Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 152/Index

Agricultural Interest, the, and the Eight Hours Question, 432.

Ailesbury, Lord, the Jacobite, 18.

Ailesbury, Lord, implicated in Berwick’s plot, and the assassination plot of 1696, 34—his real share in the latter, ib., 35—surrenders, and is sent to the Tower, 36—released on bail, and leaves England, 37.

Alders and Reeds, 828.

Aldworth, Leaving, 768.

America and the agricultural interest, 438, 439.

America, Election Week in, 892.

American Employer, the Typical: Mr Andrew Carnegie, 556.

American employers and their work-people, the relations existing between, 556 et seq.

Annichiarico, Ciro, an Italian brigand chief, sketch of his life and character, 704 et seq.—pursuit and capture of, by General Church, 717 et seq.—his execution, 722.

Apulian Brigands, an English Officer among the, 704.

Army, Inefficiency of the: A Reply, 267.

Army, the effects of short service in, on its preparedness for war, 268—proposed localisation scheme for, 269.

“Association in Christ, the,” account of, 65, 56.

Bacillus of Love, the, 668.

Bentinck, Lord George, on the Turf, 627.

Bentinck, Lord George, a great gambler and keen sportsman, 628—as a politician, 628, 629, 631—his character as a master, 638—his exposure of the “Ruuning Rein” scandal, ib.—his melancholy death, 645.

Betterment, a question of, upwards of two centuries ago, 738.

Billiards, heavy losses at, in one night’s play, 414.

Bird's-eye View of the Riviera, a, 739.

Blackburn, Mr, his abilities as a chess-player, 414.

Boat, centre-board, advantages of, compared with an ordinary yawl, 368.

British New Guinea as a Colony, 82.

British New Guinea, description of, 83 et seq.—its insalubrity, 87 et seq.—indigenous resources of, 92, 93—may become a prosperous colony for its own population, 96 et seq.

Buccaneers, character of the, 845 et seq.—transition from, to pirates, 848 et seq.

Burma, the best route for the connection of, with China by railway, 356 et seq.—estimated cost of the proposed railway through, 360.

Burmese Shan States, the, large caravan traffic throughout, 361, 352—great advantages to be derived from the construction of railways in, 352, 353—physical geography of, 354.

Byways to Fortune—by Sea, 839.

Calcutta Chamber of Commerce, memorial of the, to the Government of India rearding the currency, 597.

“Camaron,” the, a highly esteemed shell-fish found only in Mauritius, 216.

Cannes as a health-resort, 774 et seq.

Capital punishment, antipathy manifested by the Greeks to its introduction, 58, 59.

Carnegie Mills, lesson to be derived from the recent wages-fight at the, 436.

Carnegie, Mr Andrew: the Typical American Employer, 556.

Carnegie, Mr, events in connection with the disputes between, and his workmen, summarised, 559 et seq.

Case for the Government, the, 138.

Charles I., his difficulties with the Scots regarding their religion, 812 et seq.

Charles II., Lord Ailesbury's account of his final illness and death, 23, 24—character-sketch of, 25.

Chess, as a game of skill, 412 et seq.—its high antiquity, 413.

Chicago, annual value of the provision trade of, 187. ​Church, General Sir R., his capture and execution of the famous brigand chief, Ciro Annichiarico, 717 et seq.

Clothes, 655.

Cookery, ignorance of, prevalent among the British, 190—meaning of, 191.

Co-operation, its effects on the worker, 446—what is implied in the term, ib.—wide extent of the principle of, ib.

Cotton goods, large consumpt of, in America, 10—export of, to European countries, 12—and to Australia, 13—reason assigned by the Manchester manufacturers for the decreasing demand for, in the East, 610—the real cause stated, ib.

Cotton manufacture, the, prosperous condition of, in Lancashire, from 1850 to 1860, 2—disastrous effects of the American war of 1862-65 on, ib. —present state of, 3 et seq.—condition and outlook of, in British India, 13 et seq.

Cotton trade, the, its worth to our country, 284—protective tariffs and, 286-288—and foreign competition, 288.

Criminals in Modern Greece, the Treatment of, 54.

Crown Princess Stephanie's ‘Lacroma,’ notice of, 121.

Curzon, the Hon. G. N., ‘Persia and the Persian Question,’ by, reviewed, 615.

Cyclone of April 29 in Mauritius, 342.

Davis, John, his polar explorations, 842 et seq.

Dead, the Restless, 789.

Decline of Lancashire, the Prospective, 1.

Defoe quoted regarding the great plague and the great fire of London, 739, 742.

Diet of the Lowland Scots in the last century, 483, 484.

Divination-Stone of Kâli, the: Love and Crime in India, 372

Dress, affectation in, 661—anecdote regarding, 662—beauty of colour in, 663—sudden variations in feminine, 664, 665—absurdities of feminine, 666.

