Oxford University, Heresy hunt at, iii. 110 _seq._; reactionaries at, ii. 133-5; Keble College, founded, iii. 151; new Science degree, iii. 151 _seq._; cosmopolitanism, iii. 152; Eleutheria Hall, _ibid._; agriculture at, _ibid._; compared with Birmingham, iv. 155; and Rhodes scholars, iv. 156; compulsory Greek at, iv. 157; Lord Curzon and reform of, iv. 157; women admitted, iv. 158; refuses B.A. degree to women, iv. 167 Paderewski, I. J., advent of, iii. 356, 368 Pageant mania, iv. 60, 230, 246 _Pall Mall Gazette, The_, ii. 164, 191, 284; iii. 15; _P.'s_ controversy with, iii. 321; iv. 118 Palmerston, 3rd Viscount, and agriculture, i. 24; and Kossuth, i. 72, 120; dismissed, i. 121 _ill._, 122; moves vote of thanks to troops, i. 133; returned to power (1857), ii. 4, 20; death, ii. 24, 42, 43, 70, 71 _seq._, 74, 79, 122, 216, 266, 272, 341 Pan-Anglican synod, _ill._, ii. 119 Panmure, 2nd Lord, telegram to Lord Raglan, "Take care of Dowb," i. 138, 206 Pantheon, The, i. 156 Pantomime, degeneracy of, iii. 354 _seq._; iv. 143 Paris, Peace Congress at, i. 118; siege of, ii. 34, 36; Exhibitions, iii. 289; iv. 40 Parliament, House of Lords and Franchise Bill, iii. 37; women as M.P.s, iii. 128; Act of 1910, iv. 15, 67, 85-6 Parliamentary obstruction, iii. 6, 9, 21 _seq._; oath question, iii. 26 Parnell, Charles Stewart, iii. 6, 21; speeches in America, iii. 22; censured by _P._, iii. 23, 32 _seq._, 40; and _The Times_, iii. 50, 57; divorce case, iii. 61; death, iii. 64, 85 Parodies, iii. 324 _seq._; iv. 284-9 Parry, John, ii. 310, 312; iii. 172 Parry, Sir Hubert, _P._ and _Judith_, iii. 372 Pasta, Giuditta, i. 277 Pastimes, ii. 211, 339-49; iii. 287-303 Patti, Mme. Adelina, ii. 299 _seq._, 303, 309; iii. 357, 359; returns to Covent Garden, iv. 333 Pavlova, Mme. Anna, iv. 229, 239 Peabody, George, ii. 52 _seq._; iii. 180 Peace, Charles, trial, iii. 100 Peace Congress at Frankfort, i. 119; Paris, i. 118 Peary, Commander R. E., Arctic explorer, iv. 181; reaches North Pole, iv. 190 Peel, Sir Robert, and Tom Hood, i. 15; dismisses Rowland Hill, i. 36; _P.'s_ monument to, i. 53 _ill._; tribute to, i. 85; and Colonel Fawcett's widow, i. 114, 115 _ill._; entertains Queen and Prince Albert, i. 173; as Knave of Spades, i. 305 _ill._; ii. 187 Peel, 1st Viscount, iv. 18 Pélissier, H., iv. 327 People's Budget, iv. 6, 72 Persia, Anglo-Russian agreement in 1911, iv. 77 Persigny, Comte de, ii. 17 Peterborough, Bp. of, and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii. 157 Pets, fashionable, i. 213; iv. 247-8 Phelps, Samuel, i. 271, 274; ii. 282; iii. 350 Philanthropy, practical, efforts of, ii. 48, 52, 53 _ill._; pseudo-, iv. 234 Philharmonic Society, the, i. 285 Phillpotts, Bp., "Henry of Exeter," i. 95