a type and leader of that movement — His gradual preparation for it, first as Tory High Church pamphleteer, d- la Jonathan Swift — Society success began when he became Dean of Chester — Faimous hosts and guests in and out of London — Diocesan work and social progresses in Devonshire — The right-hand man. Archdeacon Freeman, more advanced and uncompromising than the Bishop himself — The leavening of the West with anti- Reformation principles by Mr. Prynne at St. Mary's, Plymouth — The devotee who not only brushed the church floor but licked it with her tongue thoroughly to clean it, and made the Bishop smack his lips with delight — Social discourses on Dr. Johnson's text about the devil as the first Whig — At daggers drawn with Jeffrey, Brougham, and all concerned with the Edinbtirgh Review — A Bishop after the Duke of Wellington's own heart — At Buckingham Palace with the Duke as Oxford Chancellor to congratulate Queen Victoria on her marriage — A little dialogue on punctuality as the politeness of princes — The Bishop before the looking-glass at his palace — The episcopal sugar-plums and picture-

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books — The Bishop and the hunting parsons — The Bishop's gracious way with an Evangelical clergyman about the " Shebbear rogues " — Henry of Exeter's table-talk as the rehearsal of his speeches in Parliament — The Bishop and Lord Derby understand each other about the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill — Lander's " Belial Bishop" — Henry stands for damnation, not condemnation — The gamecock of the aristocratic Tories — The house party at Mount Edgcumbe and what came of it — The conqueror of Waterloo and Henry of Exeter meet — The Bishop lionizes the Duke over Exeter Cathedral — The Duke's account of it given to the Rev. G. R. Gleig — The dark and fearful face in the bath-chair — Henry of Exeter's doctrines and influence carried into Somerset by the Rev. M. F. Sadler of Bridgwater, who exercised on Archdeacon Denison something of the same influence as Archdeacon Freeman exercised on Bishop Phillpotts — The Archdeacon's brother, the Speaker, on " St. George without the drag-on " — The Archdeacon's own account of his conversion to Ritualism — The Vicar of East Brent and the school inspector — The latter welcomed with " Old Daddy Longlegs wouldn't say his prayers " — The first Duke of Wellington as a West of England worthy — Restoration of the Wellington pillar on the Blackdown Hills — The Duke's West of England and other progresses — The Duke at Kilve Court, Hartrow Manor, and Hatfield — The Duke as I remember him in the West — His grace's short way with blackmailers and other people's duns — The second Duke's likeness and unlikeness to his father — The same short, sharp, sententious manner of speech and of dealing with his fellow-men — How not to become a coroner — Sir Henry Irving's train from Strathfieldsaye — A dangerously good memory for exposing the plagiarisms in travellers' tales and the inconsistencies of fiction-mongers about their famous friends, e.g. the Cumbrays and the recipient of Bismarck's stolen goods from Gambetta — The Duke, George IV, and the cavalry of various nations — The Duke as an art patron : ' ' Not going to let Coutts' people know what a fool I have been " — How the Duke raised a Paris monument in H.B.M. Embassy, 29 Faubourg St. Honore — The Duke, Lady Catherine Pakenham, and the young physician.

