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character, 280; his hostility to the
Crimean War, ib. 282; personal
antagonism to Lord Palmerston,
283; his American sympathies,
284; sides with the North in the
Civil War, 285; his views on the
Trent affair criticised, 286; his
Reform crusade in 1858, 287; his
moderate language thereon in
1867, 288; his views on the Irish
Church, 292

Bright (Right Hon. John), his coun-
sel of legislative inaction in edu-
cation, cxxxix. 215; his hostility
to the Act of 1870, 218, 220; his
notions of free land, 282; in-
fluence of his opinions on Mr.
Gladstone, 561

Brindley (James, 1716-1773), his
Grand Trunk Canal, cxxvi. 219
Brisbane, capital of Queensland, its
beautiful situation, cxviii. 316
Bristol riots (1831), cxxv. 535
Britain (ancient), state of, in the
Augustan era, cxi. 361

meagre account of, by Cæsar,
cxxiv. 425. See Casar, Julius
megalithic remains
cxxxviii. 188; theories of Mr.
Fergusson thereon, ib.

in,

Britain, Great. See Great Britain
British and Foreign Review, the,
article of, on the native princes
and the East India Company, re-
ferred to, cxxxvii. 234
British Museum, started by public
lottery, cxxiii. 60; purchase of Sir
Hans Sloane's collection, 61; and
of the Cotton and Harleian MSS.,
62; misconduct of the Sloane
trustees, 63; purchase of the
Towneley marbles, ib.; the Elgin
marbles, 64; select committees of
1847 and 1859, ib. 65; continued
mismanagement, ib.; returns of
expenditure, ib.; wrong ideas of
centralisation, 67; proposed divi-
sion of collections, 68; claims of
public convenience, ib. 69; dis-

graceful state of collections, ib. ;
evils of public trustees, 70; recent
purchases, ib.; want of taste in
arrangement, 71; report of com-
mission of 1859, ib.; impossibility
of an executive council, 72; re-
sponsible director proposed, 73
British Museum, collections of gems
at, cxxiv. 521; cylindrical signets
at, 528

the library of, cxxxix. 37;
foreign book collections in, 40; its
unrivalled catalogue, 41; freedom
of access to, 43

statues in, symmetrically
examined, cxl. 194; photographs
of the collection, 197; antique
marble relievi, ib.

Britons, their employment of horses
in war, cxx. 134

Britten (Mr. Bashley), on rifling

applied to cast-iron guns, cxix.
525 note

Brixham (Devonshire), cave de-
posits and relics found at, cxviii.
277

Broad Church party, their compre-
hensive spirit of reform, cxxxiii.

417
Brodie (Sir Benjamin Collins, 1783-
1862), on the proportion of phos-
phorus in the brain, cxii. 536
Brodie (M. G.), his intimacy with
Sir W. Hamilton, cxxxi. 202;
merits of his English history, ib.
Broglie (Albert, Prince de, b. 1821),
'L'Eglise et l'Empire Romain au
IVme. Siècle,' cxi. 422; his candid
Romanism, ib.; his moderate tone,
424; indications of historical
weakness, ib.; indiscriminate re-
liance on authorities, 425; rheto-
rical division of his subject, 428;
his parallel of Church and State
in France, ib. 431

his opinions of Papal Govern-
ment, cxvi. 283; on the spread of
bureaucracy in Europe, 286

his Roman Church and Em-

pire in the Fourth Century, cxxvi.
95; his personal history, ib. 96;
epochs of his work, 97; his im-
partiality, ib.; his account of the
first council of Constantinople, ib.;
on the additions to the Nicene
creed, 116; denounces the futility
of the council, 120
Broglie (Victoria, Duke de, 1785-
1870), life of, by M. Guizot,
cxxxv. 347; his memoranda, ib. ;
his family and early life, 348; his
views of the 18th Brumaire, 349;
his missions under the Conseil
d'État, 351; sketches of Bona-
parte, ib.; at Warsaw, 353; in
the Chamber of Peers, 353; his
marriage, 357; heroic conduct at
Ney's trial, ib.; patriotic politics
under the Restoration, 358; the
Martignac Cabinet, 359; the
Revolution, 360; foreign minister
under Louis Philippe, 361; re-
signs, 363; brought back as head
of the Cabinet, ib.; defeat and re-
signation, 364; mission to Eng-
land on the slave trade, ib.; shock
of the coup d'état of 1851, 365;
his domestic and intellectual life,
ib.

