INDEX TO THE NAMES AND SUBJECTS IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH VOLUME. Absence, lines on, 152 Acuteness of perception, 118 Adventure on an island of sand, 99 Age and youth, 220 Agriculture, ancient, in Scotland, 150 Ancient agriculture in Scotland, 150 Ancients, oracles of the, 3, 15 Anecdotes of Sir Astley Cooper, 118, 220 Animals, faculty of assuming various colours possessed by, 27 wool-bearing, of Peru and Chile, 145 Argument for a future state, 224 Arndt, remark by, 148 Arnold, Dr., extracts from, 195, 206, 220, 224 Art of Reading, old and new methods of teaching, 92, 108, 116, 134, 139, 151, 156, 183 Arts, the, 77 Arundel Castle, in Sussex, 941 Asylum, or Sanctuary, right of, 13, 20 Atheistane's Chapel, Conisborough Castle, 69 August, kitchen garden opérations in, 31 Problems, curious, 48, 156, 173, 200, 208, 220, 232 solutions, 248 Chili, wool-bearing animals of, 145 Colours, faculty of changing, possessed Cooper, Sir Astley, 112 Deity, contemplation of the, 148 Difference of natural talents, 206 Bacon, the Sexton of Yarmouth, and Difficulties, 222 his wife, 118 Bain, the bay of, 97 Baillie, 184 Bantam, 195 Barnard Castle, Durham, 57 Barnard's Inn, 168 Barometers, vegetable, 174 Baseley, extract from, 196 Beauty, adoration of, 190 principle of, 179 Belief in the Bible, 28 Bells and Bell-turrets, I. 45—II. 52 Beneficence, 181 Beverley frid-stool, 20 Bible, belief in the, 28 Biddlestone Church, 45 Blackbird, natural history of the, 63 Bridgewater, the earls and dukes of, 99 Dinner parties in Norway, 192 Dover, a trip to, 103 Dudley, Lord, remark by, 192 Duration of life in various animis, 200 Earth, changes in, 221 materials of. 110 Eastern fable, 47 East India Company, history of the, 33, 121, 201 Easy Lessons in Chess, XXIII. 7XXIV. 111-XXV. 179 Echoes, 197 Eclipse, the late lunar, 11 in the Highlands, 49 Egypt, lentiles in, 110 Evans Gambit. 111 Exaggerations in natural history, 93 Experience and inexperience, 16 Fable, an Eastern, 47 Fitzroy, Capt., remark by, 77 Friends, true and false, 189 School, 113, 137 Honest loss preferable to shameful gin, 59 Hollow, 131 Morning, of Wilson, 1 Natural history, exaggerations in, 93 and management of cage-birds, 5, 63, 93, 132 Hospitality of the people of Loo Choo, National virtue and national happi 152 Humboldt, remark by, 93 Ice in Russia, 206, 223 Improvement, the precursors of, 160 of time, 171 India, Syrian Christians in, 181, 190, 199 Individual enterprise, 156 Inns of Court, history of the, 81, 162 Introduction of the Phonic Method into England, 151 Iridescence, cause of, 140 Irish jaunting-car, the, 48 Island of Sand, 99 Italy, Baiæ, in, 97 Como, in, 65 Padua, in, 201 Verona, in, 49 winter in, 192 Jacobi, extract from, 148 ness, 192 Japan and the Japanese, 141, 147, 188, Paul's, St., School, historical notice of, Language of uneducated people, 61, 67, 75 Laws, general, 140 Lentiles in Egypt, 110 Lessons, easy, in Chess, 7, 111, 178 Life, a psalm of, 143 happiest state of, 59 Light of the sun, 136 Lights and colours, M'Cormac on, 24 Lines to the snow-drop, 229 Phonic Method of teaching reading, 134, 139, 151, 156, 183 Reading Frame, 157 Praise, sensibility to, 134 Problems, curious Chess, XIII. 48- |