A.

Abbott, Mr., The Little Philosopher,' Child at
Home;' Rollo at Work,' 'Rollo at Play,' 30. See
Books for Children.

Acland, James, The Law Craft of Land Craft,'
134.

Adelaide, Queen, sketched by Sir Astley Cooper,
304.

American Notes for General Circulation, 274. See
Dickens.
Anti-Corn Law Agitation, 134; its present state,
135;
history of the Manchester Anti-Corn
Law Association,' and of the National Corn Law
League,' 135, 136; number of magistrates con-
nected with the former, 136; appointment of del-
egates, 137; establishment of the Anti-Corn
Law Circular,' 138; progress of the Association,
and change of tactics at the downfall of the late
Ministry, 138, 139; violence of the League-the
murder placard, 140; the repeal of the corn laws
attempted to be made a religious question; the
conference of dissenting ministers at Manches-
ter, 140, 141; the late insurrection in the manu-
facturing districts mainly chargeable to the Anti-
Corn Law League, 141; frequent allusion, in
their proceedings, to the French Revolution, and
to physical force, 142; connexion of the League
with the operative Anti-Corn Law Association,
142, 143; object of the Anti-Corn Law Bazaar,
143, 144; list of the patronesses and committee,
144; Mrs. Secretary Woolley's circular, 145; pro-
duce of the bazaar, and its expenditure, ib.; pro-
ceedings of the League upon Sir Robert Peel's de-
claration of his measures, 146; conduct of the
delegates in London, 146, 147; union of the
League and the Chartists, 147, 148; violence of
the language uttered at the meetings at Manches-
ter in opposition to the Government measures,
149; failure of the Leaguers to rouse the people,
152; specimens of their agitation, 153, 154; de-
clarations of anti-corn law magistrates, and effects
of their declarations upon the mob, 156; proofs
that trade was improving at the time that the
League proclaimed growing starvation and mis-
ery, 157; resolutions of the Anti-Corn Law As-
sociations at the prospect of commercial amend-
ment, 157, 158; alteration in the tactics of the
League to rouse the people, 158; the meetings of
the 27th and 29th of July, 1842, 159; measures
taken to ensure the stoppage of the mills, 159,
160; progress of the outbreak, 160-162; effect-
ual resistance made by Messrs. Birley of Man-
chester, 162; real cause of the turn-out, 163;
evidence that the people did not sympathize with
the League during the outbreak, 163, 164; pro-
ceedings of the trades, 164, 165; conduct of the
mayors of Bolton and Stockport, and effect of that

B.

184.

Bees, interest attached in them at all times, 2; the
inhabitants of the bee hive, 3, 4; position in
which it should be placed, 4; localities to be
avoided, 4, 5; bees' pasturage, 5, 6; necessity of
not overstocking a district, 6, 7; floating bee-
houses, 7, 8; extent of bees' flight, 8; honey-
dew, 8, 9; bee-bread-wax, 9, 10; propolis, 10;
enemies of the bee, 11; their domestic battles,
12; management of bees, 12, 13; construction
of the comb, 13; advantages of straw hives, 14;
manner in which they should be treated, 15;
anecdotes of their anger, 15, 16; processes for
removing the honey, 16; means to be employed
for increasing the number of hives throughout
England, 19; the best bee-dress, ib. ; product of a
bee-hive in fourteen years, 20; bee-ringing, 21;
swarming, 21, 22; the queen-bee, 22; devoted
attachment to her, 22, 23; propagation of the
species, 23; tithe-bees, 26; length of life, 26,
27; massacre of the drones, 27; the bee not set
forth as a pattern in the Bible, 28; it is expecial-
ly the poor man's property, 29; universal love for
the bee, 29, 30.

Benton, Mr., Speech in the Secret Session of Con-
gress, in opposition to the British Treaty, 306;
character of Mr. Benton's statements, 314, 315;
his view of the Treaty, 319, 320.

Bevan, Edward, M. D., The Honey Bee, its Natur-
al History, Physiology, and Management,' 1;
nature and value of his work, 26.

Bill to amend the Laws which regulate the Regis-

tration and Qualification of Parliamentary elect-
ors in England and Wales, 261. See Election.

Blind, books for the, 25, 26.
Books, manner in which they are got up at the
present day, 226.

