BIBLE ILLUSTRATION, EARLY HISTORY OF (with Fifteen Illustrations)..... W. C. Prime 738 CANALS, THE ISTHMUS AND OTHER.-See "Transportation". CAR, HORSE-, MR. KEESLER'S.. 579 433 CHLORIS WALKINGE IN YE SNOWE, ON (with an Illustration)...... CHRISTMAS ANTHEM (with Two Illustrations).. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM IN NEW YORK. The Tragedy of the Big Corral ILLUSTRATIONS. 543 544 .............................A. A. Hayes, Jun. 542 The Priest's House Connemara Costumes Clifden... COOKING SCHOOL, THE NEW YORK.. ILLUSTRATIONS. CHAIR FOR FEBRUARY. UNITED STATES.-Congress: Opening of Second Ses- sion of Forty-sixth Congress, 476; President's Message, 476; Alexander Ramsay confirmed as Secretary of War, 476; Appropriation Bills, 476, 635, 796, 948; Negro Ex- odus Investigation, 476; Ute Outbreak Investigation, 635; Increase of Pensions, 635; Ministers Lowell, Foster, Fairchild, and Morgan nominated and confirmed, 635, 796; Suffrage Amendment to Constitution, 635; Coin Reserves Bill rejected, 796; Warner Silver Bill reported adversely, 796; Vessel to carry Contributions to Irish Sufferers, 796; Bill providing for Mailing of dutiable Articles, 796; Electoral Count Amendment, 948; Indi- ans as Citizens, 948; Alaska, 948; Isthmus Canal Mes- sage, 948; Smuggling Bill, 948; Irish Relief, 948. Proc- lamation warning against Invasion of Indian Territory, 796. New United States Senators, 316, 476, 635. State Elections, 156, 316. State Conventions, 156, 316, 796, 948. Battle with Ute Indians-Death of Major Thornburgh and Agent Meeker, 156. Decrease in Public Debt, 316, 635. Cost of United States Postal Service, 316. New York Legislature: General Sharpe elected Speaker, 635. EUROPE, ASIA, AND SOUTH AMERICA.-Germany: Alli- ance with Austro-Hungary, 156; the new Reichstag, 156; Herr Von Koeller elected President of Lower House of Prussian Diet, 316; Army, Anti-Socialist, and Coast- ing Bills, 796. Great Britain: Irish Franchise Bill re- jected, 796; Irish Relief Bill passed, 948; Dissolution of Parliament, 948. France: 3065 Communists pardon- ed, 316; Legislature returns to Paris, 476; Resignation of Waddington Ministry, 476; new Ministry, 635; M. Gambetta President of the Chamber of Deputies, 635; Public Meetings Bill, 796; Plenary Amnesty rejected, 796; Cost of Franco-German War, 796; Ferry's Educa- tion Bill, 948. Spain: Bill to abolish Slavery in Cuba, 316, 636, 796; Marriage of Alfonso XII. and the Arch- duchess Marie Christine of Austria, 476; new Ministry, 476; Attempt to kill King Alfonso, 636. Italy: new Ministry, 476. Canada: the new Government, 316. Hayti: General Salomon proclaimed President, 316. Greek Ministry reconstructed, 635. Convention to sup- press Slave-Trade in Turkey, 796. Papal Letter on Rite of Marriage, 796. Turkish War: Lord Salisbury's Speech, 156. Afghan War: Capture of Cabool by the EDITOR'S HISTORICAL RECORD-Continued. DISASTERS: 156, 316, 476, 636, 796, 948.-Two Thousand Royal, Dublin, 796; Steamer Constance foundered, 796; Albany City Hall burned, 796; Steamer Valentine foun- dered, 796; Boiler Explosion, Glasgow, 948; Fire in Moscow, Russia, 948; Flax Mill Explosion, Frankfort, OBITUARY: 156, 316, 476, 636, 796, 948.-William H. Powell, 156; Henry C. Carey, 156; Right Rev. W. R. Sir 472. Holt's Lady Sibyl's Choice, 472. Keary's A Doubt- Harpers' Latin Dictionary, 148. Mallock's Is Life Worth Living? 