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EDITOR'S DRAWER........

EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR.....

JUNE: John Howard Payne, 142. Employment for

women, 144. Cruelty to children, 145.

JULY: The Newburgh Centenary; New Statues in
America, 304. Help for Decayed Gentlewomen, 305.
AUGUST: Sterne's Sentimental Journey in France

467. Irish lace at the Mansion House, 468. The

Brooklyn Bridge. New Occupations for Women,

469.

[April-May] Explosive Substances Bill passed;

Trial and sentence of Phoenix Park murderers;

Conference of Conservative Association; Trial and

sentence of Dynamite Conspirators in London; Con-

flagration at Delhi; Annexation of New Guinea; Sus-

pension of Contagious Diseases Act by Parliament;

Quebec Parliament House destroyed by incendiaries,

153. Underground Railway Ventilation; Freethinker

blasphemy trial; Royal Order of the Red Cross for

ladies created by the Queen; International Chess

Tournament in London; Opening of National Liberal

Club; Defeat of Affirmation Bill; Mr. Bradlaugh

again offers to take the oath; Opening of the Royal

College of Music: Knighthood conferred on Professor

Macfarren and Messrs. A. Sullivan and G. Grove;
Fenian Scare at Halifax; The would-be assassins of
Mr. Field, a juror, sentenced at Dublin; Ladies ad-
mitted to the practice of medicine by London Univer-
sity for the first time; Pensions to Lords Wolseley and
Alcester; Opening of International Fisheries Exui-
bition, 153.

[May-June.] Parnell Testimonial Fund denounced
by the Pope; Departure of Prince George of Wales on
a two years' cruise; Mission of Mr. Errington, M.P.,
to Rome on the Irish question; Execution of Phoenix
Park murderers; Release of Messrs. Healy, Davitt,
and Quinn, 313; Trial of dynamite conspirators;
Hygienic Exhibition, Rational Dress, etc., in London,

314.

[June-July.] The Sunderland Disaster; Capsizing
of the Daphne at Glasgow; Deceased Wife's Sister
Bill defeated, 475. Pauper emigration from Ireland
forbidden; Extension of British Empire considered;
The Ilbert Bill in India; Cholera in Egypt; Suez
Canal, Madagascar, and African colonies complica-
tions; Decision of Channel Tunnel Committee; Public
celebration of Mr. John Bright's twenty-fifth year as
Member for Birmingham; Government of Basutoland
resumed; Sentence of Dynamite Conspirators; Military
riots in Ireland; Earthquake shocks in England, 475.
Annexation of New Guinea forbidden by Parliament;
Manchester Ship Canal Bill passed in Commons;
Public banquet to Mr. H. Irving; Ironworkers' riots
in Staffordshire; "General" Booth forfeits the Eagle
Tavern; Women's Suffrage negatived in the Com-
mons; Opening of City of London College; Wimble-
don Rifle Meeting; Mr. Bradlaugh again excluded
from the Commons; Sentence of Dynamite Conspira-
tors in Galway, 477.

[July-August.] Renewed attempt by Mr. Brad-

laugh to enter the House; Society to promote construc-

tion of Harbours of Refuge; Corrupt Practices Bill

passed through Committee; Spike Island made a

military station, 638. International Rifle Meeting at

Wimbledon; Mr. Mackonochie, ritualist, deprived of

his living; Second Suez Canal scheme abandoned by

Government; Honours to American and Canadian

rifle teams; Murder of James Carey, the informer;

Sunday Closing Bill for Cornwall lost by casting vote

of the Lord Chancellor; Salvation Army complica-

tion; Meetings for and against the Albert B'll; Dyna-

mite discoveries in Scotland; Bradlaugh Demonstra-

tion in London; Lady Godiva procession at Coventry;

Welsh National Eisteddfod; The Bishop and Cathedral

of Norwich threatened; Public protest against tithes at

Maidstone; Seizure of seditious letters in the Punjaub;

Manchester Ship Canal Bill thrown out in the Lords;

Sentence of Fenians at Liverpool, 639.

[August-September.] Parliamentary Registration

Bill for Ireland rejected; Local Government Bill for

UNITED STATES.

[April-May.] Cyclone in Mississippi; Strike in
Pittsburgh coal region; United States Envoy to
Moscow; Convention of Irish Nationalists; O'Donovan
Rossa threatens to destroy London; Cardinal McClosky
rebuked by the Pope; Fenian extradition complica-
tions; Protest against landing of paupers, 155.

[May-June.] Opening of Brooklyn bridge; De-
structive cyclones; Irish agitation; Hon. Sackville
West attacked by a Fenian; Free-trade demonstration,

314.

[June-July.] Cyclones in New England and the
north-west; Irish pauper immigration question;
American Rifle Team despatched to England; Mili-
tary expedition against the Apaches, 477. Newspaper
duel, 478.

[July-August.] Strike of telegraph operators, 639.
Attack on United States Consul at Monterey; Pauper
immigrants; Tornadoes and Cyclones; Captain Webb
drowned at Niagara; Catholic clergy v. Parnellite
party; 34 per cent. Government bonds called in;
Opposition to foreign speculators in land; Presidential
journey to the Yellowstone; Quarantine on European
cattle; Lock-out in the cigar trade; Suicide of
Spanish Minister; Mormon victory at Utah elections,
640.

[August-September.] Redemption of Government
bonds without rebate of interest; Telegraph strike
suppressed; Completion of Northern Pacific Railway;
Terrible tornado in west; Corn harvest largest on
record, 799.

[September-October.] Arrival of first Corean Em-
bassy Disaster to Greely Relief Expedition; Tele-
graph line to Brazil opened; Invasion of Canadian
territory; Attick on British Consulate; Coloured

Convention; Mississippi Valley; Free Trade League;

Pittsburgh Exhibition destroyed, 964.

EDITOR'S HISTORICAL RECORD-continued.

Tunis; Museum of French Revolution at Versailles;
Hospital chapels officially closed; The Pope remon-
strates with Government on its attitude towards the
Church; Sentence of Louise Michel; Malagassy envoys
excluded from Paris, 478.

[July-August.] Serious riots by Anarchists; Arrest
for hissing the Marseillaise; Arrest for playing the
Marseillaise; Sanitary mission despatched to Egypt
to study cholera; Gift of Imperial Palace accepted by
Marseilles; Discovery of Royalist conspiracy; Victory
in Tonquin, 640. The Odette plagiarism case, 641.
[August-September.] 6000 pilgrims visit Lourdes;
Death of Comte de Chambord; Foreign Consuls re-
stored in Madagascar; Release of Mr. Shaw, the
British Missionary; Death of Queen of Madagascar;
Circular from Comte de Paris to the Courts of Europe;
Treaty of Hué, and French Protectorate over Tonquin
and Annam, 799; Threatened hostilities with China;
Burial of Comte de Chambord, 800.

[September-October.] Death of Admiral Pierre ;
Victory at Tonquin; Insurrection at Port-au-Prince;
King Alphonso insulted in Paris; Resignation of the
Minister for War, 965.

GERMANY.

[April-May.] State-aided insurance for working-
men; Toleration of Roman Catholics considered in
Parliament; Complications with the U.S. Minister
concerning exclusion of American pork; Alliance
with Austria and Italy; Official inquiry into loss of
the Cimbria; Hygienic Exhibition at Berlin, 156.

[June-July.] Condict between Prince Bismarck and
Parliamentarians; Abrupt close of Parliament; Re-
tirement of Herr Bennigsen, leader of Liberals; Treaties
of Commerce with Italy and Madagascar, 478.

[July-August.] Imprisonment of Krasczewski, a
poet, for high treason; Meeting of German and
Austrian Emperors; Luther Festival at Erfürt, 641.

[August-September.] Prussian bishops oppose new
Ecclesiastical Law; Royal baptism at Potsdam; Herr
Antoine prosecuted for high treason; Imperial and
parliamentary complications; Earthquake shocks at
Dusseldorf; Honours to the Kings of Roumania and
Servia, 800.

[September-October.] Luther festival; Autumn
manœuvres; National statue of Germania unveiled;
Arrest of Deputy for Metz, 965.

RUSSIA.

Hurried trials of Nihilists; Preparations for Corona-
tion; Widespread military conspiracy discovered, 156.
The Coronation, 315. Treaty with Persia; Establish-
ing protectorate over Irania; Nihilist plots discovered;
Piracy among Black Sea pilots, 641. Anti-Jewish
riots; Reorganisation of the Army; Socialist trials,
800. Sobieski festival at Cracow; Cattle plague; Anti-
Jewish riots; Wholesale arrest of Conspirators in
Army and Navy, 965.

AUSTRIA.

