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,