Prophecies and forecasts, ii. 36, 38, 40 _seq._, 136-47, 183, 185 _seq._, 202, 261, 294, 34i, 345; iii. 1, 36, 38, 46, 54, 67, 83, 90, 100, 142, 145, 170, 192, 201 _seq._, 204 _seq._, 273, 299 _seq._; iv. 66, 78, 90, 93, 102, 128, 174, 180, 182-4, 186, 191-3, 202 Proportional representation, iii. 40 Prussia, fleet, ii. 29 Prusso-Danish war, ii. 3, 20 _seq._, 195 Psychology: subconscious crime, iii. 207 Public houses, ii. 44, 45 _ill._ Public schools, ii. 130 _seq._; system, iii. 137; athletic craze in, iii. 148; inefficiency of, iii. 149 _seq._; classics _v._ commerce, iii. 150 _seq._; iv. 150 _seq._; diet at, iv. 153 Public Worship Regulation, ii. 120; iii. 157 Purchas trial, ii. 101 Pusey, Dr. E. B., i. 99, 306; ii. 104, 109; iii. 151 Quacks and doctors, i. 239 Quadrille, the, i. 209, 212 Quakers, mission to Russia, i. 125; relieve Lancashire famine, ii. 68 _Quarterly Review_, on Willis's Rooms, i. 209; supported by _P._ in 1886; iii. 321 _seq._ Queen Anne's Mansions built, iii. 179 _seq._ Queen's Hall concerts, i. 289; iv. 341 Quidde, Prof., of Munich, satirizes Wilhelm II, iv. 26 Rabelais, criticized by _P._, iii. 317 Rachel, Madame, ii. 236; life-story, ii. 326 _seq._ Radium discovered, iv. 189 Ragged Schools, i. 83; ii. 51 _seq._; and Lord Shaftesbury, i. 84 "Ragging" in Army, i. 135; iv. 254 Rag-time, iv. 331, 340 Railways, ii. 136; iii. 198 _seq._; dangers of early, i. 62, 70 _ill._; railway map of England, i. 62; speculation, i. 62, 64; mania, i. 64, 177 _ill._; battle of gauges, i. 64; Juggernaut of 1845, _ill._, i. 65; _P.'s_ "rules and regulations," i. 67; smoking saloons, i. 68; subterranean, prophecy, _ill._, i. 68; L. & N.W. Ry. directors criticized, i. 69; _Bradshaw_, i. 71; G.W.R. adopts electric telegraph, i. 72; Royalty and travelling, i. 178; railwaymen, ii. 74 _seq._; iii. 93; fares, ii. 76; Act of 1853, ii. 136; dispute of 1907, iv. 128. _See also_ London, Hudson "Ranger, George," Duke of Cambridge, iii. 68; and Sunday boating, iii. 165 "Ranji" (H.H. Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, G.B.E.), cricketer, iii. 395; ode to, iv. 349 "Rantoones," ii. 137 _seq._ Rarey, J. S., horse-tamer, ii. 340 Rational dress reform, i. 262; iii. 305 _seq._ Ratsey, Mrs., Royal nurse, i. 166 Reade, Charles, iii. 317; _Foul Play_, ii. 273; _Never Too Late to Mend_, ii. 288; and "the Menken," ii. 289; _The Wandering Heir_, ii. 292; letter on condition of servants, iii. 270; death, iii. 320; _Drink_, iii. 353 Rebecca Riots in South Wales, i. 57 Recreation, ii. 339-49; iii. 287-303; iv. 345-60 Redmond, John, M.P., iv. 94; and Ulster, iv. 86; and Sir E. Carson, iv. 96 Reed, Thomas German, actor, ii. 312; iii. 372 _seq._