# Episodes Before Thirty/Index

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 Methodis Magazine, 6 et seq.
Yonkers theatre, a realistic scene in a, 257
Zogbaum, illustrator, 158