Miscellaneous Articles of Instruction and Entertainment.

Abe, Story of, 817

Acorns, Under the, 657

Acrobats, 318

Advertisers Again, Among the, 94

Almanacs, Romance of, 23

Amateur ‘Cabby,’ an, 778

America, European Emigration to, and its Effects, 641

American Newspapers on Themselves, 714

Amusements in Germany, Popular, 634

Ancient and Modern Statues, the Largest, 470

Ancient People, an, 430

Anglo-Indian Chaplain, Recollections of an, 792

Animal Life, Studies in, 822

—— Memorials and Mementoes, 285

Antipathies in Animals—

I. Horses, 85 II. Dogs, 590

Architecture, Stained Glass as an Accessory to Domestic, 359

Army Schools, 494

Arsenic in Domestic Fabrics, 799

Artificial Jewels, 731

Ashburnham Collections, the, 341

Back from ‘Eldorado,’ 573

Bank of England, Curiosities of the, 737

Bird Migration, 481

Birds of Spring, 129

Bonded Warehouses, London, 58

Break-neck Venture, a, 588

Bridge, the Haunted, 814

British Museum, New Mediæval Room at the, 693

Brompton Cemetery, In, 753

Buried Alive, 222

Bushranger, Interviewed by a, 650

‘Cabby,’ an Amateur, 778

Calls before the Curtain, 135

Cameo-cutting, 224

Cave-chapels, 513

Charr of Windermere, the, 406

Chewton-Abbot, 280, 295, 315

Children, Over-educating, 366

Christmas Trees, 748

Cigars, 709

Circulating-library Critics, 81

Cliff-houses of Cañon de Chelly, 40

Coin Treasures, 249

Coins Wearing Away? Are our, 393

Colds, Common, 175

College, Queen Margaret, 555

—— Rooms, My Old, 262

Colonel Redgrave’s Legacy, 780, 793, 811

Colour-sense, 44

Commercial Products of the Whale, 566

Conversation, the Art of, 442

Cooking Classes for Children, 775

Cooking-stoves, Gas, 367

‘Corners,’ 289

Correspondence Classes, 555

Cricket, Umpires at, 399

Curiosities of the Bank of England, 737

Curiosities of the Electric Light, 140

—— —— —— Microphone, 373

—— —— —— Peerage, Some, 305, 326

Curiosity in Journalism, a, 200

Cycling, Progress of, 335

Cyprus Locusts, 801

Dauphins, False, 662

Death-claims, How Life-offices pay their, 97

Decisions, Some Legal, 423

Deer-forests, Scottish, 721

Detective Police, Our, 337

Dinner-parties Out of Doors, 673

Dishes, Some Queer, 230

Distillation in Ireland, Illicit, 644

Dwarfie Stone, Legend of the, 667

Eastern Trading, Some Instances of, 463

Edicts, Ancient Rock-hewn, 486

Educational Pioneer, an, 699

‘Eldorado,’ Back from, 573

Electric Light, Curiosities of the, 140

Electricity and Gas, the Future of, 625

—— for Nothing! 453

——, Lighting Collieries by, 496

Elephants, the Moulmein, 638

——, Trimming the Feet of, 240

Emigration to America, European, 641

English Law, Familiar Sketches of—

I. Marriages; Settlements; and Breaches of Promise to Marry, 102 II. Parent and Child, 377 III. Master and Servant, 490

Episodes of Literary Manuscripts, 283

Erratic Pens, 313

Errors in Domestic Medicine, Common, 299

European Emigration to America, and its Effects, 641

Explosion, Story of a Vast, 705

Fairs, Old Provincial, 598

Falkland Islands, a Peep at the, 110

False Dauphins, 662

Fellow-passenger, My, 252, 263

Florida, Concerning, 797

Food-notes, Some, 287

Foresight of Insects for their Young, 587

Forestry and Farming, 720

—— Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1884, International, 193

Fortunes, Sudden, 241

French Detectives, 48

Frendraught, the Fire of, 52

Fuel, a New, 671

Furniture Saleroom, In a, 379

Gas Cooking-stoves, 367

——, the Future of Electricity and, 625

Gentleman of the Road, a, 429

Germany, Popular Amusements in, 634

Girls, Wives, and Mothers, 33

Glacier Garden, a, 785

Gold, 209

Gold-fields, the Transvaal, 177

Good-natured People, Mischief done by, 111

Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 183

‘Grand Day,’ 561

Greenroom Romance, a, 471

Grouse, 529

Gum-arabic and the Soudan, 640

Hampstead Heath, 65

‘Happy Ever After,’ 161

Haunted Houses, Rationale of, 397

Health, Our, 113, 234, 401

Heroines, 492

Highland Glen, In a, 511

Holiday, a River, 545

‘Home! Sweet Home!’ 173

Home-nursing, 417, 549, 609, 725

Homing Pigeon, the, 245

Honey-bee, Something about the, 409

Hospitals and Dispensaries, London, 518

Housewives, Hints for, 447

Humorous Definitions, 475, 669

Hush-money, 143

In a Flash, 520

India, Musk-rat of, 703

Indian Jugglers, 604

—— Snakes, 214

Insects, Foresight of, for their Young, 587

Ireland, Illicit Distillation in, 644

Island, a Solitary, 719

——, an Interesting, 347

Jaffa to Jerusalem, From, 321

‘Jerry-building’ in the Middle Ages, 464

Jewels, Artificial, 731

Joint-stock Companies and ‘Limited Liability,’ 577

Journalism, a Curiosity in, 200

‘King Country, the,’ 637

—— of Acres, a, 12, 29

‘Kitchen Kaffir,’ the, 117

Knowledge, a Little, not Dangerous, 616

Last of the Stuarts, the, 600, 617

Law, Sketches of English, 102, 377, 490

Legal Decisions, Some, 423

Life, Prolonging, 427

Life-assurance and Annuities, Post-office, 257

Lifeboat Competition, 459

Life-offices, How they pay their Death-claims, 97

Lighting Collieries by Electricity, 496

‘Limited Liability,’ Joint-stock Companies and, 577

Literary Beginners, Another Word to, 49

Literary Manuscripts, Episodes of, 283

—— Self-estimates, 220

Locusts, Cyprus, 801

London Bonded Warehouses, 58

—— Hospitals and Dispensaries, 518

London, Nature around, 225

——, Remains of Ancient, 654

——, Sanitary Inspection of the Port of, 534

Love, Concerning, 156, 333

Maiden Speeches, Parliamentary, 150

Man and Nature, 608

Manufactures, Noxious, 239

Marine Station, a Scottish, 465

Marriage, the Net of, 432

Marsala, a Sample of, 795

Mediæval Room at the British Museum, New, 693

Medicine, Common Errors in Domestic, 299

Microphone, Curiosities of the, 373

Migration, Bird, 481

Miner’s Partner, the, 138, 152, 168, 185

Miss Marrable’s Elopement, 188, 198

Missing Clue, the, 701, 702, 716, 718, 732, 749, 751, 764

Monastic England, 4

Money-borrowing, the Shady Side of, 166

Month, The: Science and Arts—59, 124, 201, 265, 348, 412, 476, 557, 620, 685, 761, 825

Moor and Loch, On, 433

Morality, Stock Exchange, 828

Mortality, Some Cheering Aspects of, 449

Moulmein Elephants, the, 638

Mr Pudster’s Return, 569, 584

Mrs Shaw, the Late Prince Imperial’s Nurse, 32

Mushrooms for the Million, 501

Musk-rat of India, the, 703

Name? What’s in a, 813

Nameless Romance, a, 541

Nature around London, 225

—— on the Roof, 385

Nettle-cloth, 145

New Zealand, Explorations in, 637

Newsmonger, the, 353

Newspapers, Curious, 591

—— on Themselves, American, 714

Norfolk Broads and Rivers, 273

Norman Seascape, a, 390

Notes on Persian Art, 808

Noxious Manufactures, 239

Occasional Notes—

Abnormal Humanity, 304

Advice to Intending Emigrants, 479

Albo-carbon Light, New, 830

Ambulance Societies, 63

American Literary Piracy, 271

Anthropometrical Laboratory at the Health Exhibition, 479

Bacchus, Discovery of Statue of, 656

Blindness in Infancy, Prevention of, 206

Burns and Scalds, 655

Canine ‘Collector,’ 415

Card-telegrams, 206

Casualties on the British Coast, 624

Chilian Argentine Andes, Exploration in the, 831

Coffee? Why do we now drink less, 303

Curious Disease, 480

Diarrhœa and Cholera, Treatment of, 560

Dissection after Death, 205

Dutch Rush, 351

Earthquake in England, Recent, 351

Electric Light in Railway Carriages, 205

Electric Lighting for Ships, Improved, 351

Electrical Tricycle, 320

Electricity as a Brake, 767

Ensilage, 829

Fastest Passage on Record, 415

French Crown Jewels, 559

Fruit-farm, a Flourishing, 207

Gas Cooking-stove, a Handy, 830

Grape and Peach in America, 207

Harbour of Refuge for East Coast of Scotland, 415

Herring Spawns, How and Where the, 206

Hydrophobia—Important Experiments, 205

Irish Female Emigration, 830

Labour and Wages in Australia, 204

Level-crossing Gates, 736

Lightning-strokes in France, 352

—— ——, Mechanical Characteristics of, 829

Lights and Lighthouses, Investigations on, 736

Marvellous Sunsets, Recent, 64

Metallic Compound, New, 415

Mummies, Making of, 767

Native Treatment of Diseases in India, 831

Novel Peal of Bells, a, 766

Oil Breakwater at Folkestone, 127

Old Westminster Houses, Last of the, 64

Old-fashioned Furniture, 320

Organ in Westminster Abbey, New, 479

Persons Killed by Wild Animals in India, 829

Postal Orders, New, 414

Railway Passengers, 830

Relics from the Holy Land, 768

Rome, Interesting Discovery at, 656

Russian Crown Estates, 204

—— Longevity, 272

Sion College, Last of Old, 830

Sowing and Harvesting, 272

Steam-ferry on the Thames, 767

Subterranean Fish, 415

Telegraph Extension, 127

Telegraphing Extraordinary, 624

Telephoning Extraordinary, 656

Trout-life, Interesting Notes on, 204

Turning Wood into Metal, 768

Uphill Railway, Another, 480

Utilisation of Sewage, 767

Old Provincial Fairs, 598

One Woman’s History, 631, 646, 664, 680, 696, 710, 728, 743, 757, 771, 786, 804, 819

Order of Mercy, an, 15, 63

Orkney Folk-lore—Legend of the Dwarfie Stone, 667

Outward and Homeward Bound, 301

Over-educating Children, 366

Paper, More Uses of, 742

Parasitic Worms—Queer Lodgers, 278

Parliamentary Maiden Speeches, 150

