and of girls,157;at Girton College and elsewhere,157.SchoolBoard children, increase in number of, under the Free Education Act, 1891,137;numbers of, for five years preceding Act, 269,903,138;for five years succeeding Act, 521,860,138.Scienceand art, slowness of State recognition of,320.Scienceand Art Department, grants made by, to schools,138.ScientificCorps, the, engineers and artillery,305;recent recognition of rights of, in army,305.Sculptors, Alfred Stevens, effigy of Wellington by,361;Hamo Thornycroft and Sir E. Boehm, works of,361;growing popularity of English,361.Sculpture, our climate not favourable to exhibitions of,361;progress of, in England, notwithstanding,361.Seasideresorts, imitation of continental examples at,208.Secondaryschools, estimated proportion of population educated at, does not exceed 2.5 per 1000,145;proportion very variable,145;from 1.1 per 1000 in Lancashire,145;to 13.5 in Bedfordshire,145;private, efficient service rendered to education by,146;plea for State help to private,146;of the great city companies,149;especially those of the drapers’, the goldsmiths’ and the grocers’,149.Skatingrinks, shock to old-fashioned ideas caused by,195;first revolt of sons and daughters of middle class illustrated at,195.Slaney, Colonel, motion by, for enquiry into health of towns,389.Smallerendowed schools, old practice of farming out,140;evil effects of,141;vigorous dealing of corporations with the practice,141;closing of, recommended by the commissioners,141.Society, still a close corporation,198;but more and more subject to external influences,198;recruited from alien elements,199;ideal standard of, unaltered,202.Societyof comparative legislation,427.Somerset, Duchess of, the Queen of Beauty at Eglinton tournament,3.SouthAmerica, English loans to Republics of,16.SouthKensington, the whole of, market gardens in 1840,41;contrast between the, of 1840 and that of 1890,321;labours of Prince Consort in connection with,322;entirely the growth of the Victorian era,354;an artistic ‘Mecca,’354;Department of Practical Art at,356;under control of Board of Trade,356;Department of Science and Art at,356;under control of President of the Council,356;Marlborough House Collection, removed to, in 1856,356;Forster bequest of Dickens’s manuscripts to,357;institutions affiliated to,357;30,000 pupils annually pass through the Science and Art Department at,357.Sovereign, constitutional influence of,261;increased since days of absolute monarchy,261;surrender of political initiative by,261;compensated by increase of social ascendancy of,261;technical right of, to nominate and dismiss ministers,261;exercise of that prerogative in 1834 by William IV.,262;the permanent head of a department of the State,262;view of Prince Consort, as to Sovereign’s position,262;self-effacement of, impossible under Parliamentary Governments,264;the sole guarantee for continuity of policy,271;duty of Sovereign to judge which party in state can best carry on the government of the country,271.Steam, transformation of country by,27.Stephenson, George, his invention at first decried,28;sums up relations between the railways and the country,37.Sullivan, Sir Arthur, his work and public services,347.SundaySchools, started by Robert Raikes late in eighteenth century,133.Surgeons, work of eminent,395;exemplified by Cæsar Hawkins, Benjamin Brodie and Spencer Wells,395.TTait, Archbishop and family, riders in Hyde Park,9.Teachers, profession of, no proper representation of,163;assistant, in secondary schools, underpaid,164.TechnicalEducation Act, 1890, for teaching handicrafts,160;grants authorised to be made by,100.Terry, the family, a family of actors and actresses,216;Kate (Mrs Arthur Lewis), peerless in melodrama,215;Ellen, as a comedian,216.Thackeray, W. M., distinguished figure in Hyde Park,6.Thames, shocking condition of, between 1804 and 1866,40.Theatre, The, position of, in early Victorian times,41;advice of Matthew Arnold, to organize,209;Macready, first organizer of, 1827 to 1851,209;difficulties experienced by him in attempt,209;dulness of, long after it became respectable,212;Lord Lytton’sMoney, dramatized for,212;Robertson’sSocietyproduced at Prince of Wales’s,212;revival of popularity of,213;caused by production of Robertson’s plays,213;Lyceum, under Bateman,214;Miss Bateman as Leah at,214;first appearance of H. Irving at,214;opinions expressed by George Lewes and George Eliot on Irving at,215;result of influx of strangers into London, on Victorian,218;the suburban, of recent times,218;status of, raised by succession of high-class actors,219.Tollemache, Lord, of Peckforton, sketch of,12;the harness and trappings of his team,12.Trollope, Anthony, sketch of,12;his sturdy cob,12.UUniversities, advice to settlers in East End, from,130;extension lectures of,180;Oxford and Cambridge brought to people’s doors by,180;revolution in domestic life at the,180;less noticeable at Oxford than at Cambridge,180;unattached or non-collegiate students at,181;a return to mediæval usage,181;comparative cost of education to unattached students at,182;fellows and tutors of colleges at the,189;altered habits and duties of fellows and tutors,189;alteration due to extension lectures and similar causes,190;scope of, extension lectures,190;synopsis of course, distributed beforehand,190;local schools and colleges in communication with,192.Universitysettlement in East End of London,115;clubs for adults encouraged by,117;dominant idea of,120;multifarious duties of a settler in,121.Urbanpopulation, increase of, during last twenty years,435.VVanderbilt, Commodore, sells fleet of ships to buy railway shares,34.Victoria, colony of, indebted mainly to gold for its progress,24;gold raised in, between 1851 and 1859, 89 millions,25;imports rose to £30 per head of population,26;exports to £56 per head of population,26.Victoriansquire, often a self-made man,200;seldom violates old traditions,200;life of, at hall or manor,200;not very different from his predecessor,200;supports the subscription pack,201;breeds shorthorns,201;and becomes a judge of cattle,201.Volunteers, instructions to Lords-Lieutenant in 1859 to raise,303;Prince Consort’s influence in securing issue of,303;first review of, in Hyde Park, 23d June 1860,303;number of, in 1860, 119,000,303;in 1886, 226,752,303;800,000 men, still of military age, in Great Britain, have been,304.WWages, increase of, of working classes, in Victorian era,43.Wakefield, Gibbon, sketch of his career,433;hisArt of Colonization,433.Ward, Samuel, sketch of,437;nicknamed ‘Uncle Sam,’438;founds a social and literary Anglo-American school,438.Warwick, Earl of, descended from Sir Samuel Dashwood, vintner, a Lord Mayor of London,15.Watkin, Sir Edward, exceptional position of,37.Wealth, aristocracy of, unknown before 1851,42.Wellington, Duke of, personal sketch of,4;popular respect shown to, at all times,10.Whewell, Dr, historian of the Inductive Sciences,325.Windsor, compared with Weimar,323.WorkingMen’s Club, established at Lancaster in 1860,118;and Institute Union, functions of,126;founded by Lords Brougham and Lyttleton,118.WorkingMen’s College, Great Ormond Street,118;founded by Maurice and Thomas Hughes,118.YYouth, change in figure and appearance of English,202;improved expression on countenances of,203;taller and better set up,203;women as well as men,203;lofty stature and Junonian majesty of modern English feminine,203.