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._;