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Part 30

Trevelyan, Rt. Hon. Sir George, iv. 4

Tricycles, appearance of, ii. 138; iii. 300

_Trilby_, _P._ on, iv. 284; in Peckham, _ill._, iv. 285

Triple Alliance, established, iii. 54; iii. 59; in 1907, iv. 62

"Trippers," cheap, iii. 104 _seq._

Trollope, Anthony, ii. 274; iii. 317, 320; parodied, iii. 324

_Truth_, appearance of, iii. 327

Tryon, Admiral Sir George, and loss of the _Victoria_, iv. 191

Tubes introduced, iv. 194, 198

Tupper, Martin F., i. 234; ii. 181, 270 _seq._; death, iii. 319

Turf, the, iv. 360

Turkey, relations with, iii. 14 _seq._; buys Dreadnought from England, iv. 91; relations with Greece, iv. 99. _See also_ Russo-Turkish war

Turner, J. M. W., R.A., i. 295

Turnerelli, Tracy, and the "people's tribute," iii. 24

Turnpike, laws resented, i. 57; trusts, end of, iv. 202

Tussaud's, Mme., i. 68, 106; Chamber of Horrors condemned, i. 157

Twain, Mark, ii. 277, 280; welcomed by _P._, in 1907, iv. 292; farewell to, in 1910, iv. 293

Tweedmouth, 2nd Baron, and German menace, iv. 10; withdraws from Admiralty, iv. 63

"Two Nations, The," i. _frontispiece_, 27

Type-writer, ii. 143 _seq._

Typhus, visitation of, i. 152

Uganda annexed, iv. 16

Ulster, and Home Rule, iv. 13; crisis in, iv. 80, 85-6, 91, 92, 94-9, 101, 135

"Ulster," the, ii. 338

Undergraduates, costume, i. 269 _ill._; high cost of living, ii. 134 _seq._

Underground railways, ii. 136, 154; iv. 194, 198, 200

Underpaid: governesses, iii. 273; women workers, iv. 105

Unemployment: riots, iii. 76, 78; unemployed and unemployables, iii. 79; iv. 111-2, 119, 123; insurance, iv. 133; in the upper class, iv. 246

Uniforms, military: protective colouring suggested, i. 122; vagaries of, i. 269, 270; iii. 316

United Kingdom Alliance, i. 105

United States of America: friction with, i. 134; relief sent from, to Lancashire in 1863, ii. 69; centenary of, iii. 48; relations with, iv. 22 _seq._ 25, 75, 98

Universities: _P.'s_ anti-academic bias, i. 87, 233; Irish University Bill, ii. 39; Universities Commission of 1872, ii. 132 _seq._; Universities Act of 1877, ii. 133; complaints of over-athleticism and expense, ii. 134; women at, ii. 260 _seq._; degrees for women, iii. 117; London University and women, iii. 119; education at, iii. 151 _seq._; teaching of Greek, iii. 154 _seq._; commerce at, iv. 155

Urquhart, David, i. 313

Vaccination Bill of 1898, iv. 119

_Vanguard_, loss of the, iii. 9

Vatican Decrees, iii. 158 _seq._

Vaticanism, ii. 101, 118

Vaughan, Father Bernard, iv. 250

Vaughan, Kate, actress, iii. 354

Vauxhall Gardens, i. 155

Vegetarianism, i. 240; iii. 209

Venetia annexed to Italy, ii. 26

Venezuela, dispute with, iv. 11, 22, 25

Verdi, Giuseppe, i. 277; ii. 301, 305, 297 _seq._; his _Otello_ performed, iii. 356, 359; _P._ and his later operas, iv. 332

Verne, Jules, iv. 186, 187

Verrey's Café, i. 217

Viardot-Garcia, Pauline, i. 280

Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, ii. 10, 17, 19, 196

Victor Emmanuel III visits England, iii. 233

_Victoria_, loss of the, iv. 191

Victoria, Princess Royal, betrothed, i. 198

Victoria, Queen, i. 91; reviews wounded soldiers, i. 130; V.C. instituted, i. 136; opens Royal Exchange, i. 149; preference for foreign talent, i. 149, 190; "bed-chamber" controversy, i. 165; marriage, i. 166; birth of Prince of Wales, i. 168; as Mother Hubbard, i. 169 _ill._; attack on, i. 186; as Calypso, i. 191 _ill._; visits Ireland, i. 196; surname of Windsor suggested, _ibid._; as Red Riding Hood, i. 307 _ill._; as Queen Canute, i. 309 _ill._; as Queen Hermione, ii. _front._; speech, 1860, ii. 16, 55; and Irish Church Bill, ii. 115 _ill._; as Queen of India, _ill._, ii. 173, 174 _seq._, 179 _seq._, 191 _seq._; letter to Mayor of Birmingham, ii. 245; Empress of India, iii. 4, 12, 215 _seq._; Golden Jubilee, iii. 6, 48, 226 _seq._; in seclusion, iii. 219 _seq._; attempt on her life, iii. 221; and Royal grants, iii. 232; Diamond Jubilee, iv. 27, 219-20; 80th birthday, iv. 34; death, iv. 42, 44; Memorial, iv. 201, 207; last years of reign, iv. 215

