NEW YORK: JAMES MILLER.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
Vipers and Snakesgenerally | 7 | |
White of Selborne on theViper | 10 | |
White of Selborne onSnakes | 17 | |
Snakes swallowing theiryoung | 23 | |
Snakes swallowing theiryoung | 25 | |
Snakes charmingbirds | 30 | |
Mr. Frank Buckland onEnglish Snakes | 31 | |
Mr. Gosse on the JamaicaBoa swallowing her young | 33 | |
American Snakes | 36 | |
American ScienceConvention on Snakes | 36 | |
Charles Waterton as aNaturalist | 39 | |
Romanism | 49 | |
John Stuart Mill:a Study. | ||
| His Religion | 69 |
| His Education | 82 |
| A Crisis in his History | 90 |
| His Wife | 97 |
| Mill and Son | 105 |
Simson’s History ofthe Gipsies | 111 | |
Mr. Borrow on theGipsies | 112 | |
The Scottish Churches andthe Social Emancipation of the Gipsies | 150 | |
Was John Bunyan aGipsy? | 157 | |
The Duke of Argyll on thePreservation of the Jews | 161 | |
Index | 171 | |
Appendix. | ||
I. | John Bunyan and the Gipsies | 183 |
II. | Mr. Frank Buckland and White ofSelborne | 187 |
III. | Mr. Frank Buckland on theViper | 192 |
IV. | The Endowment of Research | 199 |
FOOTNOTES.
[9] Dated 30th August, 1882.
[10a] Contributions to Natural History, etc., p. 158.
[10b] I have commented on the assertion of Mr. Groome, that “John Bunyan, from parish registers, does not appear to have had one drop of Gipsy blood,” as if that could have been ascertained from parish registers! I did not expect to find such a loose idea as that in the Encyclopædia Britannica, taken from a casual or stray contributor to Notes and Queries. But I find an English journal quoting it as a proof that Bunyan was not of the Gipsy race; and supporting it by Mr. Froude’s ignoring the question in his highly conventional work on Bunyan.—The Scottish Churches and the Gipsies, pp. 11, 52 and 59.
[11a] Mr. Brown objects to its being said that the English Bunyans could have sprung from Bunyans that left Scotland fifty years before 1548, for the reason that he finds men of that name in England, in 1219, 1257 and 1310. Thomas Bunyan, if he is correct in his information, says that the Italian mason of the name of Bunyan was at Melrose in 1136. The name might have had its origin in foreign masons called Bunyan, as there would be families of that craft, continued from generation to generation, during the middle ages, employed in church architecture all over Europe, including England as well as Scotland. I have not seen Mr. Thomas Bunyan’s information, as quoted above, called in question by any one.
[11b] Dated 6th September, 1882.
[11c] In an article in Notes and Queries, for the 27th March, 1875, I said:—“In addition to the investigations made in church registers, I would suggest that the records of the different criminal courts in Bedfordshire (if they still exist) should be examined, to find if people of the name of Bunyan (and how designated) are found to have been on trial, and for what offences.”—Contributions, etc., p. 186.