Memories and Adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle
Index
“Admirable Crichton, The,” Barrie, 247
“Adventure of the Priory School, The,” 102
“Adventure of the Second Stain, The,” 102
“Adventure of the Tired Captain, The,” 102
Aeroplane, the author’s one experience in an, 283
Algonquin Park, Canada, 300-301
Allen, Grant, and his unfinished “Hilda Wade”, 254-255; his agnosticism and his last days, 255; as a popular scientist, 256
“All the Year Round,” contributions to, 67
“Amazing Marriage, The,” Meredith, 244
Amery, Lionel, 208
Ancestry, 1-4
Antoine, General, 367, 368
Arctic, seven months in the, on a whaler, 29-41
Armistice Day, 386
Armour, suggestions during World War for use of, for troops, 332-333
Asquith, 241
Athletics, work in the interest of, 229-231
Australian sector of the front, a visit to the, 375-386
“Backwater of Life,” Payn, 256
Balfour, Arthur James, first meeting with, 238-239; his home at Whittinghame, 239-241; abhorrence of cowardice, 240; interest in psychic matters, 241
Ball, Mr., experiments in thought transference with, 78
Balloon ascension, delights of a, 282-283
Bampton, Lord, conflicting characteristics of, 260
Barrett, William, and telepathy, 78
Barrie, Sir James M., parody on Sherlock Holmes, 97-100; a visit with, at Kirriemuir, 246-247; dramatic work, 247; his “The Admirable Crichton”, 247; an unfortunate dramatic venture with, 248-249
Barrington, Sir Eric, 186
Baseball, opinion of the game of, 287-288
Bell, Professor Joseph, 20-21; Sherlock Holmes based on, 69
Bergmann, Doctor, and the demonstration of the Koch cure, 82, 83
Berlin, demonstration of the Koch cure in, 82-84
“Beyond the City,” 93
Billiards, the supposed analogy between golf and, 271; ascertaining one’s “decimal” in, 272; experiences with the game, 272-273
Birkenhead, Lord, 231
“Blackwoods,” contributions to, 68
Blavatsky, Madame, 81
Boer War, the shadow of the, 147; first reverses of the, 148; organizing the Langman Hospital for the, 149-154; press correspondents in the, 156; days with the army in the, 160-173; dum-dum bullets in the, 159, 183
Books, favourite, in boyhood, 7
Boxing, keen relish for the manly art of, 265; some experiences in, 265-266; from the national point of view, 266-267; champions of old and of to-day compared, 267; its influence in France, 268
Boyhood days, 5-7
“Boy’s Own Paper, The,” contributions to, 67
“Brigadier Gerard” stories, 115, 121; dramatization of, 227-228
“British Campaign in France and Flanders, The,” 326-327
British Olympic Committee, 229
British front in the World War, on the, 335-352
Brown, Professor Crum, 19
Buller, Sir Redvers H., 174
Burnham, Lord, 238, 239
“Bush Villa,” Southsea, 75, 87
Business, unfortunate and fortunate ventures in, 234-235
Butler, General, dinner at head-quarters of the Third Corps with, 379
Cambridge, Duke of, 152, 153
Canada, a trip through, in 1914, 287, 292-303
Capetown, South Africa, 154
“Captain of the Polestar,” 67
Carnic Alps, the warfare in the, 356-357
Cassidy, Father, the kindly principal at Hodder, 8
“Cause and Conduct of the War in South Africa, The,” inception of the idea of writing, 184; financing the scheme, 185-188; the several translations of, 188-192; beneficial effect of publication of, 192; disposition of surplus earnings of, 192-194; 204
Caux, Switzerland, 120
“Chambers’ Journal” accepts author’s first story, 24
Channel Tunnel, 311, 312; feasibility and value of a, 314-317
Childers, Erskine, 208
Christian faith, author’s changing views of the, 26-27
Churchill, Winston, 317, 332, 335
Civilian Reserve, formation of the, 323; disbandment, 324
Classics, early distaste and later fondness for the, 9
Clemenceau, Georges, 360-361
Collins, Wilkie, 256
Conan, Michael, author’s granduncle and godfather, 15, 16
Conan, Miss. See Doyle, Mrs. John
Conan Doyle, the steam trawler, in the World War, 331
Congo Association, work for the amelioration of conditions in the Belgian Congo, 228-229
Constantinople, a visit to, 222
