*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, INDEX FOR 1884 *** [Illustration: CHAMBERS’S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE _Science and Arts_ 1884 W. & R. CHAMBERS LONDON & EDINBURGH] * * * * * Edinburgh: Printed by W. & R. Chambers. * * * * * [Transcriber's Note: This cross reference of issue number to page number was provided by the transcriber. Issue Pages Date No. 1 1-16 January 5, 1884 No. 2 17-32 January 12, 1884 No. 3 33-48 January 19, 1884 No. 4 49-64 January 26, 1884 No. 5 65-80 February 2, 1884 No. 6 81-96 February 9, 1884 No. 7 97-112 February 16, 1884 No. 8 113-128 February 23, 1884 No. 9 129-144 March 1, 1884 No. 10 145-160 March 8, 1884 No. 11 161-176 March 15, 1884 No. 12 177-192 March 22, 1884 No. 13 193-208 March 29, 1884 No. 14 209-224 April 5, 1884 No. 15 225-240 April 12, 1884 No. 16 241-256 April 19, 1884 No. 17 257-272 April 26, 1884 No. 18 273-288 May 3, 1884 No. 19 289-304 May 10, 1884 No. 20 305-320 May 17, 1884 No. 21 321-336 May 24, 1884 No. 22 337-352 May 31, 1884 No. 23 353-368 June 7, 1884 No. 24 369-384 June 14, 1884 No. 25 385-400 June 21, 1884 No. 26 401-416 June 28, 1884 No. 27 417-432 July 5, 1884 No. 28 433-448 July 12, 1884 No. 29 449-464 July 19, 1884 No. 30 465-480 July 26, 1884 No. 31 481-496 August 2, 1884 No. 32 497-512 August 9, 1884 No. 33 513-528 August 16, 1884 No. 34 529-544 August 23, 1884 No. 35 545-560 August 30, 1884 No. 36 561-576 September 6, 1884 No. 37 577-592 September 13, 1884 No. 38 593-608 September 20, 1884 No. 39 609-624 September 27, 1884 No. 40 625-640 October 4, 1884 No. 41 641-656 October 11, 1884 No. 42 657-672 October 18, 1884 No. 43 673-688 October 25, 1884 No. 44 689-704 November 1, 1884 No. 45 705-720 November 8, 1884 No. 46 721-736 November 15, 1884 No. 47 737-752 November 22, 1884 No. 48 753-768 November 29, 1884 No. 49 769-784 December 6, 1884 No. 50 785-800 December 13, 1884 No. 51 801-816 December 20, 1884 No. 52 817-832 December 27, 1884 End of Transcriber Note.] * * * * * [Illustration] INDEX. Familiar Sketches and Essays. Page Acorns, Under the, 657 Brompton Cemetery, In, 753 Circulating-library Critics, 81 Conversation, the Art of, 442 ‘Corners,’ 289 Furniture Saleroom, In a, 379 Girls, Wives, and Mothers, 33 Good-natured People, Mischief done by, 111 ‘Grand Day,’ 561 ‘Happy Ever After,’ 161 Heroines, 492 Highland Glen, In a, 511 Home-nursing, 417, 549, 609, 725 King of Acres, a, 12, 29 ‘Kitchen Kaffir,’ the, 117 Literary Beginners, Another Word to, 49 Love, Concerning, 156, 333 Moor and Loch, On, 433 Mortality, Some Cheering Aspects of, 449 My Old College Rooms, 262 Nature on the Roof, 385 Newsmonger, the, 353 Norman Seascape, a, 390 River Holiday, a, 545 Saleroom, In a Furniture, 379 Spring Birds, 129 Væ Victis! 629 Poetry. Among the Daisies, 208 Angel Visitors, 224 Blackbird’s Nest, a, 448 Butterfly in the City, a, 368 Churchyard by the Sea, 128 Dawn of Peace, the, 592 Day in Early Summer, a, 704 Donald—a Pony, 144 Echoes, 256 En Passant, 560 Evening on the Lake, 480 Fairyland in Midsummer, 816 Hawthorn Story, a, 736 Hope On, Hope Ever, 768 July, 464 Last ‘Good-night,’ a, 496 Long Ago, 832 Love Lights, 160 Love-thought, a, 720 Michaelmas, 608 Mistletoe, 784 Modern Madrigal, a, 656 My Home in Annandale Revisited, 96 Night, 64 No Tears, 688 ‘Not Beautiful!’ 