Chapter I

CHAMBERS’S JOURNAL

OF

POPULAR LITERATURE

_Science and Arts_

1884

W. & R. CHAMBERS LONDON & EDINBURGH]

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Edinburgh: Printed by W. & R. Chambers.

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[Transcriber's Note: This cross reference of issue number to page number was provided by the transcriber.

Issue Pages Date
No. 1 1-16 January 5, 1884
No. 2 17-32 January 12, 1884
No. 3 33-48 January 19, 1884
No. 4 49-64 January 26, 1884
No. 5 65-80 February 2, 1884
No. 6 81-96 February 9, 1884
No. 7 97-112 February 16, 1884
No. 8 113-128 February 23, 1884
No. 9 129-144 March 1, 1884
No. 10 145-160 March 8, 1884
No. 11 161-176 March 15, 1884
No. 12 177-192 March 22, 1884
No. 13 193-208 March 29, 1884
No. 14 209-224 April 5, 1884
No. 15 225-240 April 12, 1884
No. 16 241-256 April 19, 1884
No. 17 257-272 April 26, 1884
No. 18 273-288 May 3, 1884
No. 19 289-304 May 10, 1884
No. 20 305-320 May 17, 1884
No. 21 321-336 May 24, 1884
No. 22 337-352 May 31, 1884
No. 23 353-368 June 7, 1884
No. 24 369-384 June 14, 1884
No. 25 385-400 June 21, 1884
No. 26 401-416 June 28, 1884
No. 27 417-432 July 5, 1884
No. 28 433-448 July 12, 1884
No. 29 449-464 July 19, 1884
No. 30 465-480 July 26, 1884
No. 31 481-496 August 2, 1884
No. 32 497-512 August 9, 1884
No. 33 513-528 August 16, 1884
No. 34 529-544 August 23, 1884
No. 35 545-560 August 30, 1884
No. 36 561-576 September 6, 1884
No. 37 577-592 September 13, 1884
No. 38 593-608 September 20, 1884
No. 39 609-624 September 27, 1884
No. 40 625-640 October 4, 1884
No. 41 641-656 October 11, 1884
No. 42 657-672 October 18, 1884
No. 43 673-688 October 25, 1884
No. 44 689-704 November 1, 1884
No. 45 705-720 November 8, 1884
No. 46 721-736 November 15, 1884
No. 47 737-752 November 22, 1884
No. 48 753-768 November 29, 1884
No. 49 769-784 December 6, 1884
No. 50 785-800 December 13, 1884
No. 51 801-816 December 20, 1884
No. 52 817-832 December 27, 1884

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INDEX.

Familiar Sketches and Essays.

Page

Acorns, Under the, 657

Brompton Cemetery, In, 753

Circulating-library Critics, 81

Conversation, the Art of, 442

‘Corners,’ 289

Furniture Saleroom, In a, 379

Girls, Wives, and Mothers, 33

Good-natured People, Mischief done by, 111

‘Grand Day,’ 561

‘Happy Ever After,’ 161

Heroines, 492

Highland Glen, In a, 511

Home-nursing, 417, 549, 609, 725

King of Acres, a, 12, 29

‘Kitchen Kaffir,’ the, 117

Literary Beginners, Another Word to, 49

Love, Concerning, 156, 333

Moor and Loch, On, 433

Mortality, Some Cheering Aspects of, 449

My Old College Rooms, 262

Nature on the Roof, 385

Newsmonger, the, 353

Norman Seascape, a, 390

River Holiday, a, 545

Saleroom, In a Furniture, 379

Spring Birds, 129

Væ Victis! 629

Poetry.

