beauty of, 78

Rye, antiquity of, 295

Salads, antiquity of, 358

Salt, fine basket, 425

good effects of, 265

Saltpetre, manufacture of, 88

Sandwich, antiquity of, 295

Sapphires, beauty of, 77

Sargasso Weed, account of, 136

Satin-stone Necklaces, 342

Saving time in natural operations, 55

Savoyard, the, a ballad, 275

School Building in the High Alps, 171

Schoolmaster's experience in Newgate, 333

Schools before the Reformation, 75

Sciences, progress of, 266

Scipio, continence of, 258

Scotch "Bluid," anecdote of, 123

Scott, Sir Walter, Memoir of:

Abbotsford, 241—247—248—250

Sonnet, by Wordsworth, 420

anecdotes of, 435

baronetcy, 250

birth of, 241

Scott, Sir Walter, character of, 255—256

childhood, 242

clerk of Sessions, 247

death, 208—253—

—on the, by the Author of Eugene Aram, 219

Dryburgh Abbey, 256—436

education, 242

embarrassments of, 251—256

and the Ettrick Shepherd, 335

family, 253

fatal illness, 252

funeral of, 253

by an eye-witness, 345

Life of Napoleon, 251

love of reading, 243

law studies, 244

literary attempts, 244

marriage, 246

medal of, 255

memory, 245

Melrose Abbey, 436

parentage, 242

portraits of, 254

school days, 243

Selkirk, 437

sheriffdom, 246

telling a story, 243

Works of:

Dryden and Swift, edition of, 247

Eve of St. John, 245

Glenfinlas, 245

Goetz of Berlinchingen translated, 245

Lady of the Lake, 247

Lay of the Last Minstrel, 246

Leonora, &c., translations of, 245

Marmion, 247

Miscellaneous Works, 250

Novels, List of, 250

Rokeby and Minor Poems, 249

unpublished works, 255

Waverley, 249

Novels, 252

Sea, depth of the, 427

Sea-shore, changes on, 78

Seal, a blind one, 298

Seaman, knowing, 432

Secret Lover, the, from the Persian, 204

Servants affected by fashionable manners and customs, 331—348

Servants in India, 105

Servant, monument to a faithful one, 288

Servants, Vails to, 318

Shark, adventure with, 381

Shaving or throat-cutting, 272

Shelly, the poet, anecdote of, 407

Sheridan's Funeral, 448

Sheriff of London, Journal of, 196—212

Shrewsbury, Anna Maria, Countess of, 112

Silk Manufacture, outline of, 446

Skeleton Dance, from Goethe, 420

Slave Trade in England, 319

Smoking forbidden in Parliament, 336

Snake, anecdote of a tame one, 327

Snuff-boxes, Laurencekirk, 151

Snuffers, antique, 337

Soldier, annual cost of, 176

dress of, 448

Solecisms in Language, 350

Somersetshire, land-custom in, 112

Song from the Album of a Poet, 98

Songs, by Barry Cornwall, 46

Song, Scottish, 317

Song-writing, spirit of, 11

Sounds during the night, 107

Spain, stupendous bridge in, 24

Spaniards and Portuguese, 69

Spencer's account of the Irish Mantle, 415

Spinning-wheel Song, 391

Spirit of Despotism, by Dr. Knox, 106

Spirit-drinking, evils of, 307

in 1736, 133

Spontaneous combustion, 162—211

Spring, harbingers of, 174

St. Cross, Church and Hospital of, 217—228

St. Dunstan's in the West, new church of, 34

St. Goar on the Rhine, legend of, 386

St. Hellen's Well, Staffordshire, 228

St. James's Park, improvement of, 418

St. Paul's Cathedral, monuments in, 96

Stael, Madame de, 86

Stages, Islington, olden, 335

Stanzas for Music, 52

Stationers' Company, origin of, 286

Statue of Mr. Canning, 25

of Mr. Pitt, 40

Steam Carriages on common roads, 183—198

Coaches and Power, 128

Engine simplified, 315

Navigation, 48

Packets, value of, 272

Stirling, panorama of, 410

Stork, the, 216

Story, extraordinary one, 292

Strand, the original, 207

Stranger, a song, 46

Streets, narrow, of Cairo, 80

Success in Life, grand secret of, 85

Suffolk-street Gallery, exhibition at, 330—362

Sugar, improved raw, 148

Sugar-refining, history of, 149

Sumptuary Laws, intention of, 439

Swampy Kingdom, 207

Tanfield Arch described, 353

Tea-makers, hint to, 176

Tears, the, an apologue, 403

Teeth of Crocodiles, 96

Tempe, Pic Nic at, 15

Temper, equanimity of, 99

Tenterden Steeple and Goodwin Sands, 38

Thebes, description of, 141

Thou wert the Rainbow of my Dreams, 290

Thurlow, the great Lord, 259

Tiger, sight of, 100

Titian, grave of, 216

Titles, origin of, 287

Toad-fish, economy of, 135

Tom Cringle's Log, 381—425

Tombs, celebrated Roman, 231

Tomb of Caius Cestius, 233

Tomb of Cæcilia Metella, 232

Horatii and Curatii, 233

Juliet, 265

Tongue of Man, 96

Toothache, cure for, 212

Torchlight custom, 260

Tornado, by T. Pringle, Esq., 400

Tory, origin of, 144

Towers of Tarifa, the, 186

Trade, anti-free, 304

Tradesmen affected by fashion, 332—349

Tradesmen, ancient, 261

Tragedy and Comedy, essay on, 82

Traveller's Diary, scraps from, 219—364

Trials of Grace Huntley, a tale, 395

Truth, the plain, 207

Tulip, Fanny Kemble, 272

Tulip Tree, 38

Tunnel, natural, in Virginia, 433

Turkish Baths, 74

Turncoat, 336

Turtle Mayor, 336

Twins, monument of, 240

Umbrellas, invention of, 269

Uneducated, who are? 95

Usury in the Middle Ages, 320

Van Dieman's Land, civilization in, 5

Velocity, increased and diminished, 55

Venice, by T. Moore, 219

Vestry Dinner in Persia, 75

Victims of Susceptibility, 154

Vine, the, an apologue, 403

Viper, horned, poison of, 354

Virginia, natural tunnel in, 433

Voice of Humanity, the, 201

Volcanoes on the Globe, 448

Voltaire, anecdote of, 293

Voyage of Manufacture, 54

Vulture, 80

Wakefield, chapel on the bridge at, 401

Walcot, Dr., and Shield, 448

Walking Gallows, 52

Walnut Water, properties of, 176

Watching for the Soul, 368

Waterloo, battle of, 235

child, 128

day after the battle, 166

the year of, 165

Wearied Soldier, the, 195

Weather, journals of, 111

Were and Werelade, 71

Whale, gigantic, account of, 341

What's in a name? 391

Wheston, cross at, 113

When wilt thou return? 290

Wieland, on the Druids, 20

Wight, isle of, town in, 225

Wilks's Cottage, 225

Wilkes's Luckiest Number, 143

William the Conqueror, funeral of, 13

Winchelsea, antiquity of, 295

Windermere, scene on, 308

Wines, German, 281

Wingfield Manor House, described, 321

Wit, ready, 304

Witchcraft in 1618, 130

Witchcraft and