Chambers’s Journal, index for 1886

INDEX. — Familiar Sketches and Essays. — Poetry. — Popular Science. — Tales and Other Narratives. — Notices of Books. — Miscellaneous Articles of Instruction and Entertainment.

• Page
• An Angler’s Idyll, 49
• An Old Tulip Garden, 525
• Arachne and Melissa, 385
• ‘Chop’ with King Ja-Ja, 433
• Coaching-days, 321
• Conscientious Money-spending, 229
• Cottage Ideas, by Richard Jefferies, 289
• Ethics of Housekeeping, 81
• Finance without Funds; or, How to Float a Company, 257
• Fortune, 286
• Germanisation of America, 465
• Hostess and Guest, 353, 379
• Hygeia in the Dog-days, 481
• Instinct and Reason, 248
• John Hullah, 326
• Just before Winter, by Richard Jefferies, 801
• Life’s Golden Age, 97
• Literary Endeavour, 65
• Modern Slavery: a Word for Our Shop-assistants, 449
• Money Lent! 447
• Our Domesticated Otter, 53
• Our Ways and Theirs, 545
• Park Pearls, 561
• Pleasures of Ruin, 758
• Revolution Below-stairs, 28
• Scottish Beadle Half a Century Ago, 209
• The Old Priory Garden, 254
• Two Evenings with Bismarck, 17, 86
• ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Grant, 102
• Unpopular Relationships, 293
• What Career for Tom? 381
• ‘Where Ignorance is Bliss,’ 344
• Winds of Heaven, by Richard Jefferies, 497

• A Bright Day in November, 768
• A Deserted Garden, 32
• A Nurse, 672
• A Retrospect, 736
• A Song of Rest, 544
• An Old ‘Chubb,’ 80
• At the Mill, 320
• At Waking, 64
• Autumn Days, 608
• Bird Notes, 336
• Bonnie Dryfe, 48
• By the River, 368
• Dead Flowers, by Alexander Anderson, 256
• Dolly, 144
• Dream-fancies, 592
• If this were so, 704
• In the Distant Years, 800
• ‘Let there be Light,’ 224
• Lost at Sea, 528
• Love’s Seasons, 720
• Mehalah, 784
• ‘Missing,’ 512
• ‘None will miss Thee,’ 576
• Parted, 208, 640
• Persephoné, 160
• Picciola, 560
• Sketches, 384
• Solitude, 624
• Spoken in Anger, 288
• Spring’s Advent, 192
• Sweet Day of Days, 832
• Sweetheart, Farewell, 496
• The Gorse, 464
• The Last Year, 272
• The Lindsay’s Bridal, 416
• The Minstrels, 432
• The Mother’s Vigil, by Hugh Conway, 96
• The Old Viking, 176
• The Poet’s Treasures, 400
• The Return, 240
• The Two Seas, 816
• This is All, 752
• To a Cherry Blossom, 480
• To a Lady, 656
• Two Sonnets: Keats, 112
• Which? 352
• Who Knows? 688
• Youth and Age, 448

• Air as a Motive Force, 762
• Cocaine, 145
• Desert Dust, 6
• Dew, a New Theory of, 350, 624
• Earthquakes, Comrie, 351
• Fissure Eruptions, 129
• Fuel, Economy of, 748
• Man-like Apes—and Man, 280
• Mars, Life in, 369
• Massage: a Mode of Medical Treatment, 593
• Mineral Subsidence, 648
• Mitis Metal, 527
• Month, The: Science and Arts—
• Pamir Region of Asia—Paraffin as a Successful Preservative—Artificial Fireproof Plaster—New Form of Lamp—Plan for Toughening Paper—‘Plumage League’—Fast Sailing Torpedo Boat—Torpedo Catcher—Gunnery Experiments—New Turning-lathe—Development of Leather Manufacture in Germany—Tea-cultivation in Natal—Lithographic Printing from Zinc Plates—Glazing without Putty, 76–79
