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which Lord Derby could scarcely find any decent pretext for opposing, would, we believe, be at once a great source of strength and popularity to the administration, and a substantial and permanent blessing to the country.

Such, in brief, are our notions as to the political wants of the nation, and the best means of supplying them. The new Parliament will show what are the chances of seeing our hopes fulfilled. We have left ourselves no space to speak of the books placed at the head of this Article. That of Mr. Moseley contains much good sense, many sound views, many useful suggestions; but it is sadly languid and wordy, and the style is loose, rambling, and inelegant. The work of Mr. Cornewall Lewis is of a far higher order and has a different scope. It is scientific in its object and arrangement, and is full of solid thought and extensive learning. But it would be doing it great injustice to treat of it at the fag-end of a paper on practical policy.

INDEX

TO THE

SEVENTEENTH VOLUME OF THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

A

ALBERT, PRINCE, his Industrial College of
Arts and Manufactures. See Industrial
College.

Alfred, King, 145-the two great elements
of our race, 145-original condition of
mankind one of culture, 146-difference
between a rude and a savage people, 147
-youth of Alfred-journey to Rome, 150
-his mysterious disease, 152-his rela-
tions with the Church, 155-his first in-
terview with Asser, monk of St. David's,
156-character of his literary works, 159
-his political institutions, 161-his Pro-
testantism, 163-merits of Dr. Pauli's
book-character of the Rev. J. A. Giles'
"Life of Alfred," 163.

American poetry, 394-its general charac-
ter, 394-Longfellow, 395-Bryant, 406
-Thomas Buchanan Read, 409-Edgar
Poe, 414-mediocrity of American poets,
417-recommendations, 417.
Anglo-Catholics found their tenets upon the
Liturgy, 377.

Aquilonius on binocular vision, 169, note.
Archæology. See Primeval.

Asser, monk of St. David's, his connexion
with King Alfred, 156.
Auchterarder case, statement of, 255.
Australia, Ornithology of, 334.

B

Balmez, Rev. J., leader of a new intellectual
school in Spain, 105-aims at the internal
revival and restoration of the Spanish
Church, 105-his work on civilisation
reviewed, 105.

Baptismal regeneration, 384-no trace of
infant baptism in the New Testament,
388.
Binocular vision and the stereoscope, 165-
inventions have their infancy and man-
hood, 166-Leonardo da Vinci's observa-
tions, 167-each eye sees dissimilar pic-
tures of solids, 169-Mr. Wheatstone's
theory of the stereoscope erroneous, 171
-Sir David Brewster's law of visible
direction, 175-history of his lenticular
stereoscope, 177-his theory of the ste-
reoscope, 178-method of taking accurate
binocular pictures, 180-why the perspec-
tive of a picture is best seen with one eye,
183-influence of size in lenses, 183-
monocular and binocular portraits incor-
rect, 185-method of uniting the two,

185 superiority of the lenticular sterec-
scope, 187-use of the stereoscope to
painters and sculptors, 189-photographi-
cal pictures combined by the stereoscope,
191-effects of the union of similar pic-
tures, 192-illusions resulting from this
union, 195-conversion of relief, cameos
and intaglios, 197-inversion of form,
single and binocular cameoscopes, 199—
chromatic stereoscope, relief from colour,
200-binocular perspective, theory of a
picture, 202.

Brain, its relation to the mind, 44.
Brewster, Sir David, account of his stereo-
scopes, 176.

British statesmanship and policy, prospects
of, 1-requirements and dangers of the
day, 3-list of potential statesmen, 4-
materials for future cabinets, 6-admi-
nistrators wanted rather than legislators,
11-real irresponsibility of ministers, 12
-cause of the scanty supply of public
men, 16-character of middle-class re-
presentatives, 17 undesirableness of
Parliamentary life, 18-administrative
genius and dialectic skill seldom meet in
one mind, 21-bounded sympathies of
London senators, 27-union of the two
functions of the Lord Chancellor, 28—
remedy for existing evils, 30-need of ex
officio seats, 33-suggestion as to unrecog-
nised statesmen, 35 Henry Taylor's
opinion, 36-temper of Mr. Roebuck's
work, 39.

Burns, Robert, his interview with Walter
Scott, 284-Francis Jeffrey attracted by
the sight of him on the High Street of
Edinburgh, 284.

Bryant, W. C., review of his "Thanatop-
sis," 406.

