John, 47, 47n.

Charron, Pierre, 74

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 87, 129, 135,
304

Chelmsford, Lord, 46

Church, Richard William, 127
Churton, Henry, 143-4

John, 8; letter to his nephew,
19; final estrangement, 20;
death, 78

(afterwards Collins) Maria, 4
Cicero, 109

Clarke, Miss, 142

Cluer, Albert Rowland, 17
Cobbett, William, 102

Coleridge, Lord, 92

Samuel Taylor, 72, 226, 255
287, 305

Colgrave, Mr, 284

Colley, Sir Pomeroy, 40
- Lady, 40

Collinge, Walter E., 183
Collins, Arthur Strangways, 143
Ella Bonham, 143

Collins, John Churton: birth,
parentage, 3, 4; anecdotes of
childhood, 4, 5; early school-
days, 5, 6; his father's voyage to
Australia and death, 7, 8; life
at Ellesmere, 8-12; at King
Edward's School, 12-15; Ox-
ford days, 16-21; personal
appearance, 17; early life in
London, 22-3; his connection
with Scoones, 24-5; Swin-
burne's letters to him, 26-34, 39,
51, 55, 56-60, 113; his first book,
28; his first quarterly article,
35; marriage, 36; his contem-
plated "history," 38, 87n., 131;
evenings with Swinburne, 39-40,
41, 49, 52-3, 55-6; meeting with
Mark Pattison, 41; his article
on Bolingbroke, 42; interview
with Carlyle, 43-6; an impres-
sion of Millais, 46-7; a dinner
at Sir William Smith's, 47-9;
his edition of the poems of Lord
Herbert of Cherbury, 51; an
interview with Abraham Hay.
ward, 54; his connection with
the University Extension, 61-
71; places where he lectured,
72-3; article on Swift, 74;
last letters from Mark Pattison,
74-6, 76-7; on Shakespeare's
predecessors, 77; death of his
uncle John, 78; interview with
Robert Browning, 78-84; inter-
view with Froude, 84-9; his
article on English Literature at
the Universities, 91-5; opinions
on his suggestions, 96-102; his
answer to Froude's letter on the
subject, 103-5; John Bright's
letter on his suggestion, 105-8;
his answer, 108-10; his article on
a School of English Literature,
111-2; on Can English Liter-
ature be taught? 112-3; his
controversy with Swinburne,
113-7; sequel to his articles,
117-9; as a critic, 120; on the
death of Dr Potts, 121; his
evening with Tom Harding,
122-3; last meeting with
Harding, 124; his knowledge

of languages, 124; his cam-
paign against the abolition of
Italian from the Civil Service
Examinations, 124-8; an im-
pression of Lord Salisbury, 129;
at Tennyson's funeral, 130-1;
his visit to America, 132-8;
his connection with the Satur-
day Review, 139-40; removal
to Norfolk Square, 141; his
edition of Pope's Essay on
Criticism," 142; his most
laborious six weeks, 142-3; his
contribution to the "Dictionary
of National Biography," 144-5;
the death of his mother, 146; his
trip to Italy, 147-8; his edition
of Tennyson's early poems,
449-51; his last meeting with
Swinburne, 153-4; his " Ephe-
mera Critica," 155-60; his

66

Poetry and Poets of America,"
161-2; the Passmore Edwards
Scholarship at Oxford, 164-72;
his appointment at Birmingham,
163, 173; his previous efforts,
173-4; on the literary study of
Greek and Latin, 174-82; a
confusion of names, 183; his
hon. degree at Durham, 183-4;
as a professor, 184-5; his first
case in the study of crime, 186;
Miss Braddon's letter to him,
187-9; his evening with
William Roupell, 189-91; his
evening with the Tichborne
Claimant, 191-4; the Claimant's
last letters to him, 194-7; an
impression of Whitaker Wright's
corpse, 197; an afternoon
round the scenes of the White-
chapel murders, 198-200; his
investigations in the Merstham
Tunnel Mystery, 201; helps to
found the Murder Club, 202-3;
the Edalji Case, 203; his
detective story, 204; his
various interests, 206-14; his
love for cemeteries, 214-5; for
books, 216; views on mankind,
217-8; first Vice-President of
the Ethological Society, 219;
on the Bacon - Shakespeare

323

theory, 222-3; on the import-
ance of Greek in education, 223-
9; his robust constitution,
231; estimated number of his
lectures, 231; his capacity for
work, 231-2; his one ailment-
its history and features, 232-5;
his analytical record of its dura-
tion, 235-7, 240-3; visit to
Canon Harford on his death-
bed, 244-5; his visit to Park-
hurst Prison, 246; his compact
with a friend, 247-8; his con-
versation with a Balaclava
veteran, 249-50; his afternoon
with William Watson, 251-5;
William Watson's Ode to him,
255; his part in Watson's
"best lines," 256; his efforts
for a School of Journalism, 257-
75; Sir Hugh Gilzean-Reid's
tribute to him, 276-80; his last
days, 282-94; poetic com-
positions, 297-300; on Swin-
burne as a critic, 301-3; re-
cords of work, 303-6; biblio-
graphy, 307-9: principal
articles, 309-12; the Memorial
raised to him, 312-15; his
maxims and reflections, 315-7;
letters or extracts from letters
Mrs Edmund Luce, ix.-x.;
Miss Agnes Kendall, xi.; his
mother, 10, 13; Arnold Page,
23, 24; Charles F. Newcombe,
64-5; Miss Ella G. McSorley,
66, 68; his children, 132;
William Watson, 140; Sir Sidney
Lee, 144-6; T. Watts-Dunton,
152; F. P. Barnard, 155; an
editor, 158-60; J. Passmore
Edwards, 166-9, 170; E. A.
Sonnenschein, 176-8, 178-80,
181; his daughter Pamela, 215;
his brother, 237-9; one of his
students, 284; his son Giles,
284-5; examples of his memory,
13, 137, 138, 214, 220-1, 246,
287-8, 289-90; views on re-
ligion, x., xi., 230.
Collins, Kenneth, 14

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Laurence Churton, 162, 198,
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