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INDEX.

• Acton’s Modern Cookery, [28]
• Alcock’s Residence in Japan, [23]
• Allen’s Four Discourses of Chrysostom, [22]
• Allies on Formation of Christendom, [21]
• Alpine Guide (The), [23]
• Althaus on Medical Electricity, [14]
• Arnold’s Manual of English Literature, [7]
• Arnott’s Elements of Physics, [11]
• Arundines Cami, [26]
• Autumn Holidays of a Country Parson, [8]
• Ayre’s Treasury of Bible Knowledge, [20]
• Bacon’s Essays, by Whately, [6]
• —— Life and Letters, by Spedding, [6]
• —— Works, edited by Spedding, [6]
• Bain’s Logic, Deductive and Inductive, [10]
• —— Mental and Moral Science, [10]
• —— on the Senses and Intellect, [10]
• Ball’s Alpine Guide, [23]
• Bayldon’s Rents and Tillages, [19]
• Beaten Tracks, [23]
• Becker’s Charicles and Gallus, [25]
• Benfey’s Sanskrit Dictionary, [8]
• Bernard on British Neutrality, [1]
• Black’s Treatise on Brewing, [28]
• Blackley’s German-English Dictionary, [8]
• Blaine’s Rural Sports, [26]
• —— Veterinary Art, [27]
• Booth’s Saint-Simon, [3]
• Boultbee on 39 Articles, [19]
• Bourne on Screw Propeller, [18]
• Bourne’s Catechism of the Steam Engine, [18]
• —— Handbook of Steam Engine, [18]
• —— Improvements in the Steam Engine, [18]
• —— Treatise on the Steam Engine, [18]
• —— Examples of Modern Engines, [18]
• Bowdler’s Family Shakspeare, [26]
• Boyd’s Reminiscences, [4]
• Bramley-Moore’s Six Sisters of the Valleys, [24]
• Brande’s Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art, [13]
• Bray’s (C.) Education of the Feelings, [10]
• —— Philosophy of Necessity, [10]
• —— on Force, [10]
• Browne’s Exposition of the 39 Articles, [19]
• Brunel’s Life of Brunel, [4]
• Buckle’s History of Civilization, [3]
• Bull’s Hints to Mothers, [28]
• —— Maternal Management of Children, [28]
• Bunsen’s God in History, [3]
• —— Prayers, [19]
• Burke’s Vicissitudes of Families, [5]
• Burton’s Christian Church, [4]
• Cabinet Lawyer, [28]
• Campbell’s Norway, [22]
• Carnota’s Memoirs of Pombal, [4]
• Cates’s Biographical Dictionary, [5]
• Cats’ and Farlie’s Moral Emblems, [16]
• Changed Aspects of Unchanged Truths, [9]
• Chesney’s Indian Polity, [3]
• —— Waterloo Campaign, [3]
• —— and Reeve’s Military Essays, [2]
• Chorale Book for England, [16]
• Clough’s Lives from Plutarch, [2]
• Colenso (Bishop) on Pentateuch, [21]
• Commonplace Philosopher, [8]
• Conington’s Translation of the Æneid, [25]
• Contanseau’s French-English Dictionaries, [8]
• Conybeare and Howson’s St. Paul, [20]
• Cotton’s (Bishop) Life, [5]
• Cooper’s Surgical Dictionary, [15]
• Copland’s Dictionary of Practical Medicine, [15]
• Counsel and Comfort from a City Pulpit, [9]
• Cox’s Aryan Mythology, [3]
• —— Manual of Mythology, [25]
• —— Tale of the Great Persian War, [2]
• —— Tales of Ancient Greece, [25]
• Cresy’s Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering, [18]
• Critical Essays of a Country Parson, [8]
• Crookes on Beet-Root Sugar, [15]
• ——’s Chemical Analysis, [14]
• Culley’s Handbook of Telegraphy, [18]
• Cusack’s History of Ireland, [3]
• D’Aubigne’s History of the Reformation in the time of Calvin, [2]