C

Cabinets, materials for future, 5.
Calamus, its origin and use in the Church,

119.

Cameoscopes, single and binocular, 199.
Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets reviewed, 1.
Chalmers, Dr., Memoirs of, 205—the man
of an epoch, 205-a great man, 206-dis-
tinguished for momentum, unity of inten-
tion, transparent simplicity, 208-conflict
between the man and the Christian, 209
-conquest over the idolatry of self, 211
-the secret of his power lies in the con-
centration of his faculties, and their sub-
ordination to the higher purposes of his

life, 213-relative religious condition of
England and Scotland in his time-mo-
deratism, 214-religious revival and the
Westminster Confession, 216-his evan-
gelic mission, 217-ordinary pulpit style,
219-his personal influence, 221-influ-
ence in the professorial chair, 223-pre-
ference of the chair to the pulpit, 227-
impulse communicated to the ministerial
mind of Scotland, 230-his function as a
systematic philanthropist, 232-his advo-
cacy of establishments, 237-harmony
between the principle of establishments
and the principles resulting in the Disrup-
tion, 238-Dr. Chalmers's connexion with
it misunderstood, 244-the Veto Law, 251
-Non-intrusion controversy, 253-his
part in the Disruption, 275.
Church of England, liturgical reform in, 369.
Church Establishments, Dr. Chalmers's ad-
vocacy of, 237-light thrown upon the
question by the Disruption, 278.
Church of the middle ages, its effects on
European society, 114.

Civilisation, progress of, under Popery and
under Protestantism, 110.

Clarendon, Lord, qualifications as a states-
man, 5.

Cockburn's" Life of Jeffrey" reviewed, 283.
Combe, George, review of his "Constitution
of Man," 41.

D

Despotism, priestly, effects of, upon a nation,
125.

Disruption of the Scottish Establishment,

239-essential differences between the
Scotch and English Reformations and the
established forms of worship, 240—absurd
to subject the two to the same treatment,
243-increase of the evangelical party,
245-the outcry against patronage a ne-
cessary result, 246-the Call of the people,
247-rendered a nullity, 249-different
proposals for giving effect to it, 250-the
Veto Law, 251-warmly commended by
Lord Brougham, 252- Non-intrusion
controversy, 253-the Auchterarder case,
255-the two parties in the Church, 257
-the temper of statesmen, 259-the pre-
ceding events, 263-the pleas of Govern-
ment, 265-reason of the Disruption, 267
-English and Scotch Church principle,
269-the Headship, 269-co-ordination
practicable, 272-problems involved in
the Disruption, 277-Church Establish
ments, 278-waste of religious organiza-
tion, 279-fiscal economy of the Free
Church, 281.

E

Earle, Sullivan, review of his Life of Gilbert
Arnold, 71.

Establishments, Religious, Chalmers's ad-
vocacy of, 237-in harmony with the

principles which resulted in the Disrup
tion, 238.

Exhibition of 1851, statistical details of, 534
-its results, 542.

F

France, industrial education in, 523-the
first exhibiting nation in the Crystal
Palace, 545.

G

Giles, Rev. J. A., character of his Life of
Gladstone, Mr., his qualifications as a states-
King Alfred, 163.
man, 5.

Gould, John, his "Birds of Australia" re-
viewed, 327.

H

Hall, James, notice of his paper on binocular
perspective, 202.

Hanna, Dr., review of his Memoirs of Dr.
Chalmers, 205.

Hensler, Madame, her Life of Niebuhr, 422.
Hexameters next to impossible in a lan-
guage like ours, 397.
Holland, New, birds of, 334.

I

Industrial College of Arts and Manufactures
proposed by Prince Albert, 519_neglect
of industrial education in England, 521-
Industrial institutions of France, 523-
Account of the Ecole Centrale des Arts,
524-decline of English science, 531-
resolution to establish a great Central
College of Industry, 547-relation be-
tween abstract science and art, 549-
views of Liebig and Humboldt, 553–
Minister's pledge to develop industry,
art, and science, 557.

J

Jeffrey, Cockburn's Life of, 293-merits of
the biography, 297-his boyhood, 298–
juvenile performances, 299" command
of language," 300-residence at Glasgow
and Oxford, 301-political condition of
Scotland, 304-Lord Melville the Pharos
of Scotland, 304-Jeffrey attaches himself
to the Scottish Whig party, 305-profes
sional life, 307-the Edinburgh Review,
309 his understanding of Scottish
Whiggism, 311-qualifications as a critic,
316 specimens, 319-new era in British
literature, 325.

