Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 153/Index

Aberdeen, an admirable nursery for sea-men, 428—its students in the past, 431, 432—its Spa, 434—the resurrectionists of, 438 et seq.

Aberdeen and Aberdeen Doctors, 425.

‘Aberdeen Doctors at Home and Abroad,’ by Mrs Rodger, notice of, 425.

Aberdeen, Lord, a "misunderstood" man, 703—his inability to deal with the occurrences which led to the Crimean war, 704 et seq.—his ineptitude as a leader, 707, 709—his distrust of the Porte and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, 708, 711—Sir A. Gordon's vindication of his policy, 711, 712—estimate of his Premiership, 712.

Aberdeen the Earl of, 702.

'Aberdeen, the Earl of,' by the Hon. Sir Arthur Gordon, G.C.M.G., notice of, 702.

Abernethy, Dr, story regarding, 438.

Addiscombe, insubordination at, 648—dietary of the cadets at, 650—humorous description of cadet life at, in 'Peregrine Pultuney,' 652—account of the half-yearly public examination at, 655—amusing story of two of the cadets at, and the Archbishop of Canterbury's rabbits, 656.

Addiscombe: The East India Company's Military College, 647.

Addresses, the genuine rejected, in connection with the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, their preservation and number, 742, 743—specimens of some of, with the authors' names, and remarks thereon, 743 et seq.

Addresses, the Real Rejected: A Chapter in the History of Theatrical Literature, 742.

Africa, West, the French in, 55.

Aigun, the treaty of, a master-stroke of Russian diplomacy, 642, 643.

Amur, the, Russian settlement on, 640—two things essential to the security of the Russian position on, 641.

Army, the, and Civil War, 764.

Asquith, Mr, and the Trafalgar Square meetings, 170, 171.

Athanasia in search of a Creed: a Dialogue, 196.

Athole, the Countess of, a reputed witch, curious story regarding, 886.

Australian colonies, the, discussion between the Colonial Office and, concerning tariffs and trade treaties, 791 et seq.

Balfour, Mr, disgraceful petition against his return, 320—his summing up, on the Unionist side, of the discussion on the Home Rule Bill, 780.

Basques, the, and games of ball, 752 et seq.

Beef, average price of, from 1866 to 1891, 25.

Bikelas, Demetrios, his 'Seven Essays on Christian Greece' quoted, 129 et seq.

Boar, wild, description of the, 268—hunting the, 269 et seq.—keen appetite of its hunters, 272.

Boars, Wild and Wolves, in Modern France, 262.

Bonny, the town of, described, 373—cannibalism and human sacrifices there, 375—trade in palm-oil at, 376—photographing the natives of, 381.

Border ballads, the, notice of some of, namely, "Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead," 871—"Lord Maxwell's Good-night," 872—"Kinmont Willie," 873—"Otterbourne," 875—"Edom o' Gordon," ib.—"Young Tamlane," 877—"Clerk Saunders," 878.

Bourbon, the House of, Two Princesses of, 800.

Bowles, Mr Charles, assistant-professor of Hindustani at Addiscombe, anecdote regarding, 651.

Bradbourne, Lord, the late, 474.

Brandram, Samuel, Master of Arts, 256. ​Brandram, Samuel, commencement of his career as a reciter, 257—his great industry, 259—Shakespeare his favourite author, ib.

Bruce's Robert, Heart; or, The Last of the Crusaders, 760.

Budget, Sir William Harcourt's, unstatesmanlike character of, 903 et seq.

Burma, the king of, and his wives, 660—deportation of the captive king and queen of, 669.

Burne-Jones, Edward: his Art and Influence, 861.

Canada, fishing for ouananiche (little salmon) in, 690 et seq.—ludicrous disaster connected therewith, 693—address to the Crown from, on the subject of trade treaties with foreign Powers, 784, 785—Great Britain's negotiations with, regarding her tariff, 787 et seq. demand of, to be released from the operation of certain treaties, 798, 799.

Chinese, the, as diplomatists, 646.

Christian Greece: Bikelas and the Maequess of Bute, 126.

