INDEX TO VOLUME XLI.


[FRONTISPIECE:] THE LESSON.

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Agnosticism and the Religion of Humanity, Last Words about.
 By Herbert SpencerNineteenth Century [127]
America, A Word More About.
 By Matthew ArnoldNineteenth Century 433
American Audience, The.
 By Henry IrvingFortnightly Review 475
Ancient Organs of Public Opinion.
 By Prof. R. C. Jebb.Fortnightly Review [107]
Arnold’s Lay Sermon, Mr.Spectator 259
Art, A Few Notes on Persian.Chambers’s Journal 396
Authors as Suppressors of their Books.
 By W. H. Olding, LL.B.Gentleman’s Magazine 262
Automatic Writing, or the Rationale of Planchette.
 By Frederick W. H. MyersContemporary Review 547

Bank of England, The.

 By Henry MayFortnightly Review 679
Behind the Scenes.
 By F. C. BurnandFortnightly Review 408
Big AnimalsCornhill Magazine 778
Bismarck’s Character, PrinceTemple Bar 386
Blackstone.
 By G. P. MacdonellMacmillan’s Magazine 703
Bygone Celebrities and Literary Recollections.
 By Charles MackayGentleman’s Magazine [29]
Bygone Celebrities and Literary Recollections.
 By Charles Mackay, LL.D.Gentleman’s Magazine 165

Camorra, The.
Saturday Review
381
Coleridge as a Spiritual Thinker.
 By Principal Tulloch.Fortnightly Review 305
Comparative Study of Ghost Stories, The.
 By Andrew LangNineteenth Century 805
Comment on Christmas, A.
 By Matthew ArnoldContemporary Review 836
Concerning Eyes.
 By William H. HudsonGentleman’s Magazine 772
Corneille, Le Bonhomme.
 By Henry M. TrollopeGentleman’s Magazine 359
Curiosities of the Bank of EnglandChambers’s Journal 245

Day of Storm, A

The Spectator

786
De BananaCornhill Magazine 529
Della Crusca and Anna Matilda: An Episode in English Literature.
 By Armine T. KentNational Review 336
Democratic Victory in America, The.
 By William Henry HurlburtNineteenth Century 183
Dickens at Home, Charles.
 With Especial Reference to His Relations with Children.
 By his eldest daughterCornhill Magazine 362
Dress, How Should We? The New German Theories on Clothing.
 By Dora de BlaquièreGood Words 273
Duelling, French.
 By H. R. HaweisBelgravia 222

Economic Effect of War.

Spectator

846
Electricity and Gas, The Future ofChambers’s Journal [81]
Elliot, The Life of George.
 By John MorleyMacmillan’s Magazine 506
Emile De LaveleyeContemporary Review 205
Englishmen and ForeignersCornhill Magazine 215
Exploration in a New DirectionThe Spectator 689

Faithless World, A.

 By Frances Power CobbeContemporary Review 145
Folk-lore for Sweethearts.
 By Rev. M. G. Watkins, M. A.Belgravia 491
Food and FeedingCornhill Magazine 155
Foreign Literature Notes143, 284, 426, 571, 717
French Drama upon Abelard, A.
 By a ConceptualistNational Review 633

General Gordon and the Slave Trade

Contemporary Review

[92]
German Abroad, The.
 By C. E. DawkinsNational Review 811
Goethe.
 By Prof. J. R. SeeleyContemporary Review [16]
Go to the Ant.Cornhill Magazine 416

Hittites, The.

 By Isaac TaylorBritish Quarterly Review 545
How Insects Breathe.
 By Theodore WoodGood Words 401
In the Norwegian Mountains.
 By Oscar Frederik, King of Sweden and NorwayTemple Bar 521
Interesting Words, Some.Chambers’s Journal 826
Irish Humor, The Decay of.The Spectator 383

Jews, The Health and Longevity of the.

 By P. Kirkpatrick Picard, M.D., M.R.C.S.Leisure Hour 540
Johnson, Samuel.
 By Edmund GosseFortnightly Review 178

Laurel.

All the Year Round

804

[Literary Notices:]

 The Correspondence and Diaries of John Wilson Croker, 136—The Story of My Life, 139—Our Great Benefactors, 141—Life of Mary Woolstonecraft, 141—Principles of Political Economy, 142—A Review of the Holy Bible, 142—The Young Folks’ Josephus, 142. True, and Other Stories, 281—Noble Blood, 281—Prince Saroni’s Wife and the Pearl-shell Necklace, 281—Dr. Grattan, 281—The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book, 281—Katherine, 281—White Feathers, 281—Egypt and Babylon, from Sacred and Profane Sources, 282—The Hundred Greatest Men: Portraits of the Hundred Greatest Men in History, 283— Eve’s Daughters; or, Common-Sense for Maid, Wife and Mother, 283—A Review of the Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, 283— The Elements of Moral Science, Theoretical and Practical, 284—Episodes of My Second Life, 423—A Historical Reference Book, 424—Bermuda: An Idyll of the Summer Islands, 425—Elements of Zoology, 425—The Reality of Religion, 425—The Enchiridion of Wit: The Best Specimens of English Conversational Wit, 426—The Dictionary of English History, 568—Personal Traits of British Authors, 569—Italy from the Fall of Napoleon I. in 1815, to the Death of Victor Emanuel in 1878, 569—Harriet Martineau (Famous Women Series), 570—Weird Tales by E. T. W. Hoffman, 571— Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish and Sea Urchins, 712—Origin of Cultivated Plants, 713—The Adventures of Timias Terrystone, 714—The Secret of Death, 716— Greater London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, 717—Russia Under the Tzars, 851—The French Revolution, 853—Louis Pasteur: His Life and Labors, 855—A Grammar of the English Language in a Series of Letters, 855—At the Sign of the Lyre, 856—Working People and their Employers, 856.