176 ‘Not Lost, but Gone Before,’ 48 Old, Old Story, 192 On the Coast, 544 One by One, 640 ‘Only Cousins, don’t you see?’ 352 Parted, 400 Parting Words, 800 Quits! 320 Rhine Woods, In the, 384 Rime of Sir Lionne, the, 512 Serenade, 288 Six Little Words, 112 Solitary Singer, the, 304 SONNETS— Love’s Watch, 16 Love’s Transfiguration, 16 SONNETS OF PRAISE— I. The Vales, 240 II. The Mountains, 240 Spring in the Alley, 336 Story that Never Grows Old, a, 672 Stray Blossom, the, 576 To a Child, 80 Trifles, 432 ’Twixt Daybreak and Daylight, 528 Water-ousel’s Song, 271 Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon, 416 Wounder and Healer, 752 Year’s Wooing, a, 32 ‘Yes,’ 624 Popular Science. Arsenic in Domestic Fabrics, 799 Colds, Common, 175 Colour-sense, 44 Electric Light, Curiosities of the, 140 Electricity and Gas, the Future of, 625 ---- for Nothing! 453 Explosion, Story of a Vast, 705 Fuel, a New, 671 Gas Cooking-stoves, 367 Glacier Garden, a, 785 Marine Station, a Scottish, 465 Medicine, Common Errors in Domestic, 299 Microphone, Curiosities of the, 373 MONTH, THE: Science and Arts— 59, 124, 201, 265, 348, 412, 476, 557, 620, 685, 761, 825 Noxious Manufactures, 239 OUR HEALTH— I. Health and its General Conditions, 113 II. Food and Health, 234 III. Some Food-dangers, and how to avoid them, 401 Parasitic Worms—Queer Lodgers, 278 Poisoning, 769 Science and Art School—Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 183 Smoking Injurious to Health? Is, 78 Steel, 575 Steno-telegraph, the, 607 Water, 497 Weather, How it is Made and Forecast, 689 White-lead Manufacture, a New Process of, 158 Tales and Other Narratives. Abe, Story of, 817 Break-neck Venture, a, 588 Bushranger, Interviewed by a, 650 BY MEAD AND STREAM, a Story.—By Charles Gibbon, Author of _Robin Gray_, _Queen of the Meadow_, _The Golden Shaft_, &c. CHAP. 1. The Overture: ‘Much Virtue in If,’ 1 2. What might be, 2 3. What is to be, 20 4. In the Oak Parlour, 35 5. A New Eden, 37 6. Alone, 50 7. An Unloved Life, 67 8. ‘Will you speak that Word?’ 69 9. Slander’s Shaft, 82 10. Light and Shadow, 84 11. ‘Strictly Confidential,’ 99 12. A Fair Arbiter, 115 13. The Cares of State, 116 14. In Harvest-time, 132 15. The Banquet waits, 133 16. Light Hearts and Sad, 148 17. A Turning-point, 163 18. The Sealed Letter, 179 19. The First Interview, 181 20. Paved with Gold, 195 21. Dreams, 211 22. Home Again, 212 23. Changes, 227 24. The Work, 243 25. A Word in Season, 259 26. A Question of Division, 275 27. Why is she so? 291 28. ‘The Little Rift,’ 309 29. Suspicion, 323 30. Curious, 339 31. The Conjurer, 355 32. The Enthusiast, 356 33. Her Problem, 371 34. Judge Me, 388 35. The Maid was in the Garden, 403 36. Is it Too Late? 419 37. Down by the River, 436 38. Whirlwinds, 450 39. The other Side, 468 40. Madge’s Mission, 484 41. Pulled Up, 499 42. A Land Shipwreck, 517 43. Other People’s Money, 531 44. An Apple of Discord, 547 45. High Pressure, 564 46. Downhill, 580 47. Under-currents, 595 48. Anxieties, 612 49. At Midnight, 614 50. A Crow to Pluck, 627 51. Hey, Presto! 