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INDEX 



Galega officinalis, 311. 



Galileo, 335 ; his blindness, and 

 the place of his exile at Flor- 

 ence, 335, 336. 



Galton, Sir F., 11. 



Game, way to improve frozen, 

 184. 



Gandavensis gladioli, 32. 



Garden, kitchen, 29 ; in Suffolk, 

 37. 



Gardening, as a healthy pooupa- 

 tion, 168 ; its pleasures for the 

 aged, 285. 



Garrya elliptica, 155. 



Gas, acetylene, for house-light- 

 ing, 145. 



Giteau Savarin, 70. 



Gazanias, 97. 



Geneva, 379 ; its associations 

 with Byron, Shelley, George 

 Eliot, and Professor Amiel, 

 382 ; the Ariana Museum at, 

 384; garden of M. Correvou 

 near, 385; gardens round, 386. 



Genista prcECOx, 208. 



Genistas, 171, 181. 



'Gentlewoman, The' (1864), 45, 

 61, 63, 99. 



Geraniums, sweet-scented, 36, 

 169, 174; winter preservation 

 of, 48 ; ' New Life,' 133 ; hard- 

 ening, 269. 



Gerarde (quoted), 32, 



Germany, cooking in, 62, 100 ; 

 a visit to, 70-84 ; heating 

 rooms in, 72 ; over-heated 

 railway carriages in, 84. 



Girls : training, 12 ; independ- 

 ence, 14; education, 17-20 ; 

 reading, 19, 20 ; relations with 

 mothers, 408, 411, 412 sqq.; 

 dangers of reticence, 408, 409 ; 

 their need of sympathy, 410 

 sqq.; training in conversation, 

 413, 414 ; the cultivation of 

 happiness, 415; kissing, 418; 

 first thoughts of marriage, 420 ; 

 their varied views of love, 421 ; 

 platonic affection with men, 

 427 ; not understood after 



marriage, 428 ; the question 

 of love in accepting a husband, 

 431 ; 'skill in waiting,' 432 ; 

 constancy, 432 ; intellectual 

 effort, 433, 434; the desire for 

 admiration and notoriety, 438 ; 

 'marrying for money,' 439 ; 

 the growth of experience, and 

 the hopefulness of the future, 

 445; the difficulty of laying 

 down rules for conduct, 445. 



Gladstone, Mr., on travelling, 

 328 ; his Italian translation of 

 Cowper's hymn, ' Hark, my 

 soul,' 333. 



Gloire de Lorraine, 163, 209. 



Gloria Mundi, 180. 



Goethe (quoted), 13, 433, 434 ; 

 his house at Frankfort, 76, 77 ; 

 sayings of, 76 ; as an artist, 

 77 ; Tisohbein's picture of, 78 ; 

 on letters, 106. 



Goldfish, Burmese, 359. 



'Good King Henry,' 298. 



Gooseberries, 131. 



Gorse, for rooms, 306. 



Governesses, 17. 



Grasses, Japanese, 60. 



Green, John Eichard, work on 

 Italy by, 324. 



Greenhouse, plants for, 87-93, 

 166-175, 267 ; arrangement 

 of, 90, 91, 133; glass of, 135; 

 heating, 168. 



Greville, Charles, his memoir of 

 the author's father, 114-116. 



Grouse, sauce for, 44 ; cooking, 

 64. 



Growing old, 444-446. 



Grumbling of children, 12, 13. 



'Guardian,' the, 29. 



GypsopMla, 140, 169. 



Hall, Bishop, 446. 



Hallam, Arthur, Mr. Gladstone's 



account of, 328, 329. 

 Hamamelis japonica, 215. 

 Hampton Court, covered walk 



at, 129. 

 Hanb.ory, Commendatore, 264, 



