A.

Abbey-Schoeffel-Grau partnership, 22, n 1
Abdul Hamid, Sultan of Turkey, 108
Abuse is not argument, 460

Acquisitiveness, 509, n I

Actors generous with their money, 45, n I

Yesterdays with, by Kate Winslow, 21, n 2
Fund Association, 244, n 2

monument, Dedication of the, 165, n 1

Adjectives, Proper use of, 452, n I
Administrative reform, 389

Aeronautic balloon, 40

Aeronautics an unpromising science, 242
Africa, Accurate map of Central, 137, n 2

Dr. Oscar Lenz journeys afoot across, 160, n 2
Modern inventions in, 161, n I

African white races, 348, n I

After Browning, Poe, 70

Age of letters, 206

and youth, Crabbed, 556

railroads, 465

woman, 484

Youthfulness of, 107

Agriculture, Electricity applied to, 89

Air navigation, 66, n 1

Alabama, Prohibition in, 32

State university for colored people, 491, n I

Alaska, land of promise, 534

Collection of curios from, 141, n I

Alcohol in temperance drinks, 41, n I

Alcoholic drinks nourishing? Are, 32

Algeria, Grasshopper plague in, 301, n I

Alien land law, 39

landlords, Some, 110

Allan Dare, The story of, 470, n I

Allan Quatermain promising well, 308, n 1 Alleged assaults on the G. A. R., 291

issue of '88, 231

45, n I

magazines in England, Sale of, 568, n 1 .millers, Greatest of, 64, n 1 Missionary Society, 244, n 2 newspapers in Mexico, 464, n I party, 502

picture in the Paris Salon, Best, 205, n 2 pictures in the Paris Salon, 117, n2 prosperity, 240

railroads, Earnings of, 39, n I

short story writers more proficient than their English rivals, 167, n 2

singers of note, 165, n 1

Social Science Association, 403, n 2

state and the American man, 180

Sunday-School Union work, 385, n 1

tools abroad, 558

vessel at Havana in sixty years, First, 241, n 2

wage workers, 483

Western species of, 155

women and girls not healthy. 441, n I

Americans are
are generous and long suffering, 356
denationalized, 299

English estimate of certain, 359
should own America, 37

Americanism in the soil, 251

Americanisms, Englishmen condemn, 228, n 2

America's iron tonic, 464

Amusements, Education in, 556

Amusing metaphors, 131

Anæsthetics, Use of, 383, n 1

Ancestor hunting, 219

Ancient tomb at Forli, Italy, 69, n I

Anderson, Mary, at the London Lyceum, 345, n I as Hermione, 564, n 2

her matrimonial intentions, 448, n I

Andover case, Decision in the, 243

pro and con, 537.

Theological Seminary, 491, n 2

Anger, Pugnacity and, 219

Anglo-California Bank of San Francisco, Fraudulent, 301, n 2

Anglo-Haytian question settled, 135, n 2
Animal electricity in woman, 423, n I

Locomotion, by Edward Muybridge, 89, n 2

Animals happy? Are, 280

Reasoning power in, 88

Anonymous donors, 43, n 2

Antarctic exploration, 488

Antiphone, 404, n I

Anti-saloon movement, 415

Apes as workers, 113

in New York, 176

Apoplexy in Bordeaux, 223, n I

Appearance of new suns, 242

Appearances, Putting on, 280

Apple Seed and Brier Thorn, by Louise Stockton, 496, n I

Apprentices, Extinction of, 135

April elections, I

Aram, Eugene, Curios relating to, 208, n 2

Arbitration for Anglo-American disputes, 301, n 1

Archæological Institute of America, 362, n 2
Archaelogy in Russia, 404 n 1

Architecture, Art in Domestic, 517

Arctic cold, 403

exploration, 283

Arguments, facts, and conditions are bullish,

Arizona, Big dam in, 511, n 1

Armaments and peace in Europe, 125

Armour, Phil, his model mission, 515, n 2

Around the world in fifty days, 320

Arsenic eating, Growth and evils of, 342

320

Must educate the public taste for, 117, n 2

New criterion of the value of, 186, n 2

School of American, 426

Two phases of interest in, 448

Women in current, 20

Arthur Kill, Bridging the, 374
Articulation and sign language, 302

Artificial clouds, Protection of vines by, 323, n 2
Artist, Death from starvation of a promising, 117, n 2
Artists, Advantage of social gifts to, 92, n 2

