INDEX

À Beckett, Gilbert, Thackeray on, i. 4; Comic Blackstone, i. 90, 232 Aberdeen, 4th Earl of, pro-Russian sympathies, i. 5, 125; smoking pipe of peace, illustration, i. 124; defends Prince Albert, i. 183 Abyssinia, King of, ii. 196 Abyssinia, war with, ii. 27 seq. Academy, British, scheme of, attacked by Punch, iv. 275 Academy, Royal: suggestions for improving, iv. 301; "problem" pictures at, iv. 302; Visitors at, ibid. Actors, salaries, i. 274; and society, iii. 349 seq.; see also Drama. Adelaide, Dowager-Queen, tribute to, i. 198 Admiralty Arch, prospect obstructed, iv. 201 Advertisements, educational, i. 35; growth, i. 161 Aerial steam carriage, ill., i. 73 Aeronautical Exhib., 1868, ii. 142 Aeronautics, i. 72 seq. Aeroplanes, beginnings, iv. 184, 186 Æsthetic movement, iii. 254 seq., 313, 329, 336 seq. Æsthetic pioneers, ill., i. 263 Afghan campaigns, iii. 3, 18 Afghan war, outbreak, iii. 25 seq. Afghanistan, Ameer of, iii. 18 Agitators, i. 52; ii. 58, 65, 81; iv. 111-2, 132-4 Agnosticism, attitude of P. towards, iii. 162 Agricultural depression, iv. 103, 113-4 Agricultural Gangs Act, ii. 46 Agricultural labourers, wages, i. 17; food consumption of, iii. 72 seq.; conditions, iii. 89 Agricultural Land Rating Bill, 1896, iv. 114 Agriculture, machinery in, iii. 210; shortage of hands, iv. 114 Ainsworth, Harrison, Jack Sheppard censured, iii. 143 Air, conquest of the, iv. 181 Air Force, beginnings, iv. 90, 93 Airships, flights, iv. 183 Alabama case, ii. 3, 20, 95 Albany, Duke of, iii. 223 seq.; recommends cookery lessons for the poor, iii. 76; speech, iii. 218; marriage, iii. 221 Albemarle, 6th Earl of, i. 96, 206 Albert Gate, i. 149 Albert Hall opened, ii. 190 Albert Medal, ii. 182 seq. Albert Memorial, ii. 182 Albert, Prince Consort, ii. 169-70, 179 seq., 182; unpopularity, i. 166, 171; love of uniforms, i. 171, 172; as sportsman, i. 173-6; as farmer, i. 180; Chancellor of Cambridge Univ., i. 181; "Prince P. to Prince Albert," i. 182; alleged interference in State affairs, i. 183 Alexander, Prince, of Bulgaria, iii. 55 Alexander II, of Russia, ii. 196, 204; iii. 30 Alexander III, of Russia, death, iv. 16 Alexandra, Queen, ii. 181; and pigeon shooting, iii. 222; sets fashions, iii. 222; visits Ireland, iii. 225 Alfonso XIII, King. See Spain Alfred, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, offered Greek crown, ii. 19; decorated by King of Prussia, ii. 22; tour in Egypt and Palestine, ii. 175; refuses Greek crown, ii. 181; marriage, ii. 188; inaugurates Westminster Aquarium, iii. 100; P.'s toast to, iii. 223; death, iv. 220 Alice, Princess, Grand Duchess of Hesse Darmstadt, married, ii. 181; death, iii. 218 Allan, Maud, iv. 229, 326, 330 Allen, Grant, The Woman who Did, iv. 163 Almack's, i. 208; ii. 240; Grantley Berkeley on, i. 209; attempted revival, iii. 247 Alpine climbing, ii. 211 America, relations with, i. 134; iv. 11; Monroe doctrine, iv. 8; influence of millionaires, iv. 246; freak dinners and enfants terribles, iv. 246 American blockade, ii. 68 American Civil War, ii. 3, 17 seq., 20, 22, 66 seq. American humorists, ii. 277 American journalism, i. 72; ii. 145 seq. American millionaire art collectors, iii. 276 American women of fashion, ii. 214 Americanisms, ii. 216 Amundsen, Roald, iv. 181; reaches South Pole, iv. 190 Anæsthetics, discovery of, i. 77 Andersen, Hans Christian, child's letter to, i. 89 Anderson, Mary, iii. 347 Andover Union, i. 4, 20 Angell, Norman, Foundations of International Policy, iv. 97 Anglo-Danish Exhibition of 1888, iii. 289 Anglo-French Entente, iv. 6, 11, 48, 56, 125 Anglo-Japanese Alliance, iv. 6, 11 Anstey, F. (T. A. Guthrie), iii. 286, 289, 325 Antarctic exploration, iv. 181, 190-1 Anti-clericalism in France, iv. 159 Anti-war party, iv. 44-5 Arabi Pasha, iii. 3 Archer, William, translates Ibsen, iii. 355 Archery, ii. 238, 346 Arctic exploration, iv. 181, 190; by Captain Nares, iii. 328 Argyll, 8th Duke of, ii. 68; and Armenian atrocities, iv. 18 Aristocracy, i. 201 seq.; ignorance of peers, i. 204; "bloated haristocrat," ill. i. 205; journalists pander to, ii. 172; and new rich, ii. 198; take to journalism, iii. 242 seq. Armenian atrocities, iv. 18 Armoured ships, use of, criticized, ii. 140 Army, as a profession, i. 114; flogging in the, i. 116; Militia, reorganized, i. 116; Brook Green volunteer, i. 116; surgeons, i. 120; Volunteer rifle clubs, i. 122; undue differentiation between ranks, i. 131; barracks system, inquiry into, i. 134; purchase, i. 138; ii. 43; Volunteers discouraged by military authorities, iii. 68 seq.; regular, enforced expenses in, iii. 70 seq.; Recruiting Commission, iii. 109; P.'s attitude towards, iii. 109 seq.; Volunteer review at Windsor, iii. 111; Balaclava survivors, iii. 112; and Ulster, iv. 94; popular prejudice against, iv. 128. See also Crimean war, Uniforms. Army reform, ii. 38; iv. 49 Arnold, Matthew, ii. 268; iii. 317; through P.'s eyes, iii. 322 'Arry, and 'Arriet, iii. 106 seq.; disappearance of, iv. 255, 256 Art, i. 249 seq.; English, discouraged at Court, i. 190; criticism, i. 296; Victorian, i. 301; caricatures of impressionists, iv. 306; and popular painters, 1902, ibid.; nouveau art, ibid.; P.'s art glossary, iv. 307; The Times art critic burlesqued, iv. 308; Futuristic method applied to popular painters, ill., iv. 309; opening of Tate and National Portrait Galleries and Wallace Collection, iv. 310. See also Royal Academy Artillery, long-range, P.'s prophecy, ii. 142 Artists, women, exhibition of, i. 252; English, French medals conferred on, i. 303; models, iii. 250 Ashanti expedition, ii. 38; iv. 8, 19 Ashley, Lord; see Shaftesbury, 7th Earl of Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., iv. 62, 64, 95, 99; as legislator, iv. 4; and Boer war, iv. 45; and national defence, iv. 66; and Upper Chamber reform, iv. 67-9, 72; "wait and see" policy, iv. 69-70; and Ulster, iv. 85, 94, 97; legislative activity, iv. 86, 88; and Lord Curzon, iv. 90; Home Rule Bill of 1914, iv. 98; and Trafalgar Square meetings, iv. 111; and Lloyd George's land campaign, iv. 118; and old age pensions, iv. 130; and Woman Suffrage, iv. 174, 178 Astley's Circus, i. 155; ii. 289 Athleticism, among women, ii. 238; cult of, iv. 152 Athletics at school, iii. 292 Atholl, 5th Duke of, i. 18, 202 Atlantic cable, ii. 139 Atlantic liners, improved speed of, iii. 209 Augusta, Princess, of Cambridge, married, i. 193 Austin, Alfred, P.'s attacks on, iv. 274 Australia, emigration to, i. 58; industrial conditions, i. 57; gold mines, i. 76; Navy, iii. 56; federation of colonies, iii. 66; eight-hours day for domestics, introduced, iv. 120 Australian Commonwealth Bill of 1900, iv. 41 Austria, relations with Serbia up to 1914, iv. 10; declares war on Serbia, iv. 100 Austro-Prussian war, ii. 3, 26 Authors, distressed, i. 85 Avebury, 1st Lord, ii. 87 seq.; iv. 287 Ayrton, A. S., ii. 39, 152, 291 Babbage, Charles, ii. 99 Baden-Powell, General Sir Robert, defends Mafeking, iv. 39; arrives in England, iv. 45; founds Boy Scout movement, iv. 107 Baghdad railway, British subsidy proposed by Germany, iv. 48 Baker, Sir Samuel, ii. 216 Balfe, Michael W., attacked, i. 293; success of Bohemian Girl, i. 278; Puritan's Daughter, ii. 300 Balfour of Burleigh, Lord, iv. 58 Balfour, Rt. Hon. Arthur J., iii. 6, 32; iv. 4, 33, 44; at the Irish Office, iii. 50; and The Times, iii. 65; Leader of the House of Commons, iii. 66; and golf, iii. 298; and Venezuelan arbitration, iv. 22; and Boer war, iv. 39; Prime Minister, iv. 48; negotiates with Germany re Baghdad railway, iv. 48; legislation in Ireland, iv. 49; administration collapses, iv. 56 seq.; holiday at Nice, iv. 92; and Tariff Reform, iv. 51, 116; and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148; gives a ball, iv. 236-238 Balkans, trouble in, iii. 12, 14; iv. 90; war of 1912, iv. 10, 80-83; war of 1913, iv. 83-4 Ballantine, Serjeant, ii. 328 Ballet, Russian, iv. 229, 327, 330, 331 Ballet-girls, their cause espoused by P., ii. 234 seq. Balliol as a nursery of cranks and coming men, iv. 254 Ballooning: Charles Green, i. 73; Captain Warner, i. 74; to California, ibid. "Balmorals," ii. 331 Bancroft, Sir Squire and Lady, ii. 290-1; influence on acting, iii. 351 Banjo, popularity of, iii. 278; iv. 339, ill. Bank smashes, i. 77 Banting, William, ii. 201 Bar, women and the, ii. 250 "Bardery," Welsh, ii. 220 Barnett, Canon, and art exhibition in Whitechapel, iv. 106 Barnum, Phineas T., return to England, iii. 289 Barrett, Wilson, as Hamlet, iii. 351 Barrie, Sir James, iii. 317; Window in Thrums, iii. 323; parodied, iii. 325; plays of, iv. 313, 323; two views of Peter Pan, iv. 328 Barrow-in-Furness, ii. 83, 84 seq. Barry, Sir C., i. 148, 304 Baseball, iii. 297; iv. 348 Bass, Michael, M.P.; his Bill to restrict street music, ii. 99 Battenberg, Prince Alexander of, abdicates, iii. 47; death of, iv. 218 Battenberg, Prince Henry of, governor of Isle of Wight, iii. 231; death of, iv. 218 Bazalgette, Sir Joseph, ii. 152 Beaconsfield, B. Disraeli, Earl of, and "Young England," i. 24; supports Bill for Regulation of Factory Labour, i. 25; Sybil, i. 26; literary style, i. 27; opposes repeal of Corn Laws, i. 28; ignorance of arithmetic, i. 86; as "political Topsy," ill. i. 107; P.'s distrust of, i. 108; design of monument to, i. 109; Life of Lord George Bentinck, i. 109; policy of, ii. 4, 29, 30 ill., 40, 42, 79, 82, 85, 113 seq.; religion and ancestry, ii. 117 seq., 121, 148, 181, 187, 214, 215 ill., 272, 273 seq., 341; iii. 4 seq.; earldom, iii. 12, 14 seq., 16 seq.; declines "people's tribute," iii. 24; waning prestige, iii. 24 seq.; and Afghan war, iii. 26; death of, iii. 30; quoted, iii. 139; and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii. 158; on visit of Prince of Wales to India, iii. 215; names Queen Victoria Empress of India, iii. 216 Beaufort, 9th Duke of; edits Badminton Library series, iii. 298 Beales, Edmond, ii. 80 seq. Beardsley, Aubrey, attacked by P., iv. 283, 301, 304, 305 Beatrice, Princess, her Birthday Book, iii. 221; married, iii. 225 seq. Becker, Lydia, and Woman Suffrage, iii. 128 Beckett, Gilbert Arthur à, ii. 291 Bedford, 9th Duke of, and Covent Garden, iii. 182 seq.; and Bloomsbury, iii. 184, 186 Beecher-Stowe, Mrs., visits England, i. 255 Beers, Jan Van, artist, criticized by P., iii. 340 Beesly, Professor E. H., ii. 42, 70 Beggar's Opera, The, iii. 359 Belgium, Royal tour in, i. 191; suggested French occupation of, ii. 34; and Congo, iv. 55, 66 Bellini, Vincenzo, operatic composer, ii. 301 Benedict, Sir Jules, ii. 300; iii. 373 Bengal tiger, ill., ii. 5 Bennett, Arnold, iv. 289 Benson, Archbishop, iii. 34; and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, iii. 57; headmaster of Wellington College, iii. 149 Benson, Sir Frank; productions criticized, ii. 352 Béranger, Pierre Jean de, ii. 101 Beresford, Admiral Lord Charles, and national defence, iii. 69; resignation of, iii. 230 Berlin, Congress of, 1878, iii. 4, 17; amenities of, iv. 55 Berlioz, cult of, in England, iii. 370 Bernhardi, General, iv. 85 Bernhardt, Sarah, visits to England, iii. 345 seq.; iv. 316, 320; at the Coliseum in 1910, iv. 330 Besant, Mrs. Annie, iii. 254 Besika Bay, naval demonstration in, iii. 16 Bethmann-Hollweg, Dr., introduces German Army Bill, iv. 84 Bicycles, appearance of, ii. 138; iii. 200; evolution of, iii. 300; fashionable, iv. 244-5; invade schools, iv. 255; uses and abuses of, iv. 355; Mr. Gladstone on, ill., iv. 354 Bieberstein, Baron Marschall von, German ambassador, iv. 80 Big Ben, i. 150 Biggar, Mr. J. G., M.P., iii. 21 Billingsgate, new buildings, i. 150; condition of, iii. 183 Bird, Henry, iv. 343, 344 Birkenhead, Lord, iv. 6 Birmingham, Reformatory Institution, i., 29; school of brewing established at University of, iv. 155 Birrell, Mr. Augustine, iv. 62, 95, 134; as Irish Chief Secretary, iv. 67; and Sir E. Carson, iv. 86; leaves Education Office, iv. 149 Bishop, Irving, thought-reader, iii. 252 Bisley, headquarters of N.R.A., iii. 69 Bismarck, Prince, ii. 29, 32, 34; iii. 10, 201; iv. 49; hostility to, ii. 26; Socialists and, iii. 19; P.'s view of, iii. 40; cartoon of, iii. 51; Army Bill, iii. 52; Triple Alliance and, iii. 54, 59; relations with Wilhelm II, iii. 54; with Empress Frederick, iii. 55; iv. 222; dismissed by Wilhelm II, iii. 61; in retirement, iii. 64; iv. 21, 26, 45, 65 Black Country, white slavery in, ii. 61 seq.; workmen's extravagance in, ii. 92 Black Sea Conference, ii. 38 Blackwell, Elizabeth, M.D., i. 250 Blake, William, ii. 64; iii. 329 "Blanche," letters of, iv. 246 Blavatsky, Madame, iii. 254 Blériot, M., cross-Channel flight, iv. 186 Blessington, Countess of, i. 221 Blomfield, C. J., Bp. of London, i. 45, 95 Blondin, tight-rope walker, ii. 211, 238, 244 seq., 308; iii. 100; in Westminster Aquarium, iv. 203 Bloomerism, i. 250, 251 ill., 262; iii. 305 Bloomsbury, state of, iii. 184 seq. Boat races, Oxford v. Harvard, ii. 345 seq.; with French at Andrésy, iv. 345; Cambridge and Harvard, iv. 346; French crews at Henley, ibid. Bodichon, Mme. Barbara, ii. 252, 260 Boer war, iv. 11; causes of, iv. 36 seq.; progress of, iv. 38-46 Bombalino. See Francis IV of Naples Boneshakers. See Bicycles Bonheur, Rosa, ii. 243 Booth, Charles, and old age pensions, iv. 119 Booth, Edwin, actor, ii. 283 Booth family, attitude of P. towards, iii. 170 seq. Booth, General, and Trade Union Congress in 1908, iv. 162; death, iv. 162 Booth, J. L. C., iv. 78 Borradaile case, ii. 327 seq. Borthwick, Peter, M.P., i. 312 Botha, General Louis, in London, iv. 46; Premier of Transvaal, iv. 62 Boucicault, Dion, ii. 288; iii. 353 Boulanger, General, bid for dictatorship, iii. 8, 55; visits England, iii. 57 seq.; commits suicide, iii. 58 Boulogne: "Bradshaw: a mystery," i. 71; English colony at, i. 221 Bowers, Miss G., ii. 238 Bowles, Mr. T. Gibson, iv. 58; and Declaration of London, iv. 77 Boxing, ii. 340 seq.; by women, iii. 132; Slavin and Smith, iii. 290 Boy Scout movement, iv. 107-10, 145 Braddon, Miss, ii. 274; iii. 318 Bradlaugh, Charles, M.P., ii. 190; vicissitudes in Parliament, iii. 26 seq.; and Royal grants, iii. 232 Bradley, Dean, iii. 167 Brahms, Johannes, his genius, iii. 368 Bret Harte, iii. 319 Briand, M., iv. 73 Bridge, negative value of, iv. 247; whist ousted by, iv. 358 Briggs, Mr., murder of, ii. 136 Bright, Jacob, ii. 258 Bright, John, i. 5; ii. 8, 13, 26, 68, 70, 116, 227; iii. 4, 6, 9, 16, 26, 34; opposes