vi CONTENTS Page Amusements Aden Lord Lytton at Suez Cairo The Grand Duke Alexis Malta Valetta Gibraltar A Sailor Punished for Striking- a Native The Duke of Connaught An Illumination A New Battery and a Public Market Cadiz Seville Cordova Madrid The Prince Declines to See Bull-fights Lisbon The Convent of Bom Soccorso Cintra A Dinner on Board to the Prince " Home Sweet Home " In Portsmouth London. CHAPTER XXL QUIET PUBLIC WORK - - 137 1876-1878 Thanksgiving Service in Westminster Abbey Concert in Royal Albert Hall Fete at the Guildhall The Season in London Exhibition of the Indian Presents Varied Festivities The King and Queen of the Hellenes Goodwood and Cowes Deeside Doncaster Races Dunrobin Castle Thurso Wick John o' Groat's Blythswood House Foundation Stone of Glasgow Post Office Norfolk and Norwich Hospital Sir George Nares and Captain Markham at the Royal Geographical Society At Hinching- brooke House, Seat of Earl of Sandwich Kimbolton Castle Charing Cross Hospital Deaf and Dumb School The Princess of Wales in Greece Paris and the South of France Italy Inspection of Warships at Ports- mouth The Prince as President of the British Commission for the Paris Exhibition Ascot Lacrosse and Polo Wellington College Royal Horti- cultural Show The Emperor of Brazil entertained The Warspite Funeral of Admiral Rous New Water Tower at Sandringham At Lockinge House, Seat of Lieutenant -Colonel Loyd- Lindsay Wantage Statue of Alfred the Great Unveiled Trinity House Banquet General Grant The Earl of Derby's Tribute Lord Strathnairn and Sir Henry Keppel Order of St. John of Jerusalem Death of the Rector of Sandringham Duncombe Park, Seat of the Earl of Feversham Rievaulx Abbey At Abergeldie Castle The Prince's Sons entered as Naval Cadets on the Britannia Selby At Hamilton Palace, Seat of the Duke of Hamilton Cadzow Forest Prince Consort Statue at Cambridge Unveiled In Germany At Croxteth Hall, Seat of the Earl of Sefton Opening of the Paris Exhibition Banquet to Prince by British Exhibitors Infant Orphan Asylum at Wanstead Midland Counties Art Museum opened in Nottingham Castle History of Nottingham Castle Nottingham Distribution of Prizes on the Britannia at Dartmouth St. Mary's Church at Osborne A Naval Inspection Doncaster Races Close of the Paris Exhibition The Prince and France Luton Luton Hoo Park Death of Princess Alice "The Kiss of Death "Memorial of Princess Alice. CHAPTER XXII. NATIONAL AND BENEFICENT LABOURS 165 1879-1881 The Prince in Spain At Biarritz Danger A British Burial-place Marriage of the Duke of Connaught Hunstanton Convalescent Home Royal Academy Banquet Sir Frederick Leighton Cabdrivers' Benevolent Association The Prince Votes for the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill Death of the Prince Imperial Norfolk and Norwich Hospital Review of Norfolk Artillery Militia Agricultural and Hounds Show Eddystone Lighthouse Children's Hospital Alexandra Orphanage, Hornsey Islington Work- house Irish Tenant Farmers Entertained French Hospital A Fancy Fair
