TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES 1660 John Ray's Catalogus Plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium, etc. 1697-1709 Dampier's Voyages. 1711 The Newcastle Courant. 1712 Swift's Proposal for correcting, improving and ascertaining the English Tongue. 1712 Woodes Rogers, A cruizing voyage round the World. 1753 The Charter of the British Museum. 1755 Johnson's Dictionary. 1761 Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse. 1762 Rousseau's Émile. 1768-71 Cook's Journal during his first voyage. 1769 Pennant's Tour in Scotland. Son. c. 1774 The Newgate Calendar. 1775-81 Priestley's Experiments and Observations on different kinds of air. 1776 Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. 1778 Priestley's Miscellaneous Observations relating to Education. 1780 Beginning of Sunday Schools. 1781 V. Knox's Liberal Education. 1783 Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. 1785 The Times (The Daily Universal Register). 1795 Lindley Murray's English Grammar. 1797 ff. Bewick's History of British Birds. 1797-1814 Wordsworth's Excursion written. 1798 Practical Education by the Edgeworths. 1798-1805 Wordsworth's Prelude written. 1798-1836 Samuel Butler, headmaster of Shrewsbury. 1799 Mungo Park's Travels in 1800 ff. Mechanics' institutions. 1808 ff. Ackermann's Microcosm of 1808-10 Dalton's New System of 1810-24 E. D. Clarke's Travels in 1790 Bewick's History of Quadru- 1817 The Scotsman. 1790 Bruce's Travels to discover the source of the Nile. 1791 1791 The Observer. Paine's Rights of Man. 1792 Young's Travels in France. 1794 The Morning Advertiser. 1818 Hallam's Europe during the Middle Ages. 1818 ff. Pierce Egan's Boxiana. 1819 ff. Lingard's History of England. 1821 James Mill's Political Economy. 1828 The Spectator. 1828-42 Arnold at Rugby. 1829 James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind. 1829 ff. Murray's Family Library. 1829-33 Sir William Hamilton's articles The Philosophy of the Unconditioned, The Philosophy of Perception, Logic. 1830 Accession of King William IV. 1830 Comte's Cours de philosophie positive. 1830 Moore's Life of Byron. 1830-49 Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. 1831 Brewster's Treatise on Optics. 1831 First meeting of the British Association. 1831 Trelawny's Adventures of a Younger Son. 1831 ff. Lyell's Geology. 1832 Carleton's Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. 1834 Mary Somerville's The Connection of the Physical Sciences. 1835 ff. Chambers's Information for the People. 1837 Accession of Queen Victoria. 1837 Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences. 1837-8 Lockhart's Life of Scott. 1837-9 Hallam's Literature of Europe during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. 1838 Lover's Handy Andy. 1853 A. R. Wallace, Travels on the Amazon. 1853 ff. Burton's History of Scotland. 1853-6 The Crimean war. 1853-87 Edward Thring headmaster of Uppingham. 1864 Babbage's Passages from the Life of a Philosopher. 1864 F. P. Cobbe's Broken Lights. 1865 John Grote's Exploratio Philosophica, part 1. 1865 Lecky's History of Rationalism in Europe. 1865 Milton and Cheadle's NorthWest Passage by Land. 1854 J. F. Ferrier's Institutes of 1865 W. G. Palgrave's Central and Metaphysic. 1854 The Working Men's College. 1855 The Saturday Review. 1855-6 Sir R. Burton's Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca. 1856-70 Froude's History of England. 1857 Livingstone's Missionary Travels in S. Africa. 1857-8 The Indian mutiny. 1857-61 Buckle's History of Civilization in England. 1858 ff. Brown's Horae Subsecivae. 1859 Darwin's Origin of Species. 1859 John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. 1859 Peaks, Passes and Glaciers. 1859-80 Masson's Life of Milton. 1860 Essays and Reviews. 1860 Burton's Book Hunter. 1860 Ruskin's Unto this Last. 1860 Herbert Spencer's Programme of a System of Synthetic Philosophy. 1861 Sir Henry Maine's Ancient Law. 1861 Herbert Spencer's Education. 1861 Tennent's Natural History of Ceylon. 1861-3 John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism. 1863 Bates: The Naturalist on the Amazons. 1863 Huxley's Man's Place in Nature. 