“Cornhill,” contributions to, 67, 68, 75; 89
Coronation Oath, protest against form of, 220-221
Corporal punishment in school days, 5, 10
Cricket, early recollections of, 273; getting into first-class, 273-275; two unusual experiences at, 275-276; some memorable matches, 276-277; with J. M. Barrie’s team, 278-279; creditable records in bowling, 279
“Crime of the Congo, The,” 229
Cromer, Lord, impressions of, 123
Crowborough, removal to, 215
Crowborough Company, Sixth Royal Sussex Volunteer Regiment, 324-329
Cullingworth, Doctor, friendship with, at Edinburgh University, 52; strange character of, 52-54; author’s association with, 54-58
“Curious Experience of the Patterson Family in the Island of Uffa,” 102
Curzon, Lady, establishing a precedent in etiquette with, 259
“Daily Telegraph, The,” article on the Koch cure in, 84
“Danger,” article in “The Strand Magazine,” 310
Davos, Switzerland, 115, 119, 120
“Desert Dream, A,” 124
“Dicky Doyle’s Diary,” 2
Divorce laws, work for reform in the, 231-232
Doctor, determination to become a, 17
“Doings of Raffles Haw, The,” 88
Donald, Robert, of the “Daily Chronicle,” 360-361
Dorando and the great Marathon Race of 1908, 223-225
“Dorian Grey,” Wilde, 73, 74
Doyle, Annette, author’s sister, 5, 17; death of, 91
Doyle, Arthur Conan, birth, 1; ancestry, 1-4; boyhood days, 5-7; the preparatory school at Hodder, 8; the Jesuit public school at Stonyhurst, 8-12; school-mates, 11; first evidence of a literary streak, 11-12; a year at school in Austria, 12-14; feeling toward the Jesuits, 14-15; first visit to Paris, 15-16; adopts medicine as a profession, 17; enters Edinburgh University Medical School, 18; college life, 18-21; outside work in spare time, 21-24; first story accepted by “Chambers’,” 24; his father’s characteristics, 24-25; his spiritual unfolding and the Catholic Church, 25-27; a whaling voyage in the Arctic Ocean, 29-41; the ship’s company on the Hope, 30-32; hunting seals, 33-36; physical development, 41; ship’s surgeon on the Mayumba to West Africa, 42-51; experiences on the West Coast, 45-50; fire at sea, 50-51; professional association with an eccentric character, 52-58; in practice at Southsea, 59-61; joined by his brother Innes, 61-62; comedy and tragedy in practice, 62-64; marriage, 64-66; developing literary interests, 67-68; genesis of “Sherlock Holmes,” 69-70; “Micah Clarke,” 71; James Payn, Oscar Wilde and others, 72-74; “The White Company,” 74-75; first ventures in psychic studies, 77-81; birth of daughter Mary, 81; the Koch tuberculosis cure, 81-84; and W. T. Stead, 82; advice from Malcolm Morris, 84-85; first public speaking, 85-86; leaving Portsmouth, 87; a winter in Vienna, 88-89; as an eye specialist in London, 89-90; contributions to the magazines, 90; virulent influenza, 90-91; literature for a livelihood, 91; “The Refugees,” 92-93; and the death of Sherlock Holmes, 93-94; sidelights on Sherlock Holmes, 96-110; ventures in the drama, 96-97; collaboration with Sir James Barrie, 97; and Barrie’s parody on Holmes, 97-100; fact and fiction regarding Sherlock Holmes, 100-110; birth of his son Kingsley, 111; joins the Psychical Research Society, 111; and the literary life of London, 111-113; “A Straggler of ’15” and Henry Irving, 113-114; serious illness of Mrs. Doyle, 114-115; to Davos, Switzerland, 115; beginning of the “Brigadier Gerard” stories, 115; lecturing tour in the United States, 116-119; a strenuous winter, 117-118; anti-British feeling in the States, 118; back to Davos and Caux, 119-120; locating in Hindhead, 121; to Egypt in winter of 1896, 121; some notable men in Egypt, 122-124; a trip to the Salt Lakes, 125-128; the war against the Mahdi, 130; to the front as correspondent pro-tem., 130-138; incidents of the trip, 131-137; dinner with Kitchener, 137; return from the frontier, 138; the house in Hindhead, 140; literary work, 140-141; religious unrest, 141-142; psychic experiences, 142-143; and the little Doctor, 144-146; the shadow of