VOLUME II. 
CONTENTS OP 
Bizz and hee Foes. By Mrs. S. C. Hall. (Illus- 
trated ) — 
Chapter I. ....... 1 
Chapter II. 33 
Chapter III. ....... 05 
Flamborough Head. By John Cordeaux . . 6 
The Principles oe Good Taste in Decorative 
Art. By J. B. Waring, F.R.I.B.A. . . .11 
On Sketching from Nature. By Aaron Penley, 
Professor of Landscape-Painting' at the Royal 
Military Academy, Woolwich. ( Illustrated ) 
13, 43, 80, 101, 132, 163 
On Tin. By W. B. Lord, Royal Artillery . .14 
Description of an Egyptian Statue lately 
ADDED TO THE COLLECTION IN THE BRITISH 
Museum. ( Illustrated ) . . . . .18 
Holbein in Germany. By H. Ward. ( Illustrated ) — 
Part III. Basle continued . . . .20 
Part IV. Basle concluded . . . .49 
The Meteoric Shower of November, 1866. By 
J. Carpenter, of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich 
( Illustrated ) ....... 23 
Art Notes from Paris. By G. W. Yapp . . 27 
The Winter Exhibition of the Society of 
Painters in Water-colours . . . .31 
Reviews — A Subaltern’s ” Recollections of the East 31 
“ Salmo Salar’s ” Autobiography . . 62 
The Light Blue . . . . .62 
Jacob Jones’s Century of Sonnets . . 63 
The Savage Club Papers . . . .63 
Simpson’s India, Ancient and Modern . 92 
A Fox’s Tale ...... 94 
Lachaise’s Manuel Pratique et Raisonne do 
1’ Amateur de Tableaux . . . .94 
Figuier’s Les Insectes .... 122 
Fergusson’s History of Architecture in all 
Countries . . . . . .125 
Frances Power Cobbe’s Hours of Work and 
Play 126 
Picture-flaying at the National Gallery . 127 
Larwood and Hotten’s Sign Painters and 
Signboards . . . . . .151 
Michelet’s L'Oiseau. ( Illustrated ) 157, 187 
Greville F.’s The Rail and the Rod . .160 
G. Washington Moon’s Elijah the Prophet 160 
General Bell’s Rough Notes by an Old 
Soldier ....... 194 
The Volunteer Movement of 1859 . . 194 
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New Music 32, 95 
Correspondence 32, 54 
A Bunch of Fir Cones. By W. B. Lord, Royal 
Artillery ........ 39 
The Paris Exhibition, 1867. By G. W. Yapp 44, 114 
The Atlantic Yacht Race. (Illustrated) . .51 
Music at Home and Abroad . 55,59,87,155,195 
Camoensia maxima ( Welwitsch ).. (Illustrated) . 58 
Carols and Valentines. By H. W. (Illustrated) C3 
Olla Podrida 64, 95, 196 
Ceremonies of the Greek Church. (Illustrated) 71 
A Gossip about Amber. By B. Lambert . . 74 
The African Elephant. By Centurion . . 78 
The Dudley Gallery 82 
An Heraldic Puzzle and its Solution. By G. 
Chapman, F.S.A. (Illustrated) . . . .85 
Landseer’s Lions ....... 86 
Venus’s Flower-Basket (Euplectella speciosa). 
(Illustrated.) By W. B. Lord, Royal Artillery . 88 
The Japanese Jugglers 96 
Ernst Schulz 96 
The Foundations of the Earth. By J. Carpenter, 
F.R.A.S., of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich . 97 
The Drama. Audiences and Performances . 102 
Ingres ......... 104 
Notes, Historical and Heraldic, on the Lion. 
(Illustrated) ....... 105 
The Cocoa-nut Palm. (Oocus nucifera.) By W. B. 
Lord, Royal Artillery. (Illustrated) . . . 108 
Floral Decoration of Churches -at Easter. 
By W. and G. Audsley, Architects. (Illustrated) 119 
The Fate of Dr. Livingstone. By T. Baines, 
F.R.G.S. 120 
The Harmony between the Mosaic and Egyptian 
Cosmogonies. By J. Bonomi, F.R.A.S. (Illus- 
trated) 129 
Stray Scraps from Odd Larders. By W. B. 
Lord, Boyal Artillery . . . . . 133 
Esparto and its Uses. By B. L. . . . . 137 
The American Water-weed (Anacfyaris Alsi- 
nastrum.) By the Rev. W. Houghton. (Illus- 
trated) . . . . . . . .139 
Peter von Cornelius 141 
The Microscope . . . . . . .143 