Company of Associated, 406, n 2
have queer customers, 426, n 2
Opposed to granting medals to, 565, n I
Vicissitudes in the reputation of an, 405, n 2

Arts, Minneapolis School of Fine, 470, n 2
Paris School of Fine, 540

Aryans, Home of the, 399

Ascendency of the physical, 450

Anti-polygamy article, Bogus, 297

Antiquarian discovery, Important, 137, n 2

Anti-Rent Riots in New York, 1839-46, by E. P. Cheyney, 288, n I

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Baconianism, Sure cure for, 519

Baird, Spencer F., Death of, 472

Baireuth, Margravine of, Memoirs of the, 347, n 2

Baldwin Locomotive Works, 511, n 1

Balfe, Manuscript sketch books of, 164, n 2

Ballet dancers, Men as, 405

Balloon, Bruce's signaling, 467

Great captive, 90, n I

Baltimore and Ohio deal, 465

churches, 515, n 2

Religious denominations of, 425, n i

Balzac, Monument at Tours to, 143, n 2,
Bandelier, A. F., Historical work of, 368, n 2
Bangs, F. C., to star this season, 539, n 2

Banjo-the latest musical craze, 385

Bank clerk's salary, 511, n I

Banks, Maude, on the elevation of the stage, 517, n I
Baptist churches in Burmah, 538, n 2

missions, 163, n 2

Baptists, History of the, by Dr. Armitage, 247, n 2
Barroom and the growler, 150

Barnum, P. T., Bronze bust of, 245, n I

Offer of, 563, ni

Barr, Mrs. Mary L., Scotch dialect stories of, 228, n I
Barrett, Wilson, his Hamlet, 324, n I

playing in England, 345, n 2

Batholdi in London, 164, n 2

statue, Paris has the copy of the, 285, n 2
Baseball curve, Science of the, 262

players, Salaries of, 87, n I

Baths, Influence of, 243, n I

Bavaria, King of, Power of Wagner's music over the,
245, n I

Beatrice, Princess, composes music, 93, n I

Beauty and pugnacity, 536

Beaux Arts, Ecole des, An American carries off the
honors at the, 386, n I

Beecher, Henry Ward, as a Humorist, 208, n I

his art collections, 205, n 2

taste for etchings and engravings, 44, n 2
worth and influence, Testimonies to,
285, n I

Maj. James B. Pond's two works on, 248,

Beverages, Influences of, 243, n I
Bianchi, Mlle. Bianci, to visit this country, 426, n I
Bible baked in a loaf of bread, 140, n 2

in colleges, Study of the, 490, n 2
Revision of the Kaffir, 490, n 2
Rhymed version of the, 140, n I
Bibles printed, Number of, 225, n I

Rich collection of old, 143, n 2
Biographical Account of English Theatrical Litera-
ture from the Earliest Times to the Present Day,
428, n 2

Bibliothek der Kirchenvater completed, Last of the

79 volumes of the, 428, n 2

Bicycles, Cavalrymen mounted on, 138, n I

Birds, Manual of North American, by Robert Ridgway,
496, n I

Bird's-eye view of the situation abroad, 314

Birmingham, Ala., Growth of, 511, n 1

Birth-rate of the world, 243, n I

Bismarck and Holland, 414

Enter, 125

Blaine abroad, 152, 196, 213

Advice for, 310

and O'Brien, 213

could do, The worst thing, 78
faction extinguished, 351

Firm grip of, 350

gets the nomination, If, 213

his presence at home will be desired, 213
Homage to, 213

men do now? What will the, 311
No new elements of success with, 9
remains, After all, 153

Serious set back for, 351
to Sherman, From, 78

Why all this fuss about, 33

will make the strongest run, 174
Blast furnaces, number of, 402, n I

Blind Brother, The, by Homer Green, 208, n 2
Tom in litigation, 141, n 2

Blood transfusion in decapitated heads, 89
Bloody shirt, 269

Blue Stocking, Origin of the name, 167, n 2
Bodily strength in towns, Decay of, 160
Bogota, Interest in the mission at, 344, n 2

