Chapter XIII: Act II: A wild place in Shepherd's Bush (2)

Here you may learn if it is true
That Tosher's got his Ping-Pong Blue.

The epidemic abated in 1903, and in "The Lost Golfer" _Punch_ has some excellent chaff (after Browning) of the "parlour hero," his mind temporarily unhinged by a "piffulent game." The verses begin "Just for a celluloid pilule he left us," and end with the anticipation that the "lost golfer" will yet return to his old haunts:--

Back for the Medal Day, back for our foursomes,
Back from the tables' diminishing throng;
Back from the infantile ceaseless half-volley,
Back from the lunatic lure of Ping-Pong.

Ping-pong departed, to be revived in 1920, but another and equally devastating craze ran its course in 1907, when "Diabolo"--the old "Devil-on-two-sticks"--was the ruling passion of the hour. It was honoured with a cartoon showing John Redmond playing the "Divil of a Game," the reel being "Leadership," and numerous illustrations are devoted to the progress of the mania. _Punch_ affected to have discovered a new disease, "Diabolo Neck," which he compares and contrasts with "the Cheek of the Devil," and records the observation of an ill-tempered old gentleman, as he watched some performers "diabolizing" in Kensington Gardens: "A month or so ago that sort of thing was only being done in our Asylums."

SECOND THRUSTER (his host): "It's all right. We've got two masters. That's the one that supplies the money; the other supplies the language."]

The vogue of Bridge dates from the last years of the old century. According to the veracious _Daily Mail_, in 1899 a Cambridge Professor was earning handsome fees by giving instruction in the game to members of the University, and _Punch_ embroiders the text according to his wont. In 1901 _Punch's_ cartoon "Discarded" shows Fashion, in her fool's cap, accosting "Mr. Bridge": "Come along, Partner! That dear old Mister Whist is such a bore! He is so _vieux jeu_!" Bridge figures as a gallant and picturesque cavalier, while Whist is a sour-visaged old pedant. _Punch_ was not always of one mind about the triumphant new-comer, but he cordially echoed the sentiments of the _Morning Post_ when that journal asserted that Bridge made for the abolition of the drawing-room ballad and the drawing-room ballad-monger; and it gave him abundant scope for comment and parody, e.g. his perversion of Longfellow's lines into "I played on at Bridge at midnight." Bridge, however, had not always a monopoly of attraction even in the days when its tyranny was at its height. In 1902 we encounter the tragedy of the four men driven to the nursery to play Bridge because "they are playing Ping-Pong in the dining-room, and 'Fives' in the billiard-room, Jack's trying to imitate Dan Leno in the drawing-room, Dick's got that infernal gramophone of his going in the hall, and they are laying supper in the smoking-room."

[Sidenote: _Hunting and Prize-fighting_]

It is a relief to turn from these mostly futile indoor pastimes to the robuster sports of the chase, the turf and the prize-ring. _Punch_ was fortunate in this period in having at his command, in Mr. Armour, an artist who restored the hunting pictures to a higher level of draughtsmanship than they had ever reached before. This implies no disparagement of the incomparable geniality of Leech's drawings, which in that respect have never been equalled, unless by Randolph Caldecott. But for the correct drawing of hounds, horses and riders, and for the discreet handling of the hunting landscape, Mr. Armour's equipment is above reproach. References to the turf in the early years of this period are mostly connected with Lord Rosebery. His success in winning the Derby with _Ladas_ in 1894 lends point to the "highly improbable anticipation" of _Punch's_ artist in which the Premier, in parson's garb, announces his conversion to the tenets of the Nonconformist conscience. In September of the same year we have the wail of a "disgusted backer" over the defeat of the favourite in the St. Leger:--

_Ladas, Ladas,_
Go along with you, do.
I'm now stone-broke
All on account of you.
It wasn't a lucky Leger;
I wish I'd been a hedger,
Though you did look sweet
Before defeat!--
But I've thoroughly done with you.

In a more serious vein of irony _Punch_, in 1906, muses on the popularity of the turf and ends with this reflection:--

Is it not odd that hitherto no poet
Has thought to mention how, with lord and serf,
Whether they plunge thereon, or rest below it,
There is no equaliser like the Turf?
Whatso our claim,
_The starting price is one, and Death the same_.

The problem of the future of the horse exercises _Punch_ in 1911. Mr. Morrow's suggestions are always original, if fantastic, but he is on safe ground when he declares that the horse could always be of use in pageants. Motor-cars in ceremonial processions remind one of nothing so much as huge beetles.

The great revival of boxing came at the end of the period, but in 1908 there is an amusing reference to Jack Johnson who, after defeating Tommy Burns, had become very unpopular in New South Wales, but, according to the _Daily Mail_, found consolation for adverse criticism in reading Shakespeare, Milton and Bunyan. The statement was not thrown away on _Punch_, who, while welcoming the evidence that Jack Johnson was able to keep his temper sweet, observed that it would be sweeter still to know what Shakespeare, Milton and Bunyan thought of his devotion. On the eve of the War, as I have noted in the first chapter, the man in the street was thinking a good deal more about Carpentier than the Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand.

INDEX

À Beckett, Gilbert, Thackeray on, i. 4;
_Comic Blackstone_, i. 90, 232

Aberdeen, 4th Earl of, pro-Russian sympathies, i. 5, 125;
smoking pipe of peace, _illustration_, i. 124;
defends Prince Albert, i. 183

Abyssinia, King of, ii. 196

Abyssinia, war with, ii. 27 _seq._

Academy, British, scheme of, attacked by _Punch_, iv. 275

Academy, Royal: suggestions for improving, iv. 301;
"problem" pictures at, iv. 302;
Visitors at, _ibid._

Actors, salaries, i. 274;
and society, iii. 349 _seq._;
_see also_ Drama.

Adelaide, Dowager-Queen, tribute to, i. 198

Admiralty Arch, prospect obstructed, iv. 201

Advertisements, educational, i. 35;
growth, i. 161

Aerial steam carriage, _ill._, i. 73

Aeronautical Exhib., 1868, ii. 142

Aeronautics, i. 72 _seq._

Aeroplanes, beginnings, iv. 184, 186

Æsthetic movement, iii. 254 _seq._, 313, 329, 336 _seq._

Æsthetic pioneers, _ill._, i. 263

Afghan campaigns, iii. 3, 18

Afghan war, outbreak, iii. 25 _seq._

Afghanistan, Ameer of, iii. 18

Agitators, i. 52; ii. 58, 65, 81; iv. 111-2, 132-4

Agnosticism, attitude of _P._ towards, iii. 162

Agricultural depression, iv. 103, 113-4

Agricultural Gangs Act, ii. 46

Agricultural labourers, wages, i. 17;
food consumption of, iii. 72 _seq._;
conditions, iii. 89

Agricultural Land Rating Bill, 1896, iv. 114

Agriculture, machinery in, iii. 210;
shortage of hands, iv. 114

Ainsworth, Harrison, _Jack Sheppard_ censured, iii. 143

Air, conquest of the, iv. 181

Air Force, beginnings, iv. 90, 93

Airships, flights, iv. 183

_Alabama_ case, ii. 3, 20, 95

Albany, Duke of, iii. 223 _seq._;
recommends cookery lessons for the poor, iii. 76;
speech, iii. 218; marriage, iii. 221

Albemarle, 6th Earl of, i. 96, 206

Albert Gate, i. 149

Albert Hall opened, ii. 190

Albert Medal, ii. 182 _seq._

Albert Memorial, ii. 182

Albert, Prince Consort, ii. 169-70, 179 _seq._, 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;
"Prince _P._ to Prince Albert," i. 182;
alleged interference in State affairs, i. 183

Alexander, Prince, of Bulgaria, iii. 55

Alexander II, of Russia, ii. 196, 204; iii. 30

Alexander III, of Russia, death, iv. 16

Alexandra, Queen, ii. 181;
and pigeon shooting, iii. 222;
sets fashions, iii. 222;
visits Ireland, iii. 225

Alfonso XIII, King. _See_ Spain

Alfred, 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.'s_ toast to, iii. 223;
death, iv. 220

Alice, Princess, Grand Duchess of Hesse Darmstadt, married, ii. 181;
death, iii. 218

Allan, Maud, iv. 229, 326, 330

Allen, Grant, _The Woman who Did_, iv. 163

Almack's, i. 208; ii. 240;
Grantley Berkeley on, i. 209;
attempted revival, iii. 247

Alpine climbing, ii. 211

America, relations with, i. 134; iv. 11;
Monroe doctrine, iv. 8;
influence of millionaires, iv. 246;
freak dinners and _enfants terribles_, iv. 246

American blockade, ii. 68

American Civil War, ii. 3, 17 _seq._, 20, 22, 66 _seq._

American humorists, ii. 277

American journalism, i. 72; ii. 145 _seq._

American millionaire art collectors, iii. 276

American women of fashion, ii. 214

Americanisms, ii. 216

Amundsen, Roald, iv. 181;
reaches South Pole, iv. 190

Anæsthetics, discovery of, i. 77

Andersen, Hans Christian, child's letter to, i. 89

Anderson, Mary, iii. 347

Andover Union, i. 4, 20

Angell, Norman, _Foundations of International Policy_, iv. 97

Anglo-Danish Exhibition of 1888, iii. 289

Anglo-French _Entente_, iv. 6, 11, 48, 56, 125

Anglo-Japanese Alliance, iv. 6, 11

Anstey, F. (T. A. Guthrie), iii. 286, 289, 325

Antarctic exploration, iv. 181, 190-1

Anti-clericalism in France, iv. 159

Anti-war party, iv. 44-5

Arabi Pasha, iii. 3

Archer, William, translates Ibsen, iii. 355

Archery, ii. 238, 346

Arctic exploration, iv. 181, 190;
by Captain Nares, iii. 328

Argyll, 8th Duke of, ii. 68;
and Armenian atrocities, iv. 18

Aristocracy, i. 201 _seq._;
ignorance of peers, i. 204;
"bloated haristocrat," _ill._ i. 205;
journalists pander to, ii. 172;
and new rich, ii. 198;
take to journalism, iii. 242 _seq._

Armenian atrocities, iv. 18

Armoured ships, use of, criticized, ii. 140

Army, 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. 68 _seq._;
regular, enforced expenses in, iii. 70 _seq._;
Recruiting Commission, iii. 109;
_P.'s_ attitude towards, iii. 109 _seq._;
Volunteer review at Windsor, iii. 111;
Balaclava survivors, iii. 112;
and Ulster, iv. 94;
popular prejudice against, iv. 128.
_See also_ Crimean war, Uniforms.

Army reform, ii. 38; iv. 49

Arnold, Matthew, ii. 268; iii. 317;
through _P.'s_ eyes, iii. 322

'Arry, and 'Arriet, iii. 106 _seq._;
disappearance of, iv. 255, 256

Art, i. 249 _seq._;
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.'s_ art glossary, iv. 307;
_The Times_ art 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 also_ Royal Academy

Artillery, long-range, _P.'s_ prophecy, ii. 142

Artists, women, exhibition of, i. 252;
English, French medals conferred on, i. 303;
models, iii. 250

Ashanti expedition, ii. 38; iv. 8, 19

Ashley, Lord; _see_ Shaftesbury, 7th Earl of

Asquith, 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, 178

Astley's Circus, i. 155; ii. 289

Athleticism, among women, ii. 238;
cult of, iv. 152

Athletics at school, iii. 292

Atholl, 5th Duke of, i. 18, 202

Atlantic cable, ii. 139

Atlantic liners, improved speed of, iii. 209

Augusta, Princess, of Cambridge, married, i. 193

Austin, Alfred, _P.'s_ attacks on, iv. 274

Australia, 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. 120

Australian Commonwealth Bill of 1900, iv. 41

Austria, relations with Serbia up to 1914, iv. 10;
declares war on Serbia, iv. 100

Austro-Prussian war, ii. 3, 26

Authors, distressed, i. 85

Avebury, 1st Lord, ii. 87 _seq._; iv. 287

Ayrton, A. S., ii. 39, 152, 291

Babbage, Charles, ii. 99

Baden-Powell, General Sir Robert, defends Mafeking, iv. 39;
arrives in England, iv. 45;
founds Boy Scout movement, iv. 107

Baghdad railway, British subsidy proposed by Germany, iv. 48

Baker, Sir Samuel, ii. 216

Balfe, Michael W., attacked, i. 293;
success of _Bohemian Girl_, i. 278;
_Puritan's Daughter_, ii. 300

Balfour of Burleigh, Lord, iv. 58

Balfour, Rt. Hon. Arthur J., iii. 6, 32; iv. 4, 33, 44;
at the Irish Office, iii. 50;
and _The 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 Germany _re_ Baghdad railway, iv. 48;
legislation in Ireland, iv. 49;
administration collapses, iv. 56 _seq._;
holiday at Nice, iv. 92;
and Tariff Reform, iv. 51, 116;
and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148;
gives a ball, iv. 236-238

Balkans, trouble in, iii. 12, 14; iv. 90;
war of 1912, iv. 10, 80-83;
war of 1913, iv. 83-4

Ballantine, Serjeant, ii. 328

Ballet, Russian, iv. 229, 327, 330, 331

Ballet-girls, their cause espoused by _P._, ii. 234 _seq._

Balliol as a nursery of cranks and coming men, iv. 254

Ballooning: Charles Green, i. 73;
Captain Warner, i. 74;
to California, _ibid._

"Balmorals," ii. 331

Bancroft, Sir Squire and Lady, ii. 290-1;
influence on acting, iii. 351

Banjo, popularity of, iii. 278; iv. 339, _ill._

Bank smashes, i. 77

Banting, William, ii. 201

Bar, women and the, ii. 250

"Bardery," Welsh, ii. 220

Barnett, Canon, and art exhibition in Whitechapel, iv. 106

Barnum, Phineas T., return to England, iii. 289

Barrett, Wilson, as Hamlet, iii. 351

Barrie, Sir James, iii. 317;
_Window in Thrums_, iii. 323;
parodied, iii. 325;
plays of, iv. 313, 323;
two views of _Peter Pan_, iv. 328

Barrow-in-Furness, ii. 83, 84 _seq._

Barry, Sir C., i. 148, 304

Baseball, iii. 297; iv. 348

Bass, Michael, M.P.; his Bill to restrict street music, ii. 99

Battenberg, Prince Alexander of, abdicates, iii. 47;
death of, iv. 218

Battenberg, Prince Henry of, governor of Isle of Wight, iii. 231;
death of, iv. 218

Bazalgette, Sir Joseph, ii. 152

Beaconsfield, 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.'s_ distrust of, i. 108;
design of monument to, i. 109;
_Life of Lord George Bentinck_, i. 109;
policy of, ii. 4, 29, 30 _ill._, 40, 42, 79, 82, 85, 113 _seq._;
religion and ancestry, ii. 117 _seq._, 121, 148, 181, 187, 214,
215 _ill._, 272, 273 _seq._, 341; iii. 4 _seq._;
earldom, iii. 12, 14 _seq._, 16 _seq._; declines "people's tribute,"
iii. 24;
waning prestige, iii. 24 _seq._;
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. 216

Beaufort, 9th Duke of; edits Badminton Library series, iii. 298

Beales, Edmond, ii. 80 _seq._

Beardsley, Aubrey, attacked by _P._, iv. 283, 301, 304, 305

Beatrice, Princess, her _Birthday Book_, iii. 221;
married, iii. 225 _seq._

Becker, Lydia, and Woman Suffrage, iii. 128

Beckett, Gilbert Arthur à, ii. 291

Bedford, 9th Duke of, and Covent Garden, iii. 182 _seq._;
and Bloomsbury, iii. 184, 186

Beecher-Stowe, Mrs., visits England, i. 255

Beers, Jan Van, artist, criticized by _P._, iii. 340

Beesly, Professor E. H., ii. 42, 70

_Beggar's Opera, The_, iii. 359

Belgium, Royal tour in, i. 191;
suggested French occupation of, ii. 34;
and Congo, iv. 55, 66

Bellini, Vincenzo, operatic composer, ii. 301

Benedict, Sir Jules, ii. 300; iii. 373

Bengal tiger, _ill._, ii. 5

Bennett, Arnold, iv. 289

Benson, Archbishop, iii. 34;
and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, iii. 57;
headmaster of Wellington College, iii. 149

