New rich, and the aristocracy, ii. 198 _seq._; and art, iii. 277 New Scotland Yard built, iii. 182 New South Wales, centenary, iii. 55 Newcastle, 4th Duke of, i. 106 Newgate Prison demolished, iii. 179 Newman, refuses cardinal's hat, iii. 162; Cardinal, iii. 376 _seq._ Newnham College, extension of, iii. 116 _seq._ Nicholas, King, of Montenegro, iv. 82 Nicholas I, Tsar, i. 113, 192 Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, proposes general disarmament, iv. 32, 34, 52-4; grants constitutional government, iv. 54; coronation, iv. 218 Nicholson, John, Mutiny hero, ii. 7 Nightingale, Florence, and Crimean hospitals, i. 126 _seq._; rewarded by nation, i. 128, 134-5; _P.'s_ statue for, i. 313, ii. 256 Nihilism in Russia, iii. 30 Norfolk, 13th Duke of, proposes curry powder as food for poor, i. 17 Normanby, 1st Marquess of, i. 203 Northcliffe, 1st Viscount, absence from England, iv. 92 Northcote, Sir Stafford (1st Earl of Iddesleigh), iii. 12, 21, 34 Northumberland, Duke of, iv. 66 Norton, Charles Eliot, on Spanish-American war, iv. 31 Novello, Clara, ii. 308 Novelties. _See_ Minor innovations Nursery rhymes, cult of, foreshadowed, iii. 261 Nurses: Royal Red Cross decoration instituted, iii. 124; _P.'s_ attitude to, iii. 125 Oates, Captain, on Scott's Antarctic expedition, iv. 190 Ober-Ammergau Passion Play, iii. 348 O'Brien, Smith, i. 198 O'Brien, William, M.P., and visit of Prince of Wales to Ireland, iii. 226; and Ulster, iv. 92; and Home Rule Bill, iv. 97 O'Connell, Daniel, i. 165, 196, 306 O'Connor, Feargus, i. 49 Odger, George, ii. 86 _seq._, 190 _seq._ O'Donnell, F. H., M.P., iii. 21 Offenbach, Jacques, ii. 305 _seq._; death, iii. 359 O'Gorman, Major, M.P., iii. 9 Ojibbeway Indians, i. 283 Old age pensions, iv. 67, 119, 130 Old Bailey demolished, iii. 179 Oliphant, Laurence, his _Piccadilly_, iii. 254 Ollivier, Emile, ii. 31 Omdurman, Kitchener's success at, iv. 28, 30 Omnibuses, i. 143, 144 _ill._; ii. 164; iii. 189, 190; iv. 194, 198 _Once a Week_, ii. 269, 312 Opera, i. 276 _seq._; "Jenkins" on, i. 278; ii. 282-319; iii. 356-66; opera bouffe, ii. 285; English opera houses, fate of, iii. 181 _seq._; German, French, Italian and English, iv. 332-3; national scheme revived in 1899, iv. 333 Orchestral music, ii. 308 _seq._ Orton, Arthur, ii. 206 _seq._ Osborne, Lord Sidney Godolphin, i. 243 Otter-hunting denounced, i. 173 Oudh pacified, ii. 8 "Ouida," parodied, iii. 324; on the "New Woman," iv. 165 Oxford, Bp. of (Wilberforce), i. 95, 96; ii. 56, 106, 118