Brome (Rev. James), his travels in
England in the last century,
CXxxviii. 490

Bronze, prehistoric Swiss workers in,
cxxxii. 467; origin of, 470; as-
cribed to the Phoenicians, 472;
among the Etruscans, 475; in
Scandinavia, 476; derivation of
the word, ib.

Bronze-age, the, cxvi. 155; in
Switzerland, 163

Brooke (Sir James, 1803-1868), civil-
ising object of his visit to Borneo,
cxvi. 401; his personal intercourse
with the natives, ib.; his own
explanation of his enterprise, 402;
discouraged by the British Govern-
ment, 405; his objects discredited,

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Chinese assassins, 407; devotion
of the natives to him, 410
Brougham and Vaux (Henry, Lord,

1788-1869), banquet to, at Edin-
burgh in 1859, cxi. 189; his ser-
vices to the Edinburgh Review, ib. ;
his reputation as a legal reformer,
190; his Acts and Bills from 1811,
collected by Sir John Eardley-
Wilmot, ib.; his great speech in
1828 on Law Reform, 192; his
prophetic prescience of abuses, ib.;
his own summary of his achieve-
ments, 193; further reforms due
to him since 1848, 194; his vindi-
cation of the bar, 195; his pro-
posed changes in the law of evi-
dence, 199; supports unanimity in
trial by jury, 200; his rules for
framing statutes, 201; on the sim-
plification of law, 203
Brougham and Vaux (Henry, Lord),
his committee of 1818 on the edu-
cation of the lower classes, cxiii.
392

his materials for the notices
of Voltaire and Rousseau, cxxiv.
345

his proposals of household-
suffrage in 1829, cxxv. 524, 525;
views on the ten-pound franchise,
526; his popularity with the king,
ib. 527

his inattention to an appeal
in the House of Lords, cxxix. 52;
his judicial reforms in the Privy
Council, 64; Life of, by Lord
Campbell, 572; compared with
Lyndhurst, ib.; defective in wit,
ib.; his ancestral vanity, 573;
proud of his Scotch descent, 574;
anecdote of his grandfather, ib.;
longevity in his family, ib.; his
classical translations, 575; anec-
dote of his college-days at Edin-
burgh, 576; his strong family
attachments, 577; death of his
brother Peter, ib.; his first contri-
butions to the Edinburgh Review,

578; disgust for the bar, 579; conduct in society, 580; mission to Portugal, ib.; services to the Whigs, 581; early proofs of greatness, ib.; defeat at the Liverpool election, ib.; despondence under failure, ib. 582; relations with the Princess of Wales, ib.; his wrongful withholding of the letter of pacification, 584; his popularity after the Queen's trial, ib.; appointment as Chancellor, 585; scene at the coronation of William IV., 587; inventor of the 'Brougham,' 589; anecdote of, with the Duke of Wellington, ib.; his awe of the duke, ib.; petulant conduct as Chancellor, 590 ; quarrels with Sugden, ib.; reconciliation, 591; his qualities admired by Lord St. Leonards, 592; his self-laudation, 593'; his judicial achievements, ib.; legislative services, 594; mental derangement after 1834, 595; rupture with his allies in Lord Grey's Ministry, ib.; his conduct on the Irish Coercion Bill, 596; his intolerance of official control, ib.; asks Peel for the office of Chief Baron, 597; refused the Chancellorship by Lord Melbourne, ib.; his coarse acrimony in the House of Lords, ib.; disgust at Lord Cottenham's appointment to the Seals, 508; joins the Opposition against Lord Melbourne, ib.; his vain efforts at popularity, 599; alliance with Lyndhurst, 600; unseemly conduct as law lord, 601; his declining years, 604; Miss Martineau's anecdote of, at Cannes, 605 Brougham and Vaux (Lord), his

wrong conception of the duties of barristers to their clients, cxxxiv. 505, 506

autobiography of, cxxxv. 502; his instructions for literal publication of his MSS. ib.; parent

