Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 150/Index

Access to Mountains, by J. Parker Smith, M.P., 259—Professor Bryce's yearly Access to Mountains Bill, ib.—restrictions of deer-forests, 260—the interests of sportsmen, 261—freedom in the southern Highlands of Scotland, 262—views of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, 263—the Scottish deer-forests, 266—due regard for the conditions of sport, 267—the Winans case, 268—is legislative action desirable? 270—the rights of the public, 271.

Across Rannoch Moor, 348.

Among Cottage People: A Rural Retrospect, 842—village school of the past, 843—education of the agricultural labourer and the franchise, 844—changes in dress, ib.—labour question revolutionised, 846—the John Cross agitation in Dorsetshire, 847—enclosing of commons a just grievance, 848—impending changes, 849.

‘Annals of my Early Life, 1806-1846," by Charles Wordsworth, D.D., D.C.L., reviewed, 712.

Army Reserve, The Future Rôle of the, by Major-General F. Chenevix Trench, 639—the question of recruiting again to the front, ib.—the problem to be settled, 7b.—the military authoritics and the, 640—method for settling the difficulty, 641 —employment for Reservists, 642—the Corps of Commissionaires, 643—rewarding soldiers with subordinate posts in the Civil Service, ib.—the combatant strength of regiments of cavalry and infantry, 646—the question of deferred pay, 645—difficulties of the Reservists in getting work, 646—neglect of the Reserve, 647.

Auld House o'Gask, the: A Sketch from Strathearn, by John Stuart Blackie, 692.

Autumn Lights and Shades, by A Son of the Marshes, 648—studying the autumn foliage, ib.—walking through birch-woods, 669—paucity of bird-life, ib.—meeting a keeper, 650—amongst the hills, 651—three miles of a country track, 652—golden-green moss, 653—herons at work, 654.

Black Stag in Monar, a: A Note on Stalking, 441 —every hill has its name, ib.—the old chief of Tomas, 442—a day’s stalking, ib.—watching deer, 443—exciting moment, 444—a mysterious miss, ib.—chase after a wounded stag, ib.—a council of war, 446—rifle-shooting delicate work, 447—second day’s pursuit, 448—patience about misses, ib.—on the track of the wounded stag, 449—a difficulty, 450—the stag got, 451—duties of the deer-stalker, 452.

Bryce’s, Professor, Access to Mountains Bill, 259.

Chronicles of Westerley: A Provincial Sketch: Chapters XIV.-XVI., 60—XVII-XIX., 209—XX.-XXII., 356—XXIII.-XXVII., 548—XXVIII.-XXX., 663—XXXI.-XXXII., 808.

Cookery, 166—its study, ib.—the Roman cuisine, 167—dinner in Catholic times, 168—a Tudor-period dinner, ib.—cookery in France, 169—gastronomic enjoyment, 172—Dumas’ gastronomic work, ib.—restaurants in the nineteenth century, 173—decline and fall of French cookery, ib.—dining establishments in London, 175—short-comings of English cookery, ib.—food of soldiers in the Crimea, 176—recent improvements in cooking, 177.

Country Town, a, by Annie S. Swan, 436.

Current Influences of Foreign Politics, by KTPIOΣ, 461—renewal of the Triple Alliance, ib.—policy of Bismarck, 462—changes in German policy consequent on the retirement of Bismarck, 463—Bismarck’s ill-will to Great Britain, 465—relations between Germany and Italy, ib.—Hungarian denunciations of German influence, 466—restlessness of the Russian character, ib.—dangerous influences at work in Russia, 468—Russian aims in Asia, 469—Russia’s danger its poverty-stricken peasantry, 470—relations of Russia and Turkey, ib.—present position in Turkey unsatisfactory, 471—position in India and Egypt, 472—Russian and French misrepresentation of England, ib.—the passage of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, 474—Austria and her connection with Turkey, 475—disadvantage of Bulgaria, 476—unsatisfactory financial condition of Italy, 477— ​Italian enterprise in the Red Sea, 478—position of France, ib.—increasing political importance of Spain, 479—condition of China, 480—Persia and Afghanistan, ib.—armaments and general resources of the European powers, 481—German, Austrian, and Russian armies, 481 et seq.

Danovitch: A Russian Romance, 500.

Davos-Platz as a winter station, 525.

