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A soldier's trust, 5051
Abyssinia, deaths and funerals in,

417

Abyssinian Priests, described, 372
Africa, Central, Dr. Vogel in, 253
Africa, Southern, Dr. Livingston's
journey through the interior of, 537
America. Destruction of the stock
of Messrs. Harper, publishers, of
New-York, by fire, 74-particulars
of the rise of Messrs. Harper, 74-
an American erratum noticed, 138
Anathemas, specimens of: Jewish, 205
-Papal, 206

Anecdotes: Archbishop Usher and
Henry Cromwell, 6-Mrs. Opie, 90
An old maxim, 426

Armenia and Asia Minor, the Gospel
in, 293

Assyrian weights, 20

Asteroids, tabulated views of, 45, 94-
table of the orbits of, explained, 140,
189-the asteroid "Bellona," 238
Astronomical phenomena. See Celes-
tial objects.

Athens, St. Paul at, 249

Chaucer, biographic sketch of, 193
China, a journey in, 264
Chinese insurgents, an imposture of
the, 118

Clement VII., a scene in the life of,

565

Coinage, English, account of, 454
Cologne, moral of the Cathedral of, 534
Coloured glass windows, hints for, 154
Comet visible in March and April of

this year, remarks on, 240, 284-in
August of last year, 333-parabolic
orbits of comets, 381
Constantine the Great,note respecting,
106

Cowper, biographic sketch of, 433, 483
Crystal Palace, Sabbath-keeping in
the, 474 books on the, noticed, 476

Dante, biographic sketch of, 337
Dickens, caricature of religion by, 207
Dionysius, St., of Zante, history of,

557

Dryden, John, biographic sketch of,

241

Eagle and swan, 64
Eagles, anecdotes of, 129
Eclipse of the moon, 237, 525-of the
sun, 237, 526

Educated men, obligations of: an ad-
dress, by the Rev. John Allison,
New-Brunswick, 156

Embalming of Joseph, 368
Episcopius, Simon, biographic sketch
of, 97

Euler, biographic sketch of, 529
Evangelical religion, popular carica-
tures of, 207
Exercises, 43

Fashion, the miseries of, 281
First-fruits, in the Church of England,
explained, 56

Fletcher, Mrs., the "Life" of, a fa-
vourite book with the ex-Queen of
the French, 91

Forge, worth at the, 564
Friends of Jesus, 283

Gas, electric, 107

Gavazzi, Father, on liberty
Popery, 566

Get along peaceably, 330

Gower, John, biographic sketch of,

145

Harpies, classic fable of the, 556-
conjectured origin of the myth, 564
Heart, treachery of the, 109
Heat, lecture on: Nature and pro-
perties of matter, 451-forces that

act on matter, attraction of gravita-
tion, 451; attraction of cohesion,
454-nature of heat, 495; the ma-

terial theory, 495; the undulatory
theory, 495-terms used in treating
of heat explained, 495-sources of
heat, the sun, mechanical condensa-

tion, 497; chemical condensation,
498-diffusion of heat, by radiation,
540; by conduction, 541-law of
expansion, 543; expansion of solid
bodies, 543; of liquids, 543; tem-
perature measured by expansion,
544; thermometer explained, 544;
theory of the winds, 545; exceptions
to the law of expansion, 547-re-
flections on the part performed by
heat in the economy of nature, 547
Henry II., the will of, 247
High-Priest, Jewish, institution and
functions of the, 444
How to make yourself remembered, 377

Lord Mayor of London, proper title
of the, 523

Luther, Martin, on music, 7
Mercury, the planet, summary of
what is known concerning, 569
Microscope, uses of the, 358
Mohammedan worship, described, 423
Missions a reality, 12
Monkeys in Abyssinia, 365
Monachism, Italian, 416
Mount Sinai, the written rocks of, 15
Moses no impostor, 342
Mythology, heathen, sketch of, 555

Naturalist, the: Winter occupations,
36-mosses and their allies, 85-
British butterflies, 124-the nests
and eggs of British birds, 164-
British ophidia, 269, 318-the
squirrel and its allies, 354-the dor-
mouse and its kindred, 463-the
mole, 489-bats, or hand-winged
animals, 559

Nervous system, lecture on the: Diffi
culty of the subject, 312-pro-
gressive development of the nervous
system in the lower and higher
animals, 313; and in man, 314-
anatomy of the nervous system, 315
-its functions, 316; sensation and
voluntary motion, 317; experi-
ments, 348; the brain the organ of
the mind, not the mind itself, 352
-involuntary movements, 390-
instinctive reflex movements, 392;
Dr. M. Hall on the functions of the
spinal marrow, 394-general con-
clusions, 397

NEW Books:

A Correspondence between Edward
Baines, Esq., and B. Oliveira,
Esq, M.P., on the Opening of the
Crystal Palace, 476

A Schoolmaster's Difficulties at
Home and Abroad, 236

Breen's "Planetary Worlds," 567
Brewster's (Miss) "Sunbeams in the

Cottage," 567

Brewster's (Sir David)

Worlds than One," 378

"More

Cassell's "Natural History: The
Feathered Tribe," 331

Chart of the Australian Gold-
Fields, 188

Ripley, late Robert, M.D., lecture by, on the Nervous System, 312, 348, 390-on Heat, 450, 494, 540 Russell, Lady Rachel, "Letters" of, noticed, 52

Russell, Lord William, scene at the execution of, 50

"St. James's vow," origin of the tax so called, 173

Sandwich Islands, royal mantle of the, 462-a Sabbath in the, 471 Saxon husbands and British wives, 500

Scott, Sir Walter, remarks on the novels of, 209, 210, 459-observations by, on Dryden's perversion,

244