age, ib.; education at Edinburgh, 503; early literary societies, 504; reluctant entry into the bar, ib.; his part in forming the Edinburgh Review, ib.; secretary to the Lisbon mission, 506; first efforts in politics, ib.; his call to the English bar opposed by the Tories, 507; enters Parliament for Camelford, 508; his first speech, ib.; advocacy of popular questions, 509; accepts office under Lord Grey, 510; the Berlin decree and orders in council, ib. 511; his defeat at Liverpool, 513; counsel for the 'Examiner,' 513; returned for Winchelsea, 517; his talking-out tactics against the income-tax, ib.; relations with the Opposition, 518; his interview with Queen Caroline on her return, 519; his speech for the Queen on her trial, 521; his mischievous idea of advocacy, ib., 522; petty jealousy of Canning's Ministry, 527; declines their grudging offer of the silk, 528; proposes a coalition ministry, ib.; on good terms with Canning, ib. ; returned for Yorkshire, 529; his plan of reform, 530; his motion thereon, ib.; refused the Mastership of the Rolls, 531; Lord Chancellor under Lord Grey, ib.; his reluctance to accept the post, ib., 532; on the dissolution after the first Reform Bill, 535; advocates creation of new peers, 536; interview with the king, 537; obtains the king's consent in writing, 538; his conduct self-examined, 539; his support of Lord Grey, 540; his misstatements respecting the Coercion Act, 541; his variety of talent, ib.; practical services in legislation, 542; his distinctions, ib.; his skilful 'portraits of contemporaries,' 543 ; defects of eloquence, ib.; Sir S. Romilly's estimate of him, ib.;

his entreaty to the Lords, ib.;
passion in 1848 for French Re-
publicanism, 544; personal faults
and vagaries, ib.; his public ser-
vices, 545; judicial reforms, 546;
his wise patronage, 547; distin-
guished social qualities, 548; in-
accuracies in his memoirs, ib.
Brougham and Vaux (Henry, Lord),
his character, by Lord Cockburn,
cxl. 268; his arrogance to Jeffrey,
ib.; compared by Mr. Greville
with Macaulay, 527; his pro-
posal to Southey of a Guelphic
order for literary men, 530; per-
sonal traits of, by Mr. Greville,
545, 547

Broughton de Gyfford (John Cam

Hobhouse, Lord, 1786-1869), his
recollections of a long life, cxxxiii.
287; semi-private character of his
work, 288; his birth and descent,
289; his education, ib.; intimacy
with Lord Byron at Cambridge,
290; foreign travels, ib. ; at Paris,
ib.; with Byron at Geneva, 291;
his knowledge of Italy, 292;
sketches of Holland House, 293;
on Byron's death and burial, 295,
298; his opinion of the libels on
Byron, ib.; early politics, 299;
committed by Parliament to New-
gate, 300; returned for West-
minster, 301; anecdotes of Can-
ning, ib.; relations with Lord
Grey, 303; account of reform de-
bates, ib.; succeeds to the baro-
netcy, 306; made Secretary of
War by Lord Althorp, ib.; his
energetic army reforms, 310; made
Irish Secretary, 311; resigns office
on the House and Window Tax
question, ib.; on the Irish Coercion
Act of 1834, ib. 314; accepts office
under Lord Melbourne, ib.; death
of his wife, 315; the second Mel-
bourne Ministry, ib.; he takes the
Board of Control, 316; his ac-
count of Queen Victoria's acces-

sion, 324; his first interview with
her, 328; his Indian policy against
Russian intrigues, 330; interview
with Lord Wellesley, ib.; affairs
of Caubul, ib. 331; intervention
in Syria, 332; the Turco-Egyptian
question, 334; fall of the Mel-
bourne Ministry, 336; raised to
the peerage, 337; his death and
character, ib.