M. Jules Ferry and his Friends

Temple Bar

753
Macpherson’s Love Story.
 By C. H. D. StockerLeisure Hour 790
Man in Blue, The.
 By R. DaveyMerry England 277
Master, A Very OldCornhill Magazine 601
Master in Islam on the Present Crisis, A.
 Interview with Sheikh Djamal-ud-din Al Husseiny Al Afghany.
Pall Mall Gazette 849

[Miscellany:]

 Heligoland as a Strategical Island How the Coldstreams got their Motto Women as Cashiers The House of Lords: Can it be Reformed? A Revolving Library A Child’s Metaphors Has England a School of Musical Composition? Booty in War Sir Henry Bessemer Some Personal Recollections of George Sand The American Senate Shakespeare and Balzac The Dread of Old Age A True Critic An Aerial Ride The Condition of Schleswig Chinese Notions of Immortality An Approaching Star Germans and Russians in Persia Learning to Ride A Tragic Barring-Out Intelligence in Cats The Migration of Birds, 858 Oriental Flower Lore What’s in a Name? Historic Finance The Three Unities A Sunday-school Scholar A Mahdi of the Last Century

Montagu, Mrs

Temple Bar

[85]
Mountain ObservatoriesEdinburgh Review [ 1]
Mythology in New Apparel, Old.
 By J. Theodore BentMacmillan’s Magazine 662

New England Village, Three Glimpses of a

Blackwood’s Magazine

[120]
Nihilist, A Female.
 By StepniakCornhill Magazine [38]

Odd Quarters.

 By Frederick BoyleBelgravia 648
Organic Nature’s Riddle.
 By St. George MivartFortnightly Review 591
Organic Nature’s Riddle.
 By St. George MivartFortnightly Review 763
Organization of Democracy, The.
 By Goldwin SmithContemporary Magazine 609
Outwitted: A Tale of the AbruzziBelgravia 667

Peking, The Summer Palace.

 By C. F. Gordon Cumming.Belgravia 373
Pierre’s Motto: A Chacun Selon son Travail.
 A Talk in a Parisian Workshop About the Unequal Distribution of Wealth
Leisure Hour 405
Poetry:
 Beyond the Haze. A Winter Ramble Reverie.Cornhill Magazine [84]
 Lord Tennyson. By Paul H. Hayne 520
 On an Old Song. By W. E. H. LeckyMacmillan’s Magazine 474
 Ronsard: On the Choice of His Tomb. By J. P. M.Blackwood’s Magazine 202
Poetry of Tennyson, The.
 By Roden NoelContemporary Review 459
Political Situation of Europe, The.
 By F. Nobili-Vitelleschi, Senator of ItalyNineteenth Century 577
Popular English, Notes on.
 By the late Isaac Todhunter.Macmillan’s Magazine 561
Portrait, The. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen.Blackwood’s Magazine 315

Quandong’s Secret, The

Chambers’s Journal

525

Rebellion of 1798, An Actor in the.

 Letitia McClintock.Belgravia 173
Review of the Year.
 By Frederic HarrisonFortnightly Review 445
Romance of a Greek Statue, A.
 By J. Theodore BentGentleman’s Magazine 499
“Romeo and Juliet,” The Local Color of.
 By William ArcherGentleman’s Magazine [67]
Russian Advance in Central Asia, The.
 By Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson, K.C.BNineteenth Century 721
Russian Philosopher on English Politics, ABlackwood’s Magazine 692
Rye House Plot, The.
 By Alexander Charles EwaldGentleman’s Magazine 249

Sand, George

Temple Bar

817
Savage, The.
 By Prof. F. Max MüllerNineteenth Century 243
Siberia to Switzerland, From. The Story of an Escape.
 By William WestfallContemporary Review 289
Sir William Siemens.
 By William Lant CarpenterGentleman’s Magazine 621
Sir Tristram de Lyonesse.
 By E. M. SmithMerry England 656
Smith, William and Shakespeare, WilliamSaturday Review 70
Some Sicilian Customs.
 By E. Lynn LintonTemple Bar [73]
Social Science on the Stage.
 By H. Sutherland EdwardsFortnightly Review 830
State versus the Man, The.
 By Emile de LaveleyeContemporary Review 732
Stimulants and Narcotics.
 By Percy GregContemporary Review 479

Thunderbolts

Cornhill Magazine

[58]
Trappists, Among the. A Glimpse of Life at Le Port Du Salut.
 By Surgeon-General H. L. CowenGood Words [53]
True Story of Wat Tyler, The. By S. G. G. 748
Turkish Proverbs, SomeThe Spectator 787
Turning Air into WaterAll the Year Round 536

Unity of the Empire, The.

 By the Marquis of LorneNineteenth Century 643

Vivisection, Scientific versus Bucolic.

 By James Cotter MorisonFortnightly Review 558

When Shall We Lose Our Pole-Star?

Chambers’s Journal

802
Würzburg and Vienna. Scraps from a Diary.
 By Emile De LaveleyeContemporary Review [95]
Würzburg and Vienna. Scraps from a Diary.
 By John Wycliffe: His Life and WorkBlackwood’s Magazine 224

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