Guicciardini's personal and political
records, 416-the family possessed
the feline faculty of always falling
on their feet, 420-his civil and poli-
tical yv@uai, 425-his embassy to
King Ferdinand of Arragon, 427-a
foe to popular as well as to priestly
and monarchical tyranny, 429-his
insight into weaknesses and vices,
430-political maxims, 432-maxims
illustrating his Machiavellism, 433—
comparison between him and Machia-
velli, 435-shelved as a statesman,
becomes the historian, 437 — his
imaginary conversations, 438-his
great work the famous (and tedious)
Istoria d' Italia,' 439.

H.

Hale (Dr.), Shakspeare's son-in-law, 25.
Handel, according to Beethoven the
greatest musician in the world, 165.
Handwriting of distinguished men, 209.
Hardinge's (Mrs. Emma) spiritualistic

new Ten Commandments, 306.
Hare (Dr.), the American physicist, on
spirit manifestations, 327-his appa-
ratus for freeing spirits from the
control of any medium, 337.
Hearing (acute) of rats and other
animals, 148.

Heber's (Bishop) edition of Jeremy
Taylor's works, 113.
Herschell (Sir John), tribute to his
memory, 353.

Home, the Spiritualist, receives a gift
of sixty thousand pounds, 326-his
precise experimental proof of the
immortality of the soul, 339-claim

to the power of altering the weight
of bodies, 344-his performance with
an accordion, 346.

Hops, 393, 400.

Houdin's (Robert, the celebrated pres-
tidigitateur) autobiography, 308-
his mode of preparing himself and
his son for their exhibitions, 333.
Huggins's (Dr.) testimony as to the
manifestations of Psychic Force, 340
-his unsurpassed ability as a spec-
troscopic observer, 341.

Hugo's (Victor) 'Marion Delorme,' 222..
Hullah's operas and songs and musical

exercises and studies, 169-history
of modern music and lectures, 145.
Hussites and Catholics, their contest
one between two races for supremacy
in Bohemia, 107.

Laycock (Dr.) on the reflex action of

the brain, 310.
Levi's (Professor Leone) Report on the
Liquor trades, 362.

Lindsay's (Lord) testimony for Spi-
ritualism, 335-personally witnessing
Mr. Home's floating in the air from
one room to another through the
windows, 336.

Lock-outs and strikes, 248.

Longe's (F. D.) refutation of Mill's

wage-fund theory, 236.
Lucy's (Sir Thomas) prosecution of
Shakspeare for deer-stealing, 7-his
family, 8-powerful at the Court of
the Tudors, 9.

M.

McCulloch's economical paradox, 240.
Machiavelli, the sole moral of his
doctrine of princely policy to dis-
regard vice, ill-faith, and cruelty to
promote aggrandisement, 436.
Manors, feudal view of the origin of,
186.

Marks of Teutonic townships, 181.
Mars' (Mademoiselle) acting, 221.
Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's
Dream,' 167-overture to Fingal's
Cave,' and other works, 168.
Mesmer and his followers, 302.
Mills' (J. S.) programme of the Land
Tenure Reform Association, 229-
dictum that the labourers need only
capital not capitalists,' 232-Japanese
etiquette in the happy despatch of
the wage-fund, 236.

Molière's avowal of plagiarism, Je
prends mon bien ou je le trouve, 193.
Monkeys having a strong taste for tea,
coffee, and spirituous liquors, and for
smoking tobacco, 64.
Monopolies, industrial, 461-undertak-
ings which competition cannot regu-
late, ib.-undertakings which tend to
become monopolies, 462-question
whether they should be conducted by
private enterprise or Government
management, 463-discussed by Mr.
Mill, ib.-French view of monopolies,
465-summary of arguments in favour
of Government management, 466-
application of those views to harbours
and natural navigations, 468-to
canals and docks, 469-to lighthouses,
roads, 470-bridges and ferries, rail-
ways, 471-failure of competition in
railways, 471- Irish railways an
example of the evils of competition,
472-impotence of the Legislature in

limitation of profits, 474-and for
continuous traffic, 475-objections to
purchase of railways by the Govern-
ment, 477-tramways, ib.-gas-works,
479-water supply, 481-Post Office,
483-telegraphs, 484- suggestions
for improvements,486-patronage and
jobbing in the management of public
works, 490.