Day's Raid into Northumberland, a, by Professor John Veitch, 80—the day’s equipage, ib.—the Black Dike and its problem, ib.—“Busy Gap,” ib.—tracing the Black Dike, 82—“the Queen’s Crag,” 83—a Roman road, 84—is the Black Dike a prolongation of the Catrail? 85—the Angles and the Cymri, ib.—the Halley Pike Loch, ib.—old Arthurian legends, 86—Sir Walter Scott’s legends, 88.

Diamond-Digging in South Africa, by Lieut.-Colonel Henry Knollys, 317—bargaining with a diamond-merchant, ib.—visiting a diamond-mine, 318—passing through the tunnels, 319—dynamite-blasting, 320—preparing the earth for the washing-machines, 321—description of the pulsator, ib.—employment of Kaffir convicts, 323—value of the diamonds got, 324—progress of the De Beers Company, 325—system of native labour, ib.—fondness of Kimberley Kaffirs for cigars, ib.—ingenuity in concealing diamonds, 329—visit to a newly discovered diamond-mine, 330—the Beaconsfield Institute, 331—Kimberley town hospital, 332.

’Divorce of Catherine of Aragon, the,’ by James A. Froude, reviewed, 718.

Early Settlers in English America, 424—Raleigh’s syndicate to establish a colony in Virginia, ib.—the narratives of early adventurers, 425—Colonel Norwood’s experiences, 426—Indian cookery and Indian larders, 429—the Virginian colonists, 430—settlement of New England, 431—the Pilgrim Fathers, 433—encounter with the Indians, 434.

Egyptians, the, and the Occupation, 696—contrast between ancient and modern Egypt, ib.—the country in 1882, 697—sufferings of the peasantry, 698—the hands of the Khedive tied, 699—Britain undertakes the work of reforming Egypt, 700—the character of the Egyptian of to-day, 701—English held in honour, 703—abolition of forced labour, 704—doings of the European-protected subjects, 705—prosperity of the country, 707—construction of dams across the Nile, 70,—efforts to extend the irrigation of the country, 709—Mr Gladstone and the occupation, 710.

“Elegie, the,” 613.

Eliot, George, an Italian on, 867—her radically English character unpalatable to Latin minds, ib.—Signor Negri’s work on, 70.—apparent contradictions in her life and character, 868—her art essentially realistic, 869—profession of artistic faith, ib.—infinite variety of her works, 871—analysis of her novels, 872 et seq.—‘Middlemarch’ a work of pure realism, 876—her moral code, 877.

Elves, by Will Foster, 546.

Eton Montem: A Memory of the Past, 414—reminiscences of Montem dates, 415—quaint assemblage, ib.—the spectacle, 416—the captain of Montem, ib.—the collection, 417—the procession and the dresses worn, 418.

Eve of St John in a Deserted Chalet, the, by Frank Cowper, 21.

Francesca’s Revenge, by the Hon. Kathleen Lyttelton, 179.

‘Franco-German War of 1870-71, the,’ by Field-Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke, reviewed, 679.

French comedies prior to Molière, 490.

French Novels, Recent, 36 —L’Argent, par Emile Zola, ib.—Honneur d'Artiste, par Octave Feuillet, 42—Une Gageure, par Victor Cherbuliez, 46—L’Ame de Pierre, par Georges Ohnet, 51—Le Roman d'un Enfant, par Pierre Loti, 55.

Historical Clock, An, by J. A. Owen, 568.

‘Honneur d’Artiste,’ par Octave Feuillet, reviewed, 42.

Imagination, by Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., 576 —need of, by men of action, ib.—instance of second-sight supplied by, 578—inability to resist the temptations of fraud, 579—cultivation of, 581—influence of, on characters and lives, 582—Scott and Balzac’s power of, 583—vice of over-description, 585—the personality of Wallenstein, 586—influence of, with respect to heroes, ib.—capable of infinite extension, 587.

Imps, by Will Foster, 546.

Inglis, John, Justice-General of Scotland, 591—the death of the Lord President of the Court of Session, ib.—peculiaritics of the law of Scotland, 592—birth and early life of, ib.—becomes a Scottish advocate, 594—success as a lawyer, 595—appoinnted Lord Advocate and Dean of Faculty, ib.—the Madeline Smith case, 596—a forensic combat, ib.—appointed President of the Court of Session and the Justiciary Court, 597—his University ​Act, ib.—accepts high university honours, 599—his literary productions, 600—a land-owner and golfer, 601.

Labour, the Rights of Capital and of, 878.