Bill for Regulation of Factory Labour, i. 25; and Cardinal Wiseman, i. 104; onslaught on, i. 132; speech criticized, ii. 64 seq.; secedes from Gladstonian party, iii. 50; death, iii. 60, 228 Brighton, i. 156 British Academy, proposed founding of a, iii. 327 Brock, Sir Thomas, R.A., sculptor of Victoria Memorial, iv. 207 Brodie, Sir Benjamin, ii. 197 Brodrick, Hon. St. John (Lord Midleton), and exclusion of peers from Commons, iv. 18; and Army reform, iv. 49, 58 Bromhead, Lieut., V.C., hero of Rorke's Drift, iii. 23 Brompton swallowed up in South Kensington, iii. 177 Bronte, Charlotte, ii. 234 Brook Green Volunteer, i. 116 Brooks, Shirley, Essence of Parliament, i. 91; ii. 187 seq., 223, 269; iii. 226 Brougham, Henry, Lord, i. 307 seq.; palinode to, i. 310; commended, ii. 58, 263 Broughton, Rhoda, Miss, ii. 236, 274; iii. 324 Brown, John, Queen Victoria's attendant, death of, iii. 223 "Brown, Tom." See Hughes, Tom Browne, Hablot K. ("Phiz"), P.'s criticism of, iii. 340 Browning, Robert, ii. 204; iii. 317; his greatness, iii. 318 Browning Society, iii. 318, 324 Brummell, Beau, i. 188, 221 Brunel, Isambard K., ii. 27; and Stephenson, iii. 199 Brunel, Sir M. I., i. 149 Bryce, Viscount, iv. 148 Buccleuch, 5th Duke of, ii. 152 Buckingham Palace, i. 149, 190 Buckingham, 2nd Duke of, i. 18 Buckland, Professor, i. 181 Buckstone, J. B., actor, i. 275; ii. 291; death, iii. 350 Budget, the Radical, of Sir W. Harcourt, iv. 4; the People's Budget, iv. 132 Buffalo Bill, "Wild West" show in W. Kensington, iii. 289 Bulgaria, crown offered to Prince Ferdinand, iii. 51 Bulgarian atrocities, iii. 3, 12 Buller, General Sir Redvers, iv. 46 Bull-fighting, ii. 343 Bull's Run, ii. 18 Bülow, Count von, German Chancellor, iv. 55; and Socialists, iv. 62 Bulwer-Lytton, E. (1st Baron Lytton), his Claude Duval criticized, iii. 143; Tennyson's reply in P. to his attack in The New Timon, iv. 224 Bunn, Alfred, "Poet Bunn," i. 235 Burdett-Coutts, Miss (afterwards 1st Baroness), i. 254; ii. 227; efforts to check plumage scandal, iii. 310 Burgon, Dean, attacked by P., iii. 151 Burlington Arcade, i. 156 Burlington House exhibitions, iii. 328 Burnand, Sir Frank: Cox and Box, i. 155; ii. 235, 273; iii. 363; editor of P., iii. 150, 171; as a parodist, iii. 325; as playwright, iii. 343; resigns editorship of P., iv. 300; his "Few Words at Parting" and "R. C. L.'s" tribute, ibid. Burne-Jones, Sir E., criticized by P., iii. 331, 334; iv. 303 Burns, Rt. Hon. John, as Socialist, iii. 76, 78; in Mr. Asquith's Cabinet, iv. 135; and Trade Union Congress of 1908, iv. 162 Burt, Right Hon. T., M.P., ii. 43, 88 Butler, Mrs. Montagu, ii. 261 Butler, Mrs. (afterwards Lady Butler), iii. 116 Buxton, Mr. Sydney (afterwards Earl Buxton), President of Board of Trade, iv. 133 Byng of Vimy, General Lord, iv. 8 "Ca' canny," practice of, ii. 95 Cable, submarine, to France, i. 72, 75 ill.; Transatlantic, i. 72; laid in 1866, ii. 27 Cabs, i. 141, 142; taxis foreshadowed, i. 77; competition with taxis, iv. 195-6 Caine, Sir Hall, less entertaining than Bradshaw, iv. 285. See also iv. 287, 288 Cairns, 1st Earl, ii. 116; iii. 37 Caldecott, Randolph, iii. 221, 334 Californian goldfields, i. 76 Callan, Philip, M.P., cartooned, iii. 21 Calls, practice of paying, iv. 254 Calvé, Mme., iii. 362; iv. 333 Calverley, C. S., ii. 270; death, iii. 320; parodist, iii. 325 Cambridge, Adolphus Frederick, Duke of, i. 194, 195 Cambridge, Duke George of, and Indian Mutiny, ii. 7; attitude to Volunteers, iii. 68 seq., 70; and education in the ranks, iii. 110; and barrack life, iii. 110 seq.; on neutral-tinted uniforms for active service, iii. 111 seq.; opposes Channel Tunnel, iii. 204, 224; resigns post of Commander-in-Chief, iv. 217; death, ibid. Cambridge University, Bill, i. 87; Prince Albert, Chancellor of, i. 181 Camouflage foreshadowed, iv. 193 Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, iv. 317 Campbell, Sir Colin (Lord Clyde), ii. 6, 8, 16 Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, iii. 46; leads Liberals, iv. 33; and Boer war, iv. 45; campaign against the Lords, iv. 62; death, iv. 6, 64; and Chinese labour, iv. 130 Canada, Federation of, ii. 28 Canada, relations with England and the U.S., iii. 65 seq. Canadian Pacific Railway completed, iii. 199 Canning, Lord, Governor-General of India, ii. 4, 7 Cantillon, Lieut., Napoleon's legacy to, i. 201 Capital and labour, iii. 80 seq.; iv. 103-35 Capital punishment, ii. 97; iii. 100 Caprivi, Count, and Bismarck, iii. 64 Cardigan, 7th Earl of, Leech's drawing of, i. 131; charges against, i. 135; Indian Mutiny, ii. 7 Cardwell, Rt. Hon. Edward (Viscount Cardwell), and Army Reform, ii. 39 Carlyle, Thomas, on the ballet, i. 280; ii. 275; iii. 16; death, iii. 317 seq. Carnarvon, 4th Earl of, ii. 50; iii. 16, 18; Viceroy of Ireland, iii. 44 Carnegie, Andrew, gift to Scottish universities, iv. 156 Carnot, President, iii. 58, 206; cartooned, iii. 64; assassinated, iv. 16 Carpentier, Georges, iv. 99 "Carroll, Lewis," i. 266; ii. 269; P.'s farewell to, iv. 286-7 Carson, Sir Edward, and Ulster, iv. 80, 85-6, 96-7 Caruso, Enrico, iv. 333, 334 Carver, Dr., shooting performances at Crystal Palace, iii. 103 Casement, Sir Roger, and Congo atrocities, iv. 55 Catholic Emancipation, i. 108 Catnach, bookseller, i. 161 Cattle plague, ii. 76 Cavour, Count, ii. 11, 19 Cecil, Lord Hugh, and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148 Cecil, Lord Robert, and Marconi inquiry, iv. 88 Censorship, dramatic, iv. 314 Central Criminal Court, iii. 101 Central Metropolitan Board, i. 161 Cervera, Admiral, gallantry of, iv. 11 Cetewayo captured, iii. 23 Chaliapine, Russian singer, iv. 99, 338 Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, ii. 192; the "Brummagem Lion," ill., ii. 193; iii. 6, 85; and Home Rule in 1886, iii. 44 seq.; Unionist, iii. 57; Leader of the Liberal-Unionists in the Commons, iii. 66; on disestablishment, iii. 173; joins Lord Salisbury's Cabinet, iv. 18, 19; handling of Jameson Raid, iv. 20; Colonial Secretary, iv. 20; and Venezuelan arbitration, iv. 22; on expedition to Khartum, iv. 24; and Bloemfontein conference, iv. 36; Australian Commonwealth Bill, iv. 41; resignation, iv. 50; Tariff Reform campaign, iv. 50-1; death, iv. 99; views on old age pensions, iv. 119 Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Austen, and Ulster crisis, iv. 97 Channel Tunnel scheme, ii. 138; iii. 202, 204; iv. 191-2 Chaperon, decline of, iii. 265 Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry (afterwards Viscount Chaplin), iv. 4; and agricultural depression, iv. 113-14; on old age pensions, iv. 119; defeated in 1906, iv. 58 Chard, Lieutenant, V.C., hero of Rorke's Drift, iii. 23 Charing Cross Road opened, iii. 180 Charing Cross Terminus built, ii. 153 Chartism, i. 49 seq.; Great Petition, i. 9, 49; defended, i. 10, 50 ill.; Ebenezer Elliott and, i. 51; P.'s petition, i. 54. See also Corn Laws Chelsea Bun House, i. 158 Chevalier, Albert, coster songs, iii. 373 Chignons, ii. 324 seq. Child labour, ii. 58 seq. Childers, Right Hon. Hugh, ii. 54, 139; iii. 21 Children, precocity, i. 88, ill.; letter to Hans Andersen, i. 89; Comic Blackstone on, i. 90; actors, i. 275; Employment Commission, ii. 60; education, ii. 60; iv. 136 seq.; acrobats, ii. 63; tormentors of, ii. 127; fairy tales for, ii. 128-9; iv. 138-9; poor, condition of, iii. 86 seq.; fashions, iii. 313 seq.; Country Holiday Fund, iv. 106; modern children, iv. 136-7, 140; Christmas presents of, iv. 255 Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Acts, ii. 59, 63; iii. 306 China, war with, ii. 4, 16; and foreigners, iii. 64; "Boxer" rising, iv. 8, 41; commercial interests of Powers in, iv. 31 Chinese labour, iv. 125, 130; for domestic service, rumour of, iii. 272 Choate, Mr. Joseph, American ambassador to England, iv. 36 Cholera epidemic, i. 152, 239 Christian Science, iii. 254; iv. 160 Christmas cards, fashionable, iii. 278 Church Army, iii. 171 Church of England, i. 91 seq.; wealthy bishops, i. 95 seq.; poor curates, i. 97 seq.; 172; Church schools, i. 99; P. opposes extremists, i. 104; "The Pet Parson," i. 105 ill.; doctrinal controversies in, i. 106; Church Congress, 1869, ii. 45; P.'s Protestantism, ii. 101; comprehension and toleration, ii. 102; sale of pew rents, ii. 104; P. on the richest and poorest Church in the world, ii. 105; Church services, ii. 106; attacks on ritualism and mock monks, ibid.; Mackonochie and Purchas cases, ii. 108; Puseyism, ii. 109; Essays and Reviews, ii. 109; heresy-hunting of Jowett and Colenso, ii. 110-112; Irish Church Disestablishment, ii. 113-114, 116; Pan-Anglican Synod, ii. 119 ill., 120; Public Worship Regulation Act, iii. 157-158; attacks on Anglican intolerance, on Mr. Tooth and Mr. Mackonochie, iii. 160; "Mitred Misery," iii. 172; doctrinal opportunism, ibid.; disestablishment scare in 1885, iii. 173; trial of Bishop King of Lincoln, iii. 174; Bishop Jayne commended, ibid.; education controversies, iv. 146-50; curates and cricket, iv. 158; Kikuyu controversy, iv. 160 Church, Roman Catholic: Hierarchy for England, i. 99; P.'s anti-Papal crusade, i. 100 seq.; Catholic emancipation, i. 108; P.'s anti-Vaticanism, ii. 101-102, 106; welcome to Père Hyacinthe, ii. 113; priests and Fenians, ii. 114; Gladstone's pamphlet on Vatican Decrees, iii. 158-9; hostility to Manning, iii. 162; treatment of Roman Catholics in the Abbey, iii. 167; Burnand's position, iii. 172; obituary verses on Manning, iii. 174; tribute to Cardinal Wiseman, in 1898, iv. 158; comment on French interdict of religious orders in 1906, iv. 159; tribute to Leo XIII, iv. 160 Churchill, Lord Randolph, iii. 6, 50 seq.; iii. 32, 34; iv. 6, 14, 25; in Salisbury Cabinet, iii. 43; and Ulster, iii. 46; at the Treasury, iii. 47; on national defence, iii. 69 Churchill, Mr. Winston, iv. 6, 94; on Upper Chamber reform, iv. 67; on Navy Estimates (1912), iv. 78; scheme for naval holiday, iv. 85, 91; and aerial armaments, iv. 93 Cigarettes, appearance of, ii. 142 Cinematograph, iv. 123, 181, 189 Civil Service, candidates for, i. 226; open competition instituted, ii. 43 Civil List pensions, i. 234 "Claimant," the, ii. 206-10, 320 Clairvoyantes, ii. 203 Clanricarde, 1st Marquess, ii. 197 Clarence, Duke of, birth, ii. 181; death, iii. 234 Clarendon, 4th Earl of, i. 79; ii. 31 Classical scholarship, P. on, i. 88 Cleopatra's Needle, iii. 179 Clerkenwell Prison, Fenian attempt to blow up, ii. 27 Clerks, condition of, iii. 91 seq.; female, iii. 125 Cleveland, President, iv. 11; and Venezuelan arbitration, iv. 22 "Clicquot, King." See Frederick William IV, King of Prussia Clifford, Dr., and education, iv. 150 Clifford's Inn demolished, iv. 204 "Climbing-boy" scandal, ii. 58-9, 63-4; iii. 86 "Close, Poet," i. 234; ii. 272 Club, a fashionable, i. 217 ill.; library in, i. 218; ladies', i. 244; P.'s allusion to the Athenæum, ii. 222 Coal, extortionate tolls, i. 59; mining, ibid.; future of, ii. 83; high price of, ii. 92 seq.; strike of December, 1893, iv. 111; crisis in 1912, iv. 134 Cobbe, Miss Frances P., iii. 310 Cobden, Richard, i. 5; and gold mania, i. 76; and arbitration, i. 118; subservience to America, i. 132; attacks sinecures, i. 190; death, ii. 24; enraged with Palmerston, ii. 72 Cock-fighting, iii. 103 Cockney dialect, iii. 197 "Coffin-ships," ii. 99 seq. Cole, Sir Henry, ii. 190 Colenso, Bishop of Natal, case of, ii. 101, 111 seq. Coleridge, John, 1st Lord, ii. 133, 209 Colet, Dean of St. Paul's and founder of St. Paul's School, iii. 148 Collins, C. A. "Convent Thoughts" caricatured, i. 299 Collings, Mr. Jesse, M.P., iii. 99 Colonial and Indian Exhibition, iii. 288 Colonial Governors Act, ii. 25 Colorado beetle, advent of, iii. 208 Colosseum, the, in Regent's Park, i. 155 Colvile, General, iv. 45 Colvin, Sir Sidney, and Burne-Jones, iii. 334 Comédie Française troupe, ii. 284 Comedy and melodrama, ii. 288 seq. Comedy, musical, P.'s burlesques of, iv. 321, 322, 324; popularity of, iv. 338 Comet, of 1857, ii. 202; of 1858, ii. 40 Comic Blackstone, The, i. 90, 232 Commercial travellers, female, iii. 125 Commune, French, ii. 37 Compulsory service, iv. 58, 66 Comte de Paris, iii. 58 Concert music, i. 289 seq.; ii. 306 seq.; promenades, iv. 340; Queen's Hall Sunday, iv. 341 Connaught (Prince Arthur), Duke of, ii. 19; iii. 223; Royal grant for, ii. 187; marriage, iii. 218 seq.; resigns succession to Dukedom of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, iv. 220 Confessional, the, ii. 101, 106, 109 Congo atrocities, iv. 66 Conrad, Joseph, iv. 291-2 Conscience clause in Education Act of 1870, ii. 123, 126 "Conscientious objectors" to vaccination, iv. 118 Conservative Reform Bill, ii. 96 Conspiracy Bill, indignation at, ii. 9 Constantine, King, of Greece, iv. 83 Constantinople Conference, iii. 14 Constitution Hill, "Quadriga" on, iv. 207 Convocation, Houses of, sessions, ii. 54 Cook, Dr., Arctic explorer, iv. 190 Cook, Thomas, & Son, travel agency, iii. 269 Cookery, i. 245; British, ii. 200 Cooks and teachers, wages of, i. 33 Co-operative societies, ii. 200 Copyright, international, advocated, i. 234 Coquelin, M., visits England in 1887, iii. 347; in Cyrano de Bergerac, iv. 319 Corelli, Miss Marie, a rival to Shakespeare, iv. 280; her novels reviewed, iv. 281, 284 Corn Laws, campaign against, i. 5; Disraeli opposes repeal of, i. 28; repealed, i. 51; ii. 43 Corporal punishment, ii. 132; iii. 142 Corsets, iii. 307, 310 Cosmetics, ii. 326 seq., 330; iv. 247 Cospatrick, burning of the, iii. 86 Costa, Sir Michael, i. 294; ii. 305, 307 Coup d'Etat of 1851, i. 120, 196 Court, the, i. 165 seq.; crowds at drawing-rooms, i. 189 ill.; bal poudré ridiculed, i. 190; ii. 169-96; iii. 215-34; iv. 215-27 Court Circular criticized, i. 179 Covent Garden Market, i. 151; state of, iii. 182 seq.; iv. 210 Covent Garden Theatre, burned in 1808 and 1856, re-opened in 1858, i. 157; ii. 302 note Coventry ribbon trade, distress, ii. 324 Cowper, 7th Earl, iii. 373 Coxwell, H., aeronaut, ii. 142; iii. 207 Crabbe, George, iv. 105 Craig, Gordon, iv. 306 "Cramming" in schools, ii. 131 Cranborne, Lord, see Salisbury Cranbrook, 1st Earl of, iii. 37 Crane, Walter, iii. 221 Crawford and Balcarres, 25th Earl of, ii. 204 Crawley, Peter, prize-fighter, ii. 341 Crawshay, Mrs., of Cyfarthfa, and "lady helps," iii. 270 Craze for writing memoirs, iii. 250 seq. Cremation legalized, ii. 223; iii. 275 Cremorne Gardens, i. 159; fête at, ii. 