INDEX. 



tion of Children,. 253, 395; Farmer's Wives in 

 1550, 415; Flowers and their Associations, 

 236 ; Flowers and their Amiabilities, 252 ; 

 A Frost in London, 117; On Genius, 14; 

 Getting up on cold Mornings, 76 ; The Haw- 

 thorn, 70; "He is so Amiable!" 71; "How 

 easy he Writes !" 10; Leap-year, 92; London 

 Bird-catchers, 39 ; Love of Offspring in Ani- 

 mals, 2 68 ; Manners and Independence, 143 ; 

 Nature and Art, or Modern Follies in Ladies' 

 Dress, 133; Naturalisation of Foreign Birds, 

 258; " No!" 286 ; Picture of an English Vil- 

 lage, 68 ; Poetry of Love, 74 ; Progress of the 

 Seasons, 145, 225, 232, 248, 264, 280, 296, 

 312, 328, 329, 360, 392, 401; Poor Relations, 

 207 ; Rambles in Devonshire, and early Spring 

 Flowers, 155; Reason in Animals, 49; Re- 

 miniscences of a Visit to Brignall and Rokeby, 

 353, 369; Safety Coach, as driven by the 

 " Editor," 88 ; Salt, the Curse of Old England, 

 251 ; Signs of the Times, 358 ; On " Snow," 

 55; St. Valentine's Day, 98, 192; Sunset from 

 Mont Blanc, 143 ; Symptoms of Winter, 60, 

 69; Thoughts on the New Year, &c, 17; 

 Temperance and Drunkenness, 280; Town 

 and Country Life, 17; Twelfth Day, 13; Two 

 Styles of Living, 77; " We'll see about it," 

 175 ; " Who is the Editor? his Invisibility and 

 Un-come-at-a-bility, — a Tale of Mystery, 104 



" Evil World," a Misnomer, 57, 66 



Evil of Hanging Birds in the Sun, 218 



Facts v. Fiction in Natural History, 16 



Fairy Rings, 262 



Fatigue of Standing up in Church, peculiar to 

 the Fair Sex, 144 



Fauvette, The, 357 



Female Costume, the " Bloomers," 29 



Fig-tree, The, 359 



" Five Sundays in February," 215 



Flowers and the Fair Sex, 240 



Flower Gardens on a small Scale, 346 



Frog, The Domestic, 233 



FOOD FOR THOUGHT. 



Choice of Company, 15; Excellence, the Result 

 of Labor, 2 ; Female Loveliness, 1 6 ; Folly of 

 Anger, 15 ; How to break off a bad Habit, 16 : 

 Judgments and Perverse Judgments, 15; 

 Sea, The, a great Cemetery, ibid; Sorrows of 

 Authors, ibid. 



Fleas, How to Destroy, 190 



Fox, Anecdote of a, 107 



Friendship of the World, 135 



Garden, The:— Succulent Plants, 67, 170, 236; 

 Annuals, Biennials, and Perennials, 68, 72, 

 329; Strawberry Forcing, 110 



Gathering of the Vine, 393 



Geese, Curious Habits of, 25 



Geological Inquiry, 218 



German Paste, 218, 249, 313 



Goldfinch, The, 138, 364 



■ — Paired with a Bullfinch, 235 



Mules, 347 



Gold Fish, 91, 267, 314 



Governesses, A kind Word for, 327 



Great Exhibition of 1851, 256, 302, 327 



Greenfinch, The, 123, 235 



Green Food for Birds, 283 



Groundsel, Is it good for Birds in Winter? 73 



Grub in a Coffin, 331 



Guinea Pig, 139 



Gull, A Rapacious, 234 



Hard Names in Natural History Deprecated, 27 



Hedgehog, 345 



Hedge-sparrow, The, 26 



Hints to all who keep Song Birds and Domestic 



Pets, 10 

 Hints on " doing Good," 394 

 Hoopoe, Specimen of the, 335 

 Horse, Anecdote of the, 55 

 Humanity to Animals, 278, 314, 328, 329 

 Hysena Hunt, 127 

 Igneous Origin of Rocks, 282 

 Innocence, Simplicity of, 208 

 Insects, 153,203, 218, 220, 234, 249, 281, 410 

 Inscription for an Arbour, 256 

 Instinct and Reason, 43, 49, 154 

 Irish Bipeds, Feathered and Unfeathered, 185 

 Jackdaw, A Sagacious, 136 

 Jealousy, 98, 112 

 " Kidd's Journal" and its Opponents, 103, 119, 



120, 134, 136, 152, 168, 184, 312, 344, 376, 408 

 Kitten, Singular Anecdote of a, 25, 

 Lamb and Spaniel, Anecdote of a, 345 

 Landscape, Influence of a Fog on a, 16 

 Landscape Scenery, ibid 

 Leech, The, 363 

 Liverpool in Disgrace, 88 

 Locusts, 160, 330 

 London Bird Catchers, 39 

 Manchester in Disgrace, 136 

 Mastodon, The, 215 

 Meal-worms, 251 

 Minds, The, of Animals, 116 



MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS. 



Age, 6 ; Advantages of Living, 222 ; Chancery, 

 375; Comparison, 78 , Contention, 304; De- 

 lights of a well-stored Mind, 351 ; Epistolary 

 Proofs of Ardent Affection, 192; Education, 56; 

 Exercise, 270; Experience the Test of Truth, 

 287 , Fancy, 24 ; Good Temper, 407 ; Grapes 

 spoilt by Mildew, 411; Gutta Percha String, 

 412; Hops, 411; Hope, 259; Importation of 

 Eggs, 279; Importation of 3000 Quails, 319; 

 Indolence, 67; Insanity, 271; Insignificance, 

 335; Land of Pearls, 416; Law and Equity 

 for once Identical, 368; Letters, 272 ; Light 

 of Nature, 208; Lizards in the Human Sto- 

 mach, 203 : Things Lost for Ever, 48 ; Love, 

 416; Luminous Appearance presented by Dead 

 Wood, 201; Man, 47; Nice Distinctions and 

 Small Differences, 319; No place like Home, 

 271; Prejudice, 176; Pressure of the Sea, 

 279; Progress of Knowledge, 271; Reading 

 and Thinking, 343 ; Scandal, 295; Scylla and 

 Charybdis, 407 ; Spring Physic, 315; Straw- 

 berries grafted on a Rose, 271; Talent and 

 Genius, 64 ; Thought in Dreaming, 27 1 , 

 A Time for Everything, 379 ; Time, 151 ; 

 True Philosophy, 165; Truth and Falsehood, 

 127; Vegetarians, The, 272; Vice, 352; 

 Waste of Life, 295; Word against Encores, 

 416 ; Wisdom, 24 



Model for a Periodical, 24 



Modern Science— the Magnetoscope, 7, 211 



Marriages, 402 



Modern Miracles and Impostures — Electro-Bio- 

 logy, 156 



Mole, The, 2, 51 



Moon's, The, Influence on the Atmosphere, 151 



