LONDON: AND PROCURABLE, BY ORDER, OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. Glasgow, John MʻLEOD. TO THE READER. ARE an ay ALBEIT WE ARE an avowed enemy of Fashion, yet do we vastly All we need say, on issuing a FOURTH VOLUME, lies in a nut- The Contents of this Volume speak for themselves. An WILLIAM KIDD. New Road, HAMMERSMITH, January 2nd, 1854. INDEX AND CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. Air, Value of, to the Roots of Plants, 2 50 Crystal Palace, at Sydenham, The, 55, 181 Animal and Vegetable Sensation, 53 Ant, The, 356 Cypress, The, 124 Dardanelles, The, 254 Delicacy, “ Extraordinary " Instance of, 192 "Art" of Advertising, The, 222, 367 Dog, The, 39, 41, 42, 107, 109, 168, 172, 234, 236, 249, 296, 298, 361, 363, 374 Duration of Human Life, Averaged, 120 Atmosphere and its Pressure, 141 Earth, The, An Ocean of Melted Rock, 56 Australia, Natural History of, 323 Earthquakes in the Tropics, 125 Auto-Biography of a Dog, 39, 107, 168, 234, 296, | Echoes, Remarkable, 61, 249 England, Good by Compulsion, 245 England's National Failing, 32 English Climate, The, 254, 335 Bar Temper, 32 -- Cottage, An, 264 Beauty, analysed by “ Walter," 317 Engravings Copied by Iodine, 119 Bees, 56, 59, 121, 124, 186, 188, 227 Birds, British Song, Acclimated in the United Autumnal Ramble, by “Our Editor,"209 ; Christ- mas, 281, 295, 301, 305, 320, 352; Clouds of Heaven, The, 260; Condescension, 81; Death, Their Dislike to White Fruit, 60 The, of Summer, 214 ; Death Viewed as Sleep, 17; Education of Women in England and America, 142; Essay on Good Taste, 68; Black Beetles, 52 Fashionable Weddings, 272; Fashionable Fol- lies, 273; First Oyster Eater, The, 95; Gen- tleness and its Power, 5; Golden Rules of Life, 198; Hints to Fast Men, 22; Hospitals of Botanical Notes,-Salcombe Aloes, &c., 325 London, 259; How to make Home “ Happy," 221; Human Heart, The, 193; Journey of Life, The, 270; Little Children, 161; "Little Things," 159, 319, 337; Loves and the Graces, 143; Man's Weak Point, 330; Musings by a Benedict, 7; Nature's Master- 65; Notes upon Notes, 129, 273 ; Our Mirror of the Months, 34, 102, 171, 232, 294, 350, 353; Our Moral Nature, 365 ; Past, Present, Patient Wives, 74 ; Study of Natural His- tory, 257 ; Summer, and more of its “ Con- sequences," 26; Thoughts on a Few Drops of Chloroform as a Motive Power, 255 Water, 93; To-day and To-morrow, 197; Travelling at Home and Abroad, 179; What Convents, and Similar Abominations, 10, 24, 77 do we all Live for? 1 ; Wife, The, of a Literary Man, 131; Wives, Useful and Useless, 86'; Women and Novels, 265; World's Kindness, |