GENERAL INDEX

TO

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.

FROM VOL. CXI. TO VOL. CXL. INCLUSIVE.

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A
A BARIS, alleged to have been a of Balkh, 25; joined by Mahomed

Rufeek, ib. ; defeats Shere Ali at
Abbas Pacha, his love of horse- Ghuznee, 29

breeding, cxxxviii. 446; anecdote Abercromby (Sir Ralph, 1734-1801),
of his extravagance, ib.

his conduct of the Dutch cam-
Abbeville, discovery of flint weapons paign, cxvi, 144

near, cxviii. 261; the gravel-beds Aberystwith, the Devil's Bridge at,
ascribed to the Post-Pliocene age, cxxii. 446
266; a human jaw-bone found, Abgar (Prince of Edessa), alleged
272; views of M. De Beaumont,. letter of Christ to, cxxiv. 347 ; his
274

existence denied by Laurentius
Abbot (Charles, Lord Colchester, Valla, ib.

1757-1829), his Diary and Cor- Ability, definition of, as applied to
respondence,' cxiii. 360; his taste the intellect, cxxxii. 115–116;
for practical reforms, 362; Chief theory of its heredity, ib.
Secretary for Ireland, 363; bis Abou Sophyan, his negotiations with
conduct as Speaker, ib. ; his hos- Mahomet at Mecca, cxxiv. 44

tility to the Catholic claims, 364 Abyssinia, early Portuguese expedi-
Abdallah (Ameer of the Wababees), tions to, cxxviii. 227
his defeat by Ibrahim Pasha,

varieties of trees in, cxxx.
cxxii. 511

469-475
succeeds Feysul, cxxv. 13; Abyssinian Expedition, the, evidence
his overtures to the British, 16

of Mr. Dundas on the contracts
Abdallah-Ebn-Obay, his protection for, cxxxiii. 136; absence of Par-

of the Kainoka Jews against liamentary control over expendi-
Mahomet, cxxiv. 38

ture, 240 note
Abdool Rehman (Affghan prince),

Academies of Art, disparaged by
his contest with Shere Ali, cxxv. Hogarth and Fuseli, cxviii. 481;
21; his cause espoused by the first design of, in England by
king of Bokhara, ib. 22; master Charles I., 486; scheme of Evelyn,

ib.; attempts to form private meagreness of present lectures, ib.;
schools, 487

urgent want of a new building,
Academy (Royal), history of, by Mr. 505; proposed transfer to Trafalgar

Sandby, cxviii. 483; official infor- Square, 506; hopeful prospects,
mation respecting, 484; wholesale 507
detractors of, ib. ; its importance Academy (Royal), irresponsible ma-
to artists, 485; their memorial in

nagement of, cxxiii. 75
1768, ib.; schemes of Charles I.

qualifications of presidents,
and Evelyn, 486; its foundation cxxxi. 413
in 1768, 487; Sir J. Reynolds Accoramboni (Virginia, d. 1585),
first president, ib.; its ill-defined tragic story of, cxxxii. 296
constitution, 488; its services un- Achæan League, the, its origin due
derrated by the public, 489; en- to foreign pressure, cxviii. 148
tirely self-supporting, ib.; state- Acoustics, interesting history of,
ment of finances, ib.; gratuitous cxxvii. 103; connexion between
exhibitions by private painters, physiological and physical, 129,
490; its officers miserably paid, 130. See Sound
491; uncertainty of tenure, ib.; Acrostics, use of, on early Christian
its inertia as a self-elected body, inscriptions, cxx. 237 ; specimen
492; lamentable state of the of, found at Autun, 238
schools, ib.; want of a permanent • Acts of the Apostles,' M. Renan's
director, ib.; exclusion of eminent rejection of, criticised, cxxxi. 486-
artists, ib. ; inadequate rewards 491
to students, 493; invidious duty Acts of Parliament, codification of,
of selection, 494; want of space required, cxxvi. 365; necessary
for pictures, ib.; large proportion process, viz. expurgation, sifting,
of rejections, ib. note; invidious digesting, and consolidation, 372-
privileges of members, ib.; punc- 374; need of revision, 375. See
tilio of the ' line,' 495; its consti- Statute Law
tution the root of evil, ib.; aca-

enormous annual number of,
demicians elected too late in life cxxxiii. 59
from scarcity of vacancies, 496; Adam (Sir Frederick), wrongly ac-
exclusion of present artists of dis- cused of neglecting the pine-
tinction, ib. 497 ; class of asso- forests of Cephalonia, cxx. 362
ciates, ib. ; the Commission recom-

(Dr. Alexander, 1741-1809),
mend them to be increased to rector of the High School at Edin-
fifty, ib.; proposed General Assem- burgh, cxxxv. 408; his attain-
bly, ib.; encroachments of painters ments, ib.
over other artists, 498; want of

(Robert and James), verses
catholicity of art displayed in on them, cxxvi. 12
paintings, 499; Lancashire buy-

Adamson (Patrick, Archbishop of
ers, ib. 500; honorary members or St. Andrews, 1536-1592), his
Professors, ib.; power of the reign- character, cxiv. 409
ing sovereign, 501; wise choice of Adderley (Right Hon. Sir C. B., b.
the Commission, ib.; admixture of 1814), his Review of Colonial
non-professional element therein, Policy, cxxxi. 98; his strictures
ib.; want of provision for science on Earl Grey, ib. ; his criticisms
as applied to art, 502 ; original obsolete, 99; his own views, 100
discourses discontinued, 503; Addison (Joseph, 1672-1719), his

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love of drink, cxviii. 412; first goods maintained, 137; abolition

representation of his . Cato,' 422 of the 'tipping 'system, ib.; 'SeeAddison (Joseph), his knowledge ley's pigs,' ib.; reductions in clerks,

of society, cxxi. 316; M. Taine's 138; substitution of writers,' sneers at, 317; the founder of 139; closing of Woolwich and classical prose, ib.

Deptford yards, ib.; retirement and his portrait of himself in the commutation scheme, 140; reduc"Spectator,' cxxiv. 379

tions of ships and men,141; alleged - bis Whig views of society want of stores at Bull Point Maunder Anne, cxxxii. 537; his first gazine, 143; new coast-defence series of essays in the Spectator,' ships, 144; importance of reticence 5-15

in naval discussion, ib. Adelaide (South Australia), contro- Admiralty (Board of), origin of,

versy of the Bishop with Mr. cxxxvi. 567 Binney on church fusion in Aus- Ægium (now Vostitza), the scene of tralia, cxiii. 2; the proposed terms the Achæan League assemblies, of union, 3

cxxii. 549 rapid growth of the colony, Aërolites, called 'pocket planets' by cxvi. 17

Humboldt, cxxv. 265; analysis of, Adelphi Terrace, Strand, origin of the ib.; their heat when fallen, ib. ; name, cxxxi. 177

distinguished from shower-meAdmiralty (Board of), want of orga

teors, 268 nisation, cxiii. 287; its constitution,

origin of, cxl. 417; generation 291; need of responsible subdi- of heat by, 425 vision, 293; duties of its members, Æschylus (B.C.525-159), Miss Brown294; office of surveyor, 295

ing's translations from, cxiv. 516 M. Xavier Raymond's criti

the Laurentian

MS. of, cisms on, cxviii. 171-80

cxxxvii. 71 diatribes of the Quarterly Æthelstan (895-941), titles of soreReview' on Mr. Childers, cxxxiii. reignty assumed by, cxxx. 206 122 ; stocks of coal abroad, 124; Æthelwolf (d. 853), his supposed use of mixed coal, 126--127; the grant of titles, cxvi. 420 naval element at Whitehall, Afghanistan, condition of, under 130; Order in Council of 1869, Dost Mahomed, cxxv. 17; the 131; duties of lords defined, ib. ; province of Balkh, ib. ; sympathy subordination of responsible con

with the Sepoy mutineers, 18 (see trollers of business to the minister, Azin Khan); recent affairs in, as advocated in the 'Edinburgh 19–34 (see Shere Ali); untractable Review,' ib. 132; reforms at vic- nature of the country an impeditualling yards and naval hospitals ment to British advance, 44 due to Mr. Childers, 133; the – recent events in, cxxxviii. 245; * anchor mistake,' ib. ; paltry gossip importance of, to England, 246 ; about inefficiency of supply, ib.