642 52. How it was Done, 659 53. Pansy, 675 54. Poor Comfort, 692 55. Sweet are the Uses of Adversity, 707 56. Uphill, 723 57. The Secret in the Oak Parlour, 740 58. Clearing Up, 754 59. Glimpses, 756 CHEWTON-ABBOT.—By Hugh Conway, 280, 295, 315 Colonel Redgrave’s Legacy, 780, 793, 811 Frendraught, the Fire of, 52 Gentleman of the Road, a, 429 Greenroom Romance, a, 471 Haunted Bridge, the, 814 In a Flash, 520 Last of the Stuarts, the, 600, 617 Miner’s Partner, the, 138, 152, 168, 185 Miss Marrable’s Elopement, 188, 198 MISSING CLUE, THE, a Tale of the Fens— CHAP. 1. The Arrival at the _Saxonford Arms_, 701 2. The Jacobite, 702 3. The Events of a Night, 716 4. After Fifteen Years, 718 5. The Colonel’s Daughter, 732 6. Hobb Dipping Bewildered, 749 7. Reginald’s Story, 751 8. The Search, 764 Mr Pudster’s Return, 569, 584 My Fellow-passenger, 252, 263 Nameless Romance, a, 541 ONE WOMAN’S HISTORY, a Novelette.—By T. W. Speight— 631, 646, 664, 680, 696, 710, 728, 743, 757, 771, 786, 804, 819 Queen Margerie, 677 Queer Company, In, 444, 461 Run for Life, a, 488 Silas Monk: a Tale of London Old City, 361, 374, 394, 407 Sketch from my Study Window, 343 ‘So Unreasonable of Step-mother!’ 45 Terribly Fulfilled, 424, 440, 454 TWO DAYS IN A LIFETIME.—By T. W. Speight— 5, 25, 41, 54, 73, 87, 105, 119 Vermudyn’s Fate, 536, 552 Witness for the Defence, a, 217, 231, 247 Yarn of the _P. and O._, a, 503 Zulu Romance, a, 330 Notices of Books. King Country, or Explorations in New Zealand, by Mr J. H. Kerry-Nicholls, 637 Mushroom-growing, by Mr Wright, 501 Nature near London, by Mr Richard Jefferies, 225 Norfolk Broads and Rivers, by Mr G. Christopher Davies, 273 BOOK GOSSIP— Aileen Aroon, by Dr Gordon Stables, 63 Anglo-Saxon Literature, by Mr John Earle, Rawlinson Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford, 411 Arminius Vambery, his Life and Adventures, 207 Athole Collection of Dance Music of Scotland, by Mr James Stewart Robertson (Edradynate), 208 Chapter of Science; or, What is the Law of Nature? by Mr J. Stuart, Professor of Mechanics, 62 Diseases of Field and Garden Crops, by Worthington G. Smith, 825 Expansion of England, by Mr J. R. Seeley, Professor of Modern History, 62 Guide to Methods of Insect Life, and Prevention and Remedy of Insect Ravage, 271 Introduction to the Study of Modern Forest Economy, by Dr J. C. Brown, 825 Killin Collection of Gaelic Songs, by Mr Charles Stewart, 824 London Cries; Chap-book Chaplets; and Bygone Beauties, published by Messrs Field and Tuer, 63 More Bits from Blinkbonny, by ‘John Strathesk,’ 824 Norman Conquest, by Mr William Hunt, 411 Photography for Amateurs, by Mr T. C. Hepworth, 824 Practical Taxidermy, by Montague Brown, F.Z.S., 825 Shetland and the Shetlanders, by