• Discovery of Roman Relics—Ancient Statue of Pharaoh found at Ramleh—Fall of Meteorites in India—Proposed Chart of the Stars—Earthquake in Cornwall—Thunderstorms—Typewriting Association—Machine for Repairing Wood-pavement—Weight of Salmon—Mersey Tunnel—Weight of Frozen Snow on Telegraph Wires—New Photographic Process—Freezing Wet Gravel—New Form of Stretcher—Preservation of Fish by Boracic Acid, 137–140
• Phylloxera in the Vineyards of Cape Colony—Worms in Ice—Isthmus of Corinth Canal—Improved Method of Etching Metallic Surfaces—Stationary Buffer-stop for Railway Stations and Sidings—Gas Regulator—Purity of Aërated Waters—Acidulated Water as a Disinfectant—Successful Inoculations for Hydrophobia—The Microscope as a Criminal Detective Agent—Heating of Public Conveyances—Variations of Light emitted by Celestial Objects—Electric Alarm-bell for Railway Crossings—‘Whitebait’—Screw Forging Machine—Important Analysis of Prescriptions, 205–207
• Cheapening of Aluminium—Petroleum Wells in Egypt—Photographing the Pleiades—Embryo Growth in a Bird’s Egg—New Refrigerator—Lighthouse Illuminants—Dentistry in America—Deterioration of Pictures by Exposure to Light—Revival of Pastel-work—Burmese Method of Working in Metals—Prevention of Cholera—Utilisation of London Refuse—Unexhibited Greek and Roman Sculptures—Artificial Reproduction of Trout, 268–271
• Discovery of Ancient British Boat and Wooden Causeway—Christy Ethnographical Collection—The National Egg-supply—Oyster Spat—Tenacity of Life in Pike—Gas in Water-pipes—Petroleum Engine—New Uses for Cork—Extraction of Saccharin from Coal-tar—Balloon-signalling—Value of Basic Cinder as a Manure—Waterproof Paper and Ink—Utilisation of Skim-milk in the Manufacture of Cheese—Honey-wine, 347–350
• Sanitary Furniture—Purity of Artificial Ice—Scarlatina Epidemic in London—New Method of Etching on Glass—Ocean Oil-well—Uses of Diatomite—Ferrous Sulphate a Preventive of Potato Disease—Damascening Metals by Electrolysis—Discovery of Old Roman and English Coins—The Electric Light at Paddington—Means of Escape from Suffocation by Smoke—Production of Solid Oxygen—Heat-value in Fuel—Mummy Wheat—Safety Cartridges for use in Fiery Mines, 411–414
• Efficacy of Vaccination—The Transbaïkal Mineral Springs—Construction of an Observatory at Sonnblick—New Photographic Camera—New Military Shell—Origin of the Germ Theory of Disease—Fading of Water-colour Paintings—New Process for making Whitelead—Hay-loader—Discovery of Ancient Egyptian Palace—Safest Material for Road-paving—Snail Harvest in France, 492–495
• Photographic Printing-blocks—Crematory Furnaces in Paris—Volcanic Eruption in New Zealand—Ancient Dentistry and Artificial Teeth—Remarkable Cases of Recovery from Bullet-wounds—New System of Coating Iron or Steel with Lead—Durability of Red-lead Paints—Upward’s Primary Battery—Fryer’s Refuse Destructor—Manufacture of Brick Tea, 555–558
• India-rubber and Asbestos as additions to Armour-plating—Explosive Ice—Steel Sleepers for Railways—Slack Coal as Fuel for Boiler-firing—Repairing of Furnace-linings—Machine for making Wood-wool—An Axleless Wheel—Railway Foot-warmers—Cultivation of Tobacco in Kent—Creosote a Cure for Erysipelas—Machine for ‘withering’ Tea, 617–619