Chapter II

A Lemon Street statue for Lord Raglan as a Truro ex-M.P. — Fitzroy Somerset acts "Ulysses" on the Latin play stage at Westminster School — Grinds at Spanish with the future Duke of Wellington on the voyage out to the Peninsula — By marriage with Lady Harriet Wellesley becomes the Duke's nephew-in-law — During the peace interval of 1814 Secretary of the Duke's Paris Embassy — House of Commons days — Military promotion and created Lord Raglan in 1852— With the Badminton foxhounds and in the Savernake game coverts — As aide-de-camp at Waterloo loses his arm, but will not lose the ring vk^hich is a present from his wife — After the Crimea, Cardigan and his colonels on the King's Road, Brighton — Aristocrat and hussar — The old patrician regime personified — Much virtue in the lash — The soldiers starving and the General in a floating palace — Alvanley and Cardigan in the shires — Assheton Smith and Cardigan ride against each other with the hounds till their horses nearly drop — The trooper and the dying Colonel : "All safe for heaven ! " — Gradual appearance of new and better military types — Sir William Knollys, the founder of the Aldershot camp — Indian soldiers as English teachers — Lord Lawrence of the Punjab — Chairman of the London School Board — John and Henry's respective epitaphs — Comparison between the two brothers — Lord Hardinge and the Lawrences — Governor-General of India — The Sikh wars— Lough Cutra Castle— St. Helen's, Dublin—" Paddy Gough" — Chillianwallah — Hardinge's gallantry in the Peninsula — "What, tents, and chairs inside them !

" — Mrs. Disraeli's luck in her nocturnal neighbours — At daggers drawn with the Duke of Newcastle and the Cabinet during the Crimean War — Dies at Tunbridge Wells in 1856 — Outram, the "Bayard of India" — Sir Colin Campbell, afterwards Lord Clyde, of Crimean and Indian fame — His delight with the House of Lords, with all he sees in town or country — Romps with children in the hay field — Sir Donald Stewart as he looked and walked in Kensington Gardens — A typical Highlander with Norse strain in blood and features — Return to India — Commander-in-Chief in India — A Councillor at the India Office — His character summed up by Lord Bryce — A keen sportsman — Picturesque figure and surroundings at Chelsea Hospital — His opinion of the British soldier — Sir Louis Mallet — His Board of Trade work — Appointment to the under-secretaryship in 1874 — Grandson of Mallet du Pan, the French publicist and Revolution refugee — Comes to represent Cobdenism at the India Office — Free Trader, economist, and cosmopolitan conversationist — How he saw a great Duke fall downstairs at a Paris cafe and helped to pick him up dead — Sir Henry Norman — Norman as soldier and pupil in the Lawrence school — The might-have-been Viceroy of 1892 — His last promotion to the Chelsea Hospital governorship — Anglo-Indian preparation for the improved officer of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century type — Roberts and Salisbury afloat — A glass of cold water : " Thy necessity is greater than mine " — Some points in common between Roberts and Wolseley — Sir George Hamley, the Wolseley type; the new Army and the results — Henry Brackenbury as a, type and worker — Sir Evelyn Wood and Sir Coleridge Grove, the only two survivors of the Wolseley school — Sword, pen, and Sir

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Evelyn Wood — War correspondent types from Xenophon to John and Henry Hozier — The three brothers : Sir William, Charles, and Keith Fraser — Brackenbury's diary of the Franco-Prussian War — Solving the mystery of Bazaine's movements — Hamber and Brackenbury's proof — The " hit" of to-morrow — The fifteenth-century Sir Robert Brackenbury — Sir John Pender's steam yacht Electra — Mowbray's ' ' Est in conspectu Tenedos " — The value of Wolseley's association with Brackenbury — The latter's articles on military reform — Office of Commander-in-Chief abolished — Bismarck's desire to interview Wolseley — Sir Charles Dilke given Bismarck's opinion of Lord Wolseley by the German statesman himself — At Cranbrook, Mr. Pandeli Ralli's Surrey country house — " 'Spects I growed "— The officer who had nothing to wear — Albert Smith's gent — Cremorne Gardens — Altercations with the cabmen — Sir Vincent Caillard, the one survivor of the officers trained by Wolseley's ablest deputy — The Duke of Connaught's request— Queen Victoria's pleasure — Allan Thorndike Rice and Von Moltke — The Prussian soldier a subject of conversation — Lady Wolseley and Madame Gallifet the best dressed women in Europe — Wolseley's short ten minutes' sleep before the battle of Tel-el-Kebir — Lord Spencer and the sleepy Prime Minister — Wellington flirts with Madame Quintana just before the battle of Orthes, where the Duke was slightly injured — The Duke has a short repose before the battle of St. Sebastian — Lord Kitchener's preference for gold and silver tea-services to swords of honour.

