Blomfield, C. J., Bp. of London, i. 45, 95 Blondin, tight-rope walker, ii. 211, 238, 244 _seq._, 308; iii. 100; in Westminster Aquarium, iv. 203 Bloomerism, i. 250, 251 _ill._, 262; iii. 305 Bloomsbury, state of, iii. 184 _seq._ Boat races, Oxford v. Harvard, ii. 345 _seq._; with French at Andrésy, iv. 345; Cambridge and Harvard, iv. 346; French crews at Henley, _ibid._ Bodichon, Mme. Barbara, ii. 252, 260 Boer war, iv. 11; causes of, iv. 36 _seq._; progress of, iv. 38-46 Bombalino. _See_ Francis IV of Naples Boneshakers. _See_ Bicycles Bonheur, Rosa, ii. 243 Booth, Charles, and old age pensions, iv. 119 Booth, Edwin, actor, ii. 283 Booth family, attitude of _P._ towards, iii. 170 _seq._ Booth, General, and Trade Union Congress in 1908, iv. 162; death, iv. 162 Booth, J. L. C., iv. 78 Borradaile case, ii. 327 _seq._ Borthwick, Peter, M.P., i. 312 Botha, General Louis, in London, iv. 46; Premier of Transvaal, iv. 62 Boucicault, Dion, ii. 288; iii. 353 Boulanger, General, bid for dictatorship, iii. 8, 55; visits England, iii. 57 _seq._; commits suicide, iii. 58 Boulogne: "_Bradshaw_: a mystery," i. 71; English colony at, i. 221 Bowers, Miss G., ii. 238 Bowles, Mr. T. Gibson, iv. 58; and Declaration of London, iv. 77 Boxing, ii. 340 _seq._; by women, iii. 132; Slavin and Smith, iii. 290 Boy Scout movement, iv. 107-10, 145 Braddon, Miss, ii. 274; iii. 318 Bradlaugh, Charles, M.P., ii. 190; vicissitudes in Parliament, iii. 26 _seq._; and Royal grants, iii. 232 Bradley, Dean, iii. 167 Brahms, Johannes, his genius, iii. 368 Bret Harte, iii. 319 Briand, M., iv. 73 Bridge, negative value of, iv. 247; whist ousted by, iv. 358 Briggs, Mr., murder of, ii. 136 Bright, Jacob, ii. 258 Bright, John, i. 5; ii. 8, 13, 26, 68, 70, 116, 227; iii. 4, 6, 9, 16, 26, 34; opposes Bill for Regulation of Factory Labour, i. 25; and Cardinal Wiseman, i. 104; onslaught on, i. 132; speech criticized, ii. 64 _seq._; secedes from Gladstonian party, iii. 50; death, iii. 60, 228 Brighton, i. 156 British Academy, proposed founding of a, iii. 327 Brock, Sir Thomas, R.A., sculptor of Victoria Memorial, iv. 207 Brodie, Sir Benjamin, ii. 197 Brodrick, Hon. St. John (Lord Midleton), and exclusion of peers from Commons, iv. 18; and Army reform, iv. 49, 58 Bromhead, Lieut., V.C., hero of Rorke's Drift, iii. 23 Brompton swallowed up in South Kensington, iii. 177 Bronte, Charlotte, ii. 234 Brook Green Volunteer, i. 116 Brooks, Shirley, _Essence of Parliament_, i. 91; ii. 187 _seq._, 223, 269; iii. 226 Brougham, Henry, Lord, i. 307 _seq._; palinode to, i. 310; commended, ii. 58, 263 Broughton, Rhoda, Miss, ii. 236, 274; iii. 324 Brown, John, Queen Victoria's attendant, death of, iii. 223 "Brown, Tom." _See_ Hughes, Tom