CHAMBERS’S JOURNAL
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE
_Science and Arts_
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CHAMBERS’S JOURNAL
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE
_Science and Arts_
[Illustration: 1886]
[Illustration]
W. & R. CHAMBERS
LONDON & EDINBURGH
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Edinburgh:
Printed by W. & R. Chambers.
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[Transcriber’s Note: This cross reference of issue number to page
number was provided by the transcriber.
Issue Pages Date
No. 105 1–16 January 2, 1886
No. 106 17–32 January 9, 1886
No. 107 33–48 January 16, 1886
No. 108 49–64 January 23, 1886
No. 109 65–80 January 30, 1886
No. 110 81–96 February 6, 1886
No. 111 97–112 February 13, 1886
No. 112 113–128 February 20, 1886
No. 113 129–144 February 27, 1886
No. 114 145–160 March 6, 1886
No. 115 161–176 March 13, 1886
No. 116 177–192 March 20, 1886
No. 117 193–208 March 27, 1886
No. 118 209–224 April 3, 1886
No. 119 225–240 April 10, 1886
No. 120 241–256 April 17, 1886
No. 121 257–272 April 24, 1886
No. 122 273–288 May 1, 1886
No. 123 289–304 May 8, 1886
No. 124 305–320 May 15, 1886
No. 125 321–336 May 22, 1886
No. 126 337–352 May 29, 1886
No. 127 353–368 June 5, 1886
No. 128 369–384 June 12, 1886
No. 129 385–400 June 19, 1886
No. 130 401–416 June 26, 1886
No. 131 417–432 July 3, 1886
No. 132 433–448 July 10, 1886
No. 133 449–464 July 17, 1886
No. 134 465–480 July 24, 1886
No. 135 481–496 July 31, 1886
No. 136 497–512 August 7, 1886
No. 137 513–528 August 14, 1886
No. 138 529–544 August 21, 1886
No. 139 545–560 August 28, 1886
No. 140 561–576 September 4, 1886
No. 141 577–592 September 11, 1886
No. 142 593–608 September 18, 1886
No. 143 609–624 September 25, 1886
No. 144 625–640 October 2, 1886
No. 145 641–656 October 9, 1886
No. 146 657–672 October 16, 1886
No. 147 673–688 October 23, 1886
No. 148 689–704 October 30, 1886
No. 149 705–720 November 6, 1886
No. 150 721–736 November 13, 1886
No. 151 737–752 November 20, 1886
No. 152 753–768 November 27, 1886
No. 153 769–784 December 4, 1886
No. 154 785–800 December 11, 1886
No. 155 801–816 December 18, 1886
No. 156 817–832 December 25, 1886
End of Transcriber Note.]
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INDEX.
Familiar Sketches and Essays.
Page
An Angler’s Idyll, 49
An Old Tulip Garden, 525
Arachne and Melissa, 385
‘Chop’ with King Ja-Ja, 433
Coaching-days, 321
Conscientious Money-spending, 229
Cottage Ideas, by Richard Jefferies, 289
Ethics of Housekeeping, 81
Finance without Funds; or, How to Float a Company, 257
Fortune, 286
Germanisation of America, 465
Hostess and Guest, 353, 379
Hygeia in the Dog-days, 481
Instinct and Reason, 248
John Hullah, 326
Just before Winter, by Richard Jefferies, 801
Life’s Golden Age, 97
Literary Endeavour, 65
Modern Slavery: a Word for Our Shop-assistants, 449
Money Lent! 447
Our Domesticated Otter, 53
Our Ways and Theirs, 545
Park Pearls, 561
Pleasures of Ruin, 758
Revolution Below-stairs, 28
Scottish Beadle Half a Century Ago, 209
The Old Priory Garden, 254
Two Evenings with Bismarck, 17, 86
‘Unconditional Surrender’ Grant, 102
Unpopular Relationships, 293
What Career for Tom? 381
‘Where Ignorance is Bliss,’ 344
Winds of Heaven, by Richard Jefferies, 497
Poetry.
A Bright Day in November, 768
A Deserted Garden, 32
A Nurse, 672
A Retrospect, 736
A Song of Rest, 544
An Old ‘Chubb,’ 80
At the Mill, 320
At Waking, 64
Autumn Days, 608
Bird Notes, 336
Bonnie Dryfe, 48
By the River, 368
Dead Flowers, by Alexander Anderson, 256
Dolly, 144
Dream-fancies, 592
If this were so, 704
In the Distant Years, 800
‘Let there be Light,’ 224
Lost at Sea, 528
Love’s Seasons, 720
Mehalah, 784
‘Missing,’ 512
‘None will miss Thee,’ 576
Parted, 208, 640
Persephoné, 160
Picciola, 560
Sketches, 384
Solitude, 624
Spoken in Anger, 288
Spring’s Advent, 192
Sweet Day of Days, 832
Sweetheart, Farewell, 496
The Gorse, 464
The Last Year, 272
The Lindsay’s Bridal, 416
The Minstrels, 432
The Mother’s Vigil, by Hugh Conway, 96
The Old Viking, 176
The Poet’s Treasures, 400
The Return, 240
The Two Seas, 816
This is All, 752
To a Cherry Blossom, 480
To a Lady, 656
Two Sonnets: Keats, 112
Which? 352
Who Knows? 688
Youth and Age, 448
Popular Science.
Air as a Motive Force, 762
Cocaine, 145
Desert Dust, 6
Dew, a New Theory of, 350, 624
Earthquakes, Comrie, 351
Fissure Eruptions, 129
Fuel, Economy of, 748
Man-like Apes—and Man, 280
Mars, Life in, 369
Massage: a Mode of Medical Treatment, 593
Mineral Subsidence, 648
Mitis Metal, 527
MONTH, THE: Science and Arts—
Pamir Region of Asia—Paraffin as a Successful Preservative—Artificial
Fireproof Plaster—New Form of Lamp—Plan for Toughening Paper—‘Plumage
League’—Fast Sailing Torpedo Boat—Torpedo Catcher—Gunnery
Experiments—New Turning-lathe—Development of Leather Manufacture
in Germany—Tea-cultivation in Natal—Lithographic Printing from Zinc
Plates—Glazing without Putty, 76–79
Discovery of Roman Relics—Ancient Statue of Pharaoh found at
Ramleh—Fall of Meteorites in India—Proposed Chart of the
Stars—Earthquake in Cornwall—Thunderstorms—Typewriting
Association—Machine for Repairing Wood-pavement—Weight of
Salmon—Mersey Tunnel—Weight of Frozen Snow on Telegraph Wires—New
Photographic Process—Freezing Wet Gravel—New Form of
Stretcher—Preservation of Fish by Boracic Acid, 137–140
Phylloxera in the Vineyards of Cape Colony—Worms in Ice—Isthmus
of Corinth Canal—Improved Method of Etching Metallic
Surfaces—Stationary Buffer-stop for Railway Stations and
Sidings—Gas Regulator—Purity of Aërated Waters—Acidulated Water
as a Disinfectant—Successful Inoculations for Hydrophobia—The
Microscope as a Criminal Detective Agent—Heating of Public
Conveyances—Variations of Light emitted by Celestial
Objects—Electric Alarm-bell for Railway Crossings—‘Whitebait’—Screw
Forging Machine—Important Analysis of Prescriptions, 205–207
Cheapening of Aluminium—Petroleum Wells in Egypt—Photographing
the Pleiades—Embryo Growth in a Bird’s Egg—New
Refrigerator—Lighthouse Illuminants—Dentistry in
America—Deterioration of Pictures by Exposure to Light—Revival
of Pastel-work—Burmese Method of Working in Metals—Prevention
of Cholera—Utilisation of London Refuse—Unexhibited Greek and
Roman Sculptures—Artificial Reproduction of Trout, 268–271
Discovery of Ancient British Boat and Wooden Causeway—Christy
Ethnographical Collection—The National Egg-supply—Oyster
Spat—Tenacity of Life in Pike—Gas in Water-pipes—Petroleum
Engine—New Uses for Cork—Extraction of Saccharin from
Coal-tar—Balloon-signalling—Value of Basic Cinder as a
Manure—Waterproof Paper and Ink—Utilisation of Skim-milk in
the Manufacture of Cheese—Honey-wine, 347–350
Sanitary Furniture—Purity of Artificial Ice—Scarlatina Epidemic
in London—New Method of Etching on Glass—Ocean Oil-well—Uses
of Diatomite—Ferrous Sulphate a Preventive of Potato
Disease—Damascening Metals by Electrolysis—Discovery of Old
Roman and English Coins—The Electric Light at Paddington—Means