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INDEX.

histological physiology, 141-the brain
and the nervous system, 142-Sweden-
borgian physiology, 143.

Lewis, G. Corne wall, his work on the "Me-
thod of observation and reasoning in
Politics" reviewed, 559.

Liturgical reform in the Church of England,

369 unrivalled ́excellence and beauty of
the liturgy, 369-the cause of this, 370
-the Church of England a Church of
compromise, and with this view the
liturgy was framed, 372- Parliament
averse to making changes on the liturgy,
373 -an age of religious earnestness
adverse to compromise, 375-the liturgy
the bulwark of Anglo-Catholics, 377
the Athanasian Creed, 379-no error of
doctrine in the burial service, 381-ob-
jection to the absolution in the service
for the visitation of the sick, 381 — the
ordination service, 383--the service for
infant baptism, 384-Sacerdotalism, 384
-fatal objection to the present baptismal
service, 387-authority for infant bap-
tism, 391-the language of the Apostolic
Church does not apply to infant baptism,
392-importance of exegesis, 392.
Longfellow, H. W., criticism of his poetry,
395.

M

Monastic Orders, services of, in multiplying
books, and in redeeming Christian slaves,
117.

Moseley, Joseph, his "Political Elements,
or the progress of Modern Legislation"
reviewed, 559.

N

Niebuhr, Life and Letters of, 422-his
boyhood, 423-inteligence and informa-
tion, 425-master of twenty languages,
427-philology and history his favourite
studies, 428-first residence at Copen-
hagen, 431-his opinion of London and
Edinburgh, 433-his marriage, 435-his
political Life in Prussia, 436-Lectures
on Roman History at Berlin, 438-his
own opinion of the first volume of his
history, 440-Niebuhr and Goethe's opi-
nions of one another, 441-second mar-
riage and mission to Rome, 443--opinion
of Rome and its inhabitants, 444-his
son, opinions as to infant training, 445-
life and lectures at Bonn, 447-illness
and death, 449-impressions of his charac-
ter, 450 his religion, 455-merits and
defects as a historian, 456.

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sentative species, 333-birds of Australia,
335-special features of Australian Orni-
thology, 338-the buzzard, 339_bower-
birds, the parrot, 341-the pigeon, 343—
mound-building birds, 345-swimming
birds, 346 pelicans and cormorants,
349-birds of Ireland, 350-migratory
movements of birds, 351-geographical
distribution, 353-effect of industrial
operations on birds, 355-eagles, 356—
hawks and owls of Ireland, 359-inses-
sorial or perching birds, 360-thrushes
and titmice, 363-the crow, the magpie,

364.

P

Parliament, Mr. Carlyle's view of, 23.
Parliamentary life, undesirableness of, 18.
Pauli, Dr. Reinhold, his biography of King
Alfred reviewed, 145.

Periodical Literature, recent change in,
323.

Photography, benefit of the stereoscope in,
181.

Phrenology, its place and relations, 41-
general view of Combe's "Constitution
of Man," 41-its relation to religion, 43
-relations of the brain and the mind,
45-the pretension of Phrenology to
point out not only the places where but the
manner how the brain and mind are con-
nected, 47-new light thrown upon old
and familiar doctrines by phrenological
jargon, 48-organs as indications of cha-
racter, 51-size and activity of the organ,
52-phrenology and moral science, 55.
Mr. Combe's three sources of crime, 56-
if man is the victim of his nature, punish-
ment inadmissible, 58-phrenology and
religion, 61-spiritual beliefs, 63-Mr.
Combe's key to the true theory of the
divine government, 66-evils of our social
system, 67-chief fault of Mr. Combe's
work, 69.

Playfair, Dr. Lyon, on the decline of science
in England, 531-lecture on the results
of the Exhibition, 544.

Poe, Edgar, criticism of his poetry, 414.
Political Parties, crisis of, 559-present
condition of our "political elements,"
559-fatal equipoise, 561-danger of a
lax morality among public men, 564-
Mr. Disraeli's recantation indefensible,
568-unworthy language of Lord Derby,
569-prolongation of the Whig party not
desirable, 571-the real parties in Eng-
land, 573-the Grand Desideratum, the
Eclectic party, 576-its composition, 578
-its policy, 579.
Portraiture and Sculpture, application of
the stereoscope to, 177.
Primeval Archæology of Britain, 459—
importance of the science, 459-estimate
of Dr. Wilson's work, 460-aims of the
science, 462-the stone period, 465-its

remote antiquity, 467-the bronze period, Spain, effects of Popery on, 123.
469-the races of these periods, 473-Statesmen, survey of present and prospective
the "stone" men Allophylians, 475—two
Allophylian or ante-Celtic races, 477-
bronze probably of Gaelic introduction,
479.

