respect of philosophers; and as the benevolent scheme of a visionary, it merits our warm regard, even while we refute its main principle as fundamentally false. The primordial truth which Azaïs missed when enouncing and elaborating the theory of compensation no thinker may ever be fortunate enough to seize. It is pious and wise to veil our faces when the great mystery confronts us. Every conjecture must be hazardous, and every explanation imperfect. But if it were permitted to lift a corner of the veil, we should perhaps learn that infinite harmony, through infinite discord, is, if not the primordial truth, at least a part of it. Thus there would be an eternal and universal music, though our ear caught only fragments of melodious strains and harshest dissonances, and could not be attuned to ecstatic comprehension of the magnificent orchestral sweep. The hour may come when the Song of the Stars shall be more truly a word of God to us than the deepest revealings we have ever had, either from without or from within; and when we may learn from some choral swell, echoing and re-echoing through immensity, that our sufferings are but the tenderest touches in the anthem which angels and archangels breathe evermore. INDEX ΤΟ VOLUME LXXIV. Administration of Medical Relief to the A Lost Man :- Chap. 1. The Two Groups, 610 II. Touch and Go, 621 III. Redeemed with a Price, 626 Bacon, Lord, Was he an Impostor? 719 Beauclercs, the, Father and Son. A Novel, Chap. xxI. A Rash Step, 112 XXVI. Prevention better thanCure, XXVII. Homicidal Tendencies, 218 XXVIII. In Season, 222 Bribery and its Remedies, 741 Bridal Song of Helen, a Translation from Charlemagne, Legends of, by Earl Stanhope, 72 Charles V. and Francis I., 489 Church of England, Recent Movements in Civil Service, the Indian, 427 Conventional Laws of Society, by Frances Conversation, a-the Portraits at South Criticism, Laws and Functions of, 771 XXIX. Frank's New Friend at Dallas, Mr., on the Gay Science, 771 Court, 225 xxx. A Drive on the Cliff, 385 XXXII. A Perfect Cure, 394 Last, 400 Destitute Sick of the Metropolis, Adminis- Domestic Servants, 129 Down the Ohio to the Underworld, 753 Ecce Homo, Second Notice, 29 Education of Girls, on the, 509 277 Em's First and Last Lodger:- League, the Reform, and the Parks, 404 456 72 II. Sweet are the Uses of Ad- Living in Perspective, by the Author of 297 versity, 469 Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, 564 229 First and Last Lodger, Em's, 456 Florence, Notes on, 411 London, from, to Rio de Janeiro, by Captain Fool, Cantankerous, the Advantages of Man, a Lost, 610 being, by A. K. H. B., 347 Francis I. and Charles V., 489 From London to Rio de Janeiro. Letters to a Friend, by Captain Burton:- Letter VII. A Walk through the South VIII. Through Northern Pernam to Olinda, 168 Functions and Laws of Criticism, 771 Gallery, National, the Site of the, Recon- Military and Political Bearings of the War, sidered, 53 Gay Science, Mr. Dallas on the, 771 George Petrie, 1790-1866, 94 German Knights, the, 179 Germany, Reconstruction of, by W. C. Girls, on the Education of, 509 Heinrich Heine, 588 Helen, the Bridal Song of, by Sir Edmund History, Stanley's Jewish, 135 Impostor, Was Lord Bacon one? 719 347 Indian Civil Service, the, 427 Ireland, 1; Letter to the Editor, 276 Jewish History, Stanley's, 135 Kensington, South, the Portraits at: a Last and Present Ministry, 243 Laws and Functions of Criticism, 771 Laws, the Conventional, of Society, by Poetry:-The Bridal Song of Helen, 633. Portraits, the, at South Kensington: a Conversation, 84 Pressure, the Financial, and Ten per Cent., 229 Political and Military Bearings of the War, Provision Trade, the, of Ireland, 674 Recent Movements in the Church of Eng- Reconstruction of Germany, by W. C. Reform Bill, Why we want a, 545 Remedies, Bribery and its, 741 Rio de Janeiro, from London to, by Sacrifice, 666 Samaj, the Brahmo, by Frances Power Science, a Lecture, by Charles Kingsley, 15 Service, Civil, the Indian, 427 Site, the, of the National Gallery recon- Society, the Conventional Laws of, by Song, the Bridal, of Helen, by Sir Edmund South Kensington, the Portraits at: a Con- Stanley's Jewish History, 135 Tales and Narratives:-A Lost Man, 610. Ten per Cent. and the Financial Pressure, 229 Theory, the, of Compensation, an Essay, 794 Trade, the Provision, of Irland, 674 Underworld, Down the Ohio to the, 753 Viscount Combermere, F.M., 564 War, the, in its Political and Military Was Lord Bacon an Impostor? 719 Welsh Triads, by the Rev W. Barnes, B.D., Why we want a Reform Bill, 545 END OF VOL. LXXIV. LONDON PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO. NEW-STREET SQUARE L |