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CHAMBERS’S JOURNAL

OF

POPULAR LITERATURE

Science and Arts

1884

W. & R. CHAMBERS
LONDON & EDINBURGH

Edinburgh:
Printed by W. & R. Chambers.

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INDEX.

• Page
• Acorns, Under the, 657
• Brompton Cemetery, In, 753
• Circulating-library Critics, 81
• Conversation, the Art of, 442
• ‘Corners,’ 289
• Furniture Saleroom, In a, 379
• Girls, Wives, and Mothers, 33
• Good-natured People, Mischief done by, 111
• ‘Grand Day,’ 561
• ‘Happy Ever After,’ 161
• Heroines, 492
• Highland Glen, In a, 511
• Home-nursing, 417, 549, 609, 725
• King of Acres, a, 12, 29
• ‘Kitchen Kaffir,’ the, 117
• Literary Beginners, Another Word to, 49
• Love, Concerning, 156, 333
• Moor and Loch, On, 433
• Mortality, Some Cheering Aspects of, 449
• My Old College Rooms, 262
• Nature on the Roof, 385
• Newsmonger, the, 353
• Norman Seascape, a, 390
• River Holiday, a, 545
• Saleroom, In a Furniture, 379
• Spring Birds, 129
• Væ Victis! 629

• Among the Daisies, 208
• Angel Visitors, 224
• Blackbird’s Nest, a, 448
• Butterfly in the City, a, 368
• Churchyard by the Sea, 128
• Dawn of Peace, the, 592
• Day in Early Summer, a, 704
• Donald—a Pony, 144
• Echoes, 256
• En Passant, 560
• Evening on the Lake, 480
• Fairyland in Midsummer, 816
• Hawthorn Story, a, 736
• Hope On, Hope Ever, 768
• July, 464
• Last ‘Good-night,’ a, 496
• Long Ago, 832
• Love Lights, 160
• Love-thought, a, 720
• Michaelmas, 608
• Mistletoe, 784
• Modern Madrigal, a, 656
• My Home in Annandale Revisited, 96
• Night, 64
• No Tears, 688
• ‘Not Beautiful!’ 176
• ‘Not Lost, but Gone Before,’ 48
• Old, Old Story, 192
• On the Coast, 544
• One by One, 640
• ‘Only Cousins, don’t you see?’ 352
• Parted, 400
• Parting Words, 800
• Quits! 320
• Rhine Woods, In the, 384
• Rime of Sir Lionne, the, 512
• Serenade, 288
• Six Little Words, 112
• Solitary Singer, the, 304
• Sonnets—
• Love’s Watch, 16
• Love’s Transfiguration, 16
• Sonnets of Praise—
• I. The Vales, 240
• II. The Mountains, 240
• Spring in the Alley, 336
• Story that Never Grows Old, a, 672
• Stray Blossom, the, 576
• To a Child, 80
• Trifles, 432
• ’Twixt Daybreak and Daylight, 528
• Water-ousel’s Song, 271
• Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon, 416
• Wounder and Healer, 752
• Year’s Wooing, a, 32
• ‘Yes,’ 624

• Arsenic in Domestic Fabrics, 799
• Colds, Common, 175
• Colour-sense, 44
• Electric Light, Curiosities of the, 140
• Electricity and Gas, the Future of, 625
• —— for Nothing! 453
• Explosion, Story of a Vast, 705
• Fuel, a New, 671
• Gas Cooking-stoves, 367
• Glacier Garden, a, 785
• Marine Station, a Scottish, 465
• Medicine, Common Errors in Domestic, 299
• Microphone, Curiosities of the, 373
• Month, The: Science and Arts—59, 124, 201, 265, 348, 412, 476, 557, 620, 685, 761, 825
• Noxious Manufactures, 239
• Our Health—

• I.	Health and its General Conditions, 113
  II.	Food and Health, 234
  III.	Some Food-dangers, and how to avoid them, 401

• Parasitic Worms—Queer Lodgers, 278
• Poisoning, 769
• Science and Art School—Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 183
• Smoking Injurious to Health? Is, 78
• Steel, 575
• Steno-telegraph, the, 607
• Water, 497
• Weather, How it is Made and Forecast, 689
• White-lead Manufacture, a New Process of, 158

• Abe, Story of, 817
• Break-neck Venture, a, 588
• Bushranger, Interviewed by a, 650
• By Mead and Stream, a Story.—By Charles Gibbon, Author of Robin Gray, Queen of the Meadow, The Golden Shaft, &c.