Broughton de Gyfford (John Cam

Hobhouse, Lord), letters from
Earl Grey to the Edinburgh Review
vindicating alleged charges against
his father, cxxxiv. 291; editor's
reply thereto, 298

Brown (Rev. Baldwin), his article in

the Contemporary Review' on
church disestablishment, cxxxiii.
420

Brown (Dr. John), his character as

a Scotch Dissenter, cxxxi. 206;
personal peculiarities, 211
Brown (John, of Priesthill), the
murder of, confessed by Claver-
house, cxviii. 15
Browne (Sir Thomas, 1605-1682),
his Garden of Cyrus, cxxxi. 222
Brown (Dr. Thomas, 1777-1810), his
idealistic theory of philosophy,
cxxiv. 121; on the mental per-
ception of consciousness, 125; on
the relation of sense to external
objects, 129

his physical view of mental
science, cxxvi. 80; his philosophy
exposed by Ferrier, 85
Browne (Rev. G. F.), his ' Ice-caves
of France and Switzerland,' cxxii.
422; his personal explorations,
447; theory of their origin, 448
Browning (Elizabeth Barrett, d.
1861), poems of, cxiv. 513; her
popularity, ib.; writings in early
life, 514; her Essay on Mind,'
515; illness, ib.; Greek studies,
ib.; portrait of, by Miss Mitford,
516; her 'Seraphim' and 'Lady
Geraldine's Courtship,' 518; 'Dra-

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ma of Exile,' ib.; eccentricities of style, 525; her Rhapsody of Life's Progress,' ib.; 'Lay of the Children' and other lyrics, 527; instances of tender pathos, 529; 'My Doves,' ib.; Aurora Leigh,' a splendid failure, 530; friendship with Mr. Kenyon, 531; sympathy with Italian politics, ib. ; her 'Casa Guidi Windows,' ib.; her eulogy of Napoleon, 532; 'Poems before Congress,' ib.; character of her writings, 533

Browning (Robert, b. 1812), his poems, cxx. 537; his studied quaintness and obscurity, 538; his 'Paracelsus' criticised, 539, 544; psychological mysticism of his 'Sordello,' 545; his tortuous style of expression, 546; his genius more dramatic than epic, ib. ; failure of his plays, 547; his abruptness of allusion, 548; his dialogue in Strafford,' 549; his plots criticised, 550; his character of 'Luria,' ib. 551; his 'Pippa Passes,' ib. 552; his passion for doggerel rhymes, 553, 554; his treatment of religious subjects, 555, 557; his poems on obscure artists, ib.; his sympathy with exceptional classes and persons, 558; his humour, 559; his faculty of word-painting, ib.; his 'sophistical' class of poems, 560; his 'Evelyn Hope,' 561; his love poems, 562; his quaint onomatopy, 564; his popularity, 565

his 'Ring and the Book,' cxxx. 164; peculiarities of his genius, ib.; his emotional nature and serene intellect, ib.; his grasp of human nature, ib.; story of the poem, 107, 170; his vivid power of treatment, 171; his dramatic genius, 178; beauty of his characters, 179; hopeful spirit of his philosophy, ib.; his defects of style analysed, 182; compared

with Victor Hugo, 184; rugged versification, 185

Browning (Robert), his 'Balaustion's Adventure,' cxxxv. 221; his poem a translation of the Alcestis' of Euripides, ib.; his 'Prince of Hohenstiel-Schwangau,' 222; his modern treatment of Euripides, 223; story of Alcestis, 224; beauty of his preface, 229; his conception of the original, ib. 241; his different ending, ib.; verbal defects in his text, 242; general impression of ease, 243; character of Admetus, 244, 249

'Brownists,' sect of, under Elizabeth, cxxxiv. 174

Bruce (King Robert, 1274-1329), his daily life at Cardross, cxii. 517

evidence as to his brother John, cxx. 320; condition of Scotland during his reign, 323 Bruce (James, 1730-1794),his explorations of the Blue Nile, cxviii. 208 Brunel (I. K.), his evidence on patents, cxxi. 605

his adoption of Wheatstone's telegraph, cxxxii. 211 Brunelleschi (1377-1446), his con

tributions to architecture, cxviii. 72 Brunswick-Lunenburg (Duke of, d. 1806), failure of his French invasion, cxxiv. 564, 565 Brussels, meteorological conference at, cxxiv. 58

Brusten, battle of, cxix. 551 'Brut y Tywysogion,' the, cxviii. 69 Bucer (Martin, 1491-1551), his objections to the baptismal service, cxiii. 24

Buchan, Mr. Pratt's history of, cxii.

522; singular religious observances in, ib.; tradition of the 'Sands of Forvee,' 523

Buchanan (George, 1506-1582), enters Paris University at fifteen,

CXXV. 59

Buchanan (James Percival, President U.S. b. 1791), his handling

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