Newspaper, reading the, in the olden time, 521.
New World, discovery of the, 264, 360. Night, beauty of, 96.
Night-hawk, notice of the, 225.
Nobili, Roberti di, Jesuit, his pro- ceedings in India, 525.
'Notes on the Seasons:' spring, 290. 'Notes upon Coffee:' introduction of the coffee-plant to the west, 382; descrip- tion of the shrub, 382; its culture, 383; the early trade, 383; dispersion of the plant by the Dutch, 383; enormous production, 384. 'Nothing,' 255.
Pale azure butterfly, notice of the, 553. Palmas, Cape, colony of, 519. Paraguay, Jesuit empire of, 527. Patn, the old capital of Nepaul, 191. Paul's, St., cathedral, discovery of a curious relic in, 514; ancient inscrip- tion on the monument of William
Lambe, 515. Pekin, present interest in, 355; its situa- tion, 356; two cities, 356; palace of the emperor, 356; the streets, 357; routine of Pekin life, 357; the city- walls, 358; temples, 358; particulars by Sir George Staunton, 358; the present crisis, 359.
Pepys, Samuel, his search for treasure in the Tower, 137.
'Peveril of the Peak,' supposed origin of the novel, 27. Philadelphia, city of, 40.
Pines of North California, 238. Pink, the Indian, 224. Pinkwing moth, the, 345.
Plants, geographical distribution of, 230, 415; hybernation of, 294. Poissy, conference of, 436. 'Poland' its former boundaries and pro- vinces, 311; fertility of the soil, 311; rivers, 311; export of corn, 311; inha- bitants, 312; introduction of Chris- tianity and subjection to the Empire, 312; the yoke thrown of by Boleslaus I., 312; who invades the dominions of the emperor, 313; progress of Poland in his reign, 313; division into palati- nates, 313; constant wars, 313; Vladis- laus proclaimed king, 313; the Jagellon dynasty, 314; wise government of Vladimir II., 314; accessions of terri tory, 314; prosperity after the peace of Thorn, 314; political condition-the diets, 315; invasion of Russo-Polish provinces by the Lithuanians, and their subsequent submission, 315; adminis- tration of justice, 316; continued pros-
perity, 316; the kingdom a refuge against religious persecution, 316; union of Poland and Lithuania, 317; election of a king on the extinction of the Jagellon family, 317; attempt of Stephen Battory to render the crown hereditary, 318; commencement of the anarchy which led to the downfall of Poland, 318.
Poltrot, John, assassinates the duke of Guise at Orleans, 441. Prairie-plants, 343.
Prickly pear, the, 449.
Printing, history of, 78; notice of the invention of the art and its early pro- fessors, 538.
Quail, the, its peculiar call, 451.
Rabbit, the, of Alabama, 219; mode of taking, by the "twisting-stick," 220. Rahere, founder of St. Bartholomew's priory and hospital, his youth, 326; his pilgrimage to Rome, vow, and vision, 327; obtains a grant of land, 327; proceeds to erect the priory and hospital, 328; different estimations of him, 329; his death, 329; his tomb in St. Bartholomew's church, 329. 'Rainbow, The,' 229.
Read, necessity of learning to, in Sweden,
'Reading the Newspaper in the Olden Time,' 521.
Religious wars of France, sketches of the, 256, 428, 481.
Renaudie, La, nominal leader of the con- spiracy of Amboise, his proceedings and death, 430, 431.
Ricci, Matthew, founder of the mission to China, 526.
Rice, its abundance in Siam, 479.
Rich, Sir Richard, lord chancellor, 337. Richard II., his fondness for plays and tournaments, 202; his danger and intrepidity in Wat Tyler's rebellion,
'Rising Moon, The,' 354.
Roberts, Joseph John, president of Liberia, his visit to England, and inter- view with Lord Ashley and Mr. Gur- ney, 518.
Rookery, a, in spring, 291. Russian prisoners at Lewes, 319.
Sahara, nature of the, and its vegetation, 419.
Salisbury, countess of, her execution,
Sclaves, migrations of the, 312. Seasons, notes on the, 290. 'Sebastian Gomez, or the Young Mulatto,'
Sensitive-plants, different species of, 455. Shakspere, Edmond, his name in the church register of St. Mary Overies, 414.
Siam and the Siamese, sketches of, 376, 477.
