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Aberdeen, Brown & Co.

Alnwick, Smith.

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JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, WEST STRAND:

SOLD WHOLESALE BY THE FOLLOWING AGENTS, AND RETAIL BY ALL BOOKSELLERS;

'Cardiff, Bird.

Carlisle, Thurnam.

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Exeter, Hannaford.
Faversham, Thiselton.
Glasgow, Murray.
Gloucester, Jew.
Guernsey, Moss.
Guildford, Russells.
Hertford, Simson.
Hinckley, Short.
Horncastle, Babington.
Hudderspeld, Lancashire
Hull, Cussons; Goddard
& Brown.

Huntingdon, Edis.
Inswich. Deck.
Jersey. P. Falle.
Kendal, Hudson & Co.
Kettering. Dash.

Kilderminster, Pennell.
Kimboiton. Ibbs.
Kirby Lonsdale. Foster.
Lancaster, Miluer.
Iaunceston, Cater.

Edinburgh, Blackwood & Leamington, Merridew.

Sons.

Leeds, Baines & Newsome. I

Leicester, Combe and
Crossley

Lewes, Baxter.

Lincoln, Brooke & Sons.
Liverpool, P. Burns.
Llandovery, Rees.
London, Berger.
Long Sutton. Swain.
Lyme Regis. Dunster.
Lunn, Smith.
Manchester, Bancks and
Co.: Simms,
March, Sarjeant.
Maryport. Adair.
Merthyr Tydvil, White.
Midlewich, Lindop.
Monmouth Heath.
Neath. Hayward.
Newark, Ridge.
Newcastle-on Tune. Finlay
and Co.; Currie and
Bowman.

Northamp.on, Birdsall.

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Berlin, A. Asher.Hamburg, Perthes & Besser-Leipsic, Black & Armstrong, (of London.)-St. Petersburgh, A. Asher,
United States of America, Adlard & Co., New York.-Upper Canada, Rowsell, Toronto

M.DCCC.XL.

NAMES

TO THE

AND SUBJECTS IN THE SIXTEENTH

VOLUME.

ABBEY Church. Tewkesbury, 73
Abbey, Kirkstall, Yorkshire, 47
Abercrombie, Dr., selections from, 53,
91, 131

Accountability of Man, 219 Acquaintance with God, consequences of, 136

Adare, Limerick, town of, 225 Addison, selections from, 27, 72 Advertisements of Sir T. Smith, 175 Age, information derived from, 91 Agent, responsibility of an, 227 Algiers, some account of, and its con

quest by the French, I., 33Description of the country, 33Sketch of its history, 33-Occu pation by the French, 35-Description of the cities and towns, 37-11, 81-Inhabitants; their

manners, customs, dress, &c., 83Miscellaneous observa.ious, 87 Almighty, protecting care of the, 135 America, sketches in, I., 117-11, 158 Ancients, ivory statues of the, 51 fiction of, 75

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and moderus, 139

Answers to Botanical Questions, 120
Apologues, two ancient, 67
April, month of, 132

ceremonies of former days, 139 Arabs, Algerine, description of, 85 Architecture, history of, 121, 209, 249 Artificial flowers in wax, 204

Arum, the common, 175

Assyrian architecture, 122

Atheism, remarks on, 175

Athenian story, 61

Aubin, St, town of, Jersey, 137
Axmonth, Dercn, account of the ex
traordinary land-slip near, 50
Bacon, Lord, selection from, 183
Banks of the Tamar, 153, 177
Bazaars, Oriental, 145
Beards, fashion of wearing, 110
Behaviour, propriety of, 24
Bible, lines on the, 131
Bishop, selection from, 119
Blair, selection from, 219

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Blomfield, Bishop, selection from, 206 Boua, town of. 82

Botanical garden at Kew, 240

questions, answers to, 120

Bowles, lines by. 19, 181
Brown, selections from, 14, 93, 173
Browne, M.A., Poems by, 174, 183

Burning glasses, on, 236, 245
Bycknacre Priory, Essex, 115

Calendar, the, 3

Caraccas, cow-tree of the, 229

Ca thaginians, Gelon's treaty with, 159 Carthusian monks, account of the, 201 Caterpillar, the goat-moth, 184 Celandine, small, lines to the, 46 Charity, lines on, 19