• Davidson’s Introduction to New Testament, [26]
• Dead Shot (The), by Marksman, [27]
• De la Rive’s Treatise on Electricity, [12]
• Denison’s Vice-Regal Life, [1]
• De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, [2]
• Disraeli’s Lothair, [24]
• —— Novels and Tales, [24]
• Dobell’s Medical Reports, [15]
• Dobson on the Ox, [27]
• Dove on Storms, [11]
• Doyle’s Fairyland, [15]
• Dyer’s City of Rome, [2]
• Eastlake’s Hints on Household Taste, [17]
• —— History of Oil Painting, [16]
• —— Gothic Revival, [17]
• —— Life of Gibson, [16]
• Elements of Botany, [13]
• Ellicott on the Revision of the English New Testament, [19]
• —— Commentary on Ephesians, [20]
• —— Commentary on Galatians, [20]
• —— —— — Pastoral Epist., [20]
• —— —— — Philippians, &c., [20]
• —— —— — Thessalonians, [20]
• —— Lectures on the Life of Christ, [20]
• Essays and Contributions of A. K. H. B, [8]
• Ewald’s History of Israel, [20]
• Fairbairn on Iron Shipbuilding, [18]
• ——’s Applications of Iron, [18]
• —— Information for Engineers, [18]
• —— Mills and Millwork, [18]
• Faraday’s Life and Letters, [4]
• Farrar’s Families of Speech, [9]
• —— Chapters on Language, [7]
• Felkin on Hosiery and Lace Manufactures, [18]
• Fennell’s Book of the Roach, [27]
• Ffoulkes’s Christendom’s Divisions, [21]
• Fitzwygram on Horses and Stables, [27]
• Fowler’s Collieries and Colliers, [28]
• Francis’s Fishing Book, [27]
• Freshfield’s Travels in the Caucasus, [23]
• Froude’s History of England, [1]
• —— Short Studies on Great Subjects, [9]
• Ganot’s Elementary Physics, [11]
• Gilbert’s Cadore, or Titian’s Country, [22]
• Gilbert and Churchill’s Dolomites, [23]
• Girdlestone’s Bible Synonymes, [19]
• Gledstone’s Life of Whitefield, [5]
• Goddard’s Wonderful Stories, [25]
• Goldsmith’s Poems, Illustrated, [28]
• Graham’s View of Literature and Art, [3]
• Grant’s Home Politics, [3]
• —— Ethics of Aristotle, [6]
• Graver Thoughts of a Country Parson, [8]
• Gray’s Anatomy, [15]
• Greenhow on Bronchitis, [16]
• Griffith’s Fundamentals, [19]
• Grove on Correlation of Physical Forces, [12]
• Gurney’s Chapters of French History, [2]
• Gwilt’s Encyclopædia of Architecture, [17]
• Hampden’s (Bishop) Memorials, [4]
• Hare on Election of Representatives, [7]
• Hartwig’s Harmonies of Nature, [13]
• —— Polar World, [13]
• —— Sea and its Living Wonders, [13]
• —— Subterranean World, [13]
• —— Tropical World, [13]
• Haughton’s Manual of Geology, [12]
• Herschel’s Outlines of Astronomy, [10]
• Hewitt on Diseases of Women, [14]
• Hodgson’s Theory of Practice, [10]
• —— Time and Space, [10]
• Holmes’s System of Surgery, [14]
• —— Surgical Diseases of Infancy, [14]
• Home (The) at Heatherbrae, [24]
• Horne’s Introduction to the Scriptures, [20]
• —— Compendium of ditto, [20]
• How we Spent the Summer, [23]
• Howitt’s Australian Discovery, [23]
• —— Mad War Planet, [26]
• —— Northern Heights of London, [23]
• —— Rural Life of England, [24]
• —— Visits to Remarkable Places, [24]
• Hübner’s Memoir of Sixtus V., [2]
• Hughes’s (W.) Manual of Geography, [11]
• Hume’s Essays, [10]
• —— Treatise on Human Nature, [10]
• Ihne’s Roman History, [2]
