Life, tenacity of, in insects, 122 Lilac, origin of the name, 432 Lime-tree Branch, legend of the, 254 Literature and Art, of 1835, 127. Living, cheap, 32 Lloyd's Coffee-house, 251 Logic, extraordinary, 307 London Bridge in 1836, 226 Roman, remains of, 212 Louis XIII. at Chambord, 101 Lutzen, Napoleon and Ney at, 327 Magic Spinning-wheel, the, 166-186 Manchester, marriages at, 416 Marriage, Lord Byron on, 32 Marylebone Alms-houses, 175-208-401 May-poles, Washington Irving on, 340 Midsummer, custom at, 292-341 Mince-meat in Venice, 16 Mistake, a singular one, 333 Moscow, burning of, 128 Moth, the Death's Head, 281 a large one, 151 Mrs. Captain Thompson, a sketch, 381 Mullet at Weymouth, 95 Murder by Earl Ferrers, 179 Nabobs, on, 39 . Natural History, stray facts in, 67 Nature, an admirer of her works, 244 Neighbours, 208 Nelson, the death of, 203 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the castle at, history crows' nest at, 327 New York, New Year's Day in, 5 Nicaragua, volcano at, 52 Nightjar, error respecting, 164-244-308 Norfolk, the late Duke of, 409 North-west passage, the, and northern geo- Norwich, antiquities of, 241 Oaks, celebrated, 336 Oak customs, 21 Old Man, sacrifice of the, 372 Opera, the French, 16 Opium-eating, custom of, 362 Ovahs, the, of Madagascar, customs of, 46— Owl, superstitions respecting, 285 Paine, Thomas, anecdote of, 144 Palace, an ancient English one, 351 Paris, improvements in, 80 Parliament Houses, designs for the new, 268 Passage, the north-west, and northern geo- Past and Present, the, 126 Peacock, error respecting, 164 People, rule of the, 336 Pera, British palace at, 31 Peru, ants in, 315 Phenomenon, curious, 35 Rose, the, on Midsummer-day, 223 Royal George, the, 32 Ruffs and Reeves, notice of, 111–124 Sacrifice, examples of, 372 Sailor's Wedding, the, 171 St. Edward the Confessor, shrine of, 233 Philadelphia, the Upper Schuylkill Bridge St. Erkenwald, his shrine, 235 at, 151 Pigs, cargo of, 367 Pilgrim at Jerusalem, the, 83 Pilgrimages by proxy, 276 remarkable, 86-233-275 Pilgrims, various, 277 Piquet not in mourning, 256 Piracy, atrocious, 360 Pisa, baptistery at, 3 leaning tower at, 3 Pitt, Mr., anecdote of, 176 and Pericles, parallel of, 429 Plant, curious, 320 Poor Law Amendment Act, the, 129 Population, noisy, 48 Port wine, statement respecting, 400 Prescience, anecdotes of, 285 Presentiment, anecdote of, 224 Promise, a publishing, 192 Proverb, Spanish, 336 Providential Deliverances, anecdotes of, 402 Prussia, potatoes in, 416 Punch, iced gin, to make, 125 Pyramids of Egypt, 227 Queen's Drawing-room, the, 159 Queensberry, the Duke of, 429 Rag Wells, 87 Railways, American, 64 Liverpool and London, 64 Rain, fall of, 64 Rapids and Cascades in the Arctic Regions,394 tradition respecting the, 352 St. Nun's Pool, Cornwall, 87 St. Olave's new school, 66 St. Paul's Cathedral, shrines in, 235 and St. Peter's Cathedrals, details St. Sebastian's day in Spain, 303 St. Thomas's Hospital, improvement of, 160 Saints, crafts of, 87 Samouelle, Mr. George, his evidence on the British Museum, 212 Santa Croce, the church of, 267 Sarayacu, domestic life at, 355 Sark, capture of, 214 Saxe, marshal, at Chambord, 132 Scaldaletto, the, or Italian warming-pan, 57 Scape-goat, origin of, 343 Scene in the life of a Homicide, 280 Schiller, lines from, 95 School, the Licensed Victuallers', 114 Scott, Sir Walter, and Lady Morgan, 111 Scratch, awkward one, 224 Sea water converted into fresh, 192 Seats, classification of, 184 Sevigné, Madame, her chateau, 30 Shakee-shakee, game of, 288 Shakspeare, his knowledge of natural history, 101 of Marion, 203 Sonnets, by the Sketcher, 415 Sound, anecdote of, 336 Soups, various, 110 Speaking Instrument, 64 Spinning-wheel, the magic, 166—186 Star Chamber, history of the, 289-321-370 Statue of William III. at Dublin, 258 177-198 chapel at, 199 Steam-power, effects of, 287 Steam-vessel, sonnets on, 415 Sterne and Garrick, 131 Tree, an old one, 127 the poet Voltaire's, 112 Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower, Truth, adages on, 309–336 Turbot, roasted one, 95 Turtle, diamond found in, 95 Valentinois, the duchess of, at Chambord, 100 Venice, present state of, 90 tortures at, 169 Venison feasts, 320 Verdun, sailor at, 127 Victor Hugo, scraps by, 112 Vienna, public amusements at, 365 Village, a small one, 384 planting, 143 Volcano in America, 52 in Antuco, 298 Walker, Mr., his cream-freezing apparatus, 295 Walsingham, Wishing Wells at, 87 Warming-pan, Italian, 57 Table, necrological, of 1835, 43, Warsaw, Napoleon at, 326 Wilberforce, Mr., anecdote of, 303 Wine-drinking, anecdotes of, 153 Winfarthing, the good sword of, 87—276 Winter, a word for, 174 Wolves in the Arctic Regions, 396 Woods, ornamental, history of, 309 Zoological Gardens, the giraffes at the, 386 Zoology, progress of, 165 ENGRAVINGS. PORTRAIT OF MISS MITFORD.-Frontispiece. Abingdon New Workhouse, 129 Alfred's Tower, Stourhead, 377 Beauvais, in France, 209 College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 193 Cream-freezing Apparatus, 295 Iceberg, 408 Islington Cattle Market, 305 King's Board, the, at Gloucester, 424 Leasowes, the Birthplace of Shenstone, 81 J. LIMBIRD, Printer, 143, Strand. |