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GENERAL INDEX.
Macaulay on " fer slodgers," v. 453 " Mac
Farlan's geese," ix. 314 " Memoirs of Scrib-
lerus," vi. 336 Milfon's " Lycidas," vi. 395
Mohammed and the mountain, i. 151, 275
Names terrible to children, ii. 194 Nelson
" musle," iv. 477 No twin ever famous, vi.
433 Oak trees in a gale, viii. 115 Old-time
English dancing, ii. 257 Onion, its pronuncia
tion, ii. 14 Original " Uncle Tom," vi. 493
Parnell's " Old Beauty " : a reading, vi. 146
Pastrana (Miss), iii. 94 Pepys's " Diary," vii.
73 Practice : practise, ii. 246 Proposed
emendation in Ascham, vii. 517 Puns on
Payne, ii. 454 Quiroga (Father) and the
'Thirty Years' War, iii. 452 Bain-smir, use of
the word, ii. 415 " Biding the high horse," v.
15 Bobinspn (Crabb) on Hazlitt, vii. 485
Rooks' justice, viii. 516 Boyal George : name
of Durham, vi. 176 " Rule, Britannia," v.
415 Saurians in English poetry, v. 67
-Scots music, iv. 35 Scott : a curiosity in
quotation, vii. 7 ; " Pirate " two readings, v.
227 ; Spurious Waverleys, x. 374 ; " The Anti-
quary," x. 155, 178 Second Folio of the
Shakespeare plays, 1632, ix. 73, 237 Shakes-
peare allusions, i. 17 Shakespeare on the pain
.of death, vi. 93 Shakespeare's signatures, vi.
437 Shovel called a becket, viii. 153 " Silver
Domino," viii. 133, 174 Simpson (Habbie),
xi. 345 Smallpox and the stars, iii. 211
Smuggling queries, viii. 257 Some Ameri-
canisms, xii. 308 " Sough," ix. 198, 518
Source of quotations wanted, viii. 214
Southey's Works, xi. 31, 74 Spenser and
Dante/iv. 515 " Spruce " = " natty," xi. 33
Starlings taught to speak, xi. 388 Suckling
{Sir John), i'. 353 Tally-ho : Yoicks, i. 135,
278 " Tamson's mear (mare)," vii. 54
Taylor's " Holy Dying " : Charles Lamb, vii.
386 Teest, its meaning, ii. 233 " The lowing
herd winds slowly o'er the lea," vii, 316
" There's some water where the stags drown,"
x. 77 Third alternative, xii. 144 " Thon " :
"Thonder," iv. 373 "To the West! To the
West ! " iii. 236 Transcendant, the spelling,
ii. 305" Trod," ix. 492" Tune the old cow
died of," xi. 501 " Tweedside," song and
metre, iv. 136 Two poems wanted, viii. 193
Two Scottish songs, vi. 127 " Unrejoicing "
in Wordsworth, i. 232 Utilitarian, use of the
word, ii. 405 Vail : its use by Scott, iii. 86,
175 Vanbrugh's epitaph, ix. 194 " Vieing," v.
506 Wait and see, iii. 434 ; iv. 157 " Wale "
= " Choice," v. 425 Wet hay, iii. 53
" Whom " as subject, ii. 446 " Wimple " as
applied to running water, i. 202 Word " bill "
in Wordsworth, ix. 178 Wordsworth : variant
readings, ii. 294, 476 Yon : its use bv Scots-
men, i. 43, 254
Bayne (W.) on Archibald Erskine, v. 128 Sir David Wilkie's last illness, vii. 247
Baynes (Christopher W.) on heraldic, ix. 110
Bayonet, German use of the, x. 289
Bayonne Cathedral, English escutcheons in, xii. 8, 55
Bazeley (L.) on James Shipdem, 1688, iii. 407
Beach (Helen) on Cromwell query, xi. 69 Hessian contingent : American War of Independence, vii. 436 " Raising feast," viii. 134
Beaconsfield. See Disraeli.
Beagle, H.M.S., fate of the ship, vii. 10
Beale (Miss) and Miss Buss, rimes, v. 291, 392,
497 Beale (Benjamin) of Kent, and bathing machines,
vi. 88 Beale (G. F. Tracy) on Benjamin Beale of Kent :
his bathing machines, vi. 88 Beale (Sir John)
of Kent : his baronetcy, vi. 108 Belinus, xi.
210 Beale (Sir J.) of Kent, his baronetcy, 1660, vi.
108 Beale (Sir B.), secretary to Queen Elizabeth, vi.
129 Beamish (H. H.), Evangelical preacher, c. 1850,
xi. 47, 92 Bean (W.), Westminster scholar with Southey,
vii. 289 Bear, " Black Bear," stone animal at Southwell,
v. 369
Bear Garden, the' site of the, xii. 238, 308 Bearblock (John), b. c. 1532, draughtsman, vii.
364
Beardmore at Khartum, 1849, viii. 188, 252 Beards, notes on mediaeval use, xi. 262, 326, 388
Soldiers allowed to grow them, iv. 386, 458
Worn as a token of mourning, xii. 259 Beardshaw (H. J.) on most expensive elections,
i. 191 ' Bearsdenhall,' account of picture entitled, viii.
9 Beasts, wild, employed in warfare, xii. 140, 186,
209, 463
Beatson (General) and the Crimea War, vi. 430,
516 ; vii. 57, 135, 237 ; ix. 397, 455, 516 Beatty (H. M.) on editions of Gibbon's ' History,'
v. 189 Portraits of Gary, translator of Dante
v. 348 Beatty (Joseph M.), jun., on White : Warren :
Milburn, iv. 508
Beaty (J. Owen) on John Esten Cooke, xi. 340 Beauchamp (Lord), 1741, iv. 170, 339 Beauchamp (E.) on John Stewart, Edinburgh :
Sybella Barbour, xi. 432 ; xii. 288 Beauchamp, Freeman, and Lawrence families,
iii. 169, 238, 415 Beauchamp Tower, Tower of Lonuou, inscriptions
in, xii. 280 Beauclerk (Aubrey), Westminster scholar, 1746,
vii. 110 Beauclerk (J.), Westminster Scholar, 1746, vii.
110
Beauclerk family, iv. 469 ; v. 389 Beaufort (Margaret), and motto " Souvent me
souvient," iii. 361, 413 Beaumelle. See La Beaumelle Beaumont, Bowman, or Boman family, x. 229 Beaumont (C.) on Gulf Stream, i. 269 Beaumont (E.) on dogs on tombs, vi. 195 Beaumont (F. H.) on the Buckland Shag, i. 367 Beaumont and Fletcher, and ' Monsieur Thomas,'
iv. 345
Beaumont and Hamilton families, v. 247 ' Beau-pere," meanings of the word, viii. 466 ; ix.
52 ; x. 157 Beaupuis, French patriot, his biography, v. 91,
1 I
Beausalt, who escaped from Calais, vi. 288 Beauvoir, Normandy, and Belvoir, England, v.
88
Beaven (Rev. A. B.) on Adolphus (Sir Jacob), ix. 397 Aldermen of London, ii. 27 Alleyn (Sir John), ii. 176 Baker (Sir Samuel White),