‘L’Ame de Pierre,’ par Georges Ohnet, reviewed, 51.

‘L’Argent,’ par Emile Zola, reviewed, 36.

‘Le Roman d'un Enfant,’ par Pierre Loti, reviewed, 55.

‘Life’s Handicap: being Stories of Mine Own People,’ by Rudyard Kipling, reviewed, 729.

Lowell, James Russell, to, by W. W. Story, 589.

Lowell, Mr Russell, 454—the death of, ib.—characteristics of his essays, ib.—his hatred of politics, 455—a fluent and eloquent public speaker, 456—his poetry, ib.—delicate irony of “The Fables,” 458—the satire of the ‘Biglow Papers’ ib.—his home life, 460.

Ludwey's, Captain, Jump, by Dorothea Gerard, 537.

Lynedoch, Lord: A Historical Ballad,by John Stuart Blackie, 837.

Macbeth as the Celtic Type, by Moira O’Neill, 376—psychological characteristics of the play, ib.—types of the Celt, 377—vital imagination, ib,—mutability, 378—treachery, 379—eloquence, 380—superstition, 381—character of the Celt difficult to deal with, 383.

Macdonald, Sir John, by Martin J. Griffin, 157—his loss, ib.—political development of Canada, 159—Sir John enters public life in 1844, ib.—the provinces formed into a confederation, 160—building of the International Railway, 161—inauguration of the national policy, 162—likeness to Lord Beaconsfield, 163—Sir John as an orator, 70,—as a student, 164—his devotion to the Queen and the empire, ib.

Mnemosyne, by Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., 247—the harp of memory, ib.—aroma and smell, 250—power of sound, 251—delights of salmon-fishing, 252—an enthusiastic angler, 253—favourite pool, 234—effects of grief, ib.—what is memory? 256—art of remembrance, 257.

Molière's Débûts on the Theatre, by Henry M. Trollope, 486—expresses a desire to be educated, ib.—the vocation of an actor held to be an abandoned calling, 487—refuses the advice of his father, ib.—why he became an actor, 488—his liking for the theatre, 489—French comedies prior to Molière, 490—old farces vulgar, but full of vitality, 491—fortunes of, and his comrades in the theatre, ib. —the Illustre Théâtre, 493—the actors pitch their tent, ib.—fittings of the theatre, 494—success in Paris, 495—dancing between the acts, 496—removal of the theartre, ib.—law of dramatic copyright, 497—when he left Paris, 499.

Names in Fiction, 230—Balzac searching for a name, ib.—lady-names of romance, 231—sonme names of Dickens, 232—some names of Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot, 233—Spenser and John Bunyan, 234—comedy characters of Meredith, 235—names of medical men in romance, 236.

Negri, Gaetano, ‘George Eliot, La sua vita ed i suoi Romanzi,’ reviewed, 867.

New England Puritans, 823—men of the Mayflower, ib.—their credulous superstition, 824—character of the New England Puritans, 825—reminiscences of Captain Roger Clapp, ib.—aboriginal cookery, 828—expedition of Miles Standish, ib.—severe rule of the clergy, 829—theology of the Calvinists, 831—the devil on the rampage, 832—Cotton Mather and witchcraft, 833—trial of George Burroughs, 834.

Nyassaland, Dawn in, by Dr D. Kerr Cross, 657—Blantyre a healthy country, 659—growth of coffee in Central Africa, 660—rush for land. ib.—Chindi mouth of the Zambesi found to be navigable, 661—progress of, ib.—Europeans enjoy comparative health in Central Africa, ib.—under-populated owing to slave-trade, 662.

Old Saloon, the:— November: Annals of my Early Life, 1806-1846, by Charles Wordsworth, D.D., 712—The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon, by James A. Froude, 718—Life’s Handicap: being Stories of Mine own People, by Rudyand Kipling, 729.

Oliphant, Laurence, 1—conditions of his training, 3—his father, Sir Anthony, ib.—visits the Crimea and Sebastopol 7—summoned to meet Lord Raglan, ib.—goes to America with Lord Elgin, ib.—explores the Circassian coast, 9—joins Walker, the filibuster, ib.—with Lord Elgin in China, 10—enters Parliament, 11—seeking for a sign, ib.—joins the Brocton community, 13—pitiable life there, 14—the teaching of Harris, 15—love for Alice le Strange, 16—the Harrises in California, 17—breaks with Harris, 18—settles at Haifa, 19—his mystical books, 20—character and influence, ib.

