We trust it is needless to say that we have closed our pages against everything that can be considered objectionable in its tendency; and, while every statement in this volume has been culled with conscientious care from authentic, although not generally accessible, sources, we have scrupulously rejected every line that could give offence, and endeavoured, in accordance with what we profess in our title-page, to amuse by the eccentric, to startle by the unexpected, and to astonish by the marvellous. INDEX TO ENGRAVINGS PAGE ABYSSINIAN ARMS, 509 ---- LADIES, 492 ---- ORNAMENTS OF, 493 ---- LADY TATTOOED, 496 ALTAR-PIECE OF SAN MINIATO, 601 AMULET WORN BY EGYPTIAN FEMALES, 452 AMULET BROTCHE, 332 ANCIENT METHOD OF KEEPING A WASHING ACCOUNT, 3 ---- NUT-CRACKERS, 236 ---- SNUFF-BOXES, 210 ANGLO-SAXONS, SEPULCHRAL BARROW OF THE, 27 APTERYX, THE, OR WINGLESS BIRD, 308 ARCH, A BEAUTIFUL, IN CANNISTOWN CHURCH, 433 ---- OF TRAJAN AT BENEVENTUM, 445 ARCHITECTURE FOR EARTHQUAKES, 324 ARMLET, AN ANCIENT, 425 ARMOUR, ANCIENT, CURIOUS PIECE OF, 341 ASH, THE SHREW, 397 AZTEC CHILDREN, THE, 37 BAGPIPES, 505 BANDOLIERS, 560 BANNERS AND STANDARDS, ANCIENT, 584, 585 BASTILLE, STORMING OF THE, 195 BEAU BRUMMELL (A), OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 61 BECTIVE ABBEY, 392 BEDESMEN IN THE TIME OF HENRY VII, 593 BELLOWS, A PRIMITIVE PAIR OF, 637 BELL SHRINE, AN ANCIENT, 348 ---- OF SAINT MURA, 412 BIBLE USED BY CHARLES I. ON THE SCAFFOLD, 271 BILLY IN THE SALT BOX, 181 BLACKFRIARS, PARIS GARDEN AT, 465 BLIND GRANNY, 70 ---- JACK, 23 BOAT, A BURMESE, 668