Dress in Scotland in the last century, 481 et seq.

Eglinton, Lord, and Sir David Baird, pitted against each other in a champagne contest, 644.

Egypt, dislike of the French to the British occupation of, 316, 888.

Eight Hours Question, the, and the Agricultural Interest, 432.

Eight hours question, Lord Salisbury and the, 147—Mr Gladstone and the, 148.

Election expenses, extraordinary, 42.

Election squibs, specimens of, 689, 691, 695.

Election, the coming, duty of electors at, 154.

Election Week in America, 892.

Electioneering literature, samples of, sixty years ago, 38, 39, 41, 44-46, 51.

Elections, Old, II., 38—III., 348.

Elections, More Old, IV., 688.

Elections, the Results of the: the Situation at Home, 293—the Danger Abroad, 308.

Elections, the result of the, a national disaster, 293—cheerful view which may still be taken of their result, 294 et seq.

Elizabeth, Queen, the spirit of exploration and colonisation during her reign, 841.

English Officer, an, among the Apulin Brigands, 704.

English representation, a glance at the state of, 303, 304.

Enlistment in the army, Sir Linton Simmons’s proposal regarding, and its effect, 271.

Experiment in Holidays, an, 364.

Factories and workshops, American, rigorous discipline prevailing in, 558, 559.

Female Emancipaton, Manners, Morals, and, 463.

Fire, ceremony of walking through the, in Mauritius, 219, 220.

Fire, London after the Great, 736.

Food, our Foreign, 175.

Food, great increase in the import of, in Britain, 176, 184, 185—foreign countries opposed to the importation of, 177—cheapness, variety, and excellence of our foreign supplies of, 180 et seq.

Fortune, Byways to—by Sea, 839.

Fruit, great consumption of, in America, 186, 187.

Games, 406.

Games, Acts of Parliament anent, 411, 412.

Gardiner, Dr, the Long Parliament and, 804.

German alliance, the, Prince Bismarck and, 313—Great Britain’s uneasiness regarding, ib.—Italy and, 314, 315.

Gladstone, Mr, and Irish affairs, 138, 139—his inaccuracies exposed, 298, 299—danger to be anticipated in our foreign relationships with his return to power, 310-312—possibility of his non-interference in foreign affairs, 318—his Home Rule Bill, 452—the difficulties of his position, 456 et seq.

Gladstone, Mr Herbert, his complaint about the waste of time over Irish affairs in the House of Commons, 142, 143.

Gladstonians, votes given for, in Scotland at the elections in 1886 and 1892, 297. ​Gold Currency, India’s Demand for a, 597.

Golf, prodigious passion for, nowadays, 414 et seq.

Goschen, Mr, his skilful management of financial affairs, 145.

Government, the Case for the, 138.

Great Water-Cress Tragedy, the, 105.

Greece, ancient, extraordinary duration of the national festivals of, 410—unchanging character of the performances enacted at them, ib., 411.

Gutta-pertja trees, reckless destruction of, in Sumatra and neighbouring islands, 97, 98—estimated produce from, 98, 99.

Hamelin, the Rat-Catcher of, 491.

Hardie, Mr Keir, his parliamentary costume, 655, 656.

Hat, the “chimney-pot,” 655—Mr Keir Hardie’s contempt for, ib., 656—the parliamentary, 658—probable origin of its fixity in our scheme of costume, 659.

Hisser, the town of, and its mineral baths, 654.

Holiday, a, on the principle of co-operation, 364.

Holidays, an Experiment in, 364.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, his works reviewed, 194.

Holy Wazan, 419.

Home Rule, magnificent demonstration at Ulster against, 151—difficulties which Mr Gladstone will have to encounter in his attempt to carry, 304-306—two different kinds of, 451.

Homestead steel-mills, the, strike of Mr Carnegie’s workmen at, 563 et seq.—attempted murder of Mr Frick, the manager, at, 565.

Houses in Scotland in the last century, description of, 479 et seq.

Hurricanes in Mauritius, 222.

Hyétres as a health-resort, 771 et seq.

India, increase in the home and foreign trade of, 602—proposed remedy for the evils arising from the present defective currency of, 604 et seq.

India’s Demand for a Gold Currency, 597.

Inefficiency of the Army, the: a Reply, 267.

Insect-collecting, dangers of, in the Weald, 275-277.

Jacobite, Lord Ailesbury, the, 18.

James II. of England, his character and conduct sketched by Lord Ailesbury, 28 et seq.

Jesuits as slave-traders in Africa, 130.

June Midnight by Loch Brora, a, 101.

Kâli, the Divination-Stone of: Love and Crime in India, 372.

Kent, Mr John, Lord George Bentinck’s confidential trainer, and his biographer, 630 et passim.

