The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20)

British Museum, 140—158

Buccaneer, 428

Byron's Works, 12

Catechism of Phrenology, 45

Characteristics of Women, 117

Contarini Fleming, 10

Double Trial, 125

Elements of Chemistry, 206

Encyclopædia Americana, 102

Excursions in India, by Capt. Skinner, 105

Framlingham, a Poem, 306

Geography, Questions in, 45

Gordon on Elemental Locomotion, 183—198

Knowledge for the People, 77—134—429

Life of Peter the Great, 300—308

Laconics, 31

Legends of the Library at Lilies, 350—403

Legends of the Rhine, 138

Life of Charlemagne, by G.P.R. James, 92—119

Lives of Scottish Worthies, 221—233

Macculloch's Dictionary of Commerce, 151—279

Memoir of Felix Neff, 147—171

Natural Magic, by Sir David Brewster, 72—107—191

New Gil Blas, 186

Numismatic Manual, 223

Outlines of General Knowledge, 45

Pilgrimage through Khuzistan and Persia, 73—314

Pompeii, 412

Popular Zoology, 57

Private Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion, 157—165—235

Sketches from Venetian History, 60

Songs, by Barry Cornwall, 11—46

Statistical Sketches of Upper Canada, 29—57—91

Taylor's Records of his Life, 291—317

Trials of Charles I., 41

Wild Sports of the West, 298

Brain of Man, 96

Braithwaite's Steam Fire-Engine, 111

Brass-plate Coal-merchants, 56

Bread, legal adulteration of, 366

Brent Tor church, 112

Brevities, 179

Bridewell, in the reign of Elizabeth, 357

Bridge, stupendous, in Spain, 24

Britain, early inhabitants of, 276—371

British Artists' Exhibition, 330—362

British Institution, School of Painting at, 362

British Museum, the, 140

Brougham, Henry, anecdote of, 182

Brydges, Sir Egerton, 86

Bull, national, 240

Burnham Abbey described, 81

Bustard, natural history of, 328

Butterfly, Chameleon, and Serpent, 425

Byron, Lord, conversations with, 6—86—110

and Anastasius, 156

early poems, by, 12

and Earl Grey, 80

and the English, 9

and Mrs. Hemans, 156

and Mr. Hope, 156

on horseback, 110

and Leigh Hunt, 157

and Italian women, 117

his love, 269

letter of, 290

and Moore, 7

personal description of, 7

and Scott, 110

and Shelley, 9

and Madame de Stael, 86

and Venice, 63

Cæsar, Julius, his superstition, 238

Cairngorm, origin of, 77

Caliga, origin of, 112

Caloric, or the matter of heat, 206

Canada, climate of, 57

notes on, 29

Canary Birds, breeding, 111

Candelabra and Lamps of Pompeii, 412

Canning, Mr., statue of, 25

Cannon Clock, 144

Cannon, names of, 160

Canova, vase, containing the heart of, 169

Caprices, national, 439

Caps, laws relating to, 319

Cara, lines to, 272

Carding a Tithe-Procter, 52

Card-playing, indifferent, 318

Cards, second-hand, 425

Caroline, the late Queen, 158

Cartoons at Hampton Court, 287

Cascades and Cataracts, origin of, 97

Cashmere Shawl goat, 94

Castle of Framlingham, 305

Catacombs at Paris, lines on, 338

Castanets, origin of, 160

Cats horticulturists, 80

Cedar trees, large, 341

Chair, ancient, 344

of St. Bede, 440

Chairing, parliamentary, origin of, 176

Chancellor, Lord, his office, 71

Salary, 128

Start in Life, 125

Chapel on the Bridge, Wakefield, described, 401

Chaptel, memoir of, 88

Charlemagne, life of, 93, 128

palace of, 119

Charles I., Trials of, 41

II., progress of, 261

Charters in the British Museum, 336

Chase, the, a sketch, 21

Chatsworth, beauties of, 432

Chimneys, invention of, 139

Chlamyphorus, natural history of, 263