Riots and Bakers' strike at Vienna; Landwehr in-
creased by 138,000, 156. Union of Turkish and Austrian
railways, 315. Tisza-Esslar trial; Serious workmen's
riots at Vienna, 611. Anti-Jewish riots at Pesth,
Agram, and Prague; Political riots of Italians at
Trieste; Anti-Hungarian riots in Croatia; Revolu-
tionary demonstrations and incendiary fires at Vienna;
Birth of a daughter to the Crown Prince, 800. Sobieski
festival; Revolt in Croatia; Panic in Agram, 965.

ITALY.

Explosives Bill; Sfax indemnity claims settled;
Earthquake shocks in Catania, 156. Extreme Liberals
expelled from the Ministry; Garibaldi anniversary,
315. New customs tariff and commercial treaties, 479.
Salvation Army at Rome; Eruption of Vesuvius and
Earthquake at Ischia; Socialist congress broken up at
Ravenna, 642. Fresh earthquake shocks at Ischia,
>01. Monument to Victor Emmanuel; Earthquake
and epidemic at Ischia, 966.

SPAIN.

Society of the "Black Hand" trials, 315. Quaran
tine against ships from England; Spanish Minister
recalled from Mexico; Military insurrection at Bada-
joz, 641. Military revolts in Catalonia and the north,
642. Ministerial crisis averted; King Alfonso visits
Germany, 801.

MISCELLANEOUS.

International Exhibition at Amsterdam, 156. In-
surrections in Albania and Armenia; Mohammedan

migration from Bulgaria and Roumelia into Turkey;
War against False Prophet; The Soudan railway, 479.
Awards of International Indemnity Commission; Ob.
struction of foreign commerce on the Tigris; Re-
organisation of Turkish Army, 612. French language
introduced in Turkish schools; Resignation of Servian
Ministry, 643. Volcanic eruption in Java, 801. Cholera
epidemic in Egypt, 479, 642, 801. Quarantine abolished
at Port Said; Retirement of Sir Aucland Colvin; New
Financial Adviser appointed in Egypt; New Tariff in
Turkey, 966.

SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.

The Jordan valley, new Suez and Panama Canal
schemes; Channel Tunnel Commission; Meteorological
stations within the Polar circle; French scientific
expedition to the South Seas; Honours to Carl Bock
and H. M. Stanley; Dutch expedition to the Arctic
regions; New buildings of the Birkbeck Institution;
Repression of Dueling in German Universities, 157.
Candles from petroleum products; Literary Copyright
Convention; The Mersey subway at Liverpool; Man-
chester Ship Canal Bill; Electric railway at Wimble-
don, 158. New Suez Canal, 315. Four schemes for
canals between Mediterranean and Red Seas; Women's
Dress Reform in London; Channel Tunnel and Man-
chester Ship Canal Schemes; Parke's Museum of
Hygeine; New York and Brooklyn Bridge, 316.
Electric fishing in California; The Telephone at the
Savoy Theatre; Honours to Sir Joseph Hooker; Sta-
tistics of Deaths from Starvation in 1882; Experi-
ments with vaccination lymph; An Underground
Railway for New York; Tram-cars worked by com-
pressed air in London; Automatic railway signals,
317. New bridge at Niagara; Solar eclipse observed
at Caroline Islands; Administration of London hos-
pitals, 479. Railway Exhibition at Chicago; The
Cagliari Exhibition of Drainage and Irrigation appá-
ratus, 480. Rejection of Channel Tunnel and Suez
Canal schemes; Harbour works at Boulogne; New
Mediterranean and Red Sea Canal schemes; Extension
of London seawards; New ambulance steamer; Acci-
dent to a diving apparatus; Novel electric launch;
Electric railways and omnibuses; The English Channel
crossed by tricycle; Sixpenny telegrams; Balloon
excursions in July, 643. International Fisheries Ex-
hibitions at London, Calcutta, Zurich, and Nice;
Oyster culture in America; International Electrical
Exhibition at Vienna 801. The River Humber tun-
nel; the Montreux Chillon Mountain Railway; Chan-
nel ballooning; New Meteorological Observatory at
Chepstow; Failure of Dutch Arctic expedition, 802.
Commerce on the Congo; Greenland explored; The
Mersey Tunnel; Suez and rival canals; Brazil and
United States connected by wire; The camera obscura
on war vessels; Test of naval gunnery: Trial of Lay
torpedo; Unrivalled speed of the Alaska and Oregon,
steamers; New electric tramways and omnibuses;
New American inventions; Halfpenny stamps for
receipts; Phenomena of Nature during October, 966.

