CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE. 



Post-office annuities, 512; post-office savings- 

 banks, 515. 



Postulates, in Geometry, 610. 



Potashes, in Household Hints, 795. 



Potato-starch, 795. 



Potosi, 325. 



Potter, Paul, painter, 654. 



Poussin, Caspar, painter, 654. 



Power, sentiment of, in psychology, 349. 



PRACTICAL MORALITY, 545-560. 



Praetors, edicts of the, 50. 



Praxiteles, Greek sculptor, 96, 655. 



Predicate, in a sentence, 577. 



Prepositions, 582. 



Prerogative or testamentary court, 60. 



Presbyter, origin of the term, and office, 399. 



Presbyterian Church in Scotland, 183. 



Presbyterians, statistics of, 408. 



Presidents of the United States Congress, 44. 



Pretender, the, 156. 



Pride's Purge, in History of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, 148. 



Prime-minister of England, 47. 



Prince Edward Island, 309, 313. 



PRINTING, 753-764. 



Printing, letterpress, origin and history of, 753 ; 

 stereotyping, 759 ; printing-presses, 761. 



Prism, definition of, 631 ; mensuration of, 637. 



Privy-council of Britain, 181. 



Procurators-fiscal, 63, 182. 



Production, in Political Economy, 468-473. 



Products of nature, in Political Economy, 465. 



Prognathous, in Anthropology, 10. 



Pronouns, 581 ; inflection of, 584. 



Proper nouns, 579. 



Property, protection of, in Political Economy, 472. 



Proportionals, in Arithmetic, 603 ; in Geometry, 

 621. 



Propositions, or assertions, in Logic, 354. 



Protectorate, the, 149. 



Protestant religion, in Britain, 182. 



Protestantism, 402. 



Provost, 47. 



Proverbe, an indoor amusement, 688. 



Prussia, description of, 223. 



Psammetichus, king of Egypt, 72, 90. 



Psychology, logic of the science, 367. 



Public local acts, 58. 



Puerto Rico, island, 336. 



Puisne or junior judges, 59. 



Punic wars, the, 105, 106, 107. 



Punishment, in Education, 567. 



Punjab, the, 174, 280, 284. 



Punto Arenas, in Patagonia, 329. 



Purdnas, the, 425. 



Purcell, Henry, composer, 713. 



Puritans, the, 142. 



Putting-green, in golf, 668. 



Pydna, battle of, 106. 



Pynson, printer, 755. 



Pyramid, the, mensuration of, 637. 



Pyramids of Egypt, 71. 



Pyrrha, wife of Deucalion, 86. 



Quadratic equations, 608. 



Quadroon, in Anthropology, 15. 



Quakers, the, 412 ; in Great Britain and Ireland, 



183. 



Quebec, 312. 

 Queensland, 301. 

 Queenstown, in New Zealand, 303, 



818 



Quercino, painter, 654. 

 Quinquagesima Sunday, 450. 

 Quinteron, in Anthropology, 15. 

 Quintilian, 112. 

 Quito, 324. 



Race, in Anthropology, 2. 



Raeburn, Sir Henry, painter, 654. 



Ragnarok, in Scandinavian Mythology, 435. 



Railways, British, 189. 



Rajpootana, 284. 



Raleigh, in History of Great Britain and Ireland, 



142. 



Ramdyana, the, 423. 

 Rampart, 203. 



Rangoon, town in Burmah, 286. 

 Raphael, painter, 654. 

 Raskolnik (Russian sect), 415. 

 Ratio, in Arithmetic, 603 ; in Geometry, 621. 

 Ravelin, 203. 

 Razor-pastes, 798. 



Reading and spelling, methods of teaching, 572. 

 Real-schule, 221. 



Recreations, out-of-door, 660-672. 

 Recruiting, enlistment, 200. 

 Rectangle, 610 ; mensuration of, 635. 

 Redan, 203. 



Reduction, in Arithmetic, 602. 

 Reeve, 47. 



Reformation, the, in England, 138. 

 Reform bills in 1832, 42, 172; in 1867, 1 7S ' 



reform acts of 1868, 43, 175, 178. 

 Reformed Presbyterian Church, 408. 

 Reformed Protestant Church, 402. 

 Regiam Majestatem, 62. 

 Regiments, designations and numbers of, 195. 

 Reichstag, 219. 

 Relativity of knowledge, 354. 

 Relief Church, 408. 

 Religion, what is understood by, 417. 

 Rembrandt, painter, 654. 



Rent, or price of land, in Political Economy, 479. 

 Republics, 43. 



Reserve forces of the United Kingdom, 204, 208. 

 Responsa Prudentum, the, 51. 

 Restoration, the, 149. 

 Revolution, French, 164. 

 Revolution, the, of England, 153. 

 Revolutions, 45. 

 Rex, in Roman History, 100. 

 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, painter, 164, 654. 

 RHETORIC AND BELLES-LETTRES, 737-752. 

 Rhodes, island, 82. 

 Rhythm, in Music, 698. 

 Riad, town in Arabia, 280. 

 Richard Cceur de Lion, 124, 134. 

 Richardson, novelist, 161. 

 Rienzi, Cola di, 127. 

 Riesengebirge Mountains, 217. 

 Rifle, Enfield, Snider, Henry-Martini, 202. 

 Right angle, 610. 

 Rigsdag, 221. 

 Rig-veda, the, 422. 

 Rink, the, in curling, 666. 

 Rio de Janeiro, capital of Brazil, 328. 

 Riot Act, the, 158. 

 River-drift Period, 724. 

 Roberts, painter, 654. 

 Robertson, Dr William, historian, 164. 

 Rocket, 202. 

 Rocky Mountains, 306. 





