FRIENDLY OF THREE NATIONALITIES MISS BETH AM-ED WARDS OFFXCIER T E LINSTRUCTION PUBLIQUK DE FRANC AUTHOR OF 4 PRKNCH VIGNETTES, UNFREQUENTED FRANCE, FRENCH MEN, WOMEN ANN BOOKS, KITTV, OR. JACOB, r. TC,, rrc. Fresh and strong the world we seize, Pioneers, oh, pioneers I WALT WHITMAN. WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD. 1911 AH Rightt Reterwd TUB SKCOND KAKO. V It ttth t RICHARD CLAY SDKS, LIMITED, fifty AD STRKttT HILL, K. C., AND UNO AY, SUVT0UC. INSCRIBED TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF THAT TRUE FRIEND OF LITERATURE AND INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP, THE FIRST BARON TAUCHNIT2. NOTE PREFATORY SOME of these sketches have appeared in Eng lish and American periodicals, others are now published for the first time. I make no apology for the introduction of one living personage into a little portrait gallery devoted to figures mostly long passed away. The founder of the Salvation Army may be said to have belonged to history for already a quarter of a century. My best thanks are due to R. D. Cooper, Esq., of Needham Market, for kindly permitting a photograph of the cartoon in the apple-chamber, also to Mr. A. White, photographic artist, Ipswich, for his admirable reproduction of the same. The Suffolk views were taken for me by his late father a few years ago. The portrait of W. J. Fox was presented to me 1868-70 by his daughter, the late Mrs. G. Fox. CONTENTS f-A-GJC I BARON TAUCHNITZ ...... I II MATILDA BETHAM . . . . . - 13 III AMELIA BLAND FORD EDWARDS . . . ,41 IV COVENTRY PATMORE . . . . . .71 V MADAME BODICHON . . . . . .87 VI WILLIAM ALLINGHAM . . . . . .105 VII AN AFTERNOON WITH LORD JOHN RUSSELL . 115 VIII TEA WITH CHRISTINA ROSSETTI . . . .129 IX H. B. BRABAZON fiRABBY . . . . 1 37 X OWEN MEREDITH, THE FIRST EARL OF LYTTON 151 XI HERBERT SPENCER IN SOCIETY . . . .163 XII GEORGE MACDONALD 173 XIII GENERAL BOOTH . . . . . .183 XIV VIDI TANTUM 1 CHARLES DICKENS . . - 1 93 XV UNE GRANDE DAME MME fiLANC TH. BENTZON 213 XVI A GROUP OF FRENCH FRIENDS . . . .231 XVII A GREAT-NEPHEW OF DANTON .... 347 ix x Contents PAGK XVIII ANECDOTICAL . . . . . . .263 SIR JOSEPH HOOKER M. BRUNETIERE AT HOME W. J. FOX, THE NORWICH WEAVER BOY LORD HOUGHTON DR. MARTINEAU TALKERS ALL, SIR EDWIN ARNOLD AND THE REV. W. H. CHANNING XIX EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE . . . . . 2 7 9 XX A TRIO OF PIONEERS ...... 285 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS To fact Jiage THE SECOND BARON TAUCHNITZ . . THE FIRST BARON TAUCHNITZ ..... 4 SIR WILLIAM BETHAM, ULSTER KING-AT-ARMS . . 15 BETHAM CHURCH . . . . . . .17 BETHAM HALL ........ 18 WESTERFIELD HALL ....... 43 WESTERFIELD CHURCH AND RECTORY .... 45 A STREET IN NEEDHAM MARKET ..... 51 HILL FARM, GREETING ST. PETERS . - . - 53 THE CARTOON IN THE APPLE-CHAMBER . . - 55 A COTTAGE, BAYLHAM, 1892 . . , - 57 THE DRIFT, WESTERFIELD ..... 67 BARBARA LEIGH SMITH BODICHON .... 89 SCALANDS GATE, 1867 ....... 109 A GREAT-NEPHEW OF DANTON ..... 249 W. J. FOX ......... 269