• Ingelow’s Poems, [26]
• —— Story of Doom, [26]
• —— Mopsa, [26]
• Jameson’s Saints and Martyrs, [17]
• —— Legends of the Madonna, [17]
• —— Monastic Orders, [17]
• Jameson and Eastlake’s Saviour, [17]
• John Jerningham’s Journal, [26]
• Johnston’s Geographical Dictionary, [11]
• Kalisch’s Commentary on the Bible, [7]
• —— Hebrew Grammar, [7]
• Keith on Fulfilment of Prophecy, [20]
• —— Destiny of the World, [20]
• Kerl’s Metallurgy, [18]
• Kirby and Spence’s Entomology, [13]
• Latham’s English Dictionary
• Lawlor’s Pilgrimages in the Pyrenees, [24]
• Lecky’s History of European Morals, [3]
• —— —— — Rationalism, [3]
• Leisure Hours in Town, [9]
• Lessons of Middle Age, [9]
• Lewes’ History of Philosophy, [3]
• Liddell and Scott’s Two Lexicons, [8]
• Life of Man Symbolised, [16]
• Lindley and Moore’s Treasury of Botany, [13]
• Longman’s Edward the Third, [2]
• —— Lectures on the History of England, [2]
• —— Chess Openings, [28]
• Loudon’s Agriculture, [19]
• —— Gardening, [19]
• —— Plants, [13]
• Lowndes’s Engineer’s Handbook, [17]
• Lubbock on Origin of Civilisation, [12]
• Lyra Eucharistica, [22]
• —— Germanica, [16], [21]
• —— Messianica, [22]
• —— Mystica, [22]
• Macaulay’s (Lord) Essays, [3]
• —— History of England, [1]
• —— Lays of Ancient Rome, [25]
• —— Miscellaneous Writings, [9]
• —— Speeches, [7]
• —— Complete Works, [1]
• Macfarren’s Lectures on Harmony, [16]
• Macleod’s Elements of Political Economy, [7]
• —— Dictionary of Political Economy, [7]
• —— Theory and Practice of Banking, [27]
• McCulloch’s Dictionary of Commerce, [28]
• Maguire’s Life of Father Mathew, [5]
• —— Pope Pius IX, [5]
• Malet’s Overthrow of the Germanic Confederation by Prussia, [2]
• Manning’s England and Christendom, [21]
• Marcet on the Larynx, [15]
• Marshall’s Canadian Dominion, [11]
• —— Physiology, [15]
• Marshman’s Life of Havelock, [5]
• —— History of India, [3]
• Martineau’s Christian Life, [22]
• Massingberd’s History of the Reformation, [4]
• Maundee’s Biographical Treasury, [5]
• —— Geographical Treasury, [11]
• —— Historical Treasury, [4]
• —— Scientific and Literary Treasury, [13]
• —— Treasury of Knowledge, [28]
• —— Treasury of Natural History, [13]
• May’s Constitutional History of England, [1]
• Melville’s Novels and Tales, [24] & [25]
• Mendelssohn’s Letters, [5]
• Merivales’s Fall of the Roman Republic, [3]
• —— Romans under the Empire, [3]
• Merrifield and Ever’s Navigation, [11]
• Miles on Horse’s Foot and Horseshoeing, [27]
• —— Horses’ Teeth and Stables, [27]
• Mill (J.) on the Mind, [9]
• Mill (J. S.) on Liberty, [6]
• —— on Representative Government, [6]
• —— on Utilitarianism, [6]
• Mill’s (J. S.) Dissertations and Discussions, [6]
• —— Political Economy, [6]
• —— System of Logic, [6]
• —— Hamilton’s Philosophy, [6]
• —— Inaugural Address, [7]
• —— Subjection of Women, [8]
• Miller’s Elements of Chemistry, [14]
• —— Hymn-Writers, [21]
• Mitchell’s Manual of Architecture, [17]
• —— Manual of Assaying, [18]
• Mossell’s Beatitudes, [22]
• —— His Presence not his Memory, [22]
• —— ‘Spiritual Songs’, [22]
• Moore’s Irish Melodies, [25]
• —— Lalla Rookh, [25]