Books for children, 30; children's books at the end
of the last century, 30, 31; their defects, 31, 32;
state of children's literature at the present day,
32; fallacy of combining instruction with amuse-
ment, ib. ; exception with reference to works of
amusement blended with a high moral or intel-
lectual tone, 33, 34; character of modern scienti-
fic manuals, 34, 35; impropriety of appealing
solely to the reason of a young child, 35; Mr.
Gallaudet's metaphysical treatises, 36; Peter
Parley's works, 41; Mr. Abbott's, 43; Ameri-
can disregard of style and taste, 44; American
works worthy of favourable consideration, 45;
leading national features of Americans traceable
in their children's books, 46.

Borrow, George, The Bible in Spain,' 93; Mr.

Borrow's personal history, 93, 94; motives of his
journey to Spain, 94; success of his mission, 95;
a night-scene at Evora, 96; Druidical remains
near Estremos, 96, 97; treatment by a Portuguese
officer at Elvas, 97; the author among the gip-
sies, 97-99; a tender proposition, 99; interview
with a national guard at Jaraicejo, 100, 101; ride
with a Moresco, 101-103; a Spanish execution,
103, 104; Mr. Borrow's impressions of Madrid,
104; revolution of La Granja and last day of
Quesada, 105-107; rencontre with an old fellow-
traveller, 107, 108.

Bowring, Dr., his rhymes in the Anti-Corn Law
Circular,' 145.

Brandy and Salt, 46. See Vallance.

Brennow, Erneste Geo., De l'Organon; ou l'Art
de Guérir, 46; history of Dr. Hahnemann, the
founder of the homeopathic system of medicine,
52-54. See also Curie.

Bush, Mrs. Forbes, Memoirs of the Queens of
France, with Notices of the Royal Favourites,'
236; the modern readers at the British Museum,
ib.; the three classes of translators, 236, 237;
the class to which Mrs. Bush belongs, 237; spe-
cimens of her ignorance, 237, 238; offensive
materials in her book, 238.

C.

Cass, General, his proceedings in respect to the
right of search treaty, 312, 313; ignorance as to
the American recognition of the right of search
question in 1824, 320, 321.

Catechising, parochial, 184; model of the Chris-

tian Catechesis, ib.; rules of the reformed church
on this subject, 185; effect of the great extent of
modern preaching, ib.; the Bishop of Exeter's
charge, 185, 186; preaching defined, 186; preach-
ing as distinguished from catechising, ib. ; period
of the introduction of the former, 186, 187; dif-
ficulty of enforcing a general system of catechis-
ing, 187; its importance, 188, 189; the two
methods of appreciating sermons, 190; necessity
of simplicity of language in sermons for rural con-
gregations, 191; suggestions to catechists, 192.
Chadwick, Mr. Edward, 229. See Labouring Class-

of the benefits derived by visitors to the German
baths, 56.

Condé, the Great, 59. See Mahon.
Cooper, Bransby B., Life of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart.,
289; parentage, ib.; boyhood, 290; first love,
291; apprentice to Mr. Cline, 292; Cooper at
Edinburgh, 293; demonstrator at St. Thomas's
Hospital, ib.; marriage-the wedding trip, 294;
professor at the College of Surgeons-rapid ad-
vancement, 295; surgeon to Guy's-renunciation
of his democratic principles, 296; succeeds Cline
at St. Mary Axe, ib.; fees from the city mer-
chants, 296, 297; Drs. Currie, Fordyce, and
Matthew Baillie, 297; the studio at St. Mary
Axe, 298; body-snatchers, 298, 299; amount of
his fees in 1815-arrangements for receiving and
visiting his patients, 299, 300; relaxations, 301;
mental qualifications, ib.; established in New
street, Spring Gardens, 302; intercourse with
George IV.-created a baronet, ib.; his sketches
of the king, 302, 303; of Queen Adelaide, 304;
Sir John Leach, when operated on for the stone,
ib.; Sir Astley becomes the purchaser of an estate
and a successful farmer, 304, 305; his battues,
305; retirement from, and resumption of the pro-
fession, ib.; death, 306; character, ib.

Cotton, Wm. Charles, M. A., My Bee-book,' 1;
his plan for removing the honey without destroy-
ing the bees, 16; qualities of his book, 17; his
present profession, ib.

Curie, P., M.D., Principles of Homœopathy-prae-
tice of Homœopathy, 46; its fundamental princi-
ple, 52; Hahnemann's classification of disease,
and nature of the experiments upon which it is
founded, 53; infinitesimal divisions of medicines,
54.

