AMERICAN RE-ISSUE, FROM THE ENGLISH PLATES.
DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
J. S. REDFIELD, CLINTON HALL,
BOSTON, REDDING & CO.: PHILADELPHIA, ZEIBER & CO.: BALTIMORE, SHURTZ & TAYLOR: CINCINNATI, ROBINSON & JONES: CHARLESTON, AMOS HEAD.
AND THE CHEAP PUBLICATION OFFICES GENERALLY THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.
ABORIONES in the British Colonies-Coffee-houses, Turkish, 229
South Africa, 73, 84 Advertising, primitive mode of, 139 Agriculture, French,-employment of women, 105
Alabaster Ornaments, the manufacture of, 443
Ale and Beer Drinking in England in the 16th century, 230 Allegorical Painting and Sculpture, 305 Alphabets for the Blind, 111 America, discovery of, 187 American Desert, the, 280 American Travellers and Travelling, 23 Anecdotes of a Blind Person, 71 Animal Instinct, remarkable instance of the absence of, 283 Antwerp, commerce of, 345 Arab Faith in Medicine, 211 Arabian King and the Poet, 244 Aretie Winter, 132
Armenian Society of Lazarus, 117 Art of Educating, 11 Artificial Gems, 450
Astrolabe, Sir Francis Drake's, 211 Athens, the school of, 389
Commerce, influence of, iu repressing wars, 472
Comparative Anatomy, 472, 477 Conducting Power, difference of, 427 Constantinople, the streets of, 401 Cookery in Persia, 432 Coronation of James I., 186 Coronations, English, 251 Cosmetics, on, 467 Curling, the game of, 478
DEER-HUNTING in North America, 407 Demosthenes, 445, 433 Dial-plates, on the enamelling of, 434 Diamond-works of Sumbhulpore, 447 Dinner in the 15th century, 196 Discovery, training the mind to skill in, 344
Dreams, superstitious belief of the Mus-Law of Settlement, the old, influence of, lims in, 322 Duck-shooting on the Niagara river, 358
Ecce Homo," the, by Corregio, 177 Educated Artisan, the experience of an, 130
BACK'S. Captain, expedition to the Education, obstacles to, 360; De Witt
Elephant, the, sagacity of, 316 Erasmus in Englaud, 59, 82, 98, 110,
Exercising the Faculties, necessity of,
Baka, perpetual fire of, 44 Ball held in a Coal-mine, 259 Balads: Old English-Robin Hood, 163, 238, 241, 273, 301, 313, 321, 342, 269; English Romantic-Sir Cauline -The Boy and the Mantle, 404; FACTORY Children, education of, 475 The Childe of Elle-Glasgerion, 428; Farm Produce in America, depredators The Heir of Linne, 465; The Children
in the Wood, 474; Little Musgrave-Feet, coverings for the, 172, 180, 188 The Friar of Orders Gray, 489 Bark-bread in Norway, 156 Barry's Pictures: Orpheus, 65; Grecian Harvest-home, 92; The Victors at Olympia, 103, 113; Elysium, or the State of Final Retribution, 148, 153 Bee hives, cottage improvements in, 171 Bee-hunting and Bee-keeping in Ame- rica, 146
Fever, sources of, 304 Filberts, 444
Fish, consumption of, in England, for- merly, and at the present time, 175, 183, 191
Bees, management of, on Mount Hy- mertus, in Greece, 400 Belgium, the small farms of, 354 Benefactors of Mankind-Vincent de Paul, 4 Bmingham and Manchester, statistics
Flemish Farm, daily distribution of labour on a, 187 Food, condiments in, 112 Forethought and Independence, 240 Fossvöllum, cataract at, in Iceland, 449 Fotheringay, 393
Fruits intended for Man, 156 Fur-trade of Canada, 50 Furs, supply of, 107 Furze, the, or Whin, 488
GEMMI, pass of the, and the Baths of Leuk, 217
Geographical Science, 392 Goat, the, utility of, to man, 355 Going to Bed in India, 11 Gold. in manufactures, examples of the divisibility of, 402 Greenland, colonization of, 385 Greenwich Hospital, naval gallery or painted hall in, 1 Gypsies, English, 17; Continental, 114