149. The Value of Life, 150. Rolfe's Shakspeare's Twelfth-Night, 150. Johnston's History of American Politics, 150. Adams's Madelon Lemoine, 151. Ingelow's Sarah de Berenger, 151. Robinson's The Bar-Maid at Battleton, 151. Hardy's The Distract- ed Young Preacher, 152. Phillips's Burning their Ships, 152. Beale's Rose Mervyn, of Whitelake, 152. The Two Miss Flemings, 152. Rood's Modern Chromatics, 152. Du Moncel's The Telephone, the Microphone, and the Phonograph, 153. D'Aubigné's History of the Refor- mation in the Time of Calvin, 153. American Poems, 154. Dickens's Pickwick Papers, 154. Treat's Chap- ters on Ants, 154. Thompson's Food and Feeding, 154. Freeman's Origin of the English Nation, 154. Green- wood's Adventures of Reuben Davidger, 155. What Mr. Darwin Saw in his Voyage Round the World, 155. The Bodleys Afoot, 155. Poetical Works of Chancer, 308. Joyce's Blanid, 309. Poems of Wordsworth, 310. Good- ales' In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers, 310. Religious Poems, 310. Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor, 311. Baird's History of the Rise of the Huguenots in France, 311. Besant's Rabelais, 311. Bayne's Lessons from My Masters, 312. Sedgwick and Keep's Iliad of Homer, 312. The Essential Uses of the Moods in Greek and Latin, 312. Waring's Tyrol and the Skirt of the Alps, 313. Benjamin's Art in America, 313. Fletcher's Guide to Family Devotion, 313. Craik's Young Mrs. Jardine, 313. Madge Dunraven, 314. Trollope's Cousin Henry, 314. Reade's Christie Johnstone, 314. Phelps's Sealed Orders, 314. Jewett's Old Friends and New, 314. Aus- ten's Sense and Sensibility, 314. Trollope's The Ber- trams, 314. Knox's The Boy Travellers in the Far East, 315. Butterworth's Zigzag Journeys in Europe, 315. Hays's The Princess Idleways, 315. A Revised List of Postage Stamps and Stamped Envelopes, 315. Eaton's Civil Service in Great Britain, 464. Adams's Notes on Railroad Accidents, 465. Short's The North Americans of Antiquity, 465. Farragut's Life of Farragut, 466. Pattison's Milton, 467. Autobiography and Correspond- ence of Mrs. Delany, 467. The Letters of Charles Dick- ens, 468. Memoirs of Madame De Rémusat, 468. Ar- nold's Life of Benedict Arnold, 468. Arnold's The Light of Asia, 469. Life and Poems of E. A. Poe, 469. Perry's Her Lover's Friend, and Other Poems, 469. English's American Ballads, 470. Dodge's Along the Way, 470. Piatt's Dramatic Persons and Moods, 470. Rolfe's Shaks- peare's Winter's Tale, 470. Symonds's Studies of the Greek Poets, 470. Larcom's Landscape in American Poetry, 471. Lamb's The Homes of America, 471. Gil- bert's The Book of Job, 471. Bruce's The Yosemite, Hemans's The Pilgrim Fathers, 471. Holland's Poems, 472. Prime's Songs of the Soul, 472. McCar- thy's Donna Quixote, 472. A Fool's Errand, 472. Foth- ...Alfred H. Louis 737 FISH.-See "First Families of the Atlantic," and "Shad and the Alewife, the"....... FIRST FAMILIES OF THE ATLANTIC GHOST OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE.. ..Phoebe Yates Pember 251 ITALIAN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE.-See "Painting and Sculpture" LESSEPS, FERDINAND DE, AS MINISTER AT ROME IN 1849. With Portrait. W. P. Garrison 182 191 192 ....Alfred H. Louis 914 James T. Fields 379 .R. D. Blackmore 122, 289, 418, 599, 769, 923 Thomas Dunn English 718 MR. WITHERTON'S ROMANCE. Rose Terry Cooke 570 |