Kipling, Rudyard, iii. 317;welcomed byP., iii. 323; iv. 51;varied criticisms of, iv. 281;The Jungle Book, iv. 282;the "Tommy Atkins business," iv. 282;StalkyandThe Islanders"crabbed" byP.,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. 47Knickerbockers, ii. 335seq.;golfers', iv. 263;for women, iv. 266-7Knight, Charles, i. 146; ii. 281Knocker-wrenching, pastime of, i. 220Kossuth, Louis, i. 314;and Palmerston, i. 72;Turkey refuses to surrender, i. 120Krüger, President, telegram to, from Wilhelm II, iv. 20, 21, 27, 38, 39, 40;confers with Sir A. Milner, iv. 36seq.;arrives in France, iv. 40"Kulturkampf," iii. 19Kyrle Society, and the working classes, iii. 288;criticised byP., iii. 334Lablache, Luigi, i. 277, 283Labouchere, Henry, iii. 46, 75;and Royal grants, iii. 226, 232;and statue of John Bright, iv. 206Labour, organized, ii. 56seq.; iii. 85; iv. 13;delegates, ii. 65seq.Labour Party, ii. 43, 86seq.; iv. 124-6, 136;and Liberals, ii. 86seq.;factor in elections, iv. 58Labour problems, ii. 56seq.See alsoCapital and labour, Trade unionsLacrosse in England, iii. 296Ladas, Lord Rosebery wins Derby with, in 1894, iv. 359"Lady helps," proposed introduction, iii. 270La Grande Duchesse, ii. 290, 305Lamb, Charles, centenary, iii. 317;P.'sadmiration of, iv. 278Lancashire: cotton famine, ii. 66seq.;mill-owners, profiteering, ii. 72Land Acts (Ireland):1870, ii. 39;1885 and 1887, iii. 50; 1891, iii. 65;1903 (Land Purchase Act), iv. 49Land League, iii. 33Landseer, Sir Edwin, R.A., i. 295; ii. 318seq.Lang, Andrew, iii. 298; iv. 299Lansdowne, 3rd Marquess of, i. 203; ii. 4Lansdowne, 5th Marquess of, iv. 4, 6, 66;and Upper Chamber reform, iv. 67;and Trade Disputes Bill, iv. 126Larkin, Jim, Irish labour leader, iv. 13, 86;and strike of Dublin transport workers, iv. 134Laureateship, the, i. 179, 251;P.advocates discontinuance, iv. 227Laurie, Sir Peter, i. 306Law, Mr. Bonar, defeated at polls, 1906, iv. 58;supports Sir E. Carson and Ulster, iv. 86;and Home Rule Bill of 1914, iv. 98Law Courts built, iii. 179Lawn tennis, ii. 347seq.; iii. 295seq., 303; iii. 132;v.golf, iii. 299;an international pastime, iv. 347Lawrence, Sir Henry, ii. 7Lawrence, Sir John (1st Baron), death, iii. 374Lawyers, i. 232seq.;harsh sentences, i. 18, 19;judicial levity censured, i. 233Lear, Edward, ii. 31Lee, General Robert, ii. 22Leech, John; and sport, i. 173;and street noises, i. 159;his women, ii. 238, 239;his sportsmen, ii. 339seq.;tribute by Ruskin, iii. 343;his children and girls, iv. 136, 167Leicester Square, i. 147;conditions, ii. 151Leighton, Lord, elected P.R.A., iii. 332;character and art of, iv. 303Lemon, Mark, 1st editor ofP., i. 112, 159; ii. 280;as playwright, iii. 343Lennox, Lord W., i. 202Leno, Dan, iii. 356; iv. 318Leo XIII, Pope, golden jubilee of, iii. 48;death, iv. 160Leopold I, King of the Belgians, death, ii. 25Leopold II, King of the Belgians, character, iii. 60;and Congo atrocities, iv. 55Léotard, acrobat, ii. 238Lesseps, Count Ferdinand de, ii. 19Levées, i. 191Lever, Charles, ii. 273; iii. 340Licensing Act, 1872, ii. 96Liddon, H. P., Canon, attacked byP., iii. 151Lidgett, Rev. J. S., and L.C.C., iii. 194Life, the simple, derided byP., iv. 248, 249Lightfoot, Dr., Bp. of Durham, and the stage, ii. 295Li Hung Chang in England, iv. 24Limericks, iii. 325seq.Lincoln, Abraham, ii. 19, 21 ill., 67ill.;President of U.S., ii. 17;P.and, ii. 22seq., 66, 71Lincoln's Inn Fields, i. 147Lind, Jenny, i. 281, 282; ii. 299, 304;death, iii. 360Lipton, Sir Thomas, and America Cup, iv. 346-7Liquid-fire bombs invented, ii. 139Liquor Laws, iii. 34Liszt, Franz, i. 294; ii. 297seq., 307;visits England, iii. 356, 367Literature, i. 233seq.; ii. 266-81; iii. 317-28; iv. 274-93Living, cost of,ill., ii. 91Livingstone, David, missionary and explorer, i. 314; ii. 52, 214;death, ii. 119Lohmann, George, cricketer, iii. 294London, i. 141seq.; 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. 