iii. 24;

waning prestige, iii. 24 _seq._; and Afghan war, iii. 26; death of, iii. 30; quoted, iii. 139; and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii. 158; on visit of Prince of Wales to India, iii. 215; names Queen Victoria Empress of India, iii. 216

Beaufort, 9th Duke of; edits Badminton Library series, iii. 298

Beales, Edmond, ii. 80 _seq._

Beardsley, Aubrey, attacked by _P._, iv. 283, 301, 304, 305

Beatrice, Princess, her _Birthday Book_, iii. 221; married, iii. 225 _seq._

Becker, Lydia, and Woman Suffrage, iii. 128

Beckett, Gilbert Arthur à, ii. 291

Bedford, 9th Duke of, and Covent Garden, iii. 182 _seq._; and Bloomsbury, iii. 184, 186

Beecher-Stowe, Mrs., visits England, i. 255

Beers, Jan Van, artist, criticized by _P._, iii. 340

Beesly, Professor E. H., ii. 42, 70

_Beggar's Opera, The_, iii. 359

Belgium, Royal tour in, i. 191; suggested French occupation of, ii. 34; and Congo, iv. 55, 66

Bellini, Vincenzo, operatic composer, ii. 301

Benedict, Sir Jules, ii. 300; iii. 373

Bengal tiger, _ill._, ii. 5

Bennett, Arnold, iv. 289

Benson, Archbishop, iii. 34; and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, iii. 57; headmaster of Wellington College, iii. 149

Benson, Sir Frank; productions criticized, ii. 352

Béranger, Pierre Jean de, ii. 101

Beresford, Admiral Lord Charles, and national defence, iii. 69; resignation of, iii. 230

Berlin, Congress of, 1878, iii. 4, 17; amenities of, iv. 55

Berlioz, cult of, in England, iii. 370

Bernhardi, General, iv. 85

Bernhardt, Sarah, visits to England, iii. 345 _seq._; iv. 316, 320; at the Coliseum in 1910, iv. 330

Besant, Mrs. Annie, iii. 254

Besika Bay, naval demonstration in, iii. 16

Bethmann-Hollweg, Dr., introduces German Army Bill, iv. 84

Bicycles, appearance of, ii. 138; iii. 200; evolution of, iii. 300; fashionable, iv. 244-5; invade schools, iv. 255; uses and abuses of, iv. 355; Mr. Gladstone on, _ill._, iv. 354

Bieberstein, Baron Marschall von, German ambassador, iv. 80

Big Ben, i. 150

Biggar, Mr. J. G., M.P., iii. 21

Billingsgate, new buildings, i. 150; condition of, iii. 183

Bird, Henry, iv. 343, 344

Birkenhead, Lord, iv. 6

Birmingham, Reformatory Institution, i., 29; school of brewing established at University of, iv. 155

Birrell, Mr. Augustine, iv. 62, 95, 134; as Irish Chief Secretary, iv. 67; and Sir E. Carson, iv. 86; leaves Education Office, iv. 149

Bishop, Irving, thought-reader, iii. 252

Bisley, headquarters of N.R.A., iii. 69

Bismarck, Prince, ii. 29, 32, 34; iii. 10, 201; iv. 49; hostility to, ii. 26; Socialists and, iii. 19; _P.'s_ view of, iii. 40; cartoon of, iii. 51; Army Bill, iii. 52; Triple Alliance and, iii. 54, 59; relations with Wilhelm II, iii. 54; with Empress Frederick, iii. 55; iv. 222; dismissed by Wilhelm II, iii. 61; in retirement, iii. 64; iv. 21, 26, 45, 65

Black Country, white slavery in, ii. 61 _seq._; workmen's extravagance in, ii. 92

Black Sea Conference, ii. 38

Blackwell, Elizabeth, M.D., i. 250

Blake, William, ii. 64; iii. 329

"Blanche," letters of, iv. 246

Blavatsky, Madame, iii. 254

Blériot, M., cross-Channel flight, iv. 186

Blessington, Countess of, i. 221

Blomfield, C. J., Bp. of London, i. 45, 95

Blondin, tight-rope walker, ii. 211, 238, 244 _seq._, 308; iii. 100; in Westminster Aquarium, iv. 203

Bloomerism, i. 250, 251 _ill._, 262; iii. 305

Bloomsbury, state of, iii. 184 _seq._

Boat races, Oxford v. Harvard, ii. 345 _seq._; with French at Andrésy, iv. 345; Cambridge and Harvard, iv. 346; French crews at Henley, _ibid._

Bodichon, Mme. Barbara, ii. 252, 260

Boer war, iv. 11; causes of, iv. 36 _seq._; progress of, iv. 38-46

Bombalino. _See_ Francis IV of Naples

Boneshakers. _See_ Bicycles

Bonheur, Rosa, ii. 243

Booth, Charles, and old age pensions, iv. 119

Booth, Edwin, actor, ii. 283

Booth family, attitude of _P._ towards, iii. 170 _seq._

Booth, General, and Trade Union Congress in 1908, iv. 162; death, iv. 162

Booth, J. L. C., iv. 78

Borradaile case, ii. 327 _seq._

Borthwick, Peter, M.P., i. 312

Botha, General Louis, in London, iv. 46; Premier of Transvaal, iv. 62

Boucicault, Dion, ii. 288; iii. 353

Boulanger, General, bid for dictatorship, iii. 8, 55; visits England, iii. 57 _seq._; commits suicide, iii. 58

Boulogne: "_Bradshaw_: a mystery," i. 71; English colony at, i. 221

Bowers, Miss G., ii. 238

Bowles, Mr. T. Gibson, iv. 58; and Declaration of London, iv. 77

Boxing, ii. 340 _seq._; by women, iii. 132; Slavin and Smith, iii. 290

Boy Scout movement, iv. 107-10, 145

Braddon, Miss, ii. 274; iii. 318

Bradlaugh, Charles, M.P., ii. 190; vicissitudes in Parliament, iii. 26 _seq._; and Royal grants, iii. 232

Bradley, Dean, iii. 167

Brahms, Johannes, his genius, iii. 368

Bret Harte, iii. 319

Briand, M., iv. 73

Bridge, negative value of, iv. 247; whist ousted by, iv. 358

Briggs, Mr., murder of, ii. 136

Bright, Jacob, ii. 258

Bright, John, i. 5; ii. 8, 13, 26, 68, 70, 116, 227; iii. 4, 6, 9, 16, 26, 34; opposes Bill for Regulation of Factory Labour, i. 25; and Cardinal Wiseman, i. 104; onslaught on, i. 132; speech criticized, ii. 64 _seq._; secedes from Gladstonian party, iii. 50; death, iii. 60, 228

Brighton, i. 156

British Academy, proposed founding of a, iii. 327

Brock, Sir Thomas, R.A., sculptor of Victoria Memorial, iv. 207

Brodie, Sir Benjamin, ii. 197

Brodrick, Hon. St. John (Lord Midleton), and exclusion of peers from Commons, iv. 18; and Army reform, iv. 49, 58

Bromhead, Lieut., V.C., hero of Rorke's Drift, iii. 23

Brompton swallowed up in South Kensington, iii. 177

Bronte, Charlotte, ii. 234

Brook Green Volunteer, i. 116

Brooks, Shirley, _Essence of Parliament_, i. 91; ii. 187 _seq._, 223, 269; iii. 226

Brougham, Henry, Lord, i. 307 _seq._; palinode to, i. 310; commended, ii. 58, 263

Broughton, Rhoda, Miss, ii. 236, 274; iii. 324

Brown, John, Queen Victoria's attendant, death of, iii. 223

"Brown, Tom." _See_ Hughes, Tom

Browne, Hablot K. ("Phiz"), _P.'s_ criticism of, iii. 340

Browning, Robert, ii. 204; iii. 317; his greatness, iii. 318

Browning Society, iii. 318, 324

Brummell, Beau, i. 188, 221

Brunel, Isambard K., ii. 27; and Stephenson, iii. 199

Brunel, Sir M. I., i. 149

Bryce, Viscount, iv. 148

Buccleuch, 5th Duke of, ii. 152

Buckingham Palace, i. 149, 190

Buckingham, 2nd Duke of, i. 18

Buckland, Professor, i. 181

Buckstone, J. B., actor, i. 275; ii. 291; death, iii. 350

Budget, the Radical, of Sir W. Harcourt, iv. 4; the People's Budget, iv. 132

Buffalo Bill, "Wild West" show in W. Kensington, iii. 289

Bulgaria, crown offered to Prince Ferdinand, iii. 51

Bulgarian atrocities, iii. 3, 12

Buller, General Sir Redvers, iv. 46

Bull-fighting, ii. 343

Bull's Run, ii. 18

Bülow, Count von, German Chancellor, iv. 55; and Socialists, iv. 62

Bulwer-Lytton, E. (1st Baron Lytton), his _Claude Duval_ criticized,