HAREMS, Eastern, 484 Harmuir, the, 49 Herculaneum, Indian, an, 102 Hever, castle and village of, in Kent, 284 Canada, and other British Colonies in Hippopotamus and Crocodile, whether
Liquorice, on the cultivation of, 179 London, industry of, 11; fires in, 387; public improvements in, 457 London and Birmingham Railway, 329,| 349, 356
Rich and Poor, relative positions of, 132 Richard I., Coeur de Lion: interesting discoveries in the Cathedral of Rouen in Normandy, 412 Roadside Groups, 352 Robert, Leopold, 355
Rural Districts, necessity of instruction in. 347
Russia, luxury of, 211
ST. OMER, town of, 473 Samphire, the, 411
MAGNETIC Pole, the, 56 Manufactures, the locality of, influence Sandwich Islands, education in the, 223 of circumstances on, 101; physical circumstances contributing to the pro- gress of, 343
Marriages, the number of, effects of seasons of scarcity on, 279 Medical Skill, 344 Mill-stones, the manufacture of, in Ger- many, 414
Morals and Manners, influence of com-
n.erce upon, 308; connexion between the natural features of a country and its, 316
Morpeth Cattle-market, 278 Mother-of-Pearl, on, 351 Mourning-women in the East, 476 Mulberry Leaves, substitute for, in the
leaves of the Ramoon-tree, 215 Music for the Blind, 219 Musical Snuff-boxes, on, 398 Muslim Saints, 316
NATIONAL GALLERY, pictures in: "Ecce Homo," by Correggio, 177; Raising of Lazarus," 185; West's, 236 Naval Gallery (Painted Hall) in Green- wich Hospital, 1
Naval History, British, 116, 135; the Spanish Armada, 157, 340 Neilgherry Hills, 271
Nelson's Monument, Yarmouth, 233 Newcastle, improvements in, 359 New Zealand, 325, 417 North Cape, the tenant of the, 190 North-west Passage, discovery of the,
Norway, polite manners of the lower classes ín, 91; irrigating land in, 219 OBERLIN, Jean Frederic, 220 Holland, education of the people in, Orang-Outan, the, 41 and its effects, 216 Homer, 133, 141
Con-Honey-taker, 408
Chemistry, domestic, 6; water, 21; do- 312
Oxalic Acid, and Salts of Lemon, 483 Oxen of South africa, 145
Horse, the, in the Malayan Archipelago, PACIFIC, mounanous islands in the, 156 Palestine, the sea-coast of, 281 Pambouk-Kalesi, petrified cascade of, 317
mestic waters, 54; fire, 62; boiling, 94 Howard, John, 212 China, education in, 286; invention and Hungarians, national manners of the, present state of printing in, 350; vac- 199
Savage and Social Life, virtues of, 156 Savings' Banks for Corn, 104 Sennaar, 190
Shawl-goat, the, in Europe and Austra- lia, 266
Sicily, salt-works in, 309 Silk, substitutes for, 143 Snow, effect of, on crops, 308 Society, characteristics of, 103 Sounds, natural language of, 432 Stage-coaches, in Great Britain, number of travellers by, 244 Steam Navigation, 235
Sunday-hiring in Northumberland, 268 Susquehanna River, the, 438
TAPESTRY, 431 Tarai, the, 93 Tartars, the, in Hungary, 180 Tax-gathering in Egypt, 472 Thames Water, 139 Timor, agriculture of, 300 Tortoiseshell Ornaments, on the manu- facture of, 299
Toussaint L'Ouverture, 121 Trade, restrictions on, 56; Foreign, 260 Trees, 372
Truffle-hunting, 89 Tulips, on the commercial value of, in the 17th century, 455 Tunis and Tripoli, 12
UNITED STATES, the coal-region of the. 227; the English language as spoken in the, 278
VERMONT, the copperas-mines of, 397 Victoria Regina, the, 20 Violin, a cheap, 246
WALES, a tour in, 161, 201, 289 War Expenditure, real effects of, 235 Washington, character of, 451 West's Pictures in the National Gallery
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