lows:

Virtue is like precious odors,
Most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Prosperity doth best discover vice.
Adversity doth best discover virtue.

This passage, with Macaulay's comments on it, may be commended to the
notice of those who contend that Bacon could not have written
_Shakespeare_, because Bacon's acknowledged verses are of a very
inferior kind. If they look in Bacon's prose for verse which was
unacknowledged, and which was unintended by himself, they may find
reason for modifying this argument.

INDEX

Aberdeen, speech at, 192.

Acland, family of, 3.

---- Sir Henry at Oxford, 78.

Aide, Hamilton, 98, 130.

Alexandria, 228.

Alford, Lady Marian, on society, 119.

America, political visit to, 308.

American architecture, 322.

Amherst, Lord and Lady, 292.

Ardverikie, Sir John Ramsden's lodge, 145, 307.

_Aristocracy and Evolution_, 265.

Arnold, Matthew, as Mr. Luke in _The New Republic_, 88.

Ashburton, Louisa, Lady, 117.

---- Rawlin Mallock, Whig member for, 4.

Astor, Mr. John Jacob, in New York, 314.

Austin, Alfred, Poet Laureate, 120.

Baker, Sir Samuel, 226-227.

Baltimore, 309, 320.

Batthyany, Prince and Princess, 241-242.

Beaufort Castle (Lord Lovat's), 129.

Beaulieu, villa at, 203.

Beckett, Ernest, second Lord Grimthorpe, 195.

Benbecula, island of, 304.

Bevan, Mr. (the last of the "dandies"), 60.

Bismarck, Countesses Marie and Helen, 55.

Blatchford, Lord, 30.

Blayney, Lord, friend of Cromwell's, 4.

Blenheim, 132.

Blunt, Wilfrid, poet, and breeder of Arab horses, 53, 129.

Boroughs, rotten Cornish, 159.

Breakfast party at Lord Houghton's, 103.

Bright, John, as land agitator; his absurd statistics, 182.

Brittany, visit to, 329.

Broglio, castle of, 237.

Browning, Robert, 71.

Buller, Emma and Antony, 30.

Bulwer, Sir Henry, in Cyprus, 227.

Burdett-Coutts, Miss, at Torquay, 61.

Bute, Lord, original of Lord Beaconsfield's Lothair, 131;
at Chiswick, 131;
at Cardiff Castle, 151.

Butler, Dr. Nicholas Murray, 313.

Byram, Sir John Ramsden's, in Yorkshire, 161.

Cannes, first visit to, 167;
miniature villa at, 167;
subsequent visits, 241.

Cardiff Castle, 157.

Carlyle, introduction to, 64.

Carriages, old traveling, 16.

Cary, Mr., of Tor Abbey, and R. Mallock as smugglers, 5.

---- Sir Henry, sells Cockington to R. Mallock, _temp._ Charles I, 4.

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