Pompadour, Madame de, her toilette, by Voltaire, 163
Pompeii, antiquities of, 412
Poor Laws, origin of, 327
Popes, List of, 416
Portdown Fair described, 121
Portugal, antiquity of, 48
manners and customs in, 69
Posts for Letters, origin of, 322
Post Office, revenue of, 440
Potato, economy of, 127
Poverty, Owen Feltham on, 414
Prayer, a fragment, 179
Precious Stones, varieties of, 77
Preservation of the Human Body, 133
Primrose, withered, lines on, 95
Printer, studious, 128
Printing, invention of, 143
from wooden blocks, 55
Prison Discipline in America, 286
Psalmody, origin of, 146
Public Credit explained, 142
Punctuality of Colonel Boswell, 448
Quadroon Girl, a song, 46
Quin and Macklin, 367
Quizzing, literary, 144
Railway, Liverpool and Manchester, 112
Raw Materials, 56
Recollections of a Wanderer 21--373
Records in the Tower of London, 279
Regent-street, charms of, 365
Regulating Power, 55
Relics of Popery, 344
Religious Fastings, 195
Resting-place, the, 354
Review, the first, 176
Rhyming Ruminations on London Bridge, 26
Rising, advantages of early, 16
Robespierre, anecdote of, 95
fall of, 106
Robin Hood, history of, 180--204
Rome, by T. Moore, 364
Romeo and Juliet, story of, 118
Romney, antiquity of, 294
Rose of the Castle, 133
of Edendale, by L.E.L., 335
lines to, 221
Rotuma, island of, described, 376
Roundelaye, ancient, 16
Royalty, freaks of, 207
Rubens, memoir of, 381
Ruby, beauty of, 78
Rye, antiquity of, 295
Salads, antiquity of, 358
Salt, fine basket, 425
good effects of, 265
Saltpetre, manufacture of, 88
Sandwich, antiquity of, 295
Sapphires, beauty of, 77
Sargasso Weed, account of, 136
Satin-stone Necklaces, 342
Saving time in natural operations, 55
Savoyard, the, a ballad, 275
School Building in the High Alps, 171
Schoolmaster's experience in Newgate, 333
Schools before the Reformation, 75
Sciences, progress of, 266
Scipio, continence of, 258
Scotch "Bluid," anecdote of, 123
Scott, Sir Walter, Memoir of:
Abbotsford, 241--247--248--250
Sonnet, by Wordsworth, 420
anecdotes of, 435
baronetcy, 250
birth of, 241
Scott, Sir Walter, character of, 255--256
childhood, 242
clerk of Sessions, 247
death, 208--253--
--on the, by the Author of Eugene Aram, 219
Dryburgh Abbey, 256--436