Cholera, a cleanser, 432

Mount, by Montgomery, 315

Christmas, ancient and modern, 419

carols, 430

Dalmatia, 419

Hereford, 438

Kent, 419

Mexico, 438

Norfolk, 419

Why and Because of, 429

Church, Lestingham, described, 297

new, St. Dunstan's, 34

Cigar smoking, motto for, 208

Cinnamon and Cassia, 425

Cinque Ports, their past and present state, 299

Climatology, notes on, 134

Clockmaking in the 9th century, 127

Coach, the last, 432

Coals, high price of in London, 366

Coffee, duty on, 80

house, London, in 1731, 358

on roasting, 366

Coins, to read in the dark, 191

Colouring Cheese, 425

Colton, the Rev. Mr., 3

Column of Disgrace, 69

Comet of Biela, 185

Comparison, all things by, 368

Compliments, value of, 384

Condors, a pair of living, 303

Continence, anecdotes of, 258

Cookery, Chinese and Russian, 48

Cool Tankard at Newgate, 192

Coronation, expenses of the last, 32

Court Jester, by Fuller, 352

Courtier, an excellent, 352

Cowards, a warning to, 48

Cowley, the poet, 336

Cranmer, education of, 75

Craven, in Yorkshire, cave at, 87

Criminal Law, reform of, 267

Criticism, political, 207

Critics, warning to, 352

Cromwell, character of, 428

Cross Readings, from the Spanish, 144

Crosses, curious ancient, 113—329—360—424

Cornwall, 424

Devon, 424

Eyam, 113

Holbeach, 329

Leighton Buzzard, 329

Neville's, 360

in the Peak, 113

Percy's, 361

Wheston, 113

Crown, British, pawned, 358

Crucifixes, initials on, 430

Crusader, monument of, 441

Crusades, errors respecting, 319

Crystal, origin of, 77

Curran and the Mastiff, 48

Curse of the Black Lady, a legend, 139

Cuttle-fish, ink of, 175

natural history of, 103

Cuvier, memoir of, 137

Dacre, Lady, her eccentricities, 153

Dairyman's Daughter, 112

Damary Oak Tree, 112

Dante's Tomb, 168

Deafness, convenient, 176

Death, punishment of, 71

the actor, epitaph on, 448

Deepdene, notice of, 149

Deer of North America, 339

Dew, explanation of, 304

Derbyshire, antiquities of, 116

Dibdin, the song-writer, 128

Dice, invention of, 384

Dick's Coffee-house, 16

Diorama, Regent's Park, 40

Disease, causes of, 266

effect of on the memory, 190

Disposal of the body for dissection, 292

Distinction and Difference, 343

Dodo, natural history of, 311

Dovaston, Mr., his sketches of Bewick, 18

Dove, the River, 288

Dover, antiquity of, 294

Drama, essay on, 82

Dramatis Personæ, origin of, 447

Drawing an inference, 292

Dream of the Beautiful, 82

Dripping Rock in India, 160

Drop of Dew, by Marvell, 199

Druids and their times, 20

Dryburgh Abbey, lines on, 268—296

Dryden's M'Flecknoe, 208

Ducks, wild, catching in India, 160

Duelling, 343—416

Eagle's Cliff, visit to, 299

"Eclipse," the horse, 354

Economy of Conveyance by Steam, 183

Time and Materials, 54

Edinburgh, by Mr. Cobbett, 287

Egyptian Pyramids and Hindoo Temples compared, 158

Elephant, natural history of, 66

Elephants in the Zoological Gardens, 66

Edmonton, Merry Devil of, 367

Eldon, Lord, his birthplace, 193

Elections, bribery in, 192

Electioneering in Westminster, 351

Electro-Magnet, the largest, 128

Elm, prodigious, 288

Emigration to British America, advantages and disadvantages of, 444

Emigration to Canada, 28

Enchantress, a tale, 386

England and France, former junction of, 448

Ennui, universal, 366

Envy, Owen Feltham on, 64

Epitaph at Bristol, 336

Epitaphs in Cambridgeshire, 368

Errors of the Day, 142