1863 Alexander Smith's Dreamthorp. 1863 Speke's Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile. 1863 Tyndall's Heat as a Mode of Motion. 1863-82 Gardiner's England. History of 1863-87 Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea. 1865 J. H. Stirling's Secret of Hegel. 1866 Hinton's Mystery of Pain. 1866 The Public School Latin Primer. 1866 Ruskin's Crown of Wild Olive. 1866 Ruskin's Ethics of the Dust. 1866-1902 Rogers's History of Agri culture and Prices in England from 1259 to 1793. 1867 W. Bagehot's The English Constitution. 1867 J. S. Mill's Inaugural Address to the university of St Andrews. 1867 F. Seebohm's The Oxford Reformers. 1867-76 Freeman's Norman Conquest. 1868 Dilke's Greater Britain. 1869 Lecky's History of European Morals. 1869 Henry Crabb Robinson's Diary. 1869 A. R. Wallace's The Malay Archipelago. 1870 Education Act. 1884 ff. The Oxford English Dictionary. 1872 The voyage of 'The Chal- 1884 ff. lenger.' 1873 Mill's Autobiography. 1874 Green's Short History of the English People. 1874 W. S. Jevons's Principles of Science. 1885 W. K. Clifford's Common Sense of the Exact Sciences. 1885 James Martineau's Types of Ethical Theory. 1885 Pater's Marius the Epicurean. 1874 Henry Sidgwick's Methods of 1885 Stevenson's Prince Otto. gence. 1879 Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. 1879-82 Skeat's Etymological Dictionary. 1880-1 Balfour's Treatise on Com parative Embryology. 1881 Fitch's Lectures on Teaching. 1882 Seeley's Natural Religion. 1882-94 Creighton's History of the Papacy. 1883 Galton's Inquiries into the Human Faculty. 1883 T. H. Green's Prolegomena to Ethics. 1883 Jefferies's The Story of my Heart. 1883 Seeley's Expansion of England. 1883 Stevenson's Treasure Island. 1883 The Oxford Magazine. 1884 The Croker Papers. 1885 ff. The Dictionary of National Biography. 1886 Froude's Oceana. 1886 Emily Lawless's Hurrish. 1886 Stevenson's Kidnapped. 1887 Jessopp's Arcady for better for worse. 1887 Laughton's Studies in Naval History. 1887 J. A. Cotter Morison's Service of Man. 1887-1905 G. B. Hill's editions of Boswell's Johnson, etc. 1889 J. Caird's Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. 1889 The Scots Observer. 1889 Stevenson's Master of Ballantrae. 1890 Henley's Views and Reviews. 1893 F. H. Bradley's Appearance and Reality. 1893 C. H. Pearson's National Life and Character. 1893 Stevenson's Catriona. 1895 Pollock and Maitland's History of English Law before the time of Edward I. 1895 Oscar Wilde's The Importance of being Earnest. 1896 Stevenson's Weir of Her INDEX OF NAMES [The letters ff. after an entry imply that references to the same subject occur on A' the Blue Bonnets are over the Border, 377 Abbotsford, 278, 375 Abbott, Edwin Abbott, A Shakespearian Abdullah, the peasant, 248 A Beckett, Arthur William, 238, 548 Gilbert Abbott (1811-1856), 235 ff., Gilbert Arthur (1837-1891), 238 George Hamilton Gordon, 4th earl Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert (1848- Aberystwyth, University college, 433 Académie Française, 397, 460 Achitophel, Dryden's, 113 Ackermann, Rudolph (1764-1834), 216, 217, 221, 222 Rudolph, the younger, 233 Acland, Sir Thomas, 136 Act of settlement, 57 Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg- 'Conflicts with Rome,' 118 Open Letter to a German Bishop, 118 Francis William Lauderdale (1862- 555 John Couch (1819-1892), 262, 264, Adams, William Henry Davenport (1828- Adamson, Robert (1852-1902), 467 Fichte, 48 On the Philosophy of Kant, 48 Addison, Joseph, 62, 169, 197, 209, 211, Adrian VI, pope, 100 Adventures of Dr Comicus, The, 219 Affirmation bill, the, 135 Africa, 192, 247, 252 ff., 434 Africander's War Song, The, 377 Ahmed, the cobbler, 248 Aikin, Anna Letitia. See Barbauld Ainger, Alfred (1837-1904), 515 Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892), Aitken, Edward Hamilton (1851-1909), 574; Behind the Bungalow, 341 Albania, 252 Albemarle, George Thomas Keppel, 6th earl of (1799-1891), 500 Albert, prince consort, 189, 415 Albigenses, the, 79, 110 Aldrich, Henry, Artis logicæ rudimenta, Alexander III, king of Scotland, 95 Cecil Frances, born Humphreys Alison, Archibald (1757-1839), 467 Sir Archibald (1792-1867), 57, |