Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)
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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
Masters _v._ men, ii. 74; iii. 72 _seq._
_See also_ Capital and Labour
Mathew, Father, i. 196
Mathews, Charles, i. 228, 275
Maud, Princess, of Wales, married, iv. 218
Maule, Mr. Justice, i. 21
Maurice, Rev. F. D., ii. 102, 110;
proposes college for working women, ii. 56;
and Colenso, ii. 112;
death, ii. 118;
modernist views, ii. 134
May, Phil, iv. 311;
his debt to Sambourne, _ibid._
May Day and Labour, i. 62
May Meetings, Exeter Hall, i. 94
Mayhew, Henry, i. 4;
death, iii. 328
Maynooth Grant, i. 105
Mazurka, the, i. 213
Medical profession, women's admission to, ii. 248 _seq._;
beggarly remuneration of, iii. 273 _seq._
Medical students, i. 240, 241; iii. 274.
_See also_ Doctors, Surgeons
Mediums, ii. 203 _seq._
Melba, Mme., iii. 356, 360; iv. 333, 334
Melbourne, 2nd Viscount, i. 166
Members of Parliament, payment of, iv. 132
Mendelssohn, Felix, ii. 297, 300 _note_, 307;
_Elijah_, ii. 308
Menken, Adah Isaacs, actress, ii. 285, 288 _seq._
Meredith, George, and _P._, ii. 268 _seq._; iii. 324; iv. 270;
burlesqued, iv. 276;
praised, in 1909, _ibid._
Methuen, General, 3rd Baron, captured by Boers, iv. 46
Metropolitan Asylums Board, iii. 96;
Interments Bill, i. 153;
Police Act, i. 144
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, ii. 298, 301, 303
"Midas, Sir Gorgius," iii. 150, 166
Middle classes, heavily taxed, ii. 28;
_P._ and, ii. 44;
backbone of country, ii. 88;
hit by income tax, ii. 93;
hardships, ii. 95; iv. 110, 127
Militiamen, _ill._, ii. 12
Mill, J. S., iv. 129;
and General Eyre, ii. 25, 81;
and Irish Suspension Bill, 1866, ii. 26;
favours capital punishment, ii. 97 _seq._; iii. 100;
his _Subjection of Women_, ii. 250;
and Woman Suffrage, ii. 252-6
Millais, Sir J. E., ii. 269, 312;
"Mariana" caricatured, i. 300;
_Hearts are Trumps_, ii. 317;
opportunism, iii. 331;
pre-Raphaelitism, iii. 337;
_P.'s_ tribute to, iv. 303
Millikin, E. J., creator of _P.'s_ 'Arry, iii. 106;
death (1897), iv. 300
Milner, 1st Viscount, ii. 277;
in Boer war, iv. 11;
confers with Krüger, iv. 36 _seq._;
and National Service Bill (1909), iv. 66
Milton, tercentenary of, iv. 278
Miners, high wages, ii. 89, 92 _seq._;
action to keep up wages, iii. 74;
strikes, iii. 83 _seq._; iv. 110-11;
prosperity of, iv. 121;
"ca' canny" methods, ii. 95
Minor innovations and novelties, ii. 142 _seq._; iii. 199 _seq._
Mitchell, David, Sec. Zool. Society, i. 160
Modern languages, ii. 128;
inefficient instruction in, iv. 154
Moltke, Count, iii. 54;
death, iii. 64
Monarchies, _P._ and, ii. 169 _seq._
Monasticism, attempted revivals, ii. 101, 106
Monocle, the, i. 266
Montefiore, Sir Moses, death, iii. 167
Montessori, Madame, system anticipated, i. 88, 89;
and fairy-tales for children, iv. 139
Montez, Lola, i. 255, 280
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