Essequibo, sailing up the, 359—379

Ethelbert and Elfrida, a tale, 323

Euphrates, sailing up, 74

Explosion, tremendous, 272

Extravagance, imperial, 416

Eyam, cross at, 113

Eye, structure of, 72

Eyes and Tears, by Marvell, 199

Eyes, varieties of, 96

Falconry Tenure, 345

Falls of the Genesse, 97—342

Niagara, visit to, 446

Farewell to the Muse, by Lord Byron, 13

Fashionable Manners, effects of, on Tradesmen and Servants, 331—348

Fat Living, 261

Favour, the only one, 80

Ferdinand VII. of Spain, character of, 444

Fern Owl, habits of the, 174

Fielding, Sir John, anecdote of, 279

Fish, consumption of, 415

Fishing, expensive, 432

Fleurus, battle of, 431

Flour, good, economy of, 366

Flybekins, a humorous story, 389

Fontenelle, genius of, 111

Food, animal and vegetable, 35

Foot of Man, 96

Forest Schools, 111

Framlingham Castle, 305

Francis, Sir Philip, epigram on, 336

French manners, 47

Fruit, effects of, and cholera, 79

maturation of, 39

Funeral garlands, 20

Funerals, Portuguese, 70

Garnets, varieties of, 78

Gazel, a ballad, by Moore, 10

Genesse, river of, 98—342

Genius, tributes to, 168

Geological changes by the sea, 78

Germans, ode to the, by Campbell, 9

Gilpin, John, popularity of, 367

Gipsies, king of, elegy on, 285

of old, 270

Giulietta, a tale, 282

Goat of Cashmere, 94

Goethe, medal of, 143

memoir of, 89—112

Gold-beating, particulars of, 320

Golden sands, 70

Goldsmith, Oliver, brother of, 275—402

Goose on Michaelmas Day, 208

Grace Huntley, Trials of, 393

Grose, Major, in Dublin, 318

Gudiaro, bridge across the, 24

Guides in India, 272

Ha! Ha! Fence, origin of, 448

Hail Storms in India, 128

Hale, Sir Matthew, 267

Hall, old, in Derbyshire, 273

Hampden, John, anecdote of, 160

Hanging, antiquity of, 192

Harvest home custom, 368

Hastings, antiquity of, 294

Hawthorn well, the, 339

Head-dress of the 14th century, 358

Hemans, Mrs., 110

Henry VIII. and Queen Katherine, 261

Hereford, Cathedral of, 324

Hoarding Money, 143

Holland, outline of, 338

Holy Cross, history of the, 392

Home of Love, the, 170

Home Truth, 64

Homeward Voyage, the, 98

Howard, the Hon. Charles, Lines to the memory of, 149

Hunchback, merits of the, 365

Huntsman, the, a tale, 67

Hythe, antiquity of, 294

Ignorance, imperial, 352

Illumination, origin of, 176

Imaum at Muscat, court of, 73

Incident on the coast, 373

in the life of a Rascal, 58

Inconsolable persons, 384

India, Letters from, 100

hail-storms in, 128

servants in, 105

Inheritance, custom of, 276

Innkeepers of former times, 79

Irish bar, anecdotes of, 63—80

Irish Mantle, Spencers account of, 415

Italian, lines from, 339

Jackalls in India, 80

Jack Spencer, eccentricities of, 317

James I., boyhood and education of, 233

Jemmy Maclaine, the highwayman, 291

Jews, persecution of, 319

John, King, death of, 288

Johnson, Dr., birthplace of, 257

and George III., 318

pun by, 272

Jones, Sir William, his plan of study, 358

Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Christ, 120

Judge, upright, one, 267

Juliet, character of, 117

tomb of, 265

Junot and Napoleon, anecdote of, 190

Kemble, John anecdote of, 318

Ken, bishop, 48—336

Kenulph, King, his daughter, a tale, 4

Key, ancient, 337

King William IV., domestic habits of, 303

Kings, poverty of, 358

Knife-handle, antique, 345

Knowledge, how to acquire, 416

Korner, lines from, 38

Laconics, 31

La Fontaine, absence of, 111