Charles the First, visit of Mary de
Medicis to, 76

Chartrense, visit to the great, 202
Chelmsford, Essex, town of, 149
Child, Mrs., selection from, 24
Children, value of devotion in, 27
Chili, South America, mines of, 133
China, XI., 141

Chivalry, anecdote of the age of, 135
Christian, the true, 119

Christian era, the first, architecture of. 214

Churchyard thought, 171

Cinquecento style of Architecture, 225
City of Washington, visit to, 158
Commerce, effects of, 120
Common yew, 239

Compasses, cn proportional, 196
Conquest of Algiers by the French, 35
Java by the Chinese, 143

Conscience. power of, 53

testimony of, the best Conudation of peace of mind, 192 Co is ant na, towu of, 182

Content and Discoutent contrasted, 110

Contentment, blessings of, 135

Contradictions. laud of, 6

Controversy, dangers of, 181

Cosmetics, on, 27

Cossack House of Lords, 148

Counsels of Sir T. Smith, 175

Country Maid and the Pimpernel

Flower. 203

Courage, anecdote illustrative of, 184

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beauty in, 104

Credulity and superstition, 181
Cretan and the Snake, a fable, 243
Cuckoo-pint, flower so called, 175
Cunningham, selection from, 135
Custom of making April fools, 139

Daguerreotype, discovery of, 71
description of, 79
Dartmouth, Devonshire, town of, 188
Davy, Sir H., selections from, 181, 248
Death, lines on, 14

Debts, on the payment of, 148
Deity, omnipresence of the, 45
evidences of the, 159
remarks on the, 173
Delany, selection from, 148
Demosthenes, account of, 155
Devonshire, Torquay, in, 193
Oakhampton, in, 241
Dickens, selection from, 228
Discourse on Geology, 11, 43, 53
Dodsley, lines by, 227
Doric architecture, 209
Dowling, Rev. John, extract from, 207
Drilling, on military, I., 18-I!., 55
Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 4
Duels illustrious murders, 62
Dugald Stewart, extract from, 46
Duncan, selection from. 172
Duration of the soul, 203
Duty of a good man, 234
Dyer, selection from, 104

Early gray hairs, lines on, 63
impressions, on, 46
Edmeston, lines by, 77
Edwards, selection from, 28
Egypt. sketches in, 130
Egyptian architecture, 122

Elgin marbles, description of, 217, 233
Enemies, on fergiveness to, 206
England, lines on, 91

Engravings copied by means of gal-
vanism, I., 219-II, 227
Envy, effects of, illustrated, 175
Epigram from Martial, 146

Epitaph on the poet Thomson, 43
Example, 112

Expedients to transmit knowledge used by the ancients, 219

Exploit, gallant, 63
Extraordinary land-slip, near

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Genoa, lazaretto at, 180
Genuine praise, how known, 248
Geology, discourse on, I., Nature of
Geology, 11-11., Heat of the
Globe, 43-III., Utility of Geo-
logy, 53

Germany, timber-floats of, 9
Gifts, new year's, 15

Gipsies of the South of France, 244 ·
Gisborne, lines by, 157
Glances at Railroad Travelling, II.,

161-Railroad locomotive engines, 161-London and Birmingham Railway, 162-Grand Junction 164-London and Southampton, 165-Great Western, 66-London and Greenwich Railway, 168 Glasses, on burning, 236, 245 Globe, heat of the, 43 Goat-moth caterpillar, 184

God, importance of acquaintance with, 136

-poem to, 238

proofs of the being of a, 159 God's mercies to man, 227 Golden rules of life, 119 Gospel, influence of the, 77 Government of China, 141 Grand Junction Railway, 164 Gray hairs, early, lines on, 63 Great pyramid, night on the, 130 Great Western Railway, 166 Grecian architecture, 125 Green, lines by, 135 Guernsey and Serk, islands of, 105

Hall, Bishop, selection from, 203 Hamilton, Miss, selection from, 53 Handkerchiefs, Bandana, manufac ture of, 91

Hankinson, lines by, 159, 206 Happiness, the result of various kinds of feelings, 14

