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INDEX.

Adalbert's (Prince) Travels, 7

Acting Charades, 8

Andrews' Flower Painting, 21

Aram, Eugene, Dream of, 14

Architectural Works, 5

Art of Painting Restored, 5

Auerbach's Village Tales, 8

Authors of England, 22

Backgammon, 14

Beattie and Collins, 3

Berington's Middle Ages, 19

Bertie's Indestructible Books, 18

Bible Gallery, 2

----- Women of the, 3

Bingley's Tales, 18

Bloxam's Gothic Architecture, 6

Blunt's Beauty of the Heavens, 4

Boat (The) and the Caravan, 7

Bond's History of England, 17

Book of Beauty, 2

------- the Months, 13

Boswell's Johnson, 16

Boyhood of Great Men, 16

Boy's Own Book, 16

----- Treasury, 18

Bouterwek's Spanish Literature, 19

Brandon's Architectural Works, 5, 6

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 2

Burnet on Painting, 4, 5

------'s Essays, 5

-------- Life of Turner, 1

---------------- Rembrandt, 2

Butterfly (Bachelor), 10

Byron Gallery, 3

Canadian Life, Sketches of, 13

Carrel's Counter Revolution, 19

Chapman's Elements of Art, 5

Cheever's Whaleman's Adventures, 12

Child's Drawing Books, 21

------- First Lesson Book, 18

Christian Graces in Olden Time, 2

Christmas with the Poets, 1

Church Catechism Illustrated, 18

Comic Works, 9

----- Latin Grammar, 10

----- Natural Histories, 10

----- Almanack, 9

Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg, 17

------- People, 17

------- Story Books, 17

Cooke's Rome, 2

Cooper's (T.S.) Animals, 21

Cowper's Poems, 4, 15, 20

Cracker Bon Bon for Christmas, 8

Crosland's Memorable Women, 16

Cruikshank's (Geo.) Works, 9

------------------- Fairy Lib., 16

Dale's Poems, 12

De Staël's (Mad.) Life and Times, 11

De Vigny's Cinq Mars, 19

Domestic Architecture, 6

-------- Hints, 14

Drawing Books, 21

------- Copy Books, 21

Dumas' Marguerite de Valois, 19

Edgar's Biographies for Boys, 16

------- Boyhood of Great Men, 16

Emma de Lissau, 12

English School of Painting, 22

Etiquette for the Ladies, 15

------------- Gentlemen, 15

--------- of Courtship, 15

Euclid, Symbolical, 14

European Library, 19

Fielding's Works on Painting, 5

Floral Fancies, 14

Flora's Gems, 3

Footprints of Famous Men, 16

Forster's Pocket Peerage, 11

Fountain of Living Waters, 12

Fox-hunting, Noble Science of, 22

French Domestic Cookery, 12

------ Dictionary, Miniature, 13

Galt's Life of Wolsey, 19

Games for Christmas, 8

Gavarni in London, 8

Georgian Era (The), 22

Glossary of Architecture, 6

Goldsmith's Works, 16

Görgei's Life in Hungary, 11

Graces, Gallery of the, 3

Guides for Travellers, 11

Guizot's English Revolution, 19

-------- Civilization, 19

-------- (Mad.) Young Student, 13

Happy Home (The), 12

Harding's Works on Art, 5

--------- Drawing Books, 21

--------- Sketches at Home, 4

Harry's Ladder to Learning, 17

Heroes of England, 18

Heroines of Shakspeare, 2

Hervey's Meditations, 16

Hitchcock's Religion of Geology, 11

Home Lesson Books, 18

---- Story Books, 18

Hood's Epping Hunt, 9

------ Eugene Aram, 14

Hunt's Fourth Estate, 11

Introd. to Gothic Architecture, 6

Johnson's Lives of the Poets, 16

Julien's Studies of Heads, 21

-------- Human Figure, 21

Juvenile Books, 17

Keepsake (The), 2

Kendall's Travels, 7

King's Interest Tables, 14

Laconics, 22

Landscape Painters of England, 2

Language of Flowers, 3

Laurel and Lyre, 15

Lectures on Great Exhibition, 11

----------- Gold, 11

Le Keux's Cambridge, 4

Life's Lessons, 14

Little Mary's Books, 17

------------- Treasury, 17

------------- Lesson Book, 17

Lives of Italian Painters, 19

London Anecdotes, 13

