INDEX. Adam, Death before, 117. Advice to the Student, 138. Age, our Unimaginative, 239. Ages, great, 81, 82. Airy, Prof., 241. Alarum, ancient, 14. Albert, Prince Consort, Death of, 228. Albert, Prince Consort, on the Progress of Knowledge, 227. Alderson, Baron, on Education, 138. Alfred’s Time-Candles, 13. Antiquaries, long-lived, 111. Aphorisms on Time, 2. Archbishop Sancroft, 104. Architects, aged, 113. Argument, What is it? 144. Aristotle’s Philosophy, 134. Artists, aged, 112, 113. Authors and Artists, Working, 204. Average of Life, 71. Babbage, Mr., on Life Assurance, 71. Bacon, Francis, on Longevity, 80. Bailey’s _Records of Longevity_, 96. Baily, Francis, 208. Banks, Sir Edward, 182. Barrow, Sir John, 164. Beckford, William, 189. "Begin at the Beginning," 246. Bentham, Jeremy, Age of, 109, 110. Bentinck, Lord George, 217. Berry, the Misses, 92. Bidder, George, the engineer, 186. Birch, Alderman, 200. Blake, Captain, 174. Books for the Young, 141. Booth, David, 205. Brassey, Thomas, 185. Britton, John, Rise of, 207, 208. Brodie, Sir Benjamin, _note_, 59, 60. Brougham, Lord, 214, 215, 216. Brougham, Lord, on Oratory, 170. Bruce, John, on Longevity, 83. Brunel, I. K., 182, 183. Brunel, Sir I. M., 181. Buckingham Family, the, 193, 194. Buffon, on growing Old, 77. Burke, Oratory of, 169. BUSINESS-LIFE, 152-217. Business, Men of, 174. Byron, Lord, 206. Carlyle’s Signs of the Times, 11. Centenarians in 1800, 101. Chambers, Robt., on Old Age, 99. Chantrey the Sculptor, 209. Character the best Security, 176. Chatham, Lord, 170. Cheyne, Dr., on Old Age, 109. Childhood’s Pastimes, 72. Children, Young, Teaching, 120. Circumstances and Genius, 238. Civic Hospitalities, 203. Civic Worthies, 199. Clark, "King of Exeter ’Change," 189. Clark, Chamberlain, 95, 208. Classics, Dr. Arnold on, 124. Clergy, Great ages of, 104, 105. CLOCKS AND WATCHES: Anne Boleyn’s Clock, 35; Cannon Clock, 37; Chronometers, 37; Clocks striking twice, 32; Electric Clocks, 39; Harrison’s improvements, 36; Horologe, 29; Horse-Guards Clock, 31; Kensington-palace, 36; Minute-Jacks, 33; Pendulum Experiments, 38; Rabelais on, 29; St. Dunstan’s Clock, 32, 33; St. James’s-palace Clock, 31; St. Magnus Clock, 32; St. Paul’s Cathedral Clock, 31, 35; St. Paul’s, Covent-garden, Clock, 31; Scott and Shakspeare on, 30; Watch, to choose, 39; Watch, Lord Herbert to his, 40; Watch-face at Somerset-house, 36; Water-clocks, 30; Westminster-palace Clock, 30, 35. Colburn, Henry, 197. Coleridge, _note_, 62. Coleridge, Sir John, on Education, 130, 140. CONCLUSION, 250-256. Consolation in growing Old, 76. Cooper, Durrant, on great ages in Yorkshire, 97. Cornaro, Great age of, 92. Court letter, Model, 165. Courtesies, Small, 221. "Cramming," 132. Cubitt, Thomas and William, 185, 186. Cunningham, Allan, 210.