Parody, the Muse of, 71

Peer? What is a, 17

Peerage, Some Curiosities of the, 305, 326

Pencil-making, 582

Pens, Erratic, 313

People, an Ancient, 430

Persian Art, a Few Notes on, 808

—— Sherbet, Royal, 438

Peterborough, the ‘Strong-room’ at, 655

Pigeon, the Homing, 245

Pioneer, an Educational, 699

Pisciculture, the Progress of, 268

Poisoning, 769

Polecat, a Few Words about the, 190

Port of London, Sanitary Inspection of the, 534

Post-office Life-assurance and Annuities, 257

Prince Imperial’s Nurse, the Late; Mrs Shaw, 32

Printers’ Errors, 636

Prolonging Life, 427

Quarantine, 543

Queen Margaret College, 555

—— Margerie, 677

Queer Company, In, 444, 461

—— Dishes, Some, 230

—— Lodgers—Parasitic Worms, 278

Ranching, Some Realities of, 653

Rationale of Haunted Houses, the, 397

Recollections of an Anglo-Indian Chaplain, 792

Regiment, a Skating, 255

Remains of Ancient London, 654

Ring-trick, the, 735

River Holiday, a, 545

Rock-hewn Edicts, Ancient, 486

Roof, Nature on the, 385

Ruin, Sudden, 571

Run for Life, a, 488

Sacred Trees, Some, 509

Sample of Marsala, 795

Sanitary Inspection of the Port of London, 534

Schools, Army, 494

Science and Art School—Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 183

Scot Abroad, Glimpses of the, 76

Scottish Deer-forests, 721

—— Marine Station, a, 465

Seals and Seal-hunting in Shetland, 364, 507

Seascape, a Norman, 390

Seashore Free to All? Is the, 539

Sensitive Plant, 159

Sherbet, Royal Persian, 438

Silas Monk: a Tale of London Old City, 361, 374, 394, 407

Skating Regiment, a, 255

Sketch from my Study Window, 343

Sledge-dogs, 9

Smoking Injurious to Health? Is, 78

Snakes: Do they ever commit Suicide? 672

Snakes, Indian, 214

‘So Unreasonable of Step-mother!’ 45

Solitary Island, a, 719

Spider-silk, 524

St John’s Gate, 527

St Marguerite and St Honorât, 369

St Peter’s, 91

Stained Glass as an Accessory to Domestic Architecture, 359

Statues, Ancient and Modern, the Largest, 470

Steel, 575

Steno-telegraph, the, 607

Stock Exchange Morality, 828

Story of a Vast Explosion, 705

Strange Institution, 96

‘Strong-room’ at Peterborough, the, 655

Studies in Animal Life, 822

Suakim, 196

Sudden Fortunes, 241

—— Ruin, 571

Suicide, 292

Superstitions, the Common-sense of, 237

Surgical Scraps, 383

Terribly Fulfilled, 424, 440, 454

Thieves and Thieving, 525

Trading, Some Instances of Eastern, 463

Transvaal Gold-fields, 177

Trees, Christmas, 748

——, Some Sacred, 509

Trimming the Feet of Elephants, 240

Troubadours, the, 171

Two Days in a Lifetime, 5, 25, 41, 54, 73, 87, 105, 119

Umpires at Cricket, 399

Vaccination, 593, 688

Væ Victis, 629

Vermudyn’s Fate, 536, 552

Washing by Steam, 800

Water, 497

Water-ousel, a Plea for the, 270

Weather, How it is Made and Forecast, 689

Whale, Commercial Products of the, 566

What’s in a Name? 813

White-lead Manufacture, a New Process of, 158

Windermere, the Charr of, 406

Wind-power, Abandonment of, 319

Witness for the Defence, a, 217, 231, 247

Woman’s Work, a Word on, 606

Yarn of the P. and O., a, 503

Zulu Romance, a, 330