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GENERAL INDEX.
Spackman (H.) on " To save the face of," vi. 398
Spackman (EL 0.) on eighteenth-century 'History of England,' v. 127
Spain, gipsies of, vi. 309, 395 ; capsicum in, xii. 449
Spain and America, prophecy concerning, iii. 263
Spains Hall, Essex, described, i. 281
Spalt= brittle, tender, i. 268, 473
Spancel, a kind of tether, its derivation, iv. 7
Spango, Scotch place-name, ii. 448, 535
Spanish badge, x. 367; xii. 93
Spanish bag, meaning of the term, xii. 486
Spanish bibliophile : Don Joaquin Gomez de la Cortina, viii. 342, 510
Spanish folk-lore, xii, 484
Spanish language, accent in, ii. 6
Sparke (A.) on author of books wanted, ix. 232
Sparrow, mumble a, vi. 468
Spartacus, his biography, vii. 180
Spartans and the Jews, iii. 385
Spatchcock, its meaning, viii. 403 ; ix. 16
Spaurds, Gothic, etymology of the word, v. 148, 273, 345
Spearing (Capt.), d. 1783, his biography, x. 67
Spectacles fifty years ago, i. 449, 514
- Spectator,' dedication of first volume, i. 285 ; ninth
volume, 520 ; error in note to Greek motto, iii. 104 ; authorship of papers Nos. 250, 262, 622, vi. 29, 97; Sharpe's edition, viii. 76
Speech, purism of, iv. 349
Speering (Alexander), his biography, viii. 145
Spelling, date of introduction of definite English, xii. 287, 371
Spelling of words with double consonants, vi. 408, 496
Spelling reform, ix. 349
Spence (Rev. Dr. R. M.) on " A still small voice," vii. 5. " Another story," ii. 133. Aphorism, notable, i. 45. Boethius, his 'De Consolatione Philosophise, ' ii. 462. Browning (R.), his 'Ring and the Book,' i. 32, 177 ; ' La Saisiaz,' iv. 304 ; misprint in his work, 394; ' Luria,' 516; 'Meeting at Night,' 535 ; ' Parleyings with Christopher Smart,' v. 124. Byre =cowhouse, v. 6. Cary's translation of Dante, ii. 4. Ceiling or cieling, iii. 194. " Christ with blue eyes," iii. 27. Church of Scotland Commissioners, ii. 276. Egg, standing, ii. 53. English accent, vi. 335, 455. Epitaph, well-known, ii. 229. Facito, vi. 67. Ghetto, Koman, iii. 91. Goethe, his ' Ge- sprache mit Eckermann, iv. 52. Goldsmith (Oliver), iii. 232. Grammar, doubtful, iii. 313. Helpmate and helpmeet, ii. 311; iii. 71. Hoity-toity, i. 197. Homer and Jewish rites, iii. 269. Hoy, iv. 53 Inundate, its pronunciation, vi. 53, 193. Jews and Spartans, iii. 385. Joy, remembrance of past, i. 493. 'Lover's Complaint,' iii. 125, 337. Lowel on ' Aurora Leigh,' iii. 244. Macaulay and Mont- gomery, ii. 294. Modestest, use of the word, ii. 91 351. Montaigne, judgment on, ii. 468. New Testament query, ii. 431. "Noblesse oblige," i 228. Pantheism, vi. 450. Pediment, vi. 95. Scott and a Greek epigram, iv. 31. Septuagint, lexicon to, ii. 133. Shakespeare, and the sea, iii. 36 ; his pronunciation of " orison," vi. 227. Shakespeariana i. 83, 283, 422, 483 ; ii. 204, 402, 403 ; iii. 64, 222 363, 422 ; iv. 302, 453 ; v. 62, 162, 163, 392, 393 vi. 5, 363 ; vii. 22 j viii. 12, 161. Tennyson (Lord)
his ' Ancient Sage,' iii. 248 ; ' In Memoriam,' liv.,
i. 18, 292. That, elliptical, iv. 350. White night,
iv. 439
ipence (Rev. Dr. R. M.), his death, xi. 259 ipencer (Edward), born in Warwickshire, 1683, xi.
508
spencer (F. J.) on Easter Sunday, iii. 149 Spencer (Herbert), autobiographical sketch, xi. 369 ipencer (W. T.) on Eton College and ram hunting, vii. 196
pendore, Lo, Neapolitan game, iii. 49 penser (Edmund), " A.nd through the persant aire," ii. 167 ; and the name Rosalind, iv. 44 ; 'Locrine,' and ' Selimus,' vii. 61, 101, 142, 203, 261, 324, 384 ; supplement to his ' Faerie Queene,' ix. 28 ; tedula, a bird, ix. 389, 433, 516 ; x. 53, 218 Speranza and Swedenborg, vii. 287 Spheres of influence, diplomatic term, xi. 128, 152 Sphinx, riddle of the, xii. 25 Sphinx on 'A Pretty Woman,' 'No Actress,' 'The
Eden Rose,' xi. 509 Spider folk-lore, viii. 194 Spider poison, ix. 449 Spider-eating, viii. 304, 409, 511 Spider- wort called Trinity, i. 514 Spiders in hell, ii. 366
Spice, use and meaning of the word, x. 449, 512 Spielmann (M. H.) on Dick Kitcat, vi. 290. Lincoln (Abraham), ii. 292. Thackeray's contributions to 'Punch,' vi. 238
Spiera (Francis), his despair, ix. 389, 491; x. 178 Spike, silver, driven into stern of ship, xii. 387 Spinnel in draper's advertisement, c. 1700, x. 87, 234 Spirits, evil, and inkbottles, xii. 106, 297, 356, 416 Spirits at Hampton Court, iv. 25, 94 Spitting for luck, xi. 127, 196, 254, 358 Spittle, fasting, treatise, xi, 466 ; xii. 51 Spoons, their symbolic meaning, v. 7, 111, 172; apostle, vii. 350, 410 ; viii. 294 ; marks on old, ix. 348, 416, 479
Spode or Snode arms, iii. 370, 452 Sporting record, eighteenth century, v. 495 ; vi. 72, 130 Spraclinge=Aiscoughe (Askew), xi. 467 Springs and wells, influenced by the tide, xi. 469 "Spun butter," its meaning, iv. 419, 484 Spurring family, v. 396 Spurring peal, bell-ringing custom, iv. 394 Squab = long seat, ii. 167, 352 Squire (W. Barclay) on lines in Purcell, x. 107. Sans
Pareil Theatre, xi. 110 'Squire's Pew, The,' poem by Jane Taylor, v. 69,
154
8_s (W.) on Kit-Cat portraits, xi. 13 St. consonantal combination, ii. 424, 515 ; iii. 133,
236, 492 Stableforth (J. H.) on pre-Celtic Britain, x. 227.
White-headed boy, x. 518 Stace (Col. Henry Coope), Royal Artillery, date of
his death, xii. 207
Stacey (Henry), Westminster scholar, iv. 477 Stack-staves, xi. 63 Staff, pastoral, and crosier, vii. 387, 495 ; viii. 50, 90,
151, 215, 268, 447
Stafford, the place-name, xii. 128, 271 Stafford (Henry, Earl of) on his French wife, xii. 466
