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Bible, Wycliffe's translation of the, 50, 51; ENCYCLOPÆDIAS, the, 258.

Cranmer's, 88; Coverdale's, 99; the
Geneva, 137; the Bishop's, 137; King
James's, 137; proposed change, 138;
Hallam's criticism, 138; English of the,
139; burning of the, 135; the chained, 136.
Book, the first, 9,

Book, the tree and the, 9.
Book-making, first steps in, 10.

Book-binding, 75.

Book-room, an ancient, 12.

Books, leather, 10.

Books in Greek and Roman days, 11.

Booksellers' shops, 299.

Britons, conjecture concerning ancient, 15.

"Brut," Layamon's, 34.

CAIRNS and altars, 10.
Castle hall, picture of a, 36.

Cavaliers-their dress, 176; their wild life,
177; their gallantry in the field, 177;
their writings, 178.

FRENCH influence in the court of Charles
II., 220.

GAZETTE, the LONDON, 254.
Gesta, the, 32.

Gleeman, the Anglo-Saxon, 18.

HACKS, Grub Street, 295; extract from
Macaulay on, 296; success of a few, 298.
Hall, the great man's, 299.
Hieroglyphic painting, a, 14.
Hieroglyphics, 13.

ILLUMINATIONS, 41.
Interludes, the, 103.

LATIN writers among ancient Britons, 17.
Latin works of Anglo-Saxons, 22.
Latin writers of Norman times, 30.
Literary life in the eighteenth century, 204

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Literary profession, influence of Walpole | Poetry, Latin, of the Norman times, 30.
on the, 294.

MACHINE, König's, 435; success of, in
Printing House Square, 435; Cowper and
Applegath's, 436; Hoe's, 437; the "Wal-
ter," 438; influence of the printing, 440.
Magazines, the, 258.

Managers, waiting on, 298.
Manuscripts, Irish, 16.
Metre, English, 358.

Minstrel, the Anglo-Saxon, 18.
Minstrel and the monk, the, 35.
Minstrel, honour to the, 36; other names
of the, 36; application of the word, 37.
Minstrels, classes of, 36; their dress, 37;
decay of the craft, 38; modern. 38.
Minstrelsy, 38.

Miracle plays, or mysteries, 101.
Monk, the, 40.

Moralities, the, 102.

Poison, the, too strong, 221.
Prayer, the Book of Common, 88.
Press, liberty of the, 255.
Press, the newspaper, 256.
Press, the old, 434; the Stanhope, 434
Printers of Westminster, the old, 71.
Printers, old, at work, 74.
Printing, invention of, 72.
Printing by steam, 434.
Prose, Anglo-Saxon, 21.
"Psalter of Cashel," the, 16.

Puritans and Cavaliers - their influence
upon English literature, 176.
Puritans their habits, 178; their hatred
of amusement, 179; their sincerity, 179;
their great literary names, 179.

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Newspapers, earliest, 253....

NEWSLETTER, the, 254.

Newspapers and serials, 253.

the, 85.

Romance, the Norman, 29.

Romance tongues of France, 29.

New Testament, Tyndale's translation of Romances relating to King Arthur, 32.

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Periodical literature, when foundation of,
laid, 257.

Periodical writers, 258.
Phonetics, 15.

Picture, a sad, 220.

Picture-writing, 12; of old Mexico, 12.
Play, miracle, 101.

Plays and players of Old England, 101.
Poems, epic, 360; dramatic, 360; lyric, 361.
Poems of Ossian, the, 16.

Poet, passage from Macaulay on word, 296.
Poetry and criticism, notes on, 358.
Poetry and prose, 358.

Poetry, inverted order of words in, 359;
high language of, 359; use of figures in,
359; essence of, 359.
Poetry of the Saxons, 38.

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Semi-Saxon writers, 34.

Shameless conduct, 220.

Stage, the old, 104; its scenery, 104; the
audience, 105; social position of the
players, 106.

435;

THEATRES at the Restoration, 221.
"Times," the, 255; printed by steam,
announcement in, 435; scene in the
printing-house of, 437.

Tragedy and comedy, 104, 360.
Triads, the Welsh, 17.

UNITIES, the three, 361.

VELLUM and parchment, 11.

Verse, Anglo-Saxon, 18, 20.

Vice, spread of, 220; what Burke said of
it, 222.

WRITERS, Anglo-Norman, 28.

Writers, life of well-to-do, in days of Wal
pole, 295.

Writers, periodical, 258.

Writing materjals, ancient, 11.

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Arblay, Madame D' (Frances Burney), 424. Boswell, James, 357.

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BACON, FRANCIS, Viscount St. Albans, 155. Brooks, Shirley, 505, 518.

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Combe, William, 429.
Congreve, William, 251.
Cook, Eliza, 504.

Cooke, Wingrove, 528.

Cooper, Anthony Ashley, Earl of Shaftes
bury, 292.

Cooper, James Fenimore, 533.

Cotton, Charles, 214.

Coverdale, Miles, Bishop of Exeter, 99.

Cowley, Abraham, 213.

Cowper, William, 379.

Cameron, V. L., 528.

Coxe, William, 424.

Campbell, Charles, 532.
Campbell, Lord, 508.
Campbell, Thomas, 416.