Sheriff Rampini, 271 Sprigs of Heather, or the Rambles of ‘Mayfly’ with Old Friends, by Rev. John Anderson, D.D., 208 Whitaker’s Almanac for 1884, 63 Miscellaneous Articles of Instruction and Entertainment. Abe, Story of, 817 Acorns, Under the, 657 Acrobats, 318 Advertisers Again, Among the, 94 Almanacs, Romance of, 23 Amateur ‘Cabby,’ an, 778 America, European Emigration to, and its Effects, 641 American Newspapers on Themselves, 714 Amusements in Germany, Popular, 634 Ancient and Modern Statues, the Largest, 470 Ancient People, an, 430 Anglo-Indian Chaplain, Recollections of an, 792 Animal Life, Studies in, 822 ---- Memorials and Mementoes, 285 Antipathies in Animals— I. Horses, 85 II. Dogs, 590 Architecture, Stained Glass as an Accessory to Domestic, 359 Army Schools, 494 Arsenic in Domestic Fabrics, 799 Artificial Jewels, 731 Ashburnham Collections, the, 341 Back from ‘Eldorado,’ 573 Bank of England, Curiosities of the, 737 Bird Migration, 481 Birds of Spring, 129 Bonded Warehouses, London, 58 Break-neck Venture, a, 588 Bridge, the Haunted, 814 British Museum, New Mediæval Room at the, 693 Brompton Cemetery, In, 753 Buried Alive, 222 Bushranger, Interviewed by a, 650 ‘Cabby,’ an Amateur, 778 Calls before the Curtain, 135 Cameo-cutting, 224 Cave-chapels, 513 Charr of Windermere, the, 406 Chewton-Abbot, 280, 295, 315 Children, Over-educating, 366 Christmas Trees, 748 Cigars, 709 Circulating-library Critics, 81 Cliff-houses of Cañon de Chelly, 40 Coin Treasures, 249 Coins Wearing Away? Are our, 393 Colds, Common, 175 College, Queen Margaret, 555 ---- Rooms, My Old, 262 Colonel Redgrave’s Legacy, 780, 793, 811 Colour-sense, 44 Commercial Products of the Whale, 566 Conversation, the Art of, 442 Cooking Classes for Children, 775 Cooking-stoves, Gas, 367 ‘Corners,’ 289 Correspondence Classes, 555 Cricket, Umpires at, 399 Curiosities of the Bank of England, 737 Curiosities of the Electric Light, 140 ---- ---- ---- Microphone, 373 ---- ---- ---- Peerage, Some, 305, 326 Curiosity in Journalism, a, 200 Cycling, Progress of, 335 Cyprus Locusts, 801 Dauphins, False, 662 Death-claims, How Life-offices pay their, 97 Decisions, Some Legal, 423 Deer-forests, Scottish, 721 Detective Police, Our, 337 Dinner-parties Out of Doors, 673 Dishes, Some Queer, 230 Distillation in Ireland, Illicit, 644 Dwarfie Stone, Legend of the, 667 Eastern Trading, Some Instances of, 463 Edicts, Ancient Rock-hewn, 486 Educational Pioneer, an, 699 ‘Eldorado,’ Back from, 573 Electric Light, Curiosities of the, 140 Electricity and Gas, the Future of, 625 ---- for Nothing! 453 ----, Lighting Collieries by, 496 Elephants, the Moulmein, 638 ----, Trimming the Feet of, 240 Emigration to America, European, 641 English Law, Familiar Sketches of— I. Marriages; Settlements; and Breaches of Promise to Marry, 102 II. Parent and Child, 377 III. Master and Servant, 490 Episodes of Literary Manuscripts, 283 Erratic Pens, 313 Errors in Domestic Medicine, Common, 299 European Emigration to America, and its Effects, 641 Explosion, Story of a Vast, 705 