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.