• CHAP.
  1.	The Overture: ‘Much Virtue in If,’ 1
  2.	What might be, 2
  3.	What is to be, 20
  4.	In the Oak Parlour, 35
  5.	A New Eden, 37
  6.	Alone, 50
  7.	An Unloved Life, 67
  8.	‘Will you speak that Word?’ 69
  9.	Slander’s Shaft, 82
  10.	Light and Shadow, 84
  11.	‘Strictly Confidential,’ 99
  12.	A Fair Arbiter, 115
  13.	The Cares of State, 116
  {vi}14.	In Harvest-time, 132
  15.	The Banquet waits, 133
  16.	Light Hearts and Sad, 148
  17.	A Turning-point, 163
  18.	The Sealed Letter, 179
  19.	The First Interview, 181
  20.	Paved with Gold, 195
  21.	Dreams, 211
  22.	Home Again, 212
  23.	Changes, 227
  24.	The Work, 243
  25.	A Word in Season, 259
  26.	A Question of Division, 275
  27.	Why is she so? 291
  28.	‘The Little Rift,’ 309
  29.	Suspicion, 323
  30.	Curious, 339
  31.	The Conjurer, 355
  32.	The Enthusiast, 356
  33.	Her Problem, 371
  34.	Judge Me, 388
  35.	The Maid was in the Garden, 403
  36.	Is it Too Late? 419
  37.	Down by the River, 436
  38.	Whirlwinds, 450
  39.	The other Side, 468
  40.	Madge’s Mission, 484
  41.	Pulled Up, 499
  42.	A Land Shipwreck, 517
  43.	Other People’s Money, 531
  44.	An Apple of Discord, 547
  45.	High Pressure, 564
  46.	Downhill, 580
  47.	Under-currents, 595
  48.	Anxieties, 612
  49.	At Midnight, 614
  50.	A Crow to Pluck, 627
  51.	Hey, Presto! 642
  52.	How it was Done, 659
  53.	Pansy, 675
  54.	Poor Comfort, 692
  55.	Sweet are the Uses of Adversity, 707
  56.	Uphill, 723
  57.	The Secret in the Oak Parlour, 740
  58.	Clearing Up, 754
  59.	Glimpses, 756

• Chewton-Abbot.—By Hugh Conway, 280, 295, 315
• Colonel Redgrave’s Legacy, 780, 793, 811
• Frendraught, the Fire of, 52
• Gentleman of the Road, a, 429
• Greenroom Romance, a, 471
• Haunted Bridge, the, 814
• In a Flash, 520
• Last of the Stuarts, the, 600, 617
• Miner’s Partner, the, 138, 152, 168, 185
• Miss Marrable’s Elopement, 188, 198
• Missing Clue, The, a Tale of the Fens—

• CHAP.
  1.	The Arrival at the Saxonford Arms, 701
  2.	The Jacobite, 702
  3.	The Events of a Night, 716
  4.	After Fifteen Years, 718
  5.	The Colonel’s Daughter, 732
  6.	Hobb Dipping Bewildered, 749
  7.	Reginald’s Story, 751
  8.	The Search, 764

• Mr Pudster’s Return, 569, 584
• My Fellow-passenger, 252, 263
• Nameless Romance, a, 541
• One Woman’s History, a Novelette.—By T. W. Speight— 631, 646, 664, 680, 696, 710, 728, 743, 757, 771, 786, 804, 819
• Queen Margerie, 677
• Queer Company, In, 444, 461
• Run for Life, a, 488
• Silas Monk: a Tale of London Old City, 361, 374, 394, 407
• Sketch from my Study Window, 343
• ‘So Unreasonable of Step-mother!’ 45
• Terribly Fulfilled, 424, 440, 454
• Two Days in a Lifetime.—By T. W. Speight— 5, 25, 41, 54, 73, 87, 105, 119
• Vermudyn’s Fate, 536, 552
• Witness for the Defence, a, 217, 231, 247
• Yarn of the P. and O., a, 503
• Zulu Romance, a, 330

