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<p>At court.--From Robert Cecil to Lord Salisbury.--The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire.--The Earl of Rosebery.--The party of two: Sir Charles Dilke, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain.--The brothers Balfour.--Sir William Harcourt.--Lord Welby: permanent officials, imperial and civic.--Diplomatists, new style, and Sir Philip Currie.--Lord Wolseley and "those about him."--Lord Charles Beresford.--Lord Chief Justice Russell of Killowen.--Lord Ashbourne (Mr. Edward Gibson)--The Rothschilds.--Lord Glenesk.--Printing House square.--Bishop and historian: the Rt. Rev. Dr. C. W. Stubbs.--Canon Gore and the Lux mundi school.--Personal forces of nonconformity.--An academical group.--The "faculty" as a social force.--Sir John Lubbock.--George Meredith and his disciples.--Alfred Austin and some other singers.--Sir E. Burne-Jones and the P.R.A.--Sir Henry Irving and other lights of the play.--London hostesses.--Some personal forces, less visible but not less real.--Mr. Cecil Rhodes and his friends.--Mr. W. W. Astor and the American colony
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<br>Subjects: Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- Politics and government; Great Britain -- Intellectual life</div>
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Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet), 1844-1924</div>
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