FAHRENHEIT, account of, 537
Falk, (Mr.) his account of Swedish bat- tues, 47
Familiar Treatise on Life Assurances and Annuities, 464
Family Cabinet Atlas, 306
Family Library, 142
Fecundity, human, 98
Felton, (S.) his portraits of authors on gar- dening, 469
Females, dress of the Hindbo, 199-partu- rition of the Arab, 215
Fever, the West Indian, 364
Field Sports of the North of Europe, 39 Fine for killing a dog, 216
Fishing in Sweden, 48-account of the fly- ing fish, 85
Fitz of Fitzford, by Mrs. Bray, 285 Flame, nature of, 543
Flaxman, the sculptor, Life of, 415- attachment to his wife, 417-his lec- tures, 418-his personal character and habits, 419
Flora, the, of India, 202 Florence, climate of, 64 Flower boats of China, 345 Flowers, perfumes of, 397 Food, staple, of the Hindoos, 200 Footsteps, faculty of tracing, 221
Forgery, capital punishment in cases of,
Forster, (Dr.) his Letters of Locke, Sid- ney, and Shaftesbury, 422
Fothergill, (Dr.) 605
Four Years' Residence in the West Indies, 360 France, climate of, 62
Freedom, religious, 211
Friars, account of those of Terra Santa, 7 Frost, (Mr.) Director of the Medico-Bo- tanical Society, 102
Fugitives, The, by Edward Lane, 285 Fuller, (J.) Travels in the Turkish Empire, by, 1
GAME OF LIFE, The, by L. Ritchie, 284 -, scarcity of, in Norway and Sweden,
Ganges, waters of, used in Hindoo cere- monies, 201
Gardening, English authors in, 469 Genoa, climate of, 64,
Gentleman, first use of the word, 569 Geographical Institution, new one in Lon- don, 313
Geography, Ewing's System of, 151- Stewart's Compendium of, ib.
--, the Natural, of Europe, 145 George the Fourth, death of, 470 Gibbons, first English sculptor, 408 Gilpin Horner, 354
Glacier, description of one, 289 Goderich Ministry, its weakness, 380 Gooch, (Dr.) anecdote of, 609-letter of on the death of his son, 610
Gordon, (Pryse) his Personal Memoirs,
JAGO, (R. H.) his Letter on a Commuta- tion of Tythes, 304
James, (G.P. R.) his Poem of Adra, 131 Jefferys, (Mrs.) of Bath, 187 Jenné, account of, 30 Jennings, (Miss) 205
Jerusalem, curious reasons for a journey to, 445
Jews, account of their state in Poland, 252 -marriages of, 253-costume of, 254— curses of, 255-causes of the blindness of, 257-necessity of an inquiry into the principles of British, 258
Fact relating to, 471. Jones, (W.) his lectures on the Apocalypse, 245-his abhorrence of the Church of England, 246-his view of the prophe- cies of St. John, 250
Jugglers, Indian, anecdote of, 184-the swing of, 201
Julio Romano, an epic drama, 61 Juvenile prodigy, 320
KAMTCHATKA, Travels in, 335 Kennedy, (Dr.) Conversations of, with Lord Byron on religion, 475-notions of on the subject, 476-his exclusive doc- trines, 485-ludicrous story of, 487 Kenny, (W.S.) his Why and Because, 309 Kidd, (Mr.) account of a picture, by, 243 King's Own, a Novel, 263
King, (Lady Isabella) her Convent, 527 Kings, Saxon, 556-derivation of the word, ib.