Music, origin of vocal and instrumental,
145 - immense antiquity of wind
instruments, 146-pre-historic flute
ib.-what constitutes pitch, 147-
the limits of musical sound about
six octaves, 148-what constitutes
intensity of musical sounds, ib.-
quality or timbre, 148-mode of de-
termining the form of the vibrations
of different instruments, ib.-differ-
ently formed waves of sound trans-
mitting a different stroke and quality
of sound to the ear, ib.-difference
between noise and musical sound
explained by M. Beauquier, 149-
three fundamental harmonies of a
note, ib.-modern music the supreme
art-medium of emotion, 154-pecu-
liarities of music for the generation
and expression of emotion, 155-power
of music in controlling and dis-
ciplining emotion, 156-difference in
the morale of Italian and German
music, ib.-moral and emotional func-
tions of music, 157-Greek and He-
brew music, 158-art of descant, ib.
-development of modern music, 159
-first and greatest discovery, ib.-
the perfect cadence, ib.- Carissimi
the very type of the transition period,
160-modern music a new art with
recently discovered principles, ib.-
how far England is, or has been, a
musical country, 160-John Dun-
stable, in 1400, represents a great
musical force in this country, ib.-
English Church music, 161 - the
famous song 'Sumer is a cumen
in,' ib. foreign origin of all the
forms of modern music, ib.-English
madrigals, 162-Anglo-French school
of Pelham, Humphrey, and Purcell,
163-Purcell to be ranked with
Mozart, ib.-Handel (according to
Beethoven) the greatest musician
who ever lived, 165-Rossini, Weber,
166-Mendelssohn, 167-Beethoven's
influence on the music of this country,
108-influence of John Hullah, 169
-Curwen's Tonic Sol-fa system, ib.—
tonal difference between the Hullah
and Sol-fa methods, b.- Henry

Leslie's choir, ib.-three proposals
respecting musical education, 172-
-the consolations of music, 175.

N.

Navy, mismanagement of the, 441-loss
of the Captain,' ib.- Mr. Reed's
report to Mr. Childers that it was
utterly unsafe, 443-defects in the
ship, and warnings, 444-description
of its loss with 500 men, 445-pro-
ceedings of the Flying Squadron,
448-the 'Megæra,' 469--loss of the
ship, 451-sacrifice of ships balanced
with the supposed economy of the
Administration, 451-grounding of
the Agincourt,'454-necessity of not
dispensing with navigating officers,
456-their duties, ib.-gunboats 458
-premature compulsory retirement
of experienced officers, 459-the com-
mand of the Channel Fleet, ib.
Neil's 'Shakespere,' a critical biography,

1.

Nervous system, six kinds of action to
which it ministers, 67.

0.

Odger's International Association for
the emancipation of the working class,

555.

Ouvry (Col.) on the agricultural com-
munity of the Middle Ages, 176.
Operative associations for productive
purposes, causes of their failure in
France, 251-Co-operative Society of
Paris Masons, 253.

P.

Paris workmen (the) rebel successively
against every form of government,
561-the dethronement of Paris,
566.

Pea-fowl, Sir R. Heron on the habits
of, 58.
Peasant-proprietorship, shipwreck of
enthusiasts of, 259.
Plagiarism in modern literature, shades
and degrees of, 193-exemplified
from Sheridan, Byron, Scott, Balzac,
Lamartine, Sterne, Brougham, ib.
Plato's 'Dialogues,' by Professor Jowett,
492-two leading aims of Platonic
translation, 494-the three cardinal
points of Platonic chronology, 497-
how Plato wrought the teaching of
Socrates and his predecessors into a
single fabric, 501-the doctrine of
reminiscence, ib.-the Republic' the
greatest monument of Plato's geaius,

.

b.-his pervading fallacy of con
fusing the method of science with
science itself, 503-two characteristic
weaknesses of ancient speculation,
507-Plato's view of the office of
mythology, 503-distinguishes four
kinds of madness, 510-the relation
of justice to happiness, 513-con-
fusion of ethics and politics, 514-
the Megarians and Eleatics, 518-
Plato's Laws' sums up the highest
religious thoughts of heathenism,
520-historical view of his Dia-
logues, ib.

