Phillipps (Halliwell), Dr., ii. 270 Phillips, Stephen, as actor, iii. 352; and the poetic drama, iv. 312, 322 Phoenix Park murders, iii. 6, 32, 50 Photography, i. 227; iii. 212 Piccadilly, scheme to widen, iv. 201 Piccolomini, Marietta, i. 277; ii. 299 Pierce, President, open letter to, i. 134 Pigeon shooting, ii. 343 "Pimlico Pavilion," i. 149 Pinero, Sir A. W., iv. 315, 317 Ping-pong, tyranny of, iv. 356 Pius IX, Pope, i. 99; ii. 113; iii. 10, 19 _seq._ Plays, censorship of, i. 273 Plevna, siege of, iii. 16 Plimsoll, Samuel, M.P., ii. 39 _ill._, 99; and coffin-ships, iii. 86 Plumer, General Lord, iv. 8 Plunket, Rt. Hon. David (Lord Rathmore), and Sunday boating, iii. 165; unveils Gordon Memorial, iii. 180 Plural voting, iv. 86, 92, 98 Pneumatic tyres, patent, ii. 138; iii. 300 Poets, activity of, in Boer war, subsequent slump in, iv. 288; Mr. Gosse on new, iv. 291 Poincaré, M., French President, iv. 78 Poland, police-ridden, ii. 19; trade unionists and, ii. 42 _seq._ Police, i. 144 _seq._; special constables, i. 55 _ill._; inefficiency of, ii. 165-6; iii. 100 _seq._; tributes to, iii. 228; iv. 208-9 Polka, the, i. 209, 210-11 _ill._, 283 Polytechnic, the, i. 155 Poor, the condition of, i. _frontispiece_, 3 _seq._, 6, 7 _ill._, 8, 10, 14-15 _ill._, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27; sweating system, i. 11, 17, 38, 41 _ill._; ragged schools, i. 83, 84; Poor Law, Report of (1834), i. 59; "Poor Child's Nurse," i. 153 _ill._; and Poor Law system, ii. 48, 259; inspectors, ii. 51; children, iv. 106-7; insurance scandal, iv. 107. _See also_ Chartism, "Hungry Forties" "Pops," the, ii. 309, 311 Port Arthur, fall of, iv. 52 Portugal, King and Crown Prince of, assassinated, iv. 225; becomes republic, iv. 73; ex-King Manoel of, iv. 225 Postmen, i. 37, 38, 146 _ill._; iii. 93 Potato famine, Irish, i. 181, 198 Preparatory schools, athletic craze at, iii. 148; iv. 150-1, 154 Pre-Raphaelites, i. 299 _seq._; caricatured, _ibid._; _P._ converted to, i. 302; and æstheticism, iii. 255, 331, 337 Press, and Tichborne case, iii. 241; _P.'s_ relations with, i. 235 _seq._ Prevention of Corruption Act, iv. 127 Prevention of Cruelty Bill of 1887, iii. 144 _seq._ Prince Imperial, killed in Zululand, proposed memorial to, iii. 24 Prince of Wales's Children Bill, iii. 232 Prison _v._ workhouse, ii. 48 _seq._ Prisoners, Russian, treatment of, i. 129 Prize-fighting, ii. 211; revival of, iv. 360 Prodigies, musical, _P.'s_ views on, iv. 341, 342 _ill._ Professionalism in cricket and football, iv. 349 Profiteering denounced, i. 77, 130 _ill._; ii. 47, 72; iii. 238 Profit-sharing recommended, ii. 58 Promenade Concerts, i. 289 ill.