Benson, Sir Frank; productions criticized, ii. 352

Béranger, Pierre Jean de, ii. 101

Beresford, Admiral Lord Charles, and national defence, iii. 69;
resignation of, iii. 230

Berlin, Congress of, 1878, iii. 4, 17;
amenities of, iv. 55

Berlioz, cult of, in England, iii. 370

Bernhardi, General, iv. 85

Bernhardt, Sarah, visits to England, iii. 345 _seq._; iv. 316, 320;
at the Coliseum in 1910, iv. 330

Besant, Mrs. Annie, iii. 254

Besika Bay, naval demonstration in, iii. 16

Bethmann-Hollweg, Dr., introduces German Army Bill, iv. 84

Bicycles, 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. 354

Bieberstein, Baron Marschall von, German ambassador, iv. 80

Big Ben, i. 150

Biggar, Mr. J. G., M.P., iii. 21

Billingsgate, new buildings, i. 150;
condition of, iii. 183

Bird, Henry, iv. 343, 344

Birkenhead, Lord, iv. 6

Birmingham, Reformatory Institution, i., 29;
school of brewing established at University of, iv. 155

Birrell, Mr. Augustine, iv. 62, 95, 134;
as Irish Chief Secretary, iv. 67;
and Sir E. Carson, iv. 86;
leaves Education Office, iv. 149

Bishop, Irving, thought-reader, iii. 252

Bisley, headquarters of N.R.A., iii. 69

Bismarck, Prince, ii. 29, 32, 34; iii. 10, 201; iv. 49;
hostility to, ii. 26;
Socialists and, iii. 19;
_P.'s_ view 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, 65

Black Country, white slavery in, ii. 61 _seq._;
workmen's extravagance in, ii. 92

Black Sea Conference, ii. 38

Blackwell, Elizabeth, M.D., i. 250

Blake, William, ii. 64; iii. 329

"Blanche," letters of, iv. 246

Blavatsky, Madame, iii. 254

Blériot, M., cross-Channel flight, iv. 186

Blessington, Countess of, i. 221

Blomfield, C. J., Bp. of London, i. 45, 95

Blondin, tight-rope walker, ii. 211, 238, 244 _seq._, 308; iii. 100;
in Westminster Aquarium, iv. 203

Bloomerism, i. 250, 251 _ill._, 262; iii. 305

Bloomsbury, state of, iii. 184 _seq._

Boat races, Oxford v. Harvard, ii. 345 _seq._;
with French at Andrésy, iv. 345;
Cambridge and Harvard, iv. 346;
French crews at Henley, _ibid._

Bodichon, Mme. Barbara, ii. 252, 260

Boer war, iv. 11;
causes of, iv. 36 _seq._;
progress of, iv. 38-46

Bombalino. _See_ Francis IV of Naples

Boneshakers. _See_ Bicycles

Bonheur, Rosa, ii. 243

Booth, Charles, and old age pensions, iv. 119

Booth, Edwin, actor, ii. 283

Booth family, attitude of _P._ towards, iii. 170 _seq._

Booth, General, and Trade Union Congress in 1908, iv. 162;
death, iv. 162

Booth, J. L. C., iv. 78

Borradaile case, ii. 327 _seq._

Borthwick, Peter, M.P., i. 312

Botha, General Louis, in London, iv. 46;
Premier of Transvaal, iv. 62

Boucicault, Dion, ii. 288; iii. 353

Boulanger, General, bid for dictatorship, iii. 8, 55;
visits England, iii. 57 _seq._;
commits suicide, iii. 58

Boulogne: "_Bradshaw_: a mystery," i. 71;
English colony at, i. 221

Bowers, Miss G., ii. 238

Bowles, Mr. T. Gibson, iv. 58;
and Declaration of London, iv. 77

Boxing, ii. 340 _seq._;
by women, iii. 132;
Slavin and Smith, iii. 290

Boy Scout movement, iv. 107-10, 145

Braddon, Miss, ii. 274; iii. 318

Bradlaugh, Charles, M.P., ii. 190;
vicissitudes in Parliament, iii. 26 _seq._;
and Royal grants, iii. 232

Bradley, Dean, iii. 167

Brahms, Johannes, his genius, iii. 368

Bret Harte, iii. 319

Briand, M., iv. 73

Bridge, negative value of, iv. 247;
whist ousted by, iv. 358

Briggs, Mr., murder of, ii. 136

Bright, Jacob, ii. 258

Bright, 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. 64 _seq._;
secedes from Gladstonian party, iii. 50;
death, iii. 60, 228

Brighton, i. 156

British Academy, proposed founding of a, iii. 327

Brock, Sir Thomas, R.A., sculptor of Victoria Memorial, iv. 207

Brodie, Sir Benjamin, ii. 197

Brodrick, Hon. St. John (Lord Midleton), and exclusion of peers from
Commons, iv. 18;
and Army reform, iv. 49, 58

Bromhead, Lieut., V.C., hero of Rorke's Drift, iii. 23

Brompton swallowed up in South Kensington, iii. 177

Bronte, Charlotte, ii. 234

Brook Green Volunteer, i. 116

Brooks, Shirley, _Essence of Parliament_, i. 91; ii. 187 _seq._, 223,
269; iii. 226

Brougham, Henry, Lord, i. 307 _seq._;
palinode to, i. 310;
commended, ii. 58, 263

Broughton, Rhoda, Miss, ii. 236, 274; iii. 324

Brown, John, Queen Victoria's attendant, death of, iii. 223

"Brown, Tom." _See_ Hughes, Tom

Browne, Hablot K. ("Phiz"), _P.'s_ criticism of, iii. 340

Browning, Robert, ii. 204; iii. 317;
his greatness, iii. 318

Browning Society, iii. 318, 324

Brummell, Beau, i. 188, 221

Brunel, Isambard K., ii. 27;
and Stephenson, iii. 199

Brunel, Sir M. I., i. 149

Bryce, Viscount, iv. 148

Buccleuch, 5th Duke of, ii. 152

Buckingham Palace, i. 149, 190

Buckingham, 2nd Duke of, i. 18

Buckland, Professor, i. 181

Buckstone, J. B., actor, i. 275; ii. 291;
death, iii. 350

Budget, the Radical, of Sir W. Harcourt, iv. 4;
the People's Budget, iv. 132

Buffalo Bill, "Wild West" show in W. Kensington, iii. 289

Bulgaria, crown offered to Prince Ferdinand, iii. 51

Bulgarian atrocities, iii. 3, 12

Buller, General Sir Redvers, iv. 46

Bull-fighting, ii. 343

Bull's Run, ii. 18

Bülow, Count von, German Chancellor, iv. 55;
and Socialists, iv. 62

Bulwer-Lytton, E. (1st Baron Lytton), his _Claude Duval_ criticized,
iii. 143;
Tennyson's reply in _P._ to his attack in _The New Timon_, iv. 224

Bunn, Alfred, "Poet Bunn," i. 235

Burdett-Coutts, Miss (afterwards 1st Baroness), i. 254; ii. 227;
efforts to check plumage scandal, iii. 310

Burgon, Dean, attacked by _P._, iii. 151

Burlington Arcade, i. 156

Burlington House exhibitions, iii. 328

Burnand, Sir Frank: _Cox and Box_, i. 155; ii. 235, 273; iii. 363;
editor of _P._, iii. 150, 171;
as a parodist, iii. 325;
as playwright, iii. 343;
resigns editorship of _P._, iv. 300;
his "Few Words at Parting" and "R. C. L.'s" tribute, _ibid._

Burne-Jones, Sir E., criticized by _P._, iii. 331, 334; iv. 303

Burns, Rt. Hon. John, as Socialist, iii. 76, 78;
in Mr. Asquith's Cabinet, iv. 135;
and Trade Union Congress of 1908, iv. 162

Burt, Right Hon. T., M.P., ii. 43, 88

Butler, Mrs. Montagu, ii. 261

Butler, Mrs. (afterwards Lady Butler), iii. 116

Buxton, Mr. Sydney (afterwards Earl Buxton), President of Board of
Trade, iv. 133

