by, 242; history of Clarendon Press, 292; Revised Bible, 296; death of Prof. Bosworth, 361
Paganini (N.), poem by Chorley,
Palestine Exploration Fund, death of C. F. Tyrwhitt-Drake, 336; progress of the survey, 344, 368 Palgrave (Sir Francis), obituary, 137
Pali, Burmese grammar of, 258 Pall Mall Gazette, John Morley editor-J. H. Fyfe assistant- editor, 441 Palmerston (Henry, Lord), appealed to by Lady Franklin, 21; on the Channel as a barrier, 75; death, 188; determination to work, 281 Palm-leaf books discarded, 258 Panizzi (Sir A.), death, 434 Papal Infallibility, Ecumenical Council on, 246 Paper Duty, amount paid on the
Encyclopædia Britannica,' 132; repealed, 137; influence of the repeal on immoral literature, 251; David Chambers, 271; on the Penny Cyclopædia, 304 Paper for Oxford Bibles, 295n. Paris, siege of, 261; aquaria in, 272 Parker (John Henry), sale of 'The Christian Year,' 193n. Parker (John William), business bought by Longmans, 385 Parthenon, C. W. Goodwin editor, 407
Pasta (G.), poem by Chorley, 541 Pasteur (Louis), grant from the
French Government, 450 Patent Office, specifications printed, 434
Patteson (Bishop J. C.) murdered,
Paul (C. Kegan) on Mrs. Irving, 475 Paul (C. Kegan) & Co. buy H. S. King & Co.'s publishing business, 388
Paul (James Balfour), History of
the Royal Company of Archers,' 348 Paulton (A. W.), Corn Law jour nalist, death, 363
Paxton (Sir Joseph), obituary, 178 Peacock (Dr. George), Dean of Ely, mathematician, obituary, 64 Peel (Sir Robert), second volume of Memoirs,' 15; consults Dr. Lindley, 187; at Harrow, 375 Peel (Sir William), poem on, 36; and the Naval Brigade, 38 Penn (William), Hepworth Dixon and Macaulay on, 518; 'Life' by Janney, 519
Penny Cyclopædia, amount spent on, 303; G. H. Lewes, 403; Prof. G. Long, 434 People's Magazine, 254 Perkins sale, Mazarine Bible at, 376n.
Persia, war with, 9 Peter the Great first Russian editor, 371
Peters (Rev. Dr.), of Logie, be- friends James Mill, 305 Petherick (Katherine), African ex- plorer, death, 389
Petrie (Dr. George), Irish archeo- logist, obituary, 192
Phillips (J. Arthur), works on me- tallurgy, 328
Phillott (Rev. H. W.) on alleged centenarian, 484 Philobiblon Society, 507 Philological Society, dictionary begun, 30; publication begun, 296; Prince L. L. Bonaparte's gift, 377
Philosophical Magazine on the Daguerreotype, 466
Phiz. See Browne (Hablot Knight). Photographic Society subscribes to
Scot Archer fund, 20 Photography, the collodion process, 19; likeness of Daguerre, 459; death of Mungo Ponton, 461; first photograph from life, 467 Physical Society and the formation of fogs, 503
Picton (Sir J. A.) on alleged cen- tenarian, 483 Pilkington (Alderman and Sheriff Thomas), fined 100,000/. for slander, 410 Pilot newspaper, 257 Piracy, 525
literary, Dickens on,
Pitt (William), Macaulay's lines to his memory, 520 Planché (J. R.), obituary, 442 Plassy, hundredth anniversary of the battle, 5
Plymouth, British Association at, 379
Plymouth Chronicle, 257
Poets Laureate, their succession, 139
Polidori (Frances) marries Gabriele Rossetti, 508
Polytechnic, the, visit from the Queen, 381
Ponton (Mungo), death, 461 Pope (Alexander), Charles Went- worth Dilke on, 172; life by Dr. Carruthers, 396
Porter (Jane and Anna Maria), novelists, their popularity, 351 Portfolio and the Art Journal, 451
Post Office, death of Sir Rowland Hill, 419 'Post Office Directory,' F. F. Kelly's improvements, 174; printers in, 327 Power (Marguerite), death, 208 Pratt (John Tidd) on Sir John Soane's Museum, 124 Preaching, "Habitans in Sicco" on, 50
Preece (W. H.) exhibits Bell's telephone, 379 Pre-Raphaelitism, 255
Preston (Sir Robert), originator of the ministerial Whitebait Dinner, 194 Price (Prof. Bartholomew) and the Clarendon Press, 293n. Priestley (Dr. J.) at Birmingham, 431
Princesses, marriages of English, 45 Princess Royal. See Victoria Ade- laide.
