Balfour, Rt. Hon. Arthur J., iii. 6, 32; iv. 4, 33, 44; at the Irish Office, iii. 50; and _The Times_, iii. 65; Leader of the House of Commons, iii. 66; and golf, iii. 298; and Venezuelan arbitration, iv. 22; and Boer war, iv. 39; Prime Minister, iv. 48; negotiates with Germany _re_ Baghdad railway, iv. 48; legislation in Ireland, iv. 49; administration collapses, iv. 56 _seq._; holiday at Nice, iv. 92; and Tariff Reform, iv. 51, 116; and Education Act of 1902, iv. 148; gives a ball, iv. 236-238 Balkans, trouble in, iii. 12, 14; iv. 90; war of 1912, iv. 10, 80-83; war of 1913, iv. 83-4 Ballantine, Serjeant, ii. 328 Ballet, Russian, iv. 229, 327, 330, 331 Ballet-girls, their cause espoused by _P._, ii. 234 _seq._ Balliol as a nursery of cranks and coming men, iv. 254 Ballooning: Charles Green, i. 73; Captain Warner, i. 74; to California, _ibid._ "Balmorals," ii. 331 Bancroft, Sir Squire and Lady, ii. 290-1; influence on acting, iii. 351 Banjo, popularity of, iii. 278; iv. 339, _ill._ Bank smashes, i. 77 Banting, William, ii. 201 Bar, women and the, ii. 250 "Bardery," Welsh, ii. 220 Barnett, Canon, and art exhibition in Whitechapel, iv. 106 Barnum, Phineas T., return to England, iii. 289 Barrett, Wilson, as Hamlet, iii. 351 Barrie, Sir James, iii. 317; _Window in Thrums_, iii. 323; parodied, iii. 325; plays of, iv. 313, 323; two views of _Peter Pan_, iv. 328 Barrow-in-Furness, ii. 83, 84 _seq._ Barry, Sir C., i. 148, 304 Baseball, iii. 297; iv. 348 Bass, Michael, M.P.; his Bill to restrict street music, ii. 99 Battenberg, Prince Alexander of, abdicates, iii. 47; death of, iv. 218 Battenberg, Prince Henry of, governor of Isle of Wight, iii. 231; death of, iv. 218 Bazalgette, Sir Joseph, ii. 152 Beaconsfield, B. Disraeli, Earl of, and "Young England," i. 24; supports Bill for Regulation of Factory Labour, i. 25; _Sybil_, i. 26; literary style, i. 27; opposes repeal of Corn Laws, i. 28; ignorance of arithmetic, i. 86; as "political Topsy," _ill._ i. 107; _P.'s_ distrust of, i. 108; design of monument to, i. 109; _Life of Lord George Bentinck_, i. 109; policy of, ii. 4, 29, 30 _ill._, 40, 42, 79, 82, 85, 113 _seq._; religion and ancestry, ii. 117 _seq._, 121, 148, 181, 187, 214, 215 _ill._, 272, 273 _seq._, 341; iii. 4 _seq._; earldom, iii. 12, 14 _seq._, 16 _seq._; declines "people's tribute," iii. 24; waning prestige, iii. 24 _seq._; and Afghan war, iii. 26; death of, iii. 30; quoted, iii. 139; and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii. 158; on visit of Prince of Wales to India, iii. 215; names Queen Victoria Empress of India, iii. 216 Beaufort, 9th Duke of; edits Badminton Library series, iii. 298 Beales, Edmond, ii. 80 _seq._