chapter III
., 718.
Military Education in Prussia, 573.
Mine, forest, and cordillera, the, 172.
Minstrel's Curse the, from Uhland, 177.
Mohan Lal in Affghanistan, 539.
Monasteries of Spain, state of, when suppressed, 295.
Mons, siege of, 31.
Montalban, siege of, 305.
Montenegro, visit to the Vladika of, 428.
Montesquieu, Marshal, 525.
Montholon's Napoleon, review of, 110.
Montpensier, Duke of, 751.
Montreal, town of, 470.
More Rogues in Outline--the sick antiquary, 101 --Signor Dedomenicis, 103 --Scaling a coin, 107.
Moreau, death of, 580.
Morella, capture of, by Cabrera, 301.
Morellos, insurrection of, 272.
Moriamur pro Rege Nostro--Chap. I., 194 --Chap. II., 201 --Chap. III., 210 --Chap. IV., 216 --Conclusion, 221.
Morning and other poems, review of, 62.
Mules of Peru, the, 12.
Museum of Mexico, the, 270.
My College Friends--No. IV., Charles Russell, the gentleman commoner --Chap. I., 145 --Chap. II., 309.
Napoleon and Louis XIV., parallel between, 520 --last recollections of, 110.
Negro carnival in Peru, the, 17.
Negroes of Peru, the, 9.
Niagara, Falls of, 471.
Nogueras, General, 297.
North America, features of, 262.
New Scottish Plays and Poems, 62.
New Sentimental Journey, a--At Moulins, 481 --Clermont, 484 --on a stone, 606 --the Philosopher, 608 --a Shandrydan, 611.
Newspapers, on, 629.
Odysseus, from Schiller, 333.
Ogilvy's Highland Minstrelsy, review of, 62.
Old Ignazio, 102.
Opera in Paris, state of the, 415.
Operation of the English Poor-laws, 555.
Orizaba, mountain of, 265.
Palace of Mexico, the, 269.
Pardinas, General, defeat and death of, 303.
Paredes, General, 275.
Paris, letters and impressions from, 411.
Peel, Sir Robert, policy of, 249 --his financial system, 252.
Pellicer, Colonel, cruelties of, 306.
Perote, town of, 265.
Peru, 1 --the mine, forest, and cordillera, 179.
Poaching in the Highlands, 403.
Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Barrett --a woman's shortcomings, 488 --a man's requirements, 489 --Maude's spinning, 490 --a dead rose, 491 --change on change, 492 --a reed, ib. --Hector in the garden, 493.
Poetry--The minstrel's curse, 177 --a summer day, by Thomas Aird, 277 --Columbus, &c., from Schiller, 333 --the Dance, from Schiller, 480 --poems by Miss Barrett, 488 --honour to the plough, 613 --London Bridge, 730 --Song for the million, 733 --Thames Tunnel, 736 --St Magnus', Kirkwall, 753.
Poor-Law, operation of the, 555.
Prussian military memoirs, 572.
Puebla, city of, 268.
Pulque, manufacture of, 266.
Puna of Peru, the, 186.
Punishment, state of, under the English law, 722 --objects of, 724.
Punishments in the army, 134 --of the law, 721.
Quebec, city of, 465.
Quesnoy, capture of, 694.
Quinté, bay of, 470.
Rachel the actress, 413.
Rahden's wanderings of a soldier, review of, 572.
Raven, anecdotes of the, 402.
Recent royal marriages, on 740.
Red deer, habits of the, 408.
Reed, a, by Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 492.
Reichenbach, count, anecdote of, 577, 584.
Requiera, Padre, 15.
Rewards for the army, on, 136.
Roads of Peru, the, 80.
Robbers of Mexico, the, 267 --of Peru, 14.
Romantic drama, the, 161.
Russell minstry, the, 257.
St John's wild sports of the Highlands, review of, 389.
St John's, town of, 464.
St Juan D'Ulloa, fort of, 265.
St Magnus', Kirkwall, 753.
St Marie's Algeria, review of, 334.
St Venant, capture of, 529.
Salcedo silver mine, the, 184.
San Jose silver mine, 185.
Sand, George, 423.
Santa Anna, rise of, 273.
Santa Cruz, protector of Peru, 2.
Santos, Juan, 190.
Scaling a coin, 107.
Schiller, translations from, 333, 480.
Scorpion eaters among the Arabs, 342.
Scottish plays and poems, 62.
Seal, habits of the, 401.
Segura, destruction of the town of, 304.
Serialist, advice to an intending, 590.
Shark, combat with a, 3.
Short enlistments, advantages of, 132.
Shujah, Shah, sketches of, 541.
Sick antiquary, the, 101.
Signor Dedomenicis, 103.
Silver mines of Mexico, the, 271 --of Peru, 182.
Smith, Hannibal, letter to, 590.
Smith's antiquarian ramble in the streets of London, review of, 673.
Solitary confinement, on, 725.
Song for the million, 733.
South America, features of, 262.
Soyer's cookery, review of, 238.
Spanish marriage, on the, 631-740.
Steffens, Professor, anecdote of, 577.
Storms of Peru, the, 182.
Summer day, a, by Thomas Aird, 277.
Superstitions of Mexico, the, 275.
Surville, defence of Tournay by, 29.
Swan, wild, habits of the, 398.
Thames, Lays and Legends of the, 729 --tunnel, 735.
Things in general, 625.
Tournay, siege of, 28.
Tower of London, the, 732.
Tschudi's Peru, review of, 1, 179.
Tupac Amaru, 191.
Turenne, Marshal, 704.
Uhland, the minstrel's curse by, 177.
United States, sketches of the, 471.
Utrecht, peace of, 693.
Valparaiso, town of, 3.
Vampire bat of Peru, the, 192.
Vandamme, General, 581.
Vera Cruz, town of, 263.
Vigo, General, death of, 304.
Villars, Marshal, 33, 526.
Visit to the Vladika of Montenegro, a, 428.
Von Rahden's wanderings of a soldier, review of, 575.
Water cure, the, 376.
Waterloo, Napoleon on, 123.
Welford's evidence on the game laws, 757.
West Indies, recent history of the, 662.
White's Earl of Gowrie, &c., review of, 62.
Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands, 389.
Wild swan, habits of the, 398.
William III., parallel between, and Louis XIV., 522.
Woman's shortcomings, by E. B. Barrett, 488.
Woods of Peru, the, 192.
Yanez, colonel, death of, 268.
Yca, province of, 17.
Yussuf, an Arab leader, 347
Zettinié, city of, 439
Zumalacarregui, death of, 56.
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