We have done with this book. It has greatly disappointed us in every respect. As a repertory of facts, or as a history of the railways, it is ill-arranged, meagre, and stupid; and the sketches which it contains are so absurdly conceived, and so clumsily executed, that they entirely fail to enliven the general dulness of the volumes. At the very point which might have been rendered most interesting in the hands of an able and well-instructed writer--the period of the great mania--Mr Francis fails. His pen is not adequate to the task of depicting the rapid occurrences of the day, or the fearful whirl which then agitated the public mind. In short, he is insufferably prosy throughout the first four acts of his drama, and makes a lamentable break-down at the catastrophe. His work will fail to please any portion of the public, except the heroes whose praises he has sung. He has given them sugar, indeed; but, after all, it is a sanded article. We hope they will combine to buy up the edition, and thus fulfil the prophecy of Shakspeare--"Nay, but hark you, Francis: for the sugar thou gavest me--'twas a pennyworth, was't not?" "O Lord, sir! I would it had been two." "I will give thee for it a thousand pound: ask me when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it." "Anon, anon, sir!" INDEX TO VOL. LXX. Abdallah, a dragoman, sketch of, 448 _et seq._ Aborigines, general characteristics of, 416. Abrantes, the marquis of, 354. Achmet Bascha, a campaign in Taka under, 251 _et seq._ Achmet Effendi, sketch of, 453. Acre, sketches at, 459. Administration, system of, in Russia, 164 ET SEQ. Adolphe the clairvoyant, performances of, 70. Africa, recent travels in, 251. Agricultural depression, amount of, in Ireland, 136 --reaction of it on other classes of the community, 303. Agricultural interest, experienced results of free trade to the, 133 --Lord John Russell on its state, 489. Agricultural Relief Associations, proceedings and demands of the, 616. Agriculture, Huskisson on protection to, 632 --state of, &c. in the United States, 699 _et seq._ --relations of geology to, 703 --improvements in, in New York, &c., 704 --its state, &c., in Canada, 707. Agriculturists, effects of the depression of the, on the home trade, 109 --lowering of the wages of the, 496. Albany, Professor Johnston's Lectures in, 700. Alchemy, origin of chemistry with, &c., 564. Aleppo, town of, 725. Alexandretta, town of, 463, 724. Alexandria, a voyage from, to Syria, 451. Alexis the clairvoyant, 77. Ali-Beg, the pass of, 100. Amadeus I. of Savoy, 414. American lakes, the, 708, 709. American slavery, on, 385. Americans in California, character, &c. of the, 478. Amiens, sketches at, 199. ANSAYRII, THE, 719 --their tenets, numbers, &c., 733. Apes, shooting of, at Hassela, 270. Arab Scheik, an, 728. Arable culture, expense of, 1790, 1803, and 1813, 620.