D.

Dickens, Charles, American Notes for General Cir-
culation,' 274; causes of the morbid sensibility of
Americans to the opinions of English visitors, 274,
275; difference in the importance of the criti-
cisms of Frenchmen and English writers, 275;
Mr. Dickens's previous authorship, 275, 276;
anticipated effect of this work, 276; its character,
and causes of its failure, 276, 277; synopsis of
the topics treated in the first half of the first vol-
ume, 277; space occupied in his descriptions of
New York and Boston, ib.; absence of all topics
of general interest, 278; specimen of his misplaced
pleasantry, ib.; reasons why he should not have
written a book of travels, 279; specimen of the
better portion of the work, 279, 280; American
curiosity as to Boz, 280; effective scene of indi-
vidual character-the Brown Forester of the Mis-
sissippi, 280, 281; discrepancies between Mr.
Dickens's general and individual descriptions of
American manners and character, 281; hotels
and steam-boats, ib.; steam-boat dinners, 281,
282; disgusting prevalence of spitting, 282;
causes of this and of other offensive habits, 283;
Mr. Dickens on domestic slavery, 284; assassi-
nation, ib.; his opinion as to the sources of Ame-
rich national defects, 284; their three leading
characteristics, ib.; effect of the despot democra-
cy upon the advance of civilisation in America,
285; Mr. Mann's anniversary oration, 286.

E.

Edwards, Rev. Henry, Union, the Patriot's Watch-
word on the present crisis,' 134.
Election Committees and Registration of Electors,
261; history of the jurisdiction of the House of
Commons over the return of writs, 261, 262; in-

troduction of Mr. Grenville's bill, 262; failure of
all legislation upon this subject, ib.; nature of
election committees-contrast between them and
juries, 262, 263; practical operation of the union
of judge and jury, 263; defects of an election
committee as a court, 263, 264; amalgamation of
the two separate branches of judicature assigned
to it, 264; attempt of the legislature to make it
work more smoothly, 265; practical difficulties in
consequence of the Reform Act, 265, 266: object
of the proposed bill for the amendment of the law
for the registration of electors, 266; alterations in
the present forms considered, ib.; intended me-
thod of paying the revising barristers, 266, 267;
main defect of the system of registration proposed
in the bill, 267; illustration of its inapplicability
to the city of London, 267-269; the court of ap-
peal, 269; appointment and condition of the
judges-powers of the court, 269, 270; inconsist-
ency between the proposed mode of paying the
judges and the revising barristers, 270; a better
and costless court of appeal already exists, ib.
Exeter, the Bishop of, upon preaching and catechis-
ing, 185, 186.

F.

Featherstonhaugh, Geo. Wm., observations upon
the treaty of Washington, signed 9th August,
1842, 306; Mr. Jared Sparks's discovery of
Franklin's map, marking the American and Ca-
nadian boundary intended by the treaty of 1783,
316; Mr. Featherstonhaugh's plea of Mr. Web-
ster's want of faith examined, 317.

Feldman, J. C., M.D., Quacks and Quackery Un-
masked, 46; the Doctor's method of administer-
ing drugs, 55; his impressions as to the efficacy
of the cold water system, ib.

Frere, Mr. Henry, his books for the blind, 26.
Fronde, the, 70. See Mahon.

G.

Sundays, ib.; Lord John Manners' 'Plea for Na-
tional Holidays,' 215.

Handley Cross, or the Spa Hunt,' 215; interest
attached to the sporting of London citizens, ib. ;
London sportsmen and sporting men, 215, 216;
the sporting tiger, steeple-chase and hurdle-race
riders, 216, 217; the Epping hunt, 217; Parson
Harvey of Pimlico,' 217, 218; an economical
method of keeping hounds and hunters, 218; the
author not a plagiarist of Boz, ib.; history of the
Handley Cross Spa, 219; its doctors, 219, 220;
the master of the ceremonies, 220; Mr. Jorrocks
appointed master of the hounds, ib.; h s arrival
at Handley Cross and inaugural address, 221,
222; answers to his advertisement for a hunts-
man, 222, 223; a scene in the harness-room, 223,
224; Mr. Jorrocks and the ex-president of the
Geological Society, 225.

Hives, 4. See Bees.

Honey-bee and bee-books, 1. See Bees.
Huber's Natural History of the Honey-bee,' 1;
birth and early blindness, 24; marriage, ib.; ac-
curacy of his researches, 25.

Hugo, Victor, Le Rhin, 175; contrast between the
mediæval and present navigation of that river,
175, 176; the author at Andernach, 179; Laach,
176, 177; Marksburg, ib.; Lorch-a fire-scene,
177, 178; Mayence-the Dom, 178; tombs of the
archbishop-electors, 179; their extinction, 179,
180; the astrologer's prophecy, 180; Cologne-
the Hotel de Ville-the Dom, 180, 181; history
of the latter, 181; means adopted for completing
it, 181, 182; its progress since 1509, 182; object
of M. Hugo's work, 183; present state of politi-
cal opinion in Germany, 183, 184.
Huish, Robert, a Treatise on the Nature, Economy,
and Practical Management of Bees,' 1.
Hydropathy, 46. See Claridge.

·

J.

K.

George IV., 302. See Cooper.

Glasgow, part of its population the most wretched
in Great Britain, 233.

Goodrich, Mr., 41. See Peter Parley.

Hahnemann, Dr, 52.

H.

Hampson, R. T., Medii Ævi Kalendarium,' 208;
plan of the work, 208, 209; perplexity of inqui-
ries relating to historical dates, 209; Yule or
Christmas day, 209, 210; causes of the difficulties
in ascertaining particular days in the Mediæval
periods, 210; the two classes of denominations of
days, 210, 211; red-letter days in the present ca-
lendars that should be expunged, 211; value of
the old method of denominating days, ib.; for-
mation of the present kalendar of festivals and
saints' days, 211, 212; substitutes for the festi-
vals abolished by the Puritans, 213; practical
objects thus gained, 214; importance of national
holidays, ib.; the opening of museums, &c., on

Kalendars, mediæval, 208. See Hampson.
King's evil, number of persons touched for, by King
Charles II., 48; practice until its final abolition, ib.
Kinnaird, Lord, letter to the secretary of the Anti-
Corn Law Association, 135; inconsistency of its
statements with fact, ib.

L.

Labouring Classes, Report on the Sanitary Condi-
tion of the, 229; sources from which the facts
contained in the report are derived, ib.; the air
of London, ib.; absence of all scientific means for
its purification, ib. ; a London drawing-room, 230;
importance of remedial measures, 231; miasma,
ib.; its production by London churchyards, 231,
232; deaths in England in 1838 from want of
drainage and ventilation, 232; forms of diseases
caused by removable circumstances, 232, 233;
public arrangements external to the residences,
by which the sanitary condition of the labouring
classes is affected, 233; state of portions of Liver-
pool, Edinburgh, Stirling, &c., 233, 234; the
Foul Burn' at Edinburgh, 234; plans for the
disposal of the refuse of cities, 235; objections to
Mr. Chadwick's plan with reference to London,
236; privations of the labouring classes from want

of water, 237; effects of want of ventilation, 238;
effects of good ventilation in crowded places, 239;
over-crowding of the dwellings of the poor, ib.;
evils arising from damp buildings, 240; domestic
mismanagement a predisposing cause of disease,
240, 241; comparative mortality of the several
classes of society, 241; value and importance of
sanitary measures in prolonging the lives of the
labouring classes, 242; evidence of their being
short-lived, and of their physical deterioration,
242, 243; ages of the prisoners for trial at the
special commission in Cheshire, Lancashire and
Staffordshire, October, 1842, 243; characteristics
of the pauper children at Norwood, ib.; import-
ance of remedial measures, both in a moral and in
a pecuniary sense, 243, 244; advantages derived
from employers providing suitable dwellings for
their work-people, 244; consequences of paying
wages at public houses, 245; necessity of legisla-
tive interference, 246; steps to be taken in the
mean time, 246, 247; proposed machinery, 247,
248; character of Mr. Chadwick's labours in this
investigation, 248.

'Lays of Ancient Rome,' 249. See Macaulay.
League, The, 134. See Anti-Corn Law Agitation.
Ley, Rev. J., Documents and Authorities on Public
Catechising, 184.

Liverpool, number of inhabited cellars, courts and
alleys in, 234.

Long, St. John, his Medical Theory and Practice,
57.

Louis XIV. at the deathbed of his father, 63.

M.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 'Lays of Ancient
Rome, 249; difficulties of Mr. Macaulay's task,
ib.; probable origin of the early Roman history,
ib.; contrast between the mythic and heroic le-
gend, 249, 250; character of the poetic ground-
work of the early history of Rome, 250; grounds
for believing the existence of this poetry, 251;
prosaic elements in the Roman history, 252; evi-
dence of the existence of Roman ballad poetry, ib.;
manner in which popular poetry becomes history,
252, 253; causes of its extinction, 254; the Lay
on the defence of the bridge over the Tiber, by
Horatius Cocles, 255; self-devotion of Horatius
and his companions, 256; his reward, 257; the
battle of the Lake Regillus, ib.; description of
Mamilins of Tusculum, 258; the flight of the
Latins, 258, 259; the Lay of Virginia, 259;
style to be avoided by Mr. Macaulay as an his-
torian, 261.

Mackenzie, Captain A. S., United States Navy,
282, 283.

Magistrates, number of, nominated by Lord John
Russell in the anti-corn law, and other districts,

137.

Mahon, Viscount, Essai sur la Vie du Grand
Conde,' 59; his Lordship's motive for writing the
work in French, ib.; titles and pedigree of the
Condé family, 60; birth and boyhood of Louis,
the great Condé, 60, 61; his first appearance at
court, 61; his first appointment and campaign,
62; marriage, ib.; appointed to the command of
the army on the Flemish frontier, 63; gains the
victory of Rocroy, 64; reception upon his return
to Paris, ib.; gains the battles of Fribourg and
Nordlingen, 65, 66; his neglect of his wife, 66;
conquest of Dunkirk, 67; death of his father, ib.;
his Spanish campaign of 1647, 68; of 1648, on
the Scheldt, ib.; the Fronde, 69; position of par-
ties at its commencement, 69, 70; origin of the
term, 70; Condé detached from the Parliament

chiefs, 71; divisions in his family, 72; rupture
with Mazarin, ib.; imprisoned in Vincennes, 73;
defeat of Mazarin's attempts to arrest the Prin-
cess de Condé and her son, 74, 75; opposition to
Mazarin at Bourdeaux, 75; analogy between the
events in that city in 1650 and 1815, 76; failure
of an attempt for the escape of Condé from Vin-
cennes, 77; causes of the termination of the
siege of Bourdeaux, 77, 78; the Princess de
Condé's interview with the Queen Regent, 78,
79; effects of the battle of Rhetel, 79; release
of Condé, 79, 80; state of parties shortly after
this event, 80, 81; flight of Condé from Paris,
81; proceedings at Bourdeaux, 82; Mazarin's
efforts in opposition to Condé, 82, 83; Turenne's
invasion-his and Condé's alternate defeat and
success at Orleans, 83, 84; their march to Paris,
84; battle before the Porte St. Antoine, 84, 85;
slaughter of the magistrates of Paris, 86; fatal
blow to Condé's power, ib.; complete success of
Mazarin's policy, 86, 87; Condé in arms against
France, 87; his attainder removed, 88; in re-
tirement, 88, 89; obtains a lettre de cachet to
imprison the Princess, ib.; Condé in the cam-
paigns of 1673 and 1674, 91; death, 92.

Mann, Horace, an oration delivered before the
authorities of the city of Boston, 4th July, 1842,
286; Mr. Mann's views as to government, ib.;
causes of the complexity of the American govern-
ment, ib.; his exposure of the means by which it
is constituted, 287; universal suffrage-the bal-
lot system as it works in America, ib.; fearful
state of society in the United States, 287, 288;
Mr. Mann's proposed remedies, 288.
Manners, Lord John, Plea for National Holidays,'
215; character of the work, ib.
Mazarin, Cardinal, 62, 63. See Mahon.
Medical Profession, nature of the bill for the regu-
lation of, intended to be introduced by Sir James
Graham, 58.

Medicines, quack, utility of several, 57.
Miasma, its effects upon the white population at
Sierra Leone, 231.

Milliners and dress-makers in London-their early
deaths, 239.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley-description of the
physician who attended her in a dangerous illness,
46, 47; her opinion of tar-water, 48; her expla-
nation of the reasons why persons have faith in
quackery, 56.

Mortality, excessive, does not diminish the sum total
of population, 241.

Mustard-seed, its history as a universal medicine,

50.