Among the Daisies, 208

Angel Visitors, 224

Blackbird’s Nest, a, 448

Butterfly in the City, a, 368

Churchyard by the Sea, 128

Dawn of Peace, the, 592

Day in Early Summer, a, 704

Donald—a Pony, 144

Echoes, 256

En Passant, 560

Evening on the Lake, 480

Fairyland in Midsummer, 816

Hawthorn Story, a, 736

Hope On, Hope Ever, 768

July, 464

Last ‘Good-night,’ a, 496

Long Ago, 832

Love Lights, 160

Love-thought, a, 720

Michaelmas, 608

Mistletoe, 784

Modern Madrigal, a, 656

My Home in Annandale Revisited, 96

Night, 64

No Tears, 688

‘Not Beautiful!’ 176

‘Not Lost, but Gone Before,’ 48

Old, Old Story, 192

On the Coast, 544

One by One, 640

‘Only Cousins, don’t you see?’ 352

Parted, 400

Parting Words, 800

Quits! 320

Rhine Woods, In the, 384

Rime of Sir Lionne, the, 512

Serenade, 288

Six Little Words, 112

Solitary Singer, the, 304

SONNETS—
Love’s Watch, 16
Love’s Transfiguration, 16

SONNETS OF PRAISE—
I. The Vales, 240
II. The Mountains, 240

Spring in the Alley, 336

Story that Never Grows Old, a, 672

Stray Blossom, the, 576

To a Child, 80

Trifles, 432

’Twixt Daybreak and Daylight, 528

Water-ousel’s Song, 271

Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon, 416

Wounder and Healer, 752

Year’s Wooing, a, 32

‘Yes,’ 624

Popular Science.

Arsenic in Domestic Fabrics, 799

Colds, Common, 175

Colour-sense, 44

Electric Light, Curiosities of the, 140

Electricity and Gas, the Future of, 625

---- for Nothing! 453

Explosion, Story of a Vast, 705

Fuel, a New, 671

Gas Cooking-stoves, 367

Glacier Garden, a, 785

Marine Station, a Scottish, 465

Medicine, Common Errors in Domestic, 299

Microphone, Curiosities of the, 373

MONTH, THE: Science and Arts—
59, 124, 201, 265, 348, 412, 476, 557, 620, 685, 761, 825

Noxious Manufactures, 239

OUR HEALTH—
I. Health and its General Conditions, 113
II. Food and Health, 234
III. Some Food-dangers, and how to avoid them, 401

Parasitic Worms—Queer Lodgers, 278

Poisoning, 769

Science and Art School—Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 183

Smoking Injurious to Health? Is, 78

Steel, 575

Steno-telegraph, the, 607

Water, 497

Weather, How it is Made and Forecast, 689

White-lead Manufacture, a New Process of, 158

Tales and Other Narratives.

Abe, Story of, 817

Break-neck Venture, a, 588

Bushranger, Interviewed by a, 650

BY MEAD AND STREAM, a Story.—By Charles Gibbon, Author of _Robin
Gray_, _Queen of the Meadow_, _The Golden Shaft_, &c.

CHAP.
1. The Overture: ‘Much Virtue in If,’ 1
2. What might be, 2
3. What is to be, 20
4. In the Oak Parlour, 35
5. A New Eden, 37
6. Alone, 50
7. An Unloved Life, 67
8. ‘Will you speak that Word?’ 69
9. Slander’s Shaft, 82
10. Light and Shadow, 84
11. ‘Strictly Confidential,’ 99
12. A Fair Arbiter, 115
13. The Cares of State, 116
14. In Harvest-time, 132
15. The Banquet waits, 133
16. Light Hearts and Sad, 148
17. A Turning-point, 163
18. The Sealed Letter, 179
19. The First Interview, 181
20. Paved with Gold, 195
21. Dreams, 211
22. Home Again, 212
23. Changes, 227
24. The Work, 243
25. A Word in Season, 259
26. A Question of Division, 275
27. Why is she so? 291
28. ‘The Little Rift,’ 309
29. Suspicion, 323
30. Curious, 339
31. The Conjurer, 355
32. The Enthusiast, 356
33. Her Problem, 371
34. Judge Me, 388
35. The Maid was in the Garden, 403
36. Is it Too Late? 419
37. Down by the River, 436
38. Whirlwinds, 450
39. The other Side, 468
40. Madge’s Mission, 484
41. Pulled Up, 499
42. A Land Shipwreck, 517
43. Other People’s Money, 531
44. An Apple of Discord, 547
45. High Pressure, 564
46. Downhill, 580
47. Under-currents, 595
48. Anxieties, 612
49. At Midnight, 614
50. A Crow to Pluck, 627
51. Hey, Presto! 642
52. How it was Done, 659
53. Pansy, 675
54. Poor Comfort, 692
55. Sweet are the Uses of Adversity, 707
56. Uphill, 723
57. The Secret in the Oak Parlour, 740
58. Clearing Up, 754
59. Glimpses, 756