185ill.;Underground, ii. 136, 153seq.; iii. 190;(Electric railways), iv. 198;bridges, ii. 149seq.;statues, ii. 150seq., 162;historic buildings demolished, ii. 154seq.;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. 158seq.;Pantheon, ii. 159;Tattersall's, ii. 159seq.;National Gallery, ii. 161;Albert Hall opened, ii. 162;exhibitions, ii. 162;restaurants, ii. 162;Big Ben, ii. 162, 164;cabs and omnibuses, ii. 164seq.; iii. 189seq.;garrotting scare, ii. 165seq.;street processions, iii. 80;Sunday bands in parks, iii. 108;School Board, iii. 138seq., 142;improvements in lighting, iii. 183seq.;restaurants, iii. 186seq.;parks, suggested improvement, iii. 187seq.;fogs and smoke, iii. 190seq.; iv. 202-3;L.C.C., iii. 192seq.;traffic, revolutionized by motor, iv. 194;Thames, state of, iv. 200;police, iv. 208-9;suburbs, iv. 209-10;London Museum, opened, iv. 210-12Londonderry, 4th Marquess of, i. 203Londonderry, Marchioness of, ii. 251Longfellow, H. W., iii. 319Lord's Cricket Ground, ii. 345; iii. 294seq.Lorne, Marquis of (afterwards 9th Duke of Argyll), ii. 184, 186seq.Louis Napoleon.SeeNapoleon IIILouis Philippe, King, i. 54, 191ill.Louise, Princess, betrothal, ii. 184Louise, Princess Royal, iii. 219;betrothed to Earl of Fife, 1889, iii. 232Louise, Mme., iii. 310Lovett, William, drafts the People's Charter, i. 49Lowe, Rt. Hon. Robert,ill., ii. 39;leads Adullamite Liberals, ii. 79;and 1867 Reform Bill, ii. 85, 96;caricatured, ii. 291Lowell, J. R., iii. 19;leaves England, iii. 319Lowther Arcade, i. 156;closed, iv. 202Loyson, C. (Père Hyacinthe), ii. 113Lubbock, Sir John, his Shop Hours Bill, iii. 90;resigns from L.C.C., iii. 194.See alsoAvebury, LordLucan, 3rd Earl of, charges against, i. 135;and Indian Mutiny, ii. 7Lucknow, 1st relief of, ii. 7;capture of, ii. 8Lunatic asylums, cruelty in, iii. 96Lyndhurst, 1st Baron, and Navy, ii. 13, 16Lyttelton, 4th Baron, ii. 60, 92Lytton, 1st Baron, and Tennyson, i. 206; ii. 268;travestied byP., ii. 273;Eugene Aram, iii. 143Lytton, 1st Earl, policy in Afghan war, iii. 26;parodied byP., iii. 325Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1st Baron), ii. 275Macdonald, A., M.P., ii. 43, 88; iii. 74MacDonald, Ramsay, M.P., iv. 134McDougall, Sir John, of the L.C.C., iii. 194McKenna, Rt. Hon. R., iv. 62McKinley, William, President of U.S., iv. 36;elected, iv. 23;assassinated, iv. 47Mackonochie, Rev. A. H., ritualist, ii. 101, 108; iii. 160MacMahon, Marshal, iii. 19; iii. 328Macready, W. C., actor, ii. 287; iii. 344, 350;death, ii. 292Maeterlinck, Maurice, iv. 314, 319, 328;parodied, iii. 325Mafeking relieved, iv. 40Magee, W. C., Archbp. of York, ii. 116;on drink, iii. 103;and child insurance, iii. 144Majuba, iii. 3, 6, 30Malibran, Mme., i. 277; ii. 299Malmesbury, 3rd Earl of, i. 132;resigns leadership of H. of Lords, ii. 31;and modern languages at public schools, ii. 128, 245Manchester, School, in politics, i. 134;"Martyrs," ii. 27;Corporation accounts, iii. 97Manners, Lord John (7th Duke of Rutland), i. 24; ii. 148Manners:smoking before ladies, iii. 262;colloquialisms and cosmetics,ibid.;decline of ballroom, iv. 234-5Manning, 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. 174Manns, Sir August, ii. 309, 311Mapleson, Colonel J. H., operatic manager, ii. 301seq.; iii. 181Marble Arch, i. 148Marchant, Colonel, occupies Fashoda, iv. 28Marconi, Guglielmo, and wireless telegraphy, iv. 186Marconi scandal, iv. 88, 90-91Margarine, advent of, ii. 144Mario, Cavaliere di Candia, i. 284; ii. 301, 303, 306Marriage, laws, i. 21, 96;economics of, ii. 262seq.Married Women's Property Act, 1882, iii. 128Martin, Sir Theodore, iv. 277Martineau, Dr. James, iv. 146Marx, Karl, ii. 190seq.; iv. 129Mary, Princess, of Teck, betrothed to Duke of Clarence, iii. 234;marries Duke of York, iv. 215Mascagni, P., iii. 362Maskelyne, J. N., ii. 205; iii. 252Master and Servant Act, ii. 86Mastersv.men, ii. 74; iii. 72seq.See alsoCapital and LabourMathew, Father, i. 196Mathews, Charles, i. 228, 275Maud, Princess, of Wales, married, iv. 218Maule, Mr. Justice, i. 21Maurice, Rev. F. D., ii. 102, 110;proposes college for working women, ii. 56;and Colenso, ii. 112;death, ii. 118;modernist views, ii. 134May, Phil, iv. 311;his debt to Sambourne,ibid.May Day and Labour, i. 62May Meetings, Exeter Hall, i. 94Mayhew, Henry, i. 4;death, iii. 328Maynooth Grant, i. 105Mazurka, the, i. 213Medical profession, women's admission to, ii. 248seq.;beggarly remuneration of, iii. 273seq.Medical students, i. 240, 241; iii. 274.See alsoDoctors, SurgeonsMediums, ii. 203seq.Melba, Mme., iii. 356, 360; iv. 333, 334Melbourne, 2nd Viscount, i. 166Members of Parliament, payment of, iv. 132Mendelssohn, Felix, ii. 297, 300note, 307;Elijah, ii. 308Menken, Adah Isaacs, actress, ii. 285, 288seq.Meredith, George, andP., ii. 268seq.; iii. 324; iv. 270;burlesqued, iv. 276;praised, in 1909,ibid.Methuen, General, 3rd Baron, captured by Boers, iv. 46Metropolitan Asylums Board, iii. 96;Interments Bill, i. 153;Police Act, i. 144Meyerbeer, Giacomo, ii. 298, 301, 303"Midas, Sir Gorgius," iii. 150, 166Middle 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, 127Militiamen,ill., ii. 12Mill, J. S., iv. 129;and General Eyre, ii. 25, 81;and Irish Suspension Bill, 1866, ii. 26;favours capital punishment, ii. 97seq.; iii. 100;hisSubjection of Women, ii. 250;and Woman Suffrage, ii. 252-6Millais, Sir J. E., ii. 269, 312;"Mariana" caricatured, i. 300;Hearts are Trumps, ii. 317;opportunism, iii. 331;pre-Raphaelitism, iii. 337;P.'stribute to, iv. 303Millikin, E. J., creator ofP.'s'Arry, iii. 106;death (1897), iv. 300Milner, 1st Viscount, ii. 277;in Boer war, iv. 11;confers with Krüger, iv. 36seq.;and National Service Bill (1909), iv. 66Milton, tercentenary of, iv. 278Miners, high wages, ii. 89, 92seq.;action to keep up wages, iii. 74;strikes, iii. 83seq.; iv. 110-11;prosperity of, iv. 121;"ca' canny" methods, ii. 95Minor innovations and novelties, ii. 142seq.; iii. 199seq.Mitchell, David, Sec. Zool. Society, i. 160Modern languages, ii. 128;inefficient instruction in, iv. 154Moltke, Count, iii. 54;death, iii. 64Monarchies,P.and, ii. 169seq.Monasticism, attempted revivals, ii. 101, 106Monocle, the, i. 266Montefiore, Sir Moses, death, iii. 167Montessori, Madame, system anticipated, i. 88, 89;and fairy-tales for children, iv. 139Montez, Lola, i. 255, 280Montgomery, James, ii. 64, 268Moody, D. L., visits England, iii. 168Moore, George, iii. 254, 321; iv. 113Morgan, J. Pierpont, iii. 276Morley, Henry, and Rabelais, iii. 317Morley of Blackburn, 1st Viscount, iii. 61;Life of Gladstone, ii. 191;Chief Sec. for Ireland, iii. 44seq.;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. 