Athenian Comedy, 106; the plays of Aristophanes, 107; character of the audiences, 108; change in the Athenians, 109; Menander's contemporaries, 110; Menander, 111; Philopator's invitation to Philemon and Menander, 112; Glycera and Bac- chis, 113; the new comedy of Greece, 114. Astronomy, popular, by F. Arago, 145.
262; Talleyrand, 263; the Plenipotentiaries, 264; Metternich, 265; promenade on the Bastei, 266; Frederic William, 267; Stein, De Ligne, 268, 269; English Ladies, 270; the King of Den- mark, 271; Saxony handed over to Prussia, 272; Alexander's Polish project, 273; the German Empire, 274; position of English ministry, 275; Talleyrand's note, 276; Talleyrand's success, 277; Caroline Marie, 278; Compromises, 280; Napoleon escapes from Elba, 281.
Education, 135, 319; Mann's Lessons of General Knowledge, 327; American Journal of Educa- tion, 141; Rendu, De l'Education populaire dans l'Allemagne du Nord, 326; Donaldson's Classical Scholarship and Classical Learning, 327; Good- win's Education for Working Men, ib.; Macleod's Home School, ib.
Electricity and Magnetism. Faraday, Experi- mental Researches in Electricity, 142; De la Rive, Electricity in Theory and Practice, 329; Hopkins, The Connexion of Geology and Mag- netism, 145; Schellen, Der Electro-magnetische Telegraph, 331.
Belles Lettres, 160, 343; Doctor Antonio, 165; Gilbert Massenger, ib.; My First Season, ib.; Tolla, ib.; Villette, 166; Pardon's Faces in the Fire, ib.; Gerstacker, Nach Amerika, ib.; Bech. stein, Romantische Märchen und Sagen, ib.; Ko- nig, Aus der Gegenwart, ib.; Rowland Smith, The Greek Romances of Heliodorus Longus and Achilles Tatius, ib.; Brewster, Little Millie, and her Four Places, ib.; Thoreau, Walden; or Life in the Woods, ib.; Lord Brougham's Contribu tions to the 46 Edinburgh Review," 167; Rio, Léonardo da Vinci et son Ecole, 168; Long, M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationes, 171; Cicero, or Ora- tions and Orators, 172; De Foe's Works, ib.; Meredith, Shaving of Shagpat, 350; Wilkie Col- lins' After Dark, ib.; De Nerval, La Bohême Galante, 351; Meyer, Sagenkiänzlein aus Tirol, ib.; Riedwald, Bilder aus dem orientalischen Kriege, 352; De Stendhal, De l'Amour, ib.; Kingsley's The Heroes, ib; Table Talk of Sa- muel Rogers, 35; Richardson's Flowers and Flower Gardens, 354; Watson's Quintilian's In stitutes of Oratory, ib.; Works of Hesiod, Calli- machus and Theognis, ib.; Burke's Works, ib., 172; Addison's Works, 354; Noctes Ambrosi- Fuller, Margaret, Woman in the Nineteenth Cen- anæ, 172, 354. tury, 140.
English Law of Divorce, 187; inconsistencies of the law, ib.; mode of taking evidence, 188; evi- dence of Dr. Lushington, 189; House of Lords, 190; case of Hunt v. Hunt, 191; divorce in Scot- land, 143; vivâ voce evidence, 194; mode of ex- amination in equity, 195; Mrs. Norton, 196 ; Talbot v. Talbot, ib.
Biography, 151, 335; Lewes, Life and Works of Food of London, by Dodd, 824.
Goethe, 152; Bernays, Joseph Justus Scaliger, 159; Wheeler's Life and Travels of Herodotus,
Botany. Popular History of Palms, 332; Popular General Williams and the Fall of Kars, 282; the Geography of Plants, 333.
Chemistry. Stockhardt's Chemical Field Lectures, with Notes, by Henfrey, 145; Miller's Elements of Chemistry, 327.