Chapter III

School examining at Tunbridge Wells — The young ladies playing croquet — The gentleman on the garden bench — The great " Eltchi " as seen in the lobby of the House — Debate on the Quadruple Alliance — His only speech, as he said, in the House — Crimean War caused not by blundering and ignorant miscalculation, but by the great ideas and passions long in the air — Russia as the tyrant of national liberty under Nicholas I : "A cat whom no one cares to bell " — Stratford Canning's rise and progress — Diplomacy no longer a close borough — George Canning's cousin and piecis-writer, but no friends at Court — A son of the commercial classes — At Eton, not as an oppidan but a "tug " — Roughing it in the " Long Chamber " — Captain of the school — Gets King's, makes many famous friends, but owes more to home lessons than to any of these — Not a persona grata to the Czar, but Sultan against Sultan at Constantinople — The terror of the Turk and of his own attaches — Granville Murray

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rebels — Caricatures his chief in Sir Hector Stubble — The great " Eltchi " returns to London — Is the diplomatic oracle of Parliament — Retires to Tunbridge Wells — Intellectual and busy to the last — Place in social and political nineteenth-century development — The great " Eltchi's " great predecessor, and those who have since filled his place at Constantinople — Sir William White and others.

Chapter IV

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The Parliamentary contest at Tiverton — " Cupid " on the Tiverton hustings — A bit of Butcher Rowcliffe's mind — " No chaff! " — The accustomed irony of Socrates matched by the habitual banter of Palmerslon — A visit to the Prime Minister in Downing Street — What he looked and said — Repeated constitutionals from the standing desk to the inkpot and writing-table — His narrative of the family history of the movements ending in putting down " hells" — Cosmos out of chaos on the writing-table — Lady Palmerston's invitation cards — The "basket trick" — "Next man in" — "Bless my soul, how very singular ! " — "I hope you're better" — Man of that age sure to have been out of sorts — Palmerston and the Morning Post — George Smythe's prediction about the Tory Party — Too busy to read the papers — His Tory days — Disgrace at Court — Sir Henry Bulwer's coaching in foreign politics and its result — Palmerston with those about him in Paris, and the pocket-handkerchief which won't fall out — " Big Ben's " two faces — "Janus" or " Palmerston" ? — Palmerston as sketched by Disraeli in 1836 — His treatment of Talleyrand and its political consequence — The diplomatist in the Cambridge House drawing-room, " How like his father ! " — Things one would rather not have said — The legendary bottle of brown sherry a day — The historical Amontillado — The hard names that break no bones but make enemies — " An absolute and Absolutist fool" — " The next thing to an idiot" — The elderly gallant in the boudoir — " I think it most gentlemanly" — The Schleswig-Holstein question understood by three persons only — Lady Palmerston's smacking kiss in the lobby — Pam and the Duke — Pam on Queen Victoria and the Duchess of Kent — How foreign statesmen cooled their heels in Palmerston's waiting-room — What they thought and said of it — How to deal with Austrian outrages and to enforce English rights in Brazilian waters — The cost of a hatless walk on Brocket Terrace — The ruling passion strong in death — " That's urticle ninety-eight ; now go on to the next."

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Palmerston on the Turf — The Palmerstonian pattern in men and dress exemplified by W. McCullagh Torrens in his appearance, manner, stories (the whisky and the Cabinet), and by Charles Skirrow — Other early and mid-nineteenth-century types of both sexes — The third Sir Robert Peel on his father's death — Horse-dealer Quartermaine brings the three-hundred-guinea Premier round to Whitehall Gardens — Sir Robert's refusal of the high figure followed by the fatal accident on Constitution Hill — Outside and inside Pembroke Lodge — Sir Henry Calcraft's introduction to a famous veteran in Church and State — Lord John with his wind-gauge under the veranda and amid his historical souvenirs and illustrious visitors in his drawing-room — Thomas Carlyle on misrepresentation of himself and on his own amiability — How the first Lord Lytton " being dead, yet speaketh " — Lord John for the Jews — What Carlyle thought of Peel, of a certain Anglican service on a Scotland-bound steamer, and of the Church of England — H. Calcraft's and E. F. Leveson-Gower's review of Grevillian and EUician verdicts — Johnny's "calculated indiscretions" and "dirty tricks" — Mr. E. F. Leveson-Gower and Lord John — " You will know what to say. Good-morning ! " — Charles Greville, George Payne, and " the rigour of the game " — Palmerston and Russell compared — Specimens of Palmerstonian wit and wisdom, and of Russellian aphoristic invective in duel with Sir F. Burdett — How Whigs are born not made, and Lord John preaches ' ' rest and thankfulness " — Canning on the "mud-bespattered Whigs" — Cobbett's vernacular about the Whigs in general, and Lord John in particular, as the " shoy-hoys " of politics — When statesmen fall out, body-servants come by their own — What Sir J. Graham's valet found in his master's pocket, and what he did with it — " The Widow's Mite" : how Lord John came to be so called — Lord John Russell and Earl Granville compare notes about preparatory schools and agree in thinking mutton fat detestable — Adolphe Thiers on Viscount Palmerston and Lord John Russell — The Palmerstonian laissez-aller in private as well as public life, especially in connection with household bills — Something savours more of the " hawk " than of the " merry-man" — How Palmerston and Russell made friends in 1858 and "hated each other more than ever" — The secret truth about Palmerston's dismissal from the Foreign Office in 1852 — The real cause not so much his " scores off his own bat " as his patronage of revolutionary movements abroad and the English Court's preference for Legitimacy in general and Austrian Absolutism in particular — Palmerston's tit-for-tat with John Russell — The Militia Bill brings

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in the Conservatives under Lord Derby, and puts Malmesbury in Palmerston's place at the Foreign Office — Malmesbury on himself for peace, retrenchment, and reform — His Foreign Office economies — His short way with the Foreign Service messengers.

Chapter VI From Sir Robert The Third To Lord Derby The

FOURTEENTH ...... 227

A Piccadilly party in the eighties — Enter the third Sir Robert Peel — How " Magnifico Pomposo " lays down the law, backs his opinion, is proved wrong by the books, and pays up like a man — A modern Zimri — From father to son — Sir Robert on his seniors, contemporaries, and men and things in general — Henry Calcraft's promise of introducing the writer to " the lodger in Bruton Street " fulfilled — How Lady Granville ran the gauntlet of Mr. Greville's " horrid " friends — The third Sir Robert's strange adventures and imposing appearance — His views about the fourteenth Earl of Derby — Nineteenth-century types of politics and play for the Upper Ten — Legislation or thimblerigging ? — Political country houses in the West and their company — S. T. Kekewich to be lent to the Liberals to make them respectable — Sir Stafford Northcote in the bosom of his family and neighbours — Sir Stafford's chestnuts — As literate as Thackeray could wish, though himself preferring Dickens to Thackeray — At home with Shakespeare and the musical glasses — On the practical usefulness of the study of Greek — Sides with Archbishop Temple against Sir M. E, Grant-Duff — How Priam in St. James's Place "waked and looked on drawing his curtains by night" — The South Devon "knight of the shire," squire of " Peamore," and "the Rupert of Debate " at Eton and afterwards — The former introduces the writer to the latter — The fourteenth Lord Derby at William IV's coronation : " You have the gout ; must not kneel, my lord !" "I really must insist on kneeling, Sir" — The writer's call at Knowsley — How the Earl preferred the gout to the sherry — The Countess prefers the canal barge to the railway train, and the Earl the towing-path to either — " One thing at a time " — Newmarket leaves no time for Imperial or home politics — Receives a wigging from the Queen and anticipates being " beaten horse and foot " — The " ruler of the Queen's Navee " — Chaffed by his chief about his visit to Spithead — The ministerial fish-dinner — Lord Derby proposes " Sir John Pakington and the wooden spoons of old England " — The Earl makes merry about Lord John's "very bad company " with Lord and Lady Malmesbury — How for putting on