Beld project to connect Russia and America by rail-
way, 340

Bologna striving to win a name as an art center,
470, n I

Bonheur, Mlle. Rosa, Concerning, 186, n 2

Interesting photograph of, 21, n I
Book-Lovers' Enchiridion, 268, n I

making before the age of printing, 245
Books and literature, 306

disappear? Will, 207

Enemies of, New edition of, 568, n I
Influence of, 449

knowledge not wisdom, 557
that have helped me, 386
Booth, Agnes, on English actors, 93, n 2
Booth-Barrett combination, 21, n 2, 492, n I
Edwin, a timid speech maker, 225, n I
as Hamlet, Henry Irving on, 326, n I
the elder, his advice to actors, 204, n 2
Boston Art Club, Acquisition by the, 326, n 2

Museum, Sundays at the, 285, n 2
Ideal Opera Company gone to smash, 93, n 2
Ideals, Repertoire of the, 265, n 2

Massacre victims, Monument to the, 345, n 2
Papyrus Club to Walt Whitman, 227, n 2
people read, What, 95

Boswell's, Johnson, New Clarendon Press edition of,

347, n 2

Museum, Glimpse of the, 339

Museum library, 248, n 2

pirates, American authors and, 517

royal plate, 305, n i

telegraph service not paying, 322, n I

Brownie poems and pictures to be published in book
form, 387, n 2

Browning, Robert, his Pauline: A Fragment of a
Confession, Fac-simile edition of, 288, n I
his Sordello, 71, n 2

Bruce, Erie, his signaling balloon, 467
Brutes and bullies of the period, 215
Buck, Dudley, his Light of Asia, 141, n 2
Buddhists antagonizing Christianity, 204, n 2
Building, $400,000,000 invested in, 341, n I
material, New, 509, n I
year, Biggest, III, n I

Bulgaria, 525

Prince Ferdinand of, 394, 414
Bulgarian army, Medals for the, 426, n 2

Bulwer, Lord Lytton, his memory assailed, 71, n 2
Burke, Edmund, Anecdote of, 408, n 2

Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodgson, on magazine portraits
of authors, 120, n 2

Burnside, General, Statue of, 305, n I
Business, About, 401

and industry, 14
comparison, 201

depression, Causes of the, 240

genius, 401

is largely restricted, 523

prosperous, 320

Money and, 135

situation, 282, 321, 465, 510, 534, 558
world, 300

Butter trade with England, Our, 363
Butterflies, Finest collection of, 361, n 2
Button's Inn, by Albion W. Tourgee, 451, n 2
Byron, A rare first edition of, 228, n 2
Tomb of, 400, n 1

Byron's sudden fame, 494

C.

Cable, George W., to travel South again, 120, n I
under the lash of the critic, 188, n I
Cables, Motors and, 558

Calcutta, In and Around, by Bishop Hurst, 268, n 2
Caldecott, Randolph, Edition de luxe of the picture
books of, 452, n 2

California, Division of the State of, 87, n I
First discovery of gold in, 452, n I
fruit and real estate, 487, n I

Immigration to, 158, n I
shipments to the East, 511, n I
Taxable property in, 421, n I
wine yield, 401, n 2
Cambridge training schools, 446
Campanini operatic concerts, 539, n 2
to perform Verdi's Otello, 564, n I
Canada and annexation, 400, n I

Australia, Navies of, 111, n I
Commercial union with, 200
Debt of, 321, n I

Large libraries of, 347, n 2
Our commerce with, 241

prepared for self-defense, 441

Canadian exodus, 250

finances, Bad state of, 135

government, Charges of corruption in the,
428, n 2

iron industry, 241, n 2

Methodist Church, 405, n 2

Pacific, Australian wool to Boston via, 341,

n I

public debt, 486, n 2

Low wages for, 14

to wages, Relation of, 281

Car heating, 443

Caste of authors, 246

520, n I

Inhabitants of, 560

Copy of, 368, n 2

Celluloid, 16, n 2

n I

Chasm, Yawning, 284

Chautauqua Assembly purchase, 344, n 2
Cheapness, Our fools' paradise of, 156
Chemistry has increased, Study of, 89, n 2
Chestnut-A knowledge of books, &c., 188, n 2
Chevreul, his keen sense of smell, 202, n I
Chicago, Astonishing spectacle of folly at, 7
building has ceased 159, n I

New cruiser, 261, n 2

Newberry library of, 347, n I

public library ill used, 71, n I

struggle, The great, 135

Childs, George W., and his employes, 111, n 2
made Doctor of Laws, 228, n 2

Child's-world ballads, 387, n 2

Children in Sunday-schools, 225, n I

Notes on the Early Training of, by Mrs.
Frank Malleson, 47, n I

China and American capitalists, 486
American miners off for, 559, n I
Christian college in, 344, n 2
Coal beds of, 158, n 2

