wondered at, but they are not uncommon. Long before Jenner demonstrated the utility of vaccination it was known in Gloucestershire that they who had had cow-pox could not catch the small-pox. For some years before the invention of electric telegraphy, Professor Cumming of Cambridge, when describing to his class the then recent discovery by Oersted of the power of an electric current to deflect a magnet, used to say, 'Here, then, are the elements which would excellently serve for a system of telegraphy.' Yet none of his hearers, active and cultivated as they were, were moved from the routine of study. Laennec quotes a sentence from Hippocrates which, if it had been worthily studied, might have led to the full discovery of auscul tation. Thus it often has been; and few prophecies can be safer than that our successors will wonder at us as we do at those before us; will wonder that we did not discern the great truths which they will say were all around us, within reach of any clear, earnest mind. They will wonder, too, as we may, when we study the history of the discovery of anesthetics, at the quietude with which habitual miseries are borne; at the very faint impulse to action which is given by even great necessities when they are habitual. Thinking of the pain of surgical operations, one would think that men would have rushed after the barest chance of putting an end to it as they would have rushed to escape from starving. But it was not so; the misery was so frequent, so nearly customary, deemed so inevitable, that, though it excited horror when it was talked of, it did not excite to strenuous action. Remedies were wished for and sometimes tried, but all was done vaguely and faintly; there was neither hope enough to excite intense desire, nor desire enough to encourage hope; the misery was put up with just as we now put up with typhoid fever and sea-sickness, with local floods and droughts, with the waste of health and wealth in the pollutions of rivers, with hideous noises and foul smells, and many other miseries. Our successors, when they have remedied or prevented them, will look back on them with horror, and on us with wonder and contempt for what they will call our idleness or blindness or indifference to suffering. JAMES PAGET. INDEX TO VOL. VI. The titles of articles are printed in italics. ABI ABIVERD probable occupation of, by the Russians, 398-399 Achaians, religion of the, 757 its analogies with Hebrew Scripture, Adye (Lt. Gen. Sir J.), The British Afghan war, India's contribution to the Afghan War, the Results of the, 377-400 Agricultural Reform, the Public Interest Ajmere, description of, 247-248 Alexander of Abonotichus, the story of, Alkali waste heaps, noxious effects of, Allahabad, description of, 123 Alsace-Lorraine since 1871, 819–831 Anæsthetics, history of the discovery of Army Bill, the Irish members' conduct - Bassein, 723 Bath, Order of the, why so termed, 689 Bear (William E.), The Public Interest Bengal, ryot holdings in, 260 Bengal, the Domesday Book of, 1033- Berlin Memorandum, British policy in - Treaty of, the Turkish reforms stipu- Bevington (Miss L. S.), Modern Atheism Bidder, visualising faculty of, 159 BLA Blachford (Lord), South African Policy, Blackley (Rev. Mr.), his paper on -method for observing, in man, 744- Bombay, description of, 119-121, 723- Borgia, Lucrezia, 664-684 Brain, the Functions of the, 1021–1032 Buck (Mr.), his experimental farm at Bunyia, the Indian, 137-249 Burdwan, description of a village near, 531-532 Byron (Lord), his opinion of the Greeks, YABBALA, the, 497-498 Cabul, object of Russian intrigue Caird (James), Notes by the Way in Cairnes (Prof.), his view of the wages Calcite, 733 Calcutta, description of, 537 cession of, to the East India Com- Canada, Moose-hunting in, 45-65 Cawnpore, description of, 124-126 Child, the banking house of, 805 Church of England, Apology for Doubt - - - of Rome, Reasons for Doubt in the, French, Present State of the, 1093- DIN Clerical Education in France: a Keply, Cobden on British manufactures, 181 - etymology of, 804-805 Colonies, how not to retain the, 170-178 Commons, House of, declining condition Commons, House of, Public Business in Communion, practice of, in the Church Comte (Auguste), English recognition Concordat, the French, 1094-1098 Congregationists, French, school work Conservatism, strength of, 361-362 --- - nature and mode of action of, 810- Contagium vivum, the doctrine of, 740 - treatment of, in the Australian colo- Co-operative society of French actors, Copyright, art, 969-984 Cotton-weaving in India, 1040 Country, the, and the Government, 201– Courtney (Leonard), The Representation Cox (Sir George), his theory of Aryan Crimea, the British army in the, 347- |