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.