iv. 341-4

Musical prodigies, iii. 369

Music-halls, ii. 295 _seq._; iii. 15 _seq._, 372 _seq._; songs, ii. 312; popularity, iv. 328; salaries, _ibid._; Sarah Bernhardt and Tree at, iv. 330; Sir James Barrie writes for, _ibid._

Myers, F. W. H., iii. 207

Nansen, Dr. F., Arctic explorer, iv. 190

Napier, Sir Charles, i. 116

Napier, Lord, of Magdala (Sir Robert Napier), ii. 27; and retired officers, iii. 276

Napoleon I, centenary, ii. 29

Napoleon III, a special constable, i. 54; ally of England, i. 124; as modern Damocles, i. 195 _ill._; _P.'s_ hostility to, i. 122, 306; friction with, ii. 3, 10, 17; as porcupine, _ill._, ii. 11; proposed army loan, ii. 29, 34, 36; his vision of Napoleon I, _ill._, ii. 33; memorial verses, ii. 194 _seq._

Nares, Captain, Arctic explorer, iii. 207, 328

Natal campaign, correspondence, ii. 112

National defence, iii. 66-71; iv. 11, 55-7, 58-61, 63, 65-6

National Gallery, neglect of treasures, i. 298

National Guard suggested, i. 118

National insurance scheme, iv. 64

National outlook, 1857-74, ii. 3-116; 1874-1892, iii. 3-212

National Portrait Gallery Bill, i. 303

National Rifle Association, iii. 69, 302

National Service Bill of 1909, iv. 66

Naval armaments, race of, iii. 10

Naval warfare of the future, ii. 140 _seq._

Navvy corps for Crimea, i. 131

Navy. Estimates, protests against, i. 120; reorganized and increased, ii. 18; Naval Defence Bill of 1889, iii. 71; status of engineers, iii. 209, 211; Gladstone's policy, iv. 14; and German menace, iv. 60; advance in gunnery, iv. 62; inadequate preparations, iv. 66; expenditure, proposed reduction of (1911), iv. 75; estimates (1912), iv. 78, 91, 92. _See also_ Armoured ships

Nelson centenary, iv. 56

Nelson's monument, i. 147; iv. 207; daughter and grandchildren, i. 253

New English Art Club, iii. 328 _seq._

New rich, and the aristocracy, ii. 198 _seq._; and art, iii. 277

New Scotland Yard built, iii. 182

New South Wales, centenary, iii. 55

Newcastle, 4th Duke of, i. 106

Newgate Prison demolished, iii. 179

Newman, refuses cardinal's hat, iii. 162; Cardinal, iii. 376 _seq._

Newnham College, extension of, iii. 116 _seq._

Nicholas, King, of Montenegro, iv. 82

Nicholas I, Tsar, i. 113, 192

Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, proposes general disarmament, iv. 32, 34, 52-4; grants constitutional government, iv. 54; coronation, iv. 218

Nicholson, John, Mutiny hero, ii. 7

Nightingale, Florence, and Crimean hospitals, i. 126 _seq._; rewarded by nation, i. 128, 134-5; _P.'s_ statue for, i. 313, ii. 256

Nihilism in Russia, iii. 30

Norfolk, 13th Duke of, proposes curry powder as food for poor, i. 17

Normanby, 1st Marquess of, i. 203

Northcliffe, 1st Viscount, absence from England, iv. 92

Northcote, Sir Stafford (1st Earl of Iddesleigh), iii. 12, 21, 34

Northumberland, Duke of, iv. 66

Norton, Charles Eliot, on Spanish-American war, iv. 31

Novello, Clara, ii. 308

Novelties. _See_ Minor innovations

Nursery rhymes, cult of, foreshadowed, iii. 261

Nurses: Royal Red Cross decoration instituted, iii. 124; _P.'s_ attitude to, iii. 125

Oates, Captain, on Scott's Antarctic expedition, iv. 190

Ober-Ammergau Passion Play, iii. 348

O'Brien, Smith, i. 198

O'Brien, William, M.P., and visit of Prince of Wales to Ireland,