• Non-efficiency of Toughened Glass—Dynamite as a Charge for Explosive Projectiles—Electric Boat—New Motive-power for Vessels—Marine Brake—Accident at the Crarae Quarries—Earthquake Predictions—Fertilising Effect of Volcanic Dust—Torpedo Experiments—Butterfly Procession—Woodbury Tissue—A Photographic Phenomenon—Completion of the Severn Tunnel, 701–703
• Isthmus of Panama Canal—Colonial Woods—Instinct of Ants—The largest Photographic Negative—Preservation of Flowers—Effect of Light upon Eyeless Animals—Solder Alloy—Electric Safety-lamp—Disposal of Sewage—Sugar used in Making Mortar and Cement—Casting of Chains in Solid Steel—Deposition of Dust and Smoke by Electricity—Simplex Ironing Machine—A New Explosive—Continuous Wire-netting Machine, 764–767
• Japanese Sanitarium—Careless Construction of Flues and Party-walls in Houses—M. Pasteur on his Treatment of Hydrophobia—A Petroleum Engine as a Motor for Torpedo Boats—Spent Dye Liquors used in the Manufacture of Writing-ink—Acclimatisation of Bavarian Fish in England—Successful Experimental Tobacco-growing at Sydenham—New Method of Preserving Polyzoa—Settle’s Safety-lamp and Water-cartridge—Technical Education in Britain—An American Dynamite Cruiser—Professor Hughes’s Microphone used for Detecting Leaks in Water-mains—A New Steam-valve—Petroleum Springs, 828–831
• Nothing New, 737
• Ordnance Survey, its Past and Future, 774
• Plant-life, Influence of Habit in, 113
• Prehistoric Man, 417
• Sand, Musical, 427
• Senses, the Evidence of the, 719
• Shot-firing in Coal-mines, 149, 208, 271
• Signalling at Sea, 33
• Star-charting, Photographic, 732
• Subaqueous Excursion, a, 30

• A Barrack Ghost Story, 140
• A Dead Shot: an Incident in 1801, 717
• A Friend of the Family.—By Charles Gibbon, 503, 522, 537, 552
• A Gallant Rescue, 487
• A Golden Argosy, a Novelette.—By Fred. M. White, 8, 25, 42, 55, 71, 89, 105, 119, 134
• A Humble Sprig of Nobility: a Red River Story, 666
• A Trick at the Helm, 396
• An Escort Adventure, 443
• An Every-day Occurrence, 156
• By Order of the League.—By Fred. M. White, 580, 595, 614, 628, 644, 660, 675, 693, 707, 724, 739, 756, 771, 788, 804, 819
• Cousin George, 744, 759
• David’s Son Solomon, 733
• ‘Doubleworks:’ a Story of Athlone, 823
• George Hannay’s Love Affair, 632, 650, 664, 681, 699
• Great Jewel Robbery, 188
• How I became a Convict, 13
• How Pat Delaney paid his Rent, 490
• In All Shades.—By Grant Allen, Author of Babylon, Strange Stories, &c.
• Chapter I., 1
• Chapter II., 3
• Chapter III., 21
• Chapter IV., 36
• Chapter V., 51
• Chapter VI., 66
• Chapter VII., 83
• Chapter VIII., 99
• Chapter IX., 101
• Chapter X., 116
• Chapter XI., 131
• Chapter XII., 147
• Chapter XIII., 163
• Chapter XIV., 179
• Chapter XV., 195
• Chapter XVI., 197
• Chapter XVII., 211
• Chapter XVIII., 214
• Chapter XIX., 227
• Chapter XX., 244
• Chapter XXI., 246
• Chapter XXII., 261
• Chapter XXIII., 276
• Chapter XXIV., 278
• Chapter XXV., 291
• Chapter XXVI., 308
• Chapter XXVII., 323
• Chapter XXVIII., 340
• Chapter XXIX., 357
• Chapter XXX., 371
• Chapter XXXI., 387
• Chapter XXXII., 404
• Chapter XXXIII., 420
• Chapter XXXIV., 436
• Chapter XXXV., 451
• Chapter XXXVI., 453
• Chapter XXXVII., 466
• Chapter XXXVIII., 484
• Chapter XXXIX., 499
• Chapter XL., 516
• Chapter XLI., 531
