means for the prevention of crime in the middle classes, ib.; remedial measures, 23; M. Fregier's advocacy of the system of solitary confinement, 23, 24; practical difficulties in carrying out the system, 24.
Garden, 108. See Flower.
Gardening, the poetry of, 108; extracts, 124, 126,
Hermann, Professor, compliments to, upon his reaching the fiftieth year of his doctorate, 174. Hill, General Lord, at Waterloo, 258, 259. Homer, 73. See Mure.
Horticultural Society, the, of London, 123.
Income Tax, the, 265, 279. See Peel. Ireland, distinguished for not employing women or children in her collieries, 99.
Mackintosh, Sir James, 27. Maclise, D., 220.
Gastric juice, its mode of action, 61, 62. George III., 155, 208. See D'Arblay and Coltness. Maitland Club, the, 195. See Coltness. Greece, 70. See Mure and Strong. Markland, J. H., Remarks on English Churches, and on the Expediency of rendering Sepulchral Memorials subservient to Pious and Christian Uses,' 228; spirit and object of Mr. Markland's work, ib.; uses to which sepulchral monuments should be applied, 228, 230; history of these monuments, 230, 231; the early catacombs at Rome, 231; sources of the first sepulchral mon- uments, 232; futility of the struggle against the laws of decay, ib. ; introduction of the coffin, ib. ; origin of stone coffins, 233; the second great cor- ruption of tombs, 233, 234; source of the wor- ship of relics, 234; the fourth corruption in the history of sepulchral monuments, 234, 235; the exhibition of the human figure upon the tomb, 236; representations of animals, 237; origin of the recumbent figure, chapels and chantries, 237, 238; brasses, 238; effect of the revival of Gre- cian art upon sepulchral monuments, ib.; intro- duction of children on the monuments of their parents, 239; of the representation of the naked figure, ib.; allegorical tombs, 240; the door- way' style, 241; character of our national mon- uments in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, 241, 242; real character of the homage bestowed by erecting a statue, 242; suggestions as to the future, 243, 244; answer to objections, 244.
Klausen, Dr. R. H., ' Bibliotheca Græca,' 173; his death, 174.
Larochejaquelein, Henri de, a chief of the Vende-
ans, 42; his brother, Louis, ib. Leslie, Sir John, character of, 28. Libraries, plan of those established for the labour- ing classes in Scotland, 20, 21.
Liebig, Justus, Animal Chemistry,' 54; metamor- phosis, ib.; essential conditions of animal life,
55; source of animal heat, 55, 56; temperature of the body, 56; action of oxygen, as shown by the phenomena of starvation, 57; function of the blood in growth or nutrition, 57, 58; identity in the composition of blood and muscular fibre,
58; nutrition of carnivorous and herbivorous an- imals, ib.; identity of the component principles of the food in both classes, 59; principles con- tained in the vegetable kingdom, 59, 60; sources of the constituents of the blood of the young an- imal, 60, 61; chemistry of digestion in the car- nivora, 61; gastric juice, ib.; importance of air in the process of digestion, 61, 62; progress of the blood when charged with fresh fibrine and albumen, 62; formation and functions of the bile, ib.; source of the fuel which serves for re- spiration and the production of animal heat, 62, 63; chemical explanation of the process by which living tissue is converted into dead com- pounds, 63; influence of respiration upon the se- cretions, 63, 64; conclusion drawn from a com- parison of all the known facts relating to the food, secretions, and excretions of the herbivora, 64; gelatine, 65; food best adapted for man, 66; action of medicines and poisons on the system, 66, 67; of tea, coffee, tobacco, &c., 67; constit- uents of the brain, nervous matter, and organs of vital energy, 68, 69; nature of the vital force, 69, 70; importance and value of Professor Lie- big's work, 70.
Lindley, John, Elements of Botany; illustrations of the genera and species of orchidaceous plants, 108. Loudon, J. C., his Encyclopedia of Gardening,' and Encyclopedia of Plants,' 108.
Meetings at Exeter Hall described, 212, 213. Moore, Sir John, his monument described, 242. Morier, Mr., extract from the Mirza,' 210, 211. Mueller, C. O., Dissertations on the Eumenides of Mure, Wm., Journal of a Tour in Greece and the Eschylus, 173; death, 174. Ionian Islands,' 70; position of Ithaca, 71; im- portance of the question, 72; Homer's correct- ness in the geography of the Ultra-Grecian World, 73; identity of the modern Theaki with the Ithaca of Homer, ib.; the rock Dyscallio, ib. ; mountains of Ithaca, 74; city of Ulysses, 74, 75; arched bridge over a tributary of the Eurotas, 77; road travelled by Telemachus from Pylos to Sparta, 78; concentration of scenes of lofty as- sociation in Greece, 78, 79; impolicy of estab lishing Athens as the capital of the Græco-Bava- rian government, 79; effect of the late war upon the monuments of antiquity, 80; discoveries made in the excavations in the Acropolis, 81, 82; the author's views respecting the present govern ment of Greece, 82.
