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organist of Chelsea College, 104-his
death, 106 singular omissions in Mad.
d'Arblay's work, ib.-its real object, 107
-the authoress's first appearance in the
literary world, ib.-her Evelina,' 109
-her Cecilia' and 'Camilla,' 110-
age of the authoress, ib.-her' Wan-
derer,' 111-causes of the bad taste and
style of these Memoirs, ib.-her portrait
of Boswell, 112-her anecdotes of Dr.
Johnson, 115-and last interview with,
117-her father's interview with George
III. and Queen Charlotte, 119.
Burton, his accurate description of mental
malady, 186, 187-his account of Hip-
pocrates' visit to Democritus, 188-
wrote his Anatomie with a view of re-
lieving his own melancholy, ib.
Byron, Lord, 17-his 'Prophecy of Dante,'
449-his Francesca of Rimini,' 450—
his 'Don Juan,' ib.

C.

Camille Desmoulins, ' attorney-general to
the lantern,' 41, 43.
Carwell, by Mrs. Sheridan, 229.
Cary, Mr., his translation of Dante. See
Dante.

Castlereagh, Lord, his character of the
Duke of Wellington, 333.

'Cavendish,' one of the most vulgar and
witless of the sea-novels, 486.
Chabot, 37.
Chapman, 29.

Chaulnes, Duke de, account of, 104.
Chalmers, Thomas, D.D., 'On the Use and
Abuse of Literary and Ecclesiastical En-
dowments. See Church and the Land-
lords.

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Charles X. of France, causes of his over-
throw, 170.
Chesney, Captain, his Reports to Govern-
ment on the Navigation of the Euphrates,'
212. See Steam-Navigation to India.
Chess, game of, 317.

Church and the Landlords, 198-ministerial
proposition for the confiscation of church
property in Ireland, ib.-suicidal con-
duct of the land-owners, 199-favourable
position of the clergyman of a parish for
bracing the upper and lower orders of
society together, 200-the clergy the
best outworks of the land-owners, 204-
benefits of an established national
church, ib.-case of the two states of
Connecticut and Rhode Island, 205-
state in which the Dissenters would be
placed by the fall of the Church of Eng-

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Collier, 2, 9.

Colman, George, Esq., his evidence before

the Committee of the House of Commons
on the state of the laws affecting dramatic
literature, 7.

Court ceremonies, unwise neglect of, 337.
Cowper, William, character of his mental

malady, 186-various modes of self-de-
struction attempted by, 190.

Crabbe, Rev. George, his correct delinea-
tions of mental malady, 187-the most
searching of moral anatomists, and most
graphic of poets, 203—his patriotism in
lifting up the veil spread between the
upper classes and the working-day
world, ib.

Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson, his
'Boswell' quoted, 47, 115, 251.
Cromwell, Oliver, his terror on the recital
of Shirley's stanzas on the fall of Charles
I., 11.

Cruelty to animals, necessity of a law for
punishing, 81.

Cunningham, Rev. Francis, obligations of
the Protestant cause to, 49-instrumental
in making the English reader acquainted
with Oberlin, ib.

D.

Dacre, Lady, 'Recollections of a Chaperon,'
edited by. See Novels of Fashionable
Life.

D'Ancre, Maréchal, account of, 165.
Dante, the Inferno of, translated by Ichabod
Charles Wright, 449-excellence of
Cary's translation of the Divine Comedy,
ib. his version, from the measure, no
likeness of the original, ib.-failure of
the attempts to introduce the terza rimą
as an English measure, ib.-Lord By-
ron's Prophecy of Dante' and 'Frau-
cesca,' 450-difficulties of executing the
translation of any long poem in rhyme,
ib.-the various readings of a true poet
an interesting and instructive study, 451
-Mr. Wright's new version of Dante
uncalled for, ib.-his great obligations to

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Cary,

Cary, 452-his measure Dantesque to
the eye only, ib.-the sense of Cary
twisted out of blank verse into rhyme,
453-specimens of the two versions, ib.
-the versions of the episode of Fran-
cesca of Rimini,' by Cary, Lord Byron,
and Wright, compared, 459-Taaffe's
nonsensical commentary on the story of
Francesca and Paolo, 463-Mr. Wright's
faulty rhymes, ib.-his ear at once
Scotch, Irish, and Cockney, ib.-his
notes shrewd, sensible, and always mo-
dest, 464.

Danton, 41, 43, 46.

D'Arblay, Madame, her 'Memoirs of Dr.
Burney, arranged from his own Manu-
scripts, from Family Papers, and from
Personal Recollections,' 97. See Burney.
Darvill, R., his Treatise on the Care,
Treatment, and Training of the English
Race-horse.' See Turf.

Dealtry, William, D.D., his 'The Church
and its Endowments; a Charge,' 198.
See Church and the Landlords.
Death, 175-Sir Henry Halford's remarks
on the phenomena of the death-bed, ib.
-the two immediate modes by which
death is brought about, ib.-death by
syncope, ib.-death by asphyxia, ib.—
contrast between the state of the body
and that of the mind, 176-delirium, ib.
-death by lightning, 177 the coup de
grace, ib.-the sting of death not con-
tained in the physical act of dying, ib.-
conduct to be observed by a physician
in withholding or making his patient ac-
quainted with his opinion of the fatal
issue of his malady, 178-death-bed of
George IV., 179-prophetic power at-
tributed to individuals dying of peculiar
maladies, 180.

Death, Shirley's exquisite verses on, 13.
Delirium, Abernethy's description of, 176.
Democritus, account of Hippocrates' visit
to, 188.

Denman, Lord Chief Justice, his opinion
on the general question of libels, 36.
Dionysius, the tyrant, 11.

Dry-rot in timber, 125-proposition of Mr.
Matthews for the appointment of a rot-
prevention officer or wood physician,
126-his treatise On Naval Timber
and Arboriculture,' ib.-Merits of Mr.
Knowles's 'Inquiry into the Means taken
to preserve the British Navy,' ib.—ad-
mirable article on the dry-rot in the
Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britan-
nica, ib.-results of some recent expe-
riments, 127-discovery of a means of
preventing this disease in timber, ib.-

Mr. Kyan's patent, 127-Sir Robert Sep-
pings's report in its favour, ib.-causes
of dry-rot, ib.-Pliny's doctrine on the
origin of the disease, ib.-schemes for
dealing with the juices in the felled
timber, ib.-process of desiccation, 128
-instances of its failure attested by Mr.
Knowles, ib.-Sir Humphry Davy's
hint for preventing the growth of fungi,
129-Mr. Kyan's theory, ib.-Fourcroy's
dictum, ib.-Mr. Knowles's comment
thereon, ib.-substance of Mr. Faraday's
lecture thereon, 131-the 'fungus pit'
at Chatham described, ib.-Sir Robert
Smirke's experiments, 132-duration
of the antiseptic virtue of medicated
timber, 133-benefits which would re-
sult from the discovery and general
adoption of a cheap, safe, and efficacious
preventive of dry-rot, ib.

Dryden, John, his inferiority, as a drama-
tist, to Shirley, 13.

Dumont, M., his 'Souvenirs de Mirabeau'
characterized, 155 his enlightened
views of the French Revolution, ib.-
his testimony to the services of Mr.
Burke, 156-his character of Brissot,
172.

Dyce, Rev. Alexander, 29.

E.

Edgeworth, Miss, useful lessons conveyed
in her Tales, 152.

Edye, John, his 'Calculations relating to
the Equipment of Ships,' 125. See
Dry-rot.

Eichenberg, Professor, his translations of
Shakspeare, 120.

English climate, 330.

English race-horse, Treatise on the Care,
Treatment, and Training of, by R. Darvill,
V. S. See Turf.

English Revolution of 1688, 170.
Erskine, Lord, anecdotes of, 123, 124.
Euphrates, Captain Chesney's reports to
government on the navigation of the,
212. See Steam Navigation to India.
'Evelina,' character of, 109.

F.

Faraday, Mr., his lecture on Mr. Kyan's
discovery for preventing the dry rot in
timber, 131.

Forbes, Duncan, A.M., his translation from
the Persian of the 'Adventures of Hatim
Taï,' 506.

Foreign

Foreign and Domestic Policy of England,
522-Holland, 523-Algiers, ib.—Italy,
525-Greece, 526-Turkey, ib.-Po-
land, 527-Portugal, 528-Duke of
Wellington's motion, 540-King's an-
swer to the address of the House of
Lords, 541-Irish Church Bill, 547-
practical working of the Reform Bill,
550.

