Authors: Barbara Tuchman
35
“Germ planted”:
The Times
, July 17, 1895, leader.
36
“Dominant influences”: q. Magnus,
Gladstone
, 433.
37
Dufferin taught himself Persian: Nicolson, 246.
38
“Those damned dots”: Leslie, 30–31.
39
Stanley “an upper class servant”: T. P. O’Connor, q. R. Churchill,
Derby
, 45.
40
Eton’s “scugs”: Willoughby de Broke, 133.
41
Cecil Balfour forged a check: Young, 11.
42
Sargent asked Ribblesdale to sit: Mount, 418.
43
“Ce grand diable
”: Ribblesdale, xvii.
44
“A race of gods and goddesses”: Clermont-Tonnerre (
see
Chap. 4), I, 175.
45
“Divinely tall”: E. Hamilton, 7.
46
Gentlemen sighed and told each other: Sackville-West, 122.
47
“Bohemia in Tiaras”: Benson, 157.
48
Prince of Wales to Churchill: W. Churchill, 155.
49
“I shall call you the Souls”: q. Nevins, 81.
50
Two sets of eyebrows: Melba, 226.
51
“I don’t like poets”: Wyndham, I, 67.
52
Harry Cust’s “fatal self-indulgence”: Margot Asquith, q. Nevins, 81.
53
Lord Morley’s detective: Fitzroy, II, 463.
54
“Brilliant and powerful body”: W. Churchill, 89.
55
“Knew each other intimately”: Willoughby de Broke, 180.
56
Jowett’s choice of undergraduates: Newton,
Lansdowne
, 6.
57
“No end of good dinners”: Willoughby de Broke, 30.
58
“Effortless superiority”: Leslie, 43.
59
“Poor fellow, poor fellow”: Marsh, 183.
60
“Born booted and spurred”: Gardiner,
Prophets
, 214.
61
“When I looked at life from the saddle”: Warwick,
Discretions
, 78.
62
Chauncey Depew’s telegram: Robert Rhodes James,
Rosebery
, London, 1963, 355.
63
“Even policemen were waving their helmets”: Lee, II, 421.
64
Londesborough’s “gloss, speed and style”: Sitwell,
Left Hand
, 154.
65
“Because the carriage had to go home”: Raverat, 178.
66
Blunt’s sonnet: “On St. Valentine’s Day.”
67
Duke of Rutland’s chaplain: Cooper, 20.
68
Squire Chaplin in the hunting field: Lambton, 133; Londonderry, 227, 240.
69
“Sure of themselves”: Sitwell,
Great Morning
, 10, 121–22.
70
Colonel Brabazon described: W. Churchill, 67; testimony quoted: Esher, I, 362.
71
Figures on income and acreage: Bateman,
passim.
72
The “poverty line”: set by B. S. Rowntree at 21s. 8
d
. for a family of five. In
Poverty, A Study of Town Life
, 1901.
73
“Eau de Nil satin”: Warwick, 230.
74
“Then bwing me another”: W. Churchill, 68.
75
“Squalid throng of homeless outcasts”: A. Ponsonby,
Camel
, 12.
76
Kipling on venting chauvinism:
American Notes
(see Chap. 3), 45.
77
“Knew his own mind and put down his foot”: Whyte (see Chap. 5), II, 115.
78
“A series of microscopic advantages”: q.
Monthly Review
, Oct., 1903, “Lord Salisbury,” 8.
79
Morley Roberts: q. Peck (see Chap. 3), 428.
80
“All his bad qualities”: Hyndman (see Chap. 7), 349.
81
“I was a problem”: to More Adey, Nov. 27, 1897,
Letters
, 685.
82
Lord Arthur Somerset: Magnus,
Edward VII
, 214–15.
83
Swinburne “absolutely impossible”: H. Ponsonby, 274.
84
“Join it”: Hyndman (
see
Chap. 7), 349.
85
“I dare not alter these things”: Marsh, 2.
86
Austin on Germans and Alfred the Great: q. Adams, 76, n. 3.
87
Salisbury on Austin’s poem: Victoria, Letters, 24.
88
An American observer quoted: Lowell, II, 507.
89
Austin’s Jubilee wish: Blunt, I, 280.
90
Lord Newton on the Lords:
Retrospection
, 101.
91
Rosebery complained: Crewe, 462.
92
Halsbury “invariably objected”: Newton,
Lansdowne
, 361; “jolly cynicism”: Gardiner,
Prophets
, 197; Carlton Club: Wilson-Fox, 122; Lord Coleridge:
ibid
., 124.