Fairs, Old Provincial, 598 Falkland Islands, a Peep at the, 110 False Dauphins, 662 Fellow-passenger, My, 252, 263 Florida, Concerning, 797 Food-notes, Some, 287 Foresight of Insects for their Young, 587 Forestry and Farming, 720 ---- Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1884, International, 193 Fortunes, Sudden, 241 French Detectives, 48 Frendraught, the Fire of, 52 Fuel, a New, 671 Furniture Saleroom, In a, 379 Gas Cooking-stoves, 367 ----, the Future of Electricity and, 625 Gentleman of the Road, a, 429 Germany, Popular Amusements in, 634 Girls, Wives, and Mothers, 33 Glacier Garden, a, 785 Gold, 209 Gold-fields, the Transvaal, 177 Good-natured People, Mischief done by, 111 Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 183 ‘Grand Day,’ 561 Greenroom Romance, a, 471 Grouse, 529 Gum-arabic and the Soudan, 640 Hampstead Heath, 65 ‘Happy Ever After,’ 161 Haunted Houses, Rationale of, 397 Health, Our, 113, 234, 401 Heroines, 492 Highland Glen, In a, 511 Holiday, a River, 545 ‘Home! Sweet Home!’ 173 Home-nursing, 417, 549, 609, 725 Homing Pigeon, the, 245 Honey-bee, Something about the, 409 Hospitals and Dispensaries, London, 518 Housewives, Hints for, 447 Humorous Definitions, 475, 669 Hush-money, 143 In a Flash, 520 India, Musk-rat of, 703 Indian Jugglers, 604 ---- Snakes, 214 Insects, Foresight of, for their Young, 587 Ireland, Illicit Distillation in, 644 Island, a Solitary, 719 ----, an Interesting, 347 Jaffa to Jerusalem, From, 321 ‘Jerry-building’ in the Middle Ages, 464 Jewels, Artificial, 731 Joint-stock Companies and ‘Limited Liability,’ 577 Journalism, a Curiosity in, 200 ‘King Country, the,’ 637 ---- of Acres, a, 12, 29 ‘Kitchen Kaffir,’ the, 117 Knowledge, a Little, _not_ Dangerous, 616 Last of the Stuarts, the, 600, 617 Law, Sketches of English, 102, 377, 490 Legal Decisions, Some, 423 Life, Prolonging, 427 Life-assurance and Annuities, Post-office, 257 Lifeboat Competition, 459 Life-offices, How they pay their Death-claims, 97 Lighting Collieries by Electricity, 496 ‘Limited Liability,’ Joint-stock Companies and, 577 Literary Beginners, Another Word to, 49 Literary Manuscripts, Episodes of, 283 ---- Self-estimates, 220 Locusts, Cyprus, 801 London Bonded Warehouses, 58 ---- Hospitals and Dispensaries, 518 London, Nature around, 225 ----, Remains of Ancient, 654 ----, Sanitary Inspection of the Port of, 534 Love, Concerning, 156, 333 Maiden Speeches, Parliamentary, 150 Man and Nature, 608 Manufactures, Noxious, 239 Marine Station, a Scottish, 465 Marriage, the Net of, 432 Marsala, a Sample of, 795 Mediæval Room at the British Museum, New, 693 Medicine, Common Errors in Domestic, 299 Microphone, Curiosities of the, 373 Migration, Bird, 481 Miner’s Partner, the, 138, 152, 168, 185 Miss Marrable’s Elopement, 188, 198 Missing Clue, the, 701, 702, 716, 718, 732, 749, 751, 764 Monastic England, 4 Money-borrowing, the Shady Side of, 166 MONTH, THE: Science and Arts— 59, 124, 201, 265, 348, 412, 476, 557, 620, 685, 761, 825 Moor and Loch, On, 433 Morality, Stock Exchange, 