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Forty Years of 'Spy' By: Leslie Ward (1851-1922) |
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FORTY YEARS OF 'SPY' BY LESLIE WARD
Illustrated
LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I EARLY DAYS PAGE I come into the world. The story of my ancestry. My
mother. Wilkie Collins. The Collins family. Slough and
Upton. The funeral of the Duchess of Kent. The marriage
of the Princess Royal. Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the
Prince Consort. Their visits to my parents' studios. The
Prince of Wales. Sir William Ross, R.A. Westminster
Abbey. My composition. A visit to Astley's Theatre. Wilkie
Collins and Pigott. The Panopticon. The Thames frozen over.
The Comet. General Sir John Hearsey. Kent Villa. My
father. Lady Waterford. Marcus Stone and Vicat Cole. The
Crystal Palace. Rev. J. M. Bellew. Kyrle Bellew. I go to
school. Wentworth Hope Johnstone. 1
CHAPTER II ETON AND AFTER Eton days. Windsor Fair. My Dame. Fights and Fun.
Boveney Court. Mr. Hall Say. Boveney. Professor and Mrs.
Attwell. I win a useful prize. Alban Doran. My father's
frescoes. Battle Abbey. Gainsborough's Tomb. Knole. Our
burglar. Claude Calthrop. Clayton Calthrop. The Gardener
as Critic. The Gipsy with an eye for colour. I attempt
sculpture. The Terry family. Private theatricals. Sir John
Hare. Miss Marion Terry. Miss Ellen Terry. Miss Kate
Terry. Miss Bateman. Miss Florence St. John. Constable.
Sir Howard Vincent. I dance with Patti. Lancaster Gate and
Meringues. Prayers and Pantries. 27
CHAPTER III MY FATHER'S FRIENDS My father's friends. The Pre Raphaelites. Plum box painting.
The Victorians. The Post Impressionists. Maclise. Sir
Edwin Landseer. Tom Landseer. Mulready. Daniel Roberts.
Edward Cooke. Burgess and Long. Frith. Millais. Stephens
and Holman Hunt. Stanfield. C. R. Leslie. Dr. John Doran.
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall. The Virtues, James and William.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Taylor. A story of Tennyson. Sam Lover.
Moscheles père et fils . Philip Calderon. Sir Theodore and
LadyMartin. Garibaldi. Lord Crewe. Fechter. Joachim and
Lord Houghton. Charles Dickens. Lord Stanhope. William
Hepworth Dixon. Sir Charles Dilke. 48
CHAPTER IV WORK AND PLAY School days ended. A trip to Paris. Versailles and the
Morgue. I enter the office of Sydney Smirke, R.A. Montagu
Williams and Christchurch. A squall. Frith as arbitrator.
I nearly lose my life. William Virtue to the rescue. The
Honourable Mrs. Butler Johnson Munro. I visit Knebworth.
Lord Lytton. Spiritualism. My first picture in the Royal
Academy. A Scotch holiday with my friend Richard Dunlop.
Patrick Adam. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis. Mr. George Fox
and Harry Fox. Sir William Jaffray. Mr. William Cobbett.
Adventures on and off a horse. Peter Graham. Cruikshank.
Mr. Phené Spiers. Johnston Forbes Robertson and Irving.
Fred Walker. Arthur Sullivan. Sir Henry de Bathe. Sir
Spencer Ponsonby. Du Maurier. Arthur Cecil. Sir Francis
Burnand. The Bennett Benefit. 67
CHAPTER V 'SPY' My coming of age. The letter. The Doctor's verdict. The
Doctor's pretty daughter. Arthur Sullivan. "Dolly" Storey.
Lord Leven's garden party. Professor Owen. Gibson Bowles.
Arthur Lewis. Carlo Pellegrini. Paolo Tosti. Pagani's.
J. J. Tissot. Vanity Fair. Some of the Contributors.
Anthony Trollope. John Stuart Mill. The World. Edmund
Yates. Death of Lord Lytton. Mr. Macquoid. Luke Fildes.
Small. Gregory. Herkomer. TheGraphic. Gladstone.
Disraeli, etc. 89
CHAPTER VI CARICATURE Cannot be taught. Where I stalk... Continue reading book >>
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