241; closed, iii. 177 Crewe, 1st Marquess of; on anti-Lords campaign, iv. 63; in Mr. Asquith's Cabinet, iv. 91 Crichton-Browne, Sir James, and higher education of women, iii. 123; report on Board schools, iii. 138; on vegetarianism, iii. 209 Cricket, ii. 344 seq.; iii. 292 seq.; cricket schoolmasters, ii. 131; played by women, iii. 132; visits of Australian team, iii. 292, 294; England v. Australia, iv. 349; explaining it away, ibid.; cricket as a passport to politics, iv. 350; Warwickshire's triumph, iv. 351; ladies at, ibid. Crime, iii. 100 seq.; iv. 123; fostered by harmful literature, iii. 143 seq. Crimean war: declared, i. 124; hospital scandals, i. 126 seq.; postal service breaks down, i. 126; "Jolly Russian Prisoners," i. 129; brave deeds unrecognized, i. 129, 130; profiteering, ill., i. 130; peace party's efforts, i. 131; corps of navvies, ibid.; Sebastopol inquiry, i. 132; discontent with peace terms, ibid.; P. advocates "frightfulness," ibid.; peace rejoicings, i. 133; post-war parallels, i. 134; iii. 109 Crimes Act, iii. 44, 50 Crinolines, i. 258 seq.; ii. 174 seq., 225 ill., 320 seq.; threatened revival of, iii. 311; iv. 265 Critics, dramatic, iv. 320 Crockford's Gambling Club, i. 221 Crompton, Samuel, inventor of spinning mule, ii. 73 Cromwell, Oliver, suggested statue of, i. 196, 197 ill.; iv. 205, 206 Croquet, ii. 238, 346; iii. 303; iv. 355 Crossley, Frank, iii. 171 Crown and Court, see Court Cruikshank, George, ii. 335; death, iii. 332 seq. Crystal Palace: name coined by Douglas Jerrold, i. 40; moved to Sydenham, i. 44; Queen Victoria opens, i. 47; humorous handbooks to, ibid.; concerts, ii. 308 seq., 311; exhibitions at, iii. 99, 287 Cuba annexed to U.S., iv. 30 Cubitt, Joseph, C.E., ii. 150 Cuffey, the Chartist, i. 55 Cumming, Dr. John, ii. 154; prophesies end of world, ii. 202 Curragh Camp troubles, iv. 94 Curry powder for the poor, i. 17 Curzon, 1st Marquess, and exclusion of Peers from Commons, iv. 18; and Oxford University, iv. 157; and Upper Chamber reform, iv. 67 Cyder Cellars, i. 220 Cyprus annexed, iii. 17 Daily Mail: champions windmills and standard bread, iv. 116; and middle classes, iv. 126; founded 1896, iv. 295; circulation of, ibid. Dalkeith, 6th Earl of, defeated by Gladstone, iii. 26 Dances, new and old: Barn-dance, Washington Post, Boston, Bunny-hug, Morris-dances, Tango, iv. 234-7, 239, 240 Dancing craze, i. 209; iv. 229; skating ballet, ill., i. 280 Darwin, Charles, ii. 214; iii. 375 seq. Davenport Brothers, ii. 205 Death Duties Budget, 1894, iv. 4, 15 Declaration of London, iv. 75 Delane, J. T., editor of The Times, i. 235; eulogized, iii. 327; Dasent's Life and P.'s comments, iv. 298 Delarey, General, in London, iv. 46 Delcassé, M., French statesman, iv. 78 Delhi, capture of, ii. 7 Denison, George Anthony, Archdeacon of Taunton, ii. 120; iii. 162 Denison, J. E., Speaker of House of Commons, ii. 79 Derby, 14th Earl of, ii. 9, 272; resigns Premiership, ii. 28, 29; death, ii. 31; and Reform Bill, 1867, ii. 42, 85; and Lancashire cotton famine, ii. 72; forms Cabinet, 1866, ii. 79; and Reform League, ii. 83; and Irish Church Bill, 1869, ii. 116 Derby, 15th Earl of, and Sabbatarians, i. 91; and Russo-Turkish war, iii. 16 Derby-Disraeli administration, ii. 50 De Reszke, Jean and Edouard, iii. 356, 360 seq.; iv. 332 Desclée, Aimée, French actress, ii. 286 Destinn (Destinnova), Mme. Emmy, iv. 334 Devonshire, 7th Duke of, opens docks at Barrow-in-Furness, ii. 84; death, iii. 66 Devonshire, 8th Duke of, at War Office, iii. 111; joins Lord Salisbury's Cabinet, iv. 18; integrity, iv. 50; resigns from Balfour Ministry, iv. 58; death, iv. 63 De Wet, General Christian, iv. 40; reception in London, iv. 46 Diabolo, iv. 357 Dickens, Charles, ii. 212; relations with P., ii. 273; and Leigh Hunt, ii. 281; patronizes "the Menken," ii. 289 Dictionary of National Biography commences, iii. 326 Dilke, Sir Charles, opposes Royal grants, ii. 187 seq.; epigram on, ii. 188; investigates slum areas, iii. 98; on state of Thames, iii. 106; and grant for Duke of Connaught's marriage, iii. 218; and expedition to Khartum, iv. 34 Dillon, John, and Parnell, iii. 23, 61 Disarmament, Hague Peace Conference, 1899, iv. 34 Disestablishment, iii. 173; of Irish Church, ii. 101 Disraeli, Benjamin. See Beaconsfield Divorce Bill of 1856, i. 96; for poor, i. 21 Dobson, Austin, ii. 325; criticized by P., iii. 321 seq. Doctors, and quacks, i. 239; women, i. 250; ii. 247-50; iii. 114, 124; Victorian diseases, ii. 200-1; new cures, iv. 248-50. See also Medical Students, Surgeons Döllinger, Dr., and Vatican Decrees, iii. 159 Domesticity, decline of, iv. 230 Domestic service and servants, i. 30-4; ii. 225 seq., 228, 230, 232 seq. Donizetti, Gaetano, operas, ii. 301 D'Orsay, Count, i. 221, 222 Dover, and Calais submarine cable, i. 72; Y.M.C.A. episode, ii. 104 Dowbiggin, Captain, i. 206 Doyle, Richard, i. 218, 258; resigns from P. staff, i. 112; death, iii. 342 D'Oyly Carte, Mr., and English Opera House, iii. 181; and performance of The Gondoliers, iii. 366 Drama, i. 271 seq.; ii. 282-319; iii. 343-73; French adaptations, i. 272; censorship, i. 273; harlequinade, i. 275; as part of children's education, iv. 143; Celtic, burlesqued in 1899, iv. 319; decayed, revivals of, burlesqued, iv. 323. See also Theatres Dress. See Fashion, Uniforms Dressmakers' long hours, i. 38 Dreyfus case, iii. 166; iv. 28, 34, 160 Drink Question. See Temperance Druce, Emily, fate of, ii. 56 Drury Lane Theatre, ii. 297, 309 Dublin transport workers' strike, iv. 134 Du Chaillu, P. B., ii. 214 Ducie, 2nd Earl of, i. 24 Duckworth, Rev. B., Canon of Westminster, iii. 167, 373 Duelling, campaign against, i. 114, 115 ill. Duma, first opening of, iv. 54 Dumas, Alexandre fils, ii. 286, 289; Dame aux Camélias, i. 228 Du Maurier, George, social contrasts and new types, ii. 198; flunkeys, ii. 233; his gentle giantesses, ii. 239, 240; an apostle of Eugenics, iii. 238-40; his Limericks, iii. 325-6; P.'s tribute, iv. 228; Trilby, iv. 284-5, 317 Duncombe, Tom, M.P., ii. 150 Dundee meeting of domestics, ii. 232 Dundrearyism, ii. 310, 336 ill., 337 seq. Dunlop, John Boyd, inventor of pneumatic tyre, iii. 300 Dunraven, 3rd Earl of, ii. 204 Dunraven, 4th Earl of, and Royal Commission on Sweating, iii. 94, 96; America Cup challenger, iv. 346 Durham, Union-Workhouse, ii. 48; University, grants B.A. degree to women, iii. 117 Duse, Mme., iv. 315, 321 Dynamiters, activity in 1885, iii. 40 Early closing, i. 38; Bill of 1896, iv. 118 East India Company, ii. 6; abolished, ii. 8 Eastlake, Sir Charles, P.R.A., ii. 314 Eastlake, Charles, of P., ii. 314 note Ecclesiastical, courts, ii. 108; Titles Act, i. 232 Eddy, Mrs. M. B., iii. 254 Edgeworth, Maria, i. 215; ii. 326 Edinburgh, Duke of, see Alfred, Prince Education, ii. 121-35; iii. 137-56; iv. 136-62; ignorance of poor, i. 10, 82; popular, i. 81 seq., 82 ill.; National Society for Promoting Education of Poor, i. 84; Lord John Russell's resolutions, i. 86; Bill of 1856, i. 87; Montessori system foreshadowed, i. 88; of Society girls, i. 214; Elementary Education Act, 1870, ii. 122 seq.; fairy tales for children, ii. 128-9; iii. 146 seq.; iv. 138 seq.; foreign nurses for modern languages, ii. 130; co-education, ii. 131; systems, English v. German, ii. 134; of schoolgirls, improvements, iii. 119; Elementary Education Act, 1891, iii. 142; literature and crime, iii. 143 seq.; and stage, iii. 144 seq.; precocious children, iii. 145 seq.; classics v. commerce, iii. 151; iv. 152; free libraries, iii. 155; Act of 1902, iv. 125-6; modern children, independence, iv. 136 seq.; theory of self-expression, iv. 140 seq.; dramatic method, iv. 143; Boy Scout movement, iv. 145; Act of 1871, iv. 145; Bill of 1896, iv. 147; Act of 1902, iv. 148; Bill of 1906, iv. 148-50; modern language teaching, iv. 154. See also Schools, Universities Educationists, ii. 124 seq. Edward VII, King, ill., ii. 177, 193; visits Canada and U.S.A., 1860, ii. 175 seq.; marries Alexandra of Denmark, ii. 181; illness, 1871, ii. 191; visits Birmingham, ii. 192; promotes Entente with France, iii. 19; iv. 6; silver wedding, iii. 231; and Emperor Wilhelm II, iii. 233; fiftieth birthday, iii. 233; death, iv. 73, 225; pastimes, iv. 218; coronation humours, iv. 223; coronation postponed, iv. 224; visits Ireland, iv. 224; votes in H. of Lords, iv. 226; lines on his dog Cæsar, iv. 226 Edward, Prince of Wales, birth, iv. 216; visits Wales, iv. 227 Egypt, Arabi's revolt, iii. 32 Eisteddfodau, spread of, ii. 220 Elcho, Lord, 8th Earl of Wemyss, ii. 86, 336 Electricity, for lighting, i. 72; iv. 194; telegraph, i. 72; underground railways, iii. 199 Elgar, Sir Edward, i. 292; iv. 341 Eliot, George, ii. 260, 274; iii. 317 Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, visits Ireland and England, iii. 221; assassinated, iv. 32 Ellenborough, 1st Earl of, and Indian Mutiny, ii. 4 Elliot, Sir H., iii. 14 Elliott, Ebenezer, i. 51 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, iii. 319 Emigration, remedy for discontent, i. 57; female, scheme for, i. 58; attitude of P. towards, iii. 108 Enfant Prodigue, ii. 285 ill.; iii. 347 English characteristics, i. 223 English, travellers abroad, manners, ii. 333 seq.; tourists in France, iii. 278 English-speaking nations, proposed federation of, iii. 204 Entertainments and Royalty, ii. 192 seq. Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, King of Hanover, i. 192, 193 Essays and Reviews, ii. 101, 109 seq., 111 Etiquette, social, survivals of, in manners and speech, iv. 252 Eton College described, iii. 150 Eugenics satirized, iv. 248 Eugénie, Empress, i. 263; ii. 19, 175; criticized, ii. 192 Evans's Supper Rooms, i. 220 Evolution, iv. 140-1 Excursions, i. 221; ii. 76; iii. 270 Executions, public, patronized by nobility, i. 216, 220 Exeter Hall, i. 81; ii. 71, 244, 309; philanthropy, ii. 52 Exhibition of 1851, i. 40; opening described, i. 42; praise for Queen and Prince Consort, ibid.; dinner for workmen suggested, i. 43; Mr. P.'s Industrial, ill., i. 41; Exhibition of 1862, ii. 73 Exhibitions in the 'eighties, iii. 287 seq. Exploration, iv. 190 Extravagance, in social functions, iv. 242, 243; dress, iv. 243; uniforms, iv. 243 Eyre, E. J. (Governor of Jamaica), ii. 25, 81, 99 Factory Act, ii. 43, 58 Fairy tales in education, ii. 128 seq.; iii. 146 seq. Faithfull, Miss Emily, ii. 246 Faith-healers, ii. 205 Falconer, Hon. Ion Keith, iii. 300 Fancy dress balls, craze for, iii. 266 Faraday, Michael, i. 79, 314 Farm labourers, i. 17, 19; ii. 47-8; iii. 72-3, 89; iv. 116-18; grievances, ii. 48 Farman, Henry, aviator, iv. 184 Farmers' hardships, iv. 113-4 Farragut, D. G., American admiral, ii. 22 Farrar, Dean, iii. 174 Farren, Nellie, actress, iii. 354; at Gaiety Theatre, iii. 287; benefit of, iv. 320 Fashions, i. 258 seq.; ii. 320-38; iii. 304-16; facial adornments, ii. 326 seq.; influence on high art, ii. 332; approximation of male and female, iii. 304 seq.; iv. 262, 263; opposite extremes, iii. 309; fur coats and boas, iii. 312; ladies' balloon sleeves, iv. 266; bolero coats and Russian blouses, ibid.; skirts becoming shorter, iv. 268; effect of motoring on dress, ibid.; bathing dresses, iv. 269; Directoire costume revived, ibid.; reduction of materials, iv. 271; old and new fashion plates, iv. 271; "Harem" skirts, iv. 272. See also Uniforms. Fashoda incident, iv. 11, 28, 30 "Father Ignatius," ii. 106 seq. Faure, President, death, iv. 35 Fawcett, Henry, and Royal grants, ii. 187 seq.; iii. 215; and Woman Suffrage, ii. 254; death, iii. 376 Fawcett, Mrs. Henry, ii. 257 Fawcett, Miss Philippa, ii. 261; iii. 122 Fechter, C. A., as Hamlet, ii. 282 seq. Fenian conspiracy, ii. 20, 25, 26, 27, 42, 114, 116 Ferdinand I, King, of Bulgaria, offered Bulgarian throne, iii. 57 Feudalism, ii. 47 Fiction, sexo-mania in modern, ill., iv. 290; P.'s conflicting views on, ibid. Field, Cyrus, ii. 27 Figuier, L., and fairy tales, ii. 129 Fisher, Sir John, made First Sea Lord, iv. 55; and German naval menace, iv. 63 "Fisheries" Exhibition, iii. 288 FitzGerald, Edward, P. on his parasitic patrons, iv. 286 "Flapper," advent of the, iv. 175-6, 178; education of, iv. 242 Flats, insanitary conditions, iv. 204 Fleet Prison closed, i. 28 Flogging of criminals, iii. 102; in the Army, i. 116 Flower, E. F., agitation against cruelty to horses, iii. 103 Flunkeydom. See Servants Flying machine, invention of, iii. 201 Foley, J. H., R.A., statue to Outram, ii. 151 Folk-dancing revived, iv. 107 Follies, The, iv. 327-8 Food-fads, progress of, iv. 248-50; no-food cult, iv. 249 Football, ii. 345; Maori team visits England, iii. 296; spread of Association game, iv. 352; football of the future, ibid.; dominates the Press, ibid. "Fops' Alley," i. 219 Forster, Rt. Hon. W. E., and American Civil War, ii. 70; his Education Act, ii. 121, 122 seq.; iii. 72, 137; and Bill against pigeon shooting, iii. 222; death, iii. 376 Fox, Sir Douglas, engineer, iii. 212 Fox-hunting, ii. 339 seq.; iv. 359 France, Royal tour in, i. 191; relations with, ii. 24; iii. 8; Second Empire, ii. 38 Franchise Bill of 1884, iii. 36 seq. Francis IV, King of Naples, flight, ii. 17 Franco-British Entente, iii. 19; iv. 97 Franco-German war, ii. 3; causes, ii. 29; outbreak, ii. 32; Sedan, and after, ii. 34 seq. Franco-Russian Entente, iii. 63; iv. 16 Frankfort, Peace Congress at, i. 119 Franz Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria, assassinated at Sarajevo, iv. 10, 99 Frederick III, Emperor of Germany, death, iii. 51 Frederick, Empress, iii. 55 Frederick William IV, King of Prussia, i. 192 Free Trade, i. 5; iii. 32; Budgets, 1859-65, ii. 121 Freeman, Prof. E. A., iii. 4 French Exhibition, ii. 28 French invasion scares, i. 117; ii. 10, 12 seq. French militarism, ii. 29 Frere, Sir Bartle, ii. 52; policy criticized, iii. 24 Frith, W. P., R.A., ii. 316 Fry, Elizabeth, i. 192 Fugitive slave question, iii. 9 seq. Fuller, Miss Loie, iv. 229 Fun, Bab Ballads and, ii. 280 Funerals, pageantry of, i. 229 Furniture, Victorian, iv. 306 Furnivall, Dr. F. J., iii. 352; founds Browning Society, iii. 324 Gainsborough, Thomas, Duchess of Devonshire's portrait recovered, iv. 310 Gallows. See Hanging. Galsworthy, John, iv. 328 Gambetta, Léon, ii. 101; death, iii. 35 Gambling, i. 221; iv. 113; suppressed in Bermondsey, iii. 108 Game Laws, harsh sentences under, i. 18; ii. 43; opposition to, i. 22 Games, Olympic, iv. 345, 347, 348 Garden suburbs, iv. 