• —— Poetical Works, [25]
• Morell’s Elements of Psychology, [9]
• —— Mental Philosophy, [9]
• Muller’s (Max) Chips from a German Workshop, [9]
• —— Lectures on Language, [7]
• —— (K. O.) Literature of Ancient Greece, [3]
• Murchison on Liver Complaints, [15]
• Mure’s Language and Literature of Greece, [2]
• Nash’s Compendium of the Prayer Book, [19]
• New Testament, Illustrated Edition, [16]
• Newman’s History of his Religious Opinions, [5]
• Nightingale’s Notes on Hospitals, [28]
• —— —— — Lying-In Institutions, [28]
• Nilsson’s Scandinavia, [12]
• Northcott’s Lathes and Turning [17]
• Odling’s Animal Chemistry, [14]
• —— Course of Practical Chemistry, [14]
• —— Manual of Chemistry, [14]
• —— Lectures on Carbon, [14]
• —— Outlines of Chemistry, [14]
• O’Driscoll’s Memoirs of Maclise, [4]
• O’Flanagan’s Irish Chancellors, [5]
• Our Children’s Story, [25]
• Owen’s Lectures on the Invertebrate, [12]
• —— Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrate Animals, [12]
• Packe’s Guide to the Pyrenees, [23]
• Paget’s Lectures on Surgical Pathology, [15]
• Pereira’s Manual of Materia Medica, [16]
• Perkin’s Italian and Tuscan Sculptors, [17]
• Perring’s Churches and Creeds, [19]
• Pewtner’s Comprehensive Specifier, [28]
• Pictures in Tyrol, [22]
• Piesse’s Art of Perfumery, [19]
• —— Natural Magic, [19]
• Ponton’s Beginning, [12]
• Pratt’s Law of Building Societies [28]
• Prendergast’s Mastery of Languages, [8]
• Prescott’s Scripture Difficulties, [21]
• Present-Day Thoughts, [9]
• Proctor on Plurality of Worlds, [10]
• —— — Saturn and its System, [10]
• —— — The Sun, [10]
• ——’s Scientific Essays, [12]
• Public Schools Atlas (The), [11]
• Rae’s Westward by Rail, [23]
• Recreations of a Country Parson, [8]
• Reichel’s See of Rome, [20]
• Reilly’s Map of Mont Blanc, [23]
• Reimann on Aniline Dyes, [15]
• Rivers’ Rose Amateur’s Guide, [13]
• Robbins’s Cavalry Catechism, [27]
• Rogers’s Correspondence of Greyson, [9]
• —— Eclipse of Faith, [9]
• —— Defence of ditto, [9]
• Roget’s English Words and Phrases, [7]
• Ronald’s Fly-Fisher’s Entomology, [27]
• Rose’s Ignatius Loyola, [2]
• Rothschild’s Israelites, [20]
• Rowton’s Debater, [7]
• Russell’s Pau and the Pyrenees, [22]
• Sandars’s Justinian’s Institutes, [5]
• Savile on the Truth of the Bible, [19]
• Schallen’s Spectrum Analysis, [11]
• Scott’s Lectures on the Fine Arts, [15]
• —— Albert Durer, [16]
• Seebohm’s Oxford Reformers of 1498, [2]
• Sewell’s After Life, [24]
• —— Amy Herbert, [24]
• —— Cleve Hall, [24]
• —— Earl’s Daughter, [24]
• —— Examination for Confirmation, [21]
• —— Experience of Life, [24]
• —— Gertrude, [24]
• —— Giant, [25]
• —— Glimpse of the World, [24]
• —— History of the Early Church, [3]
• —— Ivors, [24]
• —— Journal of a Home Life, [24]
• —— Katharine Ashton, [24]
• —— Laneton Parsonage, [24]
• —— Margaret Percival, [24]
• —— Passing Thoughts on Religion, [21]
• —— Poems of Bygone Years, [26]
• —— Preparations for Communion, [21]
• —— Principles of Education, [21]
• —— Readings for Confirmation, [21]
• —— Readings for Lent, [21]
• —— Tales and Stories, [21]
• —— Thoughts for the Age, [21]
