John Francis, Publisher of the Athenæum: A Literary Chronicle of Half a Century

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.

from, 370

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,

210

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

Friends,' 492

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

293

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,

490

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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