Congress of Vienna, 252; the Peace, 253; Vienna city, 253, 24; business of Congress, 255; en- tente cordiale. 256; the Netherlands, 257; Rus- sia, 258; Austria, 259; Prussia, 260; France,
conference at Erzeroum, 283; the state of the army, 284; the fortifications, 285; the Russian assault, 288; could Kars have been relieved? ib.; Lord Clarendon's efforts, 290; obstructive action of the French Government, 291; the head of the War Office, 292.
German Wit; Heinrich Heine, 1; wit and humour, 2; the typical German, 3; our readiness to cen- sure genius, 4; boyish troubles, 5; tragedies, 6; Hegel, 7, 8; visit to Goethe, 8; Revolutionary enthusiasm, 9; life in Paris, 10; book on Borne,
11; the days of darkness, 12; paradoxical irre- verence, 14; political point of view, 14, 15; his poetry, 15; the Reisebilder, 17; symbolical myth about Louis Philippe, 18.
History of the House of Savoy, 28; royal good faith, 29, 30; origin of the House of Savoy, 30; aggrandizement of Savoy and Piedmont, 32; Amadeus VI., 33; States-general, 34; the French in Italy, 35; Emanuel Philibert, 36; habits of Emanuel Philibert, 37; interference of Louis XIV., 38; toleration accorded to the Walden- ses, 39, 40; economy of Charles Emanuel III. 40; consequences of the French Revolution, 41, 42; changes made in Italy, 43; Genoa annexed, 44; Piedmontese insurrection, ib.; constitution of 1848, 46; accession of Victor Emanuel, 47; difficulties of Piedmont, 48; improvements in Turin, 49.
History, 151, 335; Pauli, Geschichte von England, 154; Paradol, Elisabeth et Henri IV., 155; La- noye, l'Inde cotemporaine, 156; Neuman, Die Hellenen im Seythenlande, 159; Droysen, Ge- schichte der Preussischer Politic, ib.; Floto, Kai- ser Heinrich der Vierte, ib.; Prescott's History of the Reign of Philip the Second, 160; Macau- lay's History of England, vols. iii. and iv., 335; Smyth's Lectures on the History of the French Revolution, 338; Poulton's New History of Eng- land, 339.
Limited Liability Act of 1855, 19; popular indif- ference to law reform, ib. ; foundation of the common law, 20; defects of the common law, 21; provisions of the Act of 1855, 22; moral effects of the present law, 24; worst feature of the recent Act, 25; commercial investments de- sirable for the lower classes, 26; moral advan- tages of free association, 27; present law drives capital abroad, 28.
Lions and Lion Hunting, 116; a lion battle, ib.; |
how Arabs attack the lion, 117; a night scene, 119; insults over the dead lion, 120; the love of a lion, 121; fascination, 122.
Medical Despotism, 292; the beneficence of Go- vernment, 293; the ghost of the old charters, 294; Mr. Headlam's Bill, ib.; evils of centralization, 296; the just limits of legislative interference, 297; alleged reason for Medical legislation, 298; the hygienic conscience, 299; the essence of de- velopment; sects, 300; medicine as a science, 301; what medical conformists would achieve, 302; opposition to new ideas, 303; graduates of the London University, 304; the Earl of Man- chester's protest, 306; a protest, 307; effects of competition, 308; the discerning public, 309. Medicine. McCormack on Pulmonary Consump- tion, 148; a Monograph of Mental Unsoundness, 149; Hollands Medical Notes and Reflections, 150; Nelson's Mesmerism in relation to Health and Disease, 334; Hints to Husbands, ib.; Pin- ney's Influence of Occupation on health and life, ib.; Report of the Cholera Outbreak in the Pa, rish of St. James, ib.; Handbook of Domestic Medicine, 335; Kesteren's Manual of the Do- mestic Practice of Medicine, ib.
