INDEX. TO THE NAMES AND SUBJECTS IN THE TWENTY-FOURTH VOLUME. America, health of women in, 12 Indian mounds, 'n, 244 ruined cities of Yucatan, in, 33, 73 Andrews, Lancelot, Bishop of Winchester, 221 Anecdote of a Christian physician, 21 Animals, effects of a solar eclipse on, 22 fabulous, 5 mouths and teeth of, 174 Appreciation of great and worthy actions, 14 April, kitchen garden operations in, 118 Arabic proverb, an, 59 Aristotle's argument for a final cause, 46 Association of ideas, 43 Atmospheric railway, the, 60, 85 Avoidance of evil, 28 Augustine, St, on contemplation, 136 Australian method of finding honey, 141 Bacon, Lord, passages selected from, 16, 21, 196, 214, 237 Bagdad, Sadi of, 182 Banditti, Italian, 212 Banners, early English, 52, 92 "Bear and forbear" 192 Beverley Minster, 226 Biographical notice of Bishop Andrews, 221 Childhood, 8 Chinese gratitude, 106 Choice of stone for building purposes, 22 Christian freedom, 28 Cities, ruined, of Yucatan, 33, 73 Clouds, lessons from, 15 Conduits, old London, 156, 189 Contemplations on the weather, 195 Copleston, Bishop, remark by, 144 62, 214 Crabbe, passages from, 117, 134, 140, 232 Creation of the Earth, 229 Cuvier, observation by, 62 Dana, lines by, 214 Davis, Captain John, an old English navigator, 139, 197 Decay and renovation, 93 anecdote of a, 6 Dogmatism, 19 Domestic peace, 21 Drunken Sea, account of the, 86 Hartlepool, in, 113 Early days, remark on, 45 English banners, 52, 92 Earthly dignity and honour, 152 Eastern Tale, an, 182 Easy Lessons in Chess, XXI., 71— XXII, 115 method of heating baths, 69 Eclipse, its effect on animals, 22 Educated work-people, superior value of, 32 Education, 59 Hall, Capt. Basil, remark by, 46 Helmsley Castle, Yorkshire, 41 Herbert, sonnet by, 214 99, 109 Westminster Col Horne, Bishop, remark by, 112 ' How to deal with diseases, 32 Human race, progress of the, 11 wisdom and human ignorance, 61 Humane man, the, 198 Hymn, by Crabbe, 232 Idle dreams, 160 reveries, 28 Imagination, 53 56 power of the, Immortality, an argument for, 45 Indian mounds in North America, 244 Industrious peasant, cottage of the, 117 Infidelity, 106 Ingenuity of an Indian Prince, 56 Intellectual discipline. 11 Involuntary actions, 64 Ireland, the bog in, 184 creeping plants in, 196 Italian banditti, 212 January, kitchen garden operations in, 7 Joint dependence of human beings, 181 Jones, lines by, 155 July, kitchen garden operations in, 246 June, kitchen garden operations in, 199 Just thoughts on God, 3 Justice, the only true expediency, 141 Kitchen Garden, the, I., 7-II., 46— III., 83-IV., 118-V., 159-VI., 199-VII., 246 Knowledge, increase of our, love of, 117 45 and false, 14 true use of, 16 Kohl, extracts from, 158, 184, 196 Kymac, 56 Labour in vain, 59 Lavater, observation of, 188 Lessons, easy, in Chess, 71, 115 Lewis, origin of the machine called the, 237 Liberty of thought, 19 Life and death, ancient opinions on, 46 Linnet, natural history and manage ment of the, 29 Literature, cultivation of, 144 London, old conduits of, 156, 189 livery companies of, 121, 201 Loss of a pious friend, lines on the, 243 Luminous phenomenou at sea, 27. Lyons, the city of, 185, 210 Mc Cormac, remarks by, 181, 188, 232 Mahogany, 184 Manners, elegant, 45 Manor Palace, the, at York, 105 Masque, the, 176 Massillon, remark by, 66 Matter and mind, 19 May, kitchen garden operations in, 158 morning, 200 "May you die among your kindred!" 184 Mediocrity, proof of, 96 Men's real characters, when displayed, 64 Men in great place, 237 Merchant Tailors' School, historical notice of, 9, 31 Merciful judgments, 156 Mitchell, extracts from, 56, 141 Moral influence of object-lessons, 216 principles, supremacy of the, 118 Mountains, the Carpathian, 97⚫ Narrow-mindedness, 131' Natural history and management of cage birds, 29, 69, 132, 148, 212 Nature, gladness of, knowledge of, 42 remarkable sounds in, 135, 215 study of, 62 and human life, 214 Navigators, old English, 139, 197 Object-lessons, moral influence of, 216 Opinions of the ancients on life and death, 46 Seasonable remarks, 14 Self-sufficiency of ignorance, 59 Shades of social liberality, 46 Sheep, effect of travelling upon the, 56 Sketches of the Tyrol, 161, 249 Sodor and Man, Bishop Wilson, of, Solutions of Chess Problems, 248 Spectacles of the Romans, 151, 191 Sports and pastimes, old, 6 Stale mate at Chess, 172 Star Chamber, Court of, 193, 235 Streets, lighting of, by galvanism, 4 nature, 62 Sully, employment of time by, 118 Waves, action of oil upon, 187 Whately, Archbishop, remarks by, 131, Who is my neighbour? 56, 181 and false, 184 the most certain possession, 93 and nature contrasted, 53 Wordsworth, sonnet by, 172 other extracts from, 192, 214 Writing by Cipher, I., 222-II., 230 Yorkshire, Beverley Minster, in, 226 Helmsley Castle, in, 41 St. Mary's Abbey, in, 89 Youth, proper teaching for, 45 Banners, early English, 52, 92 granted to the, 17 Bath-heater, Italian, 69 Beverley Minster, north-west view, 225 nests, in singular situations, Boar's head, presentation of the, 109 Cage birds, 29, 132, 148, 212 College at, 100 Carpathians, Lomnitzer Head, 97 Chess Diagrams, 8. 21, 56, 112, 117, 144, 173, 174, 196, 232 Chichen Itza, ruins at, 73, 77 Diagrams. Chese, 8, 21, 56, 112, 117,144, Dormi ory, old, Westminster College, Drapers' hall, London, 205 Driving carriage, Atmospheric Rail- INDEX TO THE ENGRAVINGS. Durham, general view of, 57 Elvet Bridge, 49 Early English banners, 52, 92 Elvet bridge, Durham, 49 Fabulous animals, 5 Feathers, Prince of Wales's, ancient France, views in, 185, 209, 233 Galleries in the Warmser Loch, Tyrol, Gateway at Roche Abbey, 179 Pageants, ancient, "wild men" of the, Pass of Monte Stelvio, 165 Planaria hepatica, 45 Nicholas Poussin, 129 Railway, Atmospheric, vacuum pipe 220 Roche Abbey, Yorshire, 177, 179 Royal Palace at Theobalds, 65 |