CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE. 



Glass and crystal, how to choose, 786 ; how to 



cut, 796. 

 Glassites, 408. 



Glencoe, massacre of, 155 ; glen of, 250. 

 Glengarriff, vale of, 269. 

 Glen-morc-nan-Albin (the Great Glen of Scotland), 



250. 



Glenmoriston, valley of, 251. 

 Gluck, Christopher, composer, 712-716. 

 Glycerine, 800. 

 Glyph ography, art of, 777. 

 Goatfell, 249. 

 Gobi, desert of, 276. 

 God, the Being of God, in Natural Theology, 369 ; 



the nature of God, 375. 

 Godheim (Asgard), 434. 

 Golden Bull, the, 126. 

 Golden Horde, the, 127. 

 Goldsmith, Oliver, 164. 

 Golf, game of, 667. 

 Gompertz's theory of mortality, 532. 

 Gondar, 295. 



Good Friday, festival of, 453. 

 Good-man's Acre, the, 438. 

 Gordon Riots, 163. 

 Gordon, Sir J. W., painter, 654. 

 Gorgons, the, 85. 

 Gorham Controversy, the, 404. 

 Gothic, or German stock, in Anthropology, 6. 

 Gothic tribes (Middle Age History), 113. 

 Goulburn, town in Sydney, 299. 

 GOVERNMENT, 39-48. 

 Government, British, form of, 177. 

 Graham of Claverhouse, 152, 155. 

 Graham's Dike, 130. 

 Grahamstown, in Auckland, 303. 

 Graham's Town, in Cape Colony, 293, 

 Grampians, corruption of the word Graupius, 130. 

 Grand Vizier, 216. 

 Grant, discoveries by, 296. 

 Grape-shot, 202. 



Graph otype process in wood-engraving, 772. 

 Graupius, Mons, 130. 

 Gray, Thomas, poet, 161. 

 GREECE, ancient, history of, 81-96. 

 Greece, modern, description of, 216. 

 Greek Church, the, 414; sects, 415. 

 Greek language, 25. 

 Greeks, the, in Anthropology, 7 ; in History of 



Greece, 98. 

 Greenland, 309. 

 Greenock, 256. 



Greenwich, annual mean temperature of, 242. 

 Gregory the Great, as a reformer of church music, 



707. 



Gregory VII. 120. 



Grenada, island of, and its dependencies, 333. 

 Grenades, 202. 

 Grey, Lady Jane, 140. 

 Grimm's Law, 26. 

 Griqualand, in Cape Colony, 293. 

 Grote, historian, 176. 

 Guachos, 327. 

 Guadeloupe, island, 335. 

 Guatemala, republic of, 320. 

 Guayaquil, in Ecuador, 324. 

 Guebres, the (adherents of Zoroaster), 437. 

 Guelphs and Ghibellines, 121. 

 Guernsey, judicial administration of, 182. 

 Guiana, territory of, 328. 

 Guicowar, state in India, 284. 



810 



Guido, painter, 654. 



Guido Aretino or Guy of Arezzo, as a reformer of 

 church music, 707. 



Guinea, Upper and Lower, districts of, 292. 



Guisarts, 464. 



Gujerat, 284. 



Gule of August, the, festival of, 458. 



Gunpowder, 202. 



Gunpowder Plot, 143. 



Gutenberg or Gensfleisch, printer, 754; Guten- 

 berg's Bible, 754. 



Gutturals, in Language, 20. 



Guy Fawkes, 143 ; Guy Fawkes's Day, 462. 



GYMNASTICS OUT-OF-DOOR RECREATIONS, 

 657-672. 



Habeas Corpus, 56, 61, 152. 

 Habits, formation of, 546. 

 Hades (Pluto), 83. 

 Hadrian's Wall, 130. 

 Hainault, in Belgium, 220. 

 Haines, the (river), 295. 

 Hair, in Anthropology, 8. 

 Hair, the ; hair-dyes, 799. 

 Haiti, San Domingo, or Hispaniola, island, 336. 

 Halcyon days, the, 463. 

 Halifax, 312. 

 Hallam, historian, 176. 

 Hallowe'en All-hallow Eve, festival of, 460. 

 Hamilcar Barca, 105. 

 Hamilton, philosopher, 176. 

 Hamitic languages, 30. 

 Handel, George Frederick, composer, 713. 

 Handsel Monday, 464. 

 Hannibal, 105, 106. 

 Hanse towns league, 38. 

 Hardware cutlery, 786. 

 Harmonium, the, 701. 



Harmony, in Music, 698 ; beginnings of, in develop- 

 ment of musical art, 798. 

 Haroun al Raschid, 117. 

 Harp, the, 702. 

 Harpies, the, 85. 



Hartley, David, philosopher, 161. 

 Harvey, Dr William, 148. 

 Hastings, Warren, 164. 

 Hautboy, the, 703. 

 Havana, capital of Cuba, 336. 

 Havelock, Sir Henry, 174. 

 Hawash, the (river), 295. 

 Hawke Bay, province of, 303. 

 Hawkesworth, John, essayist, 161. 

 Haydn, Joseph, composer, 714. 

 Hazlitt, essayist, 176. 

 Health, in Social Statistics, 536. 

 Health, duty of preserving, 547. 

 Hearing, sense of, 340. 

 Hebe, 85. 



Hebrew language, 18, 28. 

 Hebrew Scriptures, authenticity of, 385. 

 Hector, son of Priam, 88. 

 Hedjaz, in Arabia, 280. 

 Hegumenos, abbot in Greek Church, 415. 

 Hejira, the, 115. 

 Hel (Death), 435. 

 Helen, wife of Menelaus, 88. 

 Helios or Sol, 85. 



Hellas, or ancient Greece, history of, 81-96. 

 Hellenes, 82, 86. 

 Helmund, river, 277. 

 Helots, the, 36, 90, 91. 