Fouquier Tinville, 42.

Fox, Right Hon. Charles James, 47-anec-
dote of, 122.

Frederic II. of Prussia, his character and
share in producing the French revolu-
tion, 168.

French Revolution, 152-'Causes' of the,
by Lord John Russell, ib.—his unfinished
'Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe since
the Peace of Utrecht,' ib.-his lordship
characterized as a 'petit littérateur,' ib.-
the present performance an impudent
catchpenny, 153-extends only to the
death of Louis XV., ib.-high-coloured
description of the profligacy of his court,
ib.-Lord John's account of Rousseau's
amours, ib.-and of Voltaire's liaison
with Madame du Châtelet, ib.-his lord-
ship's superficial acquaintance with the
French language, 154-M. Dumont's
'Souvenirs de Mirabeau,' 155 - that
work the best answer to Lord John's
silly stories and theories, 157 — the
French government, till the latter part
of Louis XV.'s reign, in accordance with
the feelings and wishes of the people, ib.
-high-minded patience and unconquer-
able spirit of the French nobility and
clergy in adversity, 160-the magistracy
illustrious for talent, integrity, and public
spirit, 161-firmness of the Parliament
even in the latter days of Louis XV., ib.
-injustice of making the upper classes
in France responsible for the crimes of
the revolution, 162-real causes of the
revolution, 166-feeble character of
Louis XVI., ib.-example of America,
ib.-exertions of the philosophers, 167-
disorder in the finances, 168-Lord
John's parallel between Voltaire and
our Saviour, 173-his confession re-
specting the philosophers, 174. See Le
Vasseur.

French Revolution of 1830, 464-'Mé-
moires pour servir à l'Histoire de, par
M. Alex. Mazas,' ib.-merits of the work,
ib.-account of the author, 465-sum-
mary of his narrative, ib.-first shot fired
by an Englishman, 468-Duke of Or-
leans, 470-M. Lafitte, 471-M. de
Polignac, ib.-M. de Mortemart, 473-

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Bande

'Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches
durch Joseph von Hammer.'
1-8. See Turkish Empire.
Gibbon, E., Esq., his outline of the Turkish
history, 286.

Gifford, William, Esq., 2.
Gilly, William Stephen, M.A., his 'Memoir
of Felix Neff, Pastor of the High Alps,
and of his labours among the French
Protestants of Dauphiné, a Remnant of
the Primitive Christians of Gaul,' 47.
See Neff.

Goethe on the character of Hamlet's mad-
ness, 185.

'Gold of Pitt,' 37.
Grant, Mr. Robert, 43.

Greece, policy of England towards, 526.
Greek lyric poetry, 349-the Greek elegy
and ode, ib.-origin of the ode, 350-
triumphant songs of Moses and Deborah,
ib.-character of the Greek lyric muse,
351-distinction between Greek and
Hebrew song, 352-the lyre of an-
cient Greece, 353-combination of
the choric dance with music and poe-
try, 354-lyric writers who preceded
or were contemporary with Pindar, 355
-Archilochus, ib.-Alcmæon, 357—
Stesichorus, 358-Ibycus of Rhegium,
361-Alcæus, 363-Sappho, 366-ver-
sions of her 'Fragment,' by Ambrose Phil-
lips, Boileau, and Mr. Merivale, 367-Mr.
Merivale's translation of her ode to Ve-
nus, 368-Erinna, 370—Anacreon, 371
-inquiry into the genuineness of the
odes attributed to, 374-Simonides the
younger, 375-his Danaë the tenderest
passage in Greek poetry, ib.--Mr. Ro-
bert Smith's version of it, 376-Bac-
chylides, 377.

H.

Hacket, Bishop, his motto, 70.
Halford, Sir Henry, his Essays and Ora-

tions, read and delivered at the Royal
College of Physicians; to which is
added an Account of the Opening of the
Tomb of Charles I.,' 175. See Death;
and see also Madness.

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Hamlet, his criterion of madness, 181, 184,
185.
Head, Captain C. F., his Eastern and
Egyptian Scenery, Ruins,' &c., illustra-
tive of a journey from India to Europe;
with remarks on the advantages and
practicability of steam-navigation from
England to India, 212. See Steam Na-
vigation to India.

