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1828 The Spectator. 1828-42 Arnold at Rugby. 1829 James Mill's Analysis of the

Phenomena of the Human Mind. 1829 ff. Murray's Family Library. 1829-33 Sir William Hamilton's articles The Philosophy of the Unconditioned, The Philosophy of Perception, Logic.

1830 Accession of King William IV. 1830 Comte's Cours de philosophie positive.

1830 Moore's Life of Byron. 1830-49 Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia.

1831 Brewster's Treatise on Optics. 1831 First meeting of the British Association.

1831 Trelawny's Adventures of a Younger Son. 1831 ff. Lyell's Geology.

1832 Carleton's Traits and Stories

of the Irish Peasantry. 1834 Mary Somerville's The Connection of the Physical Sciences. 1835 ff. Chambers's Information for the People.

1837 Accession of Queen Victoria. 1837 Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences.

1837-8 Lockhart's Life of Scott. 1837-9 Hallam's Literature of Europe during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. 1838 Lover's Handy Andy.

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1853 A. R. Wallace, Travels on the Amazon.

1853 ff. Burton's History of Scotland.

1853-6 The Crimean war.

1853-87 Edward Thring headmaster of Uppingham.

1864 Babbage's Passages from the Life of a Philosopher.

1864 F. P. Cobbe's Broken Lights. 1865 John Grote's Exploratio Philosophica, part 1.

1865 Lecky's History of Rationalism in Europe.

1865 Milton and Cheadle's NorthWest Passage by Land.

1854 J. F. Ferrier's Institutes of 1865 W. G. Palgrave's Central and

Metaphysic.

1854 The Working Men's College.
1855 The Saturday Review.
1855-6 Sir R. Burton's Pilgrimage
to El-Medinah and Mecca.
1856-70 Froude's. History of Eng-
land.

1857 Livingstone's Missionary
Travels in S. Africa.
1857-8 The Indian mutiny.
1857-61 Buckle's History of Civi-

lization in England.

1858 ff. Brown's Horae Subsecivae.
1859 Darwin's Origin of Species.
1859 John Stuart Mill's On Liberty.
1859 Peaks, Passes and Glaciers.
1859-80 Masson's Life of Milton.
1860 Essays and Reviews.
1860 Burton's Book Hunter.
1860 Ruskin's Unto this Last.
1860 Herbert Spencer's Programme

of a System of Synthetic Philo-
sophy.

1861 Sir Henry Maine's Ancient
Law.

1861 Herbert Spencer's Education. 1861 Tennent's Natural History of Ceylon.

1861-3 John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism.

1863 Bates: The Naturalist on the Amazons.

1863 Huxley's Man's Place in Nature.

1863 Alexander Smith's Dreamthorp.

1863 Speke's Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile.

1863 Tyndall's Heat as a Mode of Motion.

1863-82 Gardiner's

England.

1865

Eastern Arabia.

1865 The Pall Mall Gazette.
Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies.
1865 Seeley's Ecce Homo.
1865 J. H. Stirling's Secret of
Hegel.

1866 Hinton's Mystery of Pain.
1866 The Public School Latin
Primer.

1866 Ruskin's Crown of Wild Olive. 1866 Ruskin's Ethics of the Dust. 1866-1902 Rogers's History of Agri

culture and Prices in England from 1259 to 1793. 1867 W. Bagehot's The English Constitution.

1867 J. S. Mill's Inaugural Address to the university of St Andrews. 1867 F. Seebohm's The Oxford Reformers.

1867-76 Freeman's Norman Con-
quest.

1868 Dilke's Greater Britain.
1869 Lecky's History of Euro-
pean Morals.

1869 Henry Crabb Robinson's Diary.
1869 A. R. Wallace's The Malay
Archipelago.

1870 Education Act.

1870 L. Oliphant's Piccadilly. 1870-1 Franco-Prussian war. 1870-93 Benjamin Jowett, master of Balliol.

1871 Abolition of religious tests at Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. 1871 R. H. Hutton's Essays Theo

logical and Literary.

1871 ff. Ruskin's Fors Clavigera. 1872 T. Cooper's Life, written by himself.