Prinsep (H. T.), writer on India, death, 407
Printers, master, number in Lon- don, 327
Printers Pension Corporation, Mr. Walter at, 326; pensions from the Caxton Celebration, 377 Printing, exhibition of early, 375; logographic, 427; early, in Japan, 499
Printing machines, improvements in, 326, 428, 429
Prison, Mark system, 127; London prisons, 435
Procter (Adelaide Anne), 'Legends and Lyrics,' 128; her Evening Hymn, 129; obituary, 164; birth, 375
Procter (Bryan Waller), "Barry Cornwall," obituary, 330; auto- biography, 374
Procter (Richard Wright), Man- chester historian, death, 492 Publishers, of literature for the people, 253; Spedding's crusade against, 491
Publishers' Circular, its history, 512n.
Punch, its foundation, 27; reissue, 131; Thackeray's contributions, 162; designs from, at the Egyp- tian Hall, 170; Leech's contri- butions, 171; death of Mark Lemon, 255; Shirley Brooks editor, 257; his death, 319; Tom Taylor editor, 320; F. C. Bur- nand editor, 450; death of W. H. Wills, 455
Puttick & Simpson, sell Sunderland Library, 485; letters of Wil- liam III., 516
Pye (Henry James), Poet Laureate, 139
Pye (Mrs.), death, 139
Pym (Horace N.), editor of Caro-
line Fox's 'Memories of Old Friends,' 492
Rachel (Elisa) as Camille, poem
by Chorley, 541 Railway, Pacific, results of, 237; advertisements in London Gazette, 239; first journalist, 313; death of J. T. Hackett, 360 Railway Magazine, its foundation, 313 Raines (Canon Francis R.), bequest
to Chetham Library, 409 Raleigh (Dr. Alexander), death, 461; biography, 490 Raleigh (Mary) edits life of A. Raleigh, 490
Raleigh Travellers' Club, its his- tory, 481
Ramsay (Alexander), death, 245 Ranyard (Mrs.), "L. N. R.," death, 434
Ravenstein (E. G.) on Cyprus, 400 Reade (Winwood), death, 353 Redding (Cyrus), journalist, obi- tuary, 257
Reed (Sir E. J.), hon. sec. Institu- tion of Naval Architects, 116 Reeve (Henry), editor of 'Gre- ville Memoirs,' 332 Reformatories, Mary Carpenter on, 378
Religious Tract Society, death of Joseph Gurney, 419 Resolute, Franklin search vessel, her remarkable history, 200. Reuter's Agency, 426 Richardson (Dr. Charles), lexico- grapher, death, 188 Richmond (Richard), author of "When all Thy mercies," 447 VOL. II.
