Spencer, eccentricities of, 317

James I., boyhood and education of, 233

Jemmy Maclaine, the highwayman, 291

Jews, persecution of, 319

John, King, death of, 288

Johnson, Dr., birthplace of, 257

and George III., 318

pun by, 272

Jones, Sir William, his plan of study, 358

Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Christ, 120

Judge, upright, one, 267

Juliet, character of, 117

tomb of, 265

Junot and Napoleon, anecdote of, 190

Kemble, John anecdote of, 318

Ken, bishop, 48—336

Kenulph, King, his daughter, a tale, 4

Key, ancient, 337

King William IV., domestic habits of, 303

Kings, poverty of, 358

Knife-handle, antique, 345

Knowledge, how to acquire, 416

Korner, lines from, 38

Laconics, 31

La Fontaine, absence of, 111

Land-storm, tropical, 426

Landers' Voyage and Discoveries on the Niger, 149

Langreish, Sir Hercules and his friend, 63

Last of the Family, 156

Laurencekirk Snuff-boxes, 151

Lawrence, Mr. Justice, 277

Laws of the Navy, ancient, 134

Learned Ladies, 304

Lee, church at, described, 153

Leg, the worst, 368

Lestingham Church described, 297

Levee of the Sheik of Fellahi, 75

Life, progress of, 144

Libels on Poets, 290

Lifting heavy persons, 73

Lines to ——, 226

Lion-killer, 80

Lisbon described, 209

dandy, 69

dinner, 70

dockyard, 70

dogs, 70

vanity, 70

water-carrier, 70

Lock, miniature, 352

Locomotive Engines in America, 192

Lord Mayors of London, 176

Lords, house of, forms of, 325

Lord's Prayer in Arawaak, 320

Louis XIV., real character of, 84

Lucretia Davidson lines on, 148

Lucretius, extract from, 192

Ludlow Castle, stanzas on revisiting, 67

Lydford Bridge described, 289

Machinery and Manufactures, economy of, 27

Macklin's grand pause, 367

Madonna, Italian hymn to, 34

Magic in the East, true stories of, 26—76

Magic, natural, 72

Making and manufacturing, 55

Maltese Legend, 370

Malt Liquor, antiquity of, 227

Manchester, public buildings of, 177

Infirmary, 178

Royal Institution, 179

Town Hall, 178

Manners, family, history of, 130

Marriage, curious, 271

Marriage custom, 439

Marrying, excuses for not, 336

Mercers and Drapers, respectability of, 320

Merchants, opulent British, 319

Men of no business and paper cutting, 272

Michael Angelo, ecstasy of, 16

Mind on the Body, influence of the, 354

Mistletoe, origin of, 430

Mock-heroics, 304

Monasteries, error respecting, 265

Money, Anne's, 224

of Betrayal, or Price of Blood, 120

Charles, I. and II., 224

Cromwell, 224

Ecclesiastic, 223

Edward I. and IV., 223

Henry VII., 223

James II., 224

Milled, 224

Richard III., 223

Stephen, 223

Moody, the actor, avarice of, 367

Mortality, comparative, in England, 152

Mosaic Pavement described, 409

Muscular strength, extraordinary, 432

Mussulman and Hindoo religion, 80

My Fatherland, 38

Nankeen, varieties of, 416

Napoleon's Return from Elba, 165

National Gallery, the proposed, 64

Natural History, errors in, 38

Nature, luxuriance of, 175

Necklaces, satin-stone, 342

Nell Gwynne and Dr. Ken, 336

Newcastle, grammar-school, 193

Newcastle, the learned duchess of, 161

Newcastle-under-Lyne, election at, 288

New Year's Gifts, 439

Niagara, recent visit to, 446

Niger, discoveries on the, 149

Nightingales in Essex, 144

Norfolk, the late duke of, 86

Norton Lees, hall at, 273

Nugent, Lord and Lady, legends by, 350

Nutria Fur, account of, 279—314

O'Brien, the Irish Giant, 182

Oil in cookery, 352

Old Soldier, the, a sketch, 403

Olive Oil, 79—424

Omen, evil one, 261

Opera and Theatres in London, 365

Opal, beauty of, 77

Oporto described, 49

Oriental Smoking, 170

Ornithorhyncus Paradoxus, the, 189

Ostrich speed, and diet of, 262

stomach of the, 303

Otway's "Venice Preserved," 50

Owen's almshouses, 143

Paddy Fooshane's Fricassee, 108

Painters born at Antwerp, 380

Painter's last passion, 132

retort, 128

Panorama of Stirling, 410

Parliamentary debates, origin of, 128

forms, 326

Parliaments, early, 211—325

Party-spirit, Fuller on, 352

Past, the, a song, 46

Past Times, a song, 46

Pastor, a faithful one, 207

Patriotism, genuine, 438

Peak, Antiquities of, 113

Pearl in the Oyster, 230

Pekin, ancient trade of, 320

Pelican, error respecting, 96

Pennsylvania, settlement of, 208

Pepper, varieties of, 416

Perrier, Casimir, memoir of, 116

Persian Bath, 145

Fable, 228

Peru, discovery of, 432

Peter the Great, anecdotes of, 300—308

character of, 361

Peter Pence, origin of, 343

Peter Simple, life of, 121

Petition to Time, 11

Petit-or, value of, 425

Petrarch's Tomb, 169

Phillips, Col., recollections of, 402

Phrenology, curiosities of, 45

Physician's Fees, 261

Pic Nic at Tempe, 15

Pickpockets, qualifications of, 334

Piracy in olden times, 26

Pitch-in-the-hole, ancient, 320

Pitt, Mr., statue of, 40

Plaint of certain coral beads, 406

Plants, light and air on, 262

in rooms, 263

Poets, Major and Minor, 51

Pompadour, Madame de, her toilette, by Voltaire, 163

Pompeii, antiquities of, 412

Poor Laws, origin of, 327

Popes, List of, 416

Portdown Fair described, 121

Portugal, antiquity of, 48

manners and customs in, 69

Posts for Letters, origin of, 322

Post Office, revenue of, 440

Potato, economy of, 127

Poverty, Owen Feltham on, 414

Prayer, a fragment, 179

Precious Stones, varieties of, 77

Preservation of the Human Body, 133

Primrose, withered, lines on, 95

Printer, studious, 128

Printing, invention of, 143

from wooden blocks, 55

Prison Discipline in America, 286

Psalmody, origin of, 146

Public Credit explained, 142

Punctuality of Colonel Boswell, 448

Quadroon Girl, a song, 46

Quin and Macklin, 367

Quizzing, literary, 144

Railway, Liverpool and Manchester, 112

Raw Materials, 56

Recollections of a Wanderer 21—373

Records in the Tower of London, 279

Regent-street, charms of, 365

Regulating Power, 55

Relics of Popery, 344

Religious Fastings, 195

Resting-place, the, 354

Review, the first, 176

Rhyming Ruminations on London Bridge, 26

Rising, advantages of early, 16

Robespierre, anecdote of, 95

fall of, 106

Robin Hood, history of, 180—204

Rome, by T. Moore, 364

Romeo and Juliet, story of, 118

Romney, antiquity of, 294

Rose of the Castle, 133

of Edendale, by L.E.L., 335

lines to, 221

Rotuma, island of, described, 376

Roundelaye, ancient, 16

Royalty, freaks of, 207

Rubens, memoir of, 381

Ruby,