Sicily, varied vegetation of, 232. Siege-work, account of, 276. Sigismund Augustus, king of Poland, his encouragement of learning, 316; unites Poland and Lithuania, 317; profligacy of his latter years, 317. 'Silence,' 275.
'Sketches of the Religious Wars of France,' 256, 428, 481.-Conduct of France in the great struggle of the sixteenth century, 256; introduction of the reformed doctrines under Francis I., 257; conduct of that mon- arch, 257; Calvin, 259; massacre of the Waldenses, 259; spread of the new opinions, 259; proceedings under Henry II., 260; the Jesuits, 260; Francis de Coligny, 260; meetings of Calvinists, 261; Anne de Montmo- renci, 261; leaders of the reformers, 262; the duke of Guise, 262; Cathe- rine de Medicis, 263; conspiracy against the Guises, 428; mission of the king of Navarre, 429; triumph of the Guises, 429; organization of the Jesuits, 430; conspiracy of Amboise, 430; assembly at Nantz, 431; failure of the conspiracy, and arrest of Condé, 431; laxity of the moral code of the age, 432; attempt to convict the prince of Condé, 432; he is seized and condemned to death, 433; intercession of his wife and of the king of Navarre rejected, 433; death of Francis II. and accession of Charles IX., 434; political changes by the chancellor de l'Hôpital, 434; pro- ceedings of the States-general, 435; the "Triumvirate," 435; influence of Spain, 435; "Edict of July," recon- ciliation of Condé and Guise, 436; conference of Poissy, 436; Theodore Beza, advocate of the reformers, 437 reply of the cardinal of Lorraine, 438; fruitlessness of the conference, 438; assembly at St. Germain, address of de l'Hôpital, 438; triumph of the Calvinists, 439; interference of Spain, 439; policy of the queen-mother, 439; massacre at Voissi, 440; irritation of the Calvinists, fanatical riots in Paris, 440; Catherine's letter to Condé, and his appeal to the country, 440; restraint of the king, 441; treaty between Condé and Elizabeth of England, 441; death of the king of Navarre, 441; Condé and Montmorenci taken prisoners at Dreux, 441; assassination of the duke of Guise, 441; his energy and ambition, 442; close of first civil war by the convention of Amboise, 482; dissatis-
faction with its provisions, 482; fatal policy of Catherine, 482; the baron des Adrets, 483; Catherine favours the Romanists, 483; interview between Charles IX, and the queen of Spain, 484; intolerant sentiments of the duke of Alva, 484; the prince of Bearn (Henry IV.), 484; assembly at Mou- lins, 484; hypocrisy of Charles, 485; hollow reconciliations, 485; zeal of Coligny, 485; interference of German princes, and furious anger of the king, 485; he determines to extirpate heresy, 485; takes Swiss troops into pay, 486; they are attacked by the Calvinists, 486; Condé summoned to disband his troops, 486; meeting between him and Montmorenci, 487; the latter mortally wounded at the battle of St. Denis, 487; his character, 487; Condé besieges Chartres unsuccessfully, 487; repeated duplicity of the king, 488; preaching of the Jesuits, 488; Cathe- rine's change of policy, 488; escape of Calvinistic leaders, 489; third war, 489; d'Acier joins the Huguenots, 489; battle of Jarnac and death of Condé, 489; and of Robert Stuart, 490; com- plete defeat of the Calvinists, 490; address of the queen of Navarre, 490; the prince of Bearn elected general- issimo, 491; junction with the German auxiliaries, 491; death and character of d'Andelot, 491; the Calvinists agaîn defeated at Moncontour, 492; dissen- sion between Catherine and the Guises, 492; victory of the Calvinists in Bur- gundy, 492; resignation of Tavannes, 492; peace of St. Germain-en-Laye, and concessions to the Huguenots, 493. 'Sketches of Siam and the Siamese,' 376, 477.-Present interest of the subject, 376; native name of the country, 377; its dimensions, 377; population, 377; various races of inhabitants, 378; political division, tributary states, 379; aspect of the country, mountains, the grand plain, 379; sea-coasts and islands, 380; port of Bang-kok, 380; floating shops, 381; method of clearing water, 381; port of Chantaban, 382; gulf of Siam, 477; rivers and their inunda- tions, 477; timber, 478; abundant growth of rice, 479; fish, 480. Smithfield, described by Fitz-Stephen as a horse-market and race-course in the twelfth century, 200; pageants there temp. Edward III., 201; great tourna- ment before Richard II., 202; play and joust, temp. Henry IV., 202; executions at the Elms, 203; judicial combats, 204; assemblage of the rebels under Wat Tyler, 205; death of their leader, 207; the stake, 326; St. Bartholomew's priory, churches, and hospital, 326- 339.
