INDEX AND CONTENTS OF VOLUME V. 



Affection of a Mother, 128 



Amusements in Scandinavia, 5 



Ancient Verulam — a Pleasure Trip, 307 



Animal Heat, 247 



Instinct, 81, 145 



Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms, The, Com- 

 pared, 364 



Ardent Spirits,— England's Curse, 187, 247 



Artificial Flower Making, 188 



Ass, Longevity of the, 56 



Astounding Facts in Nature, 260 



Atmosphere, Nature of the, 256 



Auto-Biography of a Dog, 41, 103, 171, 237, 298, 

 356 



Avarice and its Horrors, 372 



Bathing in Russia, 328 

 Beauty— What is it? 128 

 Bees, 145, 253, 315 

 Biblical Curiosities, 375 

 Birds, Killed by Frost, 61 



Longevity of, 60 



Our Spring Visitors and their Food, 209 



Brain, The Human, 125, 320 



Bullfinch's, A, Eggs, sucked by a Slug, 54 



Butterflies of the Valley of the Amazon, 122 



Cant and Hypocrisy, 257, 258, 268, 316 



Canaries Living and Breeding in the Open Air, 

 120, 371 



Canary, The, 120, 280, 370, 371 



Cat, The, 58, 312 



Cats,— proved to be "Vermin," 312, 370 



Cats and Mesmerism, 55 



Chameleon, Habits of the, 264 



Cheerfulness for Ever ! 315 



Chesnut, — Notes on the Edible, 137 



Children, Happiness of, 206 



How to Correct, 64 



Sympathy of, 328 



China, Spring Flowers in, 118 



Chinese, The, and their Wonderful Feats, 261 



Chloroform, Danger of Inhaling : Another Hor- 

 rible Death ! 319 



Climbing Plants of South America, The, 255 



Coliseum, The, at Rome, 342 



Cow-fish, The, 250 



Cricket, Anecdote of a, 127 



Crime and its Increase, 314 



Cruise, A, in a Lobster Smack, 325 



Crystal Palace, The, at Sydenham, 52, 258, 316, 

 350, 367 



Daisy, The, 109 



" Death in the Pot ! " 366 



Delicacy,— What is it? 126 



Devonshire, Beauties of, 6, 74, 131, 184, 198 



Early Spring in, 123 



Mild Climate of, 187 



Dew, and its Phenomena, 69 

 Dog, The, 41, 43, 103, 154, 171, 237, 298, 356 

 Domestic Duties, — not beneath a Woman's no- 

 tice, 248 

 Dormouse, The, 191 



Elephant, The, 313 



England, Notes on, by an American, 143 



English Churches and English Women, 250 



English, The, in Italy, 110 



English Women and English Landscapes, 252 



ESSAYS AND SKETCHES. 



Analysis of Society, An, 204; Auction, An, 113 

 Babies and their Smiles, 349 ; Bright Side of 

 Nature, The, 193; Ceylon, Recollections of, 12 

 Colney Hatch, 33 ; Destiny, Fate, and Conduct 

 129; Dignity and Duty, 9; " Doctors' Com- 

 mons," 135 ; Fashion's Looking Glass, 204 

 Friendship, 119, 314; God made the Country, 

 65 ; Happy Thoughts, 1 ; Hope, 4 ; Humanity 

 and Inhumanity, 273; Infidelity, 320; Inno- 

 cence, Guilt, and Suspicion, 257 ; " Laugh and 

 Grow Fat ! " 208 ; Little Kindnesses, 17 ; 

 Living and the Dead, The, 300; Love Lane, 

 263 ; Man and his Food, 141 ; Man and his 

 Idol, Gold, 338 ; Meditation and Books, 353 ; 

 Natural History, On the Study of, 234 ; Our 

 Early Flowers, 97, 163, 225 ; Our Wild Flowers, 

 291 ; Our Mirror of the Months, 35, 105, 174, 

 229, 293, 358; Philosophy, The, of Common 

 Life, 370; Plurality of Worlds, The, 324; 

 Profound Talkers, 336 ; Prose and Poetry, 271 ; 

 Reason and its Shadow, 33 ; Rome and Naples, 

 3 ; Snow Balls, 50 ; Sympathy and its Delights, 

 321 ; Tongue, The Human, 72 ; "The Man for 

 me ! " 305 ; Thoughts on the Ivy, 67 ; Truth 

 and Falsehood, 289 



Family Reform, 335 

 "Farewell!" 338, 376 

 Fashion, 184, 204, 245 