CHEWTON-ABBOT.—By Hugh Conway, 280, 295, 315

Colonel Redgrave’s Legacy, 780, 793, 811

Frendraught, the Fire of, 52

Gentleman of the Road, a, 429

Greenroom Romance, a, 471

Haunted Bridge, the, 814

In a Flash, 520

Last of the Stuarts, the, 600, 617

Miner’s Partner, the, 138, 152, 168, 185

Miss Marrable’s Elopement, 188, 198

MISSING CLUE, THE, a Tale of the Fens—
CHAP.
1. The Arrival at the _Saxonford Arms_, 701
2. The Jacobite, 702
3. The Events of a Night, 716
4. After Fifteen Years, 718
5. The Colonel’s Daughter, 732
6. Hobb Dipping Bewildered, 749
7. Reginald’s Story, 751
8. The Search, 764

Mr Pudster’s Return, 569, 584

My Fellow-passenger, 252, 263

Nameless Romance, a, 541

ONE WOMAN’S HISTORY, a Novelette.—By T. W. Speight—
631, 646, 664, 680, 696, 710, 728, 743, 757, 771, 786, 804, 819

Queen Margerie, 677

Queer Company, In, 444, 461

Run for Life, a, 488

Silas Monk: a Tale of London Old City, 361, 374, 394, 407

Sketch from my Study Window, 343

‘So Unreasonable of Step-mother!’ 45

Terribly Fulfilled, 424, 440, 454

TWO DAYS IN A LIFETIME.—By T. W. Speight—
5, 25, 41, 54, 73, 87, 105, 119

Vermudyn’s Fate, 536, 552

Witness for the Defence, a, 217, 231, 247

Yarn of the _P. and O._, a, 503

Zulu Romance, a, 330

Notices of Books.

King Country, or Explorations in New Zealand,
by Mr J. H. Kerry-Nicholls, 637

Mushroom-growing, by Mr Wright, 501

Nature near London, by Mr Richard Jefferies, 225

Norfolk Broads and Rivers, by Mr G. Christopher Davies, 273

BOOK GOSSIP—

Aileen Aroon, by Dr Gordon Stables, 63

Anglo-Saxon Literature, by Mr John Earle,
Rawlinson Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford, 411

Arminius Vambery, his Life and Adventures, 207

Athole Collection of Dance Music of Scotland,
by Mr James Stewart Robertson (Edradynate), 208

Chapter of Science; or, What is the Law of Nature?
by Mr J. Stuart, Professor of Mechanics, 62

Diseases of Field and Garden Crops, by Worthington G. Smith, 825

Expansion of England, by Mr J. R. Seeley,
Professor of Modern History, 62

Guide to Methods of Insect Life, and Prevention
and Remedy of Insect Ravage, 271

Introduction to the Study of Modern Forest Economy,
by Dr J. C. Brown, 825

Killin Collection of Gaelic Songs, by Mr Charles Stewart, 824

London Cries; Chap-book Chaplets; and Bygone Beauties,
published by Messrs Field and Tuer, 63

More Bits from Blinkbonny, by ‘John Strathesk,’ 824

Norman Conquest, by Mr William Hunt, 411

Photography for Amateurs, by Mr T. C. Hepworth, 824

Practical Taxidermy, by Montague Brown, F.Z.S., 825

Shetland and the Shetlanders, by Sheriff Rampini, 271

Sprigs of Heather, or the Rambles of ‘Mayfly’ with Old Friends,
by Rev. John Anderson, D.D., 208

Whitaker’s Almanac for 1884, 63

Miscellaneous Articles of Instruction and Entertainment.