Byng of Vimy, General Lord, iv. 8

"Ca' canny," practice of, ii. 95

Cable, submarine, to France, i. 72, 75 _ill._;
Transatlantic, i. 72;
laid in 1866, ii. 27

Cabs, i. 141, 142;
taxis foreshadowed, i. 77;
competition with taxis, iv. 195-6

Caine, Sir Hall, less entertaining than _Bradshaw_, iv. 285.
_See also_ iv. 287, 288

Cairns, 1st Earl, ii. 116; iii. 37

Caldecott, Randolph, iii. 221, 334

Californian goldfields, i. 76

Callan, Philip, M.P., cartooned, iii. 21

Calls, practice of paying, iv. 254

Calvé, Mme., iii. 362; iv. 333

Calverley, C. S., ii. 270; death, iii. 320;
parodist, iii. 325

Cambridge, Adolphus Frederick, Duke of, i. 194, 195

Cambridge, Duke George of, and Indian Mutiny, ii. 7;
attitude to Volunteers, iii. 68 _seq._, 70;
and education in the ranks, iii. 110;
and barrack life, iii. 110 _seq._;
on neutral-tinted uniforms for active service, iii. 111 _seq._;
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. 181

Camouflage foreshadowed, iv. 193

Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, iv. 317

Campbell, Sir Colin (Lord Clyde), ii. 6, 8, 16

Campbell-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. 130

Canada, Federation of, ii. 28

Canada, relations with England and the U.S., iii. 65 _seq._

Canadian Pacific Railway completed, iii. 199

Canning, Lord, Governor-General of India, ii. 4, 7

Cantillon, Lieut., Napoleon's legacy to, i. 201

Capital and labour, iii. 80 _seq._;
iv. 103-35

Capital punishment, ii. 97; iii. 100

Caprivi, Count, and Bismarck, iii. 64

Cardigan, 7th Earl of, Leech's drawing of, i. 131;
charges against, i. 135;
Indian Mutiny, ii. 7

Cardwell, Rt. Hon. Edward (Viscount Cardwell), and Army Reform, ii. 39

Carlyle, Thomas, on the ballet, i. 280; ii. 275; iii. 16;
death, iii. 317 _seq._

Carnarvon, 4th Earl of, ii. 50; iii. 16, 18;
Viceroy of Ireland, iii. 44

Carnegie, Andrew, gift to Scottish universities, iv. 156

Carnot, President, iii. 58, 206;
cartooned, iii. 64;
assassinated, iv. 16

Carpentier, Georges, iv. 99

"Carroll, Lewis," i. 266; ii. 269;
_P.'s_ farewell to, iv. 286-7

Carson, Sir Edward, and Ulster, iv. 80, 85-6, 96-7

Caruso, Enrico, iv. 333, 334

Carver, Dr., shooting performances at Crystal Palace, iii. 103

Casement, Sir Roger, and Congo atrocities, iv. 55

Catholic Emancipation, i. 108

Catnach, bookseller, i. 161

Cattle plague, ii. 76

Cavour, Count, ii. 11, 19

Cecil, Lord Hugh, and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148

Cecil, Lord Robert, and Marconi inquiry, iv. 88

Censorship, dramatic, iv. 314

Central Criminal Court, iii. 101

Central Metropolitan Board, i. 161

Cervera, Admiral, gallantry of, iv. 11

Cetewayo captured, iii. 23

Chaliapine, Russian singer, iv. 99, 338

Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, ii. 192;
the "Brummagem Lion," _ill._, ii. 193; iii. 6, 85;
and Home Rule in 1886, iii. 44 _seq._;
Unionist, iii. 57;
Leader of the Liberal-Unionists in the Commons, iii. 66;
on disestablishment, iii. 173;
joins Lord Salisbury's Cabinet, iv. 18, 19;
handling of Jameson Raid, iv. 20;
Colonial Secretary, iv. 20;
and Venezuelan arbitration, iv. 22;
on expedition to Khartum, iv. 24;
and Bloemfontein conference, iv. 36;
Australian Commonwealth Bill, iv. 41;
resignation, iv. 50;
Tariff Reform campaign, iv. 50-1;
death, iv. 99;
views on old age pensions, iv. 119

Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Austen, and Ulster crisis, iv. 97

Channel Tunnel scheme, ii. 138; iii. 202, 204; iv. 191-2

Chaperon, decline of, iii. 265

Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry (afterwards Viscount Chaplin), iv. 4;
and agricultural depression, iv. 113-14;
on old age pensions, iv. 119;
defeated in 1906, iv. 58

Chard, Lieutenant, V.C., hero of Rorke's Drift, iii. 23

Charing Cross Road opened, iii. 180

Charing Cross Terminus built, ii. 153

Chartism, i. 49 _seq._;
Great Petition, i. 9, 49;
defended, i. 10, 50 _ill._;
Ebenezer Elliott and, i. 51;
_P.'s_ petition, i. 54.
_See also_ Corn Laws

Chelsea Bun House, i. 158

Chevalier, Albert, coster songs, iii. 373

Chignons, ii. 324 _seq._

Child labour, ii. 58 _seq._

Childers, Right Hon. Hugh, ii. 54, 139; iii. 21

Children, precocity, i. 88, _ill._;
letter to Hans Andersen, i. 89;
_Comic Blackstone_ on, i. 90;
actors, i. 275;
Employment Commission, ii. 60;
education, ii. 60; iv. 136
_seq._;
acrobats, ii. 63;
tormentors of, ii. 127;
fairy tales for, ii. 128-9; iv. 138-9;
poor, condition of, iii. 86 _seq._;
fashions, iii. 313 _seq._;
Country Holiday Fund, iv. 106;
modern children, iv. 136-7, 140;
Christmas presents of, iv. 255

Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Acts, ii. 59, 63; iii. 306

China, war with, ii. 4, 16;
and foreigners, iii. 64;
"Boxer" rising, iv. 8, 41;
commercial interests of Powers in, iv. 31

Chinese labour, iv. 125, 130;
for domestic service, rumour of, iii. 272

Choate, Mr. Joseph, American ambassador to England, iv. 36

Cholera epidemic, i. 152, 239

Christian Science, iii. 254; iv. 160

Christmas cards, fashionable, iii. 278

Church Army, iii. 171

Church of England, i. 91 _seq._;
wealthy bishops, i. 95 seq.;
poor curates, i. 97 _seq._; 172;
Church schools, i. 99;
_P._ opposes extremists, i. 104;
"The Pet Parson," i. 105 _ill._;
doctrinal controversies in, i. 106;
Church Congress, 1869, ii. 45;
_P.'s_ Protestantism, ii. 101;
comprehension and toleration, ii. 102;
sale of pew rents, ii. 104;
_P._ on the richest and poorest Church in the world, ii. 105;
Church services, ii. 106;
attacks on ritualism and mock monks, _ibid._;
Mackonochie and Purchas cases, ii. 108;
Puseyism, ii. 109;
_Essays and Reviews_, ii. 109;
heresy-hunting of Jowett and Colenso, ii. 110-112;
Irish Church Disestablishment, ii. 113-114, 116;
Pan-Anglican Synod, ii. 119 _ill._, 120;
Public Worship Regulation Act, iii. 157-158;
attacks on Anglican intolerance, on Mr. Tooth and Mr. Mackonochie,
iii. 160;
"Mitred Misery," iii. 172;
doctrinal opportunism, _ibid._;
disestablishment scare in 1885, iii. 173;
trial of Bishop King of Lincoln, iii. 174;
Bishop Jayne commended, _ibid._;
education controversies, iv. 146-50;
curates and cricket, iv. 158;
Kikuyu controversy, iv. 160

Church, Roman Catholic: Hierarchy for England, i. 99;
_P.'s_ anti-Papal crusade, i. 100 _seq._;
Catholic emancipation, i. 108;
_P.'s_ anti-Vaticanism, ii. 101-102, 106;
welcome to Père Hyacinthe, ii. 113;
priests and Fenians, ii. 114;
Gladstone's pamphlet on _Vatican Decrees_, iii. 158-9;
hostility to Manning, iii. 162;
treatment of Roman Catholics in the Abbey, iii. 167;
Burnand's position, iii. 172;
obituary verses on Manning, iii. 174;
tribute to Cardinal Wiseman, in 1898, iv. 158;
comment on French interdict of religious orders in 1906, iv. 159;
tribute to Leo XIII, iv. 160

