c..

Caedmon, anecdote of the Anglo-Saxon poet, 46. Calenture, disease called, 35.

Cannibalism of the Fijians, incredible extent of,

102.

of the New Zealanders, 185.

Canterbury, New Zealand, description of, 195.
Capital, effects of strikes on, 285.

Carlovingian romance, 257.

'Cautions for the Times,' Bishop Fitzgerald's, recommended, 250.

Cave temples, Indian, 179.

Cephalopoda, orders of the class, 88.

Charles I., story respecting the body of, 124.

II., his predilection for ballad music, 57. Chili, gradual upheaving of the coast of, 79. Cholsey barn, feat of thrashing in, 119. Church music, animadversion on, by Elredus, Abbot of Rivaulx, 51.

Ciceronian Latin, anecdote of extraordinary attachment to, 17.

Civil war, movements in Berkshire during the great, 131.

Coal, formation of, 78, 89.

Colet, Dean, his friendship with Erasmus, 8; his school at St. Paul's, prophetic liberality of its foundation, 14.

Colliers, strikes of the, 279.

'Colloquies' of Erasmus, popularity of, 19.
Coltsfoot, propagation of, 282.

Combination laws proved useless, 271.
Concerts, origin of public, 56.

Coral islands, wonderful structure and number of the, 100; ring-like form of, ib.; theories respecting, ib.; steep sides and saucer-shaped summit of Keeling's Island, 101.

Crow-garlic, mistake of farmers respecting, 289.
Cumnor Hall, ruins of, 116.

verty at Montague College, Paris, 7; his noble English pupils, ib.; driven by the plague from Paris, 8; his first visit to England, ib.; 'learns Greek in Oxford to teach it in Cambridge, 9; proceeds to Italy, 10; obtains the degree of Doetor at Turin, ib.; reception at Rome, 11; his intense abhorrence of war, ib.; returns to England, 12; appointed Margaret Professor of Divinity and Professor of Greek, 13; his disdain of all modern languages, ib.; characteristics of his style, 15; sovereigns contend for his services, ib.; his correspondence with the sovereigns of Europe, 16; his toleration of the Reformation, ib.; considered as a reviver of classical learning, 17; as an opponent of the superstition of the Middle Ages, 18; as the parent of Biblical criticism, 20; as the founder of a more comprehensive theology, ib.; his wish for a peaceful reformation, 21; wishes to extirpate all languages except Greek and Latin, 24; said to have owed his life to a fit of laughter, 25; his neutrality with respect to the Reformation, 26; his controversy with Luther, 29; character of, 32.

Erdmann's Geological Map of Sweden, 94.
Evans, Archdeacon, on Scripture Biography, 206.
Evidences of Christianity, 281 (see Powell, Rev. B.);
summary of the, 250.

F

Farm Weeds, Essay on, 287; definition of a weed, 288; propagation and destruction of coltsfoot, 288, 289; utility of knowing the habits of wild plants, 289; crow-garlic, ib.; table of the fecundity of weed-plants, 290; table of the ripening of seeds, 291; the farmer his own weed-grower, ib.; adulteration in crop-seed, 292.

Fijis, description of the, 112; contemplated British occupation of the, ib.

France, naval force of, in the Pacific, 111.
French naval stations in the Pacific, 110.

G.

Geological maps, 92; survey of the United King dom, ib.; of India, Victoria, and Tasmania, 95. Geology, progress of, 76; interior of the earth in a state of fusion, 77; primary, secondary, and tertiary rocks, 78: subdiyision of the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cainozoic epochs, ib.; agency of fire from within, and water from without, on the crust of the globe, ib,; nature of stratified rocks, 79; areas of destruction and production, ib.; levelling power of moving water, ib.; elevation of surface the result of igneous action, ib.;, upheaving and depression of different countries, ib.; formation of mountain chains accounted for, 80; effect of igneous masses on coal, limestone, clay, &c., forming metamorphic rocks, ib.; (see Organic fossils) difficulty of geological nomenclature, 90; classification and nomenclature fundamentally chronological, 91.

Graham, Mr. Cyril, on the Holy Land, 212.
Graunt, John, first analyses the bills of mortality,34.
Greenland gradually sinking towards the sea level,

79.

