THE

ECLECTIC MAGAZINE

OF

FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.

OLD SERIES COMPLETE IN LXIII. VOLS.

JANUARY, 1844, TO DECEMBER, 1864.

24

NEW SERIES, VOL. XXI.

JULY TO DECEMBER, 1876.

W. H. BIDWELL, EDITOR.

NEW-YORK:

E. R. PELTON, PUBLISHER, 25 BOND STREET.

1876.

FAR FROM HOME.

THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.

EMBELLISHMENTS.

A. R. SPOFFORD, LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS.
THE DUKE OF ARGYLE.

AFRICA, SKETCH OF A JOURNEY ACROSS. By Lieut. Cameron. Good Words.........
A BAZAAR AND A PICNIC IN. By Lady Barker... ...Evening Hours...
AFRICAN Weather and AFRICAN SCENERY. By Lady Barker. Evening Hours...
AGE OF THE WORLD, MODERN PHILOSOPHERS ON THE PROB-

ABLE....

AMERICAN CENTENARY, THE. By Horace White.
AQUARIA: THEIR PRESENT, Past, and Future...
Argyle, The DUKE OF. By the Editor.....

Quarterly Review.
Fortnightly Review..

DR. PHILIP SCHAFF.

THE EARL OF DERBY.
GEN. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY.

Popular Science Review......

592

377

AUTOMATISM AND EVOLUTION. By Charles Elam, M.D.
BAZAAR AND PICNIC IN AFRICA. By Lady Barker...
BONIVARD, THE PRISONER OF CHILLON”.
BOOKMAKING, THE BYEWAYS OF....

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Fraser's Magazine..

..Macmillan's Magazine......

BRONTE, CHARLOTTE: A MONOGRAPH. By T. Wemyss Reid..Macmillan's Magazine..
CHANCELLORS, THE TWO: PRINCE BISMARCK AND PRINCE

FORSAKEN GARDEN, A. By Algernon Charles Swinburne.... The Athenæum..

FRENCH FORMs, Verses in OLD. By Austin Dobson....

GYPSIES AND THEIR FRIENDS.

HER DEAREST FOE. By Mrs. Alexander, Author of "The
Wooing O't".

HERZEGOVINIAN INSURGENTS, A LADY'S VISIT TO THE.......Cornhill Magazine...

HUNT (LEIGH) AND LORD BROUGHAM.....
INTERNATIONAL PREJUDICES...

IN TOWN. By Austin Dobson

ISLAM. BY L. Mason...

Kafir Weddings and Kafir KRAALS. By Lady Barker... Evening Hours...

Koran (The) versus TURKISH REFORM..

LITERARY NOTICES :

Fraser's Magazine...

.124, 252, 379, 507, 636, 764

...43, 181, 304, 462

328

164

318

303

754

586

214

688

358

Lessons from Nature, as Manifested in Mind and Matter, 122-Village Communities in the East and West, 122
-The Life, Letters, and Table-Talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon, 123-Stray Studies in England and Italy, 123-
German Political Leaders, 124-Transcendentalism in New England, 250-A Nile Journal, 251-Tarbox's Life of
General Putnam, 251-Words: Their Use and Abuse, 252-A Centennial Commissioner in Europe, 252-Centennial
Editions of Longfellow, Whittier, and Tennyson, 252-The "Little Classic" Edition of Emerson's Works, 252-A
Study of Hawthorne, 377-Revolutionary Times, 378-Men and Manners in America One Hundred Years Ago, 378
-Silver Pitchers: and Independence, 379-A Story of Three Sisters, 379-Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertain-
ing to Darwinism, 505-The Pilot and his Wife, 505-The Echo Club and other Literary Diversions, 506-History
of the Intellectual Development of Europe, 506 Giannetto, 506-The Mikado's Empire, 634-Fifty Years of My
Life, 634-Condensed Classics: I. Ivanhoe. II. Our Mutual Friend, 635-Every Day Topics, 635-Theophilus
and Others, 636-The Five Senses of Man, 762-The Fall of the Stuarts, and Western Europe from 1678 to 1697,
763-The Early Roman Empire, 763-Working People and their Employers, 763-Near to Nature's Heart, 764.
LUNAR STUDies..

MACAULAY, LORD. By Leslie Stephen...
MAGIC, NATURAL..