93
“Rule by a sort of instinct”: q. Halévy, V, 23, n. 2.
94
“Greatest gentleman of his day”: Newton,
Lansdowne
, 506.
95
“A new sense of duty”: Holland, II, 146. All quotations, anecdotes and other material about the Duke are from this source unless otherwise specified.
96
“Take things very easy”: H. Ponsonby, 265.
97
“This is damned dull”: Mackintosh, 113.
98
Duchess “one of the handsomest women”: F. Hamilton, 201.
99
“No face was more suited”: F. Ponsonby, 52.
100
“Certain hereditary governmental instincts” and “a debt to the State”: Esher, I, 126.
101
“He was always losing them”: H. Ponsonby, 265 n.
102
Duke at coronation rehearsal: Lucy,
Diary
, 193.
103
“Do you feel nervous, Winston?”: R. Churchill,
Fifteen Homes
, 105.
104
“The best of company”: F. Ponsonby, 294.
105
Spectator
and subsequent quotations in this paragraph: Strachey, 406 and 398; Holland, II, 211, n. 1;
The Times
, Mar. 25, 1908.
106
“Go and tell him he is a pig”: Mackintosh, 91.
107
“A point of honor to stand for their county”: Sir George Otto Trevelyan, q. A. Ponsonby,
Decline
, 101.
108
Long and Chaplin described: Gardiner,
Pillars
, 217;
Prophets
, 212.
109
“Calm, ineradicable conviction”: Gardiner,
Prophets
, 213.
110
“How did I do, Arthur?”: Londonderry, 171.
111
“Sit on his shoulder blades”: q. Young, 100.
112
“The finest brain”: q. Chamberlain, 206.
113
William James: letter of Apr. 26, 1895,
The Letters of William James
, ed. H. James, Boston, 1920.
114
“Oh dear, what a gulf”: Battersea, Diary for Sept. 6, 1895.
115
“Lovely bend of the head”: Margot Asquith, I, 166.
116
“No, that is not so”: Margot Asquith, I, 162.
117
Darwin on Frank Balfour: Young, 8.
118
Cambridge friends: Esher, I, 182; society friends: Russell, 63.
119
Balfour on Judaism: Dugdale, I, 324.
120
Harry Cust’s dinner: Bennett, I, 287.
121
Daisy White congratulated: Nevins, 81.
122
“Quite a good fellow”: Frances Balfour, II, 367; “A sympathetic outlook”:
ibid
., II, 93.
123
“A natural spring of youth”:
ibid
.; “a freshness, serenity”: Fitzroy, I, 28.
124
Lord Randolph:
Life of Lord Randolph Churchill
, by Winston Churchill, II, 459–60.
125
Balfour on Socialism: q. Halévy, V, 231.
126
“What exactly
is
a Trade Union?”: Lucy Masterman (
see
Chap. 7), 61.
127
“My uncle is a Tory”: Margot Asquith, I, 154.
128
Churchill used the word “wicked”: Blunt, II, 278.
129
“Relentless as Cromwell”: Young, 105.
130
Morley, “took his foes by surprise”: q. Russell, 66.
131
“The most courageous man alive”: Blunt, II, 278.
132
Debated with “dauntless ingenuity”: Morley, I, 225–27.
133
“If he had a little more brains”: q. Buchan, 156.
134
“A bullet on a bubble”: Andrew White (
see
Chap. 5), II, 430.
135
“I never lose my temper”: q. Morley, I, 227.
136
“This damned Scotch croquet”: Lyttelton, 204.
137
Reply to Lady Rayleigh: Fitzroy, II, 491; charmed Frau Wagner: Esher, I, 312.
138
“Supreme energy of Arthur”:
ibid
., 340.
139
“He never reads the papers”: Whyte (
see
Chap. 5), II, 120.
140
Prince felt Balfour condescended: Halévy, VI, 231.
141
The Queen admired him: F. Ponsonby, 69.
142
Queen “much struck”: Journal, Sept. 11, 1896, Victoria, 74.
143
Proust’s housekeeper: q. Havelock Ellis (
see
Chap. 4), 377.
144
Queen Victoria, “No one ever”: q. Hector Bolitho,
Reign of Queen Victoria
, 366.
145
Kipling, “a certain optimism”: Kipling, 147.
146
Sir Edward Clarke, “The greatest poem”: q. Amy Cruse,
After the Victorians
, London, 1938, 123.