South Africa, 146-147; the Boer War of 1899, 148; early reverses, 148; and the Langman Hospital service, 149-150; experiments with rifle fire, 150-152; and the Duke of Cambridge, 152-153; in South Africa, 153-154; inoculation for enteric fever, 154; Boer prisoners, 155; locating the hospital in Bloemfontein, 155-157; outbreak of enteric fever, 157-159; dum-dum bullets, 159; days at the front with the army, 159-170; return to the hospital, 170-173; temporary illness, 174-175; quelling a mutiny in the unit, 175-176; to Pretoria and Johannesburg, 176-180; interview with Lord Roberts, 178; an unusual surgical operation, 181; return to England, 182-183; misrepresentation concerning England and the Boer War, 184; an appeal to World Opinion, 184-194; and “The Cause and Conduct of the War in South Africa,” 187-188; translations and distribution of the pamphlet, 188-192; success of the undertaking, 192-194; experiences in politics, 195-203; writes “The Great Boer War,” 204; and the accolade of Knighthood, 205; interest in rifle clubs, 207-208; on the use of cavalry in war, 208; completion of “Sir Nigel,” 209; death of Mrs. Doyle, 209; and the Edalji Case, 209-215; second marriage, 215; removal to Crowborough, 215; and the Oscar Slater Case, 216-220; protests the form of the Coronation Oath, 220-221; visits Egypt, Constantinople and Greece, 222-223; the Marathon Race of 1908, 223-225; and the evil administration of the Belgian Congo, 228; work in the interest of athletics in England, 229-231; and reform of the Divorce Laws, 231-232; continued interest in psychic matters, 232; ventures in speculation, 233-235; acquaintance with some notable people, 236-261; impressions of Theodore Roosevelt, 236-238; and Arthur James Balfour, 238-241; Asquith and Lord Haldane, 241-242; visit with George Meredith, 242-245; acquaintance with Kipling, 245-246; friendship with Sir James M. Barrie, 246-249; and Sir Henry Irving, 249-250; on George Bernard Shaw, 250-251; long acquaintance with H. G. Wells, 251-252; and his brother-in-law, William Hornung, 252; correspondence with Stevenson, 253-254; and Grant Allen, 255-256; appreciation of James Payn, 256-257; dinners with Sir Henry Thompson, 258; settling a question of etiquette, 259; impressions of Sir Henry Hawkins, 260-261; and Sir Francis Jeune, 261; recollections of sport, 262-286; views on flat-racing and steeplechasing, 262-263; on hunting for pleasure, 263-264; a liking for fishing, 264-265; on the noble sport of boxing, 265-268; and the Jeffries-Johnson fight, 268-269; love for Rugby football, 269-270; and the game of golf, 270-271; the lure of billiards, 271-273; recollections of cricket, 273-279; some motoring experiences, 280-282; ski-ing in Switzerland, 283-285; a trip to the Canadian Rockies in 1914, 287-300; in New York, 287-289; through the land of Parkman, 289-292; on the wonders of Western Canada, 292-298; in Jasper and Algonquin Parks, 298-301; on the destiny of Canada, 301-302; disbelief in the German menace, 304-305; participates in the Prince Henry Competition, 305-308; effect of Bernhardi’s writings on, 308; “England and the Next War” by, 308-310; interviewed by General Henry Wilson, 310-313; meditations on methods of attack and defence, 313-314; urges building of Channel Tunnel, 314-317; on the lack of foresight in the Admiralty, 317-319; suggests life-saving devices for the Navy, 319-321; a letter from William Redmond, 321; organizing the Volunteers, 323-324; in the Sixth Royal Sussex Volunteer Regiment, 324-326; on the writing of “The British Campaign in France and Flanders,” 326-327; conditions in England during the World War, 327-328; communications with British prisoners, 329-330; luncheon with the Empress Eugenie, 331-332; suggests individual armour for troops, 332-333; heavy losses of his kith and kin in the War, 333-334; to the British front in 1916, 335-352; crossing to France with General Robertson, 337-338; a trip through the trenches, 339-341; a medal presentation in Bethune, 341-342; in an observation post, 342-343; a meeting with his brother Innes, 343; the Ypres Salient at night, 344; the destruction and desolation in Ypres, 345-346; on the Sharpenburg, 346-347; luncheon with Sir Douglas Haig, 347-349; an artillery duel at close quarters, 349-350; meets his son Kingsley at Mailly, 350; two days in Paris, 351-352; a mission to the Italian front, 353-359; attempts to reach Monfalcone, 354-356; in the Carnic Alps, 356-357; a day in the Trentino, 357-358; a spiritual intimation of the victory on the Piave, 358-359; effect of the death of Kitchener, 360; an interview with Clemenceau, 360-361; on the French front, 361-371 in Soissons, 362; through the French trenches, 362-365; in the front line, 367; the saviours of France, 371; breakfast and an interesting talk with Lloyd George, 373-375; a visit to the Australian front, 375-385; a second meeting with his brother Innes, 378-379; breaking the Hindenburg Line, 380-383; in London on Armistice Day, 386; the psychic quest, 387-399; public expositions of his psychic belief, 388-390; belief in the universality of the spiritual knowledge, 390-392; tangible evidence for his faith, 392-393; on the mistakes of science in investigations, 395-396; personal assurance in his spiritual belief, 397-398; as to the future, 398-399
Doyle, Mrs. Arthur Conan (née Hawkins), 64; marriage, 65; 85, 87; development of a serious malady, 114; to Switzerland in search of health, 115, 119; a winter in Egypt, 121, 122, 130; in Naples, 152; 204; death of, 209
Doyle, Mrs. Arthur Conan (née Leckie), marriage, 215; Sultan confers Order of Chevekat on, 222; home for Belgian refugees during the World War, 328; psychic interests and activities of, 388
Doyle, Monsignor Barry, 2-3
Doyle, Charles, author’s father, born in London, 2; enters Government Office of Works, Edinburgh, 2; marriage, 4; talent as an artist, 4-5; 17, 24; characteristics of, 25; death of, 25; his religious faith, 25
Doyle, Mrs. Charles, author’s mother, 3; marriage, 4; early struggles of married life, 5, 12; declines to dedicate son to the Church, 12; 17; her changing religious faith, 25; 41, 55, 92
Doyle, Connie, author’s sister, 5, 17, 115
Doyle, Henry, author’s uncle, manager of the National Gallery, Dublin, 2
Doyle, Ida, author’s sister, 17
Doyle, Innes, author’s brother, 17; joins brother in Portsmouth, 61; letter to his mother, 61-62; accompanies author on American lecturing tour, 116; death of, 334; 343, 347, 378
Doyle, James, author’s uncle, 1; literary and artistic ability of, 1-2
Doyle, John, author’s grandfather, reputation as a cartoonist, 1; personal appearance of, 1; his family, 1-2
Doyle, Mrs. John, author’s grandmother, 15
Doyle, Julia, author’s sister, 17
Doyle, Kingsley Conan, author’s son, birth of, 111; death of, 334; 350, 351
Doyle, Lottie, author’s sister, 5, 17, 115, 121
Doyle, Mary, author’s daughter, 81, 85; activities during the World War, 328
Doyle, Richard, author’s uncle, his whimsical humour, 2
Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings, 2
Drama, first venture in the, 113
Drayson, General, a pioneer in psychic studies, 79; and spiritualism, 80
Drury, Major, 149, 175
“Duet, A,” 141
Dum-Dum bullets in the Boer War, 159, 183
Dupont, General, 369
Edalji, George, a victim of the miscarriage of justice, 209-215
Edinburgh, birthplace and boyhood home of author, 1; political activities in, in 1900, 195, 196-199
Edinburgh University Medical School, the author a student in, 18-21
Edmonton, Canada, 297
Egypt, a winter in, with Mrs. Doyle, 121-139; men of note in, 122-124; the temples and tombs of, 124-128; the war against the Mahdi, 130-139
“England and the Next War,” the author’s article in the “Fortnightly,” 308-310; result of publication of, 310-313
Enteric fever, inoculation for, 154; in the Boer War, 157-159
“Esoteric Buddhism,” Sinnett, 81
Eugenie, Empress, 331-332
Feldkirch, Austria, a year in the Jesuit school at, 13-14