Land-storm, tropical, 426

Landers' Voyage and Discoveries on the Niger, 149

Langreish, Sir Hercules and his friend, 63

Last of the Family, 156

Laurencekirk Snuff-boxes, 151

Lawrence, Mr. Justice, 277

Laws of the Navy, ancient, 134

Learned Ladies, 304

Lee, church at, described, 153

Leg, the worst, 368

Lestingham Church described, 297

Levee of the Sheik of Fellahi, 75

Life, progress of, 144

Libels on Poets, 290

Lifting heavy persons, 73

Lines to –, 226

Lion-killer, 80

Lisbon described, 209

dandy, 69

dinner, 70

dockyard, 70

dogs, 70

vanity, 70

water-carrier, 70

Lock, miniature, 352

Locomotive Engines in America, 192

Lord Mayors of London, 176

Lords, house of, forms of, 325

Lord's Prayer in Arawaak, 320

Louis XIV., real character of, 84

Lucretia Davidson lines on, 148

Lucretius, extract from, 192

Ludlow Castle, stanzas on revisiting, 67

Lydford Bridge described, 289

Machinery and Manufactures, economy of, 27

Macklin's grand pause, 367

Madonna, Italian hymn to, 34

Magic in the East, true stories of, 26—76

Magic, natural, 72

Making and manufacturing, 55

Maltese Legend, 370

Malt Liquor, antiquity of, 227

Manchester, public buildings of, 177

Infirmary, 178

Royal Institution, 179

Town Hall, 178

Manners, family, history of, 130

Marriage, curious, 271

Marriage custom, 439

Marrying, excuses for not, 336

Mercers and Drapers, respectability of, 320

Merchants, opulent British, 319

Men of no business and paper cutting, 272

Michael Angelo, ecstasy of, 16

Mind on the Body, influence of the, 354

Mistletoe, origin of, 430

Mock-heroics, 304

Monasteries, error respecting, 265

Money, Anne's, 224

of Betrayal, or Price of Blood, 120

Charles, I. and II., 224

Cromwell, 224

Ecclesiastic, 223

Edward I. and IV., 223

Henry VII., 223

James II., 224

Milled, 224

Richard III., 223

Stephen, 223

Moody, the actor, avarice of, 367

Mortality, comparative, in England, 152

Mosaic Pavement described, 409

Muscular strength, extraordinary, 432

Mussulman and Hindoo religion, 80

My Fatherland, 38

Nankeen, varieties of, 416

Napoleon's Return from Elba, 165

National Gallery, the proposed, 64

Natural History, errors in, 38

Nature, luxuriance of, 175

Necklaces, satin-stone, 342

Nell Gwynne and Dr. Ken, 336

Newcastle, grammar-school, 193

Newcastle, the learned duchess of, 161

Newcastle-under-Lyne, election at, 288

New Year's Gifts, 439

Niagara, recent visit to, 446

Niger, discoveries on the, 149

Nightingales in Essex, 144

Norfolk, the late duke of, 86

Norton Lees, hall at, 273

Nugent, Lord and Lady, legends by, 350

Nutria Fur, account of, 279—314

O'Brien, the Irish Giant, 182

Oil in cookery, 352

Old Soldier, the, a sketch, 403

Olive Oil, 79—424

Omen, evil one, 261

Opera and Theatres in London, 365

Opal, beauty of, 77

Oporto described, 49

Oriental Smoking, 170

Ornithorhyncus Paradoxus, the, 189

Ostrich speed, and diet of, 262

stomach of the, 303

Otway's "Venice Preserved," 50

Owen's almshouses, 143

Paddy Fooshane's Fricassee, 108

Painters born at Antwerp, 380

Painter's last passion, 132

retort, 128

Panorama of Stirling, 410

Parliamentary debates, origin of, 128

forms, 326

Parliaments, early, 211—325

Party-spirit, Fuller on, 352

Past, the, a song, 46

Past Times, a song, 46

Pastor, a faithful one, 207

Patriotism, genuine, 438

Peak, Antiquities of, 113

Pearl in the Oyster, 230

Pekin, ancient trade of, 320

