INDEX.

ABBEVILLE, sunset at, October 1, 1868 (Diagram 1), 376, 388, 405–406.
ABINGDON, plague-wind at, 385.

AGE, good humour should increase with, 389.

ALPS, plague-cloud in the high (1882), 418 seq.; storm in Val d'Aosta
(Diagram 4), 382; sunset and sunrise amongst, colours of, 375,
403-404.

AMERICAN meat, etc., in England, 422.

ANDREWS, Rev. W. R., letter to author on sunsets, 1883, 422 n.
ANEMOMETER, value of the, 390.

AUTHOR, the. (a) Personal.-At Avallon, sees "Faust," 387; at Ayles-
bury, May 26-27, 1875, 384; his book of Boticelli and Mantegna
drawings, 394; helped by chance, 394; his character, not always
ill-humoured, 389; and the Franco-Prussian war, 386; geology of,
plans for a Grammar of Ice and Air," 409; at Herne Hill, March
12, 1884, pref., 362; his imaginative vision, pref., 361; solitude
and leisure of, 361; at Vevay, 1872, 384; weather as influencing,
385, 417, 425; as observed by, 365.

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(b) Writing of. — His command of language" means careful
thought, 410; his power not eloquence but simple statement of
feeling, 417; description of colour not due to his mental state,
405; does not " hedge " in what he says, 425; diary quoted on
conditions of weather:-

(c) Books of, quoted or referred to :-

"Art of England," on clouds, 367, 401.

"Eagle's Nest," on cumulus cloud, over Westminster, 382; on
light, 380.

Fiction Fair and Foul," on blasphemy, 420.

"Fors Clavigera," on education, 421; July and August, 1871, on
the plague-wind, 383-386.

"Modern Painters," could not have been written in bad weather,
as its argument depends on the glory of nature, 425; quoted
n cloud formation, 398; on the lee side cloud (v. 129), 401–
402; on cloud outline, 405; on cloud temperature, 408; on

dawn and rain-cloud, 395; v. 128, on Matterhorn and chilled
vapour, 399; v. 145, on "Perseus" myth, 417; on Turner's
symbolic use of scarlet, 396.

"Queen of the Air," 417.

"Storm-Cloud of Nineteenth Century," how written, pref. 393;
newspaper reports of, 361; its observation true, 361; title of,
365.

AQUEOUS MOLECULES, different kinds of, 373.

ARISTOPHANES' "Clouds," 399.

ASTROLOGY, Chaldæan, its warnings distinct, its promises deceitful, 396.
AVALLON, author at, sees "Faust," 387.

BANDIERA DELLA MORTE, the, 374.

BARRETT, Mr. Wilson, provides limelight for author's lecture, 375.
BELESES, Byron's "Sardanapalus," 368–369.

BILLIARD BALL, does not shiver on its own account, 380, 409.
BIRKETT, A H., letter to author on plague-wind, 416-417.
BISE, the, wind of Provence, 384, 386.

BLASPHEMY, meaning of, 420; of science, 421; in Thackeray, 420.
BLIGHT, caused by plague-wind, 416-417.

BOLTON, July 4, 1875, author at, 383-384.

BOOK, Florentine, bought by author against British Museum for £1000,
395.

BRANTWOOD. See CONISTON.

BYRON, his accuracy of observation, "deepening clouds," 395; the last
Englishman who loved Greece, 368, 395; on the sun, "burning
oracle," 396; on superstition, 396; "Sardanapalus" quoted, 368-
369.

CARLYLE'S "mostly fools" quoted, 463.

CHALDEAN ASTROLOGY, 396.

CHAPMAN'S "Homer," quoted, 402-403.
CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE, 399.

CLOUDS, ancient idea of, 366; bad and fair weather, 370; black, 401;
colour of, how caused, 374 seq.; cumulus and cirrus, 382-383;
"deepening" (Byron), 395; defined, 370 seq.; drift, 399; electric,
405; flight of, author on the, 418; formation of, 408; glacial, 406;
golden lining of, 403; green, rare, 376-377; leeside, 401; liter-
ature, great on, 367 seq.; on mountain tops, 397, 399–400; pris
matic, 376, 379; stationary, 367-368; stationary and fast-flying,

878, 405, 418-419; sunlight on opaque and transparent. its colour,
375; visible when existent, 371, 373; windy, and windless, 405.
COLLINGWOOD, W. G. (diagram 5), 391.