• King Country, or Explorations in New Zealand, by Mr J. H. Kerry-Nicholls, 637
• Mushroom-growing, by Mr Wright, 501
• Nature near London, by Mr Richard Jefferies, 225
• Norfolk Broads and Rivers, by Mr G. Christopher Davies, 273
• Book Gossip—
• Aileen Aroon, by Dr Gordon Stables, 63
• Anglo-Saxon Literature, by Mr John Earle, Rawlinson Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford, 411
• Arminius Vambery, his Life and Adventures, 207
• Athole Collection of Dance Music of Scotland, by Mr James Stewart Robertson (Edradynate), 208
• Chapter of Science; or, What is the Law of Nature? by Mr J. Stuart, Professor of Mechanics, 62
• Diseases of Field and Garden Crops, by Worthington G. Smith, 825
• Expansion of England, by Mr J. R. Seeley, Professor of Modern History, 62
• Guide to Methods of Insect Life, and Prevention and Remedy of Insect Ravage, 271
• Introduction to the Study of Modern Forest Economy, by Dr J. C. Brown, 825
• Killin Collection of Gaelic Songs, by Mr Charles Stewart, 824
• London Cries; Chap-book Chaplets; and Bygone Beauties, published by Messrs Field and Tuer, 63
• More Bits from Blinkbonny, by ‘John Strathesk,’ 824
• Norman Conquest, by Mr William Hunt, 411
• Photography for Amateurs, by Mr T. C. Hepworth, 824
• Practical Taxidermy, by Montague Brown, F.Z.S., 825
• Shetland and the Shetlanders, by Sheriff Rampini, 271
• Sprigs of Heather, or the Rambles of ‘Mayfly’ with Old Friends, by Rev. John Anderson, D.D., 208
• Whitaker’s Almanac for 1884, 63

• Abe, Story of, 817
• Acorns, Under the, 657
• Acrobats, 318
• Advertisers Again, Among the, 94
• Almanacs, Romance of, 23
• Amateur ‘Cabby,’ an, 778
• America, European Emigration to, and its Effects, 641
• American Newspapers on Themselves, 714
• Amusements in Germany, Popular, 634
• Ancient and Modern Statues, the Largest, 470
• Ancient People, an, 430
• Anglo-Indian Chaplain, Recollections of an, 792
• Animal Life, Studies in, 822
• —— Memorials and Mementoes, 285
• Antipathies in Animals—

• I.	Horses, 85
  II.	Dogs, 590

• Architecture, Stained Glass as an Accessory to Domestic, 359
• Army Schools, 494
• Arsenic in Domestic Fabrics, 799
• Artificial Jewels, 731
• Ashburnham Collections, the, 341
• Back from ‘Eldorado,’ 573
• Bank of England, Curiosities of the, 737
• Bird Migration, 481
• Birds of Spring, 129
• Bonded Warehouses, London, 58
• Break-neck Venture, a, 588
• Bridge, the Haunted, 814
• British Museum, New Mediæval Room at the, 693
• Brompton Cemetery, In, 753
• Buried Alive, 222
• Bushranger, Interviewed by a, 650
• ‘Cabby,’ an Amateur, 778
• Calls before the Curtain, 135
• Cameo-cutting, 224
• Cave-chapels, 513
• Charr of Windermere, the, 406
• Chewton-Abbot, 280, 295, 315
• Children, Over-educating, 366
• Christmas Trees, 748
• Cigars, 709
• Circulating-library Critics, 81
• Cliff-houses of Cañon de Chelly, 40
• Coin Treasures, 249
• Coins Wearing Away? Are our, 393
• Colds, Common, 175
• College, Queen Margaret, 555
• —— Rooms, My Old, 262
• Colonel Redgrave’s Legacy, 780, 793, 811
• Colour-sense, 44
• Commercial Products of the Whale, 566
• Conversation, the Art of, 442
• Cooking Classes for Children, 775
• Cooking-stoves, Gas, 367
• ‘Corners,’ 289
• Correspondence Classes, 555
• Cricket, Umpires at, 399
• Curiosities of the Bank of England, 737
• Curiosities of the Electric Light, 140
• —— —— —— Microphone, 373
• —— —— —— Peerage, Some, 305, 326
• Curiosity in Journalism, a, 200
• {vii}Cycling, Progress of, 335
• Cyprus Locusts, 801
• Dauphins, False, 662
• Death-claims, How Life-offices pay their, 97
• Decisions, Some Legal, 423
• Deer-forests, Scottish, 721
• Detective Police, Our, 337
• Dinner-parties Out of Doors, 673
• Dishes, Some Queer, 230
• Distillation in Ireland, Illicit, 644
• Dwarfie Stone, Legend of the, 667
• Eastern Trading, Some Instances of, 463
• Edicts, Ancient Rock-hewn, 486
• Educational Pioneer, an, 699
• ‘Eldorado,’ Back from, 573
• Electric Light, Curiosities of the, 140
• Electricity and Gas, the Future of, 625
• —— for Nothing! 453
• ——, Lighting Collieries by, 496
• Elephants, the Moulmein, 638
• ——, Trimming the Feet of, 240
• Emigration to America, European, 641
• English Law, Familiar Sketches of—