63Morris, William, iii. 255, 329Morrow, George, iv. 192Motor introduced, iv. 181-3Motoring, effect on appetite, iv. 245Moustaches, iv. 264Mozart, W. A., ii. 297, 301, 307;Don Giovanni, ii. 299Müller, Franz, murderer, ii. 22;executed, ii. 136Municipal Reform, iii. 97Murray of Elibank, 1st Baron, and Marconi scandal, iv. 91Museums, Sunday opening of, i. 40Music, i. 286seq., 290, 291, 293; ii. 282-319; iii. 343-73; iv. 341-4Musical prodigies, iii. 369Music-halls, ii. 295seq.; iii. 15seq., 372seq.;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. 207Nansen, Dr. F., Arctic explorer, iv. 190Napier, Sir Charles, i. 116Napier, Lord, of Magdala (Sir Robert Napier), ii. 27;and retired officers, iii. 276Napoleon I, centenary, ii. 29Napoleon III, a special constable, i. 54;ally of England, i. 124;as modern Damocles, i. 195ill.;P.'shostility 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. 194seq.Nares, Captain, Arctic explorer, iii. 207, 328Natal campaign, correspondence, ii. 112National defence, iii. 66-71; iv. 11, 55-7, 58-61, 63, 65-6National Gallery, neglect of treasures, i. 298National Guard suggested, i. 118National insurance scheme, iv. 64National outlook, 1857-74, ii. 3-116;1874-1892, iii. 3-212National Portrait Gallery Bill, i. 303National Rifle Association, iii. 69, 302National Service Bill of 1909, iv. 66Naval armaments, race of, iii. 10Naval warfare of the future, ii. 140seq.Navvy corps for Crimea, i. 131Navy.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 alsoArmoured shipsNelson centenary, iv. 56Nelson's monument, i. 147; iv. 207;daughter and grandchildren, i. 253New English Art Club, iii. 328seq.New rich, and the aristocracy, ii. 198seq.;and art, iii. 277New Scotland Yard built, iii. 182New South Wales, centenary, iii. 55Newcastle, 4th Duke of, i. 106Newgate Prison demolished, iii. 179Newman, refuses cardinal's hat, iii. 162;Cardinal, iii. 376seq.Newnham College, extension of, iii. 116seq.Nicholas, King, of Montenegro, iv. 82Nicholas I, Tsar, i. 113, 192Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, proposes general disarmament, iv. 32, 34, 52-4;grants constitutional government, iv. 54;coronation, iv. 218Nicholson, John, Mutiny hero, ii. 7Nightingale, Florence, and Crimean hospitals, i. 126seq.;rewarded by nation, i. 128, 134-5;P.'sstatue for, i. 313, ii. 256Nihilism in Russia, iii. 30Norfolk, 13th Duke of, proposes curry powder as food for poor, i. 17Normanby, 1st Marquess of, i. 203Northcliffe, 1st Viscount, absence from England, iv. 92Northcote, Sir Stafford (1st Earl of Iddesleigh), iii. 12, 21, 34Northumberland, Duke of, iv. 66Norton, Charles Eliot, on Spanish-American war, iv. 31Novello, Clara, ii. 308Novelties.SeeMinor innovationsNursery rhymes, cult of, foreshadowed, iii. 261Nurses: Royal Red Cross decoration instituted, iii. 124;P.'sattitude to, iii. 125Oates, Captain, on Scott's Antarctic expedition, iv. 190Ober-Ammergau Passion Play, iii. 348O'Brien, Smith, i. 198O'Brien, William, M.P., and visit of Prince of Wales to Ireland, iii. 226;and Ulster, iv. 92;and Home Rule Bill, iv. 97O'Connell, Daniel, i. 165, 196, 306O'Connor, Feargus, i. 49Odger, George, ii. 86seq., 190seq.O'Donnell, F. H., M.P., iii. 21Offenbach, Jacques, ii. 305seq.;death, iii. 359O'Gorman, Major, M.P., iii. 9Ojibbeway