210 Garfield, President, assassinated, iii. 30 Garibaldi, Giuseppe, ii. 16 seq., 102, 216 Garrett, Elizabeth, M.D., ii. 248, 258 Garrotting scare, i. 134; ii. 48 Gas-stoves introduced, i. 78 Gas v. electricity, iii. 204 seq. General Elections, 1874, iii. 26; 1900, iv. 44; 1906, iv. 58, 124-5; 1910, iv. 67, 69 George I, King, statue, ii. 151 George IV, King, i. 188 George V, King, birth, ii. 181; visit to Ireland, iii. 231; and German naval menace, iv. 63; coronation, iv. 227; attacks dragon of apathy, iv. 227 George I, King of Greece, iv. 25; assassinated, iv. 83 George, Rt. Hon. David Lloyd, visits Germany (1908), iv. 64; and Upper Chamber reform, iv. 69, 72; and national insurance, iv. 86; and Marconi scandal, iv. 88; land campaign, iv. 90, 116-8; his equanimity, iv. 91; and dukes, iv. 92, 94; Budget of 1914, iv. 97; and old age pensions, iv. 130; Limehouse speech, iv. 132; and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148; and Woman Suffrage, iv. 179 George, Henry, and Socialism, iii. 75 seq. German Women's Navy League, iv. 64 Germany, naval beginnings, ii. 18; and growth, iii. 10; naval policy, ii. 25; iv. 85; militarism, iii. 35, 40, 42; iv. 85; momentous year (1888), iii. 51; and slave trade in Africa, iii. 34; expedition to Kiao-Chow, iv. 27; treatment of Poles, iv. 47-8; and Baghdad railway, iv. 75; complains of being isolated, iv. 77; Bethmann-Hollweg's Army Bill, iv. 84; and Alsace, iv. 85; declares war on Russia and France, iv. 101 Germany, relations with, iii. 8; iv. 73, 80; competes in naval armaments and trade, iv. 11; trade competition, iv. 24, 122; menace, iv. 55, 56, 75, 78, 98, 192-3 Giffen, Sir Robert, statistician, iii. 72 Gilbert, Sir John, R.A., iv. 303-4 Gilbert, W. S., ii. 272, 288, 291; relations with P., ii. 280 seq.; Patience, iii. 258; on Sir H. Tree as Hamlet, iii. 353; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, iii. 356; collaboration with Sullivan, iii. 356 Gilbert, W. S., and Sullivan, operas, iii. 363 seq.; at Savoy Theatre, iii. 364 seq.; sever partnership, iii. 366; iv. 338 Gilchrist, Connie, actress, iii. 354 Girton College, ii. 261; extensions, iii. 116 seq.; girl, 1886, iii. 120 seq. Gissing, George, novels, iii. 267; and P., iii. 321 Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., i. 5, 131; ii. 39 ill., 270; policy, ii. 4; and Indian Mutiny, ii. 7; and Fenianism, ii. 26; Irish Church resolutions, ii. 29; and Franco-German war, ii. 31; legislation, ii. 38 seq.; 1st administration, ii. 42; and American civil war, ii. 68; and reform, ii. 79; at Barrow-in-Furness, ii. 84; resolution on Irish disestablishment, ii. 113 seq.; financial omniscience, ii. 121 seq.; and Royal grants, ii. 187 seq.; foreign policy, ii. 192; administration satirized, ii. 291; and Bulgarian atrocities, iii. 3; 2nd administration reviewed, iii. 4 seq.; resigns Liberal leadership, 1875, iii. 8; retires temporarily, iii. 12; anti-Turkish bias, iii. 14 seq.; and Russo-Turkish war, iii. 17; returned to power, 1880, iii. 26; Irish policy, iii. 27; and P., iii. 35 seq.; 75th birthday, iii. 38; defeated, 1885, iii. 42; return to power, 1886, iii. 44; first Home Rule Bill, iii. 44 seq.; and U.S. centenary, iii. 48; his golden wedding, iii. 60; and Parnell, iii. 61; and Irish rebels, iii. 80; and German competition, iii. 108; and Wellington College, iii. 149; and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii. 157 seq.; on ritualism, iii. 158; on Vatican Decrees, iii, 158 seq.; on needy priests, iii. 172; and visit of Prince of Wales to India, iii. 215; and grant for Duke of Connaught's marriage, iii. 218; and wedding dowry for Princess Beatrice, iii. 226; and Royal grants, iii. 232; activity, iv. 6; and Irish Home Rule, iv. 13 seq.; naval policy, iv. 14; introduces "guillotine," iv. 14; resigns Premiership, iv. 14; warns the Lords, iv. 15; and Armenian atrocities, iv. 18; and opening of Kiel Canal, iv. 19; Armenian crusade, iv. 24; death, iv. 32 seq. Glaisher, James, F.R.S., ii. 142 Goddard, Arabella, ii. 243, 297 seq. Godfrey, Dan, Lieutenant, iv. 343 Gog and Magog, end of, i. 154 ill. Gold craze of 1849, i. 79 Gold diggings, iv. 189-90 Golf, ii. 346; iii. 298 seq., 303; iv. 353; lines on Tom Morris, iv. 353 Gomersal, E. A., the equestrian, i. 155 Gordon, General, iii. 6; in Egypt, iii. 36, 38; memorial to, iii. 38 seq., 180 Gorham case, i. 100 Gorst, Sir John, iv. 58; and education of children, iv. 147 Goschen, 1st Viscount, and Home Rule Bill of 1886, iii. 45; joins Salisbury Cabinet, iii. 50; iv. 18; and free education, iii. 142 Gosse, Edmund, criticized by P., iii. 321 Gough, General, threatens resignation, iv. 94; and Ulster situation, iv. 135 Gounod, M., ii. 301 seq. Governesses, pay of, i. 33; treatment, ii. 233 seq. Grace, W. G., ii. 131; iii. 292 seq.; suggested knighthood, iv. 348, 349 Graham, Sir James, i. 312; introduces Bill regulating factory labour, i. 25; reviews postmen, i. 146 ill. Gramophone, iv. 331, 340 Grant, Baron Albert, ii. 152 Grant, General, ii. 22 Granville, 2nd Earl, ii. 58; iii. 8; Foreign Minister, ii. 32; Church Bill, ii. 116; death, iii. 377 "Great Social Evil, The," i. 230 ill. Great Vance, the, iii. 353 Great War, outbreak, iv. 100-2 "Grecian bend," ii. 332 Greco-Turkish war, 1897, iv. 8, 25 seq. Greece, crown offered to Duke of Edinburgh, ii. 19; relations with Turkey, iv. 99 Greenaway, Kate, iii. 221; sets children's fashions, iii. 314 Grey of Fallodon, 1st Viscount, iv. 6, 21; foreign policy, iv. 66; on chance of war with Germany, iv. 73; and President Taft, iv. 75; and Anglo-Russian agreement in Persia, iv. 77; and "the new diplomacy," iv. 78; and Balkan wars, iv. 82-3, 90; visit to Paris announced, iv. 91 Grey, Sir George, ii. 245; and Hyde Park demonstration, ii. 80; and birth of Prince of Wales, ii. 181 Grisi, Giulia, i. 277, 284; ii. 298 seq.; death, ii. 305 Grosvenor Gallery, iii. 331 seq., 336 seq. Grove, Lady, on the social fetish, iv. 251 Grove, Sir George, ii. 311; director of Royal College of Music, iii. 180, 372 Guards, return of, from Crimea, i. 134; "ragging" in the, i. 135; Memorial, ii. 150 Guignol, Grand, visit to London, and P.'s prophecy, iv. 326 Guilbert, Yvette, P.'s verses on, iv. 316 Guinness, Sir Edward, iii. 99 Guns, eighty-one-ton, made at Woolwich, iii. 202. See also Artillery Gunter, confectioner, i. 217 Guthrie, Anstey, Vice Versâ, iii. 351 Guy, Joseph, i. 85 Haden, Sir Seymour, ii. 316; iii. 200 Haggard, Sir Rider, parodied, iii. 325 Hague Peace Conference (1907), iv. 62 Hairdressing, i. 262 ill.; ii. 325 seq., 329 seq., 338; iii. 313 Haldane, Viscount, iv. 94, 174; and compulsory service, iv. 58; visit to Germany (1906), iv. 60; and Territorial force, iv. 60; at the War Office, iv. 80; and Ulster, iv. 95-6 Hall, Sir Benjamin (Lord Llanover), i. 92, 160 Hallé, Lady (Mme. Norman-Neruda), ii. 309; iv. 343 Hallé, Sir Charles, i. 287; ii. 297, 309 seq.; iii. 370 Halsbury, Lord, and Upper Chamber reform, iv. 67; and L.C.C. tramways, iv. 197 Hamilton, Lord George, iii. 70, 71; iv. 4, 58 Handel, George Frederick, ii. 297, 305, 307 Handshaking, fashionable, iii. 263 Hanging, P. on, ii. 49 "Happy Family" menagerie, i. 158 Happy Land, The, ii. 291 Harberton, Viscountess, and rational dress, iii. 305 Harcourt, Sir William, ii. 93; iii. 8, 26, 40, 97, 158, 192, 222, 228; and Prince of Wales's Children Bill, iii. 232; Death Duties Budget, iv. 4, 15; and expedition to Khartum, iv. 24, 33; and Boer war, iv. 45; and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148 Harcourt, Mr. Lewis (Lord Harcourt), and Woman Suffrage, iv. 179 Hardie, Keir, Mr., M.P., iv. 129, 130, 132, 135; on birth of Prince of Wales, iv. 216 Hardinge, 1st Viscount, i. 135 Hardy, Thomas, iii. 317; Tess, iii. 324; parodied, iii. 325 Hare, John, actor, ii. 290-1; iii. 352 Harlequinade, the, i. 275 Harmsworth, Alfred (Viscount Northcliffe), founds Daily Mail in 1896, iv. 295; influence of Harmsworth régime, iv. 296 Harris, Joel Chandler, iii. 319, 325 Harris, Sir Augustus, iii. 362; iv. 318 Hartington, Marquess of, iii. 9, 26; and Home Rule in 1886, iii. 45; 8th Duke of Devonshire, iii. 66; iv. 14 Hats, i. 265; ii. 324; iii. 310; and bonnets, iii. 312; men's, iii. 314 seq.; iv. 259; matinée hats, etc., iv. 226, 267 Havelock, Sir Henry, ii. 6-8 Hawkshaw, Sir John, ii. 138 Haymarket Theatre, ii. 291, 297, 338; iii. 354 Haynau, General, the woman flogger, i. 254, 304 Hazlitt, William, iii. 242 Head, Sir Francis, on French invasion, i. 120 "Healtheries" Exhibition, iii. 99, 288 seq. Healy, Mr. Timothy, M.P., iii. 61 Heenan v. Sayers fight, ii. 211, 341 seq. Heligoland, Germany and, ii. 37; surrender of, iii. 63 Henry, Prince, of Prussia, naval expedition to Kiao-Chow, iv. 27 "Henry of Exeter." See Phillpotts, Bp. Helps, Sir Arthur, ii. 184, 268 Herbert, J. R., R.A., caricatured, iii. 328 Herbert, Sidney, 1st Lord Herbert of Lea, i. 58, 269; remedies hospital scandals, i. 126 Hereford, Bp. of, and Armenian atrocities, iv. 18 Herkomer, Sir Hubert, R.A., iii. 337 seq. Hertford, Marquess of, i. 203 "Higher criticism," ii. 102, 106 Hill, Sir Rowland, i. 36, 37, 314 ill.; and penny post, iii. 212; death, iii. 75 Hirsch, Baron, bequests of, iv. 104 Hitchin Ladies' College, ii. 260. See also Girton College Hobhouse, Miss Emily, and concentration camps for Boers, iv. 45 Holbein, Hans, iv. 310 Hollingshead, John, iii. 354; and Covent Garden, iv. 210 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, visits England, iii. 319; death, iv. 292 Holywell Street, i. 155 Home, Daniel D., i. 226; ii. 203 seq. Home Rule Bills, iii. 44 seq.; iv. 12, 13 seq., 85-6, 91-2, 97-9 Homoeopathists, i. 304 Hood, Thomas, letter to Sir R. Peel, i. 16; Sir R. Peel bestows pension on, i. 15; Song of the Shirt, i. 11; ii. 56; iii. 92, 98 seq.; iv. 277 "Hope, Anthony," iv. 282 Horatia (Nelson's daughter), i. 195 House of Commons, women admitted to gallery, i. 249; seating of, iii. 90 House of Lords, reform needed, i. 204; satirized by P., iii. 280 seq.; iv. 15, 19; campaign against, iv. 62, 63, 67, 72, 126, 132 Houses of Parliament, Barry's new buildings, i. 148 Housing problem, ii. 78; iii. 98 seq. Howell, W. D., on Dickens and Thackeray, iii. 319; iv. 22 seq., 30; articles of, in Harper's Magazine, praised by P., iv. 292 Hudson, George, railway king, i. 64; fall of, i. 68; "King Hudson's Levée," i. 66 ill. Hughes, Tom, ii. 77 seq., 86 seq. Hugo, Victor, ii. 126, 273; iii. 202 Hullah, John, i. 81, 291 Hume, Joseph, i. 86 Humperdinck, Engelbert, iv. 337 Hungary, sympathy with, i. 120 Hungerford Bridge, i. 148 Hungerford Market removed, ii. 153 "Hungry 'Forties," the; emigration, i. 59; portrait of Fine Old English Gentleman, i. 19; of pauper, i. 20; ragged curates, i. 97 Hunt, Holman, artist, and pre-Raphaelitism, iii. 337 Hunt, Leigh, ii. 281 Hunting, women and, ii. 238 Huxley, T. H., ii. 214, 260; iii. 102, 162 "Hyacinthus Redivivus" (Père Hyacinthe), ii. 113 Hyde Park, riots, ii. 80, 82; demonstrations, in 1884, iii. 36; orators, iii. 80 "Hydros," institution of, ii. 201 Hygiene, fashions in, iv. 249 Hyndman, H. M., Socialist, iii. 76, 78; iv. 130 Ibsen, Henrik, through P.'s eyes, iii. 348; Pillars of Society, acted, iii. 355; The Master Builder condemned, iv. 163, 315 Iddesleigh, 1st Earl of (Sir Stafford Northcote), death, iii. 50 Imperial Institute, beginnings, iii. 288 Incendiary shells and rifle-bullets invented, ii. 139 Income tax, ii. 92 seq., iv. 114 Incubators, i. 78 India: Queen's new title, ii. 173 ill., 174; Empress of, iii. 12, 216; Prince of Wales's visit, in 1875, iii. 215; Delhi Durbar, iv. 49 Indian Mutiny, ii. 4 seq., 16; frontier troubles, iii. 6; iv. 8; Tirah campaign, iv. 27 Industrial conditions and schools. See Poor and Reformatories Industrialism, ii. 48, 58; growth of, ii. 83 Infant Insurance Bill of 1891, iii. 144 Influenza epidemic in 1890, iii. 209 Innovations and novelties. See Minor innovations and novelties Inoculation in 1881, iii. 208 Insurance Act, iv. 88, 98 International Anti-Slavery Congress at Brussels, iii. 60 Invasion, scare of, in 1848, i. 117 Inventions, i. 77; ii. 73, 136-47; iii. 198 seq.; iv. 181-93 "Inventories" Exhibition, iii. 288 Inverness, Duchess of, i. 16 Ireland: potato famine, i. 181, 198; Irish Church resolutions, ii. 29; Gladstonian measures, ii. 39; Irish Church policy, ii. 42; Irish Church, disestablishment, ii. 101, 113 seq.; state of, iii. 6, 20, 22; obstruction of Irish Party, iii. 21 seq., 26, 27 seq., 32 seq.; Loyalists and Nationalists, iii. 44, 46; under Salisbury administration, iii. 44; suggestions for conciliation, iii. 231; Home Rule, iv. 12, 13 seq.; remedial legislation in (1903), iv. 49; Land Purchase Act, iv. 49; Mr. Birrell as Chief Secretary, iv. 67; Home Rule Bill of 1913-14, iv. 85-6, 97-8, 99; National Volunteers formed, iv. 98; Royal visits to, in 1849, i. 196, 198; in 1861, ii. 179; Empress of Austria in, iii. 121; Prince and Princess of Wales, iii. 125; Duke and Duchess of York, in 1897, iv. 220; Queen Victoria, ibid.; King Edward and Queen Alexandra, in 1903, iv. Irish R.M., Some Experiences of an, reviewed by P., iv. 287-8 Irving, Sir Henry, ii. 287 seq.; iii. 348 seq., 351; knighthood, iv. 317; in Cymbeline, iv. 318; Robespierre, iv. 320; memorial verses, iv. 324 Isaacs, Sir Rufus, and Marconi scandal, iv. 88 Isabella, Queen of Spain, ii. 29 Isandhlwana, iii. 3, 23 Italian unity, struggle for, ii. 10 seq., 16 seq. Italy, friendly relations with, i. 120; iv. 19; King Humbert of, assassinated, iv. 220 Iveagh, Lord, and housing problem of the poor, iii. 180 Jackson, Stonewall, General, ii. 22 Jacobs, W. W., "discovered" by P. in 1896, iv. 285 Jamaica, negro outbreak, ii. 25, 99 James, G. P. R., ii. 273 James, Henry, iv. 51; literary style, iv. 144; P.'s estimate of, in 1896, iv. 285; contributes to P., iv. 292; influence on American writers, ibid. Jameson, Dr. (Sir Leander Starr), iv. 20 seq., 27 Jamrach, Charles, iii. 378 Japan, relations with, in 1901-2, iv. 47; alliance with, iv. 125 Japanese, as negro, i. 226 ill.; ambassadors, visit of, 1862, ii. 19; craze in the 'eighties, iii. 278; art, cult of, iii. 343 Jayne, Dr., Bp. of Chester, iii. 174, 200 Jazz bands foreshadowed, i. 290 Jefferies, Richard, iii. 317, 322 Jefferson, Joseph, actor, ii. 278 "Jenkins," at Royal marriage, i. 193; at home, i. 230 ill.; on native talent, i. 278 Jenner, Dr. Edward, discoverer of vaccination, i. 314; statue to, ii. 150 Jerome