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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.