Newman, E., a History of British Ferns, 108. Norton, the Hon. Mrs., extract from her poem on the insurrection of the Breton students, 45, 46.
Orchidaceæ, 117. See Flower Garden. Orestea of schylus, 173-losses which this branch of scholarship has sustained since last reviewed in the Quarterly,' ib.; character of John Words- worth, 173, 174; poetry of the chorus down to the time of the three great tragedians of Athens, 175;
claims of Eschylus to be considered the second inventor of tragedy, 176; disputes as to the num- bers of the chorus, 177; changes in the structure of the drama from Thespis onwards, 178; origi- nal purport of tragedy, 179; effects of this com- position, 179, 180; character of tragedy, 180; ef- fects of the religion and philosophy of Greece upon it, 180, 181; its tendencies, 182; manner in which the Greek drama should be considered, ib. ; establishment of the Satyric drama, ib.; the tri- logies of Eschylus and of Sophocles, 182, 183; the Lycurgia of Eschylus, 183; construction of the drama on the family history of the Pelopida, 184; means by which the catastrophe is prepared -the chorus, 186; the unities of the Greek drama, 188; the catastrophe of the first play, 190; the second and third plays, 191, 192; the Aristotelic definition of the tragic drama the true one, 192; causes of the trilogy not continuing to be popular, ib.; reasons for considering that the Orestea was not the only trilogy of Æschylus, 193; the Pro- metheus, 193-195.
Parent-Duchâtelet, Baron, De la Prostitution de la Ville de Paris '; character and nature of the work, 12.
Paris; its dangerous classes, 1. See Fregier. Paxton, Joseph; a Pocket Botanical Dictionary, 108.
Peel, Right Hon. Sir Robert; financial statement in the House of Commons, 11th March, 1842, 265; grounds upon which Sir Robert Peel's policy de- serves approbation, 266; summary of the case he had to deal with, ib.; his course of action, 267; improvement of the revenue by reductions of duty generally doubtful policy, ib.; basis of the operations for equalizing the revenue with the en- penditure, 268; principle of the income tax, ib. ; grounds upon which Sir R. Peel proposed it, 268, 269; manner in which it has been received, 269; the two classes of persons displeased with the measure, 270; contrast of his plan and that of the Whigs on the Tariff, 270, 271; Sir Richard Vyvyan's letter to his constituents, 271; Sir R. Peel's propositions on the Corn Laws, Tariff, and Poor Law Commission are not new projects of the Conservatives, 275; coincidence with the ministerial proposition of the opinions of the "Quarterly,' as expressed previously to the last general election, 275, 276; Sir Robert Peel's speeches with reference to the Corn and Poor Laws in 1840, 278, 279; wisdom and justice of his propositions, 279; reasons for the adoption of the Income Tax in its present form, 279–281; amount of duties produced by the seventeen most generally used articles of consumption, 281, 282; principles which render Sir R. Peel's measure de- serving of support, 282; practical working of the old tariff in respect to high protecting duties, 282, 283; benefits to both producers and consumers from the importation of meat and cattle, 284; operation of the new scale of corn duties, 284, 285; effect that the fixed duty would have produced upon the price of bread, 286; result of the New Corn Act, 288; advantages derived from it, 289; proofs in the late disturbances of the utility of the present government, 240; grounds for ad- ditional confidence, 241; legal and administrative measures introduced during the last session of parliaments, ib.
Peile, Rev. T. W., Αισχύλου Χοηφόροι, 173. Perceval, Rt. Hon. Spencer, his monument de- scribed, 242.
Piety, instance of, in a boy embedded in a mine, 103.
Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, correspondence between,. and the Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 159; impressions as to Mr. Pitt's written compositions, 159, 160; manner in which the present correspondence was brought to light, 160; letter relative to Mr. Orde, Chief Secretary for Ireland, 160-162; Mr. Pitt's feelings, on pa- tronage and promotions to the peerage, 162; his opinion of Lord Mornington, now Marquess Wel- lesley, 162, 163; upon Irish Tithes, 163, 164; pro- gress of the Irish 'Commercial propositions' traced in these letters, 164, 165; Reform of Parliament, 165; Mr. Pitt's arguments in favour of the com- mercial propositions, 165-169; their failure in the Irish Parliament, 169; consistency of Mr. Pitt's views relative to the admission of Roman Catholics to Parliament, 171; extracts from let- ters relating to English politics, 172; his monu- ment described, 242.
Plants, causes of their unlimited growth, 69. Population, growth of, in Great Britain, since 1801, 283.
