À Beckett, Gilbert, Thackeray on, i. 4; _Comic Blackstone_, i. 90, 232 Aberdeen, 4th Earl of, pro-Russian sympathies, i. 5, 125; smoking pipe of peace, _illustration_, i. 124; defends Prince Albert, i. 183 Abyssinia, King of, ii. 196 Abyssinia, war with, ii. 27 _seq._ Academy, British, scheme of, attacked by _Punch_, iv. 275 Academy, Royal: suggestions for improving, iv. 301; "problem" pictures at, iv. 302; Visitors at, _ibid._ Actors, salaries, i. 274; and society, iii. 349 _seq._; _see also_ Drama. Adelaide, Dowager-Queen, tribute to, i. 198 Admiralty Arch, prospect obstructed, iv. 201 Advertisements, educational, i. 35; growth, i. 161 Aerial steam carriage, _ill._, i. 73 Aeronautical Exhib., 1868, ii. 142 Aeronautics, i. 72 _seq._ Aeroplanes, beginnings, iv. 184, 186 Æsthetic movement, iii. 254 _seq._, 313, 329, 336 _seq._ Æsthetic pioneers, _ill._, i. 263 Afghan campaigns, iii. 3, 18 Afghan war, outbreak, iii. 25 _seq._ Afghanistan, Ameer of, iii. 18 Agitators, i. 52; ii. 58, 65, 81; iv. 111-2, 132-4 Agnosticism, attitude of _P._ towards, iii. 162 Agricultural depression, iv. 103, 113-4 Agricultural Gangs Act, ii. 46 Agricultural labourers, wages, i. 17; food consumption of, iii. 72 _seq._; conditions, iii. 89 Agricultural Land Rating Bill, 1896, iv. 114 Agriculture, machinery in, iii. 210; shortage of hands, iv. 114 Ainsworth, Harrison, _Jack Sheppard_ censured, iii. 143 Air, conquest of the, iv. 181 Air Force, beginnings, iv. 90, 93 Airships, flights, iv. 183 _Alabama_ case, ii. 3, 20, 95 Albany, Duke of, iii. 223 _seq._; recommends cookery lessons for the poor, iii. 76; speech, iii. 218; marriage, iii. 221 Albemarle, 6th Earl of, i. 96, 206 Albert Gate, i. 149 Albert Hall opened, ii. 190 Albert Medal, ii. 182 _seq._ Albert Memorial, ii. 182 Albert, Prince Consort, ii. 169-70, 179 _seq._, 182; unpopularity, i. 166, 171; love of uniforms, i. 171, 172; as sportsman, i. 173-6; as farmer, i. 180; Chancellor of Cambridge Univ., i. 181; "Prince _P._ to Prince Albert," i. 182; alleged interference in State affairs, i. 183 Alexander, Prince, of Bulgaria, iii. 55 Alexander II, of Russia, ii. 196, 204; iii. 30 Alexander III, of Russia, death, iv. 16 Alexandra, Queen, ii. 181; and pigeon shooting, iii. 222; sets fashions, iii. 222; visits Ireland, iii. 225 Alfonso XIII, King. _See_ Spain Alfred, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, offered Greek crown, ii. 19; decorated by King of Prussia, ii. 22; tour in Egypt and Palestine, ii. 175; refuses Greek crown, ii. 181; marriage, ii. 188; inaugurates Westminster Aquarium, iii. 100; _P.'s_ toast to, iii. 223; death, iv. 220 Alice, Princess, Grand Duchess of Hesse Darmstadt, married, ii. 181; death, iii. 218 Allan, Maud, iv. 229, 326, 330