INDEX
- “A Case of Eavesdropping,” 252
- Abbott, Dr. Lyman, sermons on the theology of an Evolutionist, 292 et seq.
- tribute to N.Y. Times report of his sermons, 294
- Aberdeen, Lord, Governor-General of Canada, 66
- Advertising extraordinary, 105
- Ahlwardt, Rector, anti-semitism of, 229
- his meeting at Cooper Union Hall, 229 et seq.
- Alden, Mr., and A. H. Louis, 271
- Amityville, a quasi lunatic asylum at, 226
- Anti-semitic campaign in New York, 229 et seq.
- Apples, dried, and hot water, as hunger-appeaser, 111
- Arson, frequency of, among Jews, 106
- Barnum and Bailey’s Circus, a banquet at, 226
- Beattie, Mr., Boyde and, 206
- Beauchamp, Montague, 23
- Belloc, Hilaire, an article by, based on author’s book, 224
- Bennett, Sterndale, A. H. Louis a pupil of, 269
- Benson, Archbishop, A. H. Louis’s memories of, 268
- Bernhardt, Sarah, interview with, 106
- Bernstein, Mrs., a long-outstanding account with, settled, 213
- and her third floor back, 80
- reduces rent—and why, 85
- removes to another house, 209
- “Bhagavad Gita,” the, world-scripture of, 32
- Bingham, Billy, former proprietor of the Hub, 17, 39 et seq.
- Black Forest, schooldays in the, 24
- Blackwood, Algernon, a childish recollection of his mother, 259
- a poem in The Week by, 38
- an earl’s visit to Sun office, 230
- an interlude of play-acting, 255 et seq.
- and Boyde: a scene, 161 et seq.
- and the Hub hotel, 14, 16 et seq., 39 et seq.
- as reporter in the Tombs, 99 et seq.
- as story-teller, 222
- as violinist, 5, 46, 75, 83, 87, 107, 168, 180
- assigns his interest in the Hub, 61
- attends a ball at Government House, 66
- becomes a partner in an eau de Cologne business, 273, 274
- beginning of friendship with Alfred H. Louis, 266
- credited with powers of Black Magic, 77
- “cribs” from an intoxicated reporter, 108
- death of his father, 35, 231
- “detachment” method of, 51, 227, 228
- disagreement with Dr. Huebner, 156
- discovers Boyde’s forgery, 132
- dissolves partnership with Cooper, 14
- Edinburgh University course of, 14, 51
- eighteen months on staff of New York Times, 288 et seq.
- essays magazine writing, 84
- evangelical upbringing of, 20, 23, 27, 71
- examined on a charge of arson, 286
- first experience of morphine, 178
- five months on Lake Rosseau, 73 et seq.
- free-lance journalism, 252, 274
- friendship with a dying doctor, 58 et seq.
- his mother’s letters, 258
- improvises accompaniment to “Invocation to Opium,” 168
- interviews a lion, 102
- interviews in Tombs prison cell before trial, 101
- learns French, 37
- literary apprenticeship of, 6
- loses faith in mankind, and a regretted act, 210 et seq.
- maiden speech of, 5, 291
- off to the goldfields, 235 et seq.
- on staff of Evening Sun, 91
- parents of, 17, 18, 21 et seq.
- partner in dairy concern, 10 et seq.
- pawnbroking experiences, 88, 110, 120, 252
- plays in Drinkwater’s “Oliver Cromwell,” 256
- poses in studios, 44, 158
- reads Patanjali’s “Yoga Aphorisms,” 28 et seq.
- receives a visit from Pauline, 152
- reports a raid on a quasi lunatic asylum, 226
- reports Dr. Lyman Abbott’s sermons, 292 et seq.
- resumes duties on Evening Sun, 209
- returns from Muskoka lakes, 78
- returns to England, 304
- secretary to James Speyer, 297 et seq.
- tackles Boyde re a forged cheque, 138 et seq.
- talks with Boyde in his cell at Tombs prison, 202
- teaches French, 5, 7
- translates French stories, 102, 124, 128, 129
- unhappy days in New York, 288
- visited by a banker: further disclosures concerning Boyde, 148
- visits of an eccentric German doctor, 116, 120, 125
- visits winter quarters of Barnum and Bailey’s circus, 226
- warned against Boyde, 112, 135, 136, 147
- warns a pastor’s daughter against Boyde, 139
- “Whitey’s” useful hints to, 96, 97, 98
- why an opening in C.P.R. did not eventuate, 66 et seq.
