MALTHUS, Doctor, doctrines of Malthus, considered generally, 228; increase of population during Victorian era considered in connection with, 231. MANDATES, popular, at elections, modern doctrine of, 272. MEDICAL discoveries, English, of Victorian era, large proportion of to whole, 396; treatment of myxoedemia by Sir William Gull, one of the latest, 396. MEDICAL education, scheme of in England, perfected in 1860, 396; relation of College of Physicians to, 396. MEMBERS of Parliament, 'English politics to the English youth,' 246; average age of, in 1837, over fifty years, 246; in 1897, under forty years, 246. MENDELSSOHN, Felix, born at Hamburg, 344; his precocious genius, 345; his influence in England, 345; patron of John Parry, 345. METROPOLITAN 'Board of Works,' established 1855, 105; product of Metropolitan Local Management Act, 1855, 105; unity of administration for the parishes of London by, 105. MIDDLE class, modern English, restlessness of, 194; result of rapid locomotion and cheap press, 194; influx of continental ideas among the, 194; relaxation of orthodoxy of, 197; all sections of, enfranchised by Reform Bill of 1832, 239. MILLIONAIRES, Victorian, and their trades, 24; sheep farmers of Australia, 24; Brassey, the railway contractor, 35; Jones Lloyd, a banker, 42; Hope, a merchant, 42; Bass and Guinness, brewers, 42; Maple, retail tradesman, 42. MILITARY education, establishment of council of, 304; formation of Aldershot camp for, 304. MILITARY resources of country, 296; comparison of, in 1837 with those of 1897, 296; incapacity of, to place 10,000 men in field in 1846, 303; inadequacy of reserves of guns and stores, 303. MILITIA, practical non-existence of, at Queen's accession, 302; last ballot for, in 1831, 302; strength of in 1895, 302. MINERALS, £29,000,000 worth of, recovered in 1855, 32; £80,000,000 worth of, recovered in 1895, 32. MINING and steam industries compared, 32; results of, 32. MISSIONARY societies, activity of, during Victorian era, 405; British and Foreign Bible Society, income of, doubled, 405; Society for Propagation of Gospel, income of, doubled, 405; Church Missionary Society, income of, trebled, 405. MIXED metaphors, modern, instances of, 372; signs of the overlapping of literature by science and art, 372. MOLESWORTH, Sir William, pioneer of colonial self-government, 433; Colonial Secretary, in 1853, 433. MUDIE'S Select Library, founded in 1842, 369; far-reaching usefulness of, 369. MUSIC, revolution in, and in taste for, during Queen's reign, 337; the lady teacher of, in 1837, 337; and in 1897, 338; patronage of, by Court, 339; fondness for, a tradition of English royalty, 340; Royal Academy of, 340; triumph of German over Italian school of, 344.