Churchill, Lord Randolph, iii. 6, 50 _seq._; iii. 32, 34; iv. 6, 14,
25;
in Salisbury Cabinet, iii. 43;
and Ulster, iii. 46;
at the Treasury, iii. 47;
on national defence, iii. 69

Churchill, Mr. Winston, iv. 6, 94;
on Upper Chamber reform, iv. 67;
on Navy Estimates (1912), iv. 78;
scheme for naval holiday, iv. 85, 91;
and aerial armaments, iv. 93

Cigarettes, appearance of, ii. 142

Cinematograph, iv. 123, 181, 189

Civil Service, candidates for, i. 226;
open competition instituted, ii. 43

Civil List pensions, i. 234

"Claimant," the, ii. 206-10, 320

Clairvoyantes, ii. 203

Clanricarde, 1st Marquess, ii. 197

Clarence, Duke of, birth, ii. 181;
death, iii. 234

Clarendon, 4th Earl of, i. 79; ii. 31

Classical scholarship, _P._ on, i. 88

Cleopatra's Needle, iii. 179

Clerkenwell Prison, Fenian attempt to blow up, ii. 27

Clerks, condition of, iii. 91 _seq._;
female, iii. 125

Cleveland, President, iv. 11;
and Venezuelan arbitration, iv. 22

"Clicquot, King." _See_ Frederick William IV, King of Prussia

Clifford, Dr., and education, iv. 150

Clifford's Inn demolished, iv. 204

"Climbing-boy" scandal, ii. 58-9, 63-4; iii. 86

"Close, Poet," i. 234; ii. 272

Club, a fashionable, i. 217 _ill._;
library in, i. 218;
ladies', i. 244;
_P.'s_ allusion to the Athenæum, ii. 222

Coal, extortionate tolls, i. 59;
mining, _ibid._;
future of, ii. 83;
high price of, ii. 92 _seq._;
strike of December, 1893, iv. 111;
crisis in 1912, iv. 134

Cobbe, Miss Frances P., iii. 310

Cobden, Richard, i. 5;
and gold mania, i. 76;
and arbitration, i. 118;
subservience to America, i. 132;
attacks sinecures, i. 190;
death, ii. 24;
enraged with Palmerston, ii. 72

Cock-fighting, iii. 103

Cockney dialect, iii. 197

"Coffin-ships," ii. 99 _seq._

Cole, Sir Henry, ii. 190

Colenso, Bishop of Natal, case of, ii. 101, 111 _seq._

Coleridge, John, 1st Lord, ii. 133, 209

Colet, Dean of St. Paul's and founder of St. Paul's School, iii. 148

Collins, C. A. "Convent Thoughts" caricatured, i. 299

Collings, Mr. Jesse, M.P., iii. 99

Colonial and Indian Exhibition, iii. 288

Colonial Governors Act, ii. 25

Colorado beetle, advent of, iii. 208

Colosseum, the, in Regent's Park, i. 155

Colvile, General, iv. 45

Colvin, Sir Sidney, and Burne-Jones, iii. 334

Comédie Française troupe, ii. 284

Comedy and melodrama, ii. 288 _seq._

Comedy, musical, _P.'s_ burlesques of, iv. 321, 322, 324;
popularity of, iv. 338

Comet, of 1857, ii. 202;
of 1858, ii. 40

_Comic Blackstone, The_, i. 90, 232

Commercial travellers, female, iii. 125

Commune, French, ii. 37

Compulsory service, iv. 58, 66

Comte de Paris, iii. 58

Concert music, i. 289 _seq._; ii. 306 _seq._;
promenades, iv. 340;
Queen's Hall Sunday, iv. 341

Connaught (Prince Arthur), Duke of, ii. 19; iii. 223;
Royal grant for, ii. 187;
marriage, iii. 218 _seq._;
resigns succession to Dukedom of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, iv. 220

Confessional, the, ii. 101, 106, 109

Congo atrocities, iv. 66

Conrad, Joseph, iv. 291-2

Conscience clause in Education Act of 1870, ii. 123, 126

"Conscientious objectors" to vaccination, iv. 118

Conservative Reform Bill, ii. 96

Conspiracy Bill, indignation at, ii. 9

Constantine, King, of Greece, iv. 83

Constantinople Conference, iii. 14

Constitution Hill, "Quadriga" on, iv. 207

Convocation, Houses of, sessions, ii. 54

Cook, Dr., Arctic explorer, iv. 190

Cook, Thomas, & Son, travel agency, iii. 269

Cookery, i. 245;
British, ii. 200

Cooks and teachers, wages of, i. 33

Co-operative societies, ii. 200

Copyright, international, advocated, i. 234

Coquelin, M., visits England in 1887, iii. 347;
in _Cyrano de Bergerac_, iv. 319

Corelli, Miss Marie, a rival to Shakespeare, iv. 280;
her novels reviewed, iv. 281, 284

Corn Laws, campaign against, i. 5;
Disraeli opposes repeal of, i. 28;
repealed, i. 51; ii. 43

Corporal punishment, ii. 132; iii. 142

Corsets, iii. 307, 310

Cosmetics, ii. 326 _seq._, 330; iv. 247

_Cospatrick_, burning of the, iii. 86

Costa, Sir Michael, i. 294; ii. 305, 307

Coup d'Etat of 1851, i. 120, 196

Court, the, i. 165 _seq._;
crowds at drawing-rooms, i. 189 _ill._;
_bal poudré_ ridiculed, i. 190; ii. 169-96; iii. 215-34; iv. 215-27

_Court Circular_ criticized, i. 179

Covent Garden Market, i. 151;
state of, iii. 182 _seq._; iv. 210

Covent Garden Theatre, burned in 1808 and 1856, re-opened in 1858,
i. 157; ii. 302 _note_

Coventry ribbon trade, distress, ii. 324

Cowper, 7th Earl, iii. 373

Coxwell, H., aeronaut, ii. 142; iii. 207

Crabbe, George, iv. 105

Craig, Gordon, iv. 306

"Cramming" in schools, ii. 131

Cranborne, Lord, _see_ Salisbury

Cranbrook, 1st Earl of, iii. 37

Crane, Walter, iii. 221

Crawford and Balcarres, 25th Earl of, ii. 204

Crawley, Peter, prize-fighter, ii. 341

Crawshay, Mrs., of Cyfarthfa, and "lady helps," iii. 270

Craze for writing memoirs, iii. 250 _seq._

Cremation legalized, ii. 223; iii. 275

Cremorne Gardens, i. 159;
fête at, ii. 241;
closed, iii. 177

Crewe, 1st Marquess of;
on anti-Lords campaign, iv. 63;
in Mr. Asquith's Cabinet, iv. 91

Crichton-Browne, Sir James, and higher education of women, iii. 123;
report on Board schools, iii. 138;
on vegetarianism, iii. 209

Cricket, ii. 344 _seq._; iii. 292 _seq._;
cricket schoolmasters, ii. 131;
played by women, iii. 132;
visits of Australian team, iii. 292, 294;
England _v._ Australia, iv. 349;
explaining it away, _ibid._;
cricket as a passport to politics, iv. 350;
Warwickshire's triumph, iv. 351;
ladies at, _ibid._

Crime, iii. 100 _seq._; iv. 123;
fostered by harmful literature, iii. 143 _seq._

Crimean war:
declared, i. 124;
hospital scandals, i. 126 _seq._;
postal service breaks down, i. 126;
"Jolly Russian Prisoners," i. 129;
brave deeds unrecognized, i. 129, 130;
profiteering, _ill._, i. 130;
peace party's efforts, i. 131;
corps of navvies, _ibid._;
Sebastopol inquiry, i. 132;
discontent with peace terms, _ibid._;
_P._ advocates "frightfulness," _ibid._;
peace rejoicings, i. 133;
post-war parallels, i. 134; iii. 109

Crimes Act, iii. 44, 50

Crinolines, i. 258 _seq._; ii. 174 _seq._, 225 _ill._, 320 _seq._;
threatened revival of, iii. 311; iv. 265

