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CONTENTS OF VOL. CCLII.

Ancien Régime, The French Peasant under the. By E. BLANCHE

HAMILTON.

Anne Oldfield. By DUTTON COOK.

"Ass, Golden," Macchiavelli's. By JAMES MEW

PAGE

Bargain, The, with the Queen.

By HENRY W. LUCY

Biography of an Eccentric Parson. By EDWard Walford, M.A.

Biology, Modern: its Methods and Aims. By ANDREW WILSON,

196

205

40

666

26

531

189

685

Birth, The, of the Moon. By RICHARD A. PROCTOR

Biscayan Stroll, A. By the Hon. EMILY LAWLESS.

Book, My Rare. By FREDERICK WEDMORE.

Broad, Rockland. By G. CHRISTOPHER DAVIES

Carlyle and his Wife. By H. R. Fox BOURNE

Cat, The, and its Folk-lore. By Rev. T. F. THISELTON DYER, M.A. 604

Chaucer at Woodstock. By JOHN W. HALES, M.A.

Chivalrous Times, Warfare in. By J. A. FARRER.

Cobden, Richard. By A. N. MACNICOLL

Diary, An. Unpublished, written by Dean Swift. By J. CHURTON

COLLINS

Dust a Novel. By JULIAN HAWTHORNE:

Eccentric Parson, Biography of an. By EDWARD WALFORD, M.A. 196

Egyptian Question, The. By JUSTIN H. McCARTHY

English Place-Names. By HENRY BRADLEY

English Shire, An. By GRANT Allen

PAGE

Folk-lore, The Cat and its. By Rev. T. F. THISELTON DYER, M.A. 604

Forefathers, The Lawlessness of our. By HUBERT HALL

Frederick Robson. By DUTTON COOK.

French Peasant, The, under the Ancien Régime. By E. BLANCHE

HAMILTON.

Furred and Feathered Foes in New Countries. By C. F. GORDON-

312

715

586

"Golden Ass," Macchiavelli's. By JAMES MEW

Government, Prison. By F. W. ROBINSON

Hans Sachs. By LOUIS BARBÉ

Heine, Recurrent Ideas in. By ALEX. H. JAPP, LL.D. .

Hués, A Story of the. By F. BOYLE

Hymn, The, of a Woman's Soul. By ERIC S. ROBERTSON

Kerry, In the Kingdom of. By the Hon. EMILY LAWLESS

Lawlessness, The, of our Forefathers. By HUBERT HALL

Library, The. By Rev. M. G. WATKINS, M.A.

Literary Likeness. By W. H. OLDING, LL.B.

Macchiavelli's "Golden Ass." By JAMES MEW

Modern Biology: its Methods and Aims. By ANDREW WILSON,

F.R.S.E.

Modern Sybarite, A. By H. BARTON BAKER

Moon, The Birth of the. By RICHARD A. PROCTOR

104

656

567

71

513

243

New Countries, Of Furred and Feathered Foes in. By C. F.
GORDON CUMMING

554

New Finds in Shetlandic and Welsh Folk-lore. By KARL BLIND:

Part I.

353

11.

469

Nightmare. By Rev. T. F. Thiselton DYER, M.A.

79

Of Furred and Feathered Foes in New Countries. By C. F.

GORDON-CUMMING

554

Oldfield, Anne. By DUTTON COOK

157

Opposition and Opposition. By HENRY W. LUCY

744

Parson, Biography of an Eccentric. By EDWARD WALFORD, M.A.
Peasant, The French, under the Ancien Régime. By E. BLANCHE
HAMILTON

Planets, The Giant. By RICHARD A. PROCTOR

Poets' Birds, The. By PHIL. ROBINSON :

Crows and their Cousins

Doves and Eagles

Sea-Birds and Game-Birds

443

40

171

180

322

487

Prison Government. By F. W. ROBINSON

LL.D.

Queen, The Bargain with the. By HENRY W. LUCY

Rare Book, My. By FREDERICK WEDMORE

Recurrent Ideas in Heine. By ALEX. H. JAPP, LL.D.