article in vol. cxxv. p. 17, referred 1:34; the biscuits at Bermuda' to, ib.; battle of Sheikabad, 247; story, ib.; competition and private letter of Sir J. Lawrence to Azim, contract, 135; statements of Mr. ib.; terrorism of Azim, 219 ; Baxter thereon, ib.; question of Wullee Mahommed, 250 ; arrest of prices, 136; recent revision of the three Cabulees, 251; murder schedules, ib.; high quality of of Malommed Rufeek, ib.; battle

c?

of Kelat-i-Ghilzai, 253 ; Shere Ali
and Fyz Mahommed, 254; visit of
Yakoob to Persia for assistance,
256; risings against Ufzul, 258;
rout and death of Fyz Mahommed,
260; Azim assumes the title of
Ameer, ib.; his march into Toor-
kistan, ib.; Shere Ali checked at
Maimuna, 261; affairs at Herat,
262 ; Azim sets up the standard of
revolt, 263; Shere Ali enters
Cabul, 264; policy of Sir J. Law-
rence, 265; Shere Ali recovers
his capital, 267; congratulated by
Sir J. Lawrence, ib. ; close of the
year 1868, 269; Lord Mayo's as-
sistance and letter to Shere Ali,
270, 271; Ismail and his acts, 275;
Alum Khan in Toorkistan, 276;
relations with Bokhara respecting
refugees, 280; Jehandar Shah, 281
and note; fears of Russian advances,
282; Mr. Forsyth's commission,
284; settlement of boundaries by
England and Russia, 285; Ab-
doollah, Shere Ali's son, 287 ; re-
bellion of Yakoob, 288; recon-

ciliation, 296
Africa, early geographical specula-

tions respecting, cxii. 319; zones
of modern discovery, 320; sources
of the Nile, 322 ; Portuguese ex-
plorations in the southern zone, 325

characteristics of negroes in,
cxv. 50; prospects of cotton culti-
vation, 481

Arab dominion in the north,
cxvi. 357

American scheme for deport-
ing slaves to, cxix. 205

Portuguese discoveries in,
cxxviii. 200-236

(Equatorial), Du Chaillu's
discoveries in, cxir. 213; his ac-
count of tribe-alliances, 218; can-
nibalism and witch doctors, ib.

difficulties of travel in, cxviii.
214; theory of a central watery
plateau, 219; features of Enstern

Africa, 220; arid character of the
interior disproved, ib.; social state
of the three Wahuma kingdoms,
222; the Fellatahs, 223; the king-

;
dom of Uganda, ib. See Speke,

Capt., Grant, Capt., and Nile, the
Africa (Equatorial), the people of

Latooka, cxxiv. 164; the Mak-
karikas, 167 ; the Obbo Country,
168; King Kamrasi, 172; theory
of a central plateau confirmed,
182; geological antiquity of, ib.;
curse of slave traffic in, 183. See

Baker, Sir Samuel
Africa (Sonth), recent discovery of

diamond fields in, cxxxiv. 410;
emigration of the Boers, ib.; Sir
Harry Smith's annexations, 413;
his proclamation resisted, 414; de-
feat of Pretorius at Boemplats, ib.;
disturbances with Moshesb, chief
of the Basutos, 415; Orange River
Territory abandoned, 416–420; an-
nexation of British Kaffraria, 421;
Sir G. Grey's scheme of Feder-
ation, ib.; conduct of Moshesh to
the British, 423; his contest with
the Boers, ib.-425; Trans Vaal ex-
tensions of territory in 1868, 427;
first discovery of diamonds, ib.;
Sir P. Wodehouse's policy, 428;
claims of Waterboer, 429; con-
ference at Novitgedacht, ib. ;
prompt action of General Hay,430;
Mr. Campbell appointed magistrate
in the diamond territory, 431;
rival claims examined, 433; posi-
tion of the two republics, ib., 435;
case of the Orange Free State, ib.;
Adam Kok and Harvey, ib. ;
Waterbuer's answer and case, 436;
General Hay's view of the ques-
tion, 437; arrival of Sir Henry
Barkly, ib.; his course of action,
438; personal visit to Klipdrift,
439; his correspondence with the
two presidents, 440; his measures
of British protection, 441-443 ;
wise and firm policy of Lord Kini-