Kezanlik, the rose-fields of, 650, 651.

Labouchere, Mr, and his party, the views of, 457.

‘Lacroma,’ Crown Princess Stephanie's, 121.

Lacroma, island of, description of the, 122—fearful catastrophe at, 124.

Lancashire, the Position of, 284.

Lancashire, the Prospective Decline of, 1.

Lancashire, the Remedy for: a Burma-China Railway, 348.

Lancashire, the climate of, favourable for the manipulation of cotton, 285, 286.

Land, waste of, for pleasure purposes, fallacy regarding the, 443—tenure and culture of, in Scotland in the last century, 474 et seq.

Lang, Mr Andrew, remarks on his ‘Lost Leaders,’ 400.

Lauderdale, characteristics of, by Lord Ailesbury, 20.

Leaving Aldworth, 768.

Light, in Lurid, 510.

Loch Brora, a June Midnight by, 101.

London after the Great Fire, 736.

London, high rate of mortality in, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 746.

Love, the Bacillus of, 668.

Lowland Scotland in the last Century, 471.

Lurid Light, in, 510.

M‘Kinley Act, the, 895, 896—effects of the “reciprocity clause,” 896, 897—prospective modification of the tariff, 906.

Mahdi, the, sketch of, 881-883.

Manners, freedom of, among young women of the present day, 468, 469.

Manners, Morals, and Female Emancipation, 463.

Mauritius as it was before the cyclone, 208.

Mauritius, Cyclone of April 29 in, 342.

Mauritius, the customs and amusements in, 212-214—cost of living in, 215, 216—the Creoles and the Chinese in, contrast between, 218, 219—ceremony of walking through the fire in, 219, 220—of volcanic origin, 226—great loss of life and property caused by the cyclone in, 342-345 et seq.

Meat, the preserving of, by tinning and freezing, 179—decline in the cost of, during the last thirty years, 186.

Melgund, Lord, his election for Hythe in 1837, 254.

Monaco, the principality of, description of, 785 et seq. ​Monmouth’s rebellion, Lord Ailesbury’s remarks on, 26, 27.

Nationalists, Irish, their support necessary to make a Gladstonian Government possible, 301.

New Guinea, British, as a Colony, 8.

Nice and its environs, sketch of, 780 et seq.

Nonconformists, Protestant, and Home Rule, 150—conduct of the British, towards Ulster, 300.

Novels, general ignorance regarding the sources of the titles of, 394—the use of hackneyed quotations as titles for, 398—striking similarity in the titles of many, ib., 399.

Nude, difficulty in painting the, 660.

Ohrwalder, Father, his ‘Ten Years’ Captivity in the Madhi’s Camp’ noticed, 875.

Old Elections, II., 38—III., 248.

Old Elections, more, IV., 688.

Old Saloon, the:— October: Two big birds, Mr Stevenson and Mr Kipling, 574—The Wrecker, by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, 576—The Naulahka: a Story of East and West, by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier, 583—Grania: the Story of an Island, by the Hon. Emily Lawless, 591. December: Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning, by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, 852—A Selection from the Letters of Geraldine Jewsburgh to Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Mrs Alexander Ireland, 858—Twenty-five Years of St Andrews, by the Rev. A. K. H. Boyd, D.D., 862—Across France in a Caravan, by the Author of ‘A Day of my Life at Eton,’ 887—The Three Fates, by F. Marion Crawford, 871—Lord Wastwater, by Sidney Bolton, 873.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, 194.

Olympian games, their sacred character, 410.

Orford, Lord, eccentricities of, 632.

Papuans, the, their character, 93 et seq.

Parliament, the Long, and Dr Gardiner, 804.

Parliament, the Long, its legislative achievements, 806 et seq.

Pastimes a necessity, 408, 409.

Pedlars, the perils of their calling, 840.

‘Persia and the Persian Question,’ by the Hon. G. N. Curzon, M.P., reviewed, 615.

Persia, Dritish interests in, 616—character of Nasir-ed-din, the Shah of, 618, 619—British and Russian policy in, 622—strategical value of the Trans-caspian railway to Russia in a contest with, 624.

Persian Problem, the, 615.

Plague, the great, of London, not driven away by the great fire, 742—Defoe quoted thereanent, ib.

Pole-traps, their use condemned, 281, 282.

Police, the Pinkerton, employment of, by Mr Carnegie during the strikes at his works, 561 et passim.

Poor, the labouring, condition of, in Scotland in the last century, 487, 488.

Port Louis, commercial injury sustained by, since the opening of the Suez Canal, 209—description of, 210, 211.

Position of Lancashire, the, 284.

Potato, the, introduction of, into Scotland, 477.

Prison government in Athens, great improvement in the system of, 54.

‘Racing Life of Lord George Bentinck,’ reviewed, 627.

