world of mind is living now as it was in ages past; and moreover, are asking much the same questions concerning Life, Death, and Immortality. Many questions are more easily asked than answered. Robert Southey, in that singular book, The Doctor, praises the good sense of the schoolmaster, Richard Guy, as follows: "Light lie the earth upon the bones of Richard Guy, the schoolmaster of Ingleton. He never crammed the memory of his pupils with such horrific terms as prothesis, apheresis, epenthesis, syncope, paragorge, and apocope; never questioned him concerning appositio, evocatio, syllepsis, prolepsis, zeugma, synthesis, antiptosis, and synecdoche; never attempted to deter him from those faults which seem almost natural to the English-the heinous faults of iotacism, lambdacism, ischnotesism, trauliïsm, and plateasm; but he grounded him well in the nouns and verbs, and made him understand the concords." All these subjects are left for maturer years, probably to develop the brain, and to query over. Many words become petrified, and after a period of years are unearthed and again brought in to common parlance, sometimes with a modified signification. A writer of some four-score years ago thus propounds his questions; 1. How this vast orb on unseen axles turns? 2. And unconsumed the sun forever burns? 3. What nnknown power gives it such heat and force, 4. How angry tempests drive the seas to shore, Beat the vast swelling waves, and make them roar? 6. Why servile springs do constant tribute pay 7. How in the hidden space of Fates's dark womb 9. Why such a painted coat the tulip wears? 10. Why clad in white the innocent lilly's seen? 11. And how the scent comes from the jessamine ? 12. Why humble strawberries creep along the ground? 14. Why ivy clings to the oak's hardened waste? 15. And why the elm by the loving vine's embraced ? 16. Why Nature did for fishes scales prepare ? 17. And clothes some beasts in wool, and some in hair? 18. Why golden feathers do the fowls adorn? 19. And why they chirp and sing beneath the morn? S. C. & L. M. GOULD. MANCHESTER, N. H., December, 1886. Aaron's breastplate, 1. Aballiboozobanganorribo, 139, VOLUME III. 1886. Abbreviations, in autograph catalogues, 191. Abrnomal hot and cold periods, 118. Acknowledge the corn, 29. Acrostical hymn, "Ichthus," 136. Adam's epitaph, 52. Ajax's prayer, 71. Eolipiles-Leviathan, 119. á Kempis, Thomas, 133. Alchemical extract from Ashmole, 64. Common-gavel, 108. Confucius and Lao-Tseu, 130. Conquerer of Rome, where buried, 82. "Cosmos is the champion of the just," 216. Cova, or Lineation of Fohi, 14. Craftsmen, traditional names of, 167. Curiosities concerning celebrated persons, 41. interpretation, Golden Fleece, 113. Curioso in mathematics, 147, 199. Alchemy and Golden Fleece, 114. Alexan irian Library, 19. Alliterative poetry, 55. American history, first events, 51. American Morse Telegraphic Alphabet, 185. Amicable numbers, (63 pairs), 150. "Amicus Plato, amicus Socrates," 45. Ampersand, (&), 166. Anachronisms, curious, 35. Anagram concealing gunpowder, 83. Arabic proverb, 19. Arithmetical poem, 150. Aspinquid, the Saint, story of, 172. Auld Reekie, Edinburgh, Scotland, 162. Baccalaureate sermons, 17 Battle fought at Lexington, Mass. ? 84. Bill of fare, (1752), 126. Blank verse, earliest attempt, 1. Boscawen, a town, and island, 215. Buncombe, origin of word, 30. Cappadocia, Cilicia, and Crete, 132. Celebrated persons, curiosities concerning, 14. Champion, champagne, chamomile, 210. Chi-xi-bau, ancient name of America, 75. Christmas pie of ye olden time, 2. Churchman, and German, high and low, 18. City, the term, 48. Civil war, closing date, 45. Curious anachronisms, 35. 