Fencing, limited experience in, 279
Fenians, first glimpse of the, 6-7
“Fires of Fate, The,” 124, 226-227
“Firm of Girdlestone, The,” 68
Fishing, a liking for the art of, 264-265
Foley, Mary. See Doyle, Mrs. Charles
Foley, William, author’s grandfather, 3
Foley, Mrs. William, author’s grandmother, 3-4
Football, the best collective sport, 269-270
Fort William, Ontario, 293, 294
France, Bernhardi’s opinion of the soldiers of, 308; the Channel Tunnel and, 315; typical soldiers of, 363-367, 369; the saviours of, 371
Franco-German War, 8
French, General, Sir John, 330, 331
George, Lloyd, 361; breakfast and an interesting talk with, 373; his estimate of Lord Kitchener, 373-374; and the subject of armour, 375; on the revolution in Russia, 375
Germany, author’s disbelief in possible trouble with, 304-305; Bernhardi as a representative of thought in, 308
“Germany and the Next War,” Bernhardi, 308
Gibbs, Doctor Charles, 150, 175, 181-182
Golf, the fascination of, 270; in Egypt, 270-271; an obituary to the author’s, 271
Gray, Captain John, of the whaling ship, the Hope, 29, 30
“Great Boer War, The,” 204
Great Lakes, through the, 292
“Great Shadow, The,” 93
Gwynne, H. A., 137; in South Africa, 156; 205
“Habakuk Jephson’s Statement,” 67
Haig, General Sir Douglas, 331, 347; luncheon with, 348; personal appearance and traits of, 348-349
Haldane, Lord, 242
Hamilton, Sir Ian, 159
Hawkins, Miss. See Doyle, Mrs. Arthur Conan (née Hawkins)
Hawkins, Sir Henry. See Bampton, Lord
Henneque, General, 365, 366
“Hilda Wade,” Allen, completed by author, 254-255
Hindenburg Line, the, 379, 381; the break in the, 382
Hindhead, locating in, 121; 224
“History of the War” (World), 242
Hodder, two years in preparatory school at, 8
Home, Sir Anthony, 76
Hope, the Arctic whaling ship the, 29, 30, 33, 34, 36
Hornung, William, the author’s brother-in-law, 115; brilliant in repartee, 252
“House of Temperley, The,” dramatization of “Rodney Stone” 225-226
“Human Personality,” Myers, influence on the study of psychics, 78
Humbert, General, 368
Hunting for sport unjustified, 263-264; its effects on our better instincts, 264
“Idler, The,” contributions to, 112-113
Influenza, virulent attack of, 91
“Inner Room, The,” 94-95
Ireland, founding of the Doyle family in, 2; early visit to, 6-7
Irving, Sir Henry, 113-114; acquaintance with, 249; Bernard Shaw and, 250
Irving, Henry, the younger, 114
Italy, at the front in, 353-358; difficulties of the terrain in, 354, 356-358
“Jane Annie,” in collaboration with Barrie, 248
Jasper Park, Canada, 287, 298-300
Jerome, Jerome K., 112, 253
Jesuits, school life under the, 8-12; in Austria with the, 12-13; author’s feeling for and opinion of the, 14-15
Jeune, Sir Francis, 261
“John Creedy,” Allen, 256
“John Huxford’s Hiatus,” 68
Kipling, Rudyard, 118; the charm of his writing, 245; in his Brattleboro home, 245-246
Kitchener, 123, 131, 137, 138, 178, 179, 241; death of, 360; Lloyd George’s estimate of, 373-374
Knighthood, receiving the accolade of, 204-205
Koch, Doctor, and his so-called cure for consumption, 81, 83
Lang, Andrew, favourable opinion of “Micah Clarke,” 71
Langman, Archie, 149; captured and released by De Wet, 176
Langman, John, 149
Langman Hospital, service with the, in the Boer War, 147-183
Leckie, Jean. See Doyle, Mrs. Arthur Conan, née Leckie
Lecturing tour in America, 116-119
Lewis, Colonel, of the Egyptian army, 126-129
“Light,” contributes article to, 80; 111
“Lippincott’s Magazine,” contribution to, 73
“Literary Reminiscences,” Payn, 256
Literary work, 67, 90
Literature, first knowledge of talent for, 11-12; first attempts in, 24
Lodge, Sir Oliver, 205
London, residence in, 89; literary life in, 1880-1893, 111-113
McClure, S. S., 119
McLean, Colin, acting mate of the Hope, 30
Maloja, Switzerland, 115
Maxse, Leo, 361
Maxwell, W. B., 253, 262
Mayumba, S. S., to West Africa on the, as surgeon, 42; life aboard the, 49; on fire at sea, 50-51
Medical practice, Plymouth, 54-56; Portsmouth, 57-87