ART AND ARCHEOLOGY.

Picture Exhibitions in London, and Paris; Opening
of new buildings of Institute of Painters in Water
Colours; Extension of National Gallery; Loan of
duplicates and casts from Museums, 158. Opening of
museums and picture galleries on Sunday vetoed by
Parliament; Changes in Shakespeare's birthplace, 159.
The Tale of Troy represented at South Kensington,
317. Progress of Tonic Sol-fa system; The Pipe Roll
Society and its discoveries; Picture sales at Christies',
sale of "Strawberry Hill" and "The Wayside," 318,
British School of Archaeological studies at Athens;
Lectures on Assyrian antiquities in British Museum;
Ashburnham MSS. declined; British autograph col-
lection presented to Boston, U.S.A.; Sale of “Poe
Cottage; Discovery of old Fort Duquesne in centre
of Pittsburgh; Rousseau collection and Japanese Salon
in Paris, 480. British cannon discovered on battle-
field at Corunna; Ancient Town Hall at Aix la
Chapelle injured by fire; Discovery of Egyptian
antiquities at Rome; Discovery and publication of
Thomas Girtins' mezzo-tints, 481. Sale of historic
furniture at Strawberry Hill; Removal of statue of
Duke of Wellington; Memorial window to Lord F.
Cavendish; Memorial bust of Fielding; Sale at auction
of Napoleon's bed; The Shapira MS, forgery; 333rd
anniversary of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 644. Purchase
of Washington's birthplace by U.S. Government;
Annual Congress of British Archaeological Association
at Dover; Sale of old Rochester Castle; Luther Col-
lection at British Museum, 802. Triennial Salon

EDITOR'S HISTORICAL RECORD-continued.

established at Paris; Discoveries at Delos, 803. Statue
of Germania; Sobieski memorial at Vienna; English
and Italian memorials; Restoration of Peterboro'
Cathedral; Fires at Holyrood and Cortachy Castle;
Discoveries of a lost Raphael, Marie Antoinette's harp,
drawings by Greuze, and documents of Columbus; New
Sword of State for Siam, 967

OBITUARY.

Archduchess Marie Antoinette of Austria, Dr.
William Farr, C.B., Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin, Hon. Edward Morris Erskine, C.B., Jules
Sandeau, Prince Batthyany, Jules Goupil, D.. Her-
mann Schulze-Delitzsch, Admiral Frederick Edard
Vernon-Harcourt, Edouard Manet, Lord Vernon, Very
Rev. George Connor, Dean of Windsor, Sir Thomas Ty-
ringham Bernard, Bart., Louis Viardot, 159. Rev. Josial:
Henson, Dr. James Young, Dr. Robert Druitt, Dr.
William Chambers, Lieut.-Colonel N. G. Philips Bous-
field, 318. Abd-el-Kader, Alex. Kennedy Isbister,
Major-Gen. Burnaby, Signor Alberto Mario, Sir George
Bowyer, 319. Rev. Charles Brooks, John Barnett,

EDITOR'S LITERARY RECORD

Alps and How to See Them (“J. E. M." Guide)

308. Anderson's (E. L.) The Gallop, 307. Archer's

(W.) English Dramatists of To-day, 151. Barnard's

(F.) and Ross (C. H.) Behind a Brass Knocker, 309.

Besant's (W.) All Sorts and Conditions of Men, 153.

Black's (W.) Yolande, 961. Bloomfield's (Lady)

Reminiscences of Court and Diplomatic Life, 148.

Book-Lovers Enchiridion, The, 471. Broglies's (Duc

de) Frederick the Great and Maria Theresa, 149.

Browning's (R.) Jocoseria, 472. Buckland's (Anna)

Story of English Literature, 151. Burnaby's High

Alps in Winter, 960, Burrough's (J.) Winter Sun-

shine, 794. Carlyle and Emerson's Correspondence,

147.

Carlyle's (Thomas and Jane Welsh) Let-

ters and Memorials, 146. Chambers's (G. F.)

Handbook-Dictionary, 634. Collins' (Mabel) In

the Flower of her Youth, 152. Conway's Emer-

son at Home and Abroad, 148. Cook's (Dutton)

Nights at the Play, 150. Crawford's (F. M.) Dr.