Bonaparte, Prince, iii. 58 Jerrold, Douglas, experiences in Navy, i. 5; names Crystal Palace, i. 40; Black-eyed Susan, i. 84; and Louis Napoleon, i. 196; ii. 169, 197, 235; iii. 343; iv. 103 Jewish, disabilities, removal of, i. 26, 109 seq.; ii. 101; Guardians, ii. 51 Jews, attitude of P. towards, i. 108-11; ii. 117; iii. 166 seq.; iv. 160 "Jingo" and "Jingoism," origin, iii. 15 seq. Joachim, Joseph, Dr., ii. 309, 312; iii. 366 Johannesburg gold boom, iii. 210 Johnson, Jack, literary tastes of, iv. 360 Joinville, Prince de, i. 114 Jones, Captain Adrian, his "Quadriga," vi. 207 Jones, Ernest, Chartist, i. 55; ii. 88 Jones, Henry Arthur, iv. 318, 321 Jordan, Mrs., i. 198 Journalism, Victorian, i. 237; ii. 145 seq., 172; and letters, iii. 317-28; children in, iv. 293; altered status of, ibid.; censorship of war correspondents by Japan, ibid.; new, iv. 296; influence on pastime, ibid.; tendency to condense everything, iv. 298 Jowett, Benjamin, Dr., ii. 101, 110 seq., 134 Judges. See Lawyers. Jujitsu, introduced, in 1899, iv. 356 Jullien, Louis Antoine, musician, i. 287 ill.; P.'s farewell to, i. 290; sad end of, i. 291; ii. 306; iii. 369 Juries, women on, iii. 129 Kandahar, Lord Roberts's march to, iii. 26 Karsavina, Mme., iv. 229 Kean, Charles, disparaged, i. 271; made an F.S.A., i. 276; his enunciation ridiculed, ii. 283; iii. 350 Keble, Rev. John, ritual attacked, i. 104; poetry belittled, iii. 151 Keene, Charles, P. artist, ii. 16, 104, 126; draws for Once a Week, ii. 269, 312; death, and estimate of, iii. 342 Kemble, Adelaide and Fanny, i. 276, 278; Charles, i. 276 Kendal, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 291; Mrs., on social position of actors, iii. 350 Kenealy, Dr., i. 88; counsel for the "Claimant," ii. 210; as M.P., iii. 9 Kensington, joined to Central London, iii. 177 "Kensitite" demonstrations, iv. 158 Kenyon-Slaney, Colonel, and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148 Khartum, iii. 3, 6; tragedy of, iii. 38 seq.; expedition to, iv. 24; occupied by Kitchener, iv. 30 Khiva, Russian occupation of, ii. 38 Kiel, Germany acquires, ii. 25; Canal opened, iv. 19 Kikuyu controversy, iv. 160 Kimberley relieved, iv. 39 King Coffee, iv. 19 King, Bp. of Lincoln, trial of, iii. 174 Kingsley, Charles, ii. 102, 269, 336; historical romances of, iii. 374 Kingsley, Henry, ii. 138 Kingsway Opera House, iv. 201 Kipling, Rudyard, iii. 317; welcomed by P., iii. 323; iv. 51; varied criticisms of, iv. 281; The Jungle Book, iv. 282; the "Tommy Atkins business," iv. 282; Stalky and The Islanders "crabbed" by P., ibid.; congratulated on gaining Nobel Prize in 1907, ibid. Kitchener, 1st Earl, iv. 8; and Fashoda incident, iv. 28, 30; success at Omdurman, iv. 28, 30; takes Khartum, iv. 30; in Boer war, iv. 40, 46; returns to England, iv. 47 Knickerbockers, ii. 335 seq.; golfers', iv. 263; for women, iv. 266-7 Knight, Charles, i. 146; ii. 281 Knocker-wrenching, pastime of, i. 220 Kossuth, Louis, i. 314; and Palmerston, i. 72; Turkey refuses to surrender, i. 120 Krüger, President, telegram to, from Wilhelm II, iv. 20, 21, 27, 38, 39, 40; confers with Sir A. Milner, iv. 36 seq.; arrives in France, iv. 40 "Kulturkampf," iii. 19 Kyrle Society, and the working classes, iii. 288; criticised by P., iii. 334 Lablache, Luigi, i. 277, 283 Labouchere, Henry, iii. 46, 75; and Royal grants, iii. 226, 232; and statue of John Bright, iv. 206 Labour, organized, ii. 56 seq.; iii. 85; iv. 13; delegates, ii. 65 seq. Labour Party, ii. 43, 86 seq.; iv. 124-6, 136; and Liberals, ii. 86 seq.; factor in elections, iv. 58 Labour problems, ii. 56 seq. See also Capital and labour, Trade unions Lacrosse in England, iii. 296 Ladas, Lord Rosebery wins Derby with, in 1894, iv. 359 "Lady helps," proposed introduction, iii. 270 La Grande Duchesse, ii. 290, 305 Lamb, Charles, centenary, iii. 317; P.'s admiration of, iv. 278 Lancashire: cotton famine, ii. 66 seq.; mill-owners, profiteering, ii. 72 Land Acts (Ireland): 1870, ii. 39; 1885 and 1887, iii. 50; 1891, iii. 65; 1903 (Land Purchase Act), iv. 49 Land League, iii. 33 Landseer, Sir Edwin, R.A., i. 295; ii. 318 seq. Lang, Andrew, iii. 298; iv. 299 Lansdowne, 3rd Marquess of, i. 203; ii. 4 Lansdowne, 5th Marquess of, iv. 4, 6, 66; and Upper Chamber reform, iv. 67; and Trade Disputes Bill, iv. 126 Larkin, Jim, Irish labour leader, iv. 13, 86; and strike of Dublin transport workers, iv. 134 Laureateship, the, i. 179, 251; P. advocates discontinuance, iv. 227 Laurie, Sir Peter, i. 306 Law, Mr. Bonar, defeated at polls, 1906, iv. 58; supports Sir E. Carson and Ulster, iv. 86; and Home Rule Bill of 1914, iv. 98 Law Courts built, iii. 179 Lawn tennis, ii. 347 seq.; iii. 295 seq., 303; iii. 132; v. golf, iii. 299; an international pastime, iv. 347 Lawrence, Sir Henry, ii. 7 Lawrence, Sir John (1st Baron), death, iii. 374 Lawyers, i. 232 seq.; harsh sentences, i. 18, 19; judicial levity censured, i. 233 Lear, Edward, ii. 31 Lee, General Robert, ii. 22 Leech, John; and sport, i. 173; and street noises, i. 159; his women, ii. 238, 239; his sportsmen, ii. 339 seq.; tribute by Ruskin, iii. 343; his children and girls, iv. 136, 167 Leicester Square, i. 147; conditions, ii. 151 Leighton, Lord, elected P.R.A., iii. 332; character and art of, iv. 303 Lemon, Mark, 1st editor of P., i. 112, 159; ii. 280; as playwright, iii. 343 Lennox, Lord W., i. 202 Leno, Dan, iii. 356; iv. 318 Leo XIII, Pope, golden jubilee of, iii. 48; death, iv. 160 Leopold I, King of the Belgians, death, ii. 25 Leopold II, King of the Belgians, character, iii. 60; and Congo atrocities, iv. 55 Léotard, acrobat, ii. 238 Lesseps, Count Ferdinand de, ii. 19 Levées, i. 191 Lever, Charles, ii. 273; iii. 340 Licensing Act, 1872, ii. 96 Liddon, H. P., Canon, attacked by P., iii. 151 Lidgett, Rev. J. S., and L.C.C., iii. 194 Life, the simple, derided by P., iv. 248, 249 Lightfoot, Dr., Bp. of Durham, and the stage, ii. 295 Li Hung Chang in England, iv. 24 Limericks, iii. 325 seq. Lincoln, Abraham, ii. 19, 21 ill., 67 ill.; President of U.S., ii. 17; P. and, ii. 22 seq., 66, 71 Lincoln's Inn Fields, i. 147 Lind, Jenny, i. 281, 282; ii. 299, 304; death, iii. 360 Lipton, Sir Thomas, and America Cup, iv. 346-7 Liquid-fire bombs invented, ii. 139 Liquor Laws, iii. 34 Liszt, Franz, i. 294; ii. 297 seq., 307; visits England, iii. 356, 367 Literature, i. 233 seq.; ii. 266-81; iii. 317-28; iv. 274-93 Living, cost of, ill., ii. 91 Livingstone, David, missionary and explorer, i. 314; ii. 52, 214; death, ii. 119 Lohmann, George, cricketer, iii. 294 London, i. 141 seq.; ii. 148-66; iii. 177-97; iv. 194-212; cabs and paving of, i. 141; 'buses, i. 143; lighting and police, i. 145; postmen, i. 146; churchyards, cholera and typhus, i. 152; Bill to reform Corporation, i. 154; mendicants and organ-grinders, i. 159; State banquet in City, i. 185 ill.; Underground, ii. 136, 153 seq.; iii. 190; (Electric railways), iv. 198; bridges, ii. 149 seq.; statues, ii. 150 seq., 162; historic buildings demolished, ii. 154 seq.; relics, disposal of, ii. 155; City churches, demolished, ii. 156; historic buildings, restored, ii. 157; inns, ii. 157; parks and commons, ii. 158; Alexandra Palace, ii. 158 seq.; Pantheon, ii. 159; Tattersall's, ii. 159 seq.; National Gallery, ii. 161; Albert Hall opened, ii. 162; exhibitions, ii. 162; restaurants, ii. 162; Big Ben, ii. 162, 164; cabs and omnibuses, ii. 164 seq.; iii. 189 seq.; garrotting scare, ii. 165 seq.; street processions, iii. 80; Sunday bands in parks, iii. 108; School Board, iii. 138 seq., 142; improvements in lighting, iii. 183 seq.; restaurants, iii. 186 seq.; parks, suggested improvement, iii. 187 seq.; fogs and smoke, iii. 190 seq.; iv. 202-3; L.C.C., iii. 192 seq.; traffic, revolutionized by motor, iv. 194; Thames, state of, iv. 200; police, iv. 208-9; suburbs, iv. 209-10; London Museum, opened, iv. 210-12 Londonderry, 4th Marquess of, i. 203 Londonderry, Marchioness of, ii. 251 Longfellow, H. W., iii. 319 Lord's Cricket Ground, ii. 345; iii. 294 seq. Lorne, Marquis of (afterwards 9th Duke of Argyll), ii. 184, 186 seq. Louis Napoleon. See Napoleon III Louis Philippe, King, i. 54, 191 ill. Louise, Princess, betrothal, ii. 184 Louise, Princess Royal, iii. 219; betrothed to Earl of Fife, 1889, iii. 232 Louise, Mme., iii. 310 Lovett, William, drafts the People's Charter, i. 49 Lowe, Rt. Hon. Robert, ill., ii. 39; leads Adullamite Liberals, ii. 79; and 1867 Reform Bill, ii. 85, 96; caricatured, ii. 291 Lowell, J. R., iii. 19; leaves England, iii. 319 Lowther Arcade, i. 156; closed, iv. 202 Loyson, C. (Père Hyacinthe), ii. 113 Lubbock, Sir John, his Shop Hours Bill, iii. 90; resigns from L.C.C., iii. 194. See also Avebury, Lord Lucan, 3rd Earl of, charges against, i. 135; and Indian Mutiny, ii. 7 Lucknow, 1st relief of, ii. 7; capture of, ii. 8 Lunatic asylums, cruelty in, iii. 96 Lyndhurst, 1st Baron, and Navy, ii. 13, 16 Lyttelton, 4th Baron, ii. 60, 92 Lytton, 1st Baron, and Tennyson, i. 206; ii. 268; travestied by P., ii. 273; Eugene Aram, iii. 143 Lytton, 1st Earl, policy in Afghan war, iii. 26; parodied by P., iii. 325 Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1st Baron), ii. 275 Macdonald, A., M.P., ii. 43, 88; iii. 74 MacDonald, Ramsay, M.P., iv. 134 McDougall, Sir John, of the L.C.C., iii. 194 McKenna, Rt. Hon. R., iv. 62 McKinley, William, President of U.S., iv. 36; elected, iv. 23; assassinated, iv. 47 Mackonochie, Rev. A. H., ritualist, ii. 101, 108; iii. 160 MacMahon, Marshal, iii. 19; iii. 328 Macready, W. C., actor, ii. 287; iii. 344, 350; death, ii. 292 Maeterlinck, Maurice, iv. 314, 319, 328; parodied, iii. 325 Mafeking relieved, iv. 40 Magee, W. C., Archbp. of York, ii. 116; on drink, iii. 103; and child insurance, iii. 144 Majuba, iii. 3, 6, 30 Malibran, Mme., i. 277; ii. 299 Malmesbury, 3rd Earl of, i. 132; resigns leadership of H. of Lords, ii. 31; and modern languages at public schools, ii. 128, 245 Manchester, School, in politics, i. 134; "Martyrs," ii. 27; Corporation accounts, iii. 97 Manners, Lord John (7th Duke of Rutland), i. 24; ii. 148 Manners: smoking before ladies, iii. 262; colloquialisms and cosmetics, ibid.; decline of ballroom, iv. 234-5 Manning, H. E., Cardinal, iii. 34; in dock strike, iii. 81; and Housing Commission in 1884, iii. 99; and Vatican Decrees, iii. 159; observance of Lent, iii. 162; death, iii. 174 Manns, Sir August, ii. 309, 311 Mapleson, Colonel J. H., operatic manager, ii. 301 seq.; iii. 181 Marble Arch, i. 148 Marchant, Colonel, occupies Fashoda, iv. 28 Marconi, Guglielmo, and wireless telegraphy, iv. 186 Marconi scandal, iv. 88, 90-91 Margarine, advent of, ii. 144 Mario, Cavaliere di Candia, i. 284; ii. 301, 303, 306 Marriage, laws, i. 21, 96; economics of, ii. 262 seq. Married Women's Property Act, 1882, iii. 128 Martin, Sir Theodore, iv. 277 Martineau, Dr. James, iv. 146 Marx, Karl, ii. 190 seq.; iv. 129 Mary, Princess, of Teck, betrothed to Duke of Clarence, iii. 234; marries Duke of York, iv. 215 Mascagni, P., iii. 362 Maskelyne, J. N., ii. 205; iii. 252 Master and Servant Act, ii. 86 Masters v. men, ii. 74; iii. 72 seq. See also Capital and Labour Mathew, Father, i. 196 Mathews, Charles, i. 228, 275 Maud, Princess, of Wales, married, iv. 218 Maule, Mr. Justice, i. 21 Maurice, Rev. F. D., ii. 102, 110; proposes college for working women, ii. 56; and Colenso, ii. 112; death, ii. 118; modernist views, ii. 134 May, Phil, iv. 311; his debt to Sambourne, ibid. May Day and Labour, i. 62 May Meetings, Exeter Hall, i. 94 Mayhew, Henry, i. 4; death, iii. 328 Maynooth Grant, i. 105 Mazurka, the, i. 213 Medical profession, women's admission to, ii. 248 seq.; beggarly remuneration of, iii. 273 seq. Medical students, i. 240, 241; iii. 274. See also Doctors, Surgeons Mediums, ii. 203 seq. Melba, Mme., iii. 356, 360; iv. 333, 334 Melbourne, 2nd Viscount, i. 166 Members of Parliament, payment of, iv. 132 Mendelssohn, Felix, ii. 297, 300 note, 307; Elijah, ii. 308 Menken, Adah Isaacs, actress, ii. 285, 288 seq. Meredith, George, and P., ii. 268 seq.; iii. 324; iv. 270; burlesqued, iv. 276; praised, in 1909, ibid. Methuen, General, 3rd Baron, captured by Boers, iv. 46 Metropolitan Asylums Board, iii. 96; Interments Bill, i. 153; Police Act, i. 144 Meyerbeer, Giacomo, ii. 298, 301, 303 "Midas, Sir Gorgius," iii. 150, 166 Middle classes, heavily taxed, ii. 28; P. and, ii. 44; backbone of country, ii. 88; hit by income tax, ii. 93; hardships, ii. 95; iv. 110, 127 Militiamen, ill., ii. 12 Mill, J. S., iv. 129; and General Eyre, ii. 25, 81; and Irish Suspension Bill, 1866, ii. 26; favours capital punishment, ii. 97 seq.; iii. 100; his Subjection of Women, ii. 250; and Woman Suffrage, ii. 252-6 Millais, Sir J. E., ii. 269, 312; "Mariana" caricatured, i. 300; Hearts are Trumps, ii. 317; opportunism, iii. 331; pre-Raphaelitism, iii. 337; P.'s tribute to, iv. 303 Millikin, E. J., creator of P.'s 'Arry, iii. 106; death (1897), iv. 300 Milner, 1st Viscount, ii. 277; in Boer war, iv. 11; confers with Krüger, iv. 36 seq.; and National Service Bill (1909), iv. 66 Milton, tercentenary of, iv. 278 Miners, high wages, ii. 89, 92 seq.; action to keep up wages, iii. 74; strikes, iii. 83 seq.; iv. 110-11; prosperity of, iv. 121; "ca' canny" methods, ii. 95 Minor innovations and novelties, ii. 142 seq.; iii. 199 seq. Mitchell, David, Sec. Zool. Society, i. 160 Modern languages, ii. 128; inefficient instruction in, iv. 154 Moltke, Count, iii. 54; death, iii. 64 Monarchies, P. and, ii. 169 seq. Monasticism, attempted revivals, ii. 101, 106 Monocle, the, i. 266 Montefiore, Sir Moses, death, iii. 167 Montessori, Madame, system anticipated, i. 88, 89; and fairy-tales for children, iv. 139 Montez, Lola, i. 255, 280 Montgomery, James, ii. 64, 268 Moody, D. L., visits England, iii. 168 Moore, George, iii. 254, 321; iv. 113 Morgan, J. Pierpont, iii. 276 Morley, Henry, and Rabelais, iii. 317 Morley of Blackburn, 1st Viscount, iii. 61; Life of Gladstone, ii. 191; Chief Sec. for Ireland, iii. 44 seq.; and P. of Wales's Children Bill, iii. 232; retires, iv. 4; naval policy, iv. 14; and expedition to Khartum, iv. 24; and Boer war, iv. 39; and anti-Lords campaign, iv. 63 Morris, William, iii. 255, 329 Morrow, George, iv. 192 Motor introduced, iv. 181-3 Motoring, effect on appetite, iv. 245 Moustaches, iv. 264 Mozart, W. A., ii. 297, 301, 307; Don Giovanni, ii. 299 Müller, Franz, murderer, ii. 22; executed, ii. 136 Municipal