Pelican, error respecting, 96

Pennsylvania, settlement of, 208

Pepper, varieties of, 416

Perrier, Casimir, memoir of, 116

Persian Bath, 145

Fable, 228

Peru, discovery of, 432

Peter the Great, anecdotes of, 300—308

character of, 361

Peter Pence, origin of, 343

Peter Simple, life of, 121

Petition to Time, 11

Petit-or, value of, 425

Petrarch's Tomb, 169

Phillips, Col., recollections of, 402

Phrenology, curiosities of, 45

Physician's Fees, 261

Pic Nic at Tempe, 15

Pickpockets, qualifications of, 334

Piracy in olden times, 26

Pitch-in-the-hole, ancient, 320

Pitt, Mr., statue of, 40

Plaint of certain coral beads, 406

Plants, light and air on, 262

in rooms, 263

Poets, Major and Minor, 51

Pompadour, Madame de, her toilette, by Voltaire, 163

Pompeii, antiquities of, 412

Poor Laws, origin of, 327

Popes, List of, 416

Portdown Fair described, 121

Portugal, antiquity of, 48

manners and customs in, 69

Posts for Letters, origin of, 322

Post Office, revenue of, 440

Potato, economy of, 127

Poverty, Owen Feltham on, 414

Prayer, a fragment, 179

Precious Stones, varieties of, 77

Preservation of the Human Body, 133

Primrose, withered, lines on, 95

Printer, studious, 128

Printing, invention of, 143

from wooden blocks, 55

Prison Discipline in America, 286

Psalmody, origin of, 146

Public Credit explained, 142

Punctuality of Colonel Boswell, 448

Quadroon Girl, a song, 46

Quin and Macklin, 367

Quizzing, literary, 144

Railway, Liverpool and Manchester, 112

Raw Materials, 56

Recollections of a Wanderer 21—373

Records in the Tower of London, 279

Regent-street, charms of, 365

Regulating Power, 55

Relics of Popery, 344

Religious Fastings, 195

Resting-place, the, 354

Review, the first, 176

Rhyming Ruminations on London Bridge, 26

Rising, advantages of early, 16

Robespierre, anecdote of, 95

fall of, 106

Robin Hood, history of, 180—204

Rome, by T. Moore, 364

Romeo and Juliet, story of, 118

Romney, antiquity of, 294

Rose of the Castle, 133

of Edendale, by L.E.L., 335

lines to, 221

Rotuma, island of, described, 376

Roundelaye, ancient, 16

Royalty, freaks of, 207

Rubens, memoir of, 381

Ruby, beauty of, 78

Rye, antiquity of, 295

Salads, antiquity of, 358

Salt, fine basket, 425

good effects of, 265

Saltpetre, manufacture of, 88

Sandwich, antiquity of, 295

Sapphires, beauty of, 77

Sargasso Weed, account of, 136

Satin-stone Necklaces, 342

Saving time in natural operations, 55

Savoyard, the, a ballad, 275

School Building in the High Alps, 171

Schoolmaster's experience in Newgate, 333

Schools before the Reformation, 75

Sciences, progress of, 266

Scipio, continence of, 258

Scotch "Bluid," anecdote of, 123

Scott, Sir Walter, Memoir of:

Abbotsford, 241—247—248—250

Sonnet, by Wordsworth, 420

anecdotes of, 435

baronetcy, 250

birth of, 241

Scott, Sir Walter, character of, 255—256

childhood, 242

clerk of Sessions, 247

death, 208—253—

–on the, by the Author of Eugene Aram, 219

Dryburgh Abbey, 256—436

education, 242

embarrassments of, 251—256

and the Ettrick Shepherd, 335

family, 253

fatal illness, 252

funeral of, 253

by an eye-witness, 345

Life of Napoleon, 251

love of reading, 243

law studies, 244

literary attempts, 244

marriage, 246

medal of, 255

memory, 245

Melrose Abbey, 436

parentage, 242

portraits of, 254

school days, 243

Selkirk, 437

sheriffdom, 246

telling a story, 243

Works of:

Dryden and Swift, edition of, 247

Eve of St. John, 245

Glenfinlas, 245

Goetz of Berlinchingen translated, 245

Lady of the Lake, 247

Lay of the Last Minstrel, 246

Leonora, &c., translations of, 245

Marmion, 247

Miscellaneous Works, 250

Novels, List of, 250

Rokeby and Minor Poems, 249

unpublished works, 255

Waverley, 249

Novels, 252

Sea, depth of the, 427

Sea-shore, changes on, 78

Seal, a blind one, 298

Seaman, knowing, 432

Secret Lover, the, from the Persian, 204

Servants affected by fashionable manners and customs, 331—348

Servants in India, 105

Servant, monument to a faithful one, 288

Servants, Vails to, 318

Shark, adventure with, 381

Shaving or throat-cutting, 272

Shelly, the poet, anecdote of, 407

Sheridan's Funeral, 448

Sheriff of London, Journal of, 196—212

Shrewsbury, Anna Maria, Countess of, 112

Silk Manufacture, outline of, 446

Skeleton Dance, from Goethe, 420

Slave Trade in England, 319

Smoking forbidden in Parliament, 336

Snake, anecdote of a tame one, 327

Snuff-boxes, Laurencekirk, 151

Snuffers, antique, 337

Soldier, annual cost of, 176

dress of, 448

Solecisms in Language, 350

Somersetshire, land-custom in, 112

Song from the Album of a Poet, 98

Songs, by Barry Cornwall, 46

Song, Scottish, 317

Song-writing, spirit of, 11

Sounds during the night, 107

Spain, stupendous bridge in, 24

Spaniards and Portuguese, 69

Spencer's account of the Irish Mantle, 415

Spinning-wheel Song, 391

Spirit of Despotism, by Dr. Knox, 106

Spirit-drinking, evils of, 307

in 1736, 133

Spontaneous combustion, 162—211

Spring, harbingers of, 174

St. Cross, Church and Hospital of, 217—228

St. Dunstan's in the West, new church of, 34

St. Goar on the Rhine, legend of, 386

St. Hellen's Well, Staffordshire, 228

St. James's Park, improvement of, 418

St. Paul's Cathedral, monuments in, 96

Stael, Madame de, 86

Stages, Islington, olden, 335

Stanzas for Music, 52

Stationers' Company, origin of, 286

Statue of Mr. Canning, 25

of Mr. Pitt, 40

Steam Carriages on common roads, 183—198

Coaches and Power, 128

Engine simplified, 315

Navigation, 48

Packets, value of, 272

Stirling, panorama of, 410

Stork, the, 216

Story, extraordinary one, 292

Strand, the original, 207

Stranger, a song, 46

Streets, narrow, of Cairo, 80

Success in Life, grand secret of, 85

Suffolk-street Gallery, exhibition at, 330—362

Sugar, improved raw, 148

Sugar-refining, history of, 149

Sumptuary Laws, intention of, 439

Swampy Kingdom, 207

Tanfield Arch described, 353

Tea-makers, hint to, 176

Tears, the, an apologue, 403

Teeth of Crocodiles, 96

Tempe, Pic Nic at, 15

Temper, equanimity of, 99

Tenterden Steeple and Goodwin Sands, 38

Thebes, description of, 141

Thou wert the Rainbow of my Dreams, 290

Thurlow, the great Lord, 259

Tiger, sight of, 100

Titian, grave of, 216

Titles, origin of, 287

Toad-fish, economy of, 135

Tom Cringle's Log, 381—425

Tombs, celebrated Roman, 231

Tomb of Caius Cestius, 233

Tomb of Cæcilia Metella, 232

Horatii and Curatii, 233

Juliet, 265

Tongue of Man, 96

Toothache, cure for, 212

Torchlight custom, 260

Tornado, by T. Pringle, Esq., 400

Tory, origin of, 144

Towers of Tarifa, the, 186

Trade, anti-free, 304

Tradesmen affected by fashion, 332—349

Tradesmen, ancient, 261

Tragedy and Comedy, essay on, 82

Traveller's Diary, scraps from, 219—364

Trials of Grace Huntley, a tale, 395

Truth, the plain, 207

Tulip, Fanny Kemble, 272

Tulip Tree, 38

Tunnel, natural, in Virginia, 433

Turkish Baths, 74

Turncoat, 336

Turtle Mayor, 336

Twins, monument of, 240

Umbrellas, invention of, 269

Uneducated, who are? 95

Usury in the Middle Ages, 320

Van Dieman's Land, civilization in, 5

Velocity, increased and diminished, 55

Venice, by T. Moore, 219

Vestry Dinner in Persia, 75

Victims of Susceptibility, 154

Vine, the, an apologue, 403

Viper, horned, poison of, 354

Virginia, natural tunnel in, 433

Voice of Humanity, the, 201

Volcanoes on the Globe, 448

Voltaire, anecdote of, 293

Voyage of Manufacture, 54

Vulture, 80

Wakefield, chapel on the bridge at, 401

Walcot, Dr., and Shield, 448

Walking Gallows, 52

Walnut Water, properties of, 176