Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE ECLECTIC MAGAZINE OF FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.

OLD SERIES COMPLETE IN LXIII. VOLS.

JANUARY, 1844, TO DECEMBER, 1864.

NEW SERIES, VOL. XLI.

JANUARY TO JUNE, 1885.

NEW YORK:
E. R. PELTON, PUBLISHER, 25 BOND STREET.
1885.

INDEX TO VOLUME XLI.

FRONTISPIECE: THE LESSON.
PAGE.
AGNOSTICISM AND THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY, LAST WORDS ABOUT.
By Herbert Spencer _Nineteenth Century_ 127

AMERICA, A WORD MORE ABOUT. By Matthew Arnold
_Nineteenth Century_ 433

AMERICAN AUDIENCE, THE. By Henry Irving
_Fortnightly Review_ 475

ANCIENT ORGANS OF PUBLIC OPINION. By Prof. R. C. Jebb.
_Fortnightly Review_ 107

ARNOLD’S LAY SERMON, MR. _Spectator_ 259

ART, A FEW NOTES ON PERSIAN. _Chambers’s Journal_ 396

AUTHORS AS SUPPRESSORS OF THEIR BOOKS.
By W. H. Olding, LL.B. _Gentleman’s Magazine_ 262

AUTOMATIC WRITING, OR THE RATIONALE OF PLANCHETTE.
By Frederick W. H. Myers _Contemporary Review_ 547

BANK OF ENGLAND, THE. By Henry May
_Fortnightly Review_ 679

BEHIND THE SCENES. By F. C. Burnand
_Fortnightly Review_ 408

BIG ANIMALS _Cornhill Magazine_ 778

BISMARCK’S CHARACTER, PRINCE _Temple Bar_ 386

BLACKSTONE. By G. P. Macdonell
_Macmillan’s Magazine_ 703

BYGONE CELEBRITIES AND LITERARY RECOLLECTIONS.
By Charles Mackay _Gentleman’s Magazine_ 29

BYGONE CELEBRITIES AND LITERARY RECOLLECTIONS.
By Charles Mackay, LL.D. _Gentleman’s Magazine_ 165

CAMORRA, THE. _Saturday Review_ 381

COLERIDGE AS A SPIRITUAL THINKER.
By Principal Tulloch. _Fortnightly Review_ 305

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GHOST STORIES, THE.
By Andrew Lang _Nineteenth Century_ 805

COMMENT ON CHRISTMAS, A. By Matthew Arnold
_Contemporary Review_ 836

CONCERNING EYES. By William H. Hudson
_Gentleman’s Magazine_ 772

CORNEILLE, LE BONHOMME. By Henry M. Trollope
_Gentleman’s Magazine_ 359

CURIOSITIES OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND
_Chambers’s Journal_ 245

DAY OF STORM, A _The Spectator_ 786

DE BANANA _Cornhill Magazine_ 529

DELLA CRUSCA AND ANNA MATILDA: AN EPISODE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
By Armine T. Kent _National Review_ 336

DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN AMERICA, THE.
By William Henry Hurlburt _Nineteenth Century_ 183

DICKENS AT HOME, CHARLES. WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO HIS
RELATIONS WITH CHILDREN. By his eldest daughter
_Cornhill Magazine_ 362

DRESS, HOW SHOULD WE? THE NEW GERMAN THEORIES ON CLOTHING.
By Dora de Blaquière _Good Words_ 273

DUELLING, FRENCH. By H. R. Haweis _Belgravia_ 222

ECONOMIC EFFECT OF WAR. _Spectator_ 846

ELECTRICITY AND GAS, THE FUTURE OF _Chambers’s Journal_ 81

ELLIOT, THE LIFE OF GEORGE. By John Morley
_Macmillan’s Magazine_ 506

EMILE DE LAVELEYE _Contemporary Review_ 205

ENGLISHMEN AND FOREIGNERS _Cornhill Magazine_ 215

EXPLORATION IN A NEW DIRECTION _The Spectator_ 689

FAITHLESS WORLD, A. By Frances Power Cobbe
_Contemporary Review_ 145

FOLK-LORE FOR SWEETHEARTS. By Rev. M. G. Watkins, M. A.
_Belgravia_ 491

FOOD AND FEEDING _Cornhill Magazine_ 155

FOREIGN LITERATURE NOTES 143, 284, 426, 571, 717

FRENCH DRAMA UPON ABELARD, A. By a Conceptualist
_National Review_ 633

GENERAL GORDON AND THE SLAVE TRADE _Contemporary Review_ 92

GERMAN ABROAD, THE. By C. E. Dawkins _National Review_ 811

GOETHE. By Prof. J. R. Seeley _Contemporary Review_ 16

GO TO THE ANT. _Cornhill Magazine_ 416

HITTITES, THE. By Isaac Taylor _British Quarterly Review_ 545

HOW INSECTS BREATHE. By Theodore Wood _Good Words_ 401

IN THE NORWEGIAN MOUNTAINS.
By Oscar Frederik, King of Sweden and Norway _Temple Bar_ 521

INTERESTING WORDS, SOME. _Chambers’s Journal_ 826

IRISH HUMOR, THE DECAY OF. _The Spectator_ 383

JEWS, THE HEALTH AND LONGEVITY OF THE.
By P. Kirkpatrick Picard, M.D., M.R.C.S. _Leisure Hour_ 540

JOHNSON, SAMUEL. By Edmund Gosse _Fortnightly Review_ 178

LAUREL. _All the Year Round_ 804

LITERARY NOTICES:
The Correspondence and Diaries of John Wilson Croker,
136—The Story of My Life, 139—Our Great Benefactors,
141—Life of Mary Woolstonecraft, 141—Principles of
Political Economy, 142—A Review of the Holy Bible,
142—The Young Folks’ Josephus, 142. True, and Other
Stories, 281—Noble Blood, 281—Prince Saroni’s Wife and
the Pearl-shell Necklace, 281—Dr. Grattan, 281—The
Old-Fashioned Fairy Book, 281—Katherine, 281—White
Feathers, 281—Egypt and Babylon, from Sacred and Profane
Sources, 282—The Hundred Greatest Men: Portraits of the
Hundred Greatest Men in History, 283—Eve’s Daughters; or,
Common-Sense for Maid, Wife and Mother, 283—A Review of
the Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, 283—
The Elements of Moral Science, Theoretical and Practical,
284—Episodes of My Second Life, 423—A Historical Reference
Book, 424—Bermuda: An Idyll of the Summer Islands, 425—
Elements of Zoology, 425—The Reality of Religion, 425—
The Enchiridion of Wit: The Best Specimens of English
Conversational Wit, 426—The Dictionary of English History,
568—Personal Traits of British Authors, 569—Italy from the
Fall of Napoleon I. in 1815, to the Death of Victor Emanuel
in 1878, 569—Harriet Martineau (Famous Women Series), 570—
Weird Tales by E. T. W. Hoffman, 571—Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish
and Sea Urchins, 712—Origin of Cultivated Plants, 713—The
Adventures of Timias Terrystone, 714—The Secret of Death,
716—Greater London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People,
and Its Places, 717—Russia Under the Tzars, 851—The French
Revolution, 853—Louis Pasteur: His Life and Labors, 855—At
Grammar of the English Language in a Series of Letters,
the Sign of the Lyre, 856—Working People and their Employers,
856.