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HARPER'S

MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

European Edition.

JUNE TO NOVEMBER, 1884.

VOL. VIII.—EUROPEAN EDITION.

VOL. LXIX.—AMERICAN EDITION.

LONDON:

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,

CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET, F.C.

NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1884.

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EDITOR'S DRAWER........

EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR....

EDITOR'S HISTORICAL RECORD.......

[March-April.] Death of H.R.H. the Duke of
Albany; Defeat of Government on local taxation;
Revolt of Sheikh Kadr at Tokar; Murder of Perkins,
in London; Continuation of Franchise debate;
Recovery of Mr. Gladstone; Bismarck's birthday;
British troops leaving Suakim; Insulting message
from Mahdi to Gorden; Defeat and treachery of

..R. Wheatley 38
John MacMullen 31
...James D. Hague 759

160, 323, 484, 644, 809, 973
.147, 307, 471, 629, 794, 959
..157, 317, 481, 641, 804, 970

Gordon's forces at Khartoum; Mahdi declines Sultan-
ship of Kordofan, invites Gordon to embrace Mahome-
tan faith; Conviction of the proprietor of Truth for a
libel upon Lord Lonsdale; Government disclaim
necessity of military aid for General Gordon; Franchise
debate; Gordon's position at Khartoum; Inquest on
Mr. Perkins; Kassala besieged; British relief asked;
Disagreement and subsequent discontent of Anglo-
Egyptian officials; Duke of Albany's burial; Nubar

EDITOR'S HISTORICAL RECORD-continued.

Pasha resigns; Second reading of Franchise Bill; Dead-
lock at Cairo; University Boat Race; Attempt to burn
Cark London Government Bill; Gordon disbands
mutinous troops; Egyptian troops garrison Suakim;
Arrest of Fenians; Easter Volunteer Review; Khar-
toum cut off from Berber, Gordon's possible retreat;
Mahdi embarrassed; Gordon proposes to hire Turkish
troops; Massacre at Shendy; Mr. Gladstone believes
in Gordon's safety; Earthquake in England; Sir
Evelyn Baring quits Egypt; Criticism of proposed
Conference on Egypt; Government defeated on Con-
tagious Diseases (Animals) Bill; Budget proposals;
Berber garrison revolt, 158.

[April-May.] Sale of racehorses; Accident to

convicts at Portsmouth; Report on Crofters; Women

to be admitted to Oxford examinations; Cholera on

troopship; Riot in the Diamond Fields; Dynamite in

Canadian Parliament Honse; Cremation Bill; Euro-

pean Conference on Egypt invited; The Duke of

Wellington's statue; Earl Derby made K.G.:

Oriental Bank failure; Sale of the Hamilton Library;

Cape Parliament; Fast ocean passage; Attitude of

the Conservatives; Failure of Ceylon Company;

Oriental Bank notes guaranteed in Ceylon; New

statue of William Tyndale; Lord Carnarvon and

Peterborough Cathedral; Return of the Queen; Fatal

shipwreck and loss of 138 lives; Health Exhibition

opened; Mr. Irving's and Miss Terry's return; Fatal

dynamite explosion; Resignation of Cape Ministry;

Sale of shorthorn cattle; Sale of Landseer's "Mon-

arch of the Glen;" Drought in Upper India;

Government victory on Vote of Censure; Presenta-

tion by Victoria Rifles; Australian cricketers win in

first match; Discovery of explosives in Woolwich;

Diploma day at London University, ladies attend in

academical costume; Election of Hon. S. Gathorne-

Hardy; Election of Professors of Ecclesiastical History

and of English Literature at Cambridge; Inundations

in Mauritius; Canon Carpenter Bishop of Ripon;

Cyclone in British Burmali, a lighthouse destroyed;

Sitting of the General Assembly of the Established

Church of Scotland; Niddrie Colliery accident, 318.

