À Beckett, Gilbert, Thackeray on, i. 4;Comic Blackstone, i. 90, 232Aberdeen, 4th Earl of, pro-Russian sympathies, i. 5, 125;smoking pipe of peace,illustration, i. 124;defends Prince Albert, i. 183Abyssinia, King of, ii. 196Abyssinia, war with, ii. 27seq.Academy, British, scheme of, attacked byPunch, iv. 275Academy, Royal: suggestions for improving, iv. 301;"problem" pictures at, iv. 302;Visitors at,ibid.Actors, salaries, i. 274;and society, iii. 349seq.;see alsoDrama.Adelaide, Dowager-Queen, tribute to, i. 198Admiralty Arch, prospect obstructed, iv. 201Advertisements, educational, i. 35;growth, i. 161Aerial steam carriage,ill., i. 73Aeronautical Exhib., 1868, ii. 142Aeronautics, i. 72seq.Aeroplanes, beginnings, iv. 184, 186Æsthetic movement, iii. 254seq., 313, 329, 336seq.Æsthetic pioneers,ill., i. 263Afghan campaigns, iii. 3, 18Afghan war, outbreak, iii. 25seq.Afghanistan, Ameer of, iii. 18Agitators, i. 52; ii. 58, 65, 81; iv. 111-2, 132-4Agnosticism, attitude ofP.towards, iii. 162Agricultural depression, iv. 103, 113-4Agricultural Gangs Act, ii. 46Agricultural labourers, wages, i. 17;food consumption of, iii. 72seq.;conditions, iii. 89Agricultural Land Rating Bill, 1896, iv. 114Agriculture, machinery in, iii. 210;shortage of hands, iv. 114Ainsworth, Harrison,Jack Sheppardcensured, iii. 143Air, conquest of the, iv. 181Air Force, beginnings, iv. 90, 93Airships, flights, iv. 183Alabamacase, ii. 3, 20, 95Albany, Duke of, iii. 223seq.;recommends cookery lessons for the poor, iii. 76;speech, iii. 218; marriage, iii. 221Albemarle, 6th Earl of, i. 96, 206Albert Gate, i. 149Albert Hall opened, ii. 190Albert Medal, ii. 182seq.Albert Memorial, ii. 182Albert, Prince Consort, ii. 169-70, 179seq., 182;unpopularity, i. 166, 171;love of uniforms, i. 171, 172;as sportsman, i. 173-6;as farmer, i. 180;Chancellor of Cambridge Univ., i. 181;"PrinceP.to Prince Albert," i. 182;alleged interference in State affairs, i. 183Alexander, Prince, of Bulgaria, iii. 55Alexander II, of Russia, ii. 196, 204; iii. 30Alexander III, of Russia, death, iv. 16Alexandra, Queen, ii. 181;and pigeon shooting, iii. 222;sets fashions, iii. 222;visits Ireland, iii. 225Alfonso XIII, King.SeeSpainAlfred, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, offered Greek crown, ii. 19;decorated by King of Prussia, ii. 22;tour in Egypt and Palestine, ii. 175;refuses Greek crown, ii. 181;marriage, ii. 188;inaugurates Westminster Aquarium, iii. 100;P.'stoast to, iii. 223;death, iv. 220Alice, Princess, Grand Duchess of Hesse Darmstadt, married, ii. 181;death, iii. 218Allan, Maud, iv. 229, 326, 330Allen, Grant,The Woman who Did, iv. 163Almack's, i. 208; ii. 240;Grantley Berkeley on, i. 209;attempted revival, iii. 247Alpine climbing, ii. 211America, relations with, i. 134; iv. 11;Monroe doctrine, iv. 8;influence of millionaires, iv. 246;freak dinners andenfants terribles, iv. 246American blockade, ii. 68American Civil War, ii. 3, 17seq., 20, 22, 66seq.American humorists, ii. 277American journalism, i. 72; ii. 145seq.American millionaire art collectors, iii. 276American women of fashion, ii. 214Americanisms, ii. 216Amundsen, Roald, iv. 181;reaches South Pole, iv. 190Anæsthetics, discovery of, i. 77Andersen, Hans Christian, child's letter to, i. 89Anderson, Mary, iii. 347Andover Union, i. 4, 20Angell, Norman,Foundations of International Policy, iv. 97Anglo-Danish Exhibition of 1888, iii. 289Anglo-FrenchEntente, iv. 6, 11, 48, 56, 125Anglo-Japanese Alliance, iv. 6, 11Anstey, F. (T. A. Guthrie), iii. 286, 289, 325Antarctic exploration, iv. 181, 190-1Anti-clericalism in France, iv. 159Anti-war party, iv. 44-5Arabi Pasha, iii. 3Archer, William, translates Ibsen, iii. 355Archery, ii. 238, 346Arctic exploration, iv. 181, 190;by Captain Nares, iii. 328Argyll, 8th Duke of, ii. 68;and Armenian atrocities, iv. 18Aristocracy, i. 201seq.;ignorance of peers, i. 204;"bloated haristocrat,"ill.i. 205;journalists pander to, ii. 172;and new rich, ii. 198;take to journalism, iii. 242seq.Armenian atrocities, iv. 18Armoured ships, use of, criticized, ii. 140Army, as a profession, i. 114;flogging in the, i. 116;Militia, reorganized, i. 116;Brook Green volunteer, i. 116;surgeons, i. 120;Volunteer rifle clubs, i. 122;undue differentiation between ranks, i. 131;barracks system, inquiry into, i. 134;purchase, i. 138; ii. 43;Volunteers discouraged by military authorities, iii. 68seq.;regular, enforced expenses in, iii. 70seq.;Recruiting Commission, iii. 109;P.'sattitude towards, iii. 109seq.;Volunteer review at Windsor, iii. 111;Balaclava survivors, iii. 112;and Ulster, iv. 94;popular prejudice against, iv. 128.See alsoCrimean war, Uniforms.Army reform, ii. 38; iv. 49Arnold, Matthew, ii. 268; iii. 317;throughP.'seyes, iii. 322'Arry, and 'Arriet, iii. 106seq.;disappearance of, iv. 255, 256Art, i. 249seq.;English, discouraged at Court, i. 190;criticism, i. 296;Victorian, i. 301;caricatures of impressionists, iv. 306;and popular painters, 1902,ibid.;nouveau art,ibid.;P.'sart glossary, iv. 307;The Timesart critic burlesqued, iv. 308;Futuristic method applied to popular painters,ill., iv. 309;opening of Tate and National Portrait Galleries and Wallace Collection, iv. 310.See alsoRoyal AcademyArtillery, long-range,P.'sprophecy, ii. 142Artists, women, exhibition of, i. 252;English, French medals conferred on, i. 303;models, iii. 250Ashanti expedition, ii. 38; iv. 8, 19Ashley, Lord;seeShaftesbury, 7th Earl ofAsquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., iv. 62, 64, 95, 99;as legislator, iv. 4;and Boer war, iv. 45;and national defence, iv. 66;and Upper Chamber reform, iv. 67-9, 72;"wait and see" policy, iv. 69-70;and Ulster, iv. 85, 94, 97;legislative activity, iv. 86, 88;and Lord Curzon, iv. 90;Home Rule Bill of 1914, iv. 98;and Trafalgar Square meetings, iv. 111;and Lloyd George's land campaign, iv. 118;and old age pensions, iv. 130;and Woman Suffrage, iv. 174, 178Astley's Circus, i. 155; ii. 289Athleticism, among women, ii. 238;cult of, iv. 152Athletics at school, iii. 292Atholl, 5th Duke of, i. 18, 202Atlantic cable, ii. 139Atlantic liners, improved speed of, iii. 209Augusta, Princess, of Cambridge, married, i. 193Austin, Alfred,P.'sattacks on, iv. 274Australia, emigration to, i. 58;industrial conditions, i. 57;gold mines, i. 76;Navy, iii. 56;federation of colonies, iii. 66;eight-hours day for domestics, introduced, iv. 120Australian Commonwealth Bill of 1900, iv. 41Austria, relations with Serbia up to 1914, iv. 10;declares war on Serbia, iv. 100Austro-Prussian