• I.	Marriages; Settlements; and Breaches of Promise to Marry, 102
  II.	Parent and Child, 377
  III.	Master and Servant, 490

• Episodes of Literary Manuscripts, 283
• Erratic Pens, 313
• Errors in Domestic Medicine, Common, 299
• European Emigration to America, and its Effects, 641
• Explosion, Story of a Vast, 705
• Fairs, Old Provincial, 598
• Falkland Islands, a Peep at the, 110
• False Dauphins, 662
• Fellow-passenger, My, 252, 263
• Florida, Concerning, 797
• Food-notes, Some, 287
• Foresight of Insects for their Young, 587
• Forestry and Farming, 720
• —— Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1884, International, 193
• Fortunes, Sudden, 241
• French Detectives, 48
• Frendraught, the Fire of, 52
• Fuel, a New, 671
• Furniture Saleroom, In a, 379
• Gas Cooking-stoves, 367
• ——, the Future of Electricity and, 625
• Gentleman of the Road, a, 429
• Germany, Popular Amusements in, 634
• Girls, Wives, and Mothers, 33
• Glacier Garden, a, 785
• Gold, 209
• Gold-fields, the Transvaal, 177
• Good-natured People, Mischief done by, 111
• Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 183
• ‘Grand Day,’ 561
• Greenroom Romance, a, 471
• Grouse, 529
• Gum-arabic and the Soudan, 640
• Hampstead Heath, 65
• ‘Happy Ever After,’ 161
• Haunted Houses, Rationale of, 397
• Health, Our, 113, 234, 401
• Heroines, 492
• Highland Glen, In a, 511
• Holiday, a River, 545
• ‘Home! Sweet Home!’ 173
• Home-nursing, 417, 549, 609, 725
• Homing Pigeon, the, 245
• Honey-bee, Something about the, 409
• Hospitals and Dispensaries, London, 518
• Housewives, Hints for, 447
• Humorous Definitions, 475, 669
• Hush-money, 143
• In a Flash, 520
• India, Musk-rat of, 703
• Indian Jugglers, 604
• —— Snakes, 214
• Insects, Foresight of, for their Young, 587
• Ireland, Illicit Distillation in, 644
• Island, a Solitary, 719
• ——, an Interesting, 347
• Jaffa to Jerusalem, From, 321
• ‘Jerry-building’ in the Middle Ages, 464
• Jewels, Artificial, 731
• Joint-stock Companies and ‘Limited Liability,’ 577
• Journalism, a Curiosity in, 200
• ‘King Country, the,’ 637
• —— of Acres, a, 12, 29
• ‘Kitchen Kaffir,’ the, 117
• Knowledge, a Little, not Dangerous, 616
• Last of the Stuarts, the, 600, 617
• Law, Sketches of English, 102, 377, 490
• Legal Decisions, Some, 423
• Life, Prolonging, 427
• Life-assurance and Annuities, Post-office, 257
• Lifeboat Competition, 459
• Life-offices, How they pay their Death-claims, 97
• Lighting Collieries by Electricity, 496
• ‘Limited Liability,’ Joint-stock Companies and, 577
• Literary Beginners, Another Word to, 49
• Literary Manuscripts, Episodes of, 283
• —— Self-estimates, 220
• Locusts, Cyprus, 801
• London Bonded Warehouses, 58
• —— Hospitals and Dispensaries, 518
• London, Nature around, 225
• ——, Remains of Ancient, 654
• ——, Sanitary Inspection of the Port of, 534
• Love, Concerning, 156, 333
• Maiden Speeches, Parliamentary, 150
• Man and Nature, 608
• Manufactures, Noxious, 239
• Marine Station, a Scottish, 465
• Marriage, the Net of, 432
• Marsala, a Sample of, 795
• Mediæval Room at the British Museum, New, 693
• Medicine, Common Errors in Domestic, 299
• Microphone, Curiosities of the, 373
• Migration, Bird, 481
• Miner’s Partner, the, 138, 152, 168, 185
• Miss Marrable’s Elopement, 188, 198
• Missing Clue, the, 701, 702, 716, 718, 732, 749, 751, 764