- works by, 53, 78, 102, 123, 163, 182, 223, 224, 252
- Blackwood, Sir Arthur (father), a disregarded counsel of perfection of, 76
- and the Hub venture, 40
- death of, 35, 231
- farewell to author, 40
- fêted in New York, 5
- marriage of, 21
- religious and temperance views of, 17, 18, 21 et seq., 30
- Bond, Bligh, his “Gate of Remembrance,” 228
- Bookkeeping, author’s frank opinion of, 298
- Borden, Lizzie, interview with, 100
- Bostock’s Circus, a lion escapes from: reporting the episode, 102 et seq.
- Boyde, Arthur Glyn, an echo of, 299
- arrest of, 198
- author’s attachment to, 108, 111
- committed for trial to General Sessions, 201
- communicates with Sir A. Blackwood, 202
- confessions of, 139, 144, 206
- disguises himself, 160
- duplicity of, 132, 138 et seq., 149, 160, 206, 207, 211
- his varied experience of New York, 86 et seq.
- hunt for, 182 et seq.
- last sight of, 207
- letters to author from Tombs prison, 203 et seq.
- meeting with, 86
- sentenced, 203
- telegraphs news of his marriage, 151
- uneasy suspicions regarding, 119, 122, 124, 129, 131, 134
- warrant for arrest of, 163
- Brodie, as salesman, 275
- heavy insurances of—and a fire, 278 et seq.
- how he obtained recipe for eau de Cologne, 273
- introduction to, 272
- social aspirations of, 273
- Bronx Park, Sundays in, 216 et seq.
- Brooklyn Bridge, reflections on, 81
- Buddhism, a German doctor’s opinion of, 170
- author’s interest in, 8, 51, 54
- Dr. Withrow and, 8
- Calder, introduces himself, 210
- uninvited, sleeps in author’s bed, 211
- Campbell, Sir Alexander, Governor of Ontario, 66
- Canada, social customs unwittingly broken by author in, 66
- Canadian Pacific Railway, how an opening in, was lost, 65 et seq.
- Canoeing on Canadian lakes, 74
- Carey, Mr., manager of New York Times, 291
- Clay, Cecil, introduction to, 90
- Clothes, interchangeable, 110
- Conversion, reflections on, 23 et seq.
- Cooper, Alfred, partner in Islington Jersey Dairy, 10 et seq.
- Cooper, Mr., news-editor of Evening Sun, 95
- Cox, Cleveland, posing for, 158
- Crayford, home life at, 33, 40
- Croker, Boss, head of Tammany, 232
- Dana, Charles A., editor of Evening Sun, 93
- Davies, Acton, 211
- and the Boyde story, 201
- Davis, Richard Harding, a play by, 86
- an interview with, 83
- Boyde and, 206
- Davis, R. H., witnesses capture of an escaped lion, 103
- de Chaillu, M., 297
- De Quincey’s “Confessions,” Dr. Huebner and, 125, 168
- Dixon, his tight-rope walk across the Niagara, 130
- Dodge, William E., a chance meeting with, 295 et seq.
- Drug stores and their attraction, 97
- Drummond, Professor, Sunday lectures at Edinburgh of, 32
- Dufferin, Lord, a photograph of, in Hub hotel, 43
- Duluth, and the gold rush, 240
- “Earth’s Earliest Ages,” Pember’s, 30
- Easter Day in the Black Forest, 25
- Eau de Cologne business, author and, 272 et seq.
- Edinburgh University, author at, 14, 51
- “Education of Uncle Paul, The,” 123
- Elephants, their fear of rats, 226
- Eliot, George, and her Sunday receptions, 269
- Etruria, launching of, 5
- Evening Sun, slogan of, 91
- Evening World, the, a scoop in, 98
- Evolutionist theology, sermons on, 292 et seq.
- Ffoulkes, Maude, author’s indebtedness to, 224
- “Final Word, The” (poem), 267
- Free-lunch counters, 87, 90
- Freytag, German reporter, 202, 229
- his advice to author, 100
- Frohman, Daniel, and Angus Hamilton, 222
- Gallup, a half-breed guide, 240
- camp-fire stories of, 242
- Galt, Sir Thomas, 6
- Germans, talkative, 251
- Gibson, Charles Dana, author poses for, 158
- Gilmour, jealousy of—and a realistic performance, 256-7
- Gilmour, organizes a theatrical touring company, 112, 116
- Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., A. H. Louis and, 268
- Goff, John, replaces Judge Smythe as Recorder, 232
- Gold, a quest in search of, 235 et seq.
- Gosse, Edmund, “Father and Son” of, 22
- Grant, and author, 114
- hears and witnesses Boyde’s confession, 140 et seq.
