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Matthew Arnold. containing Particulars of Works by Printed by JOHN EDWARD FRANCIS, Athenæum Press, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C.; and Published by INDEX. EIGHTH SERIES.-VOL. XII. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHed, Epitaphs, FoLK-LORE, HERALDRY, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKSPEARIANA, and Songs And Ballads.] A, cockney substitution of i før, 424 A. (C. O.) on Sutton family arms, 388 A. (E. H.) on John and George Smith, 124 Wordsworth (William), 86 A. (E. V.) on Bamborough Castle, 396 A. (G. E. P.) on Col. Henry Ferribosco, 348, 474 A. (J.) on witnesses, 472 A. (J. L.) on Carlyle, 377 Gretna Green marriages, 411 Leny, its locality, 319 Muthil Church, 434 A. (W.) on "Cha' fause," 78 Abunde, the fairy, 188, 314 Aceldama, its pronunciation, 92, 176 Adams (F.) on Ia. Armachanus, 357 "Between you and me and the post," 417 Camp ball, the game, 425 "Care creature," 33 Chelmsford murder, 295 Hung or hanged? 329 "Long and short of it," 497 Partitive, construction with, 312 Pay, its East Anglian pronunciation, 346 Addy (S. O.) on Churn: Churnubble, 345 Men, little, long, and red, 381 Advertisements, trade, 4; in books, 285 Agostini (Agostino), M.D., his will, 484 Ale-dagger, its meaning, 482 Alger (J. G.) on Host eaten by mice, 330 Paine (Thomas), 75 Yquem, origin of the name, 456 Alierot," English cry at Hastings, 108, 215 "All alive and kicking," 226 Allerdale, Cumberland, its early lords, 127, 213, 451 Allhallows Holy Trinity, 72 Alphabet-man, Post Office official, 492 Altar gates, 17, 96 American War of Independence and Irish volunteers, 389, 454 Amphillis, origin of the name, 78, 152 Anaconda, its derivation, 123 Ancestors, definition of, 65, 133, 211, 332, 475 Anderson (J. L.) on William Paterson, 453 Andrews (H.) on trials of animals, 116, 334 Auctioneers, female, 493 Marriage by blacksmiths, 511 Anecdote, its source, 306 Angel of Asia," reference to, 8, 92 Angels, legend of their fall, 35, 78, 150 Angels as supporters, 32, 232, 394 Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, unpublished, 166, 234 Angus (G.) on Archbishop Chichele, 386 Christmas decorations, 514 Cope and mitre, 106 England, the Virgin Mary's dower, 32 Hatchments in churches, 112 Holy Thursday superstition, 93 Laying on of hands, 146 'Mr. Gray and his Neighbours,' 44 Animal standards of measurement, 107, 196 Animals, their trials in Middle Ages, 48, 115, 174, 334 Anne (Queen) as Empress, 368, 473 Anonymous Works: Austria as It Is, 168, 292, 435 Brampton Rectory; or, Lesson of Life, 206 Chronicles of Charterhouse, 10 Complete History of the late Revolution, 467 Emma Corbett, 468, 512 Help to Discourse, 44, 111 Imitatio Christi, 148, 257, 330 Journal of a Tour through Southern Counties of Anonymous Works :- Poetic Works of Louis Napoleon, 27 Rimes Ollendorffiennes, 134 Short Account of Holy Cross Abbey, 88 Social Life in Time of Queen Anne, 428, 516 Universal Sympathy; or, the Martyred States- Anscombe (A.) on era in monkish chronology, 421, 466 Nennius, his knowledge of old English, 43 Aphorism, "To know everything is to forgive," 189, 313 Apperson (G. L.) on "Cat may look at a king," 33 Cirage, its meaning, 454 Easter eggs and hare, 93 New South Wales bibliography, 87 Armachanus (Ia.), episcopal signature, 289, 357 Armorial query, 128, 273 Armour, its use in eighteenth century, 54 Armstrong (T. P.) on trials of animals, 115 Bévesiers, 248 Boers and the Bible, 202 Cakes peculiar to counties, 58 Christmas decorations, 178 French proverbs and English, 193 Parallel passages, 146 Arnold (Dr. Thomas), his birthplace, 266 Arnott (S.) on dog gates for staircases, 114 Hollington Church, 490 Arthurian and Graal legends, editions of, 67, 91 Artillery Company, Honourable, and Norwich, 328 Ashburnham House, Dover Street, 221, 398 Assignats, French paper money, 112 Astarte on devil, God's hangman, 268 Dove and symbolism, 141 Green room, 514 Luther, Irish surname, 87 Atherton (G.) on Burlinghame or Burlingame, 215 Atkinson (H.) on nine men's morris, 89 Attwell (H.) on "Tally-ho," 118 Axon (W. E. A.) on indulgence, 85 Rood of Cockerham, 261 'Vulgar Errours in Practice Censured,' 325 B. (A. R.) on births and deaths, 214, 511 B. (C. C.) on Boadicea, 498 Carlyle (Thomas), quotation by, 227 Dies Veneris, 49 Dove and symbolism, 231 Lear (King), 35 Marks for signatures, 314 Marriage custom, 144 Matrimony, its provincial meanings, 113 Newspaper English, 446 Nine men's morris, 89 Nutmeg-grater, pocket, 132 Partitive, construction with, 517 Poetry, its essentials, 272, 513 Pry, use of the word, 255 Shamrock as food, 37 Smoking before tobacco, 175 Stow (John), his 'Survey,' 255 Thee or thou, 268 Wreaths and garlands, 293 B. (E. G.) on "All his family under his hat," 287 Auctioneers, their advertisements, 22, 121, 233, 318; B. (J. W.) on White=Bibby, 408 female, 327, 493 Augmentations, heraldic, 241, 289 Augury by shell-fish and skull, 325 Austrian name, curious, 368, 435 Authors, juvenile, 248, 372, 457 Auvergne : "A moi Auvergne," 111 Axon (E.) on Gerrard Winstanley, 185 Axon (W. E. A.) on juvenile authors, 372 Axon (William), LL.B., 365 Bride, substituted, 323 B. (R.) on counties of England, 107 Science in the choir, 32 B. (R. B.) on naval crests and monograms, 204, 444 B. (R. E.) on Scotch body-guards, 494 B. (T. S.) on reference sought, 48 B. (W.) on Pope and Thomson, 327 B. (W. A.) on the Last Supper, 83, 292 B. (W. C.) on "All his family under his hat," 415 Glaizer Venetians, 93 "God geometrizes," 275 Greek Fathers, passage in, 410 Henrietta Maria (Queen), 45 Historical Dictionary of English Language,' 370 Hoods as headdresses, 411 Hung or hanged? 278 Penny Hedge, 93 Physicians of last century, 298 'Prodigal Son,' 453 Registering births, 512 Rounded, use of the word, 257 Rubric, two questions on, 217 Sanctuary lists, 152 Stewart ("Walking "), 35 Stow (John), names in his 'Survey,' 392 Formularies,' 114; at Parson's Green, 329, 370, Bacon (Roger), his 'Opus Majus' and the X rays, 309 Animals, trials of, 115 Chaucer (Geoffrey), 283, 341 Cope and mitre, 350 Escallop shell in heraldry, 297 Peacock as emblem, 56 Baily (J.) on clergy and books, 302 Bain (J.) on Leny, its locality, 412 Baker (T. H.) on horse buried with owner, 158 Baldock (G. Y.) on 'Nameless Lassie,' 326 Telescripteur, new word, 485 Ballantyne (Archibald), his biography, 124, 251 Plough the sands," 306 Pronoun, alternative, 367 Smith (Alexander), 7, 174 Stewart ("Walking "), 178 Swifts, sparrows, and starlings, 311 Tulloch (Principal), his English Puritanism,' 325 Bayneham (Sir Ede), his biography, 54 Bayswater, its etymology, 405 Reanfeast, origin of the word, 64, 174, 312, 371 Beano, origin of the word, 64, 174, 312, 371 Beckford (Alderman), his speech to George III., 56 Schwangau,' 290 Prince Hohenstiel- |