Disarmament, Hague Peace Conference, 1899, iv. 34 Disestablishment, iii. 173; of Irish Church, ii. 101 Disraeli, Benjamin. _See_ Beaconsfield Divorce Bill of 1856, i. 96; for poor, i. 21 Dobson, Austin, ii. 325; criticized by _P._, iii. 321 _seq._ Doctors, and quacks, i. 239; women, i. 250; ii. 247-50; iii. 114, 124; Victorian diseases, ii. 200-1; new cures, iv. 248-50. _See also_ Medical Students, Surgeons Döllinger, Dr., and Vatican Decrees, iii. 159 Domesticity, decline of, iv. 230 Domestic service and servants, i. 30-4; ii. 225 _seq._, 228, 230, 232 _seq._ Donizetti, Gaetano, operas, ii. 301 D'Orsay, Count, i. 221, 222 Dover, and Calais submarine cable, i. 72; Y.M.C.A. episode, ii. 104 Dowbiggin, Captain, i. 206 Doyle, Richard, i. 218, 258; resigns from _P._ staff, i. 112; death, iii. 342 D'Oyly Carte, Mr., and English Opera House, iii. 181; and performance of _The Gondoliers_, iii. 366 Drama, i. 271 _seq._; ii. 282-319; iii. 343-73; French adaptations, i. 272; censorship, i. 273; harlequinade, i. 275; as part of children's education, iv. 143; Celtic, burlesqued in 1899, iv. 319; decayed, revivals of, burlesqued, iv. 323. _See also_ Theatres Dress. _See_ Fashion, Uniforms Dressmakers' long hours, i. 38 Dreyfus case, iii. 166; iv. 28, 34, 160 Drink Question. _See_ Temperance Druce, Emily, fate of, ii. 56 Drury Lane Theatre, ii. 297, 309 Dublin transport workers' strike, iv. 134 Du Chaillu, P. B., ii. 214 Ducie, 2nd Earl of, i. 24 Duckworth, Rev. B., Canon of Westminster, iii. 167, 373 Duelling, campaign against, i. 114, 115 _ill._ Duma, first opening of, iv. 54 Dumas, Alexandre fils, ii. 286, 289; _Dame aux Camélias_, i. 228 Du Maurier, George, social contrasts and new types, ii. 198; flunkeys, ii. 233; his gentle giantesses, ii. 239, 240; an apostle of Eugenics, iii. 238-40; his Limericks, iii. 325-6; _P.'s_ tribute, iv. 228; _Trilby_, iv. 284-5, 317 Duncombe, Tom, M.P., ii. 150 Dundee meeting of domestics, ii. 232 Dundrearyism, ii. 310, 336 _ill._, 337 _seq._ Dunlop, John Boyd, inventor of pneumatic tyre, iii. 300 Dunraven, 3rd Earl of, ii. 204 Dunraven, 4th Earl of, and Royal Commission on Sweating, iii. 94, 96; America Cup challenger, iv. 346 Durham, Union-Workhouse, ii. 48; University, grants B.A. degree to women, iii. 117 Duse, Mme., iv. 315, 321 Dynamiters, activity in 1885, iii. 40 Early closing, i. 38; Bill of 1896, iv. 118 East India Company, ii. 6; abolished, ii. 8 Eastlake, Sir Charles, P.R.A., ii. 314 Eastlake, Charles, of _P._, ii. 314 _note_ Ecclesiastical, courts, ii. 108; Titles Act, i. 232 Eddy, Mrs. M. B., iii. 254 Edgeworth, Maria, i. 215; ii. 326 Edinburgh, Duke of, _see_ Alfred, Prince