
INDEX AND CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. 
Air, Value of, to the Roots of Plants, 2 50 
Animal and Vegetable Sensation, 53 
Ant, The, 356 
Ants and Harwigs, to Destroy, 189 
Arabian Scenery, 121 
Ardent Spirits, 198, 312, 373 
* Art” of Advertising, The, 222, 367 
Art, Triumph of, 334 
Ass, The, 63 
Atmosphere and its Pressure, 141 
Australia, Natural History of, 323 
Auto-Biography of a Dog, 39, 107, 168, 234, 296, 
361 
Awful Interrogative, An, 223 
Aztec Children, The, 31, 301 
Bad Temper, 32 
Baldness, Causes of, 87 
Beauty, analysed by “ Walter,” 317 
Bees, 56, 59, 121, 124, 186, 188, 227 
Birds, British Song, Acclimated in the United 
States, 213, 289 
— Confined in Cages, 253 
—-~ Eyes of, 250 
Our ‘ Noble,” 357 
—— Their Dislike to White Fruit, 60 
Provincial Names of, 249 
Vocal Machinery of, 121 
Black Beetles, 52 
Blessing, The, of Pure Water, 185 
Blindness, Thoughts on, 160 
Boring Shells, 123 
Botanical Notes,—Salcombe Aloes, &c., 325 
Bronchitis, Cure for, 254 
Bullfinch, The, 251 
Butter, Statistics of, 120 
Canaries Living in the Open Air, 252 
Capercailzie, or Cock of the Woods, 27 
Cat, The, 51, 115, 122, 191, 246, 319, 373, 374 
Cats and Mesmerism, 374 
Cedar, The, 11, 127 
Chaffinch, A Remarkable White, 219, 318 
Cheap Penny Publications,—The Curse of the 
Land, 266 
China and the Chinese, 324 
Chinese Primrose, 126 
Chloroform as a Motive Power, 255 
Cold, How to Cure a, 252 
Convents, and Similar Abominations, 10, 24, 77 
“The Agapemone,” 10 
Cricket, The, 189 
Cruelty to Animals, 137, 283, 312, 327, 340 



Crystal Palace, at Sydenham, The, 55, 181 
Cuckoo, The, 276 
Cypress, The, 124 
Dardanelles, The, 254 
Delicacy, “‘ Extraordinary ” Instance of, 192 
Destructive Insects, 54 
Dog, The, 39, 41, 42, 107, 109, 168, 172, 234, 
236, 249, 296, 298, 361, 362, 374 
Duration of Human Life, Averaged, 120 
Earth, The, An Ocean of Melted Rock, 56 
Earthquakes in the Tropics, 125 
Echoes, Remarkable, 64, 249 
England, Good by Compulsion, 245 
England’s National Failing, 32 
English Climate, The, 254, 335 
Cottage, An, 264 
Modesty, 91 
Engravings Copied by Iodine, 119 


ESSAYS AND SKETCHES. 
Autumnal Ramble, by “ Our Editor,” 209 ; Christ- 
mas, 281, 295, 301, 305, 320, 352; Clouds of 
Heaven, The, 260; Condescension, 81; Death, 
The, of Summer, 214; Death Viewed as Sleep, 
17; Education of Women in England and 
America, 142; Essay on Good ‘Taste, 68; 
Fashionable Weddings, 272; Fashionable Fol- 
lies, 273; First Oyster Hater, The, 95; Gen- 
tleness and its Power, 5; Golden Rules of Life, 
198; Hints to Fast Men, 22; Hospitals of 
London, 259; How to make Home “ Happy,” 
221; Human Heart, The, 193; Journey of Life, 
The, 270; Little Children, 161; “ Little 
Things,” 159, 319, 337; Loves and the 
Graces, 143; Man’s Weak Point, 330; 
Musings by a Benedict, 7; Nature’s Master- 
piece, the Mechanism of the Human Body, 
65; Notes upon Notes, 129, 273; Our Mirror 
of the Months, 34, 102, 171, 232, 294, 350, 
353; Our Moral Nature, 365; Past, Present, 
and Future, 321; Puffing Husbands and 
Patient Wives, 74; Study of Natural His- 
tory, 257; Summer, and more of its “ Con- 
sequences,” 26; Thoughts on a Few Drops of 
Water, 93; To-day and To-morrow, 197; 
Travelling at Home and Abroad, 179; What 
do we all Live for? 1; Wife, The, of a Literary 
Man, 131; Wives, Useful and Useless, 86; 
Women and Novels, 265; World’s Kindness, 
The, 203; Wrong Letter-Box, The, 66. 