Candlish, Robert S., D.D., 524.
Carew, Thomas, 170.
Carey, Henry, 537.
Carleton, William, 513.
Carlyle, Thomas, 494.
Carpenter, W. B., 522.
Carruthers, Robert, 509.
Carver, Jonathan, 539.
Cary, Henry Francis, 433.
Cavendish, George, 100.
Caxton, William, 71.
Chalmers, George, 424.

Chalmers, Thomas, D.D., LL.D., 522.
Chamberlayne, William, 214.
Chambers, Robert, 509.
Channing, William Ellery, 535.
Chatterton, Thomas, 354.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 53.

Cheever, George, 539.

Cheke, Sir John, 100.

Churchill, Charles, 353.

Clapperton, Lieutenant Hugh, 432.
Clare, John, 503.
Clarke, Adam, 431.
Clarke, Edward, 432.

Clarke, Mary Cowden, 512.
Clarke, Samuel, 292.
Clay, Henry, 536.

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 504.
Cobbett, William, 427.
Coleridge, Derwent, 503.
Coleridge, Hartley, 503.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 441.

Coleridge, Sara, 503.

Collier, John Payne, 512.

Collins, Wilkie, 505, 516.

Collins, William, 351.

Colman, George, 421.

Colman, George (the younger), 421.
Columbanus, St., 17.
Combe, George, 431.

Crabbe, George, 393.

Craig, Isa, 504.

Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, 87.

Crashaw, Richard, 171.
Croker, John Wilson, 429.
Croly, George, 420.
Crowe, Catherine, 518.
Cudworth, Ralph, 215.
Cumberland, Richard, 421.
Cunningham, Allan, 420.
Cushing, Caleb, 539.

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EDGEWORTH, MARIA, 425.

Edwards, Jonathan, 537.

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

Eliot, George (Marian Evans), 517.
Ellesmere, Lord, 433.
Elliott, Ebenezer, 420.

Ellis, Henry, 432.

Ellis, Sarah, 512.

Elyot, Sir Thomas, 98.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 536.
Erigena (John Scotus), 25.
Eustace, John C., 432.
Evelyn, John, 215.
Everett, Alexander, 536.
Everett, Edward, 536.
Exeter, Joseph of, 30.

FABIAN, ROBERT, 98.

Falconer, William, 353.

Faraday, Michael, 521.

Farquhar, George, 252.

Ferguson, Adam, 357.

Fergusson, Robert, 419.

Ferrier, James, 522.

Ferrier, Mary, 426.

Fielding, Henry, 311.
Finlay, George, 509.

Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester, 98.

Fletcher, Giles, 169.
Fletcher, John, 168.
Fletcher, Phineas, 169.
Flint, Timothy, 539.

Foote, Samuel, 356.

Forbes, James David, 522.

Ford, John, 170.

Ford, Richard, 526.

Forster, John, 507.

Forsyth, Joseph, 432.

Fortescue, Sir John, 70.
Foster, John, 508.
Fox, John, 100.

Francis, Philip, 432.

Franklin, Benjamin, 537.
Franklin, Sir John, 432.
Fraser, Alexander C., 522.
Fraser, James B., 432.
Frere, J. Hookham, 420.

Froude, James Anthony, 508.

Fuller, Margaret, 536.

Fuller, Thomas, 181.

GALT, JOHN, 425.

Garrick, David, 355.

Gaskell, Elizabeth, 517.

Gauden, John, 214.

Gay, John, 290.

Gibbon, Edward, 363.
Gifford, William, 419.
Gildas, 17.

Gilfillan, George, 512.

Gladstone, William Ewart, 524.
Gleig, George, 518.
Gloucester, Robert of, 39.
Godwin, William, 426.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 334.

Goodrich, Samuel (Peter Parley), 535.

Gordon, George (Lord Byron), 386.
Gore, Catherine, 518.
Gower, John, 61.
Grahame, James, 419.
Grant, James, 518.
Grant, James A., 528.
Grattan, Thomas C., 427.
Gray, Thomas, 321.
Green, Robert, 166.
Griffin, Gerald, 518.

Griswold, Rufus, 536.

Grote, George, 506.

Guest, Edwin, 512.

Guthrie, Thomas, D.D., 523.

HAILES, Lord (David Dalrymple), 424.
Hakluyt, Richard, 172.

Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 534.
Hall, Anna Maria, 518.

Hall, Basil, 532.

Hall, Captain Basil, 432.

Hall, Edward, 98.

Hall, James, 535.

Hall, Joseph, Bishop of Norwich, 173.
Hall, Robert, 431.

Hallam, Henry, 423.

Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 531.

Hamilton, Alexander, 536.

Hamilton, Elizabeth, 426.

Hamilton, Sir William, 519.

Hanna, William, LL. D., 509, 528.

Hannay, James, 516.

Hare, Julius, 524.

Harry, Blind, 70.

Hawes, Stephen, 96.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 534.

Hazlitt, William, 427.

Head, Sir Francis, 528.

Headley, J. T., 539.

545

Heber, Reginald, Bishop of Calcutta, 417.

Helps, Sir Arthur, 511.

Hemans, Felicia, 417.

Henry of Huntingdon, 31.

Henry, Matthew, 251.

Henryson, Robert, 94.

Geoffrey of Monmouth, 31.

Herbert, George, 171.

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