Medicine, determines on the study of, 17-18; first experiences in practice of, 22-24
Meredith, George, talents and shortcomings of, 242, 243; a visit to, at Box Hill, 243-244; his brilliant conversation, 244; religious convictions, 245; 256
“Micah Clarke,” author’s first historical novel, 71
Milner, Sir Alfred, 182
Mind, opinion on the nature of the, 78
“Miracle Town,” 332
Monash, General Sir John, luncheon at head-quarters of Australian troops with, 378
Monfalcone, Italy, perilous attempt to reach, 354-356
Morris, Doctor Malcolm, 82, 84-85
Motoring, a disagreeable experience in, 280; fascination of, 280; accidents and humorous incidents when, 281; an international competition in, 282
“Mystery of the Sassassa Valley, The,” the author’s first adventure story, 24
Navy, lack of foresight in the, 317-318; protection from mines for, 318-319; safety devices for crews, 319-321
Newton, Lord, 335, 336, 337
New York, a week in, 287-289
Nile, a trip up the river, 124-125
Northcliffe, Lord, 229, 231, 315
Norwood, home in, 91, 111, 113; leaving, 115
O’Callaghan, Doctor, 149
“Occult World,” Sinnett, 81
Olympic Games, of 1908, 223-225
Pack, Sir Denis, 3
Pack, Katherine, author’s grandmother. See Foley, Mrs. William
Pack, Reverend Richard, 3
Padua, Italy, 353
Paget, Sidney, original illustrator of “Sherlock Holmes,” 101
“Parasite, The,” 93
Paris, first visit to, 15-16; 89; during the World War, 351, 352
Parkman, Francis, author’s opinion of, 93; preparation for his life work, 290; the charm of his style and his work, 290-291
Parliament, unsuccessful attempts to enter, 195-203
“Pavilion on the Links, The,” Stevenson, 253
Payn, James, 67, 69, 71, 72, 75; his humorous view of life, 256-257; a kindly critic, 257
“Physiologist’s Wife, The,” 68
Piave River, psychic revelation regarding the, 358-359
Picardy Place, Edinburgh, birthplace of author in, 1
Plymouth, associated with Doctor Cullingworth in, 54-56
Podmore, Mr., psychic experience with, 142-143
Poetry, early attempts in, 11-12
Politics, first entry in, 86; two unsuccessful efforts in, 195-203
Pond, Major, manages author’s lecturing tour in America, 116
Port Arthur, Ontario, 293
Portsmouth, in practice in, 55-87
Portsmouth Literary and Scientific Society, the, 85
Pretoria, South Africa, 176, 178
Prince Henry Competition, the so-called motor race, 305-307
Public speaking, first attempts at, 85; in political campaigns, 86
Psychic, studies, early contempt for, 77; author’s materialistic viewpoint in, 77; nature of the mind and soul, 78; influence of telepathy on, 78; table turning, 79; growing interest in, 111; researches and experiences, 142-146; séances, 232; the later quest, 387-399
Psychical Research Society, member of, 111
Racing, author’s lack of interest in flat-, 262-263
Rationalist Association, 141
Reading, early taste for, 7
Redmond, Major William, 321-322
“Refugees, The,” 92, 93, 140-141
Reichenbach, Falls of, the tomb of Sherlock Holmes, 93-94
Reid, Mayne, a favourite author in boyhood, 7
Repington, Colonel, 316, 318, 325, 337
“Richard Feverel,” Meredith, 243, 245
Rifle, value of the, as an arm, 207-208
Rifle clubs, formation of, 207, 285
“Rights and Wrongs,” Cook, 185
“Ring of Thoth, The,” 68
“Robert Elsmere,” Ward, 256
Roberts, Lord, 157, 174, 178, 207, 313
Robertson, General William, 337, 338
Rocky Mountains, first view of the, 298
“Rodney Stone,” 96, 225, 266
Roman Catholic faith, author’s family and the, 2; author’s changing views of the, 25-27
Roosevelt, President Theodore, recollections and impressions of, 236-238
Rosicrucians, 146
Rugby football. See Football
Russia, Lloyd George on the revolution in, 375
Rutherford, Professor, 19
Sackville-West, Colonel, and the interview with General Henry Wilson, 310-313
“St. Ives,” unfinished by Stevenson, 254
Sandow, Eugene, 205, 206
Sanna’s Post, in the Boer War, 159
Sault Ste. Marie, 292-293
“Scalp Hunters,” a favourite book in boyhood, 7
Scharlieb, Doctor, 150
School days, early, 5-7; at Hodder, 8; at Stonyhurst, 8-12
