Birds, builders and singers, 48. " classifications of (raptores, rasores, &c.), 187-9. " English temper towards, illustrated 174-5. " praising God, 61. " rare, becoming extinct, 34. " shooting them, the first idea of English gentlemen, 178. See s. _Æthuia_, _Bullfinch_, _Clematis_, _Cuvier_, _Egret_, _Gould_, _Gull_, _Halcyon_, _Hawk_, _Heron_, _Kingfisher_, _Laros_, _Nest_, _Nightingale_, _Ornithology_, _Peacock_, _Pheasant_, _Skylark_. Blake, Wm., as painter and as poet, 21. " quoted, "The Book of Thel," "Doth the eagle know," &c., 21, 22, 63. Blindness of mind and body, 106. Boat race, 212. Boats, loved by all boys, 41. Books, children's, 61. Botanic gardens at Oxford, 160. Botticelli, as an engraver, _pref._ vii. " his study of face and limb, _pref._ viii. Bottle, science of the formation of a, 135. Brutes, man's relation to the, 30. See s. _Animals_. Briareus, 183. British Museum, Greek Vase, "Anacreon and his dog" at, 151. Bruges, 93. Bubble, soap, unexplained, 132, 134. Bullfinch's nest, 48. Bustle, Dr. Acland's dog, author's delight in, 151, 154. California, 70. Camarina, 229. Cambridge wranglers, value of art to, 96. Canton, the heraldic, 235. Carlyle, T., "Shooting Niagara," 70. Carrion and game, choice of, 11, 36. Cassell's _Educator_, 202. Cassiopeia, 124. Cat, its power and use of sight, 110. " "may look at a king," _ib._ Ceyx, son of the Morning Star, 198. Chærephon, in Lucian's dialogue on the Halcyon, 194. Châlet, education needed to build a Swiss, 202. Chamouni, Turner's drawing of, 147. Chance, and design in nature, 182, seq. Change, and living change, how wrought, 208-9. Chapel, attendance at, in Oxford, 169. Character, evidenced by dress, 220. Chariot, use of Greek, 231. Charity, true, more reverent than pitiful, 211. Charlemagne's treaty with Scotland, 235. Chartism, story of a Chartist herald (Sir A. Helps, quoted), 208. Charybdis, 75. Chaucer, quoted, "Cuckoo and Nightingale," 37 (motto), 56. Chemistry, a modern God, 202. " modern progress in, 33. " of little use to art, 96. Cherwell, the, 179. Chevron, the heraldic, 235. Chiefe, the heraldic, 235. Child and dog, pictures by Titian and Reynolds, 151. Childhood, pleasures and retrospect of, 82. Children's books, 61. Chivalry, Christian and Greek, 219. " " history of, to be learnt by gentlemen, 216. " conception of, as an influence in education, 239. " European, its basis, 236. " leaders of, 240. Christ, heraldic symbol of, in Italy, 229. Christian chivalry. See s. _Chivalry_. Christianity, early traces of in heathen literature (Lucian), 194. " idea of God as Light, 116. " its statements of mental health, 69.