war, ii. 3, 26Authors, distressed, i. 85Avebury, 1st Lord, ii. 87seq.; iv. 287Ayrton, A. S., ii. 39, 152, 291Babbage, Charles, ii. 99Baden-Powell, General Sir Robert, defends Mafeking, iv. 39;arrives in England, iv. 45;founds Boy Scout movement, iv. 107Baghdad railway, British subsidy proposed by Germany, iv. 48Baker, Sir Samuel, ii. 216Balfe, Michael W., attacked, i. 293;success ofBohemian Girl, i. 278;Puritan's Daughter, ii. 300Balfour of Burleigh, Lord, iv. 58Balfour, Rt. Hon. Arthur J., iii. 6, 32; iv. 4, 33, 44;at the Irish Office, iii. 50;andThe Times, iii. 65;Leader of the House of Commons, iii. 66;and golf, iii. 298;and Venezuelan arbitration, iv. 22;and Boer war, iv. 39;Prime Minister, iv. 48;negotiates with GermanyreBaghdad railway, iv. 48;legislation in Ireland, iv. 49;administration collapses, iv. 56seq.;holiday at Nice, iv. 92;and Tariff Reform, iv. 51, 116;and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148;gives a ball, iv. 236-238Balkans, trouble in, iii. 12, 14; iv. 90;war of 1912, iv. 10, 80-83;war of 1913, iv. 83-4Ballantine, Serjeant, ii. 328Ballet, Russian, iv. 229, 327, 330, 331Ballet-girls, their cause espoused byP., ii. 234seq.Balliol as a nursery of cranks and coming men, iv. 254Ballooning: Charles Green, i. 73;Captain Warner, i. 74;to California,ibid."Balmorals," ii. 331Bancroft, Sir Squire and Lady, ii. 290-1;influence on acting, iii. 351Banjo, popularity of, iii. 278; iv. 339,ill.Bank smashes, i. 77Banting, William, ii. 201Bar, women and the, ii. 250"Bardery," Welsh, ii. 220Barnett, Canon, and art exhibition in Whitechapel, iv. 106Barnum, Phineas T., return to England, iii. 289Barrett, Wilson, as Hamlet, iii. 351Barrie, Sir James, iii. 317;Window in Thrums, iii. 323;parodied, iii. 325;plays of, iv. 313, 323;two views ofPeter Pan, iv. 328Barrow-in-Furness, ii. 83, 84seq.Barry, Sir C., i. 148, 304Baseball, iii. 297; iv. 348Bass, Michael, M.P.; his Bill to restrict street music, ii. 99Battenberg, Prince Alexander of, abdicates, iii. 47;death of, iv. 218Battenberg, Prince Henry of, governor of Isle of Wight, iii. 231;death of, iv. 218Bazalgette, Sir Joseph, ii. 152Beaconsfield, B. Disraeli, Earl of, and "Young England," i. 24;supports Bill for Regulation of Factory Labour, i. 25;Sybil, i. 26;literary style, i. 27;opposes repeal of Corn Laws, i. 28;ignorance of arithmetic, i. 86;as "political Topsy,"ill.i. 107;P.'sdistrust of, i. 108;design of monument to, i. 109;Life of Lord George Bentinck, i. 109;policy of, ii. 4, 29, 30ill., 40, 42, 79, 82, 85, 113seq.;religion and ancestry, ii. 117seq., 121, 148, 181, 187, 214, 215ill., 272, 273seq., 341; iii. 4seq.;earldom, iii. 12, 14seq., 16seq.; declines "people's tribute," iii. 24;waning prestige, iii. 24seq.;and Afghan war, iii. 26;death of, iii. 30;quoted, iii. 139;and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii. 158;on visit of Prince of Wales to India, iii. 215;names Queen Victoria Empress of India, iii. 216Beaufort, 9th Duke of; edits Badminton Library series, iii. 298Beales, Edmond, ii. 80seq.Beardsley, Aubrey, attacked byP., iv. 283, 301, 304, 305Beatrice, Princess, herBirthday Book, iii. 221;married, iii. 225seq.Becker, Lydia, and Woman Suffrage, iii. 128Beckett, Gilbert Arthur à, ii. 291Bedford, 