Seals, in the Arctic in the close season, 33-34; and the open season, 34-35
Sharpenburg, the view from the, 346-347
Shaw, George Bernard, 250; and Henry Irving, 250; controversial spirit of, 250-251; peculiar characteristics of, 251
“Sherlock Holmes,” the origin of the character of, 69; interest of the public in character of, 92, 93; concern of public at death of, 94; letters addressed to, 94; sidelights on character of, 96-110; dramatizations of the character, 96-97; Barrie’s parody of, 97-100; author’s original conception of, 100-101; film productions of, 101
“Sign of Four, The,” 73
“Silver Blaze,” 102
“Sir Nigel,” 75, 209
Ski-ing, experiences in, 283-285
Slater, Oscar, a victim of the miscarriage of justice, 216-220
Smith, Reginald, 186, 191, 193, 194
Society for Psychic Research, 142-143
Soissons, the ruins of the cathedral of, 362
Sophia, Mosque of, 222-223
Soul, opinion on the nature of the, 78
South Africa, shadow of war in, 146-147; arrival in, 154; first impressions of, 155-156; pamphlets on British methods and objects in, 184-194
“Speckled Band, The,” 96, 226
Speculation, ventures in, 233-234
Spiritualism, 80, 81
Sport, some recollections of and reflections on, 262-286
“Stark Munro Letters, The,” based on first experiences in medical practice, 52; 66, 111
Stead, W. T., 82
Steeplechasing, more of a true sport than flat-racing, 263
Stevenson, Robert Louis, the influence of, on author, 253; correspondence with, 253-254; the unfinished “St. Ives” by, 254
Stonyhurst, the great Jesuit school at, 8; the seven years at, 9-12
“Strand Magazine, The,” 90
“Straggler of ’15, A,” 113; dramatization of, 113-114
“Study in Scarlet,” 69-70, 100
Submarine, possible effect on England in warfare of the, 309-310, 313, 314
Switzerland, visits, 93; to, for Mrs. Doyle’s health, 115, 119, 120
Symonds, Lily Loder, 334
Symonds, Captain William Loder, 329, 330
Tank, its influence on the World War, 333; viewing a battle from the top of a, 381-382
Tariff Reform, in election of 1905, 199-203
Telepathy, first experiments in, 78
“Temple Bar,” contributions to, 67
Territorials, the, 309, 312, 323
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 6
Theosophy, interest in, 80, 81
Thompson, Sir Henry, 184, 185; and his famous “octave” dinners, 258
Thought transference, experiments in, 78
“Three Correspondents, The,” 136
“Three Men in a Boat,” Jerome, 112
Thurston, Father, 11
Ticonderoga, Fort, 291
“To Arms,” in collaboration, 327
“Tragedy of the Korosko, The,” 124
“Transvaal From Within,” Fitz-Patrick, 185
Trentino, in the, during the World War, 357-358
Udine, the Italian head-quarters town, 353
“Uncle Bernac,” 141
“Undershaw,” the home in Hindhead, 140
University of Edinburgh, studies medicine at, 17-18, 21; graduates from, 41
Vaughan, Bernard, 11
Vicars, Sir Arthur, 3
Vienna, a winter of study in, 88-89
Volunteer Force, formation of, at outbreak of the World War, 324
Waller, Lewis, 227, 228
Ward, Mrs. Humphry, and the life of the Victorian era, 256
Watt, A. P., 90
Wells, H. G., democratic frankness of, 251, 252; forecasts of the future, 252
West African Coast, voyage to the, 42-51
“Westminster Gazette,” honorary correspondent in Egypt for the, 130-139
Whaling in the Arctic, 29-41
“White Company, The,” 74; author’s opinion of, 75; its success, 75; 89
Wilde, Oscar, favourable opinion of “Micah Clarke,” 73; as a conversationalist, 73; letter from, 74
Wilson, General Henry, interview with, after publication of “England and the Next War,” 310-313
“Windlesham,” the home in Crowborough, 215
“Window in Thrums, A,” Barrie, 246
Winnipeg, Canada, 294, 295, 297
World War, prologue of the, 304-322; formation of the Volunteer Force at opening of, 324; conditions in England during the, 327-328; on the British front in the, 335-352; the Italian front in the, 353-359; a visit to the French front, 361-371; the Australian sector of the line, 375-386
Wound stripes, on British uniforms, 371
Ypres Salient, the, at night, 344; 345-346