Critics, dramatic, iv. 320

Crockford's Gambling Club, i. 221

Crompton, Samuel, inventor of spinning mule, ii. 73

Cromwell, Oliver, suggested statue of, i. 196, 197 _ill._;
iv. 205, 206

Croquet, ii. 238, 346; iii. 303; iv. 355

Crossley, Frank, iii. 171

Crown and Court, _see_ Court

Cruikshank, George, ii. 335;
death, iii. 332 _seq._

Crystal Palace:
name coined by Douglas Jerrold, i. 40;
moved to Sydenham, i. 44;
Queen Victoria opens, i. 47;
humorous handbooks to, _ibid._;
concerts, ii. 308 _seq._, 311;
exhibitions at, iii. 99, 287

Cuba annexed to U.S., iv. 30

Cubitt, Joseph, C.E., ii. 150

Cuffey, the Chartist, i. 55

Cumming, Dr. John, ii. 154;
prophesies end of world, ii. 202

Curragh Camp troubles, iv. 94

Curry powder for the poor, i. 17

Curzon, 1st Marquess, and exclusion of Peers from Commons, iv. 18;
and Oxford University, iv. 157;
and Upper Chamber reform, iv. 67

Cyder Cellars, i. 220

Cyprus annexed, iii. 17

_Daily Mail:_
champions windmills and standard bread, iv. 116;
and middle classes, iv. 126;
founded 1896, iv. 295;
circulation of, _ibid._

Dalkeith, 6th Earl of, defeated by Gladstone, iii. 26

Dances, new and old:
Barn-dance, Washington Post, Boston, Bunny-hug, Morris-dances,
Tango, iv. 234-7, 239, 240

Dancing craze, i. 209; iv. 229;
skating ballet, _ill._, i. 280

Darwin, Charles, ii. 214; iii. 375 _seq._

Davenport Brothers, ii. 205

Death Duties Budget, 1894, iv. 4, 15

Declaration of London, iv. 75

Delane, J. T., editor of _The Times_, i. 235;
eulogized, iii. 327;
Dasent's _Life_ and _P.'s_ comments, iv. 298

Delarey, General, in London, iv. 46

Delcassé, M., French statesman, iv. 78

Delhi, capture of, ii. 7

Denison, George Anthony, Archdeacon of Taunton, ii. 120; iii. 162

Denison, J. E., Speaker of House of Commons, ii. 79

Derby, 14th Earl of, ii. 9, 272;
resigns Premiership, ii. 28, 29;
death, ii. 31;
and Reform Bill, 1867, ii. 42, 85;
and Lancashire cotton famine, ii. 72;
forms Cabinet, 1866, ii. 79;
and Reform League, ii. 83;
and Irish Church Bill, 1869, ii. 116

Derby, 15th Earl of, and Sabbatarians, i. 91;
and Russo-Turkish war, iii. 16

Derby-Disraeli administration, ii. 50

De Reszke, Jean and Edouard, iii. 356, 360 _seq._; iv. 332

Desclée, Aimée, French actress, ii. 286

Destinn (Destinnova), Mme. Emmy, iv. 334

Devonshire, 7th Duke of, opens docks at Barrow-in-Furness, ii. 84;
death, iii. 66

Devonshire, 8th Duke of, at War Office, iii. 111;
joins Lord Salisbury's Cabinet, iv. 18;
integrity, iv. 50;
resigns from Balfour Ministry, iv. 58;
death, iv. 63

De Wet, General Christian, iv. 40;
reception in London, iv. 46

Diabolo, iv. 357

Dickens, Charles, ii. 212;
relations with _P._, ii. 273;
and Leigh Hunt, ii. 281;
patronizes "the Menken," ii. 289

_Dictionary of National Biography_ commences, iii. 326

Dilke, Sir Charles, opposes Royal grants, ii. 187 _seq._;
epigram on, ii. 188;
investigates slum areas, iii. 98;
on state of Thames, iii. 106;
and grant for Duke of Connaught's marriage, iii. 218;
and expedition to Khartum, iv. 34

Dillon, John, and Parnell, iii. 23, 61

Disarmament, Hague Peace Conference, 1899, iv. 34

Disestablishment, iii. 173;
of Irish Church, ii. 101

Disraeli, Benjamin. _See_ Beaconsfield

Divorce Bill of 1856, i. 96;
for poor, i. 21

Dobson, Austin, ii. 325;
criticized by _P._, iii. 321 _seq._

Doctors, and quacks, i. 239;
women, i. 250; ii. 247-50; iii. 114, 124;
Victorian diseases, ii. 200-1;
new cures, iv. 248-50.
_See also_ Medical Students, Surgeons

Döllinger, Dr., and Vatican Decrees, iii. 159

Domesticity, decline of, iv. 230

Domestic service and servants, i. 30-4; ii. 225 _seq._, 228, 230,
232 _seq._

Donizetti, Gaetano, operas, ii. 301

D'Orsay, Count, i. 221, 222

Dover, and Calais submarine cable, i. 72;
Y.M.C.A. episode, ii. 104

Dowbiggin, Captain, i. 206

Doyle, Richard, i. 218, 258;
resigns from _P._ staff, i. 112;
death, iii. 342

D'Oyly Carte, Mr., and English Opera House, iii. 181;
and performance of _The Gondoliers_, iii. 366

Drama, i. 271 _seq._; ii. 282-319; iii. 343-73;
French adaptations, i. 272;
censorship, i. 273;
harlequinade, i. 275;
as part of children's education, iv. 143;
Celtic, burlesqued in 1899, iv. 319;
decayed, revivals of, burlesqued, iv. 323.
_See also_ Theatres

Dress. _See_ Fashion, Uniforms

Dressmakers' long hours, i. 38

Dreyfus case, iii. 166; iv. 28, 34, 160

Drink Question. _See_ Temperance

Druce, Emily, fate of, ii. 56

Drury Lane Theatre, ii. 297, 309

Dublin transport workers' strike, iv. 134

Du Chaillu, P. B., ii. 214

Ducie, 2nd Earl of, i. 24

Duckworth, Rev. B., Canon of Westminster, iii. 167, 373

Duelling, campaign against, i. 114, 115 _ill._

Duma, first opening of, iv. 54

Dumas, Alexandre fils, ii. 286, 289;
_Dame aux Camélias_, i. 228

Du Maurier, George, social contrasts and new types, ii. 198;
flunkeys, ii. 233;
his gentle giantesses, ii. 239, 240;
an apostle of Eugenics, iii. 238-40;
his Limericks, iii. 325-6;
_P.'s_ tribute, iv. 228;
_Trilby_, iv. 284-5, 317

Duncombe, Tom, M.P., ii. 150

Dundee meeting of domestics, ii. 232

Dundrearyism, ii. 310, 336 _ill._, 337 _seq._

Dunlop, John Boyd, inventor of pneumatic tyre, iii. 300

Dunraven, 3rd Earl of, ii. 204

Dunraven, 4th Earl of, and Royal Commission on Sweating, iii. 94, 96;
America Cup challenger, iv. 346

Durham, Union-Workhouse, ii. 48;
University, grants B.A. degree to women, iii. 117

Duse, Mme., iv. 315, 321

Dynamiters, activity in 1885, iii. 40

Early closing, i. 38;
Bill of 1896, iv. 118

East India Company, ii. 6;
abolished, ii. 8

Eastlake, Sir Charles, P.R.A., ii. 314

Eastlake, Charles, of _P._, ii. 314 _note_

Ecclesiastical, courts, ii. 108;
Titles Act, i. 232

Eddy, Mrs. M. B., iii. 254

Edgeworth, Maria, i. 215; ii. 326

Edinburgh, Duke of, _see_ Alfred, Prince

Education, ii. 121-35; iii. 137-56; iv. 136-62;
ignorance of poor, i. 10, 82;
popular, i. 81 _seq._, 82 _ill._;
National Society for Promoting Education of Poor, i. 84;
Lord John Russell's resolutions, i. 86;
Bill of 1856, i. 87;
Montessori system foreshadowed, i. 88;
of Society girls, i. 214;
Elementary Education Act, 1870, ii. 122 _seq._;
fairy tales for children, ii. 128-9; iii. 146 _seq._; iv. 138 _seq._;
foreign nurses for modern languages, ii. 130;
co-education, ii. 131;
systems, English _v._ German, ii. 134;
of schoolgirls, improvements, iii. 119;
Elementary Education Act, 1891, iii. 142;
literature and crime, iii. 143 _seq._;
and stage, iii. 144 _seq._;
precocious children, iii. 145 _seq._;
classics _v._ commerce, iii. 151; iv. 152;
free libraries, iii. 155;
Act of 1902, iv. 125-6;
modern children, independence, iv. 136 _seq._;
theory of self-expression, iv. 140 _seq._;
dramatic method, iv. 143;
Boy Scout movement, iv. 145;
Act of 1871, iv. 145;
Bill of 1896, iv. 147;
Act of 1902, iv. 148;
Bill of 1906, iv. 148-50;
modern language teaching, iv. 154.
_See also_ Schools, Universities