Protestant divisions indicative of freedom
and intellectual activity, 129.
Protestantism and Romanism compared in
their effects on civilisation, 110.

R

Read, T. B., criticism of his poetry, 409.
Roebuck's "History of the Whig Adminis-
tration of 1830" reviewed, 1.

Romanism, errors of, 481-Archbishop
Whately's "Cautions for the Times," 482
-specimens of successful refutation of
Popish errors, 484-the new and the old
religion, 484-private judgment, 485-
worship of saints and the Virgin, 486
transubstantiation, 488-Popery confirms
the depraved tendencies of human na-
ture, while Protestantism opposes them,
493 superstition, 494-extreme unction
and purgatory, 497-vicarious religion,
497-pious frauds, 499-infallibility, 501
-origin of Romish errors, 502-persecu-
tion, 506-self-righteousness, 509 views
of the Reformers to the time of Bishop
Bull, 510-Bishop O'Brien on justifi-
cation, 513-Cardinal Bellarmine and
Bishop Bull, 515-the true author of
Popery, 517.

British, 4-qualifications required in, 22.
Stereoscope, its history, construction, and
application, 166-superiority of the len-
ticular, 187.

Swedenborg's description of what poetical
language should be, 419.

T

Taylor, Henry, his work entitled "The
Statesman" reviewed, 1.

Thompson, William, review of his Natural
History of Ireland, 327-short notice of
his works, 327, note.

Tractarian poison insidiously conveyed in
stories for the young, 72.

V

Village life in England, 71-books for the
poor, 71-Tractarian story-books, 72—
Mr. Sullivan Earle's" Gilbert Arnold,"
74-" Companions of my Solitude,” 75—
communication between rich and poor,
75-duties of the English housewife, 78
-antidote to the alehouse, 80-houses for
the poor, 81-condition of the daughters
of the poor, 81-great sin of great cities,
the source often lies in rural districts, 82
-seduction, 85-judicious treatment at
the turning-point of the career, 87-em-
ployment of females, needlework, 91-
evils in the management of village shops,
93-duty of the rich to employ their
poorer neighbours, 94-the schoolmaster,
96 lending libraries, 97-savings club,
98-remissness of the clergy, 99-oppor-
tunities for good, 101-claims of the poor
and duties of the rich, 103.

Romanism and European civilisation, 105—
connexion of the Roman Church with
European progress, 107-the terms Ca-
tholic and Christian synonymous with
Balmez, 109-the Church of the Empire,
113-the Church and the Barbarians,
115-emancipated the body but enchained
the soul, 118-the cup and calamus, 1191
-civilizing effects of the two elements as
manifested in Spain and Great Britain,
121-priestly despotism, 125-partial ci-
vilisations, 127-Protestant divisions, 129. Whately, Archbishop, on the "Errors of

S

Sacerdotalism the prolific source of almost
every corruption, 384.
Saxons, character of the, in the days of
Alfred, 147.

Scotchmen, century of eminent, 284-their
classification, 286-Scotticism of Scotch-
men, 287-peculiarity of Scottish as com-
pared with English thought, 291-Scot-
tish influence in philosophy, 293-in
literature, 295-Scottish Whiggism, 311
Scottish criticism, 315.

Voss, the poet, his connexion with Nie-
buhr, 425, 430-Niebuhr's opinion of his
poetry, 430.

W

Romanism"-see Romanism-defects of
his work, 493.

Wheatstone, Charles, his theory of binocu
lar vision, 167.

Whiggism, Scottish, 310-Jeffrey's theory
of, 313.

Wilkinson, J. J. G., review of his work on
the Human Body and its connexion with

Man, 131-a disciple of Swedenborg, 133.
Wilson, Daniel, LL.D., his work on Arch-
æology reviewed, 459.
Worsaae, J. J. A., his “ Primeval Antiqui-
ties of Denmark" reviewed, 459.

EDINBURGH: T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY.

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