[May-June.] Salmon hatched from ova of a dead

fish; Marriage of the American Midgets; Parliament

adjourns for Whitsun; "The Derby;" Tramway on

Highgate Hill; Dynamite outrages in St. James's Square

and Scotland Yard; "The Oaks;" Railway accident

at Downton; Visit of the Maori King; Railway collision

at Sevenoaks; Riots at Newry; Distraint for non-

vaccination at Leicester; The French Ambassador

made an LL.D. of Cambridge; Parliament refuse to

confer franchise on women; Testimonial to Captain

Walter; Hospital Sunday Fund; Bank rate reduced;

Mr. Spurgeon's jubilee; Sale of Fountaine collection;

Small-pox in London: Police-constable shot; Report

on City Companies; Meeting of Egyptian Conference,

[July.] Forestry Exhibition at Edinburgh; Civic

anniversary at Winchester; Alteration in the Assizes;

Early harvest; Australia desires to extend authority

over Western Pacific; Weavers strike at Burnley;

House of Lords conditionally retuse the Franchise

Bill; Revision of the Old Testament concluded;

Meeting of the Liberal Party on the Franchise Bill,

Autumn Session announced; Orange riot on Cleator

Moor; High price realised by an illuminated MS.;

Annexation of Barbera; Terrible railway accident in

Yorkshire; Conciliatory motion on Franchise Bill

rejected by House of Lords; Winner of Silver Medal at

Wimbledon; Great Reform demonstration in London;

Steamers Gijon and Lazham sunk; Winner of Queen's

Prize at Wimbledon; England wins the cricket match

against Australia; Ireland wins Elcho Challenge

Shield; Consecration of Bishop of Ripon; Statue of

Burns, 642.

[July-August.] Conference on Colonial Federation;

Cape impose tax on ostriches; Design selected for New

War and Admiralty Offices; Egyptian Conference ad-

journs sine die; Attempted destruction of Nottingham

Post Office; Steamers Dione and Camden sunk; Lord

Northbrook to proceed to Egypt; Great Reform pro-

cession in Birmingham; Great Conservative demonstra-

tion at Manchester; International Conference on

Education; Fatal fire: Fatal thunderstorms; Great

score of Murdoch the Australian batsman; Prorogation

of Parliament; Presentation of military colours by the

Queen: Arrival of Abyssinian envoys; German insult

to British flag; Royal audience of Abyssinian envoys;

Maori King departs; Royal visit to Newcastle and

Edinburgh; Riot at the Holborn Theatre; Great

political mating at Nostell Priory; Slight earthquake

in lene, sub,

[August-September.] During the year 600 tourists
have ascended Ben Nevis; Lord Wolseley and an ex-
peditionary force to relieve Gordon; British Associa-
tion in Canada; Royal visit to Aberdeen; High prices
realised by cattle; Water famine in Wales; Mr.
Gladstone addresses his constituents; Probable failure
of Indian crops; National Gallery acquires the "Blen-
heim" Raphael and Van Dyck; Meeting of the
British Archæological Association; Loss of the Mig-
nonette, terrible suffering at sea; Franchise demonstra-
tion in Glasgow; Hospital Saturday; Festival of the
Three Choirs; Lord Dufferin nominated Viceroy of
India; Fenian demonstration in Dublin; Opening of
the Eisteddfod; Meeting of the Social Science Con-

gress; Fatal railway collision at Moss End; Fatal

accident through lightning on Snowdon; Loss of

H.M.'s gunboat Wasp and 49 lives; New railways pro-

posed for New South Wales, 970.

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EDITOR'S HISTORICAL RECORD—continued.

RUSSIA.

Famine in Kazan; Disturbances in Ufa; People
fined for speaking the Polish language at Wilna, 159.
Sarakhs annexed; Majority of the Czarewitch, 319.
Marriage of the Grand Duke Sergius; Telegraphic
communication between Merv and Askabad, 482.
Plot in Warsaw to assassinate the Czar, 642. Meet-
ing of the Emperors of Russia, Germany, and Austria,

970.

SPAIN.

Members of a Secret Society sentenced to death, 159.
Fall of a railway train into a river; Insurrection in
Navarre; Arrest of malcontents; Insurgents__in
Lerida; Defeat of rebels; Plague of locusts; The
Cortes opened; Floods in Alicante, 319. Fire at the
Royal Armoury in Madrid, 642. Floods at Gerona, 971.