‘Oliphaut, Laurence, Memoir of the Life ​of, and of Alice Oliphant, his Wife,’ by Margaret O. W. Oliphant, reviewed, 1.

Pearlin’ Jean, by J. Scott-Moncrieff, 67.

Peel, by Herbert Cowell, 139—his public career, ib.—views on currency and banking, 140—deficient in forethought, 141—the reform crisis, 142—ten years’ exclusion from office, 143—organised crime a weapon of party politics, 144—life of, to death of Canning, 145—education, 146—begins official life under Percival, 147—the Catholic question, 148—leadership of the Protestants, 149—efforts of constructive legislation, 150—presides over a currency committee, 151—career as Home Secretary, 152—Catholic emancipation settled, ib.—contemplates reaction in Ireland, 153—surrender on the Catholic question, 155—career of supreme power, 156.

‘Peel, Sir Robert: His Private Correspondence,’ edited by C. S. Parker, M.P., reviewed, 139.

Portuguese Republicanism and the Military Revolt, 856—republican movement in Portugal, 857—working of the present electoral system, 858—immense power of the Government, 859—masses without a voice in the aflairs of the nation, 860—military revolt of 31st January, 861—schism in the republican party, ib.—opposition to the revolt, 862—collapse of the movenent, 863—treatment of the leaders, 864—want of organisation the cause of defeat, 865—another revolt imminent, 866.

Protecting Colour in Animals, by Frank E. Beddard, 850—remarkable group of animals at South Kensington, ib.—adaptation to environment, ib.—colour resemblances and concealment, 851—tree-haunting animals and their surroundings, 852—green colouring and its cause, 853—protective advantages of colour to the iguana, 854—transparency of pelagic animals, 855.

Pythagorean Friend, My, by G. Dunn, 384.

Rannoch Moor, Across, 348.

Rights of Capital and of Labour, the, 878—conflict between capital and labour, ib.—attempts to equalise wages by enforcing shorter hours of labour, 879—product of labour lessened, 880—artificial methods for regulating labour and wages, 881—capital but surplus labour stored up for future use, 882—result of paying wages out of capital which is not recovered from labour, 883—adoption of a labour system which shall unite capitalists and wages-earners, 884—uses of combination and competition, 885—object of economic research, 886—the State and trade disputes, 888—wherein “profits” differ from wages, ib.—conditions influencing the rate of wages, 889—co-operation in production and its benefits, ib,—nationalisation of land and capital theories, 891—qualities which may be developed under co-operative production, 892,

Riots in China, the, 736—anti-foreign feeling of the Chinese, 737—treating China as a nation, ib.—the Chefoo Convention, 738—attacks against missionary establishments, 740—ignorance and superstition of the natives of Hunan, ib.—recent riots at Wuhu, 741—responsible conduct of Chinese officials, 742—Lord Salisbury on the origin of the motives for attacking foreign movements, 743—the Chinese Government not in earnest, 745—they evade the conditions of treaties, 746—Siangtan marked out for a treaty port, 747.

Riots in China, the Scene of the: Twelve Hundred Miles on the Yangtze-Kiang, by Walter B. Harris, 787—recent outbreak against Europeans, ib.—preparations for the voyage from Shanghai, ib.—the dirty river, 788—visit to Chin-Kiang, 789—travelling on the great water-way of China, 791—character of the villages passed, 792—homely odours, 793—feet of Chinese ladies, 794—Hankow and its trade, ib.—Chinese plays and their length, 795—navigation of the Han river, 796—Chinese secret societies, ib,—visit to a duck-farm, 797—voyage to I-chang, 798—the great embankment, 799—mountainous character of the country, 800—I-chang the terminus of steamboat traftic, ib.—a river junk, 801—crew of a junk, 803—scenery of the road, 804—dangerous rapids, ib.—use of “trackers,” 805—the Lu-kan gorge, 806—return voyage, 807.

Roadside Naturalist, a, by A Son of the Marshes, 114—ways of the fox, 115—love of polecats, stoats, and weasels for old hedges, 117—squirrels, 118—hedgehogs, ib.—birds of prey, 119—frogs and toads, ib.—crows, magpies, and jays, 120—ways of wild geese, 121—hedge-birds, ib.—moths and caterpillars, 122—fishing in mill-ponds and streams, 123—worms as bait, ib.

Russians on the Pamirs, the, 735—Russia’s recent eastward movements, ib.—designs on Eastern Turkistan, 756—the Pamirs and their relation to Russia, 757—Captain Younghusband’s ​explorations, 758—the Chinese claim to the Alichur and Rang-kul Pamirs, 759—English garrison at Gilgit, 760—boundary accepted by Russia in 1873, ib.—delimitation struggle regarding the Pamirs, 761—Badakshan and Wakhan and their position, ib.—controversy regarding them, 762—operations of the Afghan Boundary Commission, 763—the Upper Oxus frontier difficulty, 764—Sir Charles MacGregor on a new Russian frontier, 765—Russian diplomatic fencing, ib.—place of China with reference to Russian intrigue, 766—aggressive designs of Russia, ib.

Seal-Fisheries Question, the: Prospective and Retrospective, by F. H. H. Guillemard, 603—the Bering Sea difficulty, ib.—brecding-grounds of the fur-seal, ib.—the cession of Alaska, 601—prosperous days of the Russian American Company, 605—poaching schooners, 606—political history of the seal question, 607—change of front of the United States Government, 608—the real difficulty, 609—what steps should be taken? 610—the Commission on the Seal Question, 611—the fate of the fur-seal, 612.

Session, the, and the Government, 299—increase of verbose and persistent bores, ib.—work of the session, 300—the Tithes Bill, ib.—Mr Balfour's Irish Bill, 301—Free Education Act, ib.—attitude of the Nonconforists, 303—prominent action of Sir William Hart Dyke, 304—popularity of the Govermnent policy with the Conservative party, 305—division in the Home Rule camp, ib.—organisation of the Unionist party, 306—elasticity of the British constitution, 307—claims of the Salisbury Government, 305—the change in Ireland, 310—the Nationalist failure, 311—unholy alliance against the Government, 313—Gladstonian misrepresentations on Home Rule, 314—the duty of Unionists, ib.

Smith, the Right Hon. W. H., 749—his death and character, ib.—idea of duty held by, 750—contests for Westminster, 751—parliamentary career, ib,—appointed Leader of the House, 753—beloved by all, ib.

Songs and Ballads of Fife, the, by Æneas Mackay, 334—characteristies of Scottish songs and ballads, ib.—Blind Harry, the earliest Scottish poet, ib.—Henryson's allegories, 337—ballad literature of the Reformation period, 338—early collections of ballads, 329—the circle of courtier poets, 340—Cavalier aud Jacobite songs, ib.—authorship of Sir Patrick Spens, 341—characteristics of humorous songs prior to Ramsay, 343 —recent Fife songs, 344—age of song not past, 347.

Stalking, a Note on: A Black Stag in Monar, 441.

Telepathy, by Reginald Courtenay, D.D., 125—meaning of the phrase, ib.—mental sympathy, 126—telepathic action, 128—hallucination, 130—dreams, 131—dying man’s wish, 132—development of telepathic impressions, 133—complex cases, 134—a remarkable dream, ib.—intercommunion of spirits, 138.

Tobogganing at Davos-Platz, 534.

‘Une Gageure,’ par Victor Cherbuliez, reviewed, 46.

Von Moltke's Franco-German War of 1870-71, by General Sir Archibald Alison, 679—undertaken at the request of his nephew, ib.—style of the work, ib.—preparations for the campaign, 680—officers in German army allowed great latitude, 681—the excessive loss of officers in the German army, 683—the battle of Sedan, 684—situation on the fall of Sedan, 686—the investment of Paris, 657—the French people commence their struggle, 688—drawbacks of the history, 689—his strategy in the campaign, 690.

Winter Station, a, 525—the ancient town of Davos-Platz, ib.—journey to, after Zurich, 526—arrival at land of promise, ib,—invalids at Davos a minority, 529—life of the invalid, 550—sunshine in the valley, ib.—degrees of sickness and health, 531—uphill cure a mysterious remedy, 532—driving expeditions, 533—tobogganing at Davos, 534—the International Race Meeting, 535—skating, 536.

Woodcock, Snipe and Plover, by A Son of the Marshes, 238—the woodcock, ib.—the wood-pigeon and falcon, 239—varieties of woodcock, 240—the snipe, 211—food of, 242—the peewit's hum, 243—the jack-snipe, 244—protest against capturing birds and their eggs, ib.—the stone-curlew, 245—the grey plover and its breeding-places, ib.

Yangtse-Kiang, Twelve Hundred Miles on the, by Walter B. Harris, 787.