Hatim Taï, a romance, translated from the
Persian, by Duncan Forbes, A.M., 506.
Hawtrey, Mr., his directions in the con-
struction of the Alcaic stanza, 364.
Hebert, 37, 43.

Herbert, Sir Henry, his character of Shir-
ley's plays, 6.

Heine's Reisebilder, or Pictures of Travel,
quoted, 33.

Hippocrates, account of his visit to Demo-
critus, 188.

Holland, policy of England towards, 523.
Horace, accuracy of his portraits of mad-
ness, 183.

Houchard, General, 40.

Houstoun, Mr., his incidental discovery
concerning the speed of canal boats,
213.

Huguenots, their intolerance of the pas-
time of dancing, 61.

Hulls, Jonathan, the real inventor of the
steam-boat, 213.

I.

Ibycus of Rhegium, account of, and of his
writings, 361.

Jesuits, one of the principles of, 47-the
most efficient society ever established,
48.

Impressment of seamen, 345, 496.
Insanity. See Madness.
Invention, 118.

Johnson, Dr., anecdotes of, 115, 251.
Jonson, Ben, 14.

Ireland, church property in, ministerial
proposition for the confiscation of, 198.
Italy, policy of England towards, 525.

K.

Knolles, the historian of the Turks, Dr.
Johnson's eulogy on, 285-character of
his history, 286.

Knowles, John, his Inquiry into the
means which have been taken to pre-

serve the British Navy from the earliest
to the present Times,' 126.
Kyan, Mr., his patent for the prevention of
dry-rot. See Dry-Rot.

L.

Labour, Professor M'Culloch's dictum con-
cerning, 150.
Lafayette, 33.

Landlords. See Church and the Land-
lords.

Language, effect of, upon national charac-
ter, 69.

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Le Vasseur, Mémoires de René de la
Sarthe, ex-Conventionnel, 29-the work
a fresh instance of French fabrication, ib.
-the editor, M. Achille Roche, sub-
stantially the author, 30-the work an
apology for the period of the French
revolution called 'the reign of terror,'
31-the Champ de Mars in May, 1790,
33-Bishop Talleyrand, ib.-Lafayette
and the fusillades in 1791, ib.-the mas-
sacre at Paris, in September, 1792, ib.—
character and situation of the Girondists
at the opening of the French Conven-
tion, 34-the Feuillans, ib.-club of the
Jacobins, 35-trial and condemnation
of Louis XVI., ib.-Vergniaud's vote
for blood, ib.-his speech on the ' 'appel
au peuple,' 36-Marat, l'ami du peu-
ple,' ib.-his sincerity, ib.-Hebert and
Chabot, 37-the gold of Pitt, ib.-deal-
ings of successive governments with the
Jacobin club, 38-execution of the Gi
rondists, 39-the author's defence of Ci-
tizen Egalité, ib.-and of Robespierre
and the Mountain, ib-General Hou-
chard, 40-the author's mission to the
army, ib-Danton, 41-Camille Des-
moulins, ib.-Fouquier Tinville, 42—
establishment of sans-culottism, ib.-de-
cree of the Convention acknowledging
the existence of a Deity, 45-picture of
Robespierre's government, ib.-law of
the 22nd Prairial, ib.-history of the
9th Thermidor, 46-downfall of Robes-
pierre, ib.

Liverpool, Earl of, sketch of, and of his ad-
ministration, 333.

Louis Philippe, king of the French, 11, 161
470, 473.

Lowe, Sir Hudson, 489.

M.