Empress of, a poetess, 328, n 2

England and, 588

Missionaries in, 304, n 2

National banking system in, 465, n 2

Population of, 282, n 2

Railways in, 281

Small-pox inoculation in, 66, n I

Telephone in, 158, n I

Chinese Gordon, Bronze statue to, 92, n I

and Japanese employment of Americans and
Europeans, 485, n I

Baptist exhorter, 365, n 2
bass-reliefs, Ancient, 266, n 2
emigiants all from Canton, 447, n 2

girl graduate of the Woman's Medical Col-
lege, 516, n I

physician in New Orleans, 485, n I
plays in Paris and London, 539, n 2
Raised characters for blind, 477, n 2
Chipman, General N. P., 69, n 2
Cholera, Immigrants worse than, 250

invasion, Danger of a, 323, n 2
Choses Vues, by Victor Hugo, 228, n I
Chou Chou, by Audran, 265, n 2
Christ, Life of, in verse, 227, n 2
Personal claims of, 90

Relation of the miracles of, 202
Christian Biography, Smith's Dictionary of, 520, n I
daily paper needed, 365

Facts and Forces, by Rev. Dr. Newman
Smyth, 568, n i

Definite aim of the, 42

Endeavor, Society of, 447, n 2
energy, 264

recommendations, 248, n 2
science, 446

Christianity Christian? Is, 324
Christians, Voiceless, 424

Church, Alfred J., Two new volumes by, 496, n 1
Army in London, 204, n 2

bell in Mexico, First Christian, 405, n 2
collection, Generous, 20, n 2

denominations, Union of, 140, n 2

Life of the, 537

made of paper, 20, n 2

music, 384

of England Year-Book for 1887, 185, n 2
the times, 468
union, 203

Churches, Statistics of, 161

Cigarette-smoking, Consequences of, 461
Cincinnati and Theodore Thomas, 225, n 2
crash, 261

Cities, Diseases of different, 513, n I
City children apt to be undersized, 425
Civil law and military customs, 319
service pensions, 318
reform, 121

Cleveland and, 33, 369

Genuine, 106

Victims of, 399

Clark, Alvan, the telescope-maker, Death of, 423, n I
John Sleeper, the comedian, 305, n I
University and its founder, 111, n 2
Clarke, John S., distinguished comedian, 204, n 2
Classics, Mechanical methods in teaching the, 70
Clergymen off for Europe, 285, n I

with the title D. D., 538, n 2
Clerical mental labor vs. journalistic, 162
Cleveland a man of much thought, 501
ahead of his party, 371

and a second term, 52, 77, 128
civil-service reform, 369
Governor Hill, 33
taxation reform, 473

the G. A. R., 209, 289, 433, 453
Independents, 154

spoils, 121
workingmen, 171
revenue reform, 330
Vilas, 9

Appointments of, 238

boom, Can't be tortured into a, 210
Confidence in, a cheering sign, 129
his financial policy, 153

promises, Glitter of, 371
speech at Philadelphia, 501
Hope for, 372

in accord with his party, 475

is discreet, dignified, and all right, 175

made a mistake, 545

New York opposition to, 10

Colleges behind the times, Our, 359

Marking system in, 446, n 2

Collision of the Celtic and Britannic, 183, n 2
Collyer, Rev. Robert, on the secular press, 20, n 2
Cologne, Great bell for the cathedral at, 448, n 2
Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse, by Mrs.
Margaret J. Preston, 120, n 1
Conference in London, 135, n 2

Color blindness on German railways, 403

line, Drawing the, 174

in politics, 429

schools, 526

Prohibition and the, 295

Colored citizens, Disadvantages of, 305

Columbian Bank, Failure of the, 364, n I

Combination and competition, 201

Comedy, Decline of American, 491

Comet? Is it a piece of a, 342

Coming issues, 129

Commencement season, 259

Commerce between the States, 374

Only one remedy for the demoralized state
of, 145

Polyglot acquirements in, 442
with Canada, 241

Commercial union with Canada, 200

Communism, It looks like, 459

Comparative intensity of sensations, 183

Competition, Catastrophe of, 85

Compositor in Germany, The intelligent, 120, n 1

Compressed air as a motive power, 536, n 2

Concert Optique, latest Parisian show novelty, 225, n I
Confederate bonds, English delusion concerning, 111,