Aikenhead, hanged for free religious
opinions, 359.

Alfred, King of Denmark, story of,
173.

Alger, public opinion the atmosphere
of society, 22; most men live
blindly, 40'; ruins, and what they
symbolize, 222; on the blindness
of Homer, Milton, Galileo, and
Händel, 231; on the happiness of
solitude, 338; his account of the
Hermit of Grub Street, 339; the
forest of statues on the roof of the
Milan cathedral, 350; the schol-
ar's pantheon at the top of his
mind, 350.

Anaxagoras, a request made by,
221; whom he believed to be most
happy, 342.

Anecdote of a Calvinistic divine,
56; of a country clergyman, 56;
of a singer and his wife, in Leip-
sic, 314; of a hypochondriacal
comedian, 320.

Angelo, Michel, acknowledges his
ignorance, 45; on reforming man-
kind, 103; anecdote of, 175; gem
once worn on the finger of, 185;
and the Reformation, 256; the
statues of, 301; and Bramante,
302; his opinion of Donatello's

statue, 321; a saying of his, com-
mending moderation, 344.
Annals of the Parish, why rejected,

156.

Anson, Lord, different opinions of,
197.

Appleseed, Johnny, character and
career of, 125.

Apuleius, a curious fact relating to,

254.

Arago, his claim for ancient Egypt,
189.

Archimedes, the tomb of, 221.
Arctic morality, 113.

Arctic region, small proportion of
fuel used in the, 245; effect of
frost in the, 300.
Aristotle, his opinion of labor, 137;
fate of, 224.

Arnold, Matthew, moral rules for
the sage only, 365.
Artist, an, in serpents, 299.
Aspasia, her relations with Pericles,

55.

Atterbury, Bishop, what he said of
Newton, 119.

Augereau at the coronation of Na-
poleon, 123.
Augustine, Saint, and the idea of
Fourierism, 191; subtleties on the
question, What then is time? 335;
subtleties on a happy life, 336.
Augustus, his opinion of labor, 137.
Auld Lang Syne, 207.
Aurelius, Marcus, tolerant and good
to all but Christians, 49; his idea
of free government, 193; his
doubtful wife and bad son, 251;
what he learnt from his tutor,
343; a lofty thought of, on the
sacredness of life, 350.

BABINET, his opinion of an ocean
telegraph, 265.

Bacon, on nature reviving - Esop's

damsel, 60; his remark on the
Turks, 109; and the plays of
Shakespeare, 254; his distrust of
scientific discovery, 254; on the
happiness of the great, 332.
Bailly, story told of, 175.
Balzac, his care in composition, 141.
Barbauld, Mrs., her stanza on Life,
351.

Barry, Michael J., some lines by,
135.

Bathurst, Lord, and the Essay on
Man, 253.

Baxter, a believer in witchcraft,

255; his views at the end of life,
266; the result, after a trial of
worldly things, 322.

Bayle, on Pericles and Aspasia, 55;
on the spirit of party, 75; on Ma-
chiavelli's Prince, 236; the purity
of, 248.

Becket, Thomas à, story of the
mother of, 217.

Beckford, and his romance, Vathek,

256.

Bentivoglio, misfortunes of, 259.
Berkeley, Bishop, on being master
of one's time, 146.

Bernis, Cardinal, and Madame de
Pompadour, 267.

Betterton, a borrower from Steele,
177.

Beza, one of his invectives, 58;

his coarse amorous poems, 266.
Bible, The, in literature, 168; a
reference to, 246.
Blackwood's Magazine, on diversity

of character, 20; on the inevitable
and irremediable, 101; on public
opinion, 358; on the adoring prin-
ciple in human nature, 364.
Bolingbroke to Swift, 219.
Books never published, 199.
Boots with pointed toes believed to
be the cause of the plague, 206.
Borghese, Paulo, poverty of, 258.
Bossuet, acknowledges his insignifi-
cance, 46.

Boswell, and intellectual chemistry,

56; on being reckoned wise, 176;
the bulwark of Johnson's fame,
197; Johnson's pretended con-
tempt of, 246.