Victoria Theatre, ii. 285

Victorian age closes, iv. 3 _seq._

Villafranca, Peace of, ii. 12

Vivisection, iii. 103

Vokes family and pantomime, iii. 354

Voluntary schools, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's attitude to, iii. 57

Volunteers, ii. 13

Wages, i. 11, 17, 19, 33, 37, 72; and prices, iii. 104; iv. 105, 113, 119, 120

"Waggawock, The," ii. 209

Wagner, Johanna, i. 285

Wagner, Richard, i. 285; ii. 298, 300 _seq._, 307; at Albert Hall, iii. 356, 357; death, iii. 358, 361; _P._ and, iv. 332

Wales, Albert Edward, P. of (King Edward VII), i. 8, 168; visits Canada, ii. 16; visits India, iii. 215 _seq._

Wales, Edward, P. of, iv. 216, 227

Wales, George, P. of (King George V), visits Ireland and Berlin, iii. 225

Walker, Frederick, A.R.A., ii. 269, 317

Walker, Mary, Dr., ii. 252; iii. 305

Walker, Miss, female Chartist, i. 249 _ill._

Walpole, Rt. Hon. Spencer H, i. 45; ii. 80, 82

Waltz, the, i. 209, 212; ii. 240; iii. 369, 370, 371 _ill._; iv. 235, 236, 237 _ill._

Ward, Artemus (C. F. Browne), ii. 277 _seq._

Ward, Mrs. Humphry, _Robert Elsmere_, iii. 176, 317, 322

Ward, Colonel John, C.B., D.S.O., M.P., iv. 135

Warner, Capt., inventor, i. 74; ii. 139

Warren, Sir Charles, and the police force, iii. 101; in Boer war, iv. 39

Warren, Samuel, castigated by _P._, i. 234; ii. 242

Waterford, 3rd Marquess of, i. 202 _ill._

Watkin, Sir Edward, and Channel Tunnel, iii. 204

Watts, G. F., R.A., iii. 255, 337; his "Hope," iii. 338; _P.'s_ verses on, iv. 304

Watts, Dr. Isaac, ii. 210

Webb, Sir Aston, R.A., iv. 212

Wellington College, iii. 149

Wellington, 1st Duke of: on the poor, i. 6; criticized, i. 18; appoints special constables, i. 54; duel with Lord Winchilsea, i. 114, 115 _ill._; letter to _Times_, i. 117; on ignorance in the Army, i. 120; statues to, i. 149; Alfred Stevens's monument to, i. 294; as courtier to Queen Canute, i. 309 _ill._

Wellington Memorial competition, ii. 313

Wells, H. G., iv. 129, 286; _Ann Veronica_ reviewed, iv. 289

Welsh Disestablishment Bill, iv. 18, 86, 92, 98

Welsh language, ii. 220

Wemyss, 8th Earl of, iii. 37

Westbury, 1st Lord, death, ii. 118

Westminster Abbey, burials in, iv. 207

Westminster Aquarium, criticized, iii. 100, 103, 287; closed, iv. 202-3

Westminster Bridge, i. 148

Westminster Cathedral consecrated, iv. 201

Westminster, 1st Duke of, starts cheap eating-houses, iii. 185

Westminster, 2nd Duke of, on the "national disaster" of 1912, iv. 347

Whalley, G. H., M.P., ii. 39 _ill._, 210, 272; iii. 9; cartooned, iii. 21

Whiskers, ambrosial, i. 268; iii. 316; no longer in fashion, iv. 264

Whistler, J. McNeill, ii. 313, 316, 329; and Ruskin, iii. 331; satirized by _P._, iii. 337, 341 _seq._

Whitechapel, crime wave in, iii. 101

Whitman, Walt, i. 234; ii. 270; death, iii. 320

Whymper, Edward, mountaineer, iii. 291

_Wicked World, The_, ii. 291

Widdicomb, John E., the ringmaster of Astley's Circus, i. 155

Wilberforce, Canon Basil, iii. 163

Wilberforce, Samuel, Bp. of Oxford, i. 95; death, ii. 118; biography, iii. 252

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, Mrs., ii. 289; iv. 287, 292

Wilde, Oscar, and the æsthetic movement, iii. 257 _seq._, 325, 329, 337

Wilhelm, ex-Crown Prince of Germany, visits India, iv. 75

Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany, ii. 35 _ill._, 195 _seq._; death, iii. 51, 225

Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, ii. 25; iii. 8, 51; utterance of, iii. 52; relations with Bismarck, iii. 54; visits England, iii. 57 _seq._; aggressive attitude, iii. 59, 61; dismisses Bismarck, iii. 61; and race of armaments, iii. 71; visits England, 1891, iii. 232 _seq._; through _P.'s_ eyes, iv. 11; telegram to Krüger, iv. 20, 26 _seq._; and Professor Quidde, iv. 26; _lèse-majesté_ campaign, iv. 26, 32, 48; distrusted in England, iv. 56; and naval retrenchment, iv. 63; dispute with his Chancellor, iv. 64; fiftieth birthday, iv. 65, 80; congratulates Roumania, iv. 83

William of Wied, Prince, chosen sovereign of Albania, iv. 84

Willis's Rooms, i. 276

Wilson, Dr., on Scott's Antarctic expedition, iv. 190

Wilson, Sir Erasmus, and Cleopatra's Needle, ii. 153

Wilson, President Woodrow, iv. 143

Wimbledon Volunteer camp removed by order, iii. 68 _seq._

Winchilsea, 10th Earl of, duel with Duke of Wellington, i. 114

Winchilsea, 11th Earl of, bellicosity as Lord Maidstone, i. 115

Wireless telegraphy, iv. 181, 186

Wiseman, Cardinal, issues pastoral, i. 99; attacked by _P._ 99-100, 101 _ill._; original of "Bishop Blougram," i. 103; retorts on _P._, _ibid._; life of, reviewed by _P._, iv. 158, 162

Wolseley, Sir Garnet (1st Viscount Wolseley), ii. 38; iii. 3; Tel-el-Kebir, iii. 32, 54, 71, 217; controversy with Dr. W. H. Russell, iii. 111; opposes Channel Tunnel, iii. 204; on duration of Boer war, iv. 38

Women, assaults on, i. 19, 252; and emigration, i. 58, 255; iii. 128; accomplishments of, i. 213, 214; masculinity of, i. 244; and smoking, i. 244, 246; iii. 131; the "model fast lady," i. 245-7; in medicine, i. 250; "Bloomerism," _ibid._; ii. 236-65; and toy-dogs, ii. 241; as artists, i. 252; ii. 243; musicians, _ibid._; gymnasts, ii. 244 _seq._; new occupations, ii. 246; strong-minded, ii. 246 _seq._; and the professions, i. 249 _seq._; ii. 247, 258 _seq._; iii. 124 _seq._; and marriage, ii. 262, 263; workers, iii. 88 _seq._, 133 _seq._; status of, iii. 114-136; higher education of, i. 248; ii. 260; iii. 116 _seq._; and cookery, iii. 117; and physical culture, iii. 118; women's associations, iii. 124 _seq._; as jurors, iii. 129; clubs for, iii. 130; iv. 169, 172; in sports and pastime, iii. 131 _seq._, 294; iv. 163, 167, 171; the new, iv. 165-8; chauffeurs, iv. 168; University students, iv. 167, 169, 170; aviators, iv. 178

Women's Rights movement, i. 249, 252, 257; ii. 98, 236, 251 _seq._; iii. 126 _seq._, 128; as canvassers, iii. 129; militant suffragism, iv. 98, 163, 168, 171, 174, 178-80; in municipal office, iv. 168; cleavage in Asquith's Cabinet over, iv. 178-9

Wood, Sir Henry Wood, i. 289

Wood, General Leonard, report on U.S.A. army, iv. 91

Workhouse scandals, i. 8, 20, 21; ii. 48 _seq._; iii. 96; iv. 127

Working men, condition of, i. 3-60; ii. 58, 76-7; sympathy with the North in American war, ii. 71; as candidates for Parliament, ii. 86 _seq._; high wages, ii. 89, 92 _seq._; improvidence of, iv. 113; aversion from work, iv. 243

Working women's colleges, ii. 56

Workmen's Compensation Act, iv. 127

Wright, brothers (Orville and Wilbur), inventors and pioneer aviators, iv. 184

Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George, M.P., and Irish Land Purchase Act, iv. 4, 49; death, iv. 58

X-rays discovered, iv. 181, 189

Yankees, ii. 71

Yates, Edmund, of the _World_, iii. 170

_Yellow Book_, the, iv. 230, 283

Yerkes, Charles Tyson, organizes London electrical railways, iv. 198

York, Dr. Thomson, Archbp. of, ii. 50, 120

York, Duke of, marriage, iv. 215

York, Duke and Duchess of, visit Ireland, iv. 220; visit Australia in 1901, iv. 222

"Young England" party, _P.'s_ hostility to, i. 24; supports Bill for regulation of factory labour, i. 25; and reform of the Church, i. 94; white waistcoats, emblem of, i. 268

"Young Ireland" party, i. 196

Young men in the 'eighties and 'nineties, iii. 264

Young, poet, _P._ on, ii. 272

Zabern incident, iv. 85, 91

Zæo, acrobat, iii. 287; iv. 203

Zancigs, the, iii. 253

Zanzibar, Bp. of, and Kikuyu controversy, iv. 160

Zazel, acrobat, iii. 23, 100, 287, iv. 203

Zeppelins, trial trips of, iv. 183

Zola, Emile, iii. 353; iv. 28

Zulu war, iii. 23 _seq._, 111

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