Educationists, ii. 124 _seq._

Edward VII, King, _ill._, ii. 177, 193;
visits Canada and U.S.A., 1860, ii. 175 _seq._;
marries Alexandra of Denmark, ii. 181;
illness, 1871, ii. 191;
visits Birmingham, ii. 192;
promotes _Entente_ with France, iii. 19; iv. 6;
silver wedding, iii. 231;
and Emperor Wilhelm II, iii. 233;
fiftieth birthday, iii. 233;
death, iv. 73, 225;
pastimes, iv. 218;
coronation humours, iv. 223;
coronation postponed, iv. 224;
visits Ireland, iv. 224;
votes in H. of Lords, iv. 226;
lines on his dog Cæsar, iv. 226

Edward, Prince of Wales, birth, iv. 216;
visits Wales, iv. 227

Egypt, Arabi's revolt, iii. 32

Eisteddfodau, spread of, ii. 220

Elcho, Lord, 8th Earl of Wemyss, ii. 86, 336

Electricity, for lighting, i. 72; iv. 194;
telegraph, i. 72;
underground railways, iii. 199

Elgar, Sir Edward, i. 292; iv. 341

Eliot, George, ii. 260, 274; iii. 317

Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, visits Ireland and England, iii. 221;
assassinated, iv. 32

Ellenborough, 1st Earl of, and Indian Mutiny, ii. 4

Elliot, Sir H., iii. 14

Elliott, Ebenezer, i. 51

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, iii. 319

Emigration, remedy for discontent, i. 57;
female, scheme for, i. 58;
attitude of _P._ towards, iii. 108

_Enfant Prodigue_, ii. 285 _ill._; iii. 347

English characteristics, i. 223

English, travellers abroad, manners, ii. 333 _seq._;
tourists in France, iii. 278

English-speaking nations, proposed federation of, iii. 204

Entertainments and Royalty, ii. 192 _seq._

Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, King of Hanover, i. 192, 193

_Essays and Reviews_, ii. 101, 109 _seq._, 111

Etiquette, social, survivals of, in manners and speech, iv. 252

Eton College described, iii. 150

Eugenics satirized, iv. 248

Eugénie, Empress, i. 263; ii. 19, 175;
criticized, ii. 192

Evans's Supper Rooms, i. 220

Evolution, iv. 140-1

Excursions, i. 221; ii. 76; iii. 270

Executions, public, patronized by nobility, i. 216, 220

Exeter Hall, i. 81; ii. 71, 244, 309;
philanthropy, ii. 52

Exhibition of 1851, i. 40;
opening described, i. 42;
praise for Queen and Prince Consort, _ibid._;
dinner for workmen suggested, i. 43;
_Mr. P.'s_ Industrial, _ill._, i. 41;
Exhibition of 1862, ii. 73

Exhibitions in the 'eighties, iii. 287 _seq._

Exploration, iv. 190

Extravagance, in social functions, iv. 242, 243;
dress, iv. 243;
uniforms, iv. 243

Eyre, E. J. (Governor of Jamaica), ii. 25, 81, 99

Factory Act, ii. 43, 58

Fairy tales in education, ii. 128 _seq._; iii. 146 _seq._

Faithfull, Miss Emily, ii. 246

Faith-healers, ii. 205

Falconer, Hon. Ion Keith, iii. 300

Fancy dress balls, craze for, iii. 266

Faraday, Michael, i. 79, 314

Farm labourers, i. 17, 19; ii. 47-8; iii. 72-3, 89; iv. 116-18;
grievances, ii. 48

Farman, Henry, aviator, iv. 184

Farmers' hardships, iv. 113-4

Farragut, D. G., American admiral, ii. 22

Farrar, Dean, iii. 174

Farren, Nellie, actress, iii. 354;
at Gaiety Theatre, iii. 287;
benefit of, iv. 320

Fashions, i. 258 _seq._; ii. 320-38; iii. 304-16;
facial adornments, ii. 326 _seq._;
influence on high art, ii. 332;
approximation of male and female, iii. 304 _seq._; iv. 262, 263;
opposite extremes, iii. 309;
fur coats and boas, iii. 312;
ladies' balloon sleeves, iv. 266;
bolero coats and Russian blouses, _ibid._;
skirts becoming shorter, iv. 268;
effect of motoring on dress, _ibid._;
bathing dresses, iv. 269;
Directoire costume revived, _ibid._;
reduction of materials, iv. 271;
old and new fashion plates, iv. 271;
"Harem" skirts, iv. 272.
_See also_ Uniforms.

Fashoda incident, iv. 11, 28, 30

"Father Ignatius," ii. 106 _seq._

Faure, President, death, iv. 35

Fawcett, Henry, and Royal grants, ii. 187 _seq._; iii. 215;
and Woman Suffrage, ii. 254;
death, iii. 376

Fawcett, Mrs. Henry, ii. 257

Fawcett, Miss Philippa, ii. 261; iii. 122

Fechter, C. A., as Hamlet, ii. 282 _seq._

Fenian conspiracy, ii. 20, 25, 26, 27, 42, 114, 116

Ferdinand I, King, of Bulgaria, offered Bulgarian throne, iii. 57

Feudalism, ii. 47

Fiction, sexo-mania in modern, _ill._, iv. 290;
_P.'s_ conflicting views on, _ibid._

Field, Cyrus, ii. 27

Figuier, L., and fairy tales, ii. 129

Fisher, Sir John, made First Sea Lord, iv. 55;
and German naval menace, iv. 63

"Fisheries" Exhibition, iii. 288

FitzGerald, Edward, _P._ on his parasitic patrons, iv. 286

"Flapper," advent of the, iv. 175-6, 178;
education of, iv. 242

Flats, insanitary conditions, iv. 204

Fleet Prison closed, i. 28

Flogging of criminals, iii. 102;
in the Army, i. 116

Flower, E. F., agitation against cruelty to horses, iii. 103

Flunkeydom. _See_ Servants

Flying machine, invention of, iii. 201

Foley, J. H., R.A., statue to Outram, ii. 151

Folk-dancing revived, iv. 107

Follies, The, iv. 327-8

Food-fads, progress of, iv. 248-50;
no-food cult, iv. 249

Football, ii. 345;
Maori team visits England, iii. 296;
spread of Association game, iv. 352;
football of the future, _ibid._;
dominates the Press, _ibid._

"Fops' Alley," i. 219

Forster, Rt. Hon. W. E., and American Civil War, ii. 70;
his Education Act, ii. 121, 122 _seq._; iii. 72, 137;
and Bill against pigeon shooting, iii. 222;
death, iii. 376

Fox, Sir Douglas, engineer, iii. 212

Fox-hunting, ii. 339 _seq._; iv. 359

France, Royal tour in, i. 191;
relations with, ii. 24; iii. 8;
Second Empire, ii. 38

Franchise Bill of 1884, iii. 36 _seq._

Francis IV, King of Naples, flight, ii. 17

Franco-British _Entente_, iii. 19; iv. 97

Franco-German war, ii. 3;
causes, ii. 29;
outbreak, ii. 32;
Sedan, and after, ii. 34 _seq._

Franco-Russian _Entente_, iii. 63; iv. 16

Frankfort, Peace Congress at, i. 119

Franz Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria,
assassinated at Sarajevo, iv. 10, 99

Frederick III, Emperor of Germany, death, iii. 51

Frederick, Empress, iii. 55

Frederick William IV, King of Prussia, i. 192

Free Trade, i. 5; iii. 32;
Budgets, 1859-65, ii. 121

Freeman, Prof. E. A., iii. 4

French Exhibition, ii. 28

French invasion scares, i. 117; ii. 10, 12 _seq._

French militarism, ii. 29

Frere, Sir Bartle, ii. 52;
policy criticized, iii. 24

Frith, W. P., R.A., ii. 316

Fry, Elizabeth, i. 192

Fugitive slave question, iii. 9 _seq._

Fuller, Miss Loie, iv. 229

_Fun_, _Bab Ballads_ and, ii. 280

Funerals, pageantry of, i. 229

Furniture, Victorian, iv. 306

Furnivall, Dr. F. J., iii. 352;
founds Browning Society, iii. 324

Gainsborough, Thomas, Duchess of Devonshire's portrait recovered, iv. 310

Gallows. _See_ Hanging.