Churchill, Lord Randolph, his criticism of the Home Rule Bill, 776-778.

Civil War, the Army and, 764.

Clairon, the celebrated French actress, 523, 525-527.

Colonies, Tariffs, and Trade Treaties, 783.

"Corrupt Practices Prevention Act," the abnormal strictness of, 312—disagreement among the judges as to the interpretation of, 315.

Councils of a Nation, the, 512.

Cran, Dr, of Tarland, anecdotes regarding, 435.

Crops, leguminous, the profitable cultivation of, 30 et seq. advantages of growing forage, compared with root, 35 et seq.

Crystal Palace, the, amusing adventure of the cadets of Addiscombe at, 657.

Culture, the Search after, 441.

Curlew, wariness of the, 394.

December, a day in the country in, 220 et seq.

Diary of an Idle Doctor.—III. La Madonna del Buon Cammino, 734.

Diderot, his criticism of actors, 531.

Dodds, General, the victor of Dahomey, 56 his first battle with the natives, 57.

Dougal, Dr, of Keith, sketch of, 435.

Dream of our Birth, a, 554.

Drury Lane Theatre, the, advertisement for a poetical address to be spoken on the opening of, 742—scene at, on the opening night, 746, 747.

Dudley, Lord Robert, rumours of Queen Elizabeth's desire to marry, 210 et seq.—strange death of his wife, 212 et seq.

EarlscourT: A Novel of Provincial Life, Chapters i.-v., 1—vi.-ix., 179—x.-xiii, 352—xiv.-xvi., 567—xvii.-xx., 713—xxi.-xxiv., 839.

Earth-worms, artificial, used as bait, 689—amusing trick played on a passenger with one, ib.

Egypt, legal reform in, 155, 156—police reform in, 156, 157 educational reform in, 157-159—public works completed and put in progress during the last ten years in, 159 et seq.—financial condition and prospects of, 162, 163.

Egypt, our Mission in, 152.

'Egypt To-day: the First to the Third Khedive,' by W. Eraser Rae, quoted, 153 et passim.

Egyptian mural decoration, 148.

Election cases, systematic corruption not proved in any of the, 315.

Election Petitions, 312.

Elections, Irish, part played by the priests in the, 318—improvements recommended in the existing law regarding, 324 et seq.—futility of Acts of Parliament to prevent the exercise of influence at, 326.

Electors, indifference of many, to the responsibilities of their position, 322.

Elizabeth, Queen, her position and that of Mary Queen of Scots compared, 209—enamoured of Lord Dudley, 210.

Elizabeth, Queen, Scandal about, 209.

Elk-hunting in Norway, 591, 592.

Empire, the Last Days of an, 658.

'England in Egypt,' by Alfred Milner, noticed, 153—quoted, 162, 163.

Euan-Smith, Sir Charles, appointed British minister in Tangier, 448—his negotiations with the Sultan regarding a new commercial treaty, ib. et seq.—and failure thereof, 450—his mission to Fez, and reception by the Sultan there, 451, 452—his mission unsuccessful, 452 et seq.

Evolution of Games at Ball, the, 751.

Experiences of a Woman Journalist, the, 830.

Farming, Profitable, and Employment of Labour, 24.

Fiction, Recent German, 87.

Florence, sketch of, in the fourteenth century, 328 et seq.—slavery in, 333—dress of the people of, 335 et seq.—sumptuary laws of, 340—the plague of 1348 in, 342—splendour of the nuptial feasts of her great families, 345 et seq.

Florentines, the Private Life of the Renaissance, 327.

Florentines, the, their love of country life, 349.

Football, peculiar game of, 758.

Forest-trees, beauty of, in winter, 221. ​Fowler, Mr Henry, his bid for popularity, 171, 172.

French, the, in West Africa, 55.

Games at the Ball, the Evolution of, 751.

Garrett, Mr G. H., account of his interviews with the African monarch Samory, 60-62.

German Fiction, Recent, 87.

Gilding, misapplication of, in ornament, 141 et seq.