- warns author against Boyde, 135, 136, 147
- Hamilton, a clergyman publicly thrashed in, 233
- Hamilton, Angus, 221, 222
- and author’s stories, 223, 224
- suicide of, 224
- Harcourt, Sir William, president of Cambridge Union, 268
- Harper’s Magazine, publication of A. H. Louis’s poems in, 267
- Harris, Carlyle, electrocuted, 101
- Haschisch, an experiment with, 182
- Haultain, Arnold, private secretary to Goldwin Smith, 37
- Henry, O., his conception of New York, 109
- “Hereafter,” poem by A. H. Louis, 270
- Hopf, Max, 298, 300
- Hub hotel, advice to new proprietors of, 41
- early customers at, 45
- in hands of a receiver, 61
- its former proprietor, 17, 39 et seq.
- opening of, 43
- purchase of, 41, 42
- Huebner, Dr. Otto, a disappointment for, 149
- administers morphine to author, 178, 181
- and Boyde, 122, 127, 155, 166
- called in by Boyde, 116 et seq.
- confesses himself a morphine taker, 171
- death of, 213
- friendship with, 164 et seq.
- his wife and daughter, 164, 165
- joins in search for Boyde, 183 et seq.
- life-story of, 174
- urges author to become a doctor, 127
- varying moods of, 125, 153, 155, 165, 170, 173, 185
- Hypnotism, experiments in, 51, 52
- Irving, Henry, interview with, 106
- Irvington, Mr. Speyer’s country house at, 299
- Islington Jersey Dairy, partnership in, 10
- James, General, a dinner to Sir A. Blackwood, 5, 291
- James, William, “Varieties of Religious Experience” by, 22, 217-18
- Jews, a campaign against, 229
- author’s admiration of, 300
- “Jimbo,” author’s, 223
- “John Silence,” 53, 78, 223
- effects of haschisch described in, 182
- publication of, 224
- Jones, Colonel, 291
- Joseph Lake, Northern Ontario, 74
- “Julius Le Vallon,” 53
- Kay, John, and the “Hub” venture, 16 et seq., 39 et seq., 46
- effect of morphine on, 179
- his immunity to “night-attacks,” 109
- histrionic bent of, 46, 75, 90, 111, 112, 255
- in search of Boyde, 189
- poses to Smedley, 112
- served with a blue writ, 64
- Kingsley, Charles, baptizes A. H. Louis, 266
- Laffan, Mr., of New York Sun, 91
- Lake Rosseau, departure for, 63
- five months on, 74 et seq.
- Lawler, Detective, 163, 186, 189, 200, 201
- Lewes, George Henry, A. H. Louis’s talks with, 269
- Lexow, Senator, and a Tammany investigation, 232
- Liebesmahl, the, of Moravian Brotherhood, 25
- Lightfoot, Bishop, A. H. Louis and, 268.
- Lion, an escaped, a “strong man” and, 104
- “Listener, The,” author’s, 163, 266
- Louis, Alfred H., advice re eau de Cologne business, 277
- and politics, 268, 269
- arrives, and a description of, 213
- as editor, 269
- breakdown of, 269
- buried in a Hebrew cemetery, 266
- Cambridge days of, 268
- claims to be original of Daniel Deronda, 209
- condemns Gladstone, 268
- “Hereafter” of, 270
- his farewell to author, 304
- legal attainments of, 269
- meeting with, 262
- “Night Song” of, 264, 265, 271
- self-chosen epitaph of, 267, 290
- “The Final Word” of, 267
- unfailing guidance of, 301
- Lowry, Mrs., marries James Speyer, 304
- Lunatic asylum (a quasi), raid on, 226 et seq.
- Manchester, Duchess of, marries Sir A. Blackwood, 21
- Manning, Cardinal, A. H. Louis and, 269
- Mantell, Bob (Shakespearean actor), 85
- introduces author to Cecil Clay, 90
- “Max Hensig, Bacteriologist and Murderer,” author’s story of, 102, 163
- McCloy, Mr. (managing editor of Evening Sun), 91
- and author, 221
- interview with, 92
- recollections of, 94, 95
- McKay, owner of olive-oil warehouse, 262, 263
- Messe noire, a, and its performers, 215
- Methodist Magazine, author on staff of, 6 et seq.
- Miller, C. W., editor in chief of New York Times, 291
- Mitchell, Fire-Marshal, examines author, 286
- prosecutes Brodie, 282
- Moody and Sankey visit England, 23
- Morning Post, an article on the genus “ghost story” in: its writer, 224
- Morphine, and its effects, 172 et seq., 178, 179
- Morris (a reputed “stiff” and cut-throat), 248
- an instance of his kindness, 249
- Mosquitoes of Rainy Lake City, 247
- Muldoon, Mr., and author’s report of a students’ concert, 292
- City editor of New York Times, 285, 291
- joins staff of Brooklyn Eagle, 300
- Mullins, editorial writer on Evening Sun, 284
- Muskoka Lakes of Northern Ontario, 73, 74
- Mystical minor poet, a, 55 et seq.