ITALY.

Purchase of the Italian MS. in the Ashburnham
collection, 319. Fatal explosion of a powder magazine,
4×2. Cholera in Turin and other parts of Italy, s05.
Continued spread of the cholera, King Humbert visits
the plague-stricken towns, terrible condition of Naples,
over 5000 deaths, 970.

EGYPT.

[April-May Flight from Berber; Great Powers
agree to a Conference; Taxes taken in kind; Attack
on Suakim imminent; Dongola to be abandoned;
Raid on Suakim; Armed boats to protect the Nile,

329.

(May-June. Abyssinian King interviewed; Victory
at Dongola; Clifford Lloyd leaves; Strength of Khar-
toum; Capitulation of Darfour; Surrender of Berber;
Abyssinians agree to oppose the rebels; Withdrawal of
British troops in 1888; Khartoum safe; Railway plant
for Suakim, 482.

[July.] Difficulties of the Maldi; Mutiny at
Assouan; Rebels defeated at Debbah; Survivors of
Hick's army; Earthquake, 642.

(July-August.] Journey of Major Wortley; Loyalty
of Mudir of Dongola; Position of General Gordon;
Vote of credit for Gordon's relief; Nile boats ordered
for English relief forc, 06.

[August-September.] Situation of Gordon: Victory
at Khartoum; Rebels repulsed before Kassala; Holy
Carpet leaves for Mecca: Arrival of Lords Northbrook
and Wolseley; Defeat of rebels near Ambikol; Revenue
deficit, suspension of Sinking Fund; Siege of Khartoum
raised; Gordon provisioning from the south; European
protest against suspension of Sinking Fund, 971.

TONQUIN AND CHINA.

French enter Honghoa; Viceroy of Canton degraded;
Officers who lost Bac-Ninh beheaded; Retreat of Black
Flags, Chinese and Annamite rebels; Proceedings of
the French General Milot, 159. Railway to be con
structed at Pekin; French troops attacked with loss,
482. French indemnity demand rejected, 642. Keeling
bombarded and sized by the French as a guarantee;
Mediation offered; France refuses, but demand re-
duced; Edict for war; Withdrawal of French Ambas-
sador; French Admiral to make reprisals, bombards
Foochow 806. French losses at Foochow; War
posters in Pekin; French Dave Canton: Chinese pay
indemnity for Canton riots of 1883; Blocking of the
Woosung River, 971.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Arrangements of the African International Associa
tion on tue Congo, 159. Visit of the King and Queen
of Holland to Brussels, 319. Great fire at Bei Bazar;
War between Nepaul and Thibet; Outbreak and sub-
sequent repulse of Usutus in Zululand, 320. Resigna-

tion of the Belgian Ministry; Clerical Ministry formed;
Dinizulu crowned King of Zululand; Usib pu defeated
by Usutus; Boundary Commission for Aghanistan,
4×2. Foreign post offices in Turkey to be closed;
Repulse of a French attack by the Malagasys, 611.
EDITOR'S LITERARY RECORD...

Aboriginal Authors (Dr. Brinton), 478. Addison
(W. J. Courthop), 316. Alice, Princess, Life and
Letters of the Grand I uchess of Hesse, 311. Amazon,
The (Carl Vosmaer), 967. America, The Discoveries
of, to the Year 1525 (A. R. Weise), 966: America,
Henry Irving's Impressions of (J. Hatton), 312.
Ancient Religions and Modern Thought (J. Lilly), 312.
Antomimus, Marcus Aurelius (P. B. Watson), 475. Ar-
cadia, The New (A. Mary Robinson), 314.

Negotiation: by the Dutch for the release of the crew
of the Nisero; International Medical Congress, 805.
Protest to the Porte against the closing of Foreign post
offices; Second repulse of the French by Malagasys,
806. Submission of the Rajah of Tenom, and release of
the crew of the Visero; Great political riot in Brussels;
Meeting of the Kings of Servia and Roumania; Great
gale at Yokohama; Floods in Buenos Ayres, 971.

SCIENCE AND PROGRES?.

