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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.