character, 280; his hostility to the Crimean War, ib. 282; personal antagonism to Lord Palmerston, 283; his American sympathies, 284; sides with the North in the Civil War, 285; his views on the Trent affair criticised, 286; his Reform crusade in 1858, 287; his moderate language thereon in 1867, 288; his views on the Irish Church, 292
Bright (Right Hon. John), his coun- sel of legislative inaction in edu- cation, cxxxix. 215; his hostility to the Act of 1870, 218, 220; his notions of free land, 282; in- fluence of his opinions on Mr. Gladstone, 561
Brindley (James, 1716-1773), his Grand Trunk Canal, cxxvi. 219 Brisbane, capital of Queensland, its beautiful situation, cxviii. 316 Bristol riots (1831), cxxv. 535 Britain (ancient), state of, in the Augustan era, cxi. 361
meagre account of, by Cæsar, cxxiv. 425. See Casar, Julius megalithic remains cxxxviii. 188; theories of Mr. Fergusson thereon, ib.
Britain, Great. See Great Britain British and Foreign Review, the, article of, on the native princes and the East India Company, re- ferred to, cxxxvii. 234 British Museum, started by public lottery, cxxiii. 60; purchase of Sir Hans Sloane's collection, 61; and of the Cotton and Harleian MSS., 62; misconduct of the Sloane trustees, 63; purchase of the Towneley marbles, ib.; the Elgin marbles, 64; select committees of 1847 and 1859, ib. 65; continued mismanagement, ib.; returns of expenditure, ib.; wrong ideas of centralisation, 67; proposed divi- sion of collections, 68; claims of public convenience, ib. 69; dis-
graceful state of collections, ib. ; evils of public trustees, 70; recent purchases, ib.; want of taste in arrangement, 71; report of com- mission of 1859, ib.; impossibility of an executive council, 72; re- sponsible director proposed, 73 British Museum, collections of gems at, cxxiv. 521; cylindrical signets at, 528
the library of, cxxxix. 37; foreign book collections in, 40; its unrivalled catalogue, 41; freedom of access to, 43
statues in, symmetrically examined, cxl. 194; photographs of the collection, 197; antique marble relievi, ib.
Britons, their employment of horses in war, cxx. 134
Britten (Mr. Bashley), on rifling
applied to cast-iron guns, cxix. 525 note
Brixham (Devonshire), cave de- posits and relics found at, cxviii. 277
Broad Church party, their compre- hensive spirit of reform, cxxxiii.
417 Brodie (Sir Benjamin Collins, 1783- 1862), on the proportion of phos- phorus in the brain, cxii. 536 Brodie (M. G.), his intimacy with Sir W. Hamilton, cxxxi. 202; merits of his English history, ib. Broglie (Albert, Prince de, b. 1821), 'L'Eglise et l'Empire Romain au IVme. Siècle,' cxi. 422; his candid Romanism, ib.; his moderate tone, 424; indications of historical weakness, ib.; indiscriminate re- liance on authorities, 425; rheto- rical division of his subject, 428; his parallel of Church and State in France, ib. 431
his opinions of Papal Govern- ment, cxvi. 283; on the spread of bureaucracy in Europe, 286
his Roman Church and Em-
pire in the Fourth Century, cxxvi. 95; his personal history, ib. 96; epochs of his work, 97; his im- partiality, ib.; his account of the first council of Constantinople, ib.; on the additions to the Nicene creed, 116; denounces the futility of the council, 120 Broglie (Victoria, Duke de, 1785- 1870), life of, by M. Guizot, cxxxv. 347; his memoranda, ib. ; his family and early life, 348; his views of the 18th Brumaire, 349; his missions under the Conseil d'État, 351; sketches of Bona- parte, ib.; at Warsaw, 353; in the Chamber of Peers, 353; his marriage, 357; heroic conduct at Ney's trial, ib.; patriotic politics under the Restoration, 358; the Martignac Cabinet, 359; the Revolution, 360; foreign minister under Louis Philippe, 361; re- signs, 363; brought back as head of the Cabinet, ib.; defeat and re- signation, 364; mission to Eng- land on the slave trade, ib.; shock of the coup d'état of 1851, 365; his domestic and intellectual life, ib.