Poles, their policy in Austria.
Pope waiting for his imagination, 575.
Purcell's originality and fertility in
music, 163.

Pythagorean discovery of the harmonic
ratios, 504.

and integrity, 18-rapid progress
to wealth and fame, 19-daughters,
20contradiction of his supposed
intemperance, ib.-editions of his
plays and poems in circulation before
his death, 21-collected edition of
his dramatic works published by
Heminge and Condell in 1623, 22—
Shakspeare not indifferent to literary
fame, 23-particulars of his family,
25-did not put forth all his strength
until the close of the 16th century, 29
-characteristics of his later composi-
tions, 30-sources of his plots, 31-
compared with Lord Bacon, 32-a
sincere and profound religious ele-
ment permeant through his writings,
ib.-his nuditas animi,' 34-flexi-
bility in the style, structure, and colour
of his language, 37-wit and pathos,
38-his songs unapproachable, 39-
the representative Englishman of the
sixteenth century, 42-his poetry that
of action and passion, rather than of
reflection, ib.-prominence of his
female characters, 44-his women
compared with Spenser's, ib.-one
omission in the great dramatist, 46.
Sidney's (Sir Philip) character and
death, 43.

Smith's (Sydney) answer to an inquiry
about his grandfather, 196.

Smollett's advice on the treatment of the
sick sailor, 457.

Socrates' teaching, moral and political,
not relating to nature and the uni-
verse, 498-his doctrine that know-
ledge is the apprehension of the
universal, 500.

Somerset's (Duke of) sarcasm on the
state of the army and navy, 452.
Spectrum-analysis, its application to the
study of the component elements of
the sun, 241.

Spenser's long residence in Ireland, 1.
Spiritualism: the Spiritualists, a great
and increasing sect in the United
States and England, 303-directions
given to family circles for communi.
cating with spirits by table rapping
and tilting, 304-gifts possessed by
mediums, 305-writing and drawing
mediums, ib. - mode of using the
planchette, ib.-medical and trance
mediums, 306-spiritual investiga-
tions by direct action on material
bodies, inanimate as well as animate,
ib.-living men and women caught
up from the ground and borne aloft
in the air, ib. Satanic agency in
table-turning, 312-practical trial

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of fallacy in the use of the plan-
chette, 315- unconscious cerebra-
tion and latent thought, 317
anecdotes illustrating cerebral ac-
tivity, 319 Satanic answer of a
table that Christ was in hell, 322-
Mr. Dibdin and the Spiritualists
equally wrong and equally right:
each right in disbelieving the other's
doctrine, and each wrong in main-
taining his own, 322-cures by faith
in the efficacy of the treatment, ib.—
death produced by the terrorism of
Obeah practices, ib.-examples of in-
jurious influence exercised by spiritu-
alistic communications, 326-a clergy-
man burning a table for lending itself
to the dictation of Satan, 327-men of
science converted to spiritualistic
views, ib.-Mr. Crookes's paper in
the 'Spiritualist,' 328-results ex-
perienced by the reviewer as to the
fallacy of spiritualism, 329 - Mr.
Foster, the American medium, and
his manifestations, 331-description
of the reviewer's mode of testing him,
ib.transport of persons by in-
visible agency from one house to
another, 348-levitation of the human
body, and other feats of Spiritualism,
350-gullibility of the average public,
351-Chevreul's treatise on the Bag-
uette Divinatoire, 352.
Stallions and mares, 57.
Swallows, migration of, 82.
Stirling's Recess Studies,' 244.

