Ascalon, Cœur de Lion’s retreat to, 3, 17.

Asphodel, in Elysian Fields, 6, 8;
wood-hyacinths, the best English representatives of, 6, 7.

Athenæum club-house, sculptures on, 23, 5.

Author of this book, his given duty, 1, 5;
his political indefinableness, 1, 7;
his early life, 10, 7, 24, 6.

Aventine, Mount, at Rome, 21, 9.

Azario, notary of Tortona, 1, 9, 15, 11.

Baby-poisoning, 24, 19.

Badness (see Goodness).

Bagley wood, near Oxford, 6, 7, 4, 22.

Bakewell and Buxton, how reciprocally advantaged by railway, 5, 12.