Abe, Story of, 817

Acorns, Under the, 657

Acrobats, 318

Advertisers Again, Among the, 94

Almanacs, Romance of, 23

Amateur ‘Cabby,’ an, 778

America, European Emigration to, and its Effects, 641

American Newspapers on Themselves, 714

Amusements in Germany, Popular, 634

Ancient and Modern Statues, the Largest, 470

Ancient People, an, 430

Anglo-Indian Chaplain, Recollections of an, 792

Animal Life, Studies in, 822

---- Memorials and Mementoes, 285

Antipathies in Animals—
I. Horses, 85
II. Dogs, 590

Architecture, Stained Glass as an Accessory to Domestic, 359

Army Schools, 494

Arsenic in Domestic Fabrics, 799

Artificial Jewels, 731

Ashburnham Collections, the, 341

Back from ‘Eldorado,’ 573

Bank of England, Curiosities of the, 737

Bird Migration, 481

Birds of Spring, 129

Bonded Warehouses, London, 58

Break-neck Venture, a, 588

Bridge, the Haunted, 814

British Museum, New Mediæval Room at the, 693

Brompton Cemetery, In, 753

Buried Alive, 222

Bushranger, Interviewed by a, 650

‘Cabby,’ an Amateur, 778

Calls before the Curtain, 135

Cameo-cutting, 224

Cave-chapels, 513

Charr of Windermere, the, 406

Chewton-Abbot, 280, 295, 315

Children, Over-educating, 366

Christmas Trees, 748

Cigars, 709

Circulating-library Critics, 81

Cliff-houses of Cañon de Chelly, 40

Coin Treasures, 249

Coins Wearing Away? Are our, 393

Colds, Common, 175

College, Queen Margaret, 555

---- Rooms, My Old, 262

Colonel Redgrave’s Legacy, 780, 793, 811

Colour-sense, 44

Commercial Products of the Whale, 566

Conversation, the Art of, 442

Cooking Classes for Children, 775

Cooking-stoves, Gas, 367

‘Corners,’ 289

Correspondence Classes, 555

Cricket, Umpires at, 399

Curiosities of the Bank of England, 737

Curiosities of the Electric Light, 140

---- ---- ---- Microphone, 373

---- ---- ---- Peerage, Some, 305, 326

Curiosity in Journalism, a, 200

Cycling, Progress of, 335

Cyprus Locusts, 801

Dauphins, False, 662

Death-claims, How Life-offices pay their, 97

Decisions, Some Legal, 423

Deer-forests, Scottish, 721

Detective Police, Our, 337

Dinner-parties Out of Doors, 673

Dishes, Some Queer, 230

Distillation in Ireland, Illicit, 644

Dwarfie Stone, Legend of the, 667

Eastern Trading, Some Instances of, 463

Edicts, Ancient Rock-hewn, 486

Educational Pioneer, an, 699

‘Eldorado,’ Back from, 573

Electric Light, Curiosities of the, 140

Electricity and Gas, the Future of, 625

---- for Nothing! 453

----, Lighting Collieries by, 496

Elephants, the Moulmein, 638

----, Trimming the Feet of, 240

Emigration to America, European, 641

English Law, Familiar Sketches of—
I. Marriages; Settlements; and Breaches of Promise to Marry, 102
II. Parent and Child, 377
III. Master and Servant, 490

Episodes of Literary Manuscripts, 283

Erratic Pens, 313

Errors in Domestic Medicine, Common, 299

European Emigration to America, and its Effects, 641

Explosion, Story of a Vast, 705

Fairs, Old Provincial, 598

Falkland Islands, a Peep at the, 110

False Dauphins, 662

Fellow-passenger, My, 252, 263

Florida, Concerning, 797

Food-notes, Some, 287

Foresight of Insects for their Young, 587

Forestry and Farming, 720

---- Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1884, International, 193

