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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