VI 



CONTENTS. 



Ballantyne, John, Amanuensis to 



Scott, 34 



Balzac's, M., Romantic Marriage, 95 

 Bank Note for a Million Pounds, 167 

 Bank of England's Weighing Ma- 

 chine, 87 



Banks, Sir Joseph, and Dr. So- 



lander, 12 



Bards, Honour to the, ... 16 



Bargain-Hunters of Books, . . 47 



Barton and Nash 281 



Bateman's, Dr., Economy of Time, 97 



Bautru, M. de, 271 



Bayle's Pyrrhonism, .... 11 



Beccher's Chemical Enthusiasm, 56 



Bee in the Crystal Palace, . . 315 

 Beecher, Dr. Lyman, Sermon to a 



Small Audience, . 109 



Bells, 340 



What they said to the Widow, 233 



Berthollet the Chemist, ... 207 



Berzelius the Chemist, . . . 227 



Bettesworth and Swift, . . . 163 



Bible, Early Translations of, . 40 



Present Translation of, . 40 



Lost Books Mentioned in, . 40 



the "Vinegar," ... 266 



Bihles, English, Inaccuracies of, . 189 



Bibliomania, 262 



Binding of Books, .... 46 



Bindings, Preservation of, . . 46 

 Bishop, Madame A., Singing in 



Ten Languages, .... 126 

 Black, Dr., and the Hydrogen 



Gas Balloon, 54 



Black and Hutton's Snail-Dinner, 224 

 ., Mrs., the "Maid of Athens," 



Visit of N. P. Willis to, . . 130 



Black-Letter Books, .... 42 



Hunters, ... 42 



Blacklock and David Hume, . . 154 

 Blood, Transfusion of, in Royal 



Society, 206 



Blue Stockings, Origin of the Name, 37 



Boerhaave, Old Age of, . . . 103 



Boileau and Racine, . . . . 155 



Bolingbroke, Lord, . . . . 231 



Book Auctions, 45 



Trade of Leipsig, ... 45 



Attempt to Print a Perfect, 190 



the first Printed, ... 190 



Collectors, 347 



Making, 346 



Books, Ancient Value of, . . 346 



Hood the Humourist on, . 198 



Bookseller and Author, . . . 44 



PACK 



Booksellers and Printers, . . 192 

 ,, the Patrons of Literature, 44 

 Booksellers, Books, and Biblioma- 

 niacs, .... 41 

 Manoeuvres of, . . 290 



Bossuet, 267 



Bos well, James, and Johnson, . 218 

 ,, and the Writ of "Quare 



adhassit pavimento," . 90 



Bear-Leading Rewarded, 224 



Botanical Satire, 314 



Botanist, the, and the Irish Mail- 



Coach Driver, 49 



Botanists and Botany, ... 49 



Bourdonne, Madame de, ... 275 



Bowles, Caroline, . ... 148 



Bowles and Moore, .... 233 



Bowies', Canon, Absence of Mind, 144 

 Boyse, Samuel, a Poor Fag Author, 152 



Boxhorn's Smoking and Reading, 250 



Brain, How to Turn the, . . . 240 



Bramble's, Matthew, " Vimonda," 19 

 Brandt, the Indian Chief, and 



Campbell the Poet, . . . 169 



Breakfast at Rogers', . . . 165 



Brebeuf, 250 



Brevity, 2 07 



Bristol Milkwoman's Poetry, . '275 



Brougham and Lyndhurst, ' . . 121 



Brougham's, Lord, Chancellorship, 92 



Labours, . . . 121 



Natural Portraits, . 92 



Buchanan, George, and Henry 



VIII., 152 



Buchanan's " Scotland," ... 23 

 Buckland's, Dr., Alligator and 



Dinner Party, 2 



Buffon, the Naturalist, . . . 242 



Buffon's Son, 286 



Bumper, Origin of the Word, . 38 

 Bunbury, Selina, and the Norwe- 

 gian Fairy Legend-Hunter, . 212 

 Bunker Hill Monument, Elfect of 



Heat, 363 



Bunyan and the " Book of Martyrs," 226 

 Burke, Edmund, at Hastings' Trial, 124 

 and the Riot Act, . . 280 

 put to Flight in the Com- 

 mons, 121 



Burke's Conversation, . . . 216 

 ,, Melodramatic Trick and 



Sheridan's Sarcasm, . 122 



Burnet, the Judge and the Bishop, 220 



Burnet's Absence of Mind, . . 297 



Burney, Dr., and Johnson, . . 236 



,, Miss (Madame D'Arblay), 118 