• Chapter XLII., 547
• Chapter XLIII., 563
• Chapter XLIV., 584
• Chapter XLV., 585
• Chapter XLVI., 599
• Chapter XLVII., 611
• ‘In at the Death,’ 45
• Irish Travelling Theatre, 201
• Jack, the Bushranger, 414
• Lady Frederick’s Diamonds, 540
• Leopard Hunt, 601
• Lottery of Death, 476
• Miss Masterman’s Discovery, 712, 729
• My Detective Experiences, 221
• My First Patient, 331
• Night in a Well, 158
• Night in an Indian Hill-fort, 573
• Night-raid on Donegal Smugglers, 170
• Novel Adventure, 809
• Ocean Mystery: a True Story, 301
• Rebel-catching, 613
• Sign of the Red Indian, 749
• Signalman’s Love-story, 218, 231
• Some Faroe Legends, 173
• Spirited Away, 283, 296, 312
• Strange Love Affair, 780
• Tale of Naseby Field, 461
• Tale of Two Knaveries, 567, 589, 604, 619
• That Fatal Diamond: a Thief’s Confession, 110
• The Denschman’s Had: a Legend of Shetland, 685
• The Haunted Jungle: a Legend of North Ceylon, 152, 167, 183
• The ‘Lady Godiva,’ 124
• Treasure Trove, 361, 376, 391, 409
• Wanted, a Clue, 776, 793
• Was it Murder? 812
• Where the Tracks led to, 424, 439, 458, 472
• Will of Mrs Anne Bowden, 250, 264

• Aberdour and Inchcolme, by Rev. William Ross, LL.D., 272
• Anthropoid Apes, by Professor Hartmann of Berlin, 280
• Bryant and his Friends, by Mr James Grant-Wilson, 272
• Canadian Tour, by the Times Correspondent, 811
• Chronicles of the Customs, by Mr W. D. Chester, 273
• Coral Lands, by H. S. Cooper, 762
• Dickensiana, a Compilation, by Mr Fred. G. Kitton, 272
• From Tanyard to Whitehouse, by W. M. Thayer, 102
• Life of John Hullah, by Mrs Hullah, 326
• Nordenskjöld’s Studies and Researches in the Far North, by Professor Wittrock, 61
• Reports on Destructive Insects, by Mr C. Whitehead, 671
• The Coming Deluge of Russian Petroleum, by Mr Charles Marvin, 826
• The Kilima-Njaro Expedition, by Mr H. H. Johnston, 161
• The Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom, by Lieutenant-colonel T. P. White, 774
• The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland, 144
• Vice in the Horse, by Mr Edward L. Anderson, 272

• A1 at Lloyd’s, 668
• Absence of Mind, 240
• African Mountains, the Monarch of, 161
• After an Explosion, 510
• Air as a Motive Force, 762
• America, the Germanisation of, 465
• American Children, Some Anecdotes of, 779
• American Traits, 742
• Americanisms, Some, 70
• Ancient Spinner, an, 442
• Angler’s Idyll, an, 49
• Arachne and Melissa, 385
• Army Panics, 631, 816
• Artists, a Bone to Pick with, 223
• Atlantic Voyage—as it Was and as it Is, 582
• Avalanches, 571
• Bank Guard, the Dublin, 373
• Beadle, the Scottish, Half a Century Ago, 209
• Bee-hunting, Wild-bees and, 534
• Bees and Honey, 485, 768
• Bi-metallism, 241
• Birds at South Kensington, the, 415
• Bismarck, Two Evenings with, 17, 86
• Bleeding Heart Yard, 653
• Blindness in the New-born, Prevention of, 316
• Blockades and Blockade-runners, 401
• Bread from the Bark of the Fir-tree, 319
• Butterine, 109, 448
• Camp, Holidays in, across the Atlantic, 529
• Canadian Progress, Some Aspects of, 811
• Canal Navigations, 199
• Cats, Stories of, 791
• Cave-hunting in Yorkshire, 657
• Charity Organisation Society, London, 684