• Monastic England, 4
• Money-borrowing, the Shady Side of, 166
• Month, The: Science and Arts—59, 124, 201, 265, 348, 412, 476, 557, 620, 685, 761, 825
• Moor and Loch, On, 433
• Morality, Stock Exchange, 828
• Mortality, Some Cheering Aspects of, 449
• Moulmein Elephants, the, 638
• Mr Pudster’s Return, 569, 584
• Mrs Shaw, the Late Prince Imperial’s Nurse, 32
• Mushrooms for the Million, 501
• Musk-rat of India, the, 703
• Name? What’s in a, 813
• Nameless Romance, a, 541
• Nature around London, 225
• —— on the Roof, 385
• Nettle-cloth, 145
• New Zealand, Explorations in, 637
• Newsmonger, the, 353
• Newspapers, Curious, 591
• —— on Themselves, American, 714
• Norfolk Broads and Rivers, 273
• Norman Seascape, a, 390
• Notes on Persian Art, 808
• Noxious Manufactures, 239
• Occasional Notes—
• Abnormal Humanity, 304
• Advice to Intending Emigrants, 479
• Albo-carbon Light, New, 830
• Ambulance Societies, 63
• American Literary Piracy, 271
• Anthropometrical Laboratory at the Health Exhibition, 479
• Bacchus, Discovery of Statue of, 656
• Blindness in Infancy, Prevention of, 206
• Burns and Scalds, 655
• Canine ‘Collector,’ 415
• Card-telegrams, 206
• Casualties on the British Coast, 624
• Chilian Argentine Andes, Exploration in the, 831
• Coffee? Why do we now drink less, 303
• Curious Disease, 480
• Diarrhœa and Cholera, Treatment of, 560
• Dissection after Death, 205
• Dutch Rush, 351
• Earthquake in England, Recent, 351
• Electric Light in Railway Carriages, 205
• Electric Lighting for Ships, Improved, 351
• Electrical Tricycle, 320
• Electricity as a Brake, 767
• Ensilage, 829
• Fastest Passage on Record, 415
• French Crown Jewels, 559
• Fruit-farm, a Flourishing, 207
• Gas Cooking-stove, a Handy, 830
• Grape and Peach in America, 207
• Harbour of Refuge for East Coast of Scotland, 415
• Herring Spawns, How and Where the, 206
• Hydrophobia—Important Experiments, 205
• Irish Female Emigration, 830
• Labour and Wages in Australia, 204
• Level-crossing Gates, 736
• Lightning-strokes in France, 352
• —— ——, Mechanical Characteristics of, 829
• Lights and Lighthouses, Investigations on, 736
• Marvellous Sunsets, Recent, 64
• Metallic Compound, New, 415
• Mummies, Making of, 767
• Native Treatment of Diseases in India, 831
• Novel Peal of Bells, a, 766
• Oil Breakwater at Folkestone, 127
• Old Westminster Houses, Last of the, 64
• Old-fashioned Furniture, 320
• Organ in Westminster Abbey, New, 479
• Persons Killed by Wild Animals in India, 829
• Postal Orders, New, 414
• {viii}Railway Passengers, 830
• Relics from the Holy Land, 768
• Rome, Interesting Discovery at, 656
• Russian Crown Estates, 204
• —— Longevity, 272
• Sion College, Last of Old, 830
• Sowing and Harvesting, 272
• Steam-ferry on the Thames, 767
• Subterranean Fish, 415
• Telegraph Extension, 127
• Telegraphing Extraordinary, 624
• Telephoning Extraordinary, 656
• Trout-life, Interesting Notes on, 204
• Turning Wood into Metal, 768
• Uphill Railway, Another, 480
• Utilisation of Sewage, 767
• Old Provincial Fairs, 598
• One Woman’s History, 631, 646, 664, 680, 696, 710, 728, 743, 757, 771, 786, 804, 819
• Order of Mercy, an, 15, 63
• Orkney Folk-lore—Legend of the Dwarfie Stone, 667
• Outward and Homeward Bound, 301
• Over-educating Children, 366