Indians, i. 283Old age pensions, iv. 67, 119, 130Old Bailey demolished, iii. 179Oliphant, Laurence, hisPiccadilly, iii. 254Ollivier, Emile, ii. 31Omdurman, Kitchener's success at, iv. 28, 30Omnibuses, i. 143, 144ill.; ii. 164; iii. 189, 190; iv. 194, 198Once a Week, ii. 269, 312Opera, i. 276seq.;"Jenkins" on, i. 278; ii. 282-319; iii. 356-66;opera bouffe, ii. 285;English opera houses, fate of, iii. 181seq.;German, French, Italian and English, iv. 332-3;national scheme revived in 1899, iv. 333Orchestral music, ii. 308seq.Orton, Arthur, ii. 206seq.Osborne, Lord Sidney Godolphin, i. 243Otter-hunting denounced, i. 173Oudh pacified, ii. 8"Ouida," parodied, iii. 324;on the "New Woman," iv. 165Oxford, Bp. of (Wilberforce), i. 95, 96; ii. 56, 106, 118Oxford University, Heresy hunt at, iii. 110seq.;reactionaries at, ii. 133-5;Keble College, founded, iii. 151;new Science degree, iii. 151seq.;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. 167Paderewski, I. J., advent of, iii. 356, 368Pageant mania, iv. 60, 230, 246Pall Mall Gazette, The, ii. 164, 191, 284; iii. 15;P.'scontroversy with, iii. 321; iv. 118Palmerston, 3rd Viscount, and agriculture, i. 24;and Kossuth, i. 72, 120;dismissed, i. 121ill., 122;moves vote of thanks to troops, i. 133;returned to power (1857), ii. 4, 20;death, ii. 24, 42, 43, 70, 71seq., 74, 79, 122, 216, 266, 272, 341Pan-Anglican synod,ill., ii. 119Panmure, 2nd Lord, telegram to Lord Raglan, "Take care of Dowb," i. 138, 206Pantheon, The, i. 156Pantomime, degeneracy of, iii. 354seq.; iv. 143Paris, Peace Congress at, i. 118;siege of, ii. 34, 36;Exhibitions, iii. 289; iv. 40Parliament, House of Lords and Franchise Bill, iii. 37;women as M.P.s, iii. 128;Act of 1910, iv. 15, 67, 85-6Parliamentary obstruction, iii. 6, 9, 21seq.;oath question, iii. 26Parnell, Charles Stewart, iii. 6, 21;speeches in America, iii. 22;censured byP., iii. 23, 32seq., 40;andThe Times, iii. 50, 57;divorce case, iii. 61;death, iii. 64, 85Parodies, iii. 324seq.; iv. 284-9Parry, John, ii. 310, 312; iii. 172Parry, Sir Hubert,P.andJudith, iii. 372Pasta, Giuditta, i. 277Pastimes, ii. 211, 339-49; iii. 287-303Patti, Mme. Adelina, ii. 299seq., 303, 309; iii. 357, 359;returns to Covent Garden, iv. 333Pavlova, Mme. Anna, iv. 229, 239Peabody, George, ii. 52seq.; iii. 180Peace, Charles, trial, iii. 100Peace Congress at Frankfort, i. 119;Paris, i. 118Peary, Commander R. E., Arctic explorer, iv. 181;reaches North Pole, iv. 190Peel, Sir Robert, and Tom Hood, i. 15;dismisses Rowland Hill, i. 36;P.'smonument to, i. 53ill.;tribute to, i. 85;and Colonel Fawcett's widow, i. 114, 115ill.;entertains Queen and Prince Albert, i. 173;as Knave of Spades, i. 305ill.; ii. 187Peel, 1st Viscount, iv. 18Pélissier, H., iv. 327People's Budget, iv. 6, 72Persia, Anglo-Russian agreement in 1911, iv. 77Persigny, Comte de, ii. 17Peterborough, Bp. of, and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii. 157Pets, fashionable, i. 213; iv. 247-8Phelps, Samuel, i. 271, 274; ii. 282; iii. 350Philanthropy, practical, efforts of, ii. 48, 52, 53ill.;pseudo-, iv. 234Philharmonic Society, the, i. 285Phillpotts, Bp., "Henry of Exeter," i. 95Phillipps (Halliwell), Dr., ii. 270Phillips, Stephen, as actor, iii. 352;and the poetic drama, iv. 312, 322Phoenix Park murders, iii. 6, 32, 50Photography, i. 227; iii. 212Piccadilly, scheme to widen, iv. 201Piccolomini, Marietta, i. 277; ii. 299Pierce, President, open letter to, i. 134Pigeon shooting, ii. 343