In ten minutes they have learned all that the heart of woman can desire to know, and they have satisfied their legitimate thirst for knowledge without having had to prosecute a weary search through the unwieldy pages of a bulky newspaper. I can imagine the fond mother of 1960 fetching a sigh as she recalls the sad, bad system which was in vogue in the days of her innocent childhood. She shudders at the memory of the blurred, insanitary broadsheets of an earlier time. And the cost? . . . I do not suppose that it will exceed the amount of the subscription at present paid for the daily delivery of a penny paper. It would probably “pan out” at something less. The cost of a penny paper totals up to something like five-and-twenty shillings a year. For an annual subscription of a guinea the little implement will probably be placed at the disposal of its customers by the great central exchange. . . . So mote it be! INDEX AARONSON, Jo, 251 “Actea: the Nymph of the Shore,” 23 Adam Architecture, 158 Adelphi Theatre, 93, 124, 218, 247, 284 Advertisements, 296 Ailesbury, Marquis, 250, 283 Ainsworth, Thomas, 35, 47 —, William Harrison, 33 “Aladdin” (burlesque), 230 Albery, James, 154, 216 Albion Tavern, 28, 29, 245 Alhambra, The, 232–238 Alias (costumier), 220 Alison, William, 81, 200 _All the Year Round_, 206, 248 _Ally Sloper_, 247 Amberley, Viscount, 175 “Ambidextrous Man,” Reade’s articles in _Daily Telegraph_, 281 American Civil War, Sala’s lectures, 55 Ames, Hugo, 203 —, Captain “Ossy,” 203 Amusements, Sunday: _see_ Sunday Anderson, Andy, 268 —, David, 18 —, Tom, 282 Anderton’s Hotel, 181 Angle, Jack, 282 _Anglo-Saxon_, _The_, 203 Ansdell, James, 181 “Ape” (cartoonist), 70, 166, 250 Aquarium, The, 149 Archer, Fred, 267 —, William, 93, 203 Ardilaun, Lord, 176 Arditi, 249 Arnold, Sir Edwin, 54 —, Matthew, 54, 291 Artists and the Press, 15 Arundel Club, 58 “As in a Looking-Glass,” 97 Ascot, 260 _Athenæum_, 35, 90, 280 Austin, Alfred, 182 Avenue Theatre, 90 * * * * * “Babil and Bijou,” 212 Bachelor (gaol chaplain, Tasmania), 254–259 Bagster (Bible publisher), 288 Baird, Abingdon, 250 Ballantine, Serjeant, 97 Ballet, 144, 234 Bancrofts, 24, 93, 156, 218, 222 Barber (in Temple Bar), 59 Barn Club, 114 Barnard, Richard, 135 Barnato, Barney, 119 Barnet, Dr., 32 “Baron Nicholson” (“Judge and Jury” President), 239 Barrett, Oscar, 158 —, Wilson, 277 Barristers, and journalism, 49 Barry, Helen, 213 —, Shiel, 137 _Bat_, _The_, 95, 108, 111, 194 Baum, John, 234 Bayliss, “Bill,” 221 Beaconsfield, Lord, “Ape’s” cartoon, 166 Beaufort, Duke of, 214 Beck (landlord of Unity Club), 215 Becker, Bernard, 73, 169 Bedford, Duke of, 22 Bedford Hotel, Covent Garden, 246 Belasco, 162 Belfast, Charles Williams contests, 148 “Bells, The,” 103, 216 “Bells go ringing for Sarah,” 237 _Bell’s Life_, 122 Bellwood, Bessie, 228, 250, 270 “Ben My Chree,” 277