Reform, iii. 97 Murray of Elibank, 1st Baron, and Marconi scandal, iv. 91 Museums, Sunday opening of, i. 40 Music, i. 286 seq., 290, 291, 293; ii. 282-319; iii. 343-73; iv. 341-4 Musical prodigies, iii. 369 Music-halls, ii. 295 seq.; iii. 15 seq., 372 seq.; songs, ii. 312; popularity, iv. 328; salaries, ibid.; Sarah Bernhardt and Tree at, iv. 330; Sir James Barrie writes for, ibid. Myers, F. W. H., iii. 207 Nansen, Dr. F., Arctic explorer, iv. 190 Napier, Sir Charles, i. 116 Napier, Lord, of Magdala (Sir Robert Napier), ii. 27; and retired officers, iii. 276 Napoleon I, centenary, ii. 29 Napoleon III, a special constable, i. 54; ally of England, i. 124; as modern Damocles, i. 195 ill.; P.'s hostility to, i. 122, 306; friction with, ii. 3, 10, 17; as porcupine, ill., ii. 11; proposed army loan, ii. 29, 34, 36; his vision of Napoleon I, ill., ii. 33; memorial verses, ii. 194 seq. Nares, Captain, Arctic explorer, iii. 207, 328 Natal campaign, correspondence, ii. 112 National defence, iii. 66-71; iv. 11, 55-7, 58-61, 63, 65-6 National Gallery, neglect of treasures, i. 298 National Guard suggested, i. 118 National insurance scheme, iv. 64 National outlook, 1857-74, ii. 3-116; 1874-1892, iii. 3-212 National Portrait Gallery Bill, i. 303 National Rifle Association, iii. 69, 302 National Service Bill of 1909, iv. 66 Naval armaments, race of, iii. 10 Naval warfare of the future, ii. 140 seq. Navvy corps for Crimea, i. 131 Navy. Estimates, protests against, i. 120; reorganized and increased, ii. 18; Naval Defence Bill of 1889, iii. 71; status of engineers, iii. 209, 211; Gladstone's policy, iv. 14; and German menace, iv. 60; advance in gunnery, iv. 62; inadequate preparations, iv. 66; expenditure, proposed reduction of (1911), iv. 75; estimates (1912), iv. 78, 91, 92. See also Armoured ships Nelson centenary, iv. 56 Nelson's monument, i. 147; iv. 207; daughter and grandchildren, i. 253 New English Art Club, iii. 328 seq. New rich, and the aristocracy, ii. 198 seq.; and art, iii. 277 New Scotland Yard built, iii. 182 New South Wales, centenary, iii. 55 Newcastle, 4th Duke of, i. 106 Newgate Prison demolished, iii. 179 Newman, refuses cardinal's hat, iii. 162; Cardinal, iii. 376 seq. Newnham College, extension of, iii. 116 seq. Nicholas, King, of Montenegro, iv. 82 Nicholas I, Tsar, i. 113, 192 Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, proposes general disarmament, iv. 32, 34, 52-4; grants constitutional government, iv. 54; coronation, iv. 218 Nicholson, John, Mutiny hero, ii. 7 Nightingale, Florence, and Crimean hospitals, i. 126 seq.; rewarded by nation, i. 128, 134-5; P.'s statue for, i. 313, ii. 256 Nihilism in Russia, iii. 30 Norfolk, 13th Duke of, proposes curry powder as food for poor, i. 17 Normanby, 1st Marquess of, i. 203 Northcliffe, 1st Viscount, absence from England, iv. 92 Northcote, Sir Stafford (1st Earl of Iddesleigh), iii. 12, 21, 34 Northumberland, Duke of, iv. 66 Norton, Charles Eliot, on Spanish-American war, iv. 31 Novello, Clara, ii. 308 Novelties. See Minor innovations Nursery rhymes, cult of, foreshadowed, iii. 261 Nurses: Royal Red Cross decoration instituted, iii. 124; P.'s attitude to, iii. 125 Oates, Captain, on Scott's Antarctic expedition, iv. 190 Ober-Ammergau Passion Play, iii. 348 O'Brien, Smith, i. 198 O'Brien, William, M.P., and visit of Prince of Wales to Ireland, iii. 226; and Ulster, iv. 92; and Home Rule Bill, iv. 97 O'Connell, Daniel, i. 165, 196, 306 O'Connor, Feargus, i. 49 Odger, George, ii. 86 seq., 190 seq. O'Donnell, F. H., M.P., iii. 21 Offenbach, Jacques, ii. 305 seq.; death, iii. 359 O'Gorman, Major, M.P., iii. 9 Ojibbeway Indians, i. 283 Old age pensions, iv. 67, 119, 130 Old Bailey demolished, iii. 179 Oliphant, Laurence, his Piccadilly, iii. 254 Ollivier, Emile, ii. 31 Omdurman, Kitchener's success at, iv. 28, 30 Omnibuses, i. 143, 144 ill.; ii. 164; iii. 189, 190; iv. 194, 198 Once a Week, ii. 269, 312 Opera, i. 276 seq.; "Jenkins" on, i. 278; ii. 282-319; iii. 356-66; opera bouffe, ii. 285; English opera houses, fate of, iii. 181 seq.; German, French, Italian and English, iv. 332-3; national scheme revived in 1899, iv. 333 Orchestral music, ii. 308 seq. Orton, Arthur, ii. 206 seq. Osborne, Lord Sidney Godolphin, i. 243 Otter-hunting denounced, i. 173 Oudh pacified, ii. 8 "Ouida," parodied, iii. 324; on the "New Woman," iv. 165 Oxford, Bp. of (Wilberforce), i. 95, 96; ii. 56, 106, 118 Oxford University, Heresy hunt at, iii. 110 seq.; reactionaries at, ii. 133-5; Keble College, founded, iii. 151; new Science degree, iii. 151 seq.; cosmopolitanism, iii. 152; Eleutheria Hall, ibid.; agriculture at, ibid.; compared with Birmingham, iv. 155; and Rhodes scholars, iv. 156; compulsory Greek at, iv. 157; Lord Curzon and reform of, iv. 157; women admitted, iv. 158; refuses B.A. degree to women, iv. 167 Paderewski, I. J., advent of, iii. 356, 368 Pageant mania, iv. 60, 230, 246 Pall Mall Gazette, The, ii. 164, 191, 284; iii. 15; P.'s controversy with, iii. 321; iv. 118 Palmerston, 3rd Viscount, and agriculture, i. 24; and Kossuth, i. 72, 120; dismissed, i. 121 ill., 122; moves vote of thanks to troops, i. 133; returned to power (1857), ii. 4, 20; death, ii. 24, 42, 43, 70, 71 seq., 74, 79, 122, 216, 266, 272, 341 Pan-Anglican synod, ill., ii. 119 Panmure, 2nd Lord, telegram to Lord Raglan, "Take care of Dowb," i. 138, 206 Pantheon, The, i. 156 Pantomime, degeneracy of, iii. 354 seq.; iv. 143 Paris, Peace Congress at, i. 118; siege of, ii. 34, 36; Exhibitions, iii. 289; iv. 40 Parliament, House of Lords and Franchise Bill, iii. 37; women as M.P.s, iii. 128; Act of 1910, iv. 15, 67, 85-6 Parliamentary obstruction, iii. 6, 9, 21 seq.; oath question, iii. 26 Parnell, Charles Stewart, iii. 6, 21; speeches in America, iii. 22; censured by P., iii. 23, 32 seq., 40; and The Times, iii. 50, 57; divorce case, iii. 61; death, iii. 64, 85 Parodies, iii. 324 seq.; iv. 284-9 Parry, John, ii. 310, 312; iii. 172 Parry, Sir Hubert, P. and Judith, iii. 372 Pasta, Giuditta, i. 277 Pastimes, ii. 211, 339-49; iii. 287-303 Patti, Mme. Adelina, ii. 299 seq., 303, 309; iii. 357, 359; returns to Covent Garden, iv. 333 Pavlova, Mme. Anna, iv. 229, 239 Peabody, George, ii. 52 seq.; iii. 180 Peace, Charles, trial, iii. 100 Peace Congress at Frankfort, i. 119; Paris, i. 118 Peary, Commander R. E., Arctic explorer, iv. 181; reaches North Pole, iv. 190 Peel, Sir Robert, and Tom Hood, i. 15; dismisses Rowland Hill, i. 36; P.'s monument to, i. 53 ill.; tribute to, i. 85; and Colonel Fawcett's widow, i. 114, 115 ill.; entertains Queen and Prince Albert, i. 173; as Knave of Spades, i. 305 ill.; ii. 187 Peel, 1st Viscount, iv. 18 Pélissier, H., iv. 327 People's Budget, iv. 6, 72 Persia, Anglo-Russian agreement in 1911, iv. 77 Persigny, Comte de, ii. 17 Peterborough, Bp. of, and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii. 157 Pets, fashionable, i. 213; iv. 247-8 Phelps, Samuel, i. 271, 274; ii. 282; iii. 350 Philanthropy, practical, efforts of, ii. 48, 52, 53 ill.; pseudo-, iv. 234 Philharmonic Society, the, i. 285 Phillpotts, Bp., "Henry of Exeter," i. 95 Phillipps (Halliwell), Dr., ii. 270 Phillips, Stephen, as actor, iii. 352; and the poetic drama, iv. 312, 322 Phoenix Park murders, iii. 6, 32, 50 Photography, i. 227; iii. 212 Piccadilly, scheme to widen, iv. 201 Piccolomini, Marietta, i. 277; ii. 299 Pierce, President, open letter to, i. 134 Pigeon shooting, ii. 343 "Pimlico Pavilion," i. 149 Pinero, Sir A. W., iv. 315, 317 Ping-pong, tyranny of, iv. 356 Pius IX, Pope, i. 99; ii. 113; iii. 10, 19 seq. Plays, censorship of, i. 273 Plevna, siege of, iii. 16 Plimsoll, Samuel, M.P., ii. 39 ill., 99; and coffin-ships, iii. 86 Plumer, General Lord, iv. 8 Plunket, Rt. Hon. David (Lord Rathmore), and Sunday boating, iii. 165; unveils Gordon Memorial, iii. 180 Plural voting, iv. 86, 92, 98 Pneumatic tyres, patent, ii. 138; iii. 300 Poets, activity of, in Boer war, subsequent slump in, iv. 288; Mr. Gosse on new, iv. 291 Poincaré, M., French President, iv. 78 Poland, police-ridden, ii. 19; trade unionists and, ii. 42 seq. Police, i. 144 seq.; special constables, i. 55 ill.; inefficiency of, ii. 165-6; iii. 100 seq.; tributes to, iii. 228; iv. 208-9 Polka, the, i. 209, 210-11 ill., 283 Polytechnic, the, i. 155 Poor, the condition of, i. frontispiece, 3 seq., 6, 7 ill., 8, 10, 14-15 ill., 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27; sweating system, i. 11, 17, 38, 41 ill.; ragged schools, i. 83, 84; Poor Law, Report of (1834), i. 59; "Poor Child's Nurse," i. 153 ill.; and Poor Law system, ii. 48, 259; inspectors, ii. 51; children, iv. 106-7; insurance scandal, iv. 107. See also Chartism, "Hungry Forties" "Pops," the, ii. 309, 311 Port Arthur, fall of, iv. 52 Portugal, King and Crown Prince of, assassinated, iv. 225; becomes republic, iv. 73; ex-King Manoel of, iv. 225 Postmen, i. 37, 38, 146 ill.; iii. 93 Potato famine, Irish, i. 181, 198 Preparatory schools, athletic craze at, iii. 148; iv. 150-1, 154 Pre-Raphaelites, i. 299 seq.; caricatured, ibid.; P. converted to, i. 302; and æstheticism, iii. 255, 331, 337 Press, and Tichborne case, iii. 241; P.'s relations with, i. 235 seq. Prevention of Corruption Act, iv. 127 Prevention of Cruelty Bill of 1887, iii. 144 seq. Prince Imperial, killed in Zululand, proposed memorial to, iii. 24 Prince of Wales's Children Bill, iii. 232 Prison v. workhouse, ii. 48 seq. Prisoners, Russian, treatment of, i. 129 Prize-fighting, ii. 211; revival of, iv. 360 Prodigies, musical, P.'s views on, iv. 341, 342 ill. Professionalism in cricket and football, iv. 349 Profiteering denounced, i. 77, 130 ill.; ii. 47, 72; iii. 238 Profit-sharing recommended, ii. 58 Promenade Concerts, i. 289 ill. Prophecies and forecasts, ii. 36, 38, 40 seq., 136-47, 183, 185 seq., 202, 261, 294, 34i, 345; iii. 1, 36, 38, 46, 54, 67, 83, 90, 100, 142, 145, 170, 192, 201 seq., 204 seq., 273, 299 seq.; iv. 66, 78, 90, 93, 102, 128, 174, 180, 182-4, 186, 191-3, 202 Proportional representation, iii. 40 Prussia, fleet, ii. 29 Prusso-Danish war, ii. 3, 20 seq., 195 Psychology: subconscious crime, iii. 207 Public houses, ii. 44, 45 ill. Public schools, ii. 130 seq.; system, iii. 137; athletic craze in, iii. 148; inefficiency of, iii. 149 seq.; classics v. commerce, iii. 150 seq.; iv. 150 seq.; diet at, iv. 153 Public Worship Regulation, ii. 120; iii. 157 Purchas trial, ii. 101 Pusey, Dr. E. B., i. 99, 306; ii. 104, 109; iii. 151 Quacks and doctors, i. 239 Quadrille, the, i. 209, 212 Quakers, mission to Russia, i. 125; relieve Lancashire famine, ii. 68 Quarterly Review, on Willis's Rooms, i. 209; supported by P. in 1886; iii. 321 seq. Queen Anne's Mansions built, iii. 179 seq. Queen's Hall concerts, i. 289; iv. 341 Quidde, Prof., of Munich, satirizes Wilhelm II, iv. 26 Rabelais, criticized by P., iii. 317 Rachel, Madame, ii. 236; life-story, ii. 326 seq. Radium discovered, iv. 189 Ragged Schools, i. 83; ii. 51 seq.; and Lord Shaftesbury, i. 84 "Ragging" in Army, i. 135; iv. 254 Rag-time, iv. 331, 340 Railways, ii. 136; iii. 198 seq.; dangers of early, i. 62, 70 ill.; railway map of England, i. 62; speculation, i. 62, 64; mania, i. 64, 177 ill.; battle of gauges, i. 64; Juggernaut of 1845, ill., i. 65; P.'s "rules and regulations," i. 67; smoking saloons, i. 68; subterranean, prophecy, ill., i. 68; L. & N.W. Ry. directors criticized, i. 69; Bradshaw, i. 71; G.W.R. adopts electric telegraph, i. 72; Royalty and travelling, i. 178; railwaymen, ii. 74 seq.; iii. 93; fares, ii. 76; Act of 1853, ii. 136; dispute of 1907, iv. 128. See also London, Hudson "Ranger, George," Duke of Cambridge, iii. 68; and Sunday boating, iii. 165 "Ranji" (H.H. Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, G.B.E.), cricketer, iii. 395; ode to, iv. 349 "Rantoones," ii. 137 seq. Rarey, J. S., horse-tamer, ii. 340 Rational dress reform, i. 262; iii. 305 seq. Ratsey, Mrs., Royal nurse, i. 166 Reade, Charles, iii. 317; Foul Play, ii. 273; Never Too Late to Mend, ii. 288; and "the Menken," ii. 289; The Wandering Heir, ii. 292; letter on condition of servants, iii. 270; death, iii. 320; Drink, iii. 353 Rebecca Riots in South Wales, i. 57 Recreation, ii. 339-49; iii. 287-303; iv. 345-60 Redmond, John, M.P., iv. 94; and Ulster, iv. 86; and Sir E. Carson, iv. 96 Reed, Thomas German, actor, ii. 312; iii. 372 seq. Reeves, J. Sims, tenor singer, ii. 308, 310 seq.; iii. 359; iv. 343 Reform, ii. 42 seq., 79 seq. Reform Bills: 1859, ii. 10; 1860 (Russell's), ii. 16, 18, 26, 82; 1867 (Disraeli's), ii. 42, 82, 85, 252 Reform League, ii. 80 seq.; sympathy with Fenians, ii. 27 Reformatories, established, ii. 49 Regent's Park, suggested improvement, iii. 187 Rehan, Ada, actress, iii. 355; iv. 316 Réjane, Mme., iv. 316 Religion, i. 91 seq.; Exeter Hall, i. 94; sanctimonious parade of, ill., i. 95; fashionable, i. 179; attempted exclusion, in schools, ii. 124; and the Churches, iii. 157-76; instruction in schools, iv. 150. See also Church, Sabbatarianism Reminiscences, plague of, iv. 286 Repertory theatres, ii. 294 Republicanism, ill., ii. 189; in England, ii. 190 seq. Rhodes, Cecil, on Leopold II of Belgium, iii. 60; resigns Premiership, iv. 21; and Jameson Raid, iv. 27; bequest to Oxford, iv. 156 Rich classes, extravagance of, ii. 90; ignorance satirized, ii. 227 seq. See also New rich Richardson, Sir B. W., hygienic theories, iii. 98 Richmond, 5th Duke of, i. 18 Richmond, Sir W. B., R.A., iii. 258; and Burne-Jones, iii. 334; decorates St. Paul's, iv. 201; anti-smoke campaign, iv. 202 Richter, Dr. Hans, iii. 356, 368; iv. 334, 341 Rifle clubs, i. 122; iii. 302 Ristori, Adelaide, actress, ii. 283; iii. 345. Ritualism, ii. 106 seq., 109, 120; iii. 159 seq. Roberts, 1st Earl, iii. 3; march to Kandahar, iii. 26; advocates compulsory service, iv. 11; relieves Kimberley, iv. 39; advance to Pretoria, iv. 40; returns to England, iv. 42; and national defence, iv. 56; and National Service Bill, iv. 66 Robertson, Sir Johnston Forbes, iii. 351 Robertson, T. W., dramatist, ii. 290 Robertson, Wybrow, and Ober-Ammergau Passion Play, iii. 347 Robins, George, auctioneer, i. 155 Rogers, Rev. William, "Hang Theology Rogers," i. 106 Roller-skating, ii. 347; iii. 303; craze, iii. 266; iv. 356 Rollins, Thomas, tried for bigamy, i. 21 Roman Catholicism, P. and, ii. 102 Rome, Church of, end of temporal power, ii. 118 Röntgen, Dr. W. K., discovers X-rays, iv. 189 Roosevelt, Theodore, iv. 