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wrong dress he was nearly turned out by the porter — The anecdote about the coal-scuttle — Succeeds Duke of Wellington as Oxford Chancellor in 1853 — Begins with Latin oratory — Ten years later brings down gallery and boxes by his Ciceronian welcome to the Princess of Wales — " Ipsa adest " — How and where in dealing with the Duke of Argyll Derby learnt the wisdom of the " amuses him and don't hurt me " policy.

Chapter VII The Political Adventures Of The House Of Stanley

AND OTHERS ...... 248

Sir John, the medieval founder of the family — Contrast between the fourteenth and fifteenth Earls — Lord Stanley's uses at the Foreign Office and in Fleet Street — How a man of letters became a Consul — The Stanley Civil Service Committee — Enter an Ambassador with his dispatch boxes — Lord Lyons on himself and others — How Lord Granville worked, and how Bismarck disappeared — Granville at the Foreign Office in fact and fiction — How the work was really done — Sir Charles Trevelyan's wrinkle and its results — How Foreign Secretaries leave their mark — The confessions of a manycousined minister — What the second Lord Granville owed to his mother — ^^EnchanUe de vous voir, madame, invitee ou non invitee."

Chapter VIII

FROM ST. Mary's, winton, to curzon street . . 268

At Winchester — Old TroUope, young Trollope, and " Bob " Lowe — Tait is fined a pounn at the meeting of the Debating Society — Robert Lowe as Member for Kidderminster — His article, " The Past Session and the New Parliament," in the Edinburgh Review — Lord John Russell's wrath at Lowe, whom he regarded as the devil is said to look upon holy water — His Trojan horse similes — An albino — " The next thing a nigger with his banjo and bones" — " Vers de sociiti " — Lowe and Canning's dispatch to Lord Minto — Lord Lyons's letter from the British Embassy at Paris — What Lowe owed to Disraeli — Mis wrath at the result of the Abyssinian War — His rapidity of utterance but not of reading — Disraeli on Mrs. Lowe — Mr. Gladstone as a raconteur, ano on the "big,

big d " — A pupil, together with Henry hdward Manning,

of Bishop Wordsworth— Lord Goschen's opinion of Gladstone —

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Remarks about the Oriel common-room — At Lady Strangford's — Lord and Lady Aberdeen's guest at Dollis Hill — The G.O.M. wins the race to the tea-table — His kindness to the outcast woman — Disraeli's dislike of Thackeray on account of his burlesque "Codlingsby" — He finds Dickens "a delightful man" at the Stanhope dinner — The trio, " Popanilla," " Piccadilly," and the "New Republic" (Mr. W. H. Mallock) — His aphorisms reproduced by Mrs. Reynolds — " No one is quite well, but I am tolerably well " — His advice to the two little boys — Lady Chesterfield — Her sister Lady Anson's retort — His gratitude to his wife — At the hotel in Bournemouth — His last words, " I am oppressed."

Chapter IX A Cambridge House Henchman And Oracle . . 293

Abraham Hay ward and the French gentleman on " parasites" — The funeral service and mourners — At Blundell's School, Tiverton — Articled to an Ilchester solicitor — His lineage and ancestors — The lady's opinion of Hay ward : " What a horrid man ! " — Disliked by Disraeli — Starts the Law Magazine — Thiers calls on Hayward — Their conversation about the alliance which was "hopeless" — Bismarck and the Kiel Canal — In the Lyme Pathway case — Roebuck excludes him from the Benchers of the Temple — " Hayward, Hayward, come back!" — Violet Fane, impatient at first but apologetic afterwards — Melbourne on "a big balance at the banker's " — At his death-bed — Kinglake with him to the last.