828 Mortality, Some Cheering Aspects of, 449 Moulmein Elephants, the, 638 Mr Pudster’s Return, 569, 584 Mrs Shaw, the Late Prince Imperial’s Nurse, 32 Mushrooms for the Million, 501 Musk-rat of India, the, 703 Name? What’s in a, 813 Nameless Romance, a, 541 Nature around London, 225 ---- on the Roof, 385 Nettle-cloth, 145 New Zealand, Explorations in, 637 Newsmonger, the, 353 Newspapers, Curious, 591 ---- on Themselves, American, 714 Norfolk Broads and Rivers, 273 Norman Seascape, a, 390 Notes on Persian Art, 808 Noxious Manufactures, 239 OCCASIONAL NOTES— Abnormal Humanity, 304 Advice to Intending Emigrants, 479 Albo-carbon Light, New, 830 Ambulance Societies, 63 American Literary Piracy, 271 Anthropometrical Laboratory at the Health Exhibition, 479 Bacchus, Discovery of Statue of, 656 Blindness in Infancy, Prevention of, 206 Burns and Scalds, 655 Canine ‘Collector,’ 415 Card-telegrams, 206 Casualties on the British Coast, 624 Chilian Argentine Andes, Exploration in the, 831 Coffee? Why do we now drink less, 303 Curious Disease, 480 Diarrhœa and Cholera, Treatment of, 560 Dissection after Death, 205 Dutch Rush, 351 Earthquake in England, Recent, 351 Electric Light in Railway Carriages, 205 Electric Lighting for Ships, Improved, 351 Electrical Tricycle, 320 Electricity as a Brake, 767 Ensilage, 829 Fastest Passage on Record, 415 French Crown Jewels, 559 Fruit-farm, a Flourishing, 207 Gas Cooking-stove, a Handy, 830 Grape and Peach in America, 207 Harbour of Refuge for East Coast of Scotland, 415 Herring Spawns, How and Where the, 206 Hydrophobia—Important Experiments, 205 Irish Female Emigration, 830 Labour and Wages in Australia, 204 Level-crossing Gates, 736 Lightning-strokes in France, 352 ---- ----, Mechanical Characteristics of, 829 Lights and Lighthouses, Investigations on, 736 Marvellous Sunsets, Recent, 64 Metallic Compound, New, 415 Mummies, Making of, 767 Native Treatment of Diseases in India, 831 Novel Peal of Bells, a, 766 Oil Breakwater at Folkestone, 127 Old Westminster Houses, Last of the, 64 Old-fashioned Furniture, 320 Organ in Westminster Abbey, New, 479 Persons Killed by Wild Animals in India, 829 Postal Orders, New, 414 Railway Passengers, 830 Relics from the Holy Land, 768 Rome, Interesting Discovery at, 656 Russian Crown Estates, 204 ---- Longevity, 272 Sion College, Last of Old, 830 Sowing and Harvesting, 272 Steam-ferry on the Thames, 767 Subterranean Fish, 415 Telegraph Extension, 127 Telegraphing Extraordinary, 624 Telephoning Extraordinary, 656 Trout-life, Interesting Notes on, 204 Turning Wood into Metal, 768 Uphill Railway, Another, 480 Utilisation of Sewage, 767 Old Provincial Fairs, 598 One Woman’s History— 631, 646, 664, 680, 696, 710, 728, 743, 757, 771, 786, 804, 819 Order of Mercy, an, 15, 63 Orkney Folk-lore—Legend of the Dwarfie Stone, 667 Outward and Homeward Bound, 301 Over-educating Children, 366 Paper, More Uses of, 742 Parasitic Worms—Queer Lodgers, 278 Parliamentary Maiden Speeches, 150 Parody, the Muse of, 71 Peer? What is a, 17 Peerage, Some Curiosities