ACTORS mistakes in the bent of their ta. Catherine of Russia, gallantries of, 164 lents, 240 Air, and the Air-pump, 200 Ancient Prodigies and Magic, 1 Carnival, the Ashantee Yam, 119 China, christianity in, 211 a few words on, 136 Beings, distinction between inanimate and Consumption, 44 living, 132 Billington, Mrs., 17 Bewick and wood-engraving, 193 Black Dr., anecdotes of, 43 Blood, the body poisoned by its own, 287 Bloomfield the poet, 211 Books, form of ancient, 210 210 Essence of, 210 Pulmonary, 393 Conscription, drawing for the, 409 Comet, Halley's or the comet for 1834, 337 Courts of love, 121 Cowper and Gibbon,287 Combing the hair in company, 192 Costume, unchangeable, 240 to preserve from being worm eaten Continent, at the South Pole, on the exis- tence of a, 241 Demon of Drury Lane, or the modern Hindoo Idolatry, the East India Com. Tantalus, 113 Defence, an Irish one, 96 Dinner a Saxon, 164 Doctors dispensed with, 68 Drinking, the parson cured of, 209 Garrick, 138 pany's encouragement of, 150 Hospitality, Kamschatka, 239 Hydrophobia, a new view of the causes of, 109 Leigh Green, the, 392 Legatee, the Residuary, 87 Letter, a French gentleman's to an En- Light-houses, on the illumination of, 413 Logarithms, Napier the inventor of, 242 Lord Mayor's show, my first, 32 Gas, unwholesomeness of it in the interior Louis the fourteenth, characteristic anec- of houses. 288 Gallantry, Polish, 339 Geography, Chinese, 165 Genlis the countess, sketch of, 357 Gondomar count, his opinion of Queen Great Britain, future prospects of, 108 Grotius's wife, ingenuity of, 176 H. Hazlett, recollections of, 106 dotes of, 413 M. Machinery, theory of, 335 Mackenzie, the late, Henry, 329 Mc. Donald, the Ettrick shepherd's song Man about town, a, 140 Marriage in Scotland, law of, 68 Mecca, running pilgrims at, 191 Midshipmen, Lord Rodney's kindness to Milk, substitute for, 339 Milton, and Sir H. Davy, 390 Navies in general, 69 Negus, origin of, 392 — Juliet, a thought at night, 399 Truth, youth, and age, 227 Presents, new years', 239 New South Wales, mineral productions Presentiments, fatal, 407 of, 205 Priests, Greek, 240 Sabbath, observance of the, 227 Saints, Chinese, 165 Scientific men, ingratitude of England to Scott, Sir Walter, 293 Scotland, parliamentary representation of, 97 Sea, a trip to the, 63 Shepherd's, the Ettrick, and Professor Sinclair's, Sir John, "correspondence,”an- Skeletons of fish, method of obtaing the, 68 Weber, Carl Maria von, 351 Whale fishery of New south Wales, 382 Wilson, Professor, 250 Wilson's, Professor, and the Ettrick shep- Wind and water, powers of, 315 Wood-engraving, 139 Teas, prices and qualities of English and Worsted, 392 foreign, 386 Tetuan, a glance at, 249 Titian, 138 Tit for tat, 254 Y Years, the present computation of, erio LONDON: PRINTED BY ALFRED FLOWER, SKINNER STREET, SNOW HILL. |