Richmond (Richard) described as
Bishop of "Soda," 448 Riley (H. T.), editor of Memo-
rials of London,' death, 408 Rippon (Dr. John), inscriptions in Bunhill Fields Burial-ground, 240 Robertson (Campbell) on causes of Indian Mutiny, 5
Robertson (E. W.), author, death, 336
Robertson (H. Dundas) on causes of Indian Mutiny, 82 Robertson (John), of Brighton, journalist, obituary, 347 Robespierre (Maximilian), life by Lewes, 404
Robinson (G. T.), 'Fall of Metz,' 263
Robinson (Henry Crabb), obituary, 203; 'Diary,' 236
Robson (John), of University College, death, 368
Rochester, the Cloisterham of 'The
Mystery of Edwin Drood,' 532 Rogers (Charles), editor of the
'Pogmoor Olmenac,' death, 353 Rosse (William, 3rd Earl of),
astronomer, obituary, 215
Rossetti (Christina G.), poem, 509 Rossetti (Dante Gabriel), his poems, 254; on 'Joseph and his Breth- ren,' 413; obituary, 508; Hall Caine's Recollections'-' Col lected Works,' 509; in French —Life' by J. Knight, 509 Rossetti (Gabriele), Italian poet and politician, 508
Rossetti (William M.) edits his brother's works, 509
Routledge (Messrs.), and Lord Lytton's novels, 301; Staunton's 'Shakspeare,' 324
Rowlandson (Thomas), the carica- turist, life by Grego, 451 'Roxburghe Ballads,' 421 Royal Academy, Cruikshank's con- tributions, 394
Royal Society, removal to Burling- ton House, 18, 312; bicentenary, 127; Lord Wrottesley president,
214; Lord Rosse president, 215; death of C. R. Weld, 243; elec- tric light at, 488
Royal Society of Edinburgh, Sir Í. M. Brisbane president, 119 Ruskin (John) and Walter Thorn- bury, 363
Russel (Alexander), editor of the Scotsman, obituary, 363 Russell (John, Earl), death, 408 Russell (W. H.), called "Pen of the War," 22; on the Indian Mutiny, 112
Russia, horticultural societies in, 233; Woman's Rights Con- vention in, 240; English spoken by the Emperor, 456 Russian,' Pickwick Papers' in, 524 'Russian Hagiography,' 500
Sainsbury (Noel), calendar of MSS. at the India Office, 346 St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Har- vey Prize founded, 451 St. James's Magazine, death of S. R. Townshend Mayer, 461 St. Paul's Cathedral, Sunday even- ing services at, 51; Dean Mil- man's 'Annals,' 229; W. Long- man's Three Cathedrals,' 385 St. Petersburg Gazette, its founda-
tion, 370; its early numbers, 394 Sala (George Augustus) contri-
butes to Household Words, 528 Salford, its Free Library in 1856,
16; in 1885, 17n. Salmon, introduced into Australia, 204; in Tasmania, 242 Sandemanians, their tenets, 213 Sandys (George), early traveller in Cyprus, 399
Sargant (William Lucas) on Sir Rowland Hill, 420 Satow (E.) on early printing in Japan, 499
Saturday Magazine, its circulation, 254
Saturday Review, death of J. D.