143; and England, iv. 11; President of U.S., iv. 47; alleged Jingoism, iv. 55 Rorke's Drift, iii. 23 Rosebery, 5th Earl of, iii. 228; iv. 4, 6, 26; resigns from L.C.C., iii. 194, 196 seq.; becomes Premier, iv. 15; Cabinet resigns, iv. 17; career, iv. 17 seq.; resigns leadership of the Liberal Party, iv. 24; and Upper Chamber reform, iv. 67; and coal strike of 1893, iv. 111; and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148; and commercializing public schools, iv. 152; on historical statues, iv. 206 Rosherville Gardens, i. 155 Rossa, O'Donovan, Irish rebel, iii. 21 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, connexion with Once a Week, ii. 269, 312; and æsthetic movement, iii. 255, 329; criticized by P., iii. 331 Rossini, G. A., composer, ii. 301 Rostand, Edmond, iv. 318, 321 Rothschild, 1st Baron, i. 110, 111 Rothschild Committee on Old Age Pensions, iv. 119 Roumania and Balkan wars of 1912-13, iv. 82 Rousseau, M., inventor of submarine warship, iv. 187-8 Royal Academy, i. 295, 297 ill.; "Mr. Pips" on, i. 298; criticized, ii. 312 seq., 317; and women, iii. 116. See also Academy, Royal Royal annals, i. 165-200; ii. 169-96; iii. 215-34; iv. 215-27 Royal College of Music founded, iii. 180, 372 Royalties, foreign, subsidies for, i. 193; P.'s attitude to, ii. 192 Royalty, speeches of, criticized, ii. 179; and entertainments, ii. 194 seq.; and sport, iii. 222 Rozhdestvensky, Admiral, iv. 52 Rubinstein, Anton, iv. 343; visits England, iii. 356, 367 Rugby, headmaster of, on diet, iv. 153 Rumbold, Dr., his pill, ii. 146 Runciman, Rt. Hon. Walter, and anti-Lords campaign, iv. 63; his Education Bill, 1908, iv. 150 Ruskin College, Oxford, iv. 119 Ruskin, John, ii. 275 seq.; and Kate Greenaway, iii. 314; and æstheticism, iii. 255, 337; and Lake District railways, iii. 199; and Whistler, iii. 331; elected to Slade professorship, iii. 338; and P., iii. 338 seq.; on Leech, iii. 343 Russel, Alexander, of the Scotsman, i. 238; death, iii. 327 Russell, Lord John, ill., i. 110, 121; and Tom Hood's children, i. 16; and Chartism, i. 50 ill., 56; "Finality Jack," i. 55; resolutions on education, i. 86; condemns Papal claims, i. 102; Jewish disabilities, i. 111; dissolution of Ministry, i. 122; Watts's drawing of, i. 301; and Reform, ii. 16, 79, 82; earldom, ii. 15; and Austro-Prussian war, ii. 26; resigns, 1866, ii. 79; death, iii. 374 Russell, Sir W. H., and Crimea scandals, i. 126; knighted, i. 128; controversy with Sir Garnet Wolseley, iii. 111 Russia, tries to evade treaty, i. 133; Near Eastern question, ii. 38; trade unionists and, ii. 42 seq.; relations with, iii. 3 seq., 8; Jews persecuted in, iii. 63 seq.; revolution of 1905, iv. 52-4. See also Crimean war. Russian ballet, iv. 99 Russo-Japanese war, iv. 8, 11, 51-4 Russo-Turkish war, iii. 3 seq., 14 seq. Sabbatarianism, i. 44, 91 seq., 93 ill.; ii. 45, 102 seq.; iii. 162 seq.; iv. 159; Sunday Trading Act, i. 18; recreation, i. 38; museums, i. 40; bands, i. 92; Sunday Observance Act, ii. 44; and drink, iii. 102; Sunday pastime and Sunday closing, iii. 165 Safety bicycle, iii. 300 St. George's Hall, ii. 312 St. James's Hall, ii. 70, 307, 309; demolished, iv. 204 St. James's Park, removal of cow-keepers, iii. 178 St. Leonards, 1st Baron, i. 206 St. Paul's, charge for admission to churchyard, i. 158; Duke of Wellington monument, iv. 207 Salaries. See Wages Salisbury, 3rd Marquess of, iii. 65, 206; iv. 6; and 1867 Reform Bill, ii. 85; and Russia, iii. 4; at Constantinople Conference, 1876, iii. 14; and Eastern Question, iii. 15; at Berlin Congress, iii. 17; Franchise Bill, 1884, iii. 36 seq.; returned to power, 1886, iii. 47; and Irish Land League, iii. 50; and Heligoland, iii. 63; and Housing Commission in 1884, iii. 99; and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii, 157 seq., 162; and Disestablishment, iii. 173; and 1893 Home Rule Bill, iv. 14; forms 3rd Cabinet, iv. 18; alliance with J. Chamberlain, iv. 19; and Greco-Turkish war, iv. 26; resignation, iv. 48; death, iv. 49-50; and agricultural depression, iv. 114; not a feminist, iv. 168 Salkeld, Lieutenant, ii. 7 Salome, various versions and genesis of, iv. 333, 336 Salvation Army, iii. 162, 168 seq.; iv. 162; processions, iii. 102 Salvini, Tommaso, as Othello, iii. 344 seq. Sambourne, Linley, P.'s delight in, iv. 311, 312 Sandow, Eugene, iv. 203 Sankey, Ira, visits England, iii. 168 Santley, Sir Charles, ii. 300, 301, 305; iii. 370 Sargent, John S., R.A., iii. 329; iv. 301, 310 Savile House, ii. 341 note Savoy, the, magazine, attacked by P. in 1896, iv. 283 Sayers v. Heenan fight, ii. 211, 341 seq. Schleswig-Holstein controversy, ii. 20 Schneider, Mlle., ii. 28, 284, 285, 290, 306; iii. 359 Schneider, H. A., French ironmaster, ii. 84 seq. Schools: "Dotheboys Hall," i. 35; ii. 127; of cookery, i. 81; Ragged, i. 83, 84; Church, i. 99; advent of cricket-master, ii. 131; corporal punishment, ii. 132; iii. 142; new plutocracy invade public schools, ii. 132; Board schools criticized, iii. 137-40; public, fetish of games at, iii. 148 seq.; iv. 151 seq.; public, inefficiency of, iii. 149 seq.; public, diet, iv. 153-4; masters and boys, iv. 154 Schumann, Robert, composer, ii. 300 note, 308 Schumann, Madame, ii. 309; iii. 336 Scott, Capt. Robert F., R.N., Antarctic explorer, iv. 181, 190-1 Scott, Sir Percy, iv. 188; on submarine menace, iv. 98 Seacole, Mother, i. 177, 252 Seaman, Sir Owen, iii. 325 Sectarianism, ii. 102; iv. 146 Sedan, battle of, ii. 34 Seeley, Sir John, ii. 118 Seeley, General John B., resigns, iv. 94 Selborne, 2nd Earl of, iv. 4 Self-expression, doctrine of, iii. 261; iv. 136, 140-2 Selwyn, G. A., Bp. of N. Zealand, ii. 62; death, iii. 374 Serbia, subjugated by Turkey, iii. 14; relations with Austria up to 1914, iv. 10; and Balkan war of 1912, iv. 10; King and Queen assassinated, iv. 49 Serpentine, the, i. 151 Servants, iii. 270 seq.; servantgalism, i. 30 ill.; ii. 225 seq.; flunkeys, i. 31 seq.; snobbery of, i. 30, 34 ill.; special seats in church for, i. 32; domestic, becoming extinct, iv. 243 Seymour, Admiral Sir Beauchamp, bombards Alexandria, iii. 32 Shaftesbury, 7th Earl of, i. 25, 84; his Agricultural Gangs Act, ii. 46; and sweated labour, ii. 56; and climbing boy scandals, ii. 59; iii. 86; and cruelty to children, ii. 63; and working men's wages, ii. 96; religious zeal, ii. 118; and work for women, ii. 246; and vivisection, iii. 103; and Public Worship Regulation Bill, 1874, iii. 157; death, iii. 376 Shakespeare, William; suggested statue of, i. 188, 190; house purchased for the nation, i. 272; P.'s devotion to, ii. 266; tercentenary celebrations, ii. 266; cult in the 'sixties, ii. 282 seq.; Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, iii. 350; "despised" by Mr. Shaw, iv. 279; rivalry of Miss Corelli, iv. 280; "Shacon and Bakespeare," ill., iv. 279; author of Bacon's Essays, iv. 280 Shaw, G. B., iv. 129, 279; and doctrine of self-expression, iv. 140; plays, iv. 312, 313, 322, 323 Shaw, Norman, R.A., iii. 182 Shedden, Miss, ii. 250 seq. Sheffield, 4th Baron (Lyulph Stanley), and Housing Commission, 1884, iii. 99 Shelley, P. B., Cenci acted, iii. 352 Shepperson, Claude, A.R.A., iv. 136 Shepstone, Sir Theophilus, annexes Transvaal, iii. 18, 30 Sherman, General, ii. 22 Shop Hours Bill, 1887, iii. 90 Shopgirls' hardships, iii. 90; iv. 104, 168 Shopkeepers and monster shops, iii. 90 seq.; hardships, iii. 98 Shops, early closing, i. 38; regulations affecting, iv. 118 Shorthouse, John, John Inglesant, iii. 176 Sibthorp, Colonel, M.P., i. 268 ill. Sims, Admiral W. S., and England, iv. 11 Singers, amateur, iv. 340 Sinn Fein movement, iv. 12 Slang, iii. 265; among the clergy, iii. 276 Slavery, i. 255 Slums, iii. 98; slumming, iv. 104, 107 Smalley, G. W., American journalist, iii. 246 Smith, Alexander, poet, ii. 268 Smith, George, of Coalville, iii. 86 seq. Smith, Goldwin, Professor, ii. 273 Smith, Gunboat, fight with Carpentier, iv. 99 Smith, Jem, boxer, iii. 290 Smith, Rt. Hon. W. H., M.P., iii. 21; and Land Purchase Bill, 1891, iii. 65; death, iii. 377 Smithfield, i. 147; fish market opened, iii. 185 note Smoking, i. 218; Anti-Tobacco Society, i. 219; by ladies, i. 244, 246 ill. Smyth, Dame Ethel, iv. 333 Snowden, Philip, M.P., iv. 130 Social conditions, i. 208-231; ii. 197-235; iii. 235-286; iv. 13, 228-256; evils, i. 230; iii. 280; reform, ii. 52; changes, iv. 228; vulgarity and publicity of Society, iv. 229; Du Maurier as critic and satirist of the old régime, iv. 228, 229 Social Science Association, ii. 200, 251, 260 Socialism, iii. 75, 79, 82; iv. 107, 115, 128-30; in Germany, iii. 19; iv. 78 Society, High, invasion of new plutocracy, iii. 235 seq.; poverty and decline of old nobility, iii. 235 seq., 242 seq.; journals, iii. 236, 242 seq.; invades stage, iii. 241; Society people as tradesmen and professionals, iii. 242 seq.; women in the 'eighties, iii. 248; women and murder trials, iii. 248 seq.; women, craze for slumming, iii. 250; pugilists fêted by, iii. 250 Somerville, Mary, i. 215; ii. 256 Song of the Shirt, i. 11 Songs, popular, ii. 307; iii. 373; iv. 340 Sothern, Edward, actor, ii. 337 seq. Soudan, outbreak in 1888, iii. 56 "Souls," the, iv. 230, 232, 233 South Africa: war of 1899-1902, iv. 6 seq.; railway between Natal and the Cape, iv. 20; state of, in 1895, iv. 20 Spain, Isabella, Queen of, i. 187; revolution of 1868, ii. 29; restoration of monarchy, iii. 10 Spain, King Alfonso XIII, popularity, iv. 225, 226; marriage to Princess Ena of Battenberg, iv. 225 Spanish-American war, iv. 8, 11, 30 Special constables, i. 55 ill. Spectator, and American Civil War, ii. 68; attacks P., iii. 29 Spencer, 5th Earl, ii. 158 Spencer, Herbert, iii. 155 Spielmann, M. H., History of Punch, i. 13 Spion Kop dispatches, iv. 39 Spiritualism, i. 226; ii. 46, 203 seq.; iii. 252 Spithead, naval review, 1899, iii. 58 Spofforth, F. R., Australian cricketer, iii. 292, 294 Sport, i. 173; battues condemned, i. 174-5, ill.; in school education, ii. 131; and pastime, ii. 211, 339-49; iii. 287-303; iv. 345-60; women begin to compete, ii. 238; and unemployed, iv. 123; athletic; Oxford v. Yale, iv. 346; winter, in 1895, iv. 356 Spurgeon, Rev. C. H., i. 106; iii. 145, 168; death, iii. 175 Stage, and Society, i. 228; ii. 235, 294 seq.; realism, ii. 293; and education, iii. 144 seq. Stanford's railway map issued, ii. 154 Stanford, Sir Charles, iv. 333; composes music for Eumenides, iii. 352; conducts his Revenge, iii. 370; and Royal College of Music, iii. 372 Stanhope, 4th Earl, i. 303 Stanhope, 5th Earl, ii. 157; and revision of Prayer-book, ii. 170 Stanley, Lord, afterwards 15th Earl of Derby. See Derby. Stanley, A. P., Dean of Westminster, ii. 101-2, 157; made Dean, ii. 113: religious liberalism, ii. 134; and suggested memorial to Prince Imperial, iii. 24; death, iii. 375 Stanley, H. M., explorer, ii. 217 seq.; iii. 63 Staple Inn, proposed demolition, iii. 178 State Church threatened, ii. 120 Statues, Wellington's replaced at Hyde Park Corner, iii. 178; and memorials, iv. 204-7 Stead, W. T., and national defence, iii. 71; advocates British naval supremacy, iii. 204 Stephenson, George, i. 86; and Brunel, iii. 199 Stevens, Alfred, sculptor, i. 294; ii. 313 Stevenson, R. L., iii. 317; through P.'s eyes, iii. 323, 325; Catriona reviewed with Barabbas, iv. 281; P.'s obituary verses and reply to W. E. Henley, ibid. Stott, Ralph, of Dover, invents flying machine, iii. 201 Stowe, Mrs. Beecher, ii. 20 Strap-hanging, iv. 198 Strathnairn, Baron (Sir Hugh Rose), ii. 8 Strauss, Eduard, visits England, iii. 369 seq. Strauss, Johann, i. 294 Strauss, Richard, iv. 332, 338; Elektra, iv. 335; Salome and Joseph, iv. 336; verses on, iv. 336, 337, 342 Street, G. E., R.A., builds the Law Courts, iii. 179 Strikes, iv. 110-11, 132, 134; failure of, i. 60; ii. 58; workmen v. butchers, ii. 76; for higher wages, ii. 92; dock strike of 1889, iii. 80 seq.; gas strike of 1889, iii. 81; coal strike of 1890, iii. 83; coal strike of 1892, iii. 84; omnibus strike of 1891, iii. 84; of telegraph clerks, iii. 93; coal strike of 1912, iv. 134 Sturge, Joseph, reformer, i. 29 Submarines, possibilities, iii. 203 seq.; improvements in, iv. 181; invention of, iv. 186-8 Suburbs, growth of, iii. 266 seq.; railways to, iv. 198 Suez Canal, ii. 19; iii. 4 Sullivan, Sir Arthur, iv. 305; Ivanhoe, iii. 181, 362; with Gilbert, iii. 356; conducts his Golden Legend, iii. 370; Golden Legend and Prodigal Son, iii. 372; memorial verses on, iv. 338. See also Gilbert, W. S. Sumner, C. R., Bp. of Winchester, i. 45 Sumner, J. B., Archbp. of Canterbury, i. 93, 95 Surgeons, Army and Navy, disabilities of, i. 120. See also Doctors. Sutherland, 2nd Duke of, i. 18, 202; Duchess of, i. 255; 3rd Duke of, ii. 218 Sweated labour, i. 11, 17, 28; ii. 56 seq., 74; iii. 134; of children, ii. 58 seq.; by Jews and others, iii. 94 seq. Swimming, for women, iii. 291; Channel, iv. 355 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, ii. 269 seq.; iii. 317; patronizes "the Menken," ii. 289; through P.'s eyes, iii. 324; criticized and parodied, iv. 275; P.'s final tribute to, ibid. Syncretics Society, the, i. 274 Syndicalism, attempt at, i. 39 Table-turning mania, i. 226 Taft, President, and England, iv. 75 Taglioni, Maria, i. 274 Taglioni overcoat, i. 265 Tagore, Rabindranath, cult of, iv. 291 Tait, Bp. of London, ii. 102, 106, 120; (Archbp. of Canterbury) and Sabbatarianism, iii. 102; death, iii. 320 Talfourd, Sir T. N., i. 233 Tariff Reform, iv. 51, 69, 116 Tattersall's. See London Taxi-cabs foreshadowed, i. 77 Tay Bridge disaster, iii. 163 Taylor, Miss Helen, stands for Camberwell, iii. 128 Taylor, Tom, editor of P., ii. 235; death, iii. 328; as playwright, iii. 343 Teck, Duke and Duchess of, iii. 223 Telegraph, electric, i. 72, 79; ii. 138; inefficiency of, iii. 206 Tel-el-Kebir, battle of, iii. 3, 32 Telephones, introduction of, iii. 205 Temperance, P.'s views on, i. 46; French idea of British, ii. 212 seq.; iii. 102 seq.; Budget of 1883, iii. 103; licensing anomalies, ibid. Temple Bar, i. 149; removed, iii. 177 Temple, Dr. (Bp. of London), ii. 101-2, 110; (Archbp. of Canterbury) and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148 Temple, Sir Richard, iii. 144 Tenniel, Sir John, ii. 182; iii. 4, 12, 57; "Dropping the Pilot" cartoon, iii. 61, 221; iv. 34; knighthood, iv. 310; public dinner to, ibid.; special Tenniel number, iv. 311; illustrations to Alice in Wonderland, ibid. Tennyson, 