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


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