Galsworthy, John, iv. 328

Gambetta, Léon, ii. 101;
death, iii. 35

Gambling, i. 221; iv. 113;
suppressed in Bermondsey, iii. 108

Game Laws, harsh sentences under, i. 18; ii. 43;
opposition to, i. 22

Games, Olympic, iv. 345, 347, 348

Garden suburbs, iv. 210

Garfield, President, assassinated, iii. 30

Garibaldi, Giuseppe, ii. 16 _seq._, 102, 216

Garrett, Elizabeth, M.D., ii. 248, 258

Garrotting scare, i. 134; ii. 48

Gas-stoves introduced, i. 78

Gas _v._ electricity, iii. 204 _seq._

General Elections, 1874, iii. 26;
1900, iv. 44;
1906, iv. 58, 124-5;
1910, iv. 67, 69

George I, King, statue, ii. 151

George IV, King, i. 188

George V, King, birth, ii. 181;
visit to Ireland, iii. 231;
and German naval menace, iv. 63;
coronation, iv. 227;
attacks dragon of apathy, iv. 227

George I, King of Greece, iv. 25;
assassinated, iv. 83

George, Rt. Hon. David Lloyd, visits Germany (1908), iv. 64;
and Upper Chamber reform, iv. 69, 72;
and national insurance, iv. 86;
and Marconi scandal, iv. 88;
land campaign, iv. 90, 116-8;
his equanimity, iv. 91;
and dukes, iv. 92, 94;
Budget of 1914, iv. 97;
and old age pensions, iv. 130;
Limehouse speech, iv. 132;
and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148;
and Woman Suffrage, iv. 179

George, Henry, and Socialism, iii. 75 _seq._

German Women's Navy League, iv. 64

Germany, naval beginnings, ii. 18;
and growth, iii. 10;
naval policy, ii. 25; iv. 85;
militarism, iii. 35, 40, 42; iv. 85;
momentous year (1888), iii. 51;
and slave trade in Africa, iii. 34;
expedition to Kiao-Chow, iv. 27;
treatment of Poles, iv. 47-8;
and Baghdad railway, iv. 75;
complains of being isolated, iv. 77;
Bethmann-Hollweg's Army Bill, iv. 84;
and Alsace, iv. 85;
declares war on Russia and France, iv. 101

Germany, relations with, iii. 8; iv. 73, 80;
competes in naval armaments and trade, iv. 11;
trade competition, iv. 24, 122;
menace, iv. 55, 56, 75, 78, 98, 192-3

Giffen, Sir Robert, statistician, iii. 72

Gilbert, Sir John, R.A., iv. 303-4

Gilbert, W. S., ii. 272, 288, 291;
relations with _P._, ii. 280 _seq._;
_Patience_, iii. 258;
on Sir H. Tree as Hamlet, iii. 353;
_Rosencrantz and Guildenstern_, iii. 356;
collaboration with Sullivan, iii. 356

Gilbert, W. S., and Sullivan, operas, iii. 363 _seq._;
at Savoy Theatre, iii. 364 _seq._;
sever partnership, iii. 366; iv. 338

Gilchrist, Connie, actress, iii. 354

Girton College, ii. 261;
extensions, iii. 116 _seq._;
girl, 1886, iii. 120 _seq._

Gissing, George, novels, iii. 267;
and _P._, iii. 321

Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., i. 5, 131; ii. 39 _ill._, 270;
policy, ii. 4;
and Indian Mutiny, ii. 7;
and Fenianism, ii. 26;
Irish Church resolutions, ii. 29;
and Franco-German war, ii. 31;
legislation, ii. 38 _seq._;
1st administration, ii. 42;
and American civil war, ii. 68;
and reform, ii. 79;
at Barrow-in-Furness, ii. 84;
resolution on Irish disestablishment, ii. 113 _seq._;
financial omniscience, ii. 121 _seq._;
and Royal grants, ii. 187 _seq._;
foreign policy, ii. 192;
administration satirized, ii. 291;
and Bulgarian atrocities, iii. 3;
2nd administration reviewed, iii. 4 _seq._;
resigns Liberal leadership, 1875, iii. 8;
retires temporarily, iii. 12;
anti-Turkish bias, iii. 14 _seq._;
and Russo-Turkish war, iii. 17;
returned to power, 1880, iii. 26;
Irish policy, iii. 27;
and _P._, iii. 35 _seq._;
75th birthday, iii. 38;
defeated, 1885, iii. 42;
return to power, 1886, iii. 44;
first Home Rule Bill, iii. 44 _seq._;
and U.S. centenary, iii. 48;
his golden wedding, iii. 60;
and Parnell, iii. 61;
and Irish rebels, iii. 80;
and German competition, iii. 108;
and Wellington College, iii. 149;
and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii. 157 _seq._;
on ritualism, iii. 158;
on Vatican Decrees, iii, 158 _seq._;
on needy priests, iii. 172;
and visit of Prince of Wales to India, iii. 215;
and grant for Duke of Connaught's marriage, iii. 218;
and wedding dowry for Princess Beatrice, iii. 226;
and Royal grants, iii. 232;
activity, iv. 6;
and Irish Home Rule, iv. 13 _seq._;
naval policy, iv. 14;
introduces "guillotine," iv. 14;
resigns Premiership, iv. 14;
warns the Lords, iv. 15;
and Armenian atrocities, iv. 18;
and opening of Kiel Canal, iv. 19;
Armenian crusade, iv. 24;
death, iv. 32 _seq._

Glaisher, James, F.R.S., ii. 142

Goddard, Arabella, ii. 243, 297 _seq._

Godfrey, Dan, Lieutenant, iv. 343

Gog and Magog, end of, i. 154 _ill._

Gold craze of 1849, i. 79

Gold diggings, iv. 189-90

Golf, ii. 346; iii. 298 _seq._, 303; iv. 353;
lines on Tom Morris, iv. 353

Gomersal, E. A., the equestrian, i. 155

Gordon, General, iii. 6;
in Egypt, iii. 36, 38;
memorial to, iii. 38 _seq._, 180

Gorham case, i. 100

Gorst, Sir John, iv. 58;
and education of children, iv. 147

Goschen, 1st Viscount, and Home Rule Bill of 1886, iii. 45;
joins Salisbury Cabinet, iii. 50; iv. 18;
and free education, iii. 142

Gosse, Edmund, criticized by _P._, iii. 321

Gough, General, threatens resignation, iv. 94;
and Ulster situation, iv. 135

Gounod, M., ii. 301 _seq._

Governesses, pay of, i. 33;
treatment, ii. 233 _seq._

Grace, W. G., ii. 131; iii. 292 _seq._;
suggested knighthood, iv. 348, 349

Graham, Sir James, i. 312;
introduces Bill regulating factory labour, i. 25;
reviews postmen, i. 146 _ill._

Gramophone, iv. 331, 340

Grant, Baron Albert, ii. 152

Grant, General, ii. 22

Granville, 2nd Earl, ii. 58; iii. 8;
Foreign Minister, ii. 32;
Church Bill, ii. 116;
death, iii. 377

"Great Social Evil, The," i. 230 _ill._

Great Vance, the, iii. 353

Great War, outbreak, iv. 100-2

"Grecian bend," ii. 332

Greco-Turkish war, 1897, iv. 8, 25 _seq._

Greece, crown offered to Duke of Edinburgh, ii. 19;
relations with Turkey, iv. 99

Greenaway, Kate, iii. 221;
sets children's fashions, iii. 314