Military Education for Officers, 72; real defects in military education, 73; existing military schools, 74; senior department at Sandhurst, 75; junior department at Sandhurst, 77; objections to the
junior department, 77, 78; finance of the mili- tary college, 79, 80; surcharging of civilians, 80; vicious administration of Sandhurst, 81; inhe rent defects of government military schools, 82; when military education should begin, 84; ad- mission by competition, 85; administration of the military college, 86; objections considered, 87; the case of the military orphans, 88; edu- cation after the first commission, 90; examina- tion on promotion, 90, 91; staff in the Peninsula, 92; the Sandhurst graduates neglected, 93; origin of French staff corps, 94; French staff school, 96; long probation of French staff offi- cers, 97 staff employment for staff graduates, 98; summary of proposed scheme, 99; our offi- cers devoted but uninstructed, 100; competition in liberal professions 101; appointments accord- ing to merit, 102; principle of literary competi- tion, 103; physical requirements, 105; military education compatible with intellectual require- ments, 106.
Natural History. Jones, the Organization of the Animal Kingdom, 145; C. Plinii Secundi Natu- ræ Historiarum, 147; Pliny's Natural History, translated by Bostock and Riley, 148: Linnæus, The Shells of, by S. Hanley, 331; Milne Ed- wards' Manual of Zoology, ib.; Gosse's Manual of Marine Zoology, 332; Popular History of Birds, 333
Natural Philosophy. Arago's Meteorological Es- says, 144; Grove's Correlation of Physical For- ces, 145; Wilson, The Unity of Matter, ib.; Me- chanics' Magazine, ib.; Lardner's Handbook of Natural Philosophy, 330; Kemp's Phasis of Matter, 150.
Philosophy. Spencer's Principles of Psychology, 131; Chauvet, Des Théories de l'Entendement humain dans l'Antiquité, 134; Vera, Inquiry into Speculative and Experimental Science, 319. Poetry. Browning's Men and Women, 161: Du- ganne's Poetical Works, 163; Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha, 164; Ogilvy's Poems of Ten Years, ib.; Frothingham's Metrical Pieces, ib; Blew's Translation of Agamemnon the King, ib.; Mi- chell's Poetry of the Creation, ib.; Newman's Translation of the Iliad of Homer, 352; Leigh's Garlands of Verse, 354; Cassell's Poems, 355; Hamerton's Isles of Loch Awe, ib.; Ballantyne's Poems, ib.; Aird's Poetical Works, ib.; Reade (John Edmund), Man in Paradise, ib.; Lynch, The Rivulet, 356; Jones (Ernest), The Emperor's Vigil, ib.; Reade (Thomas Buchanan), The House by the Sea, ib.; Leaves of Grass, ib. Politics, 135, 319; Reden's Die Türkei und Griech- enland, 135; Currency, Self-Regulating and Elastic, 137; Remarks upon the Law of Mar- riage and Divorce, 141; Congreve's Politics of Aristotle, 319; Macleod's Theory and Practice of Banking, 320; Stansfield on the Bank Charter Act, 322; Johnson (A.), Currency Principles versus Banking Principles, 1b.; Cotterill, Civil Freedom of Trade, ib.; Cotterill's Letter to Lord John Russell, ib.; Slater on the Decimalization of Weights, Measures, and Money, ib.; Vollgraff, Polignosie und Polilogie, ib.; De Cussy, Phases et Causes célèbres du Droit Maritime des Nations, 323; De Salvandy, sur l'Histoire et la Législa- tion particulière des Gains de survie entre Epoux, ib.; Diezel, Formation of a National party in Germany, 324; Proposal for Educational Suf- frage, 325; Sanitary Reform and Sanitary Re- formers, ib.; Maconochie's Prison Discipline, ib. ;
La Ligue des Neutres, ib.; Report of the Com- missioners appointed to inquire into the Ar- rangements of the Inns of Court, &c, ib.; First Report of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commis- sioners, ib.
Rise of the Dutch Republic, by John Lothrop Mot- ley, 173; description of the Netherlands, 174, 175; accession of Philip II., 176; Protestantism, 177; the Inquisition, ib.; the Duke of Alva, 179; the Blood Council, ib; The Prince of Orange, 181, 182; Elizabeth of England, 183; murder of Montigny, 184; Don John of Austria, 185; mur- der of Escovedo, 186.