Brahe, Tycho, and the idiot, Lep,
230; his terror of a hare or fox,
247.

Bramah, origin of the idea of his
lock, 189.

Brewster, Sir David, and the story
of the falling apple, 182; on Gali-
leo's abjuration, 224.
Brontë, Charlotte, her life and gen-
ius, 275.

Brown, John, utterances and anec-
dotes of, 127; and the old engine-
house, 262; and the Governor of
Virginia, 262; a daughter of, 262;
one of his trusted men, 263.
Brown, Tom, a remark by, 137.
Browne, Sir Thomas, on self-love,
28; acknowledgment of his igno-
rance, 47; on a neglect of the great,
157; on maxims that will never be
out of date, 166; his faith in witch-
craft, 226; a lofty thought by, on
the immortality of life, 350; on
usurping the gates of heaven, 362;
his distrust of his own judgment,
378.

Bruce, and the story of the spider,
174; death of, 257.

Brunel. a remark by, on Pompey's
Pillar, 188.

Brunelleschi, and the story of the
egg, 174.

Buffon, his manner of composing,
142.

Bulwer, his description of a superior

man, 82; on the English language,

165.

Bunsen, dying exclamation of, 385.
Bunyan, wrote Pilgrim's Progress in
prison, 144.

Burke, no great fire without great

heat, 59; a remark of his on idle-
ness, 137; his tribute to John
Howard, 234; his great care as a
writer, 253.

Burnet, Bishop, his estimate of New-

ton, 119; on Lord Rochester, 239.
Burns, characterizes woman, 19;
remarks of and by, 139; his pov-
erty and pride, 147; advised to
imitate Mrs. John Hunter, 154;
tribute of Hawthorne to, 158; the
Scotsman's religion, 180; a com-
plaint of himself, 247; pronounced
incapable of music, 260; on sen-
sibility, 312; his constitutional
melancholy, 313; lines by, 340.
Burton, naught so sweet as melan-
choly, naught so damned as mel-
ancholy, 312.

Byron, criticisms of, 154; his love
of a bad reputation, 162; curious
facts relating to, 162; criticises

CESAR, Augustus, his fear of thun-
der, 247.

Cæsar, Julius, the corpse of, 223;
ambition of, criticised by Pascal,

349.

Calamities sometimes blessings, 228.
Caligula, his conduct towards his
horse, 110.

Caliph, memorial of an illustrious,
329.

Callcott, his picture of Milton and

his daughters, 181.
Calvin, occasional violence of, 58.
Camoëns, poverty of, 143, 258.
Campbell, and Prof. Wilson, 266.
Candide's supper at Venice with the
six kings, 330.

Canova exhibiting his paintings, 258.
Canute, the story of, 173.
Captain of Virginia militia, exclama-
tion of, 134.

Carlyle, legend of Moses and the
Dead Sea people, 61; on the ef-
fects of custom, 79; his opinion
of a hero, 236; compares men to
sheep, 294.

Carrancha, the, that lives on scabs,
etc., 68; hunts the gallinazo for
its vomit, 69.

Cashmere, shawls of, 187.
Castelar, a republican's opinion of
Rome, 306; on the unhappiness
of life, 334, pleads for universal
toleration, 357.

Cato, how he was estimated by con-
temporaries, 152; learned Greek
after he was seventy, 265.
Cecil, who sorrowed in the bright
lustre of a court, 332.
Cervantes, poverty of, 143; planned
and commenced Don Quixote in
prison, 144; a curious fact of, 198;
his wretchedness and melancholy,

312.

Change, anecdotes and facts illus-

trating, 24, 25, 26, 27.

Chalmers, and the views of Malthus,
261.

Channing, on establishing a new
society, 383.

Chapman, Jonathan, known as
Johnny Appleseed, 125.
Charlemagne, a story told of the
daughter of, 173.