'Soldier's Dream, The,' 208. Spanish moss, the, 454.
Spanish women in Gibraltar, dress of, 125.
Sphinx, or hawk-moth, the, 227, 460,
Spiders used as food, 543.
Spring: beauties of the season, 290; the thrush, 290; the rookery, 291; magpie parliaments, 291; hybernation of animals and plants, 292; migration of birds, 294; the swallow and martin, 295; the farmyard, 295; breathings of spring, 296; Joanna Baillie's lines on Spring, 427.
Squirrels, their haunts and manners, 461;
good eating, 462; incorrigible robbers, 462; ingenious plan for preventing their depredations, 463.
Stanhope, earl, his estimate of the waste of time by snuff-taking, 63. States-general, assembly of the, at Orleans, 435.
Stephen, king, disasters of his reign, 404.
Stephen Battory, duke of Transylvania,
elected king of Poland, 317; attempts to render the crown hereditary, 318. Stockholm, the streets of, on Christmas- eve, 72.
Strait of Gibraltar, difficulty of the pass- age, 129.
Stuart, Robert, kills the constable Mont- morenci at the battle of St. Denis, 487; his death at the battle of Jarnac, 490. -Sub-arctic region, vegetation of the, 235. Sumboonath, temple of, 189.
Sweden, Christmas-Eve in, 70; Christmas- Morn in, 151.
Taste, force of habit on, 217. Tavannes, marshal, gives information to the prince de Condé of an intention to seize him, 488; gains the battle of Jarnac, 489; his reply to the cardinal of Lorraine, 492; resigns the command of the king's army, 492.
Temperature, its effect on vegetation, 232.
Temple, Roman, on the site of Bow church, 195.
Teneriffe, vegetation of, 422.
Teutonic knights, their contests with Poland, 313, 314.
Tick, annoyances of the insect so called,
Tierra del Fuego, vegetation of, 236. Tobacco: its moral and social effects, prejudices in its favour, 61; evils of its use, 62; provocative of intemperance, 63; estimated waste of time by snuff-taking, 63; value of tobacco and snuff consumed annually, 64; tobacco much used by the upper classes, 64; reproof by a Taheitean, 64; middle- class smokers, 65; miseries entailed on the lower classes by its use, 65; ob- servations by Dr. A. Clarke, 66, 67; influence of tobacco on the manners of its votaries, 67; its effects on non- smokers, 67; American "chewers," 68; the pipe and the snuffbox among the clergy, 69.
Tortoises the mud-turtle, 352; the alligator tortoise, 353; the soft-back, 353; mode of taking them, 354; their ferocity, 353, 354.
Tower of London, the: the White Tower, 18; St. John's Chapel, 18; the duke of Wellington and the Navy Records, 18; Longchamp's wall, 19; the Salt Tower, 20; inscriptions by prisoners, 21, 22; additions and repairs, 23, 24; collection of animals commenced by Henry III., 25; the Lions' Tower, 25; increase and removal of the collection, 26; the Beauchamp Tower, 26; the Bloody Tower, 27; traditions, 28, 29; escape of bishop Flambard, 29; unsuccessful attempt of Griffith, son of the last prince of Wales, 29; literary captives and their works, 131; imprisonment of the abbot and monks of Westminster, 132; Scotch prisoners taken at the battle of Neville's Cross, 132; prisoners from the French wars, 132; lord Cobham, 133; prisoners during the wars of the Roses, 133; Henry VI., the young princes, and the duke Clarence, 133; Tower-green-Has- tings, countess of Salisbury, lady Jane Grey, 134; St. John's Chapel-Anna Boleyn, Talbot Edwards, 135; Paul Hentzner's account of a visit to the Tower, 136; reports on its condition, 137; Pepys, his search for treasure, 137; Tower-hill-Sir Simon de Burley, 138.
Tower-green, 134. Tower-hill, 138.
Toys made by Russian prisoners at Lewes, 321.
Trehearne, John, his monument in the church of St. Mary Overies, 410. Trial by battle, 204, 205.