Railway extension, necessity for, in India, 16, 17.

Rat-Catcher of Hamelin, the, 491.

Reeds, Alders and, 828.

Remedy for Lancashire, the: a Burma-China Railway, 348.

Restless Dead, the, 789.

Results of the Elections, the: the Situation at Home, 293—The Danger Abroad, 308.

Revenue, the, respective contributions of England, Scotland, and Ireland to, 301.

Richmond, Duke of, as a patron of the Turf, 641, 642.

Riviera, the, a Bird's-eye View of, 769.

Roses, oil of, manufacture of the, 649—the attar of, its costliness, 651.

Roses, the Valley of, 647.

Salisbury, Lord, importance to Ireland of his continuance in office, 140—conduct of foreign and home affairs by his Government and that of Mr Gladstone contrasted, 144, 145.

Salmon, tinned, enormous trade in, in British Columbia and the States, 187.

Scotland, Lowland, in the last Century, 471.

Shah of Persia, character of the, 618, 619.

Shereef, the Great (Sid el Hadj Abdesalam), of Wazan, sketch of his character, 422—and of his family, 75.

Shipka Pass, the famous, 652.

Side-Lights on Uganda, 127.

Silver-Fields, Tasmania and its, 494.

Singularly Deluded, Chaps. I.-VI., 155—VII.-XI., 319—XII.-XV., 538—XVI.-XVIII., 723—Conclusion, 821.

Slave-trade in Africa, the, encouraged by ​the Jesuits, 130—Germany’s attitude towards, 133.

Smuggling a hundred years ago, 850, 851.

Snipe and Tiger, 528.

Soudanm the Recovery of the, 875.

Sport in India, 529 et seq.

Strafford, Earl of, his violent policy with regard to the Scots, 814 et seq.—his impeachment and execution, 817 et seq.

Tasman, the Dutch navigator, his expedition in search of the “Great South Land,” 494, 495.

Tasmania and its Silver-Fields, 494.

Tasmania, the first settlement in, 497—steady progress of, 498, 501, 502—Victoria colonised by, 498—mineral resources of, 501 et seq.—climate of, 505.

Tattooing of the Tonga Islanders, curious legend regarding the, 664.

Tennyson, 748.

Tennyson and “Cymbeline,” 767.

Tennyson, Christopher North’s criticism of, in ‘Maga,’ 750, 751—Edward Fitzgerald’s opinion of, 752—his “In Memoriam,” 754, 755—his “Maud,” 758—his “Idylls of the King,” 759 et seq.—the last utterance of his muse, 765—should he have accepted a peerage? ib.

Tiger, Snipe and, 528.

Title of a book, of great importance to its success, 393—often an index to an author’s temperament and character, 402,

Titles, and a Digression—or Two, 392.

Titles, misleading, 400, 401—unclassifiable, 404.

“Towns, decaying,” in Lancashire, 8.

Trade, foreign, of Lancashire, arrest of the growth of the, 8, 9—diminution of, with India, 15, 16.

Transcaspian railway, the, strategical value of, to Russia in a contest with Persia, 624.

Treatment of Criminals in Modern Greece, the, 54.

Trees, general want of, in Scotland in the last century, 471, 472—reason for their absence, 473.

Trout, fishing for, at night, 832.

Turf, Lord George Bentinck on the, 627.

Uganda, Britain's title to, 127—important nature of Captain Lugard’s work in, 132 et seq.

Uganda, Side-Lights on, 127.

Ulster, conduct of British Nonconformists towards, 300.

Unionists, votes given for, in Scotland, at the elections in 1886 and 1892, 297—immense majority of, over Separatists in England and Wales, 301.

United States, the strong tendency towards protection in, from the time of Washington, 893—the election campaign of 1892 in, 897 et seq.

“Uno de Mille,” 370.

Valley of Roses, the, 647.

Villiers, Mr Francis, anecdote regarding, 640, 641.

Votes, high price given for, at the Liverpool election in 1830, 42.

Water-courses, boggy, a week’s ramble in, 833 et seq.

Water-Cress Tragedy, the Great, 105.

Wazan, description of the holy city of, 423—renowned for its manufacture of woollen stuffs, 428.

Wazan, Holy, 419.

Weald, in the, 273.

Weald, the, comparatively unchanged character of, 273—primitive customs still remaining in, 274—the farming class in, 275.

What Next? 447.

Whist, as an intellectual pastime, contrasted with chess, 414.

Wind, remarkable velocity of the, during the cyclone in Mauritius, 342.

Working man, superior position of the British, contrasted with the foreign, as regards food-supplies, 189.

Wrecks of the Bokhara, Roumania, and Scotch Express, Lines dedicated to those who mourn their Dead in the, 874.

Wren, Sir Christopher, his plans for the rebuilding of London, 739.