COLOUR, diffracted, too bright to be painted, 375, 378, 404; inherent
and reflected, 403 and note; of sun on white objects, 375.
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS, 423.

CONISTON, the "Eaglet" at, 390; gale at, showing force of wind, 415:
hills, 388; lake frozen, 1878-9, 388; lake in winds, 390; Old Man,
377; plague-wind at, 389 869.; sunset, August 6, 1880, 377, 388;
weather, 388.

CORREGGIO alone could paint rain-cloud at dawn, 395.

CUNNINGHAM's "Strait of Magellan," sunset described in, 403 and n.

"DAILY NEWS" on the "Storm-Cloud" lecture, 424.

DANTE, "Divina Commedia " referred to on vapour and cloud, 393.
DAWN, description of, "Modern Painters," 393-394.

DELPHIC ORACLE deceptive, 395.

DE SAUSSURE, observant and descriptive, 365; on cloud-capped moun.
tains, 400.

DIAGRAM 1.-Abbeville, October 1, 1868, sunset, 376, 406.

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2.-Brantwood, August 6, 1880, sunset, 377, 381, 405.
3.-Verona to Brescia, twilight, 1845, 381.

4.-Val d'Aosta, storm, 382.

5.-Herne Hill, sunset, 391.

DIFFRACTION of light, 376, 404.

"EAGLET," the, Coniston, 390.

EDUCATION, modern, 421; its object a good position in life, 423.
ENERGY, right use of the word, 410, 411.

ENGLAND, the Empire of modern, one on which the sun never rises,
392; refusal of, to give Greece a king, 395; religion of, God denied,
393; wealth of, imports necessaries of life from America, 422.

FAITH, never found vain, 428.

FAN, action on the air of a, 412.

"FAUST," at Avallon, author sees, 387.

"FIAT lux, fiat anima," 380.

FOG, in London, 372, 373; at Coniston, 389.

FORS, author aided by, 394.

FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR, author on the, 386

FRENCH oaths, not blasphemy, 420–421.

GLACIER motion, Tyndall on, 411.

GLADSTONE, W. E., love of Homer, 395.

GLOOM, moral and physical, 392-393.

GOULD'S "British Birds," illustrations to, 395.

GRAVITATION, the law, and of growth, 373.

GREECE, Byron's love of (see BYRON); England's refusal to give her a

king, 395.

GULLS, sea, 416.

HAZE, and the wind, 874.

HEART, the, its life and faith, 366. See EDUCATION

HELIOMETER, 391.

HERNE HILL, author at, pref., 362; old-fashioned sunset at, 391.

HILL, G. B.,letter to author on stationary clouds, 363, 401.

HOMER, quoted, Il. iv., on black clouds, 401; Il. v., on motionless

clouds, 367.

HORACE, quoted, 396.

HUMBOLDT, author reading, 388.

HUMOUR, good, in old age, 389.

HUXLEY, Prof., ascent of Mt. Blanc, 405.

IMAGINATIVE vision, its nobility, pref., 361.

INFIDELITY, modern, 392, 421-422.

INSTRUMENTS, eyes better than any, 390, 415 seq.
ITALIAN School. backgrounds of, 381.

JOANIE (Mrs. Arthur Severn), 388.
JOSHUA at Ascalon, 392.

JURA, St. Laurent, reflection of light on, 404-405; weather on the,
plague-wind, 419.

LANGUAGE, and thought, 409–410.

LEARNING by heart, 421-422.

LESLIE, R. C., letters to author on the weather, etc., 413, 416.

LIGHT, atmosphere transmissive but unreflective of, 373; reflection,
etc., of, 376; modern science and "Let there be light," 409; moral
science of, 381; a sensation only, 380.

LONDON, education of life in, 423; fog, 370, 371; may have to be
roofed over, 373; sunset, 391.

