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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