Macaulay, Mr., his attempt to make the

upper

upper classes in France responsible for
the crimes of the revolution, 162-cha-
racter of his speeches in Parliament, ib.
M'Culloch, Professor, his paradox concern-
ing absenteeism exposed, 148-his dic-
tum concerning labour, 150.
Madness, 181-Sir Henry Halford's Essay
'On Shakspeare's test of insanity,' 181
-accuracy of Shakspeare's delineations
of mania, ib.-Horace's portraits of
madness exemplified to the life, 183—
Hamlet, his criterion of madness, 181,
184 cases of monomania, 184-in-
stance related by Orfila, ib.-Damien,
ib.-Villemain and Goethe on the cha
racter of Hamlet's madness, 185-mental
malady described by Burton, 186-its
first stage, ib.-variety and individual
clearness of Shakspeare's delineations
of mental malady, 187-melancholy of
Jaques, ib.-the grave-digger's scene in
Hamlet, 188-the lighter species of
melancholy exemplified in Burton's ac-
Count of Hippocrates's visit to Demo-
critus, ib.-Scott's Clara Mowbray, an
example of the retiring melancholy, 190
-the 'roving melancholy' described,
191-Madge Wildfire, ib.-Ophelia, ib.

'Lear,' a study for the pathologist,
192-progress of his madness, 192, 198.
Madras school, one of the principles of, 47.
Malcolm, Sir John, his Sketches of Persia,

513.

Marat, Jean Paul, l'ami du peuple,' 36.
Marryat, Captain, his novels characterized,
485.

Martineau, Miss, her 'Illustrations of

Political Economy,' 136-the work a
monthly series of novels on political
economy, ib.-the authoress an Unita-
rian, ib.-her praiseworthy intention,
ib.-but unfeminine and mischievous
doctrines on the principles of social
welfare, ib.-plan of the work, ib.-the
fair writer's account of her own doings,
ib.-outline of story the first, 'Life in
the Wilds,' 137-of The Hill and the
Valley,' 138-of' Demerara,' Miss M.'s
doctrine of property, 139-of Ella
of Garveloch,' prolificacy of herrings
and bannocks, anticipated over-popula-
tion, the preventive check, 140-the
Manchester Strike,' 143-story of
'Cousin Marshall,' abomination of
poor-
laws, alms-houses, lying-in hospitals,
&c. 144-Ireland,' Mr. Tracey and Mr.
Rosso, Sullivan, Dora, and Dan, Miss
M.'s grand panacea, 145-her defence
of Professor M'Culloch's exploded para-
dox concerning absentees, 148-story

entitled French Wines and Politics,'
Professor M'Culloch's dictum concern-
ing labour, 149-story entitled 'For
Each and for All,' profits and wages,
Nanny White and old Joel, 150-Miss
M.'s exemplification of the phenomena
of money; mouse skins and mammoth
bones, 151-Moore's 'She Politician,”
tb.-parting advice to Miss M., ib.
Massinger, his Luke, and his Sir Giles
Overreach, 14.

Matthew, Patrick, his "Treatise on Naval
Timber and Arboriculture, with Critical
Notes,' 125. See Dry-Rot.

May, Thomas, his panegyric on Shirley, 4.
Mazas, M. Alexandre, his 'Mémoires pour

servir à l'Histoire de la Révolution de
1830.' See French Revolution of 1830,
Merivale, J. H. Esq., his edition of Bland's
Greek Anthology, comprising the Frag-
ments of early Lyric Poetry, with spe-
cimens of all the poets included in
Meleager's Garland. See Greek Lyric
Poetry.

Merivale, Mr. jun., his translation of a
fragment of Bacchylides, 378.
Middleton, Thomas, his dramas charac-
terized, 14.

Milton, 11.

Mirabeau, M. Dumont's Souvenirs de, 155
-character of, 156.

Montluc, Marshal, his commentaries one
of the most characteristic work in any
language, 68.

Moore, Thomas, his 'She Politician,' 151
-his 'Epitaph on a Tuft-hunter,' 231

N

Neff, Felix, pastor of the High Alps, Me-
moir of, and of his labours among the
French Protestants of Dauphiné, a rem-
nant of the Primitive Christians of Gaul;
by William Stephen Gilly, M.A., 47—
the biographer's benevolent exertions in
behalf of the Vaudois, 48-first account
received by him concerning Felix Neff,
49-Neff's birth and education, ib.-
his early aspirations for military fame,
or for scientific research, 50-publishes
at sixteen a treatise on the culture of
trees, ib. -enters as a private into the
military service, ib.-quits the service
and prepares for holy orders, ib.—re-
ceived into the church as a proposant,
ib.-employed three years in this ca-
pacity in the neighbourhood of Geneva,
31-invited to Grenoble, ib.-supplies
at Mens the place of an absent pastor,

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