Education, ii. 121-35; iii. 137-56; iv. 136-62; ignorance of poor, i. 10, 82; popular, i. 81 _seq._, 82 _ill._; National Society for Promoting Education of Poor, i. 84; Lord John Russell's resolutions, i. 86; Bill of 1856, i. 87; Montessori system foreshadowed, i. 88; of Society girls, i. 214; Elementary Education Act, 1870, ii. 122 _seq._; fairy tales for children, ii. 128-9; iii. 146 _seq._; iv. 138 _seq._; foreign nurses for modern languages, ii. 130; co-education, ii. 131; systems, English _v._ German, ii. 134; of schoolgirls, improvements, iii. 119; Elementary Education Act, 1891, iii. 142; literature and crime, iii. 143 _seq._; and stage, iii. 144 _seq._; precocious children, iii. 145 _seq._; classics _v._ commerce, iii. 151; iv. 152; free libraries, iii. 155; Act of 1902, iv. 125-6; modern children, independence, iv. 136 _seq._; theory of self-expression, iv. 140 _seq._; dramatic method, iv. 143; Boy Scout movement, iv. 145; Act of 1871, iv. 145; Bill of 1896, iv. 147; Act of 1902, iv. 148; Bill of 1906, iv. 148-50; modern language teaching, iv. 154. _See also_ Schools, Universities Educationists, ii. 124 _seq._ Edward VII, King, _ill._, ii. 177, 193; visits Canada and U.S.A., 1860, ii. 175 _seq._; marries Alexandra of Denmark, ii. 181; illness, 1871, ii. 191; visits Birmingham, ii. 192; promotes _Entente_ with France, iii. 19; iv. 6; silver wedding, iii. 231; and Emperor Wilhelm II, iii. 233; fiftieth birthday, iii. 233; death, iv. 73, 225; pastimes, iv. 218; coronation humours, iv. 223; coronation postponed, iv. 224; visits Ireland, iv. 224; votes in H. of Lords, iv. 226; lines on his dog Cæsar, iv. 226 Edward, Prince of Wales, birth, iv. 216; visits Wales, iv. 227 Egypt, Arabi's revolt, iii. 32 Eisteddfodau, spread of, ii. 220 Elcho, Lord, 8th Earl of Wemyss, ii. 86, 336 Electricity, for lighting, i. 72; iv. 194; telegraph, i. 72; underground railways, iii. 199 Elgar, Sir Edward, i. 292; iv. 341 Eliot, George, ii. 260, 274; iii. 317 Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, visits Ireland and England, iii. 221; assassinated, iv. 32 Ellenborough, 1st Earl of, and Indian Mutiny, ii. 4 Elliot, Sir H., iii. 14 Elliott, Ebenezer, i. 51 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, iii. 319 Emigration, remedy for discontent, i. 57; female, scheme for, i. 58; attitude of _P._ towards, iii. 108 _Enfant Prodigue_, ii. 285 _ill._; iii. 347 English characteristics, i. 223 English, travellers abroad, manners, ii. 333 _seq._; tourists in France, iii. 278 English-speaking nations, proposed federation of, iii. 204 Entertainments and Royalty, ii. 192 _seq._ Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, King of Hanover, i. 192, 193 _Essays and Reviews_, ii. 101, 109 _seq._, 111