Clifford, Dr., and education, iv. 150 Clifford's Inn demolished, iv. 204 "Climbing-boy" scandal, ii. 58-9, 63-4; iii. 86 "Close, Poet," i. 234; ii. 272 Club, a fashionable, i. 217 _ill._; library in, i. 218; ladies', i. 244; _P.'s_ allusion to the Athenæum, ii. 222 Coal, extortionate tolls, i. 59; mining, _ibid._; future of, ii. 83; high price of, ii. 92 _seq._; strike of December, 1893, iv. 111; crisis in 1912, iv. 134 Cobbe, Miss Frances P., iii. 310 Cobden, Richard, i. 5; and gold mania, i. 76; and arbitration, i. 118; subservience to America, i. 132; attacks sinecures, i. 190; death, ii. 24; enraged with Palmerston, ii. 72 Cock-fighting, iii. 103 Cockney dialect, iii. 197 "Coffin-ships," ii. 99 _seq._ Cole, Sir Henry, ii. 190 Colenso, Bishop of Natal, case of, ii. 101, 111 _seq._ Coleridge, John, 1st Lord, ii. 133, 209 Colet, Dean of St. Paul's and founder of St. Paul's School, iii. 148 Collins, C. A. "Convent Thoughts" caricatured, i. 299 Collings, Mr. Jesse, M.P., iii. 99 Colonial and Indian Exhibition, iii. 288 Colonial Governors Act, ii. 25 Colorado beetle, advent of, iii. 208 Colosseum, the, in Regent's Park, i. 155 Colvile, General, iv. 45 Colvin, Sir Sidney, and Burne-Jones, iii. 334 Comédie Française troupe, ii. 284 Comedy and melodrama, ii. 288 _seq._ Comedy, musical, _P.'s_ burlesques of, iv. 321, 322, 324; popularity of, iv. 338 Comet, of 1857, ii. 202; of 1858, ii. 40 _Comic Blackstone, The_, i. 90, 232 Commercial travellers, female, iii. 125 Commune, French, ii. 37 Compulsory service, iv. 58, 66 Comte de Paris, iii. 58 Concert music, i. 289 _seq._; ii. 306 _seq._; promenades, iv. 340; Queen's Hall Sunday, iv. 341 Connaught (Prince Arthur), Duke of, ii. 19; iii. 223; Royal grant for, ii. 187; marriage, iii. 218 _seq._; resigns succession to Dukedom of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, iv. 220 Confessional, the, ii. 101, 106, 109 Congo atrocities, iv. 66 Conrad, Joseph, iv. 291-2 Conscience clause in Education Act of 1870, ii. 123, 126 "Conscientious objectors" to vaccination, iv. 118 Conservative Reform Bill, ii. 96 Conspiracy Bill, indignation at, ii. 9 Constantine, King, of Greece, iv. 83 Constantinople Conference, iii. 14 Constitution Hill, "Quadriga" on, iv. 207 Convocation, Houses of, sessions, ii. 54 Cook, Dr., Arctic explorer, iv. 190 Cook, Thomas, & Son, travel agency, iii. 269 Cookery, i. 245; British, ii. 200 Cooks and teachers, wages of, i. 33 Co-operative societies, ii. 200 Copyright, international, advocated, i. 234 Coquelin, M., visits England in 1887, iii. 347; in _Cyrano de Bergerac_, iv. 319 Corelli, Miss Marie, a rival to Shakespeare, iv. 280; her novels reviewed, iv. 281, 284