Brome (Rev. James), his travels in England in the last century, CXxxviii. 490
Bronze, prehistoric Swiss workers in, cxxxii. 467; origin of, 470; as- cribed to the Phoenicians, 472; among the Etruscans, 475; in Scandinavia, 476; derivation of the word, ib.
Bronze-age, the, cxvi. 155; in Switzerland, 163
Brooke (Sir James, 1803-1868), civil- ising object of his visit to Borneo, cxvi. 401; his personal intercourse with the natives, ib.; his own explanation of his enterprise, 402; discouraged by the British Govern- ment, 405; his objects discredited,
Chinese assassins, 407; devotion of the natives to him, 410 Brougham and Vaux (Henry, Lord,
1788-1869), banquet to, at Edin- burgh in 1859, cxi. 189; his ser- vices to the Edinburgh Review, ib. ; his reputation as a legal reformer, 190; his Acts and Bills from 1811, collected by Sir John Eardley- Wilmot, ib.; his great speech in 1828 on Law Reform, 192; his prophetic prescience of abuses, ib.; his own summary of his achieve- ments, 193; further reforms due to him since 1848, 194; his vindi- cation of the bar, 195; his pro- posed changes in the law of evi- dence, 199; supports unanimity in trial by jury, 200; his rules for framing statutes, 201; on the sim- plification of law, 203 Brougham and Vaux (Henry, Lord), his committee of 1818 on the edu- cation of the lower classes, cxiii. 392
his materials for the notices of Voltaire and Rousseau, cxxiv. 345
his proposals of household- suffrage in 1829, cxxv. 524, 525; views on the ten-pound franchise, 526; his popularity with the king, ib. 527
his inattention to an appeal in the House of Lords, cxxix. 52; his judicial reforms in the Privy Council, 64; Life of, by Lord Campbell, 572; compared with Lyndhurst, ib.; defective in wit, ib.; his ancestral vanity, 573; proud of his Scotch descent, 574; anecdote of his grandfather, ib.; longevity in his family, ib.; his classical translations, 575; anec- dote of his college-days at Edin- burgh, 576; his strong family attachments, 577; death of his brother Peter, ib.; his first contri- butions to the Edinburgh Review,
578; disgust for the bar, 579; conduct in society, 580; mission to Portugal, ib.; services to the Whigs, 581; early proofs of greatness, ib.; defeat at the Liverpool election, ib.; despondence under failure, ib. 582; relations with the Princess of Wales, ib.; his wrongful withholding of the letter of pacification, 584; his popularity after the Queen's trial, ib.; appointment as Chancellor, 585; scene at the coronation of William IV., 587; inventor of the 'Brougham,' 589; anecdote of, with the Duke of Wellington, ib.; his awe of the duke, ib.; petulant conduct as Chancellor, 590 ; quarrels with Sugden, ib.; reconciliation, 591; his qualities admired by Lord St. Leonards, 592; his self-laudation, 593'; his judicial achievements, ib.; legislative services, 594; mental derangement after 1834, 595; rupture with his allies in Lord Grey's Ministry, ib.; his conduct on the Irish Coercion Bill, 596; his intolerance of official control, ib.; asks Peel for the office of Chief Baron, 597; refused the Chancellorship by Lord Melbourne, ib.; his coarse acrimony in the House of Lords, ib.; disgust at Lord Cottenham's appointment to the Seals, 508; joins the Opposition against Lord Melbourne, ib.; his vain efforts at popularity, 599; alliance with Lyndhurst, 600; unseemly conduct as law lord, 601; his declining years, 604; Miss Martineau's anecdote of, at Cannes, 605 Brougham and Vaux (Lord), his
wrong conception of the duties of barristers to their clients, cxxxiv. 505, 506
