Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)
History
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914
Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Humor
Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., i. 5, 131; ii. 39 _ill._, 270;
policy, ii. 4;
and Indian Mutiny, ii. 7;
and Fenianism, ii. 26;
Irish Church resolutions, ii. 29;
and Franco-German war, ii. 31;
legislation, ii. 38 _seq._;
1st administration, ii. 42;
and American civil war, ii. 68;
and reform, ii. 79;
at Barrow-in-Furness, ii. 84;
resolution on Irish disestablishment, ii. 113 _seq._;
financial omniscience, ii. 121 _seq._;
and Royal grants, ii. 187 _seq._;
foreign policy, ii. 192;
administration satirized, ii. 291;
and Bulgarian atrocities, iii. 3;
2nd administration reviewed, iii. 4 _seq._;
resigns Liberal leadership, 1875, iii. 8;
retires temporarily, iii. 12;
anti-Turkish bias, iii. 14 _seq._;
and Russo-Turkish war, iii. 17;
returned to power, 1880, iii. 26;
Irish policy, iii. 27;
and _P._, iii. 35 _seq._;
75th birthday, iii. 38;
defeated, 1885, iii. 42;
return to power, 1886, iii. 44;
first Home Rule Bill, iii. 44 _seq._;
and U.S. centenary, iii. 48;
his golden wedding, iii. 60;
and Parnell, iii. 61;
and Irish rebels, iii. 80;
and German competition, iii. 108;
and Wellington College, iii. 149;
and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii. 157 _seq._;
on ritualism, iii. 158;
on Vatican Decrees, iii, 158 _seq._;
on needy priests, iii. 172;
and visit of Prince of Wales to India, iii. 215;
and grant for Duke of Connaught's marriage, iii. 218;
and wedding dowry for Princess Beatrice, iii. 226;
and Royal grants, iii. 232;
activity, iv. 6;
and Irish Home Rule, iv. 13 _seq._;
naval policy, iv. 14;
introduces "guillotine," iv. 14;
resigns Premiership, iv. 14;
warns the Lords, iv. 15;
and Armenian atrocities, iv. 18;
and opening of Kiel Canal, iv. 19;
Armenian crusade, iv. 24;
death, iv. 32 _seq._
Glaisher, James, F.R.S., ii. 142
Goddard, Arabella, ii. 243, 297 _seq._
Godfrey, Dan, Lieutenant, iv. 343
Gog and Magog, end of, i. 154 _ill._
Gold craze of 1849, i. 79
Gold diggings, iv. 189-90
Golf, ii. 346; iii. 298 _seq._, 303; iv. 353;
lines on Tom Morris, iv. 353
Gomersal, E. A., the equestrian, i. 155
Gordon, General, iii. 6;
in Egypt, iii. 36, 38;
memorial to, iii. 38 _seq._, 180
Gorham case, i. 100
Gorst, Sir John, iv. 58;
and education of children, iv. 147
Goschen, 1st Viscount, and Home Rule Bill of 1886, iii. 45;
joins Salisbury Cabinet, iii. 50; iv. 18;
and free education, iii. 142
Gosse, Edmund, criticized by _P._, iii. 321
Gough, General, threatens resignation, iv. 94;
and Ulster situation, iv. 135
Gounod, M., ii. 301 _seq._
Governesses, pay of, i. 33;
treatment, ii. 233 _seq._
Grace, W. G., ii. 131; iii. 292 _seq._;
suggested knighthood, iv. 348, 349
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