9th Duke of, and Covent Garden, iii. 182seq.;and Bloomsbury, iii. 184, 186Beecher-Stowe, Mrs., visits England, i. 255Beers, Jan Van, artist, criticized byP., iii. 340Beesly, Professor E. H., ii. 42, 70Beggar's Opera, The, iii. 359Belgium, Royal tour in, i. 191;suggested French occupation of, ii. 34;and Congo, iv. 55, 66Bellini, Vincenzo, operatic composer, ii. 301Benedict, Sir Jules, ii. 300; iii. 373Bengal tiger,ill., ii. 5Bennett, Arnold, iv. 289Benson, Archbishop, iii. 34;and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, iii. 57;headmaster of Wellington College, iii. 149Benson, Sir Frank; productions criticized, ii. 352Béranger, Pierre Jean de, ii. 101Beresford, Admiral Lord Charles, and national defence, iii. 69;resignation of, iii. 230Berlin, Congress of, 1878, iii. 4, 17;amenities of, iv. 55Berlioz, cult of, in England, iii. 370Bernhardi, General, iv. 85Bernhardt, Sarah, visits to England, iii. 345seq.; iv. 316, 320;at the Coliseum in 1910, iv. 330Besant, Mrs. Annie, iii. 254Besika Bay, naval demonstration in, iii. 16Bethmann-Hollweg, Dr., introduces German Army Bill, iv. 84Bicycles, appearance of, ii. 138; iii. 200;evolution of, iii. 300;fashionable, iv. 244-5;invade schools, iv. 255;uses and abuses of, iv. 355;Mr. Gladstone on,ill., iv. 354Bieberstein, Baron Marschall von, German ambassador, iv. 80Big Ben, i. 150Biggar, Mr. J. G., M.P., iii. 21Billingsgate, new buildings, i. 150;condition of, iii. 183Bird, Henry, iv. 343, 344Birkenhead, Lord, iv. 6Birmingham, Reformatory Institution, i., 29;school of brewing established at University of, iv. 155Birrell, Mr. Augustine, iv. 62, 95, 134;as Irish Chief Secretary, iv. 67;and Sir E. Carson, iv. 86;leaves Education Office, iv. 149Bishop, Irving, thought-reader, iii. 252Bisley, headquarters of N.R.A., iii. 69Bismarck, Prince, ii. 29, 32, 34; iii. 10, 201; iv. 49;hostility to, ii. 26;Socialists and, iii. 19;P.'sview of, iii. 40;cartoon of, iii. 51;Army Bill, iii. 52;Triple Alliance and, iii. 54, 59;relations with Wilhelm II, iii. 54;with Empress Frederick, iii. 55; iv. 222;dismissed by Wilhelm II, iii. 61;in retirement, iii. 64; iv. 21, 26, 45, 65Black Country, white slavery in, ii. 61seq.;workmen's extravagance in, ii. 92Black Sea Conference, ii. 38Blackwell, Elizabeth, M.D., i. 250Blake, William, ii. 64; iii. 329"Blanche," letters of, iv. 246Blavatsky, Madame, iii. 254Blériot, M., cross-Channel flight, iv. 186Blessington, Countess of, i. 221Blomfield, C. J., Bp. of London, i. 45, 95Blondin, tight-rope walker, ii. 211, 238, 244seq., 308; iii. 100;in Westminster Aquarium, iv. 203Bloomerism, i. 250, 251ill., 262; iii. 305Bloomsbury, state of, iii. 184seq.Boat races, Oxford v. Harvard, ii. 345seq.;with French at Andrésy, iv. 345;Cambridge and Harvard, iv. 346;French crews at Henley,ibid.Bodichon, Mme. Barbara, ii. 252, 260Boer war, iv. 11;causes of, iv. 36seq.;progress of, iv. 38-46Bombalino.SeeFrancis IV of NaplesBoneshakers.SeeBicyclesBonheur, Rosa, ii. 243Booth, Charles, and old age pensions, iv. 119Booth, Edwin, actor, ii. 283Booth family, attitude ofP.towards, iii. 170seq.Booth, General, and Trade Union Congress in 1908, iv. 162;death, iv. 162Booth, J. L. C., iv. 78Borradaile case, ii. 327seq.Borthwick, Peter, M.P., i. 312Botha, General