• —— Ursula, [21]
• —— Thoughts for the Holy Week, [21]
• Shipley’s Four Cardinal Virtues, [21]
• —— Invocation of Saints, [22]
• Short’s Church History, [4]
• Smart’s Walker’s Dictionary, [8]
• Smith’s (V.) Bible and Popular Theology, [19]
• —— (J.) Paul’s Voyage and Shipwreck, [20]
• —— (Sydney) Miscellaneous Works, [9]
• —— —— Wit and Wisdom, [9]
• —— —— Life and Letters, [4]
• Southey’s Doctor, [7]
• —— Poetical Works, [25]
• Stanley’s History of British Birds, [13]
• Statham’s Eucharis, [26]
• Stebring’s Analysis of Mill’s Logic, [6]
• Stephen’s Ecclesiastical Biography, [5]
• —— Playground of Europe, [22]
• Stirling’s Secret of Hegel, [9]
• —— Sir William Hamilton, [10]
• Stonehenge on the Dog, [27]
• ——- on the Greyhound, [27]
• Strickland’s Queens of England, [5]
• —— Sunday Afternoons at the Parish Church of a Scottish University City (St. Andrews), [8]
• Taylor’s History of India, [3]
• —— (Jeremy) Works, edited by Eden, [22]
• Thirlwall’s History of Greece, [2]
• Thompson’s (Archbishop) Laws of Thought, [6]
• —— (A.T.) Conspectus, [16]
• Todd (A.) on Parliamentary Government, [1]
• Todd and Bowman’s Anatomy and Physiology of Man, [15]
• Trench’s Ierne, a Tale, [24]
• Trench’s Realities of Irish Life, [3]
• Trollope’s Barchester Towers, [24]
• —— Warden, [24]
• Twiss’s Law of Nations, [28]
• Tyndall on Diamagnetism, [11]
• —— — Electricity, [12]
• —— — on Heat, [11]
• —— — Imagination in Science, [12]
• —— — Sound, [11]
• ——’s Faraday as a Discoverer, [4]
• —— Fragments of Science, [12]
• —— Hours of Exercise in the Alps, [22]
• —— Lectures on Light, [12]
• Unberweg’s System of Logic, [9]
• Uncle Peter’s Fairy Tale, [24]
• Ure’s Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, [17]
• Van Der Hoeven’s Handbook of Zoology, [12]
• Vereker’s Sunny South, [22]
• Visit to my Discontented Cousin, [25]
• Warburton’s Hunting Songs, [26]
• Watson’s Principles and Practice of Physic, [14]
• Watts’s Dictionary of Chemistry, [14]
• Webb’s Objects for Common Telescopes, [17]
• Webster and Wilkinson’s Greek Testament, [21]
• Wellington’s Life, by Gleig, [5]
• West on Children’s Diseases, [14]
• —— — Nursing Sick Children, [28]
• ——’s Lumleian Lectures, [14]
• Whately’s English Synonymes, [6]
• —— Logic, [6]
• —— Rhetoric, [6]
• Whately on a Future State, [21]
• —— — Truth of Christianity, [2]
• White’s Latin-English Dictionaries, [7]
• Wilcock’s Sea Fisherman, [27]
• Williams’s Aristotle’s Ethics, [6]
• Williams on Climate of South of France, [15]
• —— — Consumption, [15]
• Willich’s Popular Tables, [28]
• Willis’s Principles of Mechanism, [17]
• Winslow on Light, [12]
• Wood’s Bible Animals, [12]
• —— Homes without Hands, [13]
• —— Insects at Home, [13]
• —— Strange Dwellings, [13]
• Woodward and Cates’s Encyclopædia, [4]
• Yardley’s Poetical Works, [26]
• Yonge’s English-Greek Lexicons, [8]
• —— Two Editions of Horace, [26]
• —— History of England, [1]
• Youatt on the Dog, [27]
• —— on the Horse, [27]
• Zeller’s Socrates, [6]
• —— Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics, [6]
• Zigzagging amongst Dolomites, [23]

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