Tropics, varied vegetation of the, 232; general character of, 417; forests of Tropical America, 419. Trumpet-flower, the, 453.
Turenne, marshal, anecdote of, 375. Turkeys, wild, and mode of taking them, 223.
Turkey-vulture, voracity of the, 349. Turtles, immense numbers of their eggs on the banks of the Amazon, 170 ; mode of shooting the turtle, 170. Turtle-dove, notice of the, 224. 'Twenty-four Hours with a Bedouin,' 53; nuptial carpets, 54; a festival procession, 55; the lost tent, 56; the thief's story, 57; reward of dexterous robbery, 61.
Type, specimens of different kinds of, used in book-printing, 84. Type-founders and their art, account of, 79-84.
'Vagaries, The, of Man's Appetite,'
'Vain Warnings,' 497.
Vanity a source of disagreements, 296. Vegetation, its progress on old buildings, 229; agents in promoting vegetation,
231; influences on, 231; variations of, 232; vegetation of various countries, 234-239.
Vendôme, conference of Huguenots at, 429.
Viper, the scarlet, 452.
'Visit, A, to the Birthplace of St. Bernard:' early home of the saint, 510; approach to Fontaine, 511; group of vintagers, 511; chapel of St. Bernard, 512; tradi- tion of his birth, 512; the village church, 512; a doubtful effigy, 513; statue of St. Bernard, 513.
'Visit, A, to Sark :' the island little known, 467; mode of communication with Guernsey, 468; strangers' letters, 468; appearance of Sark from the sea, 468; interest of the passage, 469; the landing, 469; the tunnel, 469; lodgings, 470; the aborigines, fairies or Druids, 470; feudal constitution, 470; early mission- aries, 471; religious establishment, 471; abandoned to pirates and wreckers, 471; their destruction, 472; Sir Walter Raleigh's account of the capture of the island, 472; local tradition, 473; de- population of Sark, 473; rehabited, and a grant of the island obtained by De Carteret, 474; feudal powers of the seigneur, 474; natural defences, 475; good works of De Carteret, 475; various proprietors, 475; fatal accident in 1839, 476; the present seigneur, 476. Vladimir II. of Poland, his wise govern- ment, 314.
Voissi, massacre of Huguenots at, 440.
"Walcheren Expedition, The :' its date, 493; its object, 493; cause of its failure, 494; its early successes, 494; neglect of the commander-in-chief, 495; suffer- ings of the troops from the Walcheren fever, 495; the island abandoned, 496; result of parliamentary inquiry, 496; ministerial changes consequent there- upon, 496.
Waldenses, massacre of the, 259. Warren, earl, supposed monument of, in the church of St. Mary Overies, 408. Wars, religious, of France, sketches of the, 256, 428, 481.
Wasp's nest, progress of a, 551. Wat Tyler's rebellion, origin and pro- gress of, 206; meeting of the rebels with the king at Mile-end, 206; at Smithfield, and death of Wat Tyler, 207; dispersion of the rebels and exe- cution of their leaders, 208.
Water, simple method of clearing, 381. 'Weeds,' 305.
Wellington, duke of, anecdote of, 18. William the Conqueror, his proceedings after the battle of Hastings, 17; builds the White Tower, 18; his entry into London, and coronation, 139; his charters to the city, 140.
William Rufus, his encouragement of the Jews, 196.
William IV., anecdote of, 112.
Wilson, John, his improvements in type- founding, 81.
Wisdom not necessarily connected with knowledge, 562.
Wolves, former existence of, in Britain, and modes adopted for their extirpa- tion, 136, note.
Woman, the domestic, preferable to the heroine, 214; her governing principle, 562.
Woodpecker, gold-winged, habitation of the, 345; the ivory-billed, 350. Worde, Wynkyn de, introduces the Roman letter into England, 79. Worms used as food, 545,
Wren, his observations on Bow church, 195.
Wren, Carolina, confidence of the, 346.
Xavier, Francis, becomes a disciple of Loyola, 524; his missions to India and Japan, 524; his death near Canton, 525.
Yule-sheaf, the, in Sweden, 156.
Zouaves, notice of the tribe, 92; their numbers, 94; formation of the French corps of Zouaves, 94; abandoned by the natives, 95; its importance, 95; fondness of the Zouaves for cats, 96.
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