• Children, American, Some Anecdotes of, 779
• Children’s Play, 508
• China Grass-cloth, 399
• ‘Chop’ with King Ja-Ja, 433
• Christmas in a Dâk Bungalow, 807
• City Trees, Old, 358
• Claimants to Royalty, 337
• Cloudy Mountain, New Guinea, Ascent of, 405
• Coaching-days, 321
• Coal-mines, Shot-firing in, 149, 208, 271
• Cobras, 526
• Cocaine, 145
• Colonial Farm-pupils, 118
• Comrie Earthquakes, 351
• Concise and to the Point, 639
• Coracle, the, 378
• Cottage Ideas, 289
• Counsel and Solicitors, English, 539
• Country Jottings, 519
• County Cork, Holiday in, 236
• Customs’ Officers and Wrecks, 134
• Cycling as a Health-product, 558
• Dâk Bungalow, Christmas in a, 807
• Death-roll of Mont Blanc, the, 513
• Death’s-heads, 431
• Derwentwater, Floating Island on, 93
• Desert Dust, 6
• Destructive Insects, 671
• Dew, a New Theory of, 350, 624
• Diamond-smuggling, 820
• Dog-days, Hygeia in the, 481
• Dublin Bank Guard, the, 373
• Dust and House Refuse, 166
• Earthquakes, Comrie, 351
• Egypt, Recent Notes from the Land of, 564
• English Counsel and Solicitors, 539
• Ethics of Housekeeping, 81
• Every-day Occurrence, an, 156
• Explosion, After an, 510
• Fallacies, Popular Legal, 95, 215, 423, 715, 814
• Farm-pupils, Colonial, 118
• Faroe Legends, Some, 173
• Finance without Funds; or, How to Float a Company, 257
• Fir-tree, Bread from Bark of the, 319
• Fishermen, the Herring-fishery and, 305, 328
• Fissure Eruptions, 129
• Fleet Street Marriages, 655
• Floating Island on Derwentwater, 93
• Flowers, Some Rustic Names of, 310
• Fortune, 286
• Foundling Quotations, 710
• Fuel, Economy of, 748
• Furs, the Land of, 39
• Fyvie Castle, 334
• Germanisation of America, the, 465
• Gloving, 225
• Gordon’s College, Technical Education at, 479
• Grant, ‘Unconditional Surrender,’ 102
• Grass-cloth, China, 399
• Greek Gypsies at Liverpool, 577
• Gretna Green and its Marriages, 193
• Hayes, Captain—A Nineteenth-century Pirate, 762
• Hedgehogs, 489
• Herring-fishery and Fishermen, 305, 328
• Holiday in County Cork, 236
• Holidays in Camp, across the Atlantic, 529
• Hops, Kentish, 663
• Hostess and Guest, 353, 379
• Housekeeping, the Ethics of, 81
• Houses with Secret Chambers, 641
• How to Prove a Will, 299
• Hullah, John, 326
• Hygeia in the Dog-days, 481
• Indian Hill-fort, a Night in an, 573
• Indian Ink, a Stick of, 187
• Indian Servants, 202
• Innkeeper and Guest, the Law of, 796
• Inn-signs—their Origin and Meanings, 785
• Insects, Destructive, 671
• Instinct and Reason, 248
• Investors and the Stock Exchange, 122
• Ireland, Incidents of Rent-collection in, 799
• Ivory Trade, the, 287
• Jewel and Gem Rogueries, 501
• Jottings, Country, 519
• Just before Winter, 801
• Kentish Hops, 663
• Keys, Queen Victoria’s, 177
• King Ja-Ja, ‘Chop’ with, 433
• Lammas Revel, an Old, 475
• Land of Furs, the, 39
• Landslips, 635
• Law of Innkeeper and Guest, the, 796
• Legal Anecdotes, 74
• Legal Fallacies, Popular—
• The Rights of the Eldest Son and other Children of an Intestate Owner of Real and Personal Estate, 95
• Kissing the Book, 215
• Underweight and Overweight, 216
• Ignorance of Law and of Fact, 217
• Lotteries and Art-unions, 423
• Deeds of Gift and Wills, 715, 814
