Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
2 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Preface
1. Earliest recollections of Henry Irving
2. The old school and the new
3. Friendship
4. Honours from Dublin university
5. Converging streams
6. Joining forces
7. The Lyceum productions
8. Irving begins management
9. Shakespeare plays - 1
10. Shakespeare plays - 2
11. Shakespeare plays - 3
12. Shakespeare plays - 4
13. Irving's method
14. Art-sense
15. Stage effects
16. The value of experiment
17. The pulse of the public
18. Tennyson and his plays - 1
19. Tennyson and his plays - 2
20. Tennyson and his plays - 3
21. Tennyson and his plays - 4
22. Waterloo - King Arthur - Don Quixote
23. Art and hazard
24. Vandenhoff
25. Charles Matthews
26. Charles Dickens and Henry Irving
27. Mr J. M. Levy
28. Visits to America
29. William Winter
30. Performance at West Point
31. American reporters
32. Tours-de-force
33. Christmas
34. Irving as a social force
35. Visits of foreign warships
36. Irving's last reception at the Lyceum
37. The voice of England
38. Rival towns
39. Two stories
40. Sir Richard Burton
41. Sir Henry Morton Stanley
42. Arminius Vambéry. Volume 2:
43. Irving's philosophy of his art
44. The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone
45. The earl of Beaconsfield
46. Sir William Pearce, Bart.
47. Stepniak
48. E. Onslow Ford, R.A.
49. Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema, R.A.
50. Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart.
51. Edwin A. Abbey, R.A.
52. J. Bernard Partridge
53. Robert Browning
54. Walt Whitman
55. James Whitcomb Riley
56. Ernest Renan
57. Hall Caine
58. Irving and dramatists
59. Musicians
60. Ludwig Barnay
61. Constant Coquelin
62. Sarah Bernhardt
63. Geneviève Ward
64. John Lawrence Toole
65. Ellen Terry
66. Fresh honours in Dublin
67. Performances at Sandringham and Windsor
68. Presidents of the United States
69. Knighthood
70. Henry Irving and universities
71. Adventures
72. Burning of the Lyceum storage
73. Finance
74. The turn of the tide
Index.