Grey, Sir G., his collection of works in the languages of Polynesia and South Africa, 102; his collection of Maori poetry, 185; marvellous progress of New Zealand under, 192; address of the New Zealanders on his departure, ib.

Guilds and corporations, early, 269; apprenticeship indispensable in, ib.; Shrewsbury cloth-frizers or sheermen, 270; statute of apprentices, ib.

sion, 156.

H.

Hall, Basil, adventure of, 69.

Hallam, A. H., commemorated by Tennyson's In Memoriam,' 252.

Halley's tables of the duration of human life, 35. Hamilton Tighe, foundation of the legend of, 115. Highnam Court, Gothic church at, 172. Holyoake's 'Reasoner,' mode of refuting, 248. Hutten, Ulric, his verses In tempora Julii,' 11; his character and contest with Erasmus, 24.

Ichthyosauri, 85.

L.

Invasion of England by France, 134; Prince de Joinville's pamphlet on, 136; republican commission on the French navy, ib.; activity of the French naval yards, 137; Cherbourg, ib.; immense works at Brest, L'Orient, Rochefort, and other stations, ib.; organisation and instruction of crews, ib.; iron-plated floating batteries, 189; question of steam propulsion in attack or defence, 140; difficulty of blockading by a steam fleet, ib.; retrospect of the threatened descent in 1804-5, 141; probable French plan of campaign, 142; perfect state of the French military establishments, 144; supposed cases of invasion at different points, ib.; means of resistance, ib.; a disciplined army contrasted with an unorganised mob, 145; possible consequences of an invasion, 146; iron-plated vessels destined to play an important part, 148; facility of manning the French navy, 149; fortifications of Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Chatham, 151; useless expenditure at Dover and Alderney, 151, 152. Islands of the Pacific, outrages of escaped convicts in, 98; incredible number of coral islands, ib.; volcanic character of, ib.; volcanic vestiges in the island of Maui, 99; sublime scenery of Hawaii, ib.; ethnology of, 102; physical characteristics of the inhabitants, ib.; decreasing population of, 103; extension of commerce in, 104; favourable geographical position of, 105; sovereignty of, refused by the English Government, 107; proceedings of the French in, 108.

M.

Moses, character of, 215

Mountjoy, Lord, his generosity to Erasmus. 7. Murchison, Sir R. I., 'Siluria' of, 93; his geological labours, 94.

Music, old popular, 45; Anglo-Saxon, 46; Danish, 47; minstrelsy under the Norman kings, ib.; popular ballads patronised by Henry VIII, 49; musical taste culminates at the accession of Elizabeth, ib.; stanzas from a popular song of the seventeenth century, 50; burden in early English songs, 51; many Scotch tunes of English origin, 57; political songs in the reign of Queen Anne, 58; peculiarities of English ballad music, classified by Mr. Chappell, ib.; character of his work on, 59.

Musical instruments, various names of old, 52.

N.

Naval Peer, a, on the invasion of England, 146. Nettle, rustic metrical maxims on the, 291. New Caledonia, French colonization of, 110; its dangerous proximity to Australia and New Zealand, 111.

New Zealand, remarkable fossils of, 87; masculine character of its inhabitants, 183; their manners and religion, ib.; trace of a Mosaic origin in their mythology, 184; inferior in intellect to no European race, ib.; specimen of their poetry; 185; fertility and beauty of the country, ib., cannibalism, ib.; diminution of the native population, ib.; Church, Wesleyan, and Roman Catholic converts, 186; adoption of the habits of civilised life, 187; agriculture and markets, ib. ; difficulty of purchasing land, 189; election of a native king, ib.; method of cooking, 190; complete cessation of cannibalism, ib.; population the want of the country, ib.; inferior position of women, 191; marriage of Europeans with native girls, ib.; constitutional government, 193; differences of climate and agriculture in the Seven Provinces, 194, 195; farming, 196; products, ib.; statistics of births and deaths, 197; salubrity, 197, 198; temperature and scenery, 198; considered as a field of emigration, 200. Niebuhr, remarkable prophecy of, 161. Nineveh, historical importance of the ruins of, 161.

0.

Old Testament, geography and biography of, 203; Jewish, the most remarkable of all geographies, 206; the history of the Jews begins in the valley of the Jordan, ib.; Palestine an isolated land, 207; alternations and contrasts in Palestine, 208;