Abrantes, Duchess of, her memoirs, 47--106--191 Babbage's Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, 27--54 Barrington's Sketches, 52 Biblical Atlas, 44 British Museum, 140--158 Buccaneer, 428 Byron's Works, 12 Catechism of Phrenology, 45 Characteristics of Women, 117 Contarini Fleming, 10 Double Trial, 125 Elements of Chemistry, 206 Encyclopædia Americana, 102 Excursions in India, by Capt. Skinner, 105 Framlingham, a Poem, 306 Geography, Questions in, 45 Gordon on Elemental Locomotion, 183--198 Knowledge for the People, 77--134--429 Life of Peter the Great, 300--308 Laconics, 31 Legends of the Library at Lilies, 350--403 Legends of the Rhine, 138 Life of Charlemagne, by G.P.R. James, 92--119 Lives of Scottish Worthies, 221--233 Macculloch's Dictionary of Commerce, 151--279 Memoir of Felix Neff, 147--171 Natural Magic, by Sir David Brewster, 72--107--191 New Gil Blas, 186 Numismatic Manual, 223 Outlines of General Knowledge, 45 Pilgrimage through Khuzistan and Persia, 73--314 Pompeii, 412 Popular Zoology, 57 Private Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion, 157--165--235 Sketches from Venetian History, 60 Songs, by Barry Cornwall, 11--46 Statistical Sketches of Upper Canada, 29--57--91 Taylor's Records of his Life, 291--317 Trials of Charles I., 41 Wild Sports of the West, 298 Brain of Man, 96 Braithwaite's Steam Fire-Engine, 111 Brass-plate Coal-merchants, 56 Bread, legal adulteration of, 366 Brent Tor church, 112 Brevities, 179 Bridewell, in the reign of Elizabeth, 357 Bridge, stupendous, in Spain, 24 Britain, early inhabitants of, 276--371 British Artists' Exhibition, 330--362 British Institution, School of Painting at, 362 British Museum, the, 140 Brougham, Henry, anecdote of, 182 Brydges, Sir Egerton, 86 Bull, national, 240 Burnham Abbey described, 81 Bustard, natural history of, 328 Butterfly, Chameleon, and Serpent, 425 Byron, Lord, conversations with, 6--86--110 and Anastasius, 156 early poems, by, 12 and Earl Grey, 80 and the English, 9 and Mrs. Hemans, 156 and Mr. Hope, 156 on horseback, 110 and Leigh Hunt, 157 and Italian women, 117 his love, 269 letter of, 290 and Moore, 7 personal description of, 7 and Scott, 110 and Shelley, 9 and Madame de Stael, 86 and Venice, 63 Cæsar, Julius, his superstition, 238 Cairngorm, origin of, 77 Caliga, origin of, 112 Caloric, or the matter of heat, 206 Canada, climate of, 57 notes on, 29 Canary Birds, breeding, 111 Candelabra and Lamps of Pompeii, 412 Canning, Mr., statue of, 25 Cannon Clock, 144 Cannon, names of, 160 Canova, vase, containing the heart of, 169 Caprices, national, 439 Caps, laws relating to, 319 Cara, lines to, 272 Carding a Tithe-Procter, 52 Card-playing, indifferent, 318