• Paper, More Uses of, 742
• Parasitic Worms—Queer Lodgers, 278
• Parliamentary Maiden Speeches, 150
• Parody, the Muse of, 71
• Peer? What is a, 17
• Peerage, Some Curiosities of the, 305, 326
• Pencil-making, 582
• Pens, Erratic, 313
• People, an Ancient, 430
• Persian Art, a Few Notes on, 808
• —— Sherbet, Royal, 438
• Peterborough, the ‘Strong-room’ at, 655
• Pigeon, the Homing, 245
• Pioneer, an Educational, 699
• Pisciculture, the Progress of, 268
• Poisoning, 769
• Polecat, a Few Words about the, 190
• Port of London, Sanitary Inspection of the, 534
• Post-office Life-assurance and Annuities, 257
• Prince Imperial’s Nurse, the Late; Mrs Shaw, 32
• Printers’ Errors, 636
• Prolonging Life, 427
• Quarantine, 543
• Queen Margaret College, 555
• —— Margerie, 677
• Queer Company, In, 444, 461
• —— Dishes, Some, 230
• —— Lodgers—Parasitic Worms, 278
• Ranching, Some Realities of, 653
• Rationale of Haunted Houses, the, 397
• Recollections of an Anglo-Indian Chaplain, 792
• Regiment, a Skating, 255
• Remains of Ancient London, 654
• Ring-trick, the, 735
• River Holiday, a, 545
• Rock-hewn Edicts, Ancient, 486
• Roof, Nature on the, 385
• Ruin, Sudden, 571
• Run for Life, a, 488
• Sacred Trees, Some, 509
• Sample of Marsala, 795
• Sanitary Inspection of the Port of London, 534
• Schools, Army, 494
• Science and Art School—Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 183
• Scot Abroad, Glimpses of the, 76
• Scottish Deer-forests, 721
• —— Marine Station, a, 465
• Seals and Seal-hunting in Shetland, 364, 507
• Seascape, a Norman, 390
• Seashore Free to All? Is the, 539
• Sensitive Plant, 159
• Sherbet, Royal Persian, 438
• Silas Monk: a Tale of London Old City, 361, 374, 394, 407
• Skating Regiment, a, 255
• Sketch from my Study Window, 343
• Sledge-dogs, 9
• Smoking Injurious to Health? Is, 78
• Snakes: Do they ever commit Suicide? 672
• Snakes, Indian, 214
• ‘So Unreasonable of Step-mother!’ 45
• Solitary Island, a, 719
• Spider-silk, 524
• St John’s Gate, 527
• St Marguerite and St Honorât, 369
• St Peter’s, 91
• Stained Glass as an Accessory to Domestic Architecture, 359
• Statues, Ancient and Modern, the Largest, 470
• Steel, 575
• Steno-telegraph, the, 607
• Stock Exchange Morality, 828
• Story of a Vast Explosion, 705
• Strange Institution, 96
• ‘Strong-room’ at Peterborough, the, 655
• Studies in Animal Life, 822
• Suakim, 196
• Sudden Fortunes, 241
• —— Ruin, 571
• Suicide, 292
• Superstitions, the Common-sense of, 237
• Surgical Scraps, 383
• Terribly Fulfilled, 424, 440, 454
• Thieves and Thieving, 525
• Trading, Some Instances of Eastern, 463
• Transvaal Gold-fields, 177
• Trees, Christmas, 748
• ——, Some Sacred, 509
• Trimming the Feet of Elephants, 240
• Troubadours, the, 171
• Two Days in a Lifetime, 5, 25, 41, 54, 73, 87, 105, 119
• Umpires at Cricket, 399
• Vaccination, 593, 688
• Væ Victis, 629
• Vermudyn’s Fate, 536, 552
• Washing by Steam, 800
• Water, 497
• Water-ousel, a Plea for the, 270
• Weather, How it is Made and Forecast, 689
• Whale, Commercial Products of the, 566
• What’s in a Name? 813
• White-lead Manufacture, a New Process of, 158
• Windermere, the Charr of, 406
• Wind-power, Abandonment of, 319
• Witness for the Defence, a, 217, 231, 247
• Woman’s Work, a Word on, 606
• Yarn of the P. and O., a, 503
• Zulu Romance, a, 330