Chapter 5

Dost Mohammed, character of, 142.

Dunning, anecdotes of, 249, 264.

Dwarf's well, the, a legend of Upper Lusatia, 196.

Earthquake of Lisbon, the, 102.

Education, effect of imperfect, in Ireland, 708.

Eglinton, the Earl of, speeches of, at the Burns' festival, 376, 395, 396.

Eldon, Lord, sketch of the career of, his early life, 245 his first struggles, 249 and first success, 251 enters parliament, 253 becomes solicitor-general, 257 attorney-general, 259 chief-justice of the Common Pleas, 262 and lord chancellor, ib. his subsequent career, 263.

Emperor, week of an an account of the visit of the Emperor Nicholas, 127.

Erl king, the, from Goethe, 63.

Etched thoughts by the Etching Club, review of, 153.

Execution of Montrose, the, a ballad, 289.

Fairy tutor, the, a legend of Upper Lusatia, 83.

Falkland islands, affair of the, 406.

Finlay's Greece under the Romans, review of, 524.

First love, from Goethe, 61.

Fisher, the, from Goethe, 65.

Fourier and his system, sketch of, 591.

Frederick the Great, anecdotes of, 404, 409.

French socialists, 588.

Galatia, Gaulish kingdom of, 478.

Gauls, Thierry's history of, reviewed, 466.

Gibbon, character of, as a historian, 788.

Girardin, M., 237.

God, the, and the Bayaderé, from Goethe, 421.

Goethe, Poems and Ballads of, No. I. Introduction, 54 the bride of Corinth, 57 first love, 61 who'll buy a Cupid? 62 second life, ib. the erl-king, 63 Mignon, 64 the fisher, 65 the minstrel, ib. the violet, 66 the doleful lay of the noble wife of Asan Aga, 67 No. II. Cupid as a landscape painter, 417 the artist's morning song, 419 the god and the bayaderé, 421 the treasure-seeker, 423 the castle on the mountain, 425 Philine's song, 426 to my mistress, 427 the wild rose, ib. a night thought, 428 Prometheus, ib. new love, new life, 429 separation, 430 the magician's apprentice, ib.

Great Britain, increase of crime in, 1.

Great country's little wars, a, review of, 133.

Great drought, the, 433 Chap. II., 436 Chap. III., 438 Chap. IV., 440 Chap. V., 442 Chap. VI., 452.

Greece under the Romans, review of, 524.

Grievances of Ireland, examination of the alleged, 701 the true, 708.

Guizot, M., review of the historical works of, 786.

Hardy, trial of, for high treason, 261.

Harris, James, career of, 401.

Heart of the Bruce, the, a ballad, 15.

Hill, Mr Sergeant, anecdotes of, 247.

Histoire des dix ans, review of, 265.

Historical account of the ancient canal between the Nile and the Red Sea, 182.

Hope, the Right Hon. Charles, letter from, 620.

Hume, character of, as a historian, 788.

Hydro Bacchus, 77.

Increase of crime, causes of, 1 districts in which greatest, ib.

Infant labour, increase of crime attributable to, 9.

Injured Ireland, 701.

Introduction to his poems, from Goethe, 54.

Ireland, increase of crime in, 1 examination of the question as to the injuries of, 701 its comparative freedom from taxation, 702 its representation in parliament, 703 municipal law, 706 alleged debarring of Roman Catholics from office, 707 true evils of, and their causes, 708.

Irish state trials, reversal of the judgment, 539.

It is no fiction, 364.

Jesuits, expulsion of the, from Portugal, 109 extinction of the order, 112.

Johnson, Dr, anecdotes of, 247, 257.

Knights, last of the Don John and the heretics of Flanders, 36