autobiography of, cxxxv. 502; his instructions for literal publication of his MSS. ib.; parent
age, ib.; education at Edinburgh, 503; early literary societies, 504; reluctant entry into the bar, ib.; his part in forming the Edinburgh Review, ib.; secretary to the Lisbon mission, 506; first efforts in politics, ib.; his call to the English bar opposed by the Tories, 507; enters Parliament for Camelford, 508; his first speech, ib.; advocacy of popular questions, 509; accepts office under Lord Grey, 510; the Berlin decree and orders in council, ib. 511; his defeat at Liverpool, 513; counsel for the 'Examiner,' 513; returned for Winchelsea, 517; his talking-out tactics against the income-tax, ib.; relations with the Opposition, 518; his interview with Queen Caroline on her return, 519; his speech for the Queen on her trial, 521; his mischievous idea of advocacy, ib., 522; petty jealousy of Canning's Ministry, 527; declines their grudging offer of the silk, 528; proposes a coalition ministry, ib.; on good terms with Canning, ib. ; returned for Yorkshire, 529; his plan of reform, 530; his motion thereon, ib.; refused the Mastership of the Rolls, 531; Lord Chancellor under Lord Grey, ib.; his reluctance to accept the post, ib., 532; on the dissolution after the first Reform Bill, 535; advocates creation of new peers, 536; interview with the king, 537; obtains the king's consent in writing, 538; his conduct self-examined, 539; his support of Lord Grey, 540; his misstatements respecting the Coercion Act, 541; his variety of talent, ib.; practical services in legislation, 542; his distinctions, ib.; his skilful 'portraits of contemporaries,' 543 ; defects of eloquence, ib.; Sir S. Romilly's estimate of him, ib.;
his entreaty to the Lords, ib.; passion in 1848 for French Re- publicanism, 544; personal faults and vagaries, ib.; his public ser- vices, 545; judicial reforms, 546; his wise patronage, 547; distin- guished social qualities, 548; in- accuracies in his memoirs, ib. Brougham and Vaux (Henry, Lord), his character, by Lord Cockburn, cxl. 268; his arrogance to Jeffrey, ib.; compared by Mr. Greville with Macaulay, 527; his pro- posal to Southey of a Guelphic order for literary men, 530; per- sonal traits of, by Mr. Greville, 545, 547
Broughton de Gyfford (John Cam
Hobhouse, Lord, 1786-1869), his recollections of a long life, cxxxiii. 287; semi-private character of his work, 288; his birth and descent, 289; his education, ib.; intimacy with Lord Byron at Cambridge, 290; foreign travels, ib. ; at Paris, ib.; with Byron at Geneva, 291; his knowledge of Italy, 292; sketches of Holland House, 293; on Byron's death and burial, 295, 298; his opinion of the libels on Byron, ib.; early politics, 299; committed by Parliament to New- gate, 300; returned for West- minster, 301; anecdotes of Can- ning, ib.; relations with Lord Grey, 303; account of reform de- bates, ib.; succeeds to the baro- netcy, 306; made Secretary of War by Lord Althorp, ib.; his energetic army reforms, 310; made Irish Secretary, 311; resigns office on the House and Window Tax question, ib.; on the Irish Coercion Act of 1834, ib. 314; accepts office under Lord Melbourne, ib.; death of his wife, 315; the second Mel- bourne Ministry, ib.; he takes the Board of Control, 316; his ac- count of Queen Victoria's acces-
sion, 324; his first interview with her, 328; his Indian policy against Russian intrigues, 330; interview with Lord Wellesley, ib.; affairs of Caubul, ib. 331; intervention in Syria, 332; the Turco-Egyptian question, 334; fall of the Mel- bourne Ministry, 336; raised to the peerage, 337; his death and character, ib.
Broughton de Gyfford (John Cam
Hobhouse, Lord), letters from Earl Grey to the Edinburgh Review vindicating alleged charges against his father, cxxxiv. 291; editor's reply thereto, 298
Brown (Rev. Baldwin), his article in
the Contemporary Review' on church disestablishment, cxxxiii. 420
Brown (Dr. John), his character as
a Scotch Dissenter, cxxxi. 206; personal peculiarities, 211 Brown (John, of Priesthill), the murder of, confessed by Claver- house, cxviii. 15 Browne (Sir Thomas, 1605-1682), his Garden of Cyrus, cxxxi. 222 Brown (Dr. Thomas, 1777-1810), his idealistic theory of philosophy, cxxiv. 121; on the mental per- ception of consciousness, 125; on the relation of sense to external objects, 129
his physical view of mental science, cxxvi. 80; his philosophy exposed by Ferrier, 85 Browne (Rev. G. F.), his ' Ice-caves of France and Switzerland,' cxxii. 422; his personal explorations, 447; theory of their origin, 448 Browning (Elizabeth Barrett, d. 1861), poems of, cxiv. 513; her popularity, ib.; writings in early life, 514; her Essay on Mind,' 515; illness, ib.; Greek studies, ib.; portrait of, by Miss Mitford, 516; her 'Seraphim' and 'Lady Geraldine's Courtship,' 518; 'Dra-
ma of Exile,' ib.; eccentricities of style, 525; her Rhapsody of Life's Progress,' ib.; 'Lay of the Children' and other lyrics, 527; instances of tender pathos, 529; 'My Doves,' ib.; Aurora Leigh,' a splendid failure, 530; friendship with Mr. Kenyon, 531; sympathy with Italian politics, ib. ; her 'Casa Guidi Windows,' ib.; her eulogy of Napoleon, 532; 'Poems before Congress,' ib.; character of her writings, 533
Browning (Robert, b. 1812), his poems, cxx. 537; his studied quaintness and obscurity, 538; his 'Paracelsus' criticised, 539, 544; psychological mysticism of his 'Sordello,' 545; his tortuous style of expression, 546; his genius more dramatic than epic, ib. ; failure of his plays, 547; his abruptness of allusion, 548; his dialogue in Strafford,' 549; his plots criticised, 550; his character of 'Luria,' ib. 551; his 'Pippa Passes,' ib. 552; his passion for doggerel rhymes, 553, 554; his treatment of religious subjects, 555, 557; his poems on obscure artists, ib.; his sympathy with exceptional classes and persons, 558; his humour, 559; his faculty of word-painting, ib.; his 'sophistical' class of poems, 560; his 'Evelyn Hope,' 561; his love poems, 562; his quaint onomatopy, 564; his popularity, 565
his 'Ring and the Book,' cxxx. 164; peculiarities of his genius, ib.; his emotional nature and serene intellect, ib.; his grasp of human nature, ib.; story of the poem, 107, 170; his vivid power of treatment, 171; his dramatic genius, 178; beauty of his characters, 179; hopeful spirit of his philosophy, ib.; his defects of style analysed, 182; compared
with Victor Hugo, 184; rugged versification, 185
Browning (Robert), his 'Balaustion's Adventure,' cxxxv. 221; his poem a translation of the Alcestis' of Euripides, ib.; his 'Prince of Hohenstiel-Schwangau,' 222; his modern treatment of Euripides, 223; story of Alcestis, 224; beauty of his preface, 229; his conception of the original, ib. 241; his different ending, ib.; verbal defects in his text, 242; general impression of ease, 243; character of Admetus, 244, 249
'Brownists,' sect of, under Elizabeth, cxxxiv. 174
Bruce (King Robert, 1274-1329), his daily life at Cardross, cxii. 517
evidence as to his brother John, cxx. 320; condition of Scotland during his reign, 323 Bruce (James, 1730-1794),his explorations of the Blue Nile, cxviii. 208 Brunel (I. K.), his evidence on patents, cxxi. 605
his adoption of Wheatstone's telegraph, cxxxii. 211 Brunelleschi (1377-1446), his con
tributions to architecture, cxviii. 72 Brunswick-Lunenburg (Duke of, d. 1806), failure of his French invasion, cxxiv. 564, 565 Brussels, meteorological conference at, cxxiv. 58
Brusten, battle of, cxix. 551 'Brut y Tywysogion,' the, cxviii. 69 Bucer (Martin, 1491-1551), his objections to the baptismal service, cxiii. 24
Buchan, Mr. Pratt's history of, cxii.
522; singular religious observances in, ib.; tradition of the 'Sands of Forvee,' 523
Buchanan (George, 1506-1582), enters Paris University at fifteen,
Buchanan (James Percival, President U.S. b. 1791), his handling
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