277; 'Aspen Court' dedicated to, 320; novels in German, 336; sale of MS. of Christmas Carol,' 347; private reading of "The Chimes,' 355; Forster's Life,' 356, 535; E. Chapman and Pick- wick, 439; 'Pickwick Papers'- Sketches by Boz'- Bentley's Miscellany-Nicholas Nickleby,' 523; Oliver Twist'-'Pickwick Papers' in Russian-Master Humphrey's Clock - Barnaby Rudge,' 524; on literary piracy -translations into Turkish- A Word in Season,' 525; ‘A Christ- mas Carol-Evenings of Working Man,' 526; The Chimes Every Man in his Humour,' 527; Cricket on the Hearth-Newsvendors' Bene- volent Institution Household Words started-public readings, 528; Little Dorrit'-All the Year Round begun-death, 529; obituary by Chorley, 530; C. Dickens, jun. Mystery of Edwin Drood,' 532; 'Life' by Forster, 535; Chorley's friend- ship, 540
Dickens (Charles), jun., editor of All the Year Round, 532 Dickens (Mary), legacy from Chor- ley, 540; letter from, 540n. Dilke (Ashton Wentworth), obitu- ary, 234n.; E. J. Francis partner, 546n. Dilke (Charles Wentworth), obi- tuary, 171; friends at the funeral -as a critic, 173; part proprietor of the Athenæum, 3070.; and H. F. Chorley, 537 Dilke (Sir Charles Wentworth), death at St. Petersburg, 232 Dilke (Sir Charles Wentworth), 2nd baronet, edits 'Papers of a Critic,' 172; presents the Caryll Papers to the nation, 254 Dillon-Croker (T. F.), editor of
Planche's extravaganzas, 445 Disraeli (Benjamin), Lord Beacons.
field, not mentioned by Peel, 16; at school at Islington, 326 ;. 'Endymion,' 458; Key, 459; obituary, 476 D'Israeli (Isaac), 476 Dissenters and the Apocrypha, 104 Dixon (W. Hepworth), writes Douglas Jerrold's obituary, 22; resigns editorship of Athenæum, 249; obituary, 435; on Penn, 518
Dobell (Sydney), poet, death, 337
Dobson (Austin), poem on Long- fellow, 505
|Dodson (James), F.R.S., mathema- tician, 267
Dohrn (Dr. Anton), founder of Naples Aquarium, 273 Dolcoath copper mine, telephone at, 498
Donati's comet, 63
Doran (Dr. John), A Bridal Procession,' 45; on Vauxhall Gardens, 91; on marriages of Princes of Wales, 151; on London Gazette, 238; on Blue Stockings, 300; on jubilee of the Athenæum, 390; obituary, 391
Douglas (General Sir Howard) on modern fortifications, 76 Douglas (R. K.), assistant-keeper at British Museum, 466 Doyle (John), “H. B.,” obituary, 217
Dramatic Authors Act, the first, 443 Draper (Prof. Henry), discoverer of oxygen in the sun, 495 Draper (Prof. J. C.), death, 495 Draper (Prof. John William), takes the first photograph from life, 467; obituary, '493 Drinkwater-Bethune (John), joint author of Probability,' 180 Drury Lane Theatre, Twelfth Night at, 231; Planche's plays at, 442-4 Dryden (John), Christie's edition, 336
tion Bill introduced, 246; con- troversy in Ireland, 345; of women, 397, 460; in Bengal, 465 Edward, the Black Prince, mar- riage with Joan of Kent, 151 Edward, son of Henry VI., mar- riage with Lady Anne Neville, 153 Edward III., life by William Longman, 385
'Eikon Basilike,' its authorship, 431 Electricity, the voltaic pile, 56;
Ersted's discoveries, 57; velocity of, 202
Electric light at Royal Society, 488
Electric telegraph, from Europe to Africa, 31; to America, 62; proposed purchase of those of the United Kingdom, 237 Electro-chemical telegraph, death of its inventor, 389
Early English Text Society, its Electrotype, Bank notes printed
tenth year, 311 Earthquake in England, 161 East India Company, its original subscribers, 346
Ebsworth (Rev, J. Woodfall), editor
of the 'Roxburghe Ballads,' 421; of the Bagford Ballads,' 470 Economist, its founder-death of Walter Bagehot, 373
Eden (Charles H.), introduction to Col. Warburton's account of his explorations, 331 Edinburgh, Braidwood at, 196; George IV. at, 269; R. Cham- bers's Traditions,' 270 'Edinburgh Encyclopædia,' Car- lyle a contributor, 471, 472 Edinburgh Review, death of Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, 159; its publishers, 316; Macaulay's Essays,' 384; on Croker, 515 Edinburgh University, Carlyle Lord Rector, 474; death of Dr. Muir, 501 Edmiston (James), hymn-writer, death, 206
Education, higher, of girls, 242; Mr. Forster's Elementary Educa- VOL.II.
Eliot (George), her genius recog- nized by John Blackwood, 423; death, 461; obituary, 462 Eliot (Sir John), Forster's life of, 356
Elizabeth (Princess), marriage with the "Winter King," 47 Ellery (Robert) J.), Government Astronomer in Victoria, 232 Elliot (Lady Charlotte), poetess, death, 461
Ellis (F. S.) on the MS. of Shelley's 'Mask of Anarchy,' 453n.
Ellis (Sir Henry), his knighthood, 243 Ellis (John), Under-Secretary of State temp. Queen Anne, 447 Ellis (William), educationist, death, 490 Elphinstone (Mountstuart), one of the founders of the Royal Geo- graphical Society, 481 'Encyclopædia Britannica,' statistics concerning, 132; change of pro- prietors, 317; Walter Thornbury a contributor, 363; W. Browning Smith, 407
'Encyclopædia Metropolitana,' ar- ticles reissued, 328 England, fears of invasion by France, 75; Duke of Wellington on, 77; Greek numerical figures first used in, 90; earthquake in, 161
English as a means of international
communication, 456 English Dialect Society, Prince L. L. Bonaparte's gift, 377 Espinasse (Francis), Lancashire Worthies,' 314 Ethnological Society, its founder, 368
Evans (David Morier), founder of the Hour, obituary, 313 Everett (Prof. C. C.), of Harvard University, 503
Ewart (William), M.P., death, 243 Examiner, Douglas Jerrold sub- editor, 28; Leigh Hunt on the Prince Regent, 96; death of Albany W. Fonblanque, 298; J. S. Mill's articles in, 307; death of John Forster, 357; Shelley on Richard Carlile's trial, 454 Exhibition, Guildhall, 189 Exhibition of 1851, death of Pax- ton, 179; Thornbury on, 362; death of G. W. Yapp, 462 Exhibition of 1862, France on, 78; opened by the Duke of Cam- bridge, 145; purchase of tickets by the Queen, 146
Industrial, at the
'Falstaff's Letters,' 378 Family Herald, its good influence, 252
Faraday (Michael), on science as a branch of education, 56; obituary,
Farrar (Archdeacon F. W.) on America and Westminster Abbey, 506n. Fawcett (Millicent), translations of her works, 502
February 29th on a Saturday, 220 Field, its success, 430 Figures, Greek numerical, first used in England, 90
Findlay (A. G.), geographer, death, 353
Finlay (George), historian of Greece, obituary, 340
Finnis (Col.) murdered at Meerut, 3 Fire Brigade, Metropolitan, 200; its strength, 201 Fire-Engine Establishment, Lon- don, 196
Fire-escape system, 266 Fires, great, in London, 197; death
of Braidwood, 198; causes of, 200 Fireworks at Vauxhall Gardens, 95 Fitzherbert (Maria Anna) married by George IV., 155
FitzRoy (Admiral Robert), obi- tuary, 176
Flaxman Gallery at University Col- lege, 204 Flogging in the army abolished, 107 Florence, memorial to E. B. Brown-
ing, 137; its associations, 168 Fogs, their formation, 503 Folk-lore, first use of the word, 389 Folk-lore Society founded, 389 Fonblanque (Albany W.), death, 298
Forbes (Archibald), his Franco- German experiences, 264
Forbes (Prof. Edward), on distri- bution of marine life, 13; names Oldhamia, 400
Forbes (Principal James David), natural philosopher, obituary, 230
Forbes (Sir John), physician, obi. tuary, 140
Forbes (Sir John Stuart), friend of James Mill, 305
Forman (Henry Buxton), his edi- tions of Shelley's works, 453 Forrester (A. F.), "Alfred Crow quill," death, 298
Forster (John), obituary, 355; as Kitely, 528; Life of Dickens,' 535
Forster (W. E.), Elementary Edu- cation Bill introduced, 246; in Caroline Fox's' Memories of Old
Friends,' 493 Fortification, Sir Howard Douglas on, 76
Fortnightly Review, Ashton Dilke's articles, 235n.; Bagehot's articles, 373; G. H. Lewes and John Morley, 405; Joseph and his Brethren,' 414; J. S. Mill on Thornton, 446
Fortune (Robert), traveller, death, 461
Fossil, earliest, 400
Foster (P. Le Neve), secretary of Society of Arts, death, 434 Fox (Caroline), Memories of Old
Fox (George), voluminous writings, 218
Fox (Robert Were), death, 390 Fox (William James), death, 166 Foxhall, name for Vauxhall, 94 France, war with Austria, 74; in- crease in her navy, 75; message of peace to England, 78; and the vacant Spanish throne, 247; out- break of the war with Germany, 248; some of its effects-letters from Paris in Athenæum, 249; principal events, 260; terms of peace, 262; Robinson's 'Fall of Metz,' 263; Forbes's 'Experi- ences of the War,' 264; The Campaign of 1870-1,' from the Times-books on the war, 265 Francis (Edward James), present from Chorley, 537; obituary, 546n. Francis (John), visits from Charles Wentworth Dilke, 173; from Sir C. Wentworth Dilke, 233; on 'Literature of the People,' 249; friend of D. Chambers, 271; on the development of the press, 326; publisher fifty years, 484; and Mr. Nicoll's 'Great Move- ments,' 485; letter from Chorley, 538; signs of weakness-increas-
