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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.