MAN, his true happiness in admiration, hope, and love, 426-427.
MANCHESTER darkness, 389.

MARS, redness of, and its meaning, 395.

MATTERHORN, Tyndall on the, 399.

MILAN cathedral, floor of, 388; whiteness of, 375.

MILL, J. S., his political economy, 422.

MIST, definition of, 373.

MODERNISM. See INFIDELITY.

MOLECULES, aqueous, 374, 418; and the sky, 408.

MOUNTAINS, cloud-capped, 398-400; "sink by their own weight" (Tyn-
dall), 399.

MYRRHA, Byron's "Sardanapalus," 368-369.

NATURAL and unnatural, author's use of the words, 393–394.

NATURE, the laws of, result of obedience and disobedience to, 393; the

order of, ib.

NELSON column, 399.

NEWMAN, Messrs., pigments of, 376.

NEWTON, Charles, and Greek sculpture, 395; Sir Isaac, and the law of
gravitation, 373.

OPTICS, eyes better than machines, 391. See INSTRUMENTS.
OSCILLATION, 409.

OXFORD, galleries, drawing of "Theology" given to, by author, 394;
museum, skulls of cretins in the, 421; plague-wind at, 384-385.

PHILOSOPHY, modern, idea of the natural in, 394.
PLAGUE cloud, always dirty, never blue, 401; wind, the, does not
always blow, 388; author's first notice of, 1871, 384; "Fors Clavi-
gera on, 385-386; described, 386 seq.; (a) it is dark, (b) malig.
nant, (c) tremulous, (e) intermittent, (f) degrading, (g) branches
the sun, 390, 396; no diagram of, needed, 392; moral meaning of,
392, 425; rise and scope of, 381, 384; scientists have not observed,
367, 423; in Switzerland and Italy, 429 seq.

PLATO on the sight, 380.

POLITICAL economists and usury, 422.

POPE'S "Homer" referred to, 403.

POVERTY, not the fault of the poor," 423.

POWERS, our natural, sufficient for all our needs, 415.

PRISMATIC colours too bright to be painted, 391. See COLOUR.
PROPHECY, the teaching of all, 392–393.

RAE, Dr. John, on glacial clouds, 407.
RAIN, weather preceding, 373–374.
RAINBOW, purity of a, in frost mist, 378.
RAIN-CLOUD, 367, 394.

REFLECTION of light and colour, 401, 403.

RELIGION, modern, 397.

REPETITION and learning by heart, as part of education, 421-428.
RHINE-FALLS, the, at Schaffhausen, 419.

SALLENCHES, plague-wind at, September 11, 1882, 419 seq.

SCIENCE, blasphemy of, and love of ugliness, 421; the God of, "a me-
dium pervading space," 424; men of, what they do and ought to
do, 372; their knowledge, 398; their language, inaccurate and
careless, 379, 397, 409; their Latin-English, 379.

SCOTS GREYS, the, 374.

SEA GULLS, 416.

SENSATIONALISM, in philosophy, 380.

SENSES, the unaided, sufficient for all our needs, 414.

SEVERN, Arthur, his boat on Coniston, 389; diagrams 2 and 4 by, 377,

382.

SEVERN, Mrs. (JOANIE), 388.

SHAKSPEARE, quoted, 425.

SIGHT, the, only a sensation, 380; Plato on, 380; the unaided, 414.

SIN, modern, and denial of God, 392.

SKY, never seen by modern artists, 418; blueness of, how caused, 378;
its elements, 408; green, how caused, 376, 404-405.

SMITH, Adam, 422.

SOLOMON, wisdom of (Prov. xvii.), 422.

SOUND, a sensation only, 380.

SOUTH-WEST, the favorite quarter for the plague-wind, 386.
STATION in life, the end of modern knowledge, 423.

STEAM, visibility of, 370; its nature, 397-398.

STEWART, Balfour, on the "Conservation of Energy," 410 seq.,
STORM-CLOUD, in the old days. 366; and now-a-days, 367.

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SUN, the, blanched by the plague-wind, 380–381, 413; Byron on
burning oracle," 396; in cloud and plague-cloud, 391; effect of