ningham, 352; J. H. Fyfe assist- ant-editor, 441; history, 506 Savage (W. M.), death, 298 Scarlett (Hon. Peter Campbell), life of Lord Abinger, 483 Scheffer (Ary), life by Mrs. Grote, 433
Schiller (J. C. F. von), life by Carlyle, 472
Schliemann (Dr. H.), honorary citizen of Berlin, 480 Schneider (Karl), 'Cypern unter den Engländern,' 417 Schuyler (E.) on the St. Petersburg Gazette, 394
Scotland, printing Bibles in, 106;
Royal Company of Archers, 348 Scotsman, death of its founder, 195; memoir of Adam Black, 318; death of Alex. Russel, 363; J. H. Fyfe a contributor, 441; C. Cooper editor, 497 Scott (Rev. A. J.), Nelson's chap- lain at Trafalgar, 309 Scott (Alexander J.), first Principal of Owens College, 291 Scott (Edward J. L.), on the 'Eikon Basilike, '431; on "When all Thy mercies," 447 Scott (Sir Walter), copyright of his works, 317; visited by the Wordsworths, 325; and Mac- pherson the freebooter, 452; and Constable, 491
Scrope (George Poulett), death, 368 Sedgwick (Prof. Adam), death, 312 Seeds, their vitality, 209
Seeley (R. B.), obituary, 512n. Septuagint, concordance to, 298 Servants, domestic, and Prince Albert, 144
Servetus (Miguel), life by Dr. Willis, 408
Servia, original charter in British Museum, 502
Sewing machine invented by Brunel, 148
Seyd (Ernest), bi-metallist, death, 491
Cook, 229; of Lieut.-Col. Cun-Shaftesbury (Anthony, 7th Lord),
and the British and Foreign Bible Society, 105, 106 Shairp (Dr. J. C.), editor of Do- rothy Wordsworth's Tour in Scotland,' 325 Shakspeare (William), sale of his autograph, 54; death of S. W. Singer, 85; New Place pur- chased, 138; Prince Albert's contribution, 144; "first folios," 259; Staunton's editions, 324; Mrs. Cowden Clarke's 'Con- cordance,' 373; Falstaff's Let- ters,' 378; King John' at Covent Garden, 442; sale of folios, 506
Sharpe (Samuel), Biblical scholar, death, 491
Sharpey (Prof. William), physiolo- gist, death, 461
Shaw (Capt. Eyre Massey), on the Tooley Street fire, 199; statis- tics of fires, 200
Shelley (Percy Bysshe), Leigh Hunt on, 99; legacy to Jane Clairmont, 434; 'Prose Works,' edited by Forman, 453; 'Poe- tical Works'-'The Mask of Anarchy,' 453n.; death of E. J. Trelawny, 492; D. F. MacCarthy on, 507
Shelley Society, 453n. Shilling Magazine,
Hepworth Dixon a contributor, 435 Siddall (Elizabeth Eleanor) marries D. G. Rossetti, 509 Simpson (Sir James Y.), death, 259 Sindh, its annexation, 112 Singer (S. W.), editor of Shak-
speare and Bacon, obituary, 85 Sion College Library, 328 Slick (Sam). See Haliburton. Smart (Hawley) on Major Whyte Melville, 405
Smedley (Frank E.), death-' Ga- thered Leaves,' 166 Smee (Alfred), surgeon, inventor of method of printing Bank notes, death, 370 Smith (Albert), obituary, 120
Smith (Alexander), author, death, 203
Smith (George), Assyrian Dis- coveries,' 337; Chaldean Ac- count of Genesis,' 338; on the Temple of Belus, 357; obituary, 358
Smith (Sir J. E.), botanist, 182 Smith (Joseph), Catalogue of Friends' Books,' 218 Smith (Prof. Robertson) on Bible societies, 106
Smith (W. Browning), sub-editor of Encyclopædia Britannica,' death, 407
Smith (W. H.) & Son, their sub- scription library, 123
Smith & Elder, publish Jane Eyre,' 351; Lewes's 'Rose, Blanche, and Violet,' 404 Smithsonian Institution, its collec- tion of shells, 377
Smyth (Admiral W. H.), death, 188 Soane (Sir John), his Museum, 124 Socialism and co-operation, 411 Social Science Association, its first
meeting, 30; in London, 145 Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 159, 181 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in Wales, 103; its publications, 254, 489
Society of Antiquaries, death of J. Y. Akerman, 313; Planché elected, 444; death of F. Ouvry, 491
Society of Arts, tablet to Byron, 205; death of P. Le Neve Foster,
Society of Biblical Archæology, 359 Soldiers, unsuitable dress in India, 39
Solly (E.) and the Index Society, 388
Somerville (Mary), death, 299; recipient of Geographical Society medal, 482
Sotheby & Wilkinson, sale of Shakspeare's autograph, 54; of Libri MSS., 89; of H. G.
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