Socialism, iii. 75, 79, 82; iv. 107, 115, 128-30; in Germany, iii. 19; iv. 78 Society, High, invasion of new plutocracy, iii. 235 _seq._; poverty and decline of old nobility, iii. 235 _seq._, 242 _seq._; journals, iii. 236, 242 seq.; invades stage, iii. 241; Society people as tradesmen and professionals, iii. 242 _seq._; women in the 'eighties, iii. 248; women and murder trials, iii. 248 _seq._; women, craze for slumming, iii. 250; pugilists _fêted_ by, iii. 250 Somerville, Mary, i. 215; ii. 256 _Song of the Shirt_, i. 11 Songs, popular, ii. 307; iii. 373; iv. 340 Sothern, Edward, actor, ii. 337 _seq._ Soudan, outbreak in 1888, iii. 56 "Souls," the, iv. 230, 232, 233 South Africa: war of 1899-1902, iv. 6 _seq._; railway between Natal and the Cape, iv. 20; state of, in 1895, iv. 20 Spain, Isabella, Queen of, i. 187; revolution of 1868, ii. 29; restoration of monarchy, iii. 10 Spain, King Alfonso XIII, popularity, iv. 225, 226; marriage to Princess Ena of Battenberg, iv. 225 Spanish-American war, iv. 8, 11, 30 Special constables, i. 55 ill. _Spectator_, and American Civil War, ii. 68; attacks _P._, iii. 29 Spencer, 5th Earl, ii. 158 Spencer, Herbert, iii. 155 Spielmann, M. H., _History of Punch_, i. 13 Spion Kop dispatches, iv. 39 Spiritualism, i. 226; ii. 46, 203 _seq._; iii. 252 Spithead, naval review, 1899, iii. 58 Spofforth, F. R., Australian cricketer, iii. 292, 294 Sport, i. 173; battues condemned, i. 174-5, _ill._; in school education, ii. 131; and pastime, ii. 211, 339-49; iii. 287-303; iv. 345-60; women begin to compete, ii. 238; and unemployed, iv. 123; athletic; Oxford _v._ Yale, iv. 346; winter, in 1895, iv. 356 Spurgeon, Rev. C. H., i. 106; iii. 145, 168; death, iii. 175 Stage, and Society, i. 228; ii. 235, 294 _seq._; realism, ii. 293; and education, iii. 144 _seq._ Stanford's railway map issued, ii. 154 Stanford, Sir Charles, iv. 333; composes music for _Eumenides_, iii. 352; conducts his _Revenge_, iii. 370; and Royal College of Music, iii. 372 Stanhope, 4th Earl, i. 303 Stanhope, 5th Earl, ii. 157; and revision of Prayer-book, ii. 170 Stanley, Lord, afterwards 15th Earl of Derby. _See_ Derby. Stanley, A. P., Dean of Westminster, ii. 101-2, 157; made Dean, ii. 113: religious liberalism, ii. 134; and suggested memorial to Prince Imperial, iii. 24; death, iii. 375 Stanley, H. M., explorer, ii. 217 _seq._; iii. 63 Staple Inn, proposed demolition, iii. 178 State Church threatened, ii. 120 Statues, Wellington's replaced at Hyde Park Corner, iii. 178; and memorials, iv. 204-7 Stead, W. T., and national defence, iii. 71; advocates British naval supremacy, iii. 204 Stephenson, George, i. 86; and Brunel, iii. 199 Stevens, Alfred, sculptor, i. 294; ii. 313