Part 26
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