Charles I., a story told of, 174.

thew Hale, 19; touching for the
evil, 225; and Cromwell, 302; and
Wycherley, 302; the name given
him by one who knew him, 303;
manner of the death of, 303; char-
acter of, drawn by Macaulay,

305.

Cicero, his experience at a watering-
place, 31; his opinion of labor,
137; the diminutive copy of the
Iliad he saw, 185; on universal
brotherhood, 193; his hunting the
tomb of Archimedes, 220.
Clairvoyance, very old, 190.
Cobbe, Frances Power, on the Chris-
tian movement, 367.

Coleridge, one just flogging he re-
ceived, 38; some devil and some
God in man, 56; anecdote of a
dignified man, 83; remark on
doing good, 102; opinion of trad-
ers in philanthropy, 107; project
of pantisocracy, 114; fears he has
caught the itch, 114; what he
thought a sufficient income, 149;
opinion of Goethe's fame, 155;
superhuman powers of, 158; com-
parison of Shakespeare and Mil-
ton, 159; on Shakespeare and
Homer, 159; remark on Young,
159; on passion without appetite,
163; and John Chester, 216; cu-
rious facts relating to, 255; and
The House that Jack Built, 267;
on certain smells, 300; his sum-
ming up of life, 333; remark on
Horne Tooke, 374; remark on
toleration, 379.

Columbus and the egg, 174.

Commodus, tolerant to Christians,
252.

Common sense defined, 22.
Communist, a, defined, 116.
Confucius, describes the conduct of
the superior man, 39; his joy in
frugality, 145; and the Golden
Rule, 193; anecdote of, 369.
Congreve, what the one wise man
knew, 47.
Conscience, 39.

Corey, Giles, pressed to death, 74.
Corneille, his poverty, 143; what
Napoleon said of him, 160.
Correggio, without a portrait, 260.
Corwin, Thomas, anecdote of, 176.
Couthon, devoted to a spaniel, 109.
Cowley, a timid lover, 248.
Cowper, his mental malady, 229;
the ballad of John Gilpin, 229;
the poor school-master, Teedon,
230; his attempt at suicide, 250;
his giggling with Thurlow, 250;
a melancholy confession of, 314.
Credulity, 35, 226.

Creed, in the biliary duct, 23; re-
ferred to in the rebuke of a cler-
gyman, 36.

Crichton, curious achievement of,
261.

Cromwell and Charles II., 302; and
Milton, 302; estimate of when
flattery was mute, 303; manner of
his death, 303.

Crowne, John, reading by lightning,
58.

Cumberland, describes Soame Jen-
yns, 240; Goldsmith and his
comedy, 268; the dinner at the
Shakespeare tavern, 268; predic-
ament of an artist in serpents,
299; a reflection on old age, 329;
on a man gifted with worldly
qualities, 345; remark on Bubb
Doddington, 374.
Curing public evils, 41.
Curiosity, 32, 47, 374.
Curran, contest with the fish-woman,
44; remark to Phillips about his
speeches, 253; melancholy nature
of, 312.

Curtis, George William, castles in
Spain, 323.

Custom, doth make dotards of us all,
79.

DAGUERRE, his discovery antici-
pated, 189.

Damascus blades of the Crusades,
188.

D'Arblay, Madame, and Mrs. Bar-
bauld's stanza on Life, 351.
Darwin, cattle in East Falkland Isl-
and, 26; earthquake at Talca-
huano, 32; curious fox on the
island of San Pedro, 34; conduct
of the Fuegians, 43; petrified
trees on the Andes, 120; conduct
of the New Zealand chief, 216;
the three years drought in Buenos
Ayres, 223; sound and silence in
the forest of Brazil, 300.

De Foe, rules from The Complete
English Tradesman, 95.

De Lisle and the Marseillaise, 208,
252.

Della Valle, conduct of the women
at Goa, 50; his own curious con-
duct, 50.

Demetrius, and his father, 174; story
told of, 175.
Democritus, thought to be a mad-
man, 152.

Demosthenes, timidity of, 259.
Denham, curious facts relating to,
237; anecdote of, 238.