66 wills, 35, 42. Cursing by bell, book, and candle, 172, 198. Darwin, Erasmus, 65. Date, closing the civil war, 45. Descendants of Judas Iscariot, 158. Di do dum; Fi fo fum, 129. "Dies Ira." Franciscan hymn, 137. Dighton Rock, 87. Digital squares, (28), 153. Dimas and Gestas, the two thieves, 184. Dog (The) in literature, 173, 202. Doxology, greater, and lesser, 124. End of the world, 64. Epistles of Jesus and Abgarus, 180, 181. Homer's, 11. Stanislaus', 79, 133. Equation, Asher B. Evans's value, 23. "Eternal vigilance, price of liberty," 165, 192. Fallacy of a problem, 149, 198. Fates, Furies, and Graces, names, 132, 192. Fi fo fum; Di do dum, 128. First cause, Sir Thomas Browne's, 216. First events in American history, 51. First greenback note, 126. First line of Thomas Paine's Crisis, 127. Fobi's Cova, or Lineation, 14. Four greatest American, German, and French Four second causes of Plato, 216. Classic names, Graces, Fates, Furies, 182, 192. Furies, Fates, and Graces, names, 182, 192. Cleobulus's Ridule, 11. Climacterical year, 91. Coffee, ancient receipt for making, 39. Coinage, 2. Coincidental logarithms, 26. Meeting-house first applied to church, 84. Michelagniolo's name, 46. "Ichthus," acrostical hynm, 136. "lesous CHreistos THeou Uios Soter," 137. Imitation of Christ, or Shakespeare, 18, 113. Improvements, inventions, discoveries, 27, 28. Inscriptions on monuments, 211. Inventions, discoveries, improvements, 27, 28. "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, 132." Ireland's emblem, the shamrock, 90. Jaw-bone twice (Judges XV, 16), 215. "John Brown's Body," song, 39. Judas Iscariot, descendants of, 150. Judich, the Ethiopian eunuch, 121. Kappadocia, Kilicia, and Krete, 132. Lacassa, name of queen Candace, 121. Modulus of Common Logarithms, 22. Mottoes of States and Territories, 56, 57. Murdering Latin, a protest, 86. Murder-wounds bleeding afresh, 3. Queen Candace, and eunuch, 121. Naperian base, logarithms, 22. Napier's Rule, sine and tangent, 74. "Nature for red but one such man,"' 45. New York city, or New York City 18. Noah prayer over Adam's body, 40. Notch in lappel of a man's coat, 127. Notes on eccentric divines, 195. Observations on digital squares, 155, 156. "O Galilean, Thou hast conquered," 127. Oneteen, twoteen, thirteen, 89. Legend of Golden Fleece, interpretation, 113. Origin of Roman numerals, 123. Pasteur, Louis, French savan, 87. Pater Nosters, others, 71. Personages of history, extraordinary, 68. Pharaohs, eleven persons in Bible, 128. Pi (x), value of, 20. "Plato is my friend,Socrates is my friend," 45. "Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley," 83. Prize questions and answers, 77. Proverbs, 19, 55. Prox, or proxy, 30. Public worship on all days of the week, 158. Queen of Sheba, names of, 120. Quincy's comparison, 159. St. Aspinquid, story of 172. St. Helena, Island of, origin of name, 219. Story of St. Aspinquin, 172. Strabonic or Straborean, 219. Sublime prayers, 40, 71, 167, 186, 219. Suffee table, God and human soul, 192. Tall chimneys, 64. Tarpian Rock, 87. " Maid betrayed a city, 210. Quotations from the Sacred Roll and Book, 172. Telegraphic Alphabet, 185. Reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic, 124. Remedy of the Mint, 138. Repetend of 1337, 25. Reduplicated words, 217. Revised speling, 85, 166. Riddles, 10, 11, 12, 13, 52, 160, 221. Riot, judicial definition, 4. Roling-gates, 58. Roman numerals, origin of, 123. Saltonstall's, Leverett, works, 46. Saros, Chaldean, 49. Scale The, origin of, '80. Scripture riddle, 52. Secret of Hegel, 218. Secret of Jesus, 218. Secret of Swedenborg, 218. Sephiroth (The), 73, 102. Setting-maul, 108. Seven Lamps of Architecture, 197. Seven modern wonders of the world, 198. first American mention of, 181. Shem-hammephorash, what is it? 5. Short names and words, 134. Simple Cobler of Agawam, 80. 66 problem, 169. Sorosis in 1775, 1. Wages, rates of, 2. Warsaw, and Warsau, 50. VVebbe's Trauailes, 133. "What hath God wronght! 151, 185. W, history of the letter, 86. William the Taciturn, 217. Wind instruments, sound produced, 162. Witch of Agnesi, cquational curve, 215. Unlearned Alchymist his Antidote, 39. Urim and Thummim, 1. Value of Pi, 20. Vatican at Rome, 90. Veronica, who touched Jesus's garment, 184. Ypsilanti, Mich, origin of name, 215. Zodiac, Signs of, 42, 115. &, Ampersand, 166. (), Ancile, 179. Names and Noms de Plume of Contributors. A. B. C., 45. A. C. H., 167. Adams, Alice B. C. M., 92, 165. Beach, Silas B., 124. Bel- Camilla, 172.182,192. Caxton,4,35,38,46,55,64, Djafar, 40, 59, 64, 83, 140, 142, 179. Dono, 83. Eaton, O. J., 84. E. B. H., 188, 213. E. M., Farmer Boy, 76. 66, 159. Schmidt, J. H. W., 17, 18, 46, 81, 83, 84, 162, 45. gis, C D., 92. Mark, 44. Totten, Robert J., 74. Uglow, Minnie L., 172. Uglow, William T. Waggoner, M. O., 42, 55, 65, 166, 196. Want X. Y. Z., 135. Z., 46, 60, 74, 76, 92, Young Man, 134. 118, 124, 136, 140, 150, |