LADIES, West Indian, 365-368 Ladies' Association, 527 Lady of the Lake, account of, 356 Laing, (Major) his death, 29
(Mr.) his exposure of the deception of Ossian's poems, 560 Lakes, Leigh's Guide to, 306 Lamb, (Charles) his Album Verses, 529 Lane, (Edw.) his Fugitives, 285 Language, the, of the Anglo-Saxons, 558 Lansdowne, (Marquis of) strange anecdote concerning his family, 188
Lardner, (Dr.) his Cabinet Cyclopædia,
Lawrence, (Sir T.) account of some of his portraits, 243
Lay of the Last Minstrel, 355
Leake, (Col. W. M.) his Travels in the Morea, 1
Le Brock, (Rev. Mr.) anecdote of, 185 Lectures on the Apocalypse, 245
Flaxman's, on sculpture, 418 Leigh's Guide to the Lakes, 306-Picture of London, 310 Lempriere, (W.) Lectures on Natural His- tory, by, 152
Leopold, (Prince) application of the Greek government to, 387-impolitic conduct of, after having been appointed King of Greece, 388-cause of his declining the government, 391
Letter on the present neglect of the Lord's Day, 300
-s of Locke, Sidney, and Shaftesbury,
Macpherson, the publisher of Ossian, 560 Madden, (R. R.) his Mussulman, 267 -, (Mr.) his experiment on a ser- pent's poison, 453
Madness, canine, (see Hydrophobia) Magna Charta, eulogy of, by Sir J. Mack- intosh, 564
Mainwaring, (Mrs.) her Suttee, 613 Mamlouks, account of, in Egypt, 5 Man, important principle relating to, Manchester, salubrity of, 57
Manners, Brazilian, 97}
Traits of Irish, 117
Manufactures, British, amount of, exported to India, 198
Marmion, account of, 355
Marriage, advice to a Turkish girl on, 273 -, amongst the Jews, 253
necessity of encouraging it in the West Indies, 367 Matthias, (Mrs.) her Natural Geography of Europe, 145
Maude, (T.) the Traveller's Lay, by, 138 May-day, carol for, 526
Maynwaring, his translation of Homer,
Mill, Schiller's Tale of the, 587 Mineralogy, rudiments of, 614 Minister of religion, 204 Mohammedan religion, 438
Monk, (Dr.) his Life of Bentley, 317 Monks, the Benedictine, their readiness to assist Bentley, 330
Mont Blanc, narrative of an ascent to the summit of, 286
Montagu, (H. W.) a poem by, 139 Montgomery, (Robert) 311 Montmorenci, a poem, 139
Moore, (T.) misrepresentation by, 311 Morea, Leake's Travels in, 1
Mortality, principal tables of, 464--hints for the formation of, 465
Morton, (Dr.) his Travels in Russia, 590 Mountains, the descent from high ones
more fatiguing than the ascent of, 300 Moses, veracity of the Five Books of, 150 Moxon, (Mr.) plan for setting up, 529 Mullah, the Mohammedan, 438 Mulready, the artist, anecdote of, 411 Mummy, account of a false one, 444 Munchausen, a modern, 181
Murray, (John) his remarks on hydropho bia, 449
Music, the, of the winds, 394 Mussulman, The, by R. R. Madden, 267
NAPLES, climate of, 65
Narrative of a Residence in Algiers, 614 National Debt, proposal to the ladies to cause it to be paid, 310
Natural history, (see Lloyd, Walsh, Lem- priere, Howard, India, Mac Diarmid, Rhind, British Naturalist) Naturalist, the British, 393
Navarino, battle of, justified, 383 Negro character, 87
Nelson, Life of, 142
(Lord) anecdote of, 495
Nerves of respiration, 456
Nervous disorders, peculiar to Roman la- dies, 65
Netherlands, language of, 469
Neutrality, new species of one, proposed by England, 380
New Bath Guide, 469
Newmarket meetings occasion breaches of the Sabbath, 302
Newnham, (Mr.) his account of Mr. Web- ster's death, 435 Newspapers, 471
of the West Indies, 368 Newton, (Mr.) account of some of his paintings, 244