Claudius, 796. Daudet's (A.) Port Salvation, 794.

Dobson's (A.) Fielding, 309, Emerson and Carlyle's

Correspondence, 147. Fleet's (C.) Glimpses of our
Ancestors in Sussex, 309. Gilchrist's (Anne) Mary
Lamb, 959. Griffis's (W. E.) Corea, 472. Gullifer's
(H.) A Fool for His Pains, 797. Hackel's (E.)
Visit to Ceylon, 308. Hall's (S. C.) Retrospect of
a Long Life, 472. Hildebrand's (Hans) Industrial
Arts of Scandinavia in Pagan Times, 150. Hollings-
head's (J.) Foot-lights, 636. Holtham's Eight Years

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FRONTISPIECES.

FAUSTUS (E. A. Abbey)....

Robt. Griffiths, Hon. Simeon Jacobs, Henry S. Leigh,
Rev. W. Josiah Irons, Bishop Colenso, Henry Frederic
Turle, Sir William Knollys, Sir James Cochrane,
Gustave Aimard, 481. General Sir Edward Sabine,
William Spottiswoode, Dr. John Strain, Rev. Thomas
Burke, Capt. Farquhar, Duke of Marlborough, 482.
Rev. W. Griffith, Edward Backhouse Eastwick, "Gen.
Tom Thumb," John Whyte-Melville, Sir John Lucie
Smith, John Bruce Norton, 644. King Tu Duc, Gen.
Sir Thomas Reed, Gen. Sir Fenwick Williams, Capt.
Matthew Webb, Iwakura Tomomi, Mrs. Chaplin
Ayrton, Dr. Robt. Moffat, Gustav Heyer, 645. Gen.
William Gordon, Rev. Kodger B. Vaughan, Rev.
W. M. Baker, Comte de Chambord, Sir F. S. Reilly,
Admiral Robt Patton, Thomas Plant, Louise Lateau,
Ivan Tourgénief, 803. William Marwood, Cromwell
Fleetwood Varley, Rt. Hon..Hugh Law, Queen Rana-
volana, 804. Hugh Birley, H. Conscience, Dutton
Cook. Admiral Pierre, 968. Admiral Sir R. Collinson,
Sir H. F. B. Maxse, Sir W. T. Thomson, John Payne
Collier, Dr. J. R. Holman, Dr. Thuilber, G. Remington,
Léon Halévy, Mahomed Sharif Khan, 969.

....146, 306, 471, 634, 794, 959

in Japan, 961. Howard's (B. W.) One Summer,

637. Howell's (W. D.) A Foregone Conclusion,

152. Howell's (W. D.) Doctor Breen's Practice, 795.

Howell's (W. D.) Their Wedding Journey, 637.

James's (M. E.) How to Decorate, 308. Jeaffreson's

(J. C.) The real Lord Byron, 471. King's (E.) The

Gentle Savage, 309. Lane's (E. W.) Arabian Society

in the Middle Ages, 635. Lane's (E. W.) A Thousand-

and-One Nights, 635. Langbridge's (F.) Love-knots

and Bridal Bands, 307. McCarthy's (J. H.) Outline of

Irish History, 310. Marked "In Haste," 796. Mil-

lington's (J.) English as She is Spoke, 634. Mollett's

(J. W.) An Illustrated Dictionary of Words used in

Art and Archæology, 794. Oliphant's (Mrs.) Sheridan,

960. Poets, Living English, 307. Rambla-Spain, 635.

Read (R. H.) Dora, 961. Rimmer's (A.) About Eng-

land with Dickens, 960. Robinson's (P.) Sinners and

Saints, 473. Russell's (W. C.) My Watch Below, 636.

Russell's (W. C.) A Sea Queen, 797. Saintsbury's

(G.) Specimens of French Literature, 471. Scoone's

(W. B.) Four Centuries of English Letters, 152.

Scott's (L.) Renaissance of Art in Italy, 306. Smith's
(G. B.) Half-Hours with Famous Ambassadors, 636.
Smith's (H. P.) Glossary of Terms and Phrases, 794.
Smith's (R. B.) Life of Lord Lawrence, 310. Stock-
ton's (F.) Rudder Grange, 309. Twain's (M.) Life on
the Mississippi, 636. Vere-Foster's Simple Lessons in
Water-colour Painting, 308. Worsaae's (J. J. A.) In-
dustrial Arts of Denmark, 150.

488

650

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