Hawkins, Dr., extract from, 4
Heat of the globe, 43
Heaven, the possession of, the great

hold of a Christian, 222
Helvetius, selection from, 21
Herbs, on Garden, I., 22-II., 103-
III.. 187-IV., 195-V., 243
Hermit, story of the, 29

poem by Parnell, 30
Herrick, poem on the daffodil, by, 132
Herrings, migration of, 8
Hill, lines by, 119

Hogg, selection from, 203
Holland, Rev. T. A., poem by, 78
Holland, history of, 182
Home, Lines on, 45
Hopes of Youth, 103
Hour-glass, inscription under an, 43
House of Lords, Cossack, 148 ·
Human curiosity, illimitableness of, 63
Hurd, Bishop, lines by 45, 192
Hydrostatic press, description of, 68

Impressions, early, on, 46
Improvement, progress of, 16
Indignation and Pity, 111
Infancy, lines on, 181
Inquisition, anecdote of the, 219
Inscription under an hour-glass, 43
on a tombstone, 80
Interrupted meditation, 228
Italy, timber-floats of, 9
Ivory statues of the ancients, 51

Jackall and his friends, a fable, 55
James, selection from, 143
Jameson, selection from, 135
January, month of, 7
Japanese, religious opinions ef, 54
Java, conquest of, by the Chinese, 143
Jeffrey, selection from, 103
Jersey, town of St. Aubin, in, 137
Jews of Algiers, legend of, 86
Jones, Sir W., selection from, 227

of Nayland, selection from, 117 Jortin, Archdeacon, selection from, 192 June, month of, 223

Kaimes, Lord, extracts from, 14, 111 232

Kew, botanicas garden at, 240
Kirke White, poem by, 103
Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire, 47
Knowledge, principal end of acqui-
ring, 6

and pretension, 119

Knowles, lines by. 206

Knox, lines by, 136

Kreasote, properties of, 190

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Mace and nutmegs, on, 147 Mackenzie, selections from, 62, 120, 135

Man, presumption of, 227

accountability of, 219
varied powers of, 14

effect of external objects on, 21
Mansions, old English, 89
Mant, Bishop, selection from, 223
Manufacture of shot, 199

Marbles, Elgin, description of, 217, 23
March, month of, 93
March of time, 135

Marseilles, lazaretto at, 179
Martial, epigram from, 146

Mary de Medicis, her visit to Charle 1., 76

Mason, selections from, 45, 111, 119, 206

Materials for the toilette, VIII., 27

IX., 61

May, month of, 171

Medals copied by means of Galvanism 1., 219–11., 227

Medeya, Algiers, town of, 81
Meditation, interrupted, 228
Migration, remarks on, 205, 230
of herrings. 8

of birds, 230
Military drilling, I.. 18-II., 55
Mills, selection from, 135
Milton, selection from, 119
vindication of, 148
anecdote of, 159

Mind, a devout and undevout, 117
Mines of Chili, South America, 133
Mint, culture of, 243
Modern Rome, 156
Monitors, natural, 175

Monks, Carthusian, account of, 201
Moutesquieu, selections from, 139, 150
Months, natural history of the, I.,
January, 7-II., February, 45-
111., March, 93-IV., April, 132-
V., May, 171-VI., June, 223
Moral improvement, value of, 131
Moor, anecdote of a, 84
More, selection from, 75
Mothers, duty of, 53

synipathies of, 206 Murray, extract from, 230

National history, sketches of, 182
Natural history of the months, I.,
11., 45—111, 93-IV., 132-V., 171
Nature of Geology, 11

beauties of, 143

no magic in the works of, 208 Negroes in Algiers, state of, 84 New year's gifts, 15 New York and Philadelphia, account of, 57

Newton, Bishop, selection from, 120 Night on the Great Pyramid, 130 Nineveh, city of, 13

Nutmegs and mace, on, 147

Oakhampton, Devonshire, town of, 241

Ockwells, in Berkshire, 90
Omens, on, 95, 107

Omers. St., in Fiance, 17, 31
Opie, Mrs., selection from, 229
Opium trade with China, 142
Oran, town of, 82

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