-s, puffing of, 232-account of the 62d annual exhibition of at Somerset House, 233
Pilgrim of the Hebrides, a poem, 138 s to Mecca, 10
Piso, curious fact relating to, 64 Plague, the, of 1665, 603
Plain Instructions to Executors and Admi. nistrators, 309
Plants, their medical efficacy, 104
Plays, account of some national ones in Ireland, 117
Poem, by J. C. Smith, 362 Poetry, Minor, 123
Poets, their injustice to each other, 303 Poison, the, of Hydrophobia, 452—of the horned serpent, 453-of the rattlesnake, 455
Pope, his translation of Homer, 225 Population, connexion of tables of mor- tality with, 465
Porson, (Professor) anecdotes of, 496-his marriage, 497
Port-au-Prince, social intercourse of 163- commerce of, 165
Portfolio of the Martyr Student, 137 Porter, (Miss A. M.) her Barony, 285 Portraits of English authors on gardening, 469
Portugal, law of the succession to the throne of, 145
Pringle, (Dr.) 605 Priesthood, Book of the, 467
Proctor, (Mr.) 529 Prodigy, juvenile, 320 Prognostication, perfection of the Kam- tchatdales in, 338
Protocols relating to Greece, 375-386 Puffing pictures as well as books, 232 Pulse, effect of great elevations upon,
state of, in England, 203 Remarks on hydrophobia, 449 Representative principle, early history of, 566-in different countries, 567-its operation on society, 568 Respiration, nerves of, 456 Revelations, (see Apocalypse).
Rhind, (W.) his studies in natural his- tory,
Rhyme, English, capability of, 224
Rio de Janeiro, description of, 87-bishop of, 92-population, 95 Ritchie, (L.) his Game of Life, 284 Roads of Odessa, 598
Robber, curious policy of the Arabs to- wards, 216
Robinson, (Rev. T.) his Last Days of Bishop Heber, 517
Rodney, (Admiral) anecdote of, 494 Rokeby, account of, 358
Romances, The, of Chivalry, fate of, 564
Romantic Stanza, 353
Rome, climate of, 65-peculiar affection of the ladies of, ib.
Rouge et Noir, a poem, 150 Roubiliac, account of, 409 Russia, Travels in, by Dr. Morton, 590 (Emperor of) account of the last
legislative policy of, 341
policy of, explained in the war
with Turkey, 384
SABBATH DAY, neglect of, 300
Sanctorio, inventor of the thermometer, 536 Saxons, Anglo-Kings of, 556-their Wite- nagemote, 557-their language, 558 St. Domingo, some account of, 172 St. Gothard, Mount, 616
St. John, Revelations of, attempt to ex- pound, 245
Scandinavia, account of the bears of, 41 Schiller, his Wallenstein's Camp, 570 Schools, Irish hedge, 121
Scotch Grocer in London, 490 Scotland, courtship in, 282
Scott, (Sir Walter) his autobiography, 347 -his first poetical essay, 350-his reso- lution, 351-his early poetry, 354-not a partizan of his own poetry, 357-result of his labours questioned, 359-his visit to Waterloo, 503
Sculptors, Lives of Eminent British, 408 Sculpture, 408-Flaxman's Lectures on,
Sea, cannot be seen from the top of Mont Blanc, 297
Seasons described, 393-401-404 Sects, variety of, 203
Senate, The, a Poem, 614 Sermon, singular one, 581 Serpent, horned, poison of, 453 Shaftesbury, (Lord) Original Letters of, 422-428-admonitions of, 429-his prescription, 433
Shee, (Mr.) his picture of Lavinia, 241
(Mr. jun.) his picture of the disco- very of Canilla by Gil Blas, 240 Sheep, the mountain, account of, 338 Shepherd, (Rev. W.) Poems by, 132 Shepherd and his dog in France, 618 Shiregemotes, account of, 557
Siberia, Travels in, 335-exiles in, 340- account of, 343
Sidney, original letters of, 422
Sillery, (C. D.) his Vallery, a poem,
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