NEWSPAPER writers, growth of, as a class, 374; instances of, Russell, Forbes, Dicey, Sala and others, 375; action and reaction of, on the public press, 375; Macaulay as one of the, father of the leading article style, 378; no longer really anonymous, 385; the recruiting of writers with well-known names for, 385; the youth of modern, 386. NEWTON, Sir Isaac, his discovery of law of gravitation, 324. NIGHTINGALE, Florence, her training in Germany, 390; the trained nurses who accompanied, in 1854, 390; influence of, on origin of nursing as a profession, 390; supercession of the 'Mrs Gamp' and decayed billiard-markers of former days, 391; tributes to efficiency of system started by, 391. NONCONFORMISTS, subject to greater numerical fluctuations than established churches, 405; reasons for same, 405; the numbers of the Congregationalists in 1837 and 1897, 404; the numbers of Baptists in 1837 and 1897, 404. NOVEL writers of eminence since Sir Walter Scott, 375; commercial successes of, 375; George Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade, as instances of, 375; Bulwer Lytton and Disraeli as, compared, 376. O ORGANIZATION, faculty for, of Prince Consort, 320; of exhibition of 1851, by Prince Consort, 320. OVERLAPPING of schools, waste of educational energy caused by, 161. OXFORD, number of unattached students at University of, 183; system of control over unattached students at, 183; system of teaching the unattached at, 183; honours gained at, by the unattached students, 184; exemplary conduct of unattached at, 185; professor of modern history at, formerly an unattached student, 186; social clubs for undergraduates at, 188; effect of social clubs at, on 'union society,' 188. OXFORD and Cambridge, middle class examinations, beginnings of, 147; still uphold the standard of general culture in England, 150. P PALMERSTON, Lord, sketch of, 4; descent from Sir John Houblon, Lord Mayor of London, 15. PARISH Councils, apparent tendency of, 80; female members of, 80; subjects of discussion at, 81; 'one man one vote' for, 81; effect of, to restore many old manorial rights, 82; sense of responsibility developed by, 83; seldom convened more than once a year, 84; differences between, and County Councils decided by the Local Government Board, 84; obliged to hold their sittings in the evening, 90. PARISHES, English, prior to 1894, 77; State represented by squire in, 77; Church by vicar in, 77; the village by the village club in, 77; subjects of interest to inhabitants of rural, 78; change which has come over, since 1894, 78; the village meeting halls, modern centres of, 78; home rule in, since 1894, 79; the grouping of, great care taken in, 80.