Pitteri, Mademoiselle, 238 Plagiarism, 30, 281 “Poems and Parables,” 41 Poet Laureateship, 182 Poker, tabooed in Clubs, 154 Pol, M., 23 _Police Gazette_, 291 Pond, Christopher, 62–63 Pope Alexander, 291 —, Dr. Joseph, 220 —, Sam, 220 “Poppyland,” Clement Scott’s articles, 57 Porter, John: _see_ “Flying Baker” Portland Club, taboos poker, 154 Power, Frank, 166 Powles, Mr. (barrister), 157 “Practical John”: _see_ Hollingshead, John Practical joking, 164–180 Press, the, 9; artists’ attitude to, 15; stage and, 15, 84; transition, 292 Price, Julian, 160 Prince of Wales’s Theatre, 23–24 Princess’s Theatre, 276–277 Prisons, newspapers in, 258 Prize-Ring: _see_ Boxing Proctor, John, 199 Programme-sellers: _see_ Theatres Prosser’s Restaurant, 48 Prostitution, suppression of Haymarket night-houses, 161 “Pseudonymuncule,” 281 _Punch_, 232; Burnand, 102; Furniss, 74; Hannay, 280; Phil May, 83; A. K. Moore, 187; Sala, 55 Puritan Sabbath: _see_ Sunday Purkiss, William, 291 Purnell, Tom, 14, 202, 280 * * * * * Quaritch, 278 _Quarterly Review_, 164, 280 Queen’s Theatre, 63 Queensberry Marquis of, 110 * * * * * Racing, 260–275 — Press: _see_ Sporting Press Radcliffe, John, 158 Rainbow Tavern, 28, 245 Raleigh Club, 160 Ranelagh, Lord, 120 Rankin, Montgomerie, 186 —, Peter, 71 Ratcliff Highway (Jamrach’s), 274 Rational Sunday: _see_ Sunday Reade, Charles, 280 “Recreations of a Country Parson, The,” referred to, 115 Reece, Valerie: _see_ Meux, Lady _Referee_, _The_, 62, 268–271 Reform Club, 150 Restaurants and taverns, 60–66, 240–259 Richardson, Frank, referred to, 81, 265 Richmond, Bloundelle Burton at, 290 “Riperelle” (dance), 97 “Robert the Devil” (race-horse), 266 Roberts, Arthur, 110, 160 ——, John, 284 Robertson, Thomas W., 24, 28, 29; Bancroft management 93, 222; on critics, 30 Robinson, Phil, 58 Roche, Sir Boyle referred to, 177 _Rocket_, _The_, 127 Rockley’s wine bar, 219–220 Rogers, “Johnny,” 276 —, Samuel, 171 Romano’s, 135–136, 247, 250 “Romany Rye, The,” 42 Rosebery Lord, 50 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 46, 290 Rossiter (jockey), 267 Royal Academy (Trafalgar Square), 23 “Royal Divorce, A,” 276 “Royal Dustbin”: _see_ Prince of Wales’s Theatre Royalty Theatre, 174 Royce, Edward W., 209 “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám,” 278 Rule’s, Maiden Lane, 159, 221 Russell, Captain Fred, 110, 287 —, Henry, 146 Russell’s club for ladies 144–149 Ryder, John, 62, 212 * * * * * St. Albans, Bingham-Cox’s brewery, 126 St. Georgi, 242 St. James’s Restaurant, 236 —, Theatre, 96 St. Petersburg, Labouchere’s mission to, 76 _St. Stephen’s Review_, 82, 200 Sala, George Augustus, 14, 19, 54, 279; and “Bet Belmanor,” 138; and “Cheshire Cheese,” 64; and Parnell forgeries, 190; and Clement Scott, 57; on Sunday amusements, 113 Salisbury, Lord, 182 — Administration, 182 Sampson, Henry, 62, 270