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America

Adventure Among the Hudson Bay's Fur-Trappers

American Copyright

The American Army and Navy

Cars and Stages in America

The Corporation of New York

A Day in Congress, with Sketches of American Notables

Life in the "Fifth Avenue"

The Presidential Election in America: Honest Old Abe

The Puzzles of Party in the United States

Animals (Domestic)

A Bird Show

Ducks

London Dogs

The Swans on the River Thames

Wild and Tame

Wonderful Journey of a Greyhound

Arts & Crafts

Every Man His Own Bookbinder

The British Isles

The Channel Islands

London in the Greenwood [Epping Forest]

The Isle of Man

Summertime in Moelfra Bay

Oxford Revisited

Oxford New Museum

A Summer Ramble [Romsey, Hampshire]

The Tourist in Scotland

Between Severn and Wye

Skye

Business, Law & Government

Benefit Clubs

A Custom of the "Customs [House]"

A Knowledge of the Laws

Papers on Life Insurance

Pickles and Preserves

The Royal United Service Institution

Seaborne Fruit for London

Smith's Express Newspaper Office

The Sovereignty of the Seas

Two Fiscal Epochs

Childcare & Education

Sorrows of Old Schoolboys

Cooking & Entertaining

Aerated Bread Making

History & Folklore

Arthur and the Round Table

Chimes Upon the Bells

Curiosities of Land and Other Tenures

Dwarfs and Giants

Fruits of the Revival in Ulster

Gossip on Names

Man Among the Mammoths

A Night with the Ethnologists

Old Modes of Advertising

Over the Border

A Tale of Dartmoor

A Tale of the Spanish Armada

Holidays

The Christmas Ingle

Industry & Manufacturing

The Bamboo and Its Multitudinous Uses

Mahogany

Life

The British Association for the Advancement of Science

A Day at Ben Dhrypping

Incendiary Mice

Our Rifle Corps

The Village Shop

Waiting for a Train

London

The Cab-Stand

Earthquake in London [1750]

A French [Huguenot] Invasion

Gog and Magog

Haunted London

London Dogs

Newgate Market

Old Westminster Bridge

Rag Fair

Sixpennyworth of Zoology

To and Fro in London

What I Saw at the London Docks

Military

Zou-Zou [The Zouaves]

Miscellany

Leap Year

Months Long and Short

Nature

The Gigantic Salamander of Japan

Larks and Lays

The New Bird: Balaeniceps Rex

Notes of a Westmoreland Naturalist

On a Sand-Bank

Snakes

Objects, Curiosities & Antiquities

Four Generations of Samplers

Some Account of the Bell Family

The Tassie Gems

The Watch, and How to Use It

People

BIANCONI and His Cars

BRUNEL, Sir Mark Isambard

CLARENDON, Lord Chancellor Clarendon

CLIVE, Lord

COLERIDGE, Sir J.T. - Recollections of the Western Circuit, by Sir J.T. Coleridge

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor - Reminiscences of an Octogenerian [about]

DUNDONALD, Lord

FORBES, Duncan, of Culloden, the Scottish Patriot

FOX, Sir Charles James

GREY, Governor Sir George

HALLER, Albrecht von - The Physician

HAVELOCK, Sir Henry

JEKYLL, Sir Joseph

KYRLE, John - The Man of Ross

LAWRENCE, Sir John, GCB, by LTC Herbert Edwards

MACAULEY, Lord

MACKINTOSH, Sir James

MURRAY, Alexander A Self-Taught Linguist

PIERCE, Franklin - An Hour with the President of the United States

ROGERS, Samuel [Poet]

STEPHENSON, Robert

VAN DER KEMP, Dr. Theodore

VANCOUVER the Voyager

WILKES, John - Reminiscences of an Octogenerian [about]

WILKIE, David, and His Pictures

Our Old Sally: A Portrait from Life

Vanity of Authors

Recreation

Experiences of an Aeronaut

Rifle Shooting in Europe and America

Royalty

Authentic Anecdote of Frederic William IV of Prussia

The House of Saxe-Coburg

Prince Metternich [of Austria]

Science & Technology

The British Association for the Advancement of Science

The Fire Escape

How to Use the Barometer

Railway Bridges and Viaducts

Railway Tunnels

A Ship on Fire

Total Eclipse, July 18, 1860

Social Issues & Causes

The Great Tobacco Nuisance

Hot Rolls and Their Consequences

Passing the Bottle

Sports, Athletics & Athletes

Highland Sports

Work

Female Employment

Literary "Packmen"

The Miners of Cornwall

Reporters and Shorthand Writers

Seeking Work

The Ship Surgeon

World Travel, Cultures & Colonies

Arctic [Christmas] Festivities

The Calcutta Mall

Canada

Ceylon

The Dahomians and Ashantees

The Fishermen of Naples

A Fortnight in Barbary

Fuente de Sangre [Honduras]

Gibraltar: "Old Gib"

Indian Table Attendants

Italy in Transition

Lebanon and the Druses

Missionary Itineration in India

The Mofussil Magistrate [India]

My Indian Bedroom and Valet

Needlework in Germany

A Ramble in the Calabrias

Recent Reforms in Turkey

Sicily and Its Wrongs

[Sweden] The Midsummer Night Sun

The Times Reporter in India

Torchlight Processions [in Germany]

Travellers' Bungalow [in India]

Travelling in India

The Turcos

Up the Hooghly [India]

Venice

A Visit to Aleppo

A Visit to Montenegro

Zou-Zou [The Zouaves]