Fortunes, Sudden, 241

French Detectives, 48

Frendraught, the Fire of, 52

Fuel, a New, 671

Furniture Saleroom, In a, 379

Gas Cooking-stoves, 367

----, the Future of Electricity and, 625

Gentleman of the Road, a, 429

Germany, Popular Amusements in, 634

Girls, Wives, and Mothers, 33

Glacier Garden, a, 785

Gold, 209

Gold-fields, the Transvaal, 177

Good-natured People, Mischief done by, 111

Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 183

‘Grand Day,’ 561

Greenroom Romance, a, 471

Grouse, 529

Gum-arabic and the Soudan, 640

Hampstead Heath, 65

‘Happy Ever After,’ 161

Haunted Houses, Rationale of, 397

Health, Our, 113, 234, 401

Heroines, 492

Highland Glen, In a, 511

Holiday, a River, 545

‘Home! Sweet Home!’ 173

Home-nursing, 417, 549, 609, 725

Homing Pigeon, the, 245

Honey-bee, Something about the, 409

Hospitals and Dispensaries, London, 518

Housewives, Hints for, 447

Humorous Definitions, 475, 669

Hush-money, 143

In a Flash, 520

India, Musk-rat of, 703

Indian Jugglers, 604

---- Snakes, 214

Insects, Foresight of, for their Young, 587

Ireland, Illicit Distillation in, 644

Island, a Solitary, 719

----, an Interesting, 347

Jaffa to Jerusalem, From, 321

‘Jerry-building’ in the Middle Ages, 464

Jewels, Artificial, 731

Joint-stock Companies and ‘Limited Liability,’ 577

Journalism, a Curiosity in, 200

‘King Country, the,’ 637

---- of Acres, a, 12, 29

‘Kitchen Kaffir,’ the, 117

Knowledge, a Little, _not_ Dangerous, 616

Last of the Stuarts, the, 600, 617

Law, Sketches of English, 102, 377, 490

Legal Decisions, Some, 423

Life, Prolonging, 427

Life-assurance and Annuities, Post-office, 257

Lifeboat Competition, 459

Life-offices, How they pay their Death-claims, 97

Lighting Collieries by Electricity, 496

‘Limited Liability,’ Joint-stock Companies and, 577

Literary Beginners, Another Word to, 49

Literary Manuscripts, Episodes of, 283

---- Self-estimates, 220

Locusts, Cyprus, 801

London Bonded Warehouses, 58

---- Hospitals and Dispensaries, 518

London, Nature around, 225

----, Remains of Ancient, 654

----, Sanitary Inspection of the Port of, 534

Love, Concerning, 156, 333

Maiden Speeches, Parliamentary, 150

Man and Nature, 608

Manufactures, Noxious, 239

Marine Station, a Scottish, 465

Marriage, the Net of, 432

Marsala, a Sample of, 795

Mediæval Room at the British Museum, New, 693

Medicine, Common Errors in Domestic, 299

Microphone, Curiosities of the, 373

Migration, Bird, 481

Miner’s Partner, the, 138, 152, 168, 185

Miss Marrable’s Elopement, 188, 198

Missing Clue, the, 701, 702, 716, 718, 732, 749, 751, 764

Monastic England, 4

Money-borrowing, the Shady Side of, 166

MONTH, THE: Science and Arts—
59, 124, 201, 265, 348, 412, 476, 557, 620, 685, 761, 825

Moor and Loch, On, 433

Morality, Stock Exchange, 828

Mortality, Some Cheering Aspects of, 449

Moulmein Elephants, the, 638

Mr Pudster’s Return, 569, 584

Mrs Shaw, the Late Prince Imperial’s Nurse, 32

Mushrooms for the Million, 501

Musk-rat of India, the, 703

Name? What’s in a, 813

Nameless Romance, a, 541

Nature around London, 225

---- on the Roof, 385

Nettle-cloth, 145

New Zealand, Explorations in, 637

Newsmonger, the, 353

Newspapers, Curious, 591

---- on Themselves, American, 714

Norfolk Broads and Rivers, 273

Norman Seascape, a, 390

Notes on Persian Art, 808

Noxious Manufactures, 239

OCCASIONAL NOTES—
Abnormal Humanity, 304
Advice to Intending Emigrants, 479
Albo-carbon Light, New, 830
Ambulance Societies, 63
American Literary Piracy, 271
Anthropometrical Laboratory at the Health Exhibition, 479
Bacchus, Discovery of Statue of, 656
Blindness in Infancy, Prevention of, 206
Burns and Scalds, 655
Canine ‘Collector,’ 415
Card-telegrams, 206
Casualties on the British Coast, 624
Chilian Argentine Andes, Exploration in the, 831
Coffee? Why do we now drink less, 303
Curious Disease, 480
Diarrhœa and Cholera, Treatment of, 560
Dissection after Death, 205
Dutch Rush, 351
Earthquake in England, Recent, 351
Electric Light in Railway Carriages, 205
Electric Lighting for Ships, Improved, 351
Electrical Tricycle, 320
Electricity as a Brake, 767
Ensilage, 829
Fastest Passage on Record, 415
French Crown Jewels, 559
Fruit-farm, a Flourishing, 207
Gas Cooking-stove, a Handy, 830
Grape and Peach in America, 207
Harbour of Refuge for East Coast of Scotland, 415
Herring Spawns, How and Where the, 206
Hydrophobia—Important Experiments, 205
Irish Female Emigration, 830
Labour and Wages in Australia, 204
Level-crossing Gates, 736
Lightning-strokes in France, 352
---- ----, Mechanical Characteristics of, 829
Lights and Lighthouses, Investigations on, 736
Marvellous Sunsets, Recent, 64
Metallic Compound, New, 415
Mummies, Making of, 767
Native Treatment of Diseases in India, 831
Novel Peal of Bells, a, 766
Oil Breakwater at Folkestone, 127
Old Westminster Houses, Last of the, 64
Old-fashioned Furniture, 320
Organ in Westminster Abbey, New, 479
Persons Killed by Wild Animals in India, 829
Postal Orders, New, 414
Railway Passengers, 830
Relics from the Holy Land, 768
Rome, Interesting Discovery at, 656
Russian Crown Estates, 204
---- Longevity, 272
Sion College, Last of Old, 830
Sowing and Harvesting, 272
Steam-ferry on the Thames, 767
Subterranean Fish, 415
Telegraph Extension, 127
Telegraphing Extraordinary, 624
Telephoning Extraordinary, 656
Trout-life, Interesting Notes on, 204
Turning Wood into Metal, 768
Uphill Railway, Another, 480
Utilisation of Sewage, 767

Old Provincial Fairs, 598

One Woman’s History—
631, 646, 664, 680, 696, 710, 728, 743, 757, 771, 786, 804, 819

Order of Mercy, an, 15, 63

Orkney Folk-lore—Legend of the Dwarfie Stone, 667

Outward and Homeward Bound, 301

Over-educating Children, 366

Paper, More Uses of, 742

Parasitic Worms—Queer Lodgers, 278

Parliamentary Maiden Speeches, 150

Parody, the Muse of, 71

Peer? What is a, 17

Peerage, Some Curiosities of the, 305, 326

Pencil-making, 582

Pens, Erratic, 313

People, an Ancient, 430

Persian Art, a Few Notes on, 808

---- Sherbet, Royal, 438

Peterborough, the ‘Strong-room’ at, 655

Pigeon, the Homing, 245

Pioneer, an Educational, 699

Pisciculture, the Progress of, 268

Poisoning, 769

Polecat, a Few Words about the, 190

Port of London, Sanitary Inspection of the, 534

Post-office Life-assurance and Annuities, 257

Prince Imperial’s Nurse, the Late; Mrs Shaw, 32

Printers’ Errors, 636

Prolonging Life, 427

Quarantine, 543

Queen Margaret College, 555

---- Margerie, 677

Queer Company, In, 444, 461

---- Dishes, Some, 230

---- Lodgers—Parasitic Worms, 278

Ranching, Some Realities of, 653

Rationale of Haunted Houses, the, 397

Recollections of an Anglo-Indian Chaplain, 792

Regiment, a Skating, 255

Remains of Ancient London, 654

Ring-trick, the, 735

River Holiday, a, 545

Rock-hewn Edicts, Ancient, 486

Roof, Nature on the, 385

Ruin, Sudden, 571

Run for Life, a, 488

Sacred Trees, Some, 509

Sample of Marsala, 795

Sanitary Inspection of the Port of London, 534

Schools, Army, 494

Science and Art School—Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 183

Scot Abroad, Glimpses of the, 76

Scottish Deer-forests, 721

---- Marine Station, a, 465

Seals and Seal-hunting in Shetland, 364, 507

Seascape, a Norman, 390

Seashore Free to All? Is the, 539

Sensitive Plant, 159

Sherbet, Royal Persian, 438

Silas Monk: a Tale of London Old City, 361, 374, 394, 407

Skating Regiment, a, 255

Sketch from my Study Window, 343

Sledge-dogs, 9

Smoking Injurious to Health? Is, 78

Snakes: Do they ever commit Suicide? 672

Snakes, Indian, 214

‘So Unreasonable of Step-mother!’ 45

Solitary Island, a, 719

Spider-silk, 524

St John’s Gate, 527

St Marguerite and St Honorât, 369

St Peter’s, 91

Stained Glass as an Accessory to Domestic Architecture, 359

Statues, Ancient and Modern, the Largest, 470

Steel, 575

Steno-telegraph, the, 607

Stock Exchange Morality, 828

Story of a Vast Explosion, 705

Strange Institution, 96

‘Strong-room’ at Peterborough, the, 655

Studies in Animal Life, 822

Suakim, 196

Sudden Fortunes, 241

---- Ruin, 571

Suicide, 292

Superstitions, the Common-sense of, 237

Surgical Scraps, 383

Terribly Fulfilled, 424, 440, 454

Thieves and Thieving, 525

Trading, Some Instances of Eastern, 463

Transvaal Gold-fields, 177

Trees, Christmas, 748

----, Some Sacred, 509

Trimming the Feet of Elephants, 240

Troubadours, the, 171

Two Days in a Lifetime, 5, 25, 41, 54, 73, 87, 105, 119

Umpires at Cricket, 399

Vaccination, 593, 688

Væ Victis, 629

Vermudyn’s Fate, 536, 552

Washing by Steam, 800

Water, 497

Water-ousel, a Plea for the, 270

Weather, How it is Made and Forecast, 689

Whale, Commercial Products of the, 566

What’s in a Name? 813

White-lead Manufacture, a New Process of, 158

Windermere, the Charr of, 406

Wind-power, Abandonment of, 319

Witness for the Defence, a, 217, 231, 247

Woman’s Work, a Word on, 606

Yarn of the _P. and O._, a, 503

Zulu Romance, a, 330