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Taylor (Jeremy), the great glory of the
English pulpit, 113-his career at
Cambridge, 114-contemporary there
with Milton, ib. vicissitudes,
poverty, and consolations, 115-
married to Joanna Bridges, natural
daughter of Charles I., ib.-imprison-
ment for invectives against Puritan
preachers, 116 happily settled at
Portmore, 119 dedicates Ductor
Dubitantium' to Charles II., 120—
appointed to the See of Down and
Connor, ib.-anxiety to be trans-
lated to an English bishopric, ib.—
disturbed state of his diocese, 121-
-opposition of Presbyterian minis-
ters, ib.-charity to the poor, 123-
power of attracting friends, 124-
an eager devourer of books, 125-
ethics his favourite science, ib.-
eminently a Church of England man,

126 -a constant assertor of the
superior claims of Episcopal govern-
ment, 127-his Dissuasive from
Popery,' a model of Christian contro-
versy, 128-characteristic of his opus
magnum, the 'Ductor Dubitantium,'
129-that work in the main a trea-
tise on moral philosophy, ib.-foun-
dation of his ethical edifice, ib.-
Liberty of Prophesying,' his most
original and characteristic work, 130
--has two ends in view, 131-his
view of civil government, 133-com-
munity of spirit between him and
Milton, although opponents on the
question of Prelacy, ib. charge
against him of a change of opinion on
toleration, 134-gorgeous eloquence
in his Life of Christ,' and his
sermons, 137-compared to Chrysos-
tom, 138-contrasted with Milton,
ib.-in similes the very Homer of
preachers, 139-his unpruned ex-
uberance and want of the art to
blot,' 141-solemnity of his dis-
courses marred by illustrations, 143
-his power of sarcasm, ib. want of
masculine firmness and vigour, 144.
Tasso's imitations of other poets, 194.
Tennyson's (Mr.) pathos, 356

con-

trasted with Byron, 371-minute de-
tails ruinous to great effects, 372--
sublimity contrasted with prettiness,"
ib.-earliest poems, 374-his inex-
haustible fancy and perception of
moral and natural beauty, and other
high qualities, ib.-not schooled in
adversity, 376-his fame might rest
on In Memoriam,' 379-extracts
from 'The Princess,' 380-companion
pictures from it and from 'Don Juan,'
383- The Princess' compared with
Don Juan' in point of wit and
humour, 384-great success of the
Idylls of the King,' ib.-M. Taine
on the absence of creative genius in
Tennyson, 387-Arthurian poems,
388-his working against the grain,
and overlaying a train of thought
contrasted with Byron's sudden in-
spirations, eagerly followed out, 375
-Guinevere, 388- Vivien' as ob-
jectionable as 'Don Juan,' 390.
Thackeray's ironical praise of Dumas,

224.

Thallium, the new metal detected by
spectrum analysis, 343.

Thiers' (M.) exaggeration respecting
the French army, 200.

Thornton (W. T.) on labour, 235-has
turned champion of Trades' Unions,

Varley's (C. E.) testimony to the physi-
cal marvels of Spiritualism, 347.
Vega's (Lope de) dramatic compositions
exceed 2000, 192.

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Vienna and Berlin contrasted, 112.
Village communities (Sir H. Maine's
lectures on), 177-their organisation
in typical districts of Russia and
India, ib.-social economy of the
Bushkir village communities, 179-
their principle adopted by the Eng-
lish emigrants who colonised New
England, ib. —the Germanic land-
system, 181 - organisation of the
Teutonic township, ib.- its three
portions or marks, ib.-English vil-
lage communities before the Nor-
man conquest, 182 the Indian
village community the unit of social
and political organisation, 183-the
constitution of our Indian villages,
184-relation of the feudal system to
village communities in Western
Europe, 185-M. Le Play's descrip-
tion of the village of Les Jault, 186--
the decision of history for individual
as against communistic possession of
land, 189.