1872 The Light Green (A. C. Hilton). History of 1872 Augustus de Morgan's Budget

1863-87 Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea.

of Paradoxes.

1872 W. W. Reade's The Martyr

dom of Man.

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1879 Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. 1879-82 Skeat's Etymological Dictionary.

1880-1 Balfour's Treatise on Com

parative Embryology.

1881 Fitch's Lectures on Teaching. 1882 Seeley's Natural Religion. 1882-94 Creighton's History of the Papacy.

1883 Galton's Inquiries into the Human Faculty.

1883 T. H. Green's Prolegomena to Ethics.

1883 Jefferies's The Story of my Heart.

1883 Seeley's Expansion of England. 1883 Stevenson's Treasure Island. 1883 The Oxford Magazine. 1884 The Croker Papers.

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1886 Emily Lawless's Hurrish. 1886 Stevenson's Kidnapped. 1887 Jessopp's Arcady for better for worse.

1887 Laughton's Studies in Naval History.

1887 J. A. Cotter Morison's Service of Man.

1887-1905 G. B. Hill's editions of Boswell's Johnson, etc.

1889 J. Caird's Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. 1889 The Scots Observer. 1889 Stevenson's Master of Ballantrae.

1890 Henley's Views and Reviews. 1893 F. H. Bradley's Appearance and Reality.

1893 C. H. Pearson's National Life and Character.

1893 Stevenson's Catriona. 1895 Pollock and Maitland's History of English Law before the time of Edward I.

1895 Oscar Wilde's The Importance of being Earnest.

1896 Stevenson's Weir of Hermiston.

1898 Shadworth Hodgson's Metaphysic of Experience.

1900 Sir Leslie Stephen's English Utilitarians.

1901 Accession of King Edward VII.

1903 Sir W. Laird Clowes's The Royal Navy.

1905 MacCarthy's History of Our Own Times.

1907 Synge's Playboy of the Western World.

1910 Accession of King George V. 1910-11 The Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edn.

1913 R. F. Scott's Journal.

INDEX OF NAMES

[The letters ff. after an entry imply that references to the same subject occur on
at least two immediately succeeding pages. Birth and death dates are not, as a
rule, given in the case of writers whose chief work is treated in other volumes.]

A' the Blue Bonnets are over the Border, 377
Abbey, C. J., 101

Abbotsford, 278, 375

Abbott, Edwin Abbott, A Shakespearian
Grammar, 445

Abdullah, the peasant, 248

À Beckett, Arthur William, 238, 548

Gilbert Abbott (1811-1856), 235 ff.,
541; Comic Blackstone, The, 237;
Comic History of England, The, 237;
Comic History of Rome, The, 237

Gilbert Arthur (1837-1891), 238
Abel, Niels Henrik, 258
Abercrombie, John (1780-1844), 467
Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce, lord, 107
Aberdeen, 23, 209, 428

George Hamilton Gordon, 4th earl
of (1784-1860), 134, 181, 182, 184, 420,
508

Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert (1848-

1881), 341, 574; Twenty-one Days in
India, 340

Aberystwyth, University college, 433
Absolute, Sir Anthony, Sheridan's, 387
Abyssinia, 241, 246, 247

Académie Française, 397, 460

Academy, The, 200

Achitophel, Dryden's, 113

Ackermann, Rudolph (1764-1834), 216,

217, 221, 222

Rudolph, the younger, 233

Acland, Sir Thomas, 136

Act of settlement, 57

Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-

Acton, lord (1834-1902), 100, 101,
116 ff., 484

'Conflicts with Rome,' 118
'Döllinger's Historical Work,' 118
'German Schools of History,' 118
Lectures on Modern History, 117
Letters of Quirinus, 118
'Mill On Liberty,' 118
Open Letter to a German Bishop, 118
Adams, parson, Fielding's, 218

Francis William Lauderdale (1862-
1893), 369, 584

555

John Couch (1819-1892), 262, 264,

Adams, William Henry Davenport (1828-
1891), 515

Adamson, Robert (1852-1902), 467
Development of Modern Philosophy,
The, 49

Fichte, 48

On the Philosophy of Kant, 48
Short History of Logic, A, 48
Addison, Joseph, 62, 169, 197, 209, 211,
396, 441, 442, 444, 461
Adelaide, 365
Adrian VI, pope, 100