Russia and the Allies, 50; the English people, 51; numbers of Russians and the Allies, 52; food- producing power, 54; annual produce, 55-57; the Russian tariff, 58; imports and exports, 58, 59; ships and seamen, 60, 61; English finances, 61, 62; Russian finances, 62, 63; debt, taxation, and income, 63, 64; how far the English are a military nation, 65; Count Nesselrode's memo- randum, 66; Lord Aberdeen, 67; Russian policy, 68; conditions of peace, 69-71; English states- men, 72.
Scandinavia, Past and Present, 213; origin of the Scandinavians, 214; expeditions and conquests of the Vikings, 216; the Danish Revolution of 1660, 217; Caroline Matilda of England, 218; the fall of Struensee, 219; the bombardment of Copenhagen, 220; Russian aggressions in Swe- den, 221; the succession of Denmark secured to Russia, 222; Rise of Gustavus Wasa, 222, 223 Queen Christina, 224; Charles XII. in the Uk- raine, 225; the conquest of Finland, 226, 227; Mörner, the modern king-maker, 228; Berna- dotte made King of Sweden, 229; Bernadotte offers to invade England, 230; Bernadotte plans the fall of Napoleon, 231; the matrimonial alli- ances of Russia, 232; project of a United Scan- dinavia, 233; necessary precautions against Russia, 234.
Stewart (Dugald), Collected Works, 321. Sunday in Great Britain, 235; the Puritans, 235, 286; history of the Sabbath, 236-238; Sunday in the early Church, 239; opinions of Luther and Calvin, 240; study of the Old Testament, ib.; the English Puritans, 242; Sunday in Scotland, 243; Sunday question, 244; Sabbath-breaking, 245; Sunday legislation, 246; the Sunday trad- ing of the poor, 247; effects of legislative re-
striction, 248; the English and the Jewish poor, 249; Sunday on the Continent, 250, 251.
Theology. Norton's Internal Evidence of the Ge- nuineness of the Gospels, 124; Norton's Transla- tion of the Gospels, 125; Von Bohlen's Introduc- tion to Genesis, 127; Sermons by the late F. W. Robertson, 128; Bunsen, Die Zeichen der Zeit, ib.; Bohm, Schatten, und Licht, 130; St. Hi- laire, Du Bouddhisme, 131; Sanderson Robins, on the Devices of the Roman Church, ib.; Hup- feld, Die Psalmen, 310; Vaughan's Hours with the Mystics, 311; Pitzipios, L'Eglise Orientale, 313; Hare's Charges to the Clergy of the Arch- deaconry of Lewes, ib.; McCosh, Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation, 314; Child's Pro- gress of Religious Ideas, 315; O'Kelly's Theology for the People, ib.; Dialogues on Universal Res- titution, ib.; Kahnis, Internal IIistory of German Protestantism, 316; Noack, Die Freidenker in der Religion, ib.; Ierson, The Divine Kingdom of Nature, ib.; Olshausen, Geschichte der Mor- monen, ib.; Kennedy, Influence of Christianity upon International Law, 317; Malan, The Three- fold San-Tsze-King. 318; Butler's Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy, ib. Types of Mankind, 196; Morton's Labours and Views, ib.; opinion of the Ancient Egyptians, 197; definition of the term species, 199; Ne- groes identified on Egyptian Monuments, 200; Agassiz, On distinct species among mankind, 201; climate inoperative in producing diversi- ties, 202; identity and permanence of the Jewish race, 203; philosophy of resemblances among languages, 205; Malayo-Polynesian hypothesis of tongues, 206; test terms of common origin of languages, 207; number of diverse races in the Pacific, 208; diverse capacities of races for civi- lization, 209; deteriorating influences of mixture of races, 210; objections to the vast antiquity of mankind, ib.; first inhabitants of the British Islands, 212.
Voyages and Travels, 151, 335; Oliphant's Minne- sota and the Far West, 157; Hughes, Two Crui- ses with the Faltic Fleet, 158; Enault. Constan- tinople et la Turquie, ib.; Le Duc, La Baltique, ib.; Burton's Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, 340; Taylor's New Zealand and its In- habitants, ib.; Ferry, Vagabond Life in Mexico, 341; Wilson's Mexico and its Religion, ib.; The English Woman in America, ib.; Ida Pfeiffer, Second Voyage round the World, 342.
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