Gladstone, Mr, and his changes in politics, 165—character of his present Ministry, 168—attitude of Mr Labouchere towards the Government of, 169—his Home Rule Bill and its uninviting prospects, 170, 459—his exposition of the bill reviewed, 460 et seq.—his provision with regard to the Irish members, 466, 467—his disdainful treatment of the Protestant and loyal Irish, 472—his arbitrary conduct with regard to the bill, 617, 618, 629, 771—character of his Registration Bill, 619, 620—and of his Welsh Suspensory Bill, 620—nature of his Local Veto Liquor Bill, 621—impaled on the horns of a dilemma, 624—his contemptuous treatment of the Irish deputation, 626—nature of his reply to the City deputation, 768—his speech on the second reading of the Home Bill criticised, 772 et seq.—his ineffective reply at the close of the debate, 781—his confused views of the supremacy of the British Parliament over the Irish Legislature, 912—his ill-natured outburst on one occasion during the debate on his Home Rule Bill, 910.

Gods of Greece, the, 383.

Goschen, Mr, quotation from his speech on the Home Rule Bill, 776.

Government, the, and the Country, 617.

Government, the, and Home Rule, 903.

Grain, average price of, from 1866 to 1891, 25.

Greece, brigandage in, 419.

Greece, the Gods of, 383.

Greek language, purity of the, 133, 134.

Greek mural sculpture, 149.

Gregorys, the, Aberdeen doctors, notice of some of, 437.

Grimm, the Baron Melchior, his opinion of French actors and the stage in the middle of last century, 522 et passim—and of some old French dramatists, 524.

Hamilton, John, Archbishop of St Andrews, details of his serious illness, and treatment thereof by foreign doctors, 891 et seq., 899 et seq.

Hamley, Admiral William, at the taking of Zara, 879.

Hamley, General William, 879.

Hamley, General William, biographical sketch of, 880, 881—his contributions to 'Maga,' 881, 882—his novels, 882 et seq.

Hedgerows, beauty of, in winter, 225.

Hero, what constitutes a, 262.

History and Poetry of the Scottish Border, 865.

Home Rule Bubble, the, 458.

Home Rule, the Government and, 903.

Home Rule Bill, the, Mr Gladstone's arbitrary conduct with regard to, 617, 618, 629—remarks on, by the Duke of Devonshire, 623, 624—and by Mr Balfour, 626—condemned by the American National League, 628 debate on the second reading of, 772 et seq.—malign influences of, 903—difficulties of the government with, in Committee, 908 et seq.—want of information regarding the finance clauses of, 911—reception that awaits it, should it reach the House of Lords, 916.

Hugessen, Edward Knatchbull (Lord Brabourne), and the Oxford Union Society, 474 et seq.—his principles stated, 477—his 'Protectionist Parodies by a Tory,' 479—enters Parliament as a Liberal, ib.—leaves the Reform Club and joins the Carlton, 480—but really a constitutional Liberal, ib.

Irish members of to-day contrasted with those of fifty years ago, 175.

Journalist, a woman, story of, in search of employment in London, 830 et seq.

Kestrels and their prey, 390.

Kirby-Green, Sir William, his missions to the Moorish Court, 446 et seq.

Lacrosse, the game of, described, 755, 756.

Larissa, arrival at, during a tempest, 412—miserable hotel accommodation in, ib.—description of, 414 et seq.—sport in, 416 et seq.—ferocity of the sheep-dogs of, 418.

Last Days of an Empire, the, 658.

Lekain, the French tragedian, as an actor, 526.

Lichens, beauty of, 223.

Life, the Private, of the Renaissance Florentines, 327.

Liquor Bill, Local Veto on, criticised, 621.

Magistracy, the local, barefaced Gladstonising of, 906.

Manchuria, the Russian Acquisition of, 631.

Mandalay, celebration of a "victory" in the palace at, 663—advance of the British on, 666 et seq.—capture of, 668—embarkation of the captive king and queen for Rangoon, 669.

Manuring of crops, errors regarding the, 28 et seq. ​March Winds blow, when, 387.

