Beardsley, Aubrey, attacked by _P._, iv. 283, 301, 304, 305 Beatrice, Princess, her _Birthday Book_, iii. 221; married, iii. 225 _seq._ Becker, Lydia, and Woman Suffrage, iii. 128 Beckett, Gilbert Arthur à, ii. 291 Bedford, 9th Duke of, and Covent Garden, iii. 182 _seq._; and Bloomsbury, iii. 184, 186 Beecher-Stowe, Mrs., visits England, i. 255 Beers, Jan Van, artist, criticized by _P._, iii. 340 Beesly, Professor E. H., ii. 42, 70 _Beggar's Opera, The_, iii. 359 Belgium, Royal tour in, i. 191; suggested French occupation of, ii. 34; and Congo, iv. 55, 66 Bellini, Vincenzo, operatic composer, ii. 301 Benedict, Sir Jules, ii. 300; iii. 373 Bengal tiger, _ill._, ii. 5 Bennett, Arnold, iv. 289 Benson, Archbishop, iii. 34; and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, iii. 57; headmaster of Wellington College, iii. 149 Benson, Sir Frank; productions criticized, ii. 352 Béranger, Pierre Jean de, ii. 101 Beresford, Admiral Lord Charles, and national defence, iii. 69; resignation of, iii. 230 Berlin, Congress of, 1878, iii. 4, 17; amenities of, iv. 55 Berlioz, cult of, in England, iii. 370 Bernhardi, General, iv. 85 Bernhardt, Sarah, visits to England, iii. 345 _seq._; iv. 316, 320; at the Coliseum in 1910, iv. 330 Besant, Mrs. Annie, iii. 254 Besika Bay, naval demonstration in, iii. 16 Bethmann-Hollweg, Dr., introduces German Army Bill, iv. 84 Bicycles, appearance of, ii. 138; iii. 200; evolution of, iii. 300; fashionable, iv. 244-5; invade schools, iv. 255; uses and abuses of, iv. 355; Mr. Gladstone on, _ill._, iv. 354 Bieberstein, Baron Marschall von, German ambassador, iv. 80 Big Ben, i. 150 Biggar, Mr. J. G., M.P., iii. 21 Billingsgate, new buildings, i. 150; condition of, iii. 183 Bird, Henry, iv. 343, 344 Birkenhead, Lord, iv. 6 Birmingham, Reformatory Institution, i., 29; school of brewing established at University of, iv. 155 Birrell, Mr. Augustine, iv. 62, 95, 134; as Irish Chief Secretary, iv. 67; and Sir E. Carson, iv. 86; leaves Education Office, iv. 149 Bishop, Irving, thought-reader, iii. 252 Bisley, headquarters of N.R.A., iii. 69 Bismarck, Prince, ii. 29, 32, 34; iii. 10, 201; iv. 49; hostility to, ii. 26; Socialists and, iii. 19; _P.'s_ view of, iii. 40; cartoon of, iii. 51; Army Bill, iii. 52; Triple Alliance and, iii. 54, 59; relations with Wilhelm II, iii. 54; with Empress Frederick, iii. 55; iv. 222; dismissed by Wilhelm II, iii. 61; in retirement, iii. 64; iv. 21, 26, 45, 65 Black Country, white slavery in, ii. 61 _seq._; workmen's extravagance in, ii. 92 Black Sea Conference, ii. 38 Blackwell, Elizabeth, M.D., i. 250 Blake, William, ii. 64; iii. 329 "Blanche," letters of, iv. 246 Blavatsky, Madame, iii. 254 Blériot, M., cross-Channel flight, iv. 186 Blessington, Countess of, i. 221