Adventures of Dr Comicus, The, 219
Aeschylus, 211

Affirmation bill, the, 135

Africa, 192, 247, 252 ff., 434
African languages, 459

Africander's War Song, The, 377
Agricola, 95

Ahmed, the cobbler, 248

Aikin, Anna Letitia. See Barbauld
John (1747-1822), 603

Ainger, Alfred (1837-1904), 515

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801–1892),
258, 555

Aitken, Edward Hamilton (1851-1909),

574; Behind the Bungalow, 341
Alans, the, 302

Albania, 252

Albemarle, George Thomas Keppel, 6th

earl of (1799-1891), 500

Albert, prince consort, 189, 415

Albigenses, the, 79, 110

Aldrich, Henry, Artis logica rudimenta,
13

Alexander III, king of Scotland, 95

Cecil Frances, born Humphreys
(1818-1895), 567; Burial of Moses,
The, 321; Irish Mother's Lament,
The, 321; Siege of Derry, The, 321
William (1824-1911), 321, 567
Alexandria, 247
Alicante, 73

Alison, Archibald (1757-1839), 467

Sir Archibald (1792-1867), 57,
94, 485; Autobiography, 66; History
of Europe, 66; History of Scottish
Criminal Law, 66

Alken, Henry (fl. 1816–1831), 225, 232 ff.;
National Sports of Great Britain, 232;
Specimens of Riding, 232; Symptoms
of being amazed, 232

Allardyce, Alexander (1846-1896), 574;
The City of Sunshine, 339
Allen, Grant (1848-1899), 343, 467

John (1771-1843), 54, 485
Joseph, 236

William (1770-1843), 603

Allingham, William (1824-1889), 567
Alma, battle of the, 94

Alma Mater (Aberdeen), 209

Almond, Hely Hutchinson (1832-1903),
601

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Anster, John, 312

Antarctic exploration, 245

Anti-Jacobin, The, 194, 214

Antipodes, the, 255

Apothecaries' company, the, 286

Apperley, Charles James (pseud. Nimrod,
1779-1843), 216, 232, 542; Life of a
Sportsman, The, 233; Memoirs of...
John Mytton, 233

Appleton, Charles Edward Cutts Birch
(1841-1879), 533

Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 311
Arabia, 252

Arabian Nights, The, 338

Arabic language and literature, 416, 457,
458

Arabs, the, 238, 252, 253

Arbuthnot, John, Law is a Bottomless
Pit, 212

Architectural Magazine, The, 149
Arctic regions, 241, 245, 248, 358
Arden, Mary, 307

Argemone, in Kingsley's Yeast, 84
Argogastis, 303

Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, 8th
duke of, 468

421

commission (Scottish schools),

Ariadne, Titian's, 171

Aristophanic comedy, 13

Aristotelian society, 39

Aristotle, 9, 16, 23, 140, 398

Armagh, 309, 321

Armstrong, Edmund John (1841-1865),
567

G. F. Savage- (1845-1906), 567
Arnold, Sir Edwin (1832-1904), 191, 192,
574, 575; The Light of Asia, 340

Matthew, 141, 144, 147, 159, 172,
180, 191, 304, 306, 307, 350, 351,
420, 422 ff., 432, 433, 453, 603
Culture and Anarchy, 425
Poems (1853), 139

Popular education of France, The, 422
Schools and Universities on the Conti-
nent, 422

Arnold, Thomas (1795-1842), 70, 409, 411,
413, 414, 601, 603

William Delafield (1828-1859), 575;
Oakfield, 338, 339

Arran, isles of, 312

Arthurian legends, 304, 306

Ascension island, 242

Ashantee, 254

Ashmole, Elias, 285, 558

Asia, 246, 247, 252, 457, 458

Asiatic society of Bengal, 334, 337
Askesian society, 287

Athelstan of Kent, prince, 83
Athenæum, The, 144, 145, 171, 174, 193,
200, 364

Athenians, the, 120

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