A.

AFRICA, phases of savage life in, 55; comfort of a
peasant in intertropical, ib. ; rich zone of fertili
ty from 5° S. to. N. lat., ib.: trade a passion in,
56; want of roads, ib.; fantastic phases and ter-
rible realities of savage life, 59; ethnology of
the races near the equator, 60; rains, 64; dis-
covery of the equatorial snowy mountains, a
geographical triumph, 66; prospects of com-
merce with the interior, 68. (See Speke.)
Amberley's (Viscount) Clerical Subscription.' 276.
America, theory of the continuation of English ge-
nius in, a fallacy, 23; effect of the magnitude of
London on the American mind, 23, 24; feeling
for the Old Home,' 32, 33; three systems of
book building respecting, 149; intoxicating ef-
fects of popular ovations on British tourists, 149,
150; works of Tocqueville and Chevalier, 150;
of M. Chasles, 151.

American boasting respecting ordnance unfounded,
88; prospective view of probable American revo-
lutions, 161.

Americans, Wordsworth's remark on their need of
a civil war, 35. (See Confederates.)
Anderson's (Mr.), evidence respecting alleged de-
fects in Armstrong guns, 77; answered, 78.
Aranda's (Count de) prescience respecting the Uni-
ted States, 197.

Armstrong (Sir W.) preceded Mr. Whitworth in
using steel shot, 81. (See Guns.)

Asua River, a great tributary of the Nile, 61.
Augustenburg's (Duke of) claim to the crown of
Denmark examined, 143.

Augustus, legend respecting, 115, 116.

Austria, danger threatening from Italy and Hun-
gary, 146.

Austrians merciless to the treasures of Italian ge-
nius, 168.

Aztec passion for flowers, 182; religion, 190. (See
Mexico.)

Cambridge's (Duke of) evidence on Armstrong and
Whitworth guns, 85.

Chalmers target, 82.
Cash (Chinese), explained, 6.

America, 149, 156.

Chesney's (Capt.) military view of campaigns in
Chevalier's (M. Michel) works on Mexico, 180.
China Proper, the most influential part of the Em-
pire, 1; how Buddhism was introduced, 2; com-
petitive examinations and patriarchal authority
at the root of Chinese polity, ib.; progress un-
impeded by caste, ib.; three physical divisions
of China Pepper, 3; each square mile in Kiang.
su supports 800 human beings, ib.; mineral
wealth, 4; coal and iron, ib.; Sycee silver, 6;
gold, ib.; meaning of cash,' ib.; decimal sys-
tem, ib.; advantage of minute subdivision of
coin, 6, 7; manufacture of cannon and shot, 7;
population classed as literati, agriculturists, arti-
sans, and merchants, ib.; tenure of land, 7, 8;
women cannot inherit property, 8; cultivation
of rice, ib.; terrace cultivation, 9; cotton, 9, 10;
Nankin cloth, 10; description of cotton gather-
ing, ib.; history of the tea-plant, 10, 11; chief
tea-growing districts, 11; universal use of tea,
12; silk and silk-districts, ib.; exports of silk,
13; extensive water communication, ib.; the
most important trading rivers, 14; the Yang-tze,
ib.; navigable by large ships 1000 miles from
the coast, ib.; the Si-kiang and Pei-ho, 14, 15;
prevalence of piracy, 15; population of a pre-
eminently trading character, 16; native compe-
tition in cotton cloth, 17; statistics of trade
with China in 1860, ib.; the most laborious and
thrifty nation in the world, 18; the opium-trade,
18, 19; practically a constitutional monarchy,
20; large amount of local self-government, ib.;
origin of the Taeping rebellion, ib.; two defects
in the competitive system, 21; depreciation of
military service, the chief cause of the decline of
the empire, ib.; religious consequence of the
Taeping rebellion, 22; first employment of for-
eign contingents, ib.

Cicero, an exception to the general characteristics
of Roman literature, 36; individuality of his
writings, ib.; rhetorical character of his epistles,
ib.; opposite errors of his biographers, Middle-
ton and Drumann, 36, 37; Mr. Forsyth avoids
the faults of both, 37; Cicero's knowledge of
Greek Art, 37; his temperament more Greek