Flats, insanitary conditions, iv. 204 Fleet Prison closed, i. 28 Flogging of criminals, iii. 102; in the Army, i. 116 Flower, E. F., agitation against cruelty to horses, iii. 103 Flunkeydom. _See_ Servants Flying machine, invention of, iii. 201 Foley, J. H., R.A., statue to Outram, ii. 151 Folk-dancing revived, iv. 107 Follies, The, iv. 327-8 Food-fads, progress of, iv. 248-50; no-food cult, iv. 249 Football, ii. 345; Maori team visits England, iii. 296; spread of Association game, iv. 352; football of the future, _ibid._; dominates the Press, _ibid._ "Fops' Alley," i. 219 Forster, Rt. Hon. W. E., and American Civil War, ii. 70; his Education Act, ii. 121, 122 _seq._; iii. 72, 137; and Bill against pigeon shooting, iii. 222; death, iii. 376 Fox, Sir Douglas, engineer, iii. 212 Fox-hunting, ii. 339 _seq._; iv. 359 France, Royal tour in, i. 191; relations with, ii. 24; iii. 8; Second Empire, ii. 38 Franchise Bill of 1884, iii. 36 _seq._ Francis IV, King of Naples, flight, ii. 17 Franco-British _Entente_, iii. 19; iv. 97 Franco-German war, ii. 3; causes, ii. 29; outbreak, ii. 32; Sedan, and after, ii. 34 _seq._ Franco-Russian _Entente_, iii. 63; iv. 16 Frankfort, Peace Congress at, i. 119 Franz Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria, assassinated at Sarajevo, iv. 10, 99 Frederick III, Emperor of Germany, death, iii. 51 Frederick, Empress, iii. 55 Frederick William IV, King of Prussia, i. 192 Free Trade, i. 5; iii. 32; Budgets, 1859-65, ii. 121 Freeman, Prof. E. A., iii. 4 French Exhibition, ii. 28 French invasion scares, i. 117; ii. 10, 12 _seq._ French militarism, ii. 29 Frere, Sir Bartle, ii. 52; policy criticized, iii. 24 Frith, W. P., R.A., ii. 316 Fry, Elizabeth, i. 192 Fugitive slave question, iii. 9 _seq._ Fuller, Miss Loie, iv. 229 _Fun_, _Bab Ballads_ and, ii. 280 Funerals, pageantry of, i. 229 Furniture, Victorian, iv. 306 Furnivall, Dr. F. J., iii. 352; founds Browning Society, iii. 324 Gainsborough, Thomas, Duchess of Devonshire's portrait recovered, iv. 310 Gallows. _See_ Hanging. Galsworthy, John, iv. 328 Gambetta, Léon, ii. 101; death, iii. 35 Gambling, i. 221; iv. 113; suppressed in Bermondsey, iii. 108 Game Laws, harsh sentences under, i. 18; ii. 43; opposition to, i. 22 Games, Olympic, iv. 345, 347, 348 Garden suburbs, iv. 210 Garfield, President, assassinated, iii. 30 Garibaldi, Giuseppe, ii. 16 _seq._, 102, 216 Garrett, Elizabeth, M.D., ii. 248, 258 Garrotting scare, i. 134; ii. 48 Gas-stoves introduced, i. 78 Gas _v._ electricity, iii. 204 _seq._ General Elections, 1874, iii. 26; 1900, iv. 44; 1906, iv. 58, 124-5; 1910, iv. 67, 69 George I, King, statue, ii. 151 George IV, King, i. 188