Art, i. 249 _seq._; English, discouraged at Court, i. 190; criticism, i. 296; Victorian, i. 301; caricatures of impressionists, iv. 306; and popular painters, 1902, _ibid._; _nouveau art_, _ibid._; _P.'s_ art glossary, iv. 307; _The Times_ art critic burlesqued, iv. 308; Futuristic method applied to popular painters, _ill._, iv. 309; opening of Tate and National Portrait Galleries and Wallace Collection, iv. 310. _See also_ Royal Academy Artillery, long-range, _P.'s_ prophecy, ii. 142 Artists, women, exhibition of, i. 252; English, French medals conferred on, i. 303; models, iii. 250 Ashanti expedition, ii. 38; iv. 8, 19 Ashley, Lord; _see_ Shaftesbury, 7th Earl of Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., iv. 62, 64, 95, 99; as legislator, iv. 4; and Boer war, iv. 45; and national defence, iv. 66; and Upper Chamber reform, iv. 67-9, 72; "wait and see" policy, iv. 69-70; and Ulster, iv. 85, 94, 97; legislative activity, iv. 86, 88; and Lord Curzon, iv. 90; Home Rule Bill of 1914, iv. 98; and Trafalgar Square meetings, iv. 111; and Lloyd George's land campaign, iv. 118; and old age pensions, iv. 130; and Woman Suffrage, iv. 174, 178 Astley's Circus, i. 155; ii. 289 Athleticism, among women, ii. 238; cult of, iv. 152 Athletics at school, iii. 292 Atholl, 5th Duke of, i. 18, 202 Atlantic cable, ii. 139 Atlantic liners, improved speed of, iii. 209 Augusta, Princess, of Cambridge, married, i. 193 Austin, Alfred, _P.'s_ attacks on, iv. 274 Australia, emigration to, i. 58; industrial conditions, i. 57; gold mines, i. 76; Navy, iii. 56; federation of colonies, iii. 66; eight-hours day for domestics, introduced, iv. 120 Australian Commonwealth Bill of 1900, iv. 41 Austria, relations with Serbia up to 1914, iv. 10; declares war on Serbia, iv. 100 Austro-Prussian war, ii. 3, 26 Authors, distressed, i. 85 Avebury, 1st Lord, ii. 87 _seq._; iv. 287 Ayrton, A. S., ii. 39, 152, 291 Babbage, Charles, ii. 99 Baden-Powell, General Sir Robert, defends Mafeking, iv. 39; arrives in England, iv. 45; founds Boy Scout movement, iv. 107 Baghdad railway, British subsidy proposed by Germany, iv. 48 Baker, Sir Samuel, ii. 216 Balfe, Michael W., attacked, i. 293; success of _Bohemian Girl_, i. 278; _Puritan's Daughter_, ii. 300 Balfour of Burleigh, Lord, iv. 58