i. 138, 206

Pantheon, The, i. 156

Pantomime, degeneracy of, iii. 354 _seq._; iv. 143

Paris, Peace Congress at, i. 118; siege of, ii. 34, 36; Exhibitions, iii. 289; iv. 40

Parliament, House of Lords and Franchise Bill, iii. 37; women as M.P.s, iii. 128; Act of 1910, iv. 15, 67, 85-6

Parliamentary obstruction, iii. 6, 9, 21 _seq._; oath question, iii. 26

Parnell, Charles Stewart, iii. 6, 21; speeches in America, iii. 22; censured by _P._, iii. 23, 32 _seq._, 40; and _The Times_, iii. 50, 57; divorce case, iii. 61; death, iii. 64, 85

Parodies, iii. 324 _seq._; iv. 284-9

Parry, John, ii. 310, 312; iii. 172

Parry, Sir Hubert, _P._ and _Judith_, iii. 372

Pasta, Giuditta, i. 277

Pastimes, ii. 211, 339-49; iii. 287-303

Patti, Mme. Adelina, ii. 299 _seq._, 303, 309; iii. 357, 359; returns to Covent Garden, iv. 333

Pavlova, Mme. Anna, iv. 229, 239

Peabody, George, ii. 52 _seq._; iii. 180

Peace, Charles, trial, iii. 100

Peace Congress at Frankfort, i. 119; Paris, i. 118

Peary, Commander R. E., Arctic explorer, iv. 181; reaches North Pole, iv. 190

Peel, Sir Robert, and Tom Hood, i. 15; dismisses Rowland Hill, i. 36; _P.'s_ monument to, i. 53 _ill._; tribute to, i. 85; and Colonel Fawcett's widow, i. 114, 115 _ill._; entertains Queen and Prince Albert, i. 173; as Knave of Spades, i. 305 _ill._; ii. 187

Peel, 1st Viscount, iv. 18

Pélissier, H., iv. 327

People's Budget, iv. 6, 72

Persia, Anglo-Russian agreement in 1911, iv. 77

Persigny, Comte de, ii. 17

Peterborough, Bp. of, and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii. 157

Pets, fashionable, i. 213; iv. 247-8

Phelps, Samuel, i. 271, 274; ii. 282; iii. 350

Philanthropy, practical, efforts of, ii. 48, 52, 53 _ill._; pseudo-, iv. 234

Philharmonic Society, the, i. 285

Phillpotts, Bp., "Henry of Exeter," i. 95

Phillipps (Halliwell), Dr., ii. 270

Phillips, Stephen, as actor, iii. 352; and the poetic drama, iv. 312, 322

Phoenix Park murders, iii. 6, 32, 50

Photography, i. 227; iii. 212

Piccadilly, scheme to widen, iv. 201

Piccolomini, Marietta, i. 277; ii. 299

Pierce, President, open letter to, i. 134

Pigeon shooting, ii. 343

"Pimlico Pavilion," i. 149

Pinero, Sir A. W., iv. 315, 317

Ping-pong, tyranny of, iv. 356

Pius IX, Pope, i. 99; ii. 113; iii. 10, 19 _seq._

Plays, censorship of, i. 273

Plevna, siege of, iii. 16

Plimsoll, Samuel, M.P., ii. 39 _ill._, 99; and coffin-ships, iii. 86

Plumer, General Lord, iv. 8

Plunket, Rt. Hon. David (Lord Rathmore), and Sunday boating, iii. 165; unveils Gordon Memorial, iii. 180

Plural voting, iv. 86, 92, 98

Pneumatic tyres, patent, ii. 138; iii. 300

Poets, activity of, in Boer war, subsequent slump in, iv. 288; Mr. Gosse on new, iv. 291

Poincaré, M., French President, iv. 78

Poland, police-ridden, ii. 19; trade unionists and, ii. 42 _seq._

Police, i. 144 _seq._; special constables, i. 55 _ill._; inefficiency of, ii. 165-6; iii. 100 _seq._; tributes to, iii. 228; iv. 208-9

Polka, the, i. 209, 210-11 _ill._, 283

Polytechnic, the, i. 155

Poor, the condition of, i. _frontispiece_, 3 _seq._, 6, 7 _ill._, 8, 10, 14-15 _ill._, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27; sweating system, i. 11, 17, 38, 41 _ill._; ragged schools, i. 83, 84; Poor Law, Report of (1834), i. 59; "Poor Child's Nurse," i. 153 _ill._; and Poor Law system, ii. 48, 259; inspectors, ii. 51; children, iv. 106-7; insurance scandal, iv. 107. _See also_ Chartism, "Hungry Forties"

"Pops," the, ii. 309, 311

Port Arthur, fall of, iv. 52

Portugal, King and Crown Prince of, assassinated, iv. 225; becomes republic, iv. 73; ex-King Manoel of, iv. 225

Postmen, i. 37, 38, 146 _ill._; iii. 93

Potato famine, Irish, i. 181, 198

Preparatory schools, athletic craze at, iii. 148; iv. 150-1, 154

Pre-Raphaelites, i. 299 _seq._; caricatured, _ibid._; _P._ converted to, i. 302; and æstheticism, iii. 255, 331, 337

Press, and Tichborne case, iii. 241; _P.'s_ relations with, i. 235 _seq._

Prevention of Corruption Act, iv. 127

Prevention of Cruelty Bill of 1887, iii. 144 _seq._

Prince Imperial, killed in Zululand, proposed memorial to, iii. 24

Prince of Wales's Children Bill, iii. 232

Prison _v._ workhouse, ii. 48 _seq._

Prisoners, Russian, treatment of, i. 129

Prize-fighting, ii. 211; revival of, iv. 360

Prodigies, musical, _P.'s_ views on, iv. 341, 342 _ill._

Professionalism in cricket and football, iv. 349

Profiteering denounced, i. 77, 130 _ill._; ii. 47, 72; iii. 238

Profit-sharing recommended, ii. 58

Promenade Concerts, i. 289 ill.

Prophecies and forecasts, ii. 36, 38, 40 _seq._, 136-47, 183, 185 _seq._, 202, 261, 294, 34i, 345; iii. 1, 36, 38, 46, 54, 67, 83, 90, 100, 142, 145, 170, 192, 201 _seq._, 204 _seq._, 273, 299 _seq._; iv. 66, 78, 90, 93, 102, 128, 174, 180, 182-4, 186, 191-3, 202

Proportional representation, iii. 40

Prussia, fleet, ii. 29

Prusso-Danish war, ii. 3, 20 _seq._, 195

Psychology: subconscious crime, iii. 207

Public houses, ii. 44, 45 _ill._

Public schools, ii. 130 _seq._; system, iii. 137; athletic craze in, iii. 148; inefficiency of, iii. 149 _seq._; classics _v._ commerce, iii. 150 _seq._; iv. 150 _seq._; diet at, iv. 153

Public Worship Regulation, ii. 120; iii. 157

Purchas trial, ii. 101

Pusey, Dr. E. B., i. 99, 306; ii. 104, 109; iii. 151

Quacks and doctors, i. 239

Quadrille, the, i. 209, 212

Quakers, mission to Russia, i. 125; relieve Lancashire famine, ii. 68

_Quarterly Review_, on Willis's Rooms, i. 209; supported by _P._ in 1886; iii. 321 _seq._

Queen Anne's Mansions built, iii. 179 _seq._

Queen's Hall concerts, i. 289; iv. 341

Quidde, Prof., of Munich, satirizes Wilhelm II, iv. 26

Rabelais, criticized by _P._, iii. 317

Rachel, Madame, ii. 236; life-story, ii. 326 _seq._

Radium discovered, iv. 189

Ragged Schools, i. 83; ii. 51 _seq._; and Lord Shaftesbury, i. 84

"Ragging" in Army, i. 135; iv. 254

Rag-time, iv. 331, 340

Railways, ii. 136; iii. 198 _seq._; dangers of early, i. 62, 70 _ill._; railway map of England, i. 62; speculation, i. 62, 64; mania, i. 64, 177 _ill._; battle of gauges, i. 64; Juggernaut of 1845, _ill._, i. 65; _P.'s_ "rules and regulations," i. 67; smoking saloons, i. 68; subterranean, prophecy, _ill._, i. 68; L. & N.W. Ry. directors criticized, i. 69; _Bradshaw_, i. 71; G.W.R. adopts electric telegraph, i. 72; Royalty and travelling, i. 178; railwaymen, ii. 74 _seq._; iii. 93; fares, ii. 76; Act of 1853, ii. 136; dispute of 1907, iv. 128. _See also_ London, Hudson

"Ranger, George," Duke of Cambridge, iii. 68; and Sunday boating, iii. 165

"Ranji" (H.H. Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, G.B.E.), cricketer,