Louis, in London, iv. 46;Premier of Transvaal, iv. 62Boucicault, Dion, ii. 288; iii. 353Boulanger, General, bid for dictatorship, iii. 8, 55;visits England, iii. 57seq.;commits suicide, iii. 58Boulogne: "Bradshaw: a mystery," i. 71;English colony at, i. 221Bowers, Miss G., ii. 238Bowles, Mr. T. Gibson, iv. 58;and Declaration of London, iv. 77Boxing, ii. 340seq.;by women, iii. 132;Slavin and Smith, iii. 290Boy Scout movement, iv. 107-10, 145Braddon, Miss, ii. 274; iii. 318Bradlaugh, Charles, M.P., ii. 190;vicissitudes in Parliament, iii. 26seq.;and Royal grants, iii. 232Bradley, Dean, iii. 167Brahms, Johannes, his genius, iii. 368Bret Harte, iii. 319Briand, M., iv. 73Bridge, negative value of, iv. 247;whist ousted by, iv. 358Briggs, Mr., murder of, ii. 136Bright, Jacob, ii. 258Bright, John, i. 5; ii. 8, 13, 26, 68, 70, 116, 227; iii. 4, 6, 9, 16, 26, 34;opposes Bill for Regulation of Factory Labour, i. 25;and Cardinal Wiseman, i. 104;onslaught on, i. 132;speech criticized, ii. 64seq.;secedes from Gladstonian party, iii. 50;death, iii. 60, 228Brighton, i. 156British Academy, proposed founding of a, iii. 327Brock, Sir Thomas, R.A., sculptor of Victoria Memorial, iv. 207Brodie, Sir Benjamin, ii. 197Brodrick, Hon. St. John (Lord Midleton), and exclusion of peers from Commons, iv. 18;and Army reform, iv. 49, 58Bromhead, Lieut., V.C., hero of Rorke's Drift, iii. 23Brompton swallowed up in South Kensington, iii. 177Bronte, Charlotte, ii. 234Brook Green Volunteer, i. 116Brooks, Shirley,Essence of Parliament, i. 91; ii. 187seq., 223, 269; iii. 226Brougham, Henry, Lord, i. 307seq.;palinode to, i. 310;commended, ii. 58, 263Broughton, Rhoda, Miss, ii. 236, 274; iii. 324Brown, John, Queen Victoria's attendant, death of, iii. 223"Brown, Tom."SeeHughes, TomBrowne, Hablot K. ("Phiz"),P.'scriticism of, iii. 340Browning, Robert, ii. 204; iii. 317;his greatness, iii. 318Browning Society, iii. 318, 324Brummell, Beau, i. 188, 221Brunel, Isambard K., ii. 27;and Stephenson, iii. 199Brunel, Sir M. I., i. 149Bryce, Viscount, iv. 148Buccleuch, 5th Duke of, ii. 152Buckingham Palace, i. 149, 190Buckingham, 2nd Duke of, i. 18Buckland, Professor, i. 181Buckstone, J. B., actor, i. 275; ii. 291;death, iii. 350Budget, the Radical, of Sir W. Harcourt, iv. 4;the People's Budget, iv. 132Buffalo Bill, "Wild West" show in W. Kensington, iii. 289Bulgaria, crown offered to Prince Ferdinand, iii. 51Bulgarian atrocities, iii. 3, 12Buller, General Sir Redvers, iv. 46Bull-fighting, ii. 343Bull's Run, ii. 18Bülow, Count von, German Chancellor, iv. 55;and Socialists, iv. 62Bulwer-Lytton, E. (1st Baron Lytton), hisClaude Duvalcriticized, iii. 143;Tennyson's reply inP.to his attack inThe New Timon, iv. 224Bunn, Alfred, "Poet Bunn," i. 235Burdett-Coutts, Miss (afterwards 1st Baroness), i. 254; ii. 227;efforts to check plumage scandal, iii. 310Burgon, Dean, attacked byP., iii. 151Burlington Arcade, i. 156Burlington House exhibitions, iii. 328Burnand, Sir Frank:Cox and Box, i. 155; ii. 235, 273; iii. 363;editor ofP., iii. 150, 171;as a parodist, iii. 325;as playwright, iii. 343;resigns editorship ofP., iv. 300;his "Few Words at Parting" and "R. C. L.'s" tribute,ibid.Burne-Jones, Sir E., criticized byP., iii. 331, 334; iv. 303Burns, Rt. Hon. John, as Socialist, iii. 76, 78;in Mr. Asquith's Cabinet, iv. 135;and Trade Union Congress of 1908, iv. 162Burt, Right Hon. T., M.P., ii. 43, 88Butler, Mrs. Montagu, ii. 261Butler, Mrs. (afterwards Lady Butler), iii. 116Buxton, Mr. Sydney (afterwards Earl Buxton), President of Board of Trade, iv. 133Byng of Vimy, General Lord, iv. 8"Ca' canny," practice of, ii. 95Cable, submarine, to France, i. 72, 75ill.;Transatlantic, i. 72;laid in 1866, ii. 27Cabs, i. 141, 142;taxis foreshadowed, i. 77;competition with taxis, iv. 195-6Caine, Sir Hall, less entertaining thanBradshaw, iv. 285.See alsoiv. 287, 288Cairns, 1st Earl, ii. 116; iii. 37Caldecott, Randolph, iii. 221, 334Californian goldfields, i. 76Callan, Philip, M.P., cartooned, iii. 21Calls, practice of paying, iv. 254Calvé, Mme., iii. 362; iv. 333Calverley, C. S., ii. 270; death, iii. 320;parodist, iii. 325Cambridge, Adolphus Frederick, Duke of, i. 194, 195Cambridge, Duke George of, and Indian Mutiny, ii. 7;attitude to Volunteers, iii. 68seq., 70;and education in the ranks, iii. 110;and barrack life, iii. 110seq.;on neutral-tinted uniforms for active service, iii. 111seq.;opposes Channel Tunnel, iii. 204, 224;resigns post of Commander-in-Chief, iv. 217;death,ibid.Cambridge University, Bill, i. 87;Prince Albert, Chancellor of, i. 181Camouflage foreshadowed, iv. 193Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, iv. 317Campbell, Sir Colin (Lord Clyde), ii. 6, 8, 16Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, iii. 46;leads Liberals, iv. 33;and Boer war, iv. 45;campaign against the Lords, iv. 62;death, iv. 6, 64;and Chinese labour, iv. 130Canada, Federation of, ii. 28Canada, relations with England and the U.S., iii. 65seq.Canadian Pacific Railway completed, iii. 199Canning, Lord, Governor-General of India, ii. 4, 7Cantillon, Lieut., Napoleon's legacy to, i. 201Capital and labour, iii. 80seq.;iv. 103-35Capital punishment, ii. 97; iii. 100Caprivi, Count, and Bismarck, iii. 64Cardigan, 7th Earl of, Leech's drawing of, i. 131;charges against, i. 135;Indian Mutiny, ii. 7Cardwell, Rt. Hon. Edward (Viscount Cardwell), and Army Reform, ii. 39Carlyle, Thomas, on the ballet, i. 280; ii. 275; iii. 16;death, iii. 317seq.Carnarvon, 4th Earl of, ii. 50; iii. 16, 18;Viceroy of Ireland, iii. 44Carnegie, Andrew, gift to Scottish universities, iv. 156Carnot, President, iii. 58, 206;cartooned, iii. 64;assassinated, iv. 16Carpentier, Georges, iv. 99"Carroll, Lewis," i. 266; ii. 269;P.'sfarewell to, iv. 286-7Carson, Sir Edward, and Ulster, iv. 80, 85-6, 96-7Caruso, Enrico, iv. 333, 334Carver, Dr., shooting performances at Crystal Palace, iii. 103Casement, Sir Roger, and Congo atrocities, iv. 55Catholic Emancipation, i. 108Catnach, bookseller, i. 161Cattle plague, ii. 76Cavour, Count, ii. 11, 19Cecil, Lord Hugh, and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148Cecil, Lord Robert, and Marconi inquiry, iv. 88Censorship, dramatic, iv. 314Central Criminal Court, iii. 101Central Metropolitan Board, i. 161Cervera, Admiral, gallantry of, iv. 11Cetewayo captured, iii. 23Chaliapine, Russian singer, iv. 99, 338Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, ii. 192;the "Brummagem Lion,"ill., ii. 193; iii. 6, 85;and Home Rule in 1886, iii. 44seq.;