of the, 305, 326 Pencil-making, 582 Pens, Erratic, 313 People, an Ancient, 430 Persian Art, a Few Notes on, 808 ---- Sherbet, Royal, 438 Peterborough, the ‘Strong-room’ at, 655 Pigeon, the Homing, 245 Pioneer, an Educational, 699 Pisciculture, the Progress of, 268 Poisoning, 769 Polecat, a Few Words about the, 190 Port of London, Sanitary Inspection of the, 534 Post-office Life-assurance and Annuities, 257 Prince Imperial’s Nurse, the Late; Mrs Shaw, 32 Printers’ Errors, 636 Prolonging Life, 427 Quarantine, 543 Queen Margaret College, 555 ---- Margerie, 677 Queer Company, In, 444, 461 ---- Dishes, Some, 230 ---- Lodgers—Parasitic Worms, 278 Ranching, Some Realities of, 653 Rationale of Haunted Houses, the, 397 Recollections of an Anglo-Indian Chaplain, 792 Regiment, a Skating, 255 Remains of Ancient London, 654 Ring-trick, the, 735 River Holiday, a, 545 Rock-hewn Edicts, Ancient, 486 Roof, Nature on the, 385 Ruin, Sudden, 571 Run for Life, a, 488 Sacred Trees, Some, 509 Sample of Marsala, 795 Sanitary Inspection of the Port of London, 534 Schools, Army, 494 Science and Art School—Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, 183 Scot Abroad, Glimpses of the, 76 Scottish Deer-forests, 721 ---- Marine Station, a, 465 Seals and Seal-hunting in Shetland, 364, 507 Seascape, a Norman, 390 Seashore Free to All? Is the, 539 Sensitive Plant, 159 Sherbet, Royal Persian, 438 Silas Monk: a Tale of London Old City, 361, 374, 394, 407 Skating Regiment, a, 255 Sketch from my Study Window, 343 Sledge-dogs, 9 Smoking Injurious to Health? Is, 78 Snakes: Do they ever commit Suicide? 672 Snakes, Indian, 214 ‘So Unreasonable of Step-mother!’ 45 Solitary Island, a, 719 Spider-silk, 524 St John’s Gate, 527 St Marguerite and St Honorât, 369 St Peter’s, 91 Stained Glass as an Accessory to Domestic Architecture, 359 Statues, Ancient and Modern, the Largest, 470 Steel, 575 Steno-telegraph, the, 607 Stock Exchange Morality, 828 Story of a Vast Explosion, 705 Strange Institution, 96 ‘Strong-room’ at Peterborough, the, 655 Studies in Animal Life, 822 Suakim, 196 Sudden Fortunes, 241 ---- Ruin, 571 Suicide, 292 Superstitions, the Common-sense of, 237 Surgical Scraps, 383 Terribly Fulfilled, 424, 440, 454 Thieves and Thieving, 525 Trading, Some Instances of Eastern, 463 Transvaal Gold-fields, 177 Trees, Christmas, 748 ----, Some Sacred, 509 Trimming the Feet of Elephants, 240 Troubadours, the, 171 Two Days in a Lifetime, 5, 25, 41, 54, 73, 87, 105, 119 Umpires at Cricket, 399 Vaccination, 593, 688 Væ Victis, 629 Vermudyn’s Fate, 536, 552 Washing by Steam, 800 Water, 497 Water-ousel, a Plea for the, 270 Weather, How it is Made and Forecast, 689 Whale, Commercial Products of the, 566 What’s in a Name? 813 White-lead Manufacture, a New Process of, 158 Windermere, the Charr of, 406 Wind-power, Abandonment of, 319 Witness for the Defence, a, 217, 231, 247 Woman’s Work, a Word on, 606 Yarn of the _P. and O._, a, 503 Zulu Romance, a, 330 [Illustration] *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, INDEX FOR 1884 ***