Richard Cobden. By A. N. MACNICOLL

Robson, Frederick. By DUTTON COOK .

Rockland Broad. By G. CHRISTOPHER DAVIES

Sachs, Hans. By LOUIS BARBÉ

Science Notes. By W. MATTIEU WILLIAMS, F.R.A.S. :

Sensational Electricity-A Simple Electrical Machine-Count

Rumford on "Fired Gunpowder "-Modern Artillery Gun-

powder-Propagation of Gaseous Explosions-The Bursting of

Water-pipes Slow Combustion of Fire-Damp-Electric Tides

-Snow-clearing in London

Is the Full Moon Red-Hot?-A Chemical Chameleon-The

Origin of the Salt of the Ocean-The Origin of Oyster-shells,

Corals, etc.-The Anglo-American Arctic Expedition-Mr.

Walter Powell

The Threatening Comet-My View of Cometary Collision with
the Sun-The Polytechnic of the Future -The Philosophy of
Manuring-Gases passing through Solids

The Possibilities of Cometary Collisions with the Sun-Effect
of a Direct Collision of a Comet with the Sun-The Consti-
tution of Comets-Carbonic Acid in the City-The Healing of
Wounded Crystals " Nothing like Leather."
Animal and Vegetable Co-partnership-Granny-The Victoria
Regia Outdone-The Beginnings of Life on the Earth-
Professor Barff's Antiseptic-The Fate of a Sun-colliding
Comet

Dr. Siemens' Theory of the Sun—My Own Theory of the Sun—
Bees and Clover-The Causes and Cure of Old Age

Shetlandic and Welsh Folk-lore, New Finds in. By KARL

BLIND :

Part I.

11.

Shire, An English. By GRANT ALLEN

Spider, My. By W. H. T. WINTER

Story, A, of the Hués. By F. BOYLE

116

244

374

500

624

Stroll, A Biscayan. By the Hon. EMILY LAWLESS

Swift, Dean, An Unpublished Diary written by. By J. CHURTON

COLLINS

Sybarite, A Modern. By H. BARTON BAKER

Table Talk. By SYLVANUS URBAN:

66

'Mary Stuart ”—A Slip of Modern Criticism-Fires in Theatres
-The Sunderland Library-" Chancing It"-Mr. Buchanan's
New Novel

Table Talk-continued.

Tampering with National Documents-The Latest Trick of the

Dog-stealer-A Minor Star in the Shakespearian Galaxy-A

Complaint from America-Increase in the Consumption of

Fruit-"Recreations of the Rabelais Club"-A Reproduction

of the Chef d'Euvre of Moreau le Jeune

An Eccentric Bookseller-The Last of Old Sams-Tristram
Shandy and Modern Science
The Ducal Libraries-Destruction of Life and Sport-" The
Bargain with the Queen"-A Man in Flames-The Salmon-
Disease "Jumbo" at the Zoo

"Dust"-Bonghi on the "Village Commune "The Heat of the

Sun-Physiology and Fashion--A Plea for a New Canal-Free

Exhibition of Pictures-The Thames Embankment-English

Chap-Books-Mural Tablets-Corrupting Influence of English

Vices.

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253

382

509

633

The Centenary of the Odéon Theatre-The Théâtre Français
and the Odéon-Naturalisation of Foreign Birds-Are the
Aspirations of Youth fulfilled in Age?

758

Tuscan Olives. (Pochades in Rispetti.) By A. MARY F. ROBINSON 372

Unpublished Diary, An, written by Dean Swift. By J. CHURTON

Vivisection, The Future of. By OUIDA

COLLINS

Warfare in Chivalrous Times. By J. A. FARRER
Wife, Carlyle and his. By H. R. Fox BOURNE

Woman's Soul, The Hymn of a. By ERIC S. ROBERTSON
Woodstock, Chaucer at. By JOHN W. HALES, M.A.