Longfellow's Poems, 1, 12

------------ Hyperion, 1

------------ Golden Legend, 1, 12

------------ Prose Works, 12

Luther's Life, 19

-------- Table Talk, 19

Mackay's (Charles) Egeria, 13

------------------ Town Lyrics, 13

Maid of Honour, 13

Malcom's Travels in Hindustan, 22

Manuals of Instruction, &c., 15

Martin's (John) Bible, 22

Mayhew's Greatest Plague, 7

-------- Acting Charades, 8

-------- Magic of Industry, 8

-------- Sandboys' Adventures, 8

-------- Toothache, 9

-------- Model Men & Women, 10

Men of the Time, 11

Michelet's Life of Luther, 19

---------- Roman Republic, 19

Miguet's French Revolution, 19

Miller's (T.) Poems for Children, 17

------------- Anglo-Saxons, 19

------------- Pictures of Country Life, 4

Milton's Poetical Works, 3

Miniature Classics, 20

Miriam and Rosette, 12

Museum of Painting & Sculpture, 22

Ogleby's Adventures, 10

Oldbuck's Adventures, 10

Painting, Drawing, &c. Works on, 4

Panorama of Jerusalem, 14

Parlour Magic, 18

Pearls of the East, 4

Pellatt on Glass-making, 2

Pen and Ink Sketches, 8

Pentamerone (The), 8

Pictorial Bible History, 18

Picture Book for the Young, 16

Playmate (The), 17

Poetry of Flowers, 15

--------- the Sentiments, 15

Prout's (Sam.) Microcosm, &c., 21

Puckle's Club, 22

Raffaelle's Cartoons, 2

Reach's (A.B.) Loire and Rhone, 7

-------------- Leonard Lindsay, 7

-------------- Comic. Nat. Hists., 10

Recollections of the Lakes, 14

Reid's (Capt. M.) Desert Home, 16

----------------- Boy Hunters, 16

----------------- Young Voyag., 16

Rembrandt and his Works, 2

Reveries of a Bachelor, 7

Robinson Crusoe, 8

Romance of Nature, 3

Roscoe's Lorenzo de Medici, 19

-------- Leo X., 19

Round Games, 8

Scott's Poems, 3, 15, 20

Seymour's New Readings, 10

Shakspeare Heroines, 2

----------'s Works, 20

Sharpe's Diamond Dictionary, 13

Singing Book, 13

Smith's (Alexander) Poems, 11

------- (Albert) Mont Blanc, 7

---------------- Constantinople, 7

---------------- Christ. Tadpole, 8

---------------- Comic Natural Histories, 10

Spring's Glory of Christ, 13

Stowe Catalogue, 12

Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, 6

Suggestions in Design, 6

Tayler's (C.B.) Angel's Song, 12

--------------- May You Like It, 13

Taylor's Young Islanders, 17

Thierry's Norman Conquest, 19

Thomson's Seasons, 3, 15

Tschudi's Travels in Peru, 7

Turner and his Works, 1

Vaticano (Il), 22

Vestiges of Old London, 2

Walton's Angler, 4, 20

Water Colour Gallery, 22

Waverley Gallery, 3

Webster's Quarto Dictionary, 11

--------- Octavo Dictionary, 11

Whist, Game of, 14

Willson on Water Colours, 5

Windsor in Olden Time, 12

Winkles's Cathedrals, 6

Women of the Bible, 3

Wonders of Travel, 7

Year Book of Facts, 14

Young Lady's Oracle, 8

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Transcriber's note:

Obvious punctuation and printer's errors have been corrected. Other punctuations and spellings have been left as printed in the book, including:

- inconsistent use of hyphen (e.g. "dew-drop" and "dewdrop"); - inconsistent use of accents (e.g. "fringèd" and "fringed"); - inconsistent use of apostrophe (e.g. "would'st" and "wouldst"); - inconsistent use of archaic forms (e.g. "goes" and "goeth"); - and any other variable spellings.

Index entries that do not match their referred text are corrected, including:

- Index entry "Foxhunting" corrected to be "Fox-hunting." - Index entry "Gorgei" corrected to be "Görgei." - Index entry "Rafaelle" corrected to be "Raffaelle." - Index entry "Winkle" corrected to be "Winkles." - Index entry "Wurtemburg" corrected to be "Wurtemberg."