Raushnick, Dr., Marshal Forwards;' or Life, Actions, and Character of Prince Blucher von Wahlstadt, 244; large apportionment of fame to military eminence, ib.; names connected with the wars of the present century that will be handed down to posterity, 245; Blucher's birth and family, ib.; entry into the army, and service during the latter part of the Seven Years' War, 246; retirement from the service, and marriage, ib.; readmission to the army, 247; services at the commencement of the Revolutionary war, 247, 248; second marriage; appointed Governor of Munster, 248; retreat after the battle of Jena, ib.; his subtlety and address, 249; removed from his Pomeranian command at Napoleon's instigation, 250; placed at the head of the Silesian army, ib.; causes of his successes, ib.; joins the army for the Belgian campaign of 1815, 251; state of the allied forces, 251, 252; the Prussian defence at Ligny under Blucher, 253, 254; retreat on Wavre, 254; services of the Prussians on the field of Waterloo, ib.; their loss in the battle, 255; Blucher in Paris, 264; retirement from the army, 265; death, ib. Religion, state of, in France, 25. Rio, A. F., La Petite Chouanerie, ou l'Histoire d'un Collège Breton sous l'Empire, 40; chivalrous spirit of the natives of La Vendée, 40, 41; pro- ceedings before engaging, 41; subservience of every other feeling to loyalty, ib.; Henri de La- rochejaquelein, 42; his brother Louis, ib.; con- nection of the Chouan war with that of La Vendée, M. Rio's qualifications for writing a history of Chouanerie, 43, 44; the Chouan College at Vannes, 44; part taken by the students during the hundred days,' 45; cause of this outbreak, 46; manner in which they were disciplined and armed, 46, 47; choice of a leader, 47; departure from the College, 47, 48; junction with the main body of the Chouans, 48; Gambier, the Chouan Chief, ib.; attack and defeat of the republican army, 48, 49; attack upon the town of Redon, 49, 50; severe test of the students' courage, 50; con- flicts around and in Auray, 51, 52; decoration of M. Rio and a comrade with the Cross of the Le- gion of Honour, 53; effect of the author's narra- tive upon the poets of England, 53, 54. Robison, Professor, his contributions to the 3d Edi- tion of the Encyclopædia Britannica,' 26.
Rutland, Duke of, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 160; character, 171; predictions with reference to the Union, ib.
Scott, Sir Walter, character of his poetic images of human life, 214.
Sepulchral Monuments, 228. See Markland. Shakspeare, extract from the Life of, by Mr. De Quincey, 35.
Smith, the Rev. Sydney, on Railroad Travelling, 39, 40.
Smith, Dr. Wm., Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 77, 78.
Starvation, phenomena of, 57.
Stuart family, the, 147. See Coltness. Stuart, Professor Dugald, 27.
Strong, Fred., statistical description of Greece, drawn up from official documents, 82; dimen- sions of the Grecian dominions and divisions of
the land, 82, 83; number of inhabitants, 84; con- stitution of the government, ib.; oath taken by the electors, ib.; deficiency of agricultural popu- lation, and means of remedying it, 85; emissary of Lake Copaïs for the drainage of the redundant water, ib.; state of the revenue of the kingdom, 86; future prospects of Greece under a wise Gov- ernment, ib.
Table-talker, the, of the Morning Post, 19. Tariff, the, 267. See Peel.
Tea, its active principle the same as that of coffee, 67.
Tennyson, Alfred, Poems by, 211; character of the verses and poetry of the present day, ib.; causes of the paucity of poetic power, 213; delineations of human life by Chaucer and Shakspeare, 214; by Byron and Scott, 214, 215; by Crabbe and Wordsworth, 215, 216; divisions of Mr. Tenny- son's collection of poems, 216, 217; the Odes, 217; Fancies,' 218; extract from the Day
Vyvyan, Sir Richard, Bart., M.P., a letter from, to his constituents, upon the commercial and finan- cial policy of Sir Robert Peel's administration, 265; reasons for its being deserving of notice, 271; objectionable course taken by the author, ib.; his excuses for adopting it, 271, 272; the copper-ore section of the tariff, 272; chief practi- cal object of the letter, 273; Sir Richard's plan to prevent the minister from intercepting a peti- tion to the Queen, 274; his first and main charge against the ministry, ib.; proofs of its being un- founded, 275.
Wellington, the Duke of, country in which he re- ceived his first military education, 245; the Duke at Waterloo, 254, 255; fallacy of the theory that he was surprised, 260; verification of his Grace's prediction as to the time of beginning the Belgian campaign of 1815, 262; letters to Marshal Blucher relative to the destruction of the Bridge of Jena at Paris, 264, 265.
Wheat, table of old and new scales of duty upon its importation, 285; average price and quantities entered for home consumption from 1828 to 1842, 286; duties at which they were entered, 286, 287.
Wolfe, General, his monument, 241. Wordsworth, Wm., 216.
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