Chapter X Mid-victorian Types And Forces In Church, State

SOCIETY, AND LETTERS .... 308

A. W. Kinglake on travelling in the Crimea then and now — The Eton all-night flogging — " Eothen's " luck in coming last — The duel that was not fought — The two seconds at the Travellers' Club — Lord Tennyson's social mentor — The remnant of the Cambridge "Apostles " in London — A distinguished dinner-party at Dean Milman's — The host's stories about Frederick the Great — What happens when Bishops meet — The life-long social competition of Bishop Wilberforce and Cardinal Manning — Archbishop Temple recalled as he received the junior clergy in his Exeter days — Cardinal Manning's Rivier* in Westminster — The Cardinal on Anglican

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sermons and their falling off— How Lord Macaulay was introduced

in his reading to a "Mr. Sponge" — " dark and smells of

cheese " — A reminiscence of " Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities " — The rise and progress of R. S. Surtees — Whyte-Melville and the Divorce Court phrase — Improved on by George Alfred Lawrence — How " Guy Livingstone " was written and with what results — The meeting of the wits in Air Street, Regent Street — George Lawrence's rise, progress, character, and work — Introduced at a Richmond dinner to Ouida by Harry Stone — A visit to Francis E. Smedley, the author of "Frank Fairlegh" and " Harry Co verdale's Courtship" — How the nineteenth-century masters had to wait till the twentieth for their full influence on English letters— J. A. Froude and W. E. H. Lecky in conversation and in print — Thorold Rogers and the scientific historians — E. A. Freeman's musical rides in the Mendip lanes — Freeman, Browning, and "Kentish Sir Byng" — Bishop Stubbs in the falleniis semita vita — The historian as editor — Froude's advice to his " Eraser " writers — Dickens's readings in the West — How Thackeray was coming, but thought better of it — Dickens's intellectual legacy to his family — Disraeli and Dickens on the eloquence of their time — The Dickens school — Edmund Yates, his originality and his obligations — Had he an Egeria? — From " Edmund "to " Henry " — " Labby " as raconteur and Radical — With Grant-Duff at Orleans House — How Don Emelio Castelar visits Galway and hears his health proposed in an unknown tongue.

Chapter XI Royalties, Courtiers, And Statesmen At Work . 349

How and when the country first knew the Prince Consort — The opinion formed of him by his representative contemporaries — His services to the Duchy of Cornwall during the minority of the Prince of Wales — His Cornwall and Devonshire excursions — Royalty and Devonshire cream at a Dartside vicarage — The Prince Consort's legacy to his son and grandson — Greek art and literature at Marlborough House — King Edward VII as an Oxford and Cambridge undergraduate — " Oh ! ruddier than the cherry " in Canterbury Quad — Greek lexicon-making on the eve of the Prince's residence — H. G. Liddell, of Christ Church — Robert Scott, of ^ Balliol — Oxford and Cambridge influences on the culture of the coming King — J. E. Thorold Rogers on the Oxford Dictionary — The Royal fashion of hard work healthily infectious — How Lord Goschen mastered the art and details of naval administration in a fortnight — Lord Hartington in his shirt-sleeves at Devonshire House administering India, to the accompaniment of the Sunday

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morning church bells, with the occasional refreshment of a visitor and of the Binomial Theorem — Statesmen of the Churchill line, from Bismarck to Winston — How Uncle Salisbury and the great Elizabethan Cecils live again in Mr. Arthur Balfour — The first Marquis of Abergavenny — How, with Lord Beaconsfield and Markham Spofforth as his " man-of-all-work " he recreated the Conservative Party, and brought it to victory in 1874 — The first Lord Burnham, being also the first of all modern newspaper men — The first Lord Rothschild of fact and fiction — Lord Rothschild and Lord Randolph Churchill on double surnames.