Desert, painful silence of the, 300.
De Staël, Madame, criticism of God-
win, 109; and Madame Récamier,
179; mourns the solitude of life,
332.

De Quincey, no thought without
blemish, 101; his opinion of
Goethe, 154.

De Retz, statement of, 173.
Devil, the Reformation and the,
207; the priest and the, 207.
Dickens, his care in composition,

of Lamb on, 99; remark of Cole-
ridge, 102; passages from Tho-
reau, 103.

Domitian, amused himself catching
flies, 260.

Drummond, the sonorous laugher,
269.

Dryden, criticises the judges of his
day, 19.

Dutch ambassador and the King of
Siam, 112.

Dyer, George, his experience while
usher, 98; an associate of Lamb's,
281; his biography of Robinson,
281; his absent-mindedness, 282;
anecdotes of, 283, 284.

ECKERMANN, describes a scene on
the Simplon, 345.
Edwards, Jonathan, effect of his
work on Original Sin, 70; curious
fact relating to, 264.
Egypt, hospitals for cats in, 110;
ventilation in the pyramids of,
189; the railroad dates back to,
189; social questions discussed to
rags in, 189.

Eldon, Lord, and Bessy Surtees,
250; his daughter's elopement,
250; curious experience of, at Ox-
ford, 250.

Elizabeth, Queen, a curious fact of,
248.

Elliott, Sir Gilbert, passion neces-
sary to revolution, 59.
Elliott, the Corn-Law Rhymer, de-
fines a communist, 116.
Eloquence, a rude specimen of, 311.
Emerson, a man like a bit of Labra-
dor spar, 18; the soul not twin-
born, 20; life a series of surprises,
40; acknowledgment of his ig-
norance, 47; few spontaneous ac-
tions, 79; remarks on reforming,
100; is virtue piecemeal? 102; of
one that would help himself and
others, 117; the martyrdom of
John Brown, 134; advantages of
riches not with the heir, 136; per-
sonal independence, 148; the plant
papyrus, 245; the difference be-
tween the wise and the unwise,349;
effects of an acceptance of the sen-
timent of love, 355.
Epictetus, on forgiving injuries, 193.
Epicurus, his name a synonym for
sensuality, 257.

Erasmus, on self-love, 28; two nat-

ures in Luther, 59; and Luther,
308; what he said of Luther, 308.
Essay on Man, curious statement
relating to, 253.

Esquirol, effects of occupation on
the mind, 373.

Euclid, stereoscope known to, 189.
Evelyn, observation of on Jeffreys,
196; his argument against soli-
tude, 247.

Evil, ceremony of touching for the,
225.

Extremes, law of, 294; meeting of
in morals and legislation, 302.

FAIRY's funeral, description of a,
292.

Falstaff, dress to represent, 84.
Farrar, legend of St. Brendan and
Judas Iscariot, 384.

Faustina, wife of Marcus Aurelius,
251.

Fénelon, on a violent zeal that we
must correct, 359; anecdotes of,
369.

Fielding, curious fact relating to,
198; and Richardson, 202.
Fittleworth, rector of, how he lost
his living, 51.

Fitzherbert and Townshend, 215.
Flaxman, determines the sex of a
statue, 195; curious fact of the
wife of, 228.
Foote, laconic correspondence with
his mother, 148; story of, 171;
remark on the death of, 263.
Foster, record of a reflective aged
man, 22; analysis of an atheist,
36; care in composition, 142;
tribute to Howard, 232; origin of
some of his essays, 249.
Fournier, devoted to a squirrel, 109.
Franklin, doubted his own judg
ment as he grew older, 377.
Frederick the Great, story told of,
175; and Robespierre, 241.
Frederick William, canes a Jew in
a street of Berlin, 64.
Froude, terrible story related by, 71;
human things and icebergs, 122;
reflection of, applied to John
Brown, 134; fortune and rank,
136; the Scots a happy people,
345; on putting to death for a
speculative theological opinion,
359; how the laity should treat
the controversial divines, 364.
Fuller, Margaret, remark of on Goe-