- Nash, Eveleigh, publishes stories by author, 224
- Nature, spell of, and its influence on author, 32, 35, 49 et seq., 169, 218, 233, 236, 238, 240
- New York, a lively anti-semitic meeting at, 229
- horrors of, 108, 109
- miseries of summer heat in, 231
- New York Times, author on staff of, 288
- slogan of, 91, 291
- Newspaper reporting, reminiscences of, 225 et seq.
- “Night Song,” poem by A. H. Louis, 264, 265, 271
- Novelists, instances of their creative power, 77
- Olive-oil, its value as food, 262
- Opium, the Invocation to, 168, 169, 180
- Otto, waiter in Krisch’s, 260
- Palmer, Lynwood, and Boyde, 159, 206, 208
- attends trial of Boyde, 203
- kindness to author, 158
- Patanjali, “Aphorisms” of, 28 et seq., 255
- Pawnbroking, experiences of, 88 et seq., 110, 120, 252
- Paxton, 233, 236 et seq., 246, 249
- Pember, G. H., evangelical writer of prophetic school, 30, 31
- Police, New York, the Tammany system and, 107, 183
- Potter, Bishop, officiates at wedding of James Speyer, 304
- Prison as “a proper vestibule to a city of Damned Souls,” 109
- Rainy Lake City, arrival at, 246
- desolateness of, 248
- Rainy River district, gold discovered in, 232
- Reporter, a drunken, 108
- Reporting for New York papers, experiences acquired from, 92
- Revivalist movement, author and, 23
- Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, 301
- Roper, and Boyde, 197, 198, 199
- Ryan, a Tammany magistrate, 201
- Schmidt, “Von,” personality of, 276
- warns author against Brodie, 275, 277 et seq.
- Scott, Mr., revivalist, 28
- Scribner’s Magazine, “A Vagrant’s Epitaph” in, 290
- Selton, Morton, and his understudy, 86
- Sevenoaks, a reminiscence of schooldays at, 253
- Shakespearean rehearsals on Lake Rosseau, 75, 77
- Smedley, Mr., posing for, 112, 158
- Smith, Goldwin, and his private secretary, 37
- Smith, Stanley, 23
- Smythe, Judge, replaced by John Goff as Recorder, 232
- sentences Boyde, 203
- “Snipe” hunting, definition of, 214, 215
- Social reporting, experiences of, 225
- Sothern advances money to Boyde, 206
- Spanish-American War, the, 301
- Spectator reviews author’s published stories, 224
- Spencer, Herbert, A. H. Louis’s talks with, 269
- Speyer, James, a letter of introduction to, 297
- a present to author, 304
- and the University Settlement movement, 299
- as friend and employer, 299
- as philanthropist, 298, 299
- author becomes secretary to, 297 et seq.
- marriage of, 304
- tact and kindly feeling of, 298
- Speyer, Sir Edgar, 298, 300
- Spiritualism, a doctor’s exposition of, 52, 53
- Spiritualist, a cement-maker as, 55
- Staten Island, a cricket match on, 85, 86
- Stephen, Sir George, 65
- Stevenson, R. L., a dictum of, 78
- Stewart, Sir Donald, 65
- Storey, Mr., editor of Harper’s Young People, accepts an article by author, 84
- Strathcona, Lord, 5
- Studd brothers (cricketers), 23
- Sullivan, Tim, and his rival saloon, 19
- Tammany Hall, a Committee of Investigation into methods of, 232
- Tammany system, the, 97, 107
- the “Tenderloin” region and, 183
- Temperance and General Life Assurance Company, author’s post in, 6, 18
- Terry, Ellen, interview with, 106
- Theosophical Society meetings, attendance at, 107
- Theosophy, author’s early interest in, 32
- “The Interpreters,” by A. E., 218, 219
- “The Listener,” 163, 266
- Tombs Police Court and Prison, the, 99
- trial of Boyde at, 200
- Toronto, author as hotel proprietor in, 39
- Understanding, a spiritual wisdom, 270, 271
- Union League Club dinner, author’s maiden speech at, 5, 291
- University Settlement movement, the, James Speyer and, 299
- “Vagrant’s Epitaph, A,” 290
- van Horne, Sir William, 5, 65
- Vermin-infested bedroom, an uncomfortable night in a, 85
- Wallace, Professor, of Edinburgh University, 14
- Whitey, a parting present of a bottle of rye whisky, 234, 237
- hints to author, 96-98
- Withrow, Dr., editor of Methodist Magazine, 6 et seq.
- Yonkers theatre, a realistic scene in a, 257
- Zogbaum, illustrator, 158