of Escape from Suffocation by Smoke—Production of Solid
Oxygen—Heat-value in Fuel—Mummy Wheat—Safety Cartridges for use
in Fiery Mines, 411–414
Efficacy of Vaccination—The Transbaïkal Mineral Springs—Construction
of an Observatory at Sonnblick—New Photographic Camera—New
Military Shell—Origin of the Germ Theory of Disease—Fading
of Water-colour Paintings—New Process for making
Whitelead—Hay-loader—Discovery of Ancient Egyptian Palace—Safest
Material for Road-paving—Snail Harvest in France, 492–495
Photographic Printing-blocks—Crematory Furnaces in Paris—Volcanic
Eruption in New Zealand—Ancient Dentistry and Artificial
Teeth—Remarkable Cases of Recovery from Bullet-wounds—New System
of Coating Iron or Steel with Lead—Durability of Red-lead
Paints—Upward’s Primary Battery—Fryer’s Refuse
Destructor—Manufacture of Brick Tea, 555–558
India-rubber and Asbestos as additions to Armour-plating—Explosive
Ice—Steel Sleepers for Railways—Slack Coal as Fuel for
Boiler-firing—Repairing of Furnace-linings—Machine for making
Wood-wool—An Axleless Wheel—Railway Foot-warmers—Cultivation
of Tobacco in Kent—Creosote a Cure for Erysipelas—Machine for
‘withering’ Tea, 617–619
Non-efficiency of Toughened Glass—Dynamite as a Charge for Explosive
Projectiles—Electric Boat—New Motive-power for Vessels—Marine
Brake—Accident at the Crarae Quarries—Earthquake
Predictions—Fertilising Effect of Volcanic Dust—Torpedo
Experiments—Butterfly Procession—Woodbury Tissue—A Photographic
Phenomenon—Completion of the Severn Tunnel, 701–703
Isthmus of Panama Canal—Colonial Woods—Instinct of Ants—The largest
Photographic Negative—Preservation of Flowers—Effect of Light upon
Eyeless Animals—Solder Alloy—Electric Safety-lamp—Disposal of
Sewage—Sugar used in Making Mortar and Cement—Casting of Chains
in Solid Steel—Deposition of Dust and Smoke by Electricity—Simplex
Ironing Machine—A New Explosive—Continuous Wire-netting
Machine, 764–767
Japanese Sanitarium—Careless Construction of Flues and Party-walls
in Houses—M. Pasteur on his Treatment of Hydrophobia—A Petroleum
Engine as a Motor for Torpedo Boats—Spent Dye Liquors used in the
Manufacture of Writing-ink—Acclimatisation of Bavarian Fish in
England—Successful Experimental Tobacco-growing at Sydenham—New
Method of Preserving Polyzoa—Settle’s Safety-lamp and
Water-cartridge—Technical Education in Britain—An American
Dynamite Cruiser—Professor Hughes’s Microphone used for Detecting
Leaks in Water-mains—A New Steam-valve—Petroleum Springs, 828–831
Nothing New, 737
Ordnance Survey, its Past and Future, 774
Plant-life, Influence of Habit in, 113
Prehistoric Man, 417
Sand, Musical, 427
Senses, the Evidence of the, 719
Shot-firing in Coal-mines, 149, 208, 271
Signalling at Sea, 33
Star-charting, Photographic, 732
Subaqueous Excursion, a, 30
Tales and Other Narratives.
A Barrack Ghost Story, 140
A Dead Shot: an Incident in 1801, 717
A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY.—By Charles Gibbon, 503, 522, 537, 552
A Gallant Rescue, 487
A GOLDEN ARGOSY, a Novelette.—By Fred. M. White, 8, 25, 42, 55,
71, 89, 105, 119, 134
A Humble Sprig of Nobility: a Red River Story, 666
A Trick at the Helm, 396
An Escort Adventure, 443
An Every-day Occurrence, 156
BY ORDER OF THE LEAGUE.—By Fred. M. White, 580, 595, 614, 628,
644, 660, 675, 693, 707, 724, 739, 756, 771, 788, 804, 819
Cousin George, 744, 759
David’s Son Solomon, 733
‘Doubleworks:’ a Story of Athlone, 823
George Hannay’s Love Affair, 632, 650, 664, 681, 699
Great Jewel Robbery, 188
How I became a Convict, 13
How Pat Delaney paid his Rent, 490
IN ALL SHADES.—By Grant Allen, Author of _Babylon_, _Strange Stories_, &c.
Chapter I., 1