ing illness, 545; death of E. J. Francis-of John Francis, 546; obituary, 547; burial, 549; “John Francis Pensions" founded, 550 Franklin (Lady), purchases the Fox, 20; appeal to Lord Palmerston, 21; recipient of Geographical Society medal, 482
Franklin expedition, under Capt. M'Clintock, 20; death of Sir G. Back, 408
Franz (Dr. J. C. August), his re- markable cure of blindness, 469 Fraser's Magazine, Thackeray's contributions, 162; 'Sartor Re- sartus' in, 473
Frederick, Prince of Wales, mar- riage with Princess Augusta, 154 Frederick the Great, Carlyle's 'History' of, 474
Freeman's Journal, death of Sir J. Gray, 344
Frere (Sir Bartle), on Murchison, 279; a founder of the Royal Geographical Society, 481 Friswell (J. Hain), death, 408 Frost (Thomas), Chartist, Recol- lections,' 456
Froude (James Anthony), editor of Carlyle's 'Reminiscences,' 475 Froude (W.), mathematician,
death, 434 Frowde (Henry), London manager for the Clarendon Press, 294 Frith (W. P.), his 'Railway Station,' 145
Fullom (S. W.), death, 298 Fun, death of Tom Hood, 335 Fyfe (James Hamilton), journalist, obituary, 441
Galignani's Messenger, 257 Gambetta (Léon), proclamation to the army, 261 Gardeners Chronicle, its founda- tion, 186
Gardner (A.) publishes the works of Tannahill the weaver-poet, 323 Gardner (E. Bensley), London
manager of the Clarendon Press, | Glass, repeal of duty on, 187
Garnett (Dr. Richard) made Super- intendent of the Reading-Room, 348
Gaskell (E. C.), her apology, 22; obituary, 187; contributes to Household Words, 528 Gatty (Mrs. Alfred), obituary, 309 Gauden (Bishop John) and the 'Eikon Basilike,' 433 Gentleman's Magazine, death of J. Bowyer Nichols, 161 Geographical Society (Royal), its foundation, 279, 481; and H. M. Stanley, 284n.; and Col. War- burton, 331; 'Fifty Years' Work,' 481
Geological map of England, 181; atlas of Europe, 279 Geological Museum, books pre- sented to, 280n. Geological Society, S. P. Wood- ward curator, 181 Geological Survey, Murchison di- rector, 279; Dr. Barlow's lega- cies, 368
George II., his marriage, 154 George IV., marries Mrs. Fitz- herbert, 155; Caroline of Bruns- wick, 156; at Edinburgh, 269 Gibb (Sir G. Duncan), of the An- thropological Society, death, 368 Gibbon (Edward), Cotter Morison on, 400
Gilfillan (Rev. George), editor of the British poets, death, 408 Glaciers, theories of, 231 Gladstone (William Ewart), and Hawarden, 314; opens the Cax- ton Exhibition, 375; places Planché on the Civil List, 444 Glasgow, Government grant to the University, 289; storm at, 488; Macaulay Rector of the Uni- versity, 517
Glasgow Herald, its centenary, 497 Glass (Joseph), inventor of the chimney-sweeping machine, obi- | tuary, 217
Glennie (J. S. Stuart) on Buckle's death, 150
Glyn (Serjeant John) and Hawar- den, 314
Goderich (Frederick John, Vis- count), first president of the Royal Geographical Society, 482 Goethe (J. W. von), life by Lewes,
404; Wilhelm Meister' trans- lated by Carlyle, 472 Goldsmith (O.), Forster's life, 356 Gomme (G. Laurence), on the Index Society, 388; honorary secretary of the Folk-lore So- ciety, 389
Goodwin (C. W.), editor of the Parthenon, death, 407
Good Words, 253; death of Nor- man Macleod, 298; bought by Isbister, 414
Good Words for the Young, 253 Gordon (General Charles George) in China, 480
Gordon (Lady Duff), death, 244 Gordon (Patrick Harry), Indian journalist, 369
Gorilla, Prof. Owen on, 86 Gosse (P. H.), advocate of aquaria, 273
Gould (John), ornithologist, death,
Gower (Capt. C. H. A.) on the telephone in Burmah, 381 Graham (H. G.) on the two Car- lyles, 475
Grant (James), editor of the Morn- ing Advertiser, death, 434 Grant (Prof. Robert) on wind at Glasgow, 488
Grattan (Thomas Colley), death, 167
Gray (Dr. Edward Whittaker), botanist, 343
Gray (George Robert), ornitholo- gist, 343
Gray (Sir John), of the Freeman's Journal, obituary, 344 Gray (Dr. John Edward), botanist, 185; obituary, 343
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