sness 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.

St. Andrews Boroughs, invitation to stand for, 191.

St. Helier, Lady, and Duke of Wellington, 108.

St. Hilarion, castle of, 232.

St. Michael's Mount (Cornwall), 148.

St. Vincent, first Lord, 14.

_Sartor Resartus_, Carlyle's, 64.

Savile, Augustus, 96.

Season in London, 138.

Seaton, first Lord, 14.

Sermon, Jowett's, in _The New Republic_, 88;
semisocialist, by priest in _The Old Order Changes_, 219.

Servants, Old World, 18.

Shelley, Sir Percy and Lady, 114.

Sherborne House, 163.

---- Susan, Lady, 163.

---- the late Lord, 163.

Shropshire, county ball in, 142.

Sloane, Mr. and Mrs., of New York, 315.

Smuggling by two country gentlemen in Devonshire, 5.

"Social Democratic Federation," 173.

_Social Equality_, 181.

_Socialism, A Critical Examination of_, 329.

---- elements of, in _The Old Order Changes_, 222.

Society in London, its traditional basis, 92.

Society in the country, 144.

Somers, Lady, 117.

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