1st Lord, i. 206; Charge of the Light Brigade, i. 131; ii. 174, 268; peerage, iii. 320; P. and, iv. 274 Terriss, William, iv. 318 Territorial Army, iv. 13, 60; efficiency of, in 1914, iv. 98 Terry, Ellen, ii. 292, 104; iii. 350; jubilee, iv. 325 ill., 326 Terry, Kate, ii. 286 Tetrazzini, Mme., iv. 334 Thackeray, W. M., i. 173, 181; leaves P., i. 112; "The Pimlico Pavilion," i. 149; on Dickens, i. 218; his prophecy, ii. 184 seq.; criticizes Eugene Aram, iii. 143; quoted, iii. 280, 283, 321; death, ii. 273 Thames, River: Tunnel, i. 149; state of, i. 151; ii. 148 seq.; iii. 106; steamboat service, i. 44; iv. 200; embankments, ii. 152; iii. 179 Theatre in Russia, ii. 284 seq. Theatres: stage and society, i. 228; Act of 1843, i. 273; performances in Passion Week, i. 275; as schools for infants, iii. 354; repertory, in provinces, iv. 312; Independent Theatre, iv. 313. See also Drama Theological romance, iii. 176 Theosophists, iii. 252 seq. Thiers, Louis Adolphe, French statesman and President, ii. 36; iii. 20 Thomas, J. H., Labour M.P., threatens railway strike, iv. 135 Thompson, Sir Henry, ii. 223; and vegetarianism, iii. 209; and cremation, iii. 275 Thomson, Dr., Archbp. of York, ii. 50, 120 Thornton, C. I., P.'s tribute to, iv. 349 Thought-reading, iii. 252 seq. Tichborne case, the, ii. 206-11; iii. 9 Tillett, Mr. Ben, and L.C.C., iii. 197; attacks Lord Mount-Edgcumbe, iv. 120 Times, The, newspaper, and P., i. 187; ii. 70, 76, 132, 134, 254, 263, 332 seq., 336, 345; iii. 19, 50; controversy with Parnell, iii. 57; and Mr. Balfour, iii. 65; and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, iii. 66, 71, 92, 101; centenary, iii. 327; passes under Lord Northcliffe's financial control, iv. 298; reduced to one penny, ibid. Tirpitz, Admiral, and German naval expansion, iv. 85 Titanic, loss of the, iv. 191 Titiens, Mlle., ii. 298, 300 seq., 303 seq. "Tom Brown." See Hughes, Tom "Tom Thumb, General," at Court, i. 187 Toole, J. L., actor, iii. 353; iv. 325 Tooth, Rev. A., of Hatcham, iii. 160 Top-hat, tyranny of, iii. 314 seq.; iv. 257; pros and cons, iv., 258, 259 Tower Bridge opened (1894), iv. 200 Townsend, F. H., P. artist, iv. 109, 154, 210 Trade depression after Boer war, iv. 46, 132 Trade Disputes Act of 1906, iv. 6, 58, 125-6 Trade unions, and foreign politics, ii. 42; tyranny of, ii. 58, 77, 85 seq.; intimidation exercised by, ii. 86; Trade Unions Act, ii. 96; iii. 74; iv. 119, 120, 122, 128, 132-4 Trafalgar Square, i. 147; ii. 163 ill.; criticism of, iii. 180 Tramways, drivers and conductors, iii. 93; and railways, iii. 180; and motor-'buses, iv. 196-8 Transvaal, annexed, iii. 18; war with, iii. 29 seq.; obtains full autonomy, iv. 7 seq.; grant to, iv. 46; Boers v. Uitlanders, 36 seq. Travellers, British, on the Continent, i. 222; ii. 211, 212; iii. 268-70, 278-9; iv. 255-6 Treaties: draft, secret (France and Prussia in 1867), ii. 82; San Stefano, iii. 3; London, iv. 83-4; Bukharest, iv. 84 Trebelli, Mme., ii. 301, 303 Tree, Sir Herbert, actor-manager, iii. 344, 353; iv. 317, 321, 322; on the music-halls, iv. 330 Trent case, the, ii. 3, 18, 19 Trevelyan, Rt. Hon. Sir George, iv. 4 Tricycles, appearance of, ii. 138; iii. 300 Trilby, P. on, iv. 284; in Peckham, ill., iv. 285 Triple Alliance, established, iii. 54; iii. 59; in 1907, iv. 62 "Trippers," cheap, iii. 104 seq. Trollope, Anthony, ii. 274; iii. 317, 320; parodied, iii. 324 Truth, appearance of, iii. 327 Tryon, Admiral Sir George, and loss of the Victoria, iv. 191 Tubes introduced, iv. 194, 198 Tupper, Martin F., i. 234; ii. 181, 270 seq.; death, iii. 319 Turf, the, iv. 360 Turkey, relations with, iii. 14 seq.; buys Dreadnought from England, iv. 91; relations with Greece, iv. 99. See also Russo-Turkish war Turner, J. M. W., R.A., i. 295 Turnerelli, Tracy, and the "people's tribute," iii. 24 Turnpike, laws resented, i. 57; trusts, end of, iv. 202 Tussaud's, Mme., i. 68, 106; Chamber of Horrors condemned, i. 157 Twain, Mark, ii. 277, 280; welcomed by P., in 1907, iv. 292; farewell to, in 1910, iv. 293 Tweedmouth, 2nd Baron, and German menace, iv. 10; withdraws from Admiralty, iv. 63 "Two Nations, The," i. frontispiece, 27 Type-writer, ii. 143 seq. Typhus, visitation of, i. 152 Uganda annexed, iv. 16 Ulster, and Home Rule, iv. 13; crisis in, iv. 80, 85-6, 91, 92, 94-9, 101, 135 "Ulster," the, ii. 338 Undergraduates, costume, i. 269 ill.; high cost of living, ii. 134 seq. Underground railways, ii. 136, 154; iv. 194, 198, 200 Underpaid: governesses, iii. 273; women workers, iv. 105 Unemployment: riots, iii. 76, 78; unemployed and unemployables, iii. 79; iv. 111-2, 119, 123; insurance, iv. 133; in the upper class, iv. 246 Uniforms, military: protective colouring suggested, i. 122; vagaries of, i. 269, 270; iii. 316 United Kingdom Alliance, i. 105 United States of America: friction with, i. 134; relief sent from, to Lancashire in 1863, ii. 69; centenary of, iii. 48; relations with, iv. 22 seq. 25, 75, 98 Universities: P.'s anti-academic bias, i. 87, 233; Irish University Bill, ii. 39; Universities Commission of 1872, ii. 132 seq.; Universities Act of 1877, ii. 133; complaints of over-athleticism and expense, ii. 134; women at, ii. 260 seq.; degrees for women, iii. 117; London University and women, iii. 119; education at, iii. 151 seq.; teaching of Greek, iii. 154 seq.; commerce at, iv. 155 Urquhart, David, i. 313 Vaccination Bill of 1898, iv. 119 Vanguard, loss of the, iii. 9 Vatican Decrees, iii. 158 seq. Vaticanism, ii. 101, 118 Vaughan, Father Bernard, iv. 250 Vaughan, Kate, actress, iii. 354 Vauxhall Gardens, i. 155 Vegetarianism, i. 240; iii. 209 Venetia annexed to Italy, ii. 26 Venezuela, dispute with, iv. 11, 22, 25 Verdi, Giuseppe, i. 277; ii. 301, 305, 297 seq.; his Otello performed, iii. 356, 359; P. and his later operas, iv. 332 Verne, Jules, iv. 186, 187 Verrey's Café, i. 217 Viardot-Garcia, Pauline, i. 280 Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, ii. 10, 17, 19, 196 Victor Emmanuel III visits England, iii. 233 Victoria, loss of the, iv. 191 Victoria, Princess Royal, betrothed, i. 198 Victoria, Queen, i. 91; reviews wounded soldiers, i. 130; V.C. instituted, i. 136; opens Royal Exchange, i. 149; preference for foreign talent, i. 149, 190; "bed-chamber" controversy, i. 165; marriage, i. 166; birth of Prince of Wales, i. 168; as Mother Hubbard, i. 169 ill.; attack on, i. 186; as Calypso, i. 191 ill.; visits Ireland, i. 196; surname of Windsor suggested, ibid.; as Red Riding Hood, i. 307 ill.; as Queen Canute, i. 309 ill.; as Queen Hermione, ii. front.; speech, 1860, ii. 16, 55; and Irish Church Bill, ii. 115 ill.; as Queen of India, ill., ii. 173, 174 seq., 179 seq., 191 seq.; letter to Mayor of Birmingham, ii. 245; Empress of India, iii. 4, 12, 215 seq.; Golden Jubilee, iii. 6, 48, 226 seq.; in seclusion, iii. 219 seq.; attempt on her life, iii. 221; and Royal grants, iii. 232; Diamond Jubilee, iv. 27, 219-20; 80th birthday, iv. 34; death, iv. 42, 44; Memorial, iv. 201, 207; last years of reign, iv. 215 Victoria Theatre, ii. 285 Victorian age closes, iv. 3 seq. Villafranca, Peace of, ii. 12 Vivisection, iii. 103 Vokes family and pantomime, iii. 354 Voluntary schools, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's attitude to, iii. 57 Volunteers, ii. 13 Wages, i. 11, 17, 19, 33, 37, 72; and prices, iii. 104; iv. 105, 113, 119, 120 "Waggawock, The," ii. 209 Wagner, Johanna, i. 285 Wagner, Richard, i. 285; ii. 298, 300 seq., 307; at Albert Hall, iii. 356, 357; death, iii. 358, 361; P. and, iv. 332 Wales, Albert Edward, P. of (King Edward VII), i. 8, 168; visits Canada, ii. 16; visits India, iii. 215 seq. Wales, Edward, P. of, iv. 216, 227 Wales, George, P. of (King George V), visits Ireland and Berlin, iii. 225 Walker, Frederick, A.R.A., ii. 269, 317 Walker, Mary, Dr., ii. 252; iii. 305 Walker, Miss, female Chartist, i. 249 ill. Walpole, Rt. Hon. Spencer H, i. 45; ii. 80, 82 Waltz, the, i. 209, 212; ii. 240; iii. 369, 370, 371 ill.; iv. 235, 236, 237 ill. Ward, Artemus (C. F. Browne), ii. 277 seq. Ward, Mrs. Humphry, Robert Elsmere, iii. 176, 317, 322 Ward, Colonel John, C.B., D.S.O., M.P., iv. 135 Warner, Capt., inventor, i. 74; ii. 139 Warren, Sir Charles, and the police force, iii. 101; in Boer war, iv. 39 Warren, Samuel, castigated by P., i. 234; ii. 242 Waterford, 3rd Marquess of, i. 202 ill. Watkin, Sir Edward, and Channel Tunnel, iii. 204 Watts, G. F., R.A., iii. 255, 337; his "Hope," iii. 338; P.'s verses on, iv. 304 Watts, Dr. Isaac, ii. 210 Webb, Sir Aston, R.A., iv. 212 Wellington College, iii. 149 Wellington, 1st Duke of: on the poor, i. 6; criticized, i. 18; appoints special constables, i. 54; duel with Lord Winchilsea, i. 114, 115 ill.; letter to Times, i. 117; on ignorance in the Army, i. 120; statues to, i. 149; Alfred Stevens's monument to, i. 294; as courtier to Queen Canute, i. 309 ill. Wellington Memorial competition, ii. 313 Wells, H. G., iv. 129, 286; Ann Veronica reviewed, iv. 289 Welsh Disestablishment Bill, iv. 18, 86, 92, 98 Welsh language, ii. 220 Wemyss, 8th Earl of, iii. 37 Westbury, 1st Lord, death, ii. 118 Westminster Abbey, burials in, iv. 207 Westminster Aquarium, criticized, iii. 100, 103, 287; closed, iv. 202-3 Westminster Bridge, i. 148 Westminster Cathedral consecrated, iv. 201 Westminster, 1st Duke of, starts cheap eating-houses, iii. 185 Westminster, 2nd Duke of, on the "national disaster" of 1912, iv. 347 Whalley, G. H., M.P., ii. 39 ill., 210, 272; iii. 9; cartooned, iii. 21 Whiskers, ambrosial, i. 268; iii. 316; no longer in fashion, iv. 264 Whistler, J. McNeill, ii. 313, 316, 329; and Ruskin, iii. 331; satirized by P., iii. 337, 341 seq. Whitechapel, crime wave in, iii. 101 Whitman, Walt, i. 234; ii. 270; death, iii. 320 Whymper, Edward, mountaineer, iii. 291 Wicked World, The, ii. 291 Widdicomb, John E., the ringmaster of Astley's Circus, i. 155 Wilberforce, Canon Basil, iii. 163 Wilberforce, Samuel, Bp. of Oxford, i. 95; death, ii. 118; biography, iii. 252 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, Mrs., ii. 289; iv. 287, 292 Wilde, Oscar, and the æsthetic movement, iii. 257 seq., 325, 329, 337 Wilhelm, ex-Crown Prince of Germany, visits India, iv. 75 Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany, ii. 35 ill., 195 seq.; death, iii. 51, 225 Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, ii. 25; iii. 8, 51; utterance of, iii. 52; relations with Bismarck, iii. 54; visits England, iii. 57 seq.; aggressive attitude, iii. 59, 61; dismisses Bismarck, iii. 61; and race of armaments, iii. 71; visits England, 1891, iii. 232 seq.; through P.'s eyes, iv. 11; telegram to Krüger, iv. 20, 26 seq.; and Professor Quidde, iv. 26; lèse-majesté campaign, iv. 26, 32, 48; distrusted in England, iv. 56; and naval retrenchment, iv. 63; dispute with his Chancellor, iv. 64; fiftieth birthday, iv. 65, 80; congratulates Roumania, iv. 83 William of Wied, Prince, chosen sovereign of Albania, iv. 84 Willis's Rooms, i. 276 Wilson, Dr., on Scott's Antarctic expedition, iv. 190 Wilson, Sir Erasmus, and Cleopatra's Needle, ii. 153 Wilson, President Woodrow, iv. 143 Wimbledon Volunteer camp removed by order, iii. 68 seq. Winchilsea, 10th Earl of, duel with Duke of Wellington, i. 114 Winchilsea, 11th Earl of, bellicosity as Lord Maidstone, i. 115 Wireless telegraphy, iv. 181, 186 Wiseman, Cardinal, issues pastoral, i. 99; attacked by P. 99-100, 101 ill.; original of "Bishop Blougram," i. 103; retorts on P., ibid.; life of, reviewed by P., iv. 158, 162 Wolseley, Sir Garnet (1st Viscount Wolseley), ii. 38; iii. 3; Tel-el-Kebir, iii. 32, 54, 71, 217; controversy with Dr. W. H. Russell, iii. 111; opposes Channel Tunnel, iii. 204; on duration of Boer war, iv. 38 Women, assaults on, i. 19, 252; and emigration, i. 58, 255; iii. 128; accomplishments of, i. 213, 214; masculinity of, i. 244; and smoking, i. 244, 246; iii. 131; the "model fast lady," i. 245-7; in medicine, i. 250; "Bloomerism," ibid.; ii. 236-65; and toy-dogs, ii. 241; as artists, i. 252; ii. 243; musicians, ibid.; gymnasts, ii. 244 seq.; new occupations, ii. 246; strong-minded, ii. 246 seq.; and the professions, i. 249 seq.; ii. 247, 258 seq.; iii. 124 seq.; and marriage, ii. 262, 263; workers, iii. 88 seq., 133 seq.; status of, iii. 114-136; higher education of, i. 248; ii. 260; iii. 116 seq.; and cookery, iii. 117; and physical culture, iii. 118; women's associations, iii. 124 seq.; as jurors, iii. 129; clubs for, iii. 130; iv. 169, 172; in sports and pastime, iii. 131 seq., 294; iv. 163, 167, 171; the new, iv. 165-8; chauffeurs, iv. 168; University students, iv. 167, 169, 170; aviators, iv. 178 Women's Rights movement, i. 249, 252, 257; ii. 98, 236, 251 seq.; iii. 126 seq., 128; as canvassers, iii. 129; militant suffragism, iv. 98, 163, 168, 171, 174, 178-80; in municipal office, iv. 168; cleavage in Asquith's Cabinet over, iv. 178-9 Wood, Sir Henry Wood, i. 289 Wood, General Leonard, report on U.S.A. army, iv. 91 Workhouse scandals, i. 8, 20, 21; ii. 48 seq.; iii. 96; iv. 127 Working men, condition of, i. 3-60; ii. 58, 76-7; sympathy with the North in American war, ii. 71; as candidates for Parliament, ii. 86 seq.; high wages, ii. 89, 92 seq.; improvidence of, iv. 113; aversion from work, iv. 243 Working women's colleges, ii. 56 Workmen's Compensation Act, iv. 127 Wright, brothers (Orville and Wilbur), inventors and pioneer aviators, iv. 184 Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George, M.P., and Irish Land Purchase Act, iv. 4, 49; death, iv. 58 X-rays discovered, iv. 181, 189 Yankees, ii. 71 Yates, Edmund, of the World, iii. 170 Yellow Book, the, iv. 230, 283 Yerkes, Charles Tyson, organizes London electrical railways, iv. 198 York, Dr. Thomson, Archbp. of, ii. 50, 120 York, Duke of, marriage, iv. 215 York, Duke and Duchess of, visit Ireland, iv. 220; visit Australia in 1901, iv. 222 "Young England" party, P.'s hostility to, i. 24; supports Bill for regulation of factory labour, i. 25; and reform of the Church, i. 94; white waistcoats, emblem of, i. 268 "Young Ireland" party, i. 196 Young men in the 'eighties and 'nineties, iii. 264 Young, poet, P. on, ii. 272 Zabern incident, iv. 85, 91 Zæo, acrobat, iii. 287; iv. 203 Zancigs, the, iii. 253 Zanzibar, Bp. of, and Kikuyu controversy, iv. 160 Zazel, acrobat, iii. 23, 100, 287, iv. 203 Zeppelins, trial trips of, iv. 183 Zola, Emile, iii. 353; iv. 28 Zulu war, iii. 23 seq., 111