Marguerite de Bourbon, Princess (Duchess of Madrid), biographical notice of, 810 et seq.

Mary Queen of Scots, attacked by influenza, 885, 886—account of her serious illness at Jedburgh, 887 et seq.—her ailments during her captivity, 889, 890.

Medici, Lorenzo dei, the marriage of, 348—infantine letters of his son, ib.—his death, 351.

Medicine, Notes on Scottish, in the Days of Queen Mary, 885.

Mid-Winter in Thessaly, 412.

Miracle-working Madonna, Don Dionysio and his, 743 et seq.

Mobs, 109.

Mobs, English, 110—classification of, 111—London, 120-122—French, 123-125.

Moorish Politics, Two Years of: a Retrospect, 446.

Morley, Mr John, his eccentric imbecilities, 172 et seq.—the employment of the military in civil war by, 765, 766—comparison between, and Robespierre, 767—evasive character of his speech on the Home Rule Bill, 779.

Morocco, the Sultan of, and the Cape Juby case, 446 et seq.—his reception of the British Minister at Fez, 451—Fabian policy of, towards the British, 455.

Mosquitoes, patent ointment for repelling flies and, 699.

Moss, freshness and colour given by, to banks and shady places, 223.

Naples, the cholera in, 734 et seq.

Nation, the Councils of a, 512.

New Books:— April: Recollections of an Egyptian Princess, by her English Governess, 594—Diary of an Idle Woman in Constantinople, by Francis Elliot, 599—Life and Writings of T. W. Robertson, by T. Edgar Pemberton, 601—The Partition of Africa, by J. Scott Keltie, 605.

Newcastle programme, the, abandonment of, 906.

Norway, feathered game in, 588 et seq.

Norway, Sport in, at the Present Day, 584.

Oil-River, Ten Days on an, 372.

Ormolu ornaments, puerility of design in some, 142, 143.

Ornament, 137.

Ouananiche, 688.

Owl, varieties of the, 192—a pet, ib.

Palm-oil "chop," what, 380.

Palm-oil, the trade in, at Bonny, 376.

Paris Theatres from 1750 to 1790, 522.

Pest, or plague, the, frequent visitations of, in Edinburgh, 898.

Petropauloski, the Russian settlement at, bombarded by the allied fleets, 636—their withdrawal therefrom of great advantage to Russia, 637—fate of the settlement, ib. et seq.

Plague, the, of 1348 in Florence, 342—its cause, 343—institution of processions of "white penitents" after, ib.

"Portage," description of a, 691.

Priests, part played by the, in the Irish elections, 318.

Princesses, Two, of the House of Bourbon, 800.

Prospect, a Retrospect and a, 164.

Queen Elizabeth, Scandal about, 209.

Queen Mary, Notes on Scottish Medicine in the Days of, 885.

Rabbits, wild, the ways of, 393.

Rebellion in Yemen, the, 301.

Registration Bill, Mr Gladstone's, characterised, 619, 620.

Rejected Addresses, the Real: A Chapter in the History of Theatrical Literature, 742.

Retrospect, a, and a Prospect, 164.

Re-volution, 253.

Riots, the Sacheverell, 112—the Wilkes, 114—the Gordon, 115-117—the Priestley, 117, 118—the Bristol, 118, 119—the Nottingham, 119—the Chartist, 120.

Robsart, Amy, story of her sudden and strange death, 212 et seq.

Rooks, the, at resting-time, 388.

Rossetti, Dante, and Mr William Bell Scott, 229.

Rossetti, sketch of, 230—as a painter and a poet, ib. et seq.

Royale, Madame (Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France), extracts from the journal kept by, while a prisoner in the Temple with the royal family, during the French Revolution, 800 et seq.

Russian Acquisition of Manchuria, the, 631.

Russians, the, aggressive genius of, 632 et seq.—value of the Manchurian territory to, 635—their excellence as cartographers, 643—their conduct with regard to the Chinese town of Kuldja,—644, 645.

Ruthven, Lord, his two maladies, 891.