• Legal Reform, a Possible, 255
• Leopard Hunt, 601
• Life’s Golden Age, 97
• Lion-house at the Zoo, 470
• Literary Endeavour, 65
• Lizards, Some Pet, 454
• Lloyd’s, A1 at, 668
• London Charity Organisation Society, 684
• Maldive Islands, 11
• Man, Prehistoric, 417
• Man-like Apes—and Man, 280
• Manure, Peat as a, 239
• Maoris’ Fight for Life, the, 673
• Marriages, Fleet Street, 655
• Marriages, Gretna Green and its, 193
• Mars, Life in, 369
• Marvellous, Truth in the, 625
• Massage: a Mode of Medical Treatment, 593
• Matterhorn, and its Victims, the, 689
• Memory, Wonders of, 394
• Mind, Absence of, 240
• Mineral Subsidence, 648
• Mitis Metal, 527
• Monarch of African Mountains, 161
• Money Lent! 447
• Money-spending, Conscientious, 229
• Mont Blanc, the Death-roll of, 513
• Month, The: Science and Arts, 76, 137, 205, 268, 347, 411, 492, 555, 617, 701, 764, 828
• Musical Sand, 427
• Napoleon in Tor Bay, 679
• New Hebrides, Notes on the, 705
• Night in an Indian Hill-fort, 573
• Norman Stronghold, a, 365
• Noses, 428
• Nothing New, 737
• Occasional Notes—
• Americanisms, 31
• Ancient Boat at Brigg, 496
• ‘Army Panics,’ 816
• Art-guild, a New, 736
• Artillery Experiments, 127
• ‘Atlantic Greyhounds,’ 815
• Australia, Western, as a Settlement, 16
• Automatic Railway Coupling, 63
• Bees, Angry, 768
• Big Undertakings, 608
• Board of Trade Journal, the, 720
• Boiler-feeder, a New, 208
• Books, Some New, 272
• Borax, 30
• British-Colonial Teas, Increased Consumption of, 704
• Butterine, Professor Sheldon on, 448
• Canadian Pacific Railway, Travelling Arrangements on the, 767
• Canadian Pacific Railway’s Western Terminus, 224
• Caterpillars, Processionary, 368
• Celery, the Cultivation of, 192
• Chess-clock, a, 80
• Clan Tartans, a Book of, 144
• ‘Clergyman’s Sore Throat,’ 800
• Co-operative Farming, an Experiment in, 480
• Dairy Experiments, 144
• Dentistry, the State’s Neglect of, 720
• Deserted Wives, the Rights of, 559
• Dew, Theories of, 624
• Dickens, Charles, at Work, 64
• Easter Sunday, 256
• Electrical Experiments, M. Deprez’, 832
• Electrical Furnace, an, 688
• Electricity, Novel use of, 560
• Emigrants’ Information Office, 704
• Fish-culture, 112
• Flax-culture, 559
• Foreign Competition, 48
• Fruit, Crystallisation of, 495
• Gas Cooking-stoves, Extended use of, 63
• Gold-fields, the West Australian, 543
• Greece, Interesting Discoveries in, 511
• Hessian Fly, the, 623
• How Children Grow, 79
• Hudson Bay Route from Canada to England, 271
• Infant Band of Port Jackson, 144
• Labour in Australia, Mr G. A. Sala on, 48
• Light, a New, 47
• Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, 512
• Milk-diet for Infants, 831
• Mission to Deep-sea Fishermen, 528
• Monte Carlo, Some Facts about, 128
• Motors, Small, 143
• Petroleum Industry, Present Position of the, 495
• Pharaoh’s House, 703
• Photographic Experiments, Novel, 80
• Plastering made Easy, 64
• ‘Poor Jack,’ 32
• Railway Travelling, Safety in, 79
• Relics of Ancient Carthage—Mosaics, 496
• Roosen Method of Preserving Fish, 207
• Salmon-trap, a Natural, 32
• Sea-going Fishing Lifeboat Vessels, 128
• ‘Ship-canal,’ Another, 752
• Ship-canal of Corinth, the Great, 576
