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Ancient crypts, 9

Egyptian custom, 38
philosophers, maxims of the, 93

Anecdote of Sir Ralph Abercrombie, 8

Animal food, 91

Animals, effects of music upon, 99
Aristippus, remark of, 150
Art of story-telling, 232, 233
Artificial flowers, manufacture of, 244
Automaton Figures, I., 62-II., 69
Avoidance of vicious society, 21

Balance of advantages in different con-
ditions of life, 102

Bank-notes, invention of, by the Chi-
nese, 114

Banks of the Thames, I., 201-II., 225

-III., 233-IV., 241

Bejapoor, in Hindostan, 140

Belief in supernatural appearances, 38
Benevolence, 30

-spirit of, 60

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Friends, Christian consolation on the

death of, 190

Frugality the daughter of prudence, 196
Fruit, waxen, 227

Funerals in China, 112

Gamester, the, 236

Garden Herbs :-

I. Chamomile, 27

II. Rue, 117

III. Wormwood, 182

IV. Savory-Horehound, 241
Generosity and justice, 16
Gingerbread, 159

Glass, soluble, 183
Gloves, a brief history of, 151
Glue, on the manufacture of, 71
Government of the universe,
Grounds untilled and wits unrestrained,
196

Guyana, British, I., 177-II., 185-III.,
193-IV., 205-V., 217

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Maunday, on the custom of the, 133
Maxims of the ancients, 93
Memory, 181

Mind of man, perverseness of the, 78
Misapplication of the term "Con-
science," 248

Mississippi scheme, the, 13

Moderation in argument, 40

Moldavia and the Moldavians, 153

Months, Rural Sports for the:-

Moral feeling and cleanliness, con-
nexion between, 147

Mother's love, 110

Mount Ossa, description of, 73

Mouse-ear scorpion-grass, 224

M. Remousat and his children, 21

Mushrooms, 55

Music, effects of, upon animals, 99

Obstinate man, the, 232

Old English Mansions:-
I. Wroxton Abbey, 2
II. Knole, 90

III. Littlecoates, 130

Optical Illusions, I., 203-II., 229-
III., 235

Overland Journey from India to Eng-
land:-

First Route.-By way of the Persian
Gulf, through Persia and Russia,
to St. Petersburgh, 41

Second Route-By way of the Per-

sian Gulf, Persia, Armenia, Asia

Minor, and Constantinople,

Europe, 121

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