Salmon-rivers in Norway, 585, 586—tactics of the Bergen agents for, 586, 587.

Scandal about Queen Elizabeth, 209.

Scott, Mr William Bell, Dante Rossetti and, 229.

Scottish Border, History and Poetry of the, 865.

Snipe, some characteristics of, 397.

Souffrière, the, or Sulphur Mountain, in ​St Vincent, ascent of, 549 et seq. the crater of, 551.

Sound-waves, various effects produced by, 138-140.

Sparrow-hawks and their prey, 391.

Sport in Norway at the Present Day, 584.

St Andrew, Mount, in the island of St Vincent, ascent of, 546 et seq.

St Louis, the capital of Senegal, described, 62, 63—dress and appearance of the natives of, 64, 65—scenes in, 65-67.

St Vincent, 542.

St Vincent, fine view from the Government House of, 543—the negroes of, ib., 544—anecdote of the days of Carib supremacy in, 544—the Caribs, the former lords of, now nearly extinct, 545—anecdotes of a Scotch family of modern Samsons resident there, 550—a naturalist's employment in, 552.

Story of the Seen and Unseen, a, 481.

Struggle for the Union, the, 770.

Summers and Winters at Balmawhapple. No. I., Mark's Return, 40—No. II., Queen Mary's Hold-fast, 273—No. III., The Devil to Pay, 399—No. IV., Out of the Dark, 532—No. V., Lisette's Dream, 670—No. VI., Mark's Trouble, 814.

Sunset, a winter, 228.

Sunshine, Winter, 219.

Suspensory Bills, Scottish and Welsh, objects of the, 620, 621.

Taine, M.: a Personal Reminiscence, 609.

Taine, M., interview with, 609 et seq.—his horror of tourists and reporters, 612—his views regarding peers, 614.

Tangier, murder by Moorish soldiers of a British subject in, 456—indemnity demanded from, and paid by, the Sultan therefor, 457.

Ten Days on an Oil-River, 372.

Theatres, Paris, from 1750 to 1790, 522.

Thessaly, Mid-Winter in, 412.

Thessaly, the practice of agriculture in, 420—the plague of field-voles in, 421.

Tonga, preparations for the opening of the first Parliament of, 512—the opening ceremony, 514—the members and their dinner, 515—their gluttony, 520.

Trade Treaties, Colonies, Tariffs, and, 783.

Transcendentalist, a Defeated, 236.

Trevelyan, Sir George, his views on Home Rule in 1866, 775.

Ulster, determined attitude of, against Home Rule, 630.

Union, the Struggle for the, 770.

United States, the, trade treaties between Great Britain and, 786.

Veitch, Professor, his ‘History and Poetry of the Scottish Border’ noticed, 865 et seq.

Victim of Circumstances, a, 69.

Visitor, a, and his Opinions: a Story of the Seen and Unseen, 481.

Voles, the, and the kestrels, 390—the plague of, in Thessaly, 421—Professor Loeffler's experiments with a view to their destruction, ib., 422—birds of prey and the, 422.

Wages, agricultural, the rise in, during the last quarter of a century, 26.

Water-rails, danger of, from pike, 395.

Wellington, the Duke of, and Dr M'Grigor, story regarding, 437, 438.

West Indies, the British, demand of, for closer trade relations with the United States and Canada, 796, 797.

Winter Sunshine, 219.

Wolf, the, characteristics of, 265—mode of trapping, 267.

Wolves and Wild Boars in Modern France, 262.

Woman Journalist, the Experiences of a, 830.

Woodcock, characteristics of the, 397.

Woodlanders, the, character and habits of, 556 et seq.—arts of, 558, 559—Bible history among, 561—superstitious notions of, 562 et seq.

Woodlanders, with the, 556.

Yemen, oppressive rule of the Turks in, 302 et seq.—miserable condition of their troops in, 305—Sanaa, the capital of, besieged by the Turks, 305 et seq.—results to Turkey of the rebellion in, 310—future policy of Turkey in, 311.

Yemen, the Rebellion in, 301.