• Shot-firing in Coal-mines, 208, 271
• Sphinx, the Great, 560
• Stanhope Gold Medal, the, 320
• Tea, the Consumption of, 480
• Telegraphic Wires, Overhead, 768
• Veterinary College, Royal, 544
• Woodite, 767
• Wood-pulp, 831
• ‘On Guard’ at Windsor Castle, 769
• Ordeal, Trial by, 363
• Ordnance Survey, its Past and Future, 774
• Otter, Our Domesticated, 53
• Our Ways and Theirs, 545
• Oxford, Rowing at, 234
• Panics, Army, 631, 816
• Park Pearls, 561
• Parliamentary Titbits, 318
• Peat as a Manure, 239
• Pet Lizards, Some, 454
• Petroleum, Russian, 826
• Photographic Star-charting, 732
• Pig Pen, the, 432
• Pirate, a Nineteenth-century, 762
• Pitmen, Past and Present, 696
• Plant-life, Influence of Habit in, 113
• Portable Theatre, the, 721
• Postal Work, a Year’s, 609
• Prehistoric Man, 417
• Priory Garden, the Old, 254
• Prize System, the Modern, 389
• Proverbs, French and English, 263
• Provincialisms, Ulster, 597
• Queen Victoria’s Keys, 177
• Quotations, Foundling, 710
• Racing Rogueries, 726
• Reason, Instinct and, 248
• Rebel-catching, 613
• Relationships, Unpopular, 293
• Rent-collection in Ireland, Incidents of, 799
• Revolution Below-stairs, 28
• Rogueries, Jewel and Gem, 501
• Rowing at Oxford, 234
• Royalty, Claimants to, 337
• Ruin, the Pleasures of, 758
• Russian Petroleum, 826
• Salmon Angling, a Few Words on, 107
• Sand, Musical, 427
• Scottish Beadle Half a Century Ago, 209
• Sealskin Coats, Alive and Dead, 753
• Secret Chambers, Houses with, 641
• Senses, the Evidence of the, 719
• Shop-assistants, a Word for Our, 449
• Shot-firing in Coal-mines, 149, 208, 271
• Sickroom Fire, the, 224
• Signalling at Sea, 33
• Silk Gown, What goes to the making of a, 575
• Similes, Some, 367
• Slavery, Modern: a Word for Our Shop-assistants, 449
• Smoking and Snuffing in Church, 429
• Smuggling, Past and Present, 273
• Snow-blossom, 61
• Solicitors, English Counsel and, 539
• South Kensington, the Birds at, 415
• Spinner, an Ancient, 442
• Star-charting, Photographic, 732
• Station No. 4, 438
• Stock Exchange, Investors and the, 122
• Subaqueous Excursion, a, 30
• Subsidence, Mineral, 648
• Swimming, 587
• Technical Education at Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 479
• ‘Telegraphed,’ 550
• Theatre, the Portable, 721
• Theatre, the Unseen Regions of a, 817
• Titbits, Parliamentary, 318
• Tobacco-cultivation, 342
• Tobacco-culture in Scotland, 827
• Tom? What Career for, 381
• Tor Bay, Napoleon in, 679
• Trees, Old City, 358
• Trial by Ordeal, 363
• Truth in the Marvellous, 625
• Tulip Garden, an Old, 525
• Turquoise, the, 181
• Ulster Provincialisms, 597
• ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Grant, 102
• Weeds, 478
• Whale-hunt in the Varanger Fjord, 22
• ‘Where Ignorance is Bliss,’ 344
• Whiteboys of Sixty Years Ago, 637
• Wild-bees and Bee-hunting, 534
• Will, How to Prove a, 299
• Winds of Heaven, 497
• Windsor Castle, ‘On Guard’ at, 769
• Winter, Just before, 801
• Wonders of Memory, 394
• Wrecks, Customs’ Officers and, 134
• Yorkshire, Cave-hunting in, 657
• Zoo, Visits to the, 470

[Transcriber’s note—the following changes have been made to this text.

Chub to Chubb—“An Old ‘Chubb’”.]