Proposal for the destruction of rabbits in Australia;
Discovery of the diamond in its mother rock; The
manufacture of beet sugar; Canine intelligence, 159.
Arrangements for receiving the British Association in
Canada; the Panama Canal; Hydrophobia researches
of M. Pasteur; Intellectual and military prematurity;
Industrial use for electricity, 320. Mr. Ruskin on
Forms of Silica; Utilisation of the Rhone for mecham-
cal purposes; Automatic lighting of beacons, 483.
Spread of the Hemileia restatriz in colle; Electro-
Magnetic induction; M. Troost on the extraction of
pure oxygen; M. Cailletet and the liquefaction of
Oxygen; The mitigation of eartàquakes, 644. Records
of ancient and modern athletes; Utilisation of the
Niagara Falls; Mr. Galloway on alleged arsenical
poisoning from green wall-paper; Borax as an anti-
septic; Existence of conscious life in the head after
decapitation; Weather forecasting and stellar scintil-
lation; Efforts to extirpate the rabbit in New Zealand,
807. Meeting of the British Association in Canada;
The antiquity of Mercury; Formation of a Meteorology
Committee in St. Petersburg; Warehouses for the
storage of cold air in New York; Destruction of carp
eggs by vegetable growth, 973.

ART AND ARCHEOLOGY.

Roman pavement found in Walbrook; Description
of antique Christian lamps found in Jerusalem; Dis-
covery of an ancient Egyptian necropolis: Proposal to
desecrate Shakespeare's resting-place; Discovery at
Tiryns of a vast prehistoric palace, 160.
Fêtes at
Pompeii, fresh excavations with slight results; New
Archaeological and Ethnological Museum at Cambridge;
Election of Professor Jebb as Corresponding Member
of the Archaological Institute of Berlin; Intention
of Dr. Schliemann to publish the results of his dis-
covery at Tiryns in a copiously illustrated book; Dis-
covery at Saggarak of an Egyptian tomb of the 6th
dynasty, by the inscription on the coffin the ritual of
the dead was in use even at that time; M. Naville's
discovery of Pithom and the route of the Exodus;
Publication of sketches of numerous old houses in
Newcastle-on-Tyne by a society of local Antiquarians,
321. Roman pavement found in the department of
Drôme; Discovery of the site of the cathedral of Octo-
durum bailt by St. Theodorus; Discovery of a Roman
altar in the bed of the Rhone, 322. The Fountaine
collection, argument in favour of national purchases;
Excavations at San, in Egypt; Excavations in St.
Ninian's cave, Wigtonshire; Annual meeting of the
Folk-Lore Society; Du Maurier Exhibition and Bur-
lington Fine Arts Club, 483. Exploration of Hellenic
tombs by the Russians at Keitch; Illustration of
Greek silver bowls in the Kapport of the Russian
Imperial Commission; Ancient Greek inscription on
a stone at Brough-under-Stainmore; Origin of Little
Pillee, 613. Sir F. Leighton and the Académie des
Beaux Arts, 644. Committee to protect and record
monuments of antiquity in London and its vicinity at
the moment of discovery; Ancient towers in the
Canton Vaud, s07. Royal Institute of Archæologists
visit Northumberland; Museum of casts opened at
South Kensington, 808. Antiquarian associations of
Tenby; Discovery of a subterranean passage near the
Cathedral of St. Andrews, legendary belief of the ex-
istence of much treasure in a place similar to that dis-
covered, 971. Greek origin of They say, what say
they"; Suggestion of Professor Sayce that King
Arthur is referred to by Gildas and not totally
neglected by Celtic writers, 972.

..........150, 311, 473, 635, 798, 964
Bacon, Lord (Dean Church), 636. Ballads, English
and Scottish Popular (Prof. Child), G2. Beaconsfield
Birthday-Book, 316. Birds and Poets (John Burroughs),
316. Bound Together (Hugh Conway), 476. Bruno,
Giordano (Mr. Plumtre), 801.

Callirrhoe (Mr. Field), 968. China, History of (D. C.
Boulger), 314. Congo, The River (H. H. Johnston), 153.
Decently and in Order By a Clergyman), 156.
Dictionary on Historical Principles, A New English

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