MARTINEAU, HARRIET. By Thomas Hughes.

The Spectator
Cornhill Magazine.
Chambers's Journal.
The Academy..........

Matter of Life, Studies of. By Henry J. Slack, F.G.S..Popular Science Review.

MERVAUNEE. By William Allingham...
MODERN WARFARE, RemarkKS ON.......

Cornhill Magazine....

Fraser's Magasine,

338

I

496

367

109

.349, 473

172

MODERN WARFARE, A LETTER on. By John Ruskin.... ..Fraser's Magazine....

301

Blackwood's Magazine..

540

Quarterly Review..

402

Evening Hours..

15

Chambers's Journal.

368

Fortnightly Review..

234

..Macmillan's Magazine..

59

501

445

30

687

PRIMAVERA. By W. W. Story..

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT, THE COURSES OF. By Right Hon. W.

Blackwood's Magazine..
Blackwood's Magazine..

SATURN'S DARK RING. By Richard A. Proctor, B.A., F.R.S. The Spectator
SCHAFF, DR. PHILIP. By the Editor.

SCIENCE AND ART:

The Rotation of the Sun, 124-Effect of the Seasons on the Body, 125-The Monetary Value of a Man, 125-
The Aurora Borealis, 125-Phenomena of Earthquakes, 125-Influence of the Sun and Moon on the Earth's Mag-
netism, 126-Strange Natural Cisterns, 126-Hermit Crabs, 126-The Plants of Guadaloupe Island, 126-The Lo-
cust Plague, 126-Discovery of Human Bones of the Jurassic Period, 253-A Musical Invention, 253-New Discov-
ery in Agriculture, 254-Return of the "Challenger" Expedition, 254-A Curious Phenomenon, 254-Discoveries at
Rome, 254-Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Stimulants, 254-Flower Colors, 255-Radiometers, 255-Cinchona Culti-
tivation, 255-The Moon's Condition, 381-Periodicity of Hurricanes, 381-Archæological Discoveries in Rome,
381-The Sun, 382-The Recent Transit, 382-Imitation Snow Crystals, 382-A New Method of Treating_Asiatic
Cholera, 382-A Fireproof Dress, 508-Voices of Animals, 508-Action of Cod-Liver Oil in Disease, 508-Govern-
mental Assistance to Science, 508-The Nationality of Copernicus, 509-Egyptian Sculpture, 509-Writing on
Glass with Ink, 509-Gases Contained in Meteorites, 510-Artificial Respiration, 510-Direct Proof of Evolution,
510-The Waves as a Motive Power, 510-Variable Stars, 637-A Solar Engine, 637-Proper Motion of Spots on
Jupiter, 637-Curious Incident in Natural History, 638-Influence of the Sun and Moon on Earthquakes, 638-The
Satellite of Neptune, 638-Density of the Earth's Crust, 638-Physical Observations of Saturn, 638-Celestial Pho-
tography, 639-Local Meteorological Laws, 639-Cosmic Dust, 765-A New Metal, 765-The Solar Atmosphere,
765-Elastic Glass, 766-The Eye of Man in the Future, 766-Domestic Measurement of Medicine, 766—Experi-
ments on the Periodic Waves of the Swiss Lakes, 767.

Family Likenesses and Vitality, 127-The Secret of Macaulay's Popularity, 127-How to Breathe Properly,
128-Winter Sorrow; Spring Sorrow, 128-Blackwood on Macaulay, 255-A Lady on Ladies, 256-Wordsworth
and Coleridge: We are Seven, 256-Bells, 383-Max Müller on Charles Kingsley, 384-Sonnets, 384-April: A
Sonnet, 384-The Color and Fragrance of Flowers, 510-A Polynesian Fairy Tale, 511-Chinese Funeral Notices,
512-The German Genius, 512-The Effect of Marriage, 639-Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," 640-How Hindoo
Girls are made Pretty, 640-A Suicide, 640-The Terrors of Death, 767-Pidgin-English, 768-Servia, 768.
VEGETARIAN, AUTOBIOGRAPHY of a..

YOUNG LADY ON THE APPROACH OF THE SEASON, TO A..... Macmillan's Magazine.
ZULU WITCHES AND WITCH-FINDERS. By Lady Barker.....Evening Hours.....