Allen, Grant, _The Woman who Did_, iv. 163 Almack's, i. 208; ii. 240; Grantley Berkeley on, i. 209; attempted revival, iii. 247 Alpine climbing, ii. 211 America, relations with, i. 134; iv. 11; Monroe doctrine, iv. 8; influence of millionaires, iv. 246; freak dinners and _enfants terribles_, iv. 246 American blockade, ii. 68 American Civil War, ii. 3, 17 _seq._, 20, 22, 66 _seq._ American humorists, ii. 277 American journalism, i. 72; ii. 145 _seq._ American millionaire art collectors, iii. 276 American women of fashion, ii. 214 Americanisms, ii. 216 Amundsen, Roald, iv. 181; reaches South Pole, iv. 190 Anæsthetics, discovery of, i. 77 Andersen, Hans Christian, child's letter to, i. 89 Anderson, Mary, iii. 347 Andover Union, i. 4, 20 Angell, Norman, _Foundations of International Policy_, iv. 97 Anglo-Danish Exhibition of 1888, iii. 289 Anglo-French _Entente_, iv. 6, 11, 48, 56, 125 Anglo-Japanese Alliance, iv. 6, 11 Anstey, F. (T. A. Guthrie), iii. 286, 289, 325 Antarctic exploration, iv. 181, 190-1 Anti-clericalism in France, iv. 159 Anti-war party, iv. 44-5 Arabi Pasha, iii. 3 Archer, William, translates Ibsen, iii. 355 Archery, ii. 238, 346 Arctic exploration, iv. 181, 190; by Captain Nares, iii. 328 Argyll, 8th Duke of, ii. 68; and Armenian atrocities, iv. 18 Aristocracy, i. 201 _seq._; ignorance of peers, i. 204; "bloated haristocrat," _ill._ i. 205; journalists pander to, ii. 172; and new rich, ii. 198; take to journalism, iii. 242 _seq._ Armenian atrocities, iv. 18 Armoured ships, use of, criticized, ii. 140 Army, as a profession, i. 114; flogging in the, i. 116; Militia, reorganized, i. 116; Brook Green volunteer, i. 116; surgeons, i. 120; Volunteer rifle clubs, i. 122; undue differentiation between ranks, i. 131; barracks system, inquiry into, i. 134; purchase, i. 138; ii. 43; Volunteers discouraged by military authorities, iii. 68 _seq._; regular, enforced expenses in, iii. 70 _seq._; Recruiting Commission, iii. 109; _P.'s_ attitude towards, iii. 109 _seq._; Volunteer review at Windsor, iii. 111; Balaclava survivors, iii. 112; and Ulster, iv. 94; popular prejudice against, iv. 128. _See also_ Crimean war, Uniforms. Army reform, ii. 38; iv. 49 Arnold, Matthew, ii. 268; iii. 317; through _P.'s_ eyes, iii. 322 'Arry, and 'Arriet, iii. 106 _seq._; disappearance of, iv. 255, 256