Back, Sir G. Ball, John Barth, Dr. H. Bartlett, J. R. Beke, C. T. CLASSIFIED INDEX. Page 35 Hume, Hamilton ... ..Page 443 40 Johnston, Alexander Keith 49 Jukes, Joseph B.... 462 469 50 Junghuhn, Franz W. 470 ... 57 Belcher, Sir E. 58 Kinglake, Alexander W. Koch, Karl 483 488 Berghaus, H. 68 Kohl, John G. 488 Bode, Baron de 85 La Borde, Comte de 491 Bonomi, J. 89 Lane, E. W.... 497 Borrow, G. 92 Layard, A. H. 503 Botta, P. E. 93 Lepsius, Karl R.... 511 Bowring, Sir John 96 Livingstone, Rev. Dr.... 527 Bremer, F. 104 M'Clintock, Sir F. L. 517 Brooke, Sir James Burton, Captain R. F. 110 McClure, Sir Robert 517 115 McCormack, R. 547 138 Macdonnell, Sir R. G.... 548 143 Martius, Karl 574 144 Oliphant, Lawrence 630 Castren, M. A. 162 Palmer, William Chaillu, P. B. du... 165 Palliser, John 640 Chesney, Major-General 172 Paton, A. A.......... 649 Cumming, R. Gordon 219 Petermann, A. H. 657 Curzon, Robert 221 Pim, Captain B. C. T. 662 Davis, Nathan 233 Reid, Captain Mayne 688 Eichwald, Edward 274 Ritter, Karl ... ... 696 Ellis, Rev. William Flügel, Gustav L. Fortune, Robert Fremont, John Charles 280 St. John, J. A. 311 Smyth, Admiral 317 Squier, E. G. 324 Stuart, J. M.... 720 754 760 773 Gerstäcker, F. 343 Taylor, I.-S.-J. 779 Gobat, Rt. Rev. S., Bishop of Tchichatchef, Peter 780 Jerusalem... 459 Vambéry, Arminius 801 Grant, James A. Hahn-Hahn, Countess Ida. Hargraves, Edmond H. Head, Sir F. B. ... ... 366 Weld, Charles R.... 382 Wilkes, Admiral 393 Wrangel, Ferdinand P. 406 Yates, Dr. Holt The following LIST OF NOMS DE PLUME, assumed by various Authors, will be found useful to the general reader. MEN OF THE TIME. N.B.-An asterisk (*) is prefixed to names which appear for the first time in the present edition. ABBOTT, THE REV. JACOB, was born in Maine, United States, about the year 1802, and was educated at Bowdoin College, where he took the usual degree before entering on the ministry of the Independent body. He soon became a voluminous author, both on religious and moral subjects, and popular as a writer for the He is the author of "The Young Christian," "The Corner Stone," &c., "Harper's Story Books," "Stories of the Rainbow," &c., and of some "Illustrated Histories," which have had a large sale on both sides of the Atlantic. young. ABBOTT, THE REV. JOHN, younger brother of the above, was born in Maine, United States, in 1806, and was educated at Bowdoin College, and at a college of the Independent Congregationalists at Andover, Massachusetts. He subsequently entered upon the pastoral office in connection with that body; but, like his brother, he preferred to devote himself to literature. He is best known as the author of "The Mother at Home," "The Child at Home," a History of the French Revolution," History of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte," and a history of the European Monarchies. 66 ABD-EL-KADER, the third of the four sons of a Marabout chief named Sidi-el-Hadji-Meheddin, was born in the environs of Mascara, in 1807. When Charles X. of France under. took the Algerine expedition, Abdel-Kader, who, though young, was famous for his powers of mind and body, was elected their chief by some of the tribes in the neighbourhood of that city, in the hope that he would deliver their country from anarchy. He was shortly afterwards proclaimed emir of Mascara, and declared a religious war against the French, who, finding that it was more convenient to have the Emir as a friend than as a foe, concluded with him a treaty, which constituted him sovereign of the Province of Oran, with a right of the monopoly of the commerce of the entire country, similar to that exercised by Mehemet Ali in Egypt. However, desiring to extend his dominions, he soon found himself again at issue with the French, who attacked him, but with doubtful success, though they forced him to evacuate Mascara. For more than ten years he continued in arms against the French invaders, whose generals he baffled in a desultory warfare, until, Dec. 23, 1843, he was defeated by Marshal Bugeaud, to whom he capitulated on the faith of a promise that he should be allowed to retire to Alexandria or to St. Jean d'Acre. Instead, however, of fulfilling this promise, the French authorities imprisoned him in the castle of Pau, whence he was transferred, in 1848, to the Château d'Amboise, near Blois. Here he remained until after the pro B 2 A'BECKETT-ADAM. clamation of the empire in 1852, when | maine" (1857). He shortly after. he was released by the emperor Louis Napoleon, and swore upon the Koran never again to molest the French rule in Africa. Abd-el-Kader not only has kept his word, but he treated with great kindness and consideration the Christian population of the East at the time of the Syrian massacres in the summer of 1860, for which good service he has received a decoration from the emperor of the French. He still resides at Damascus, in Syria, living on a pension paid by the French Government. wards published a famous pamphlet, "La Question Romaine," which urged the abolition of the Pope's temporal power, and was supposed to be inspired by the emperor. In 1860 he published two other political pamphlets, "The New Map of Europe," and "Prussia in 1860." In 1861 appeared "Les Coquins d'Agents de Change;" and in 1863 the third edition of "Le Cas de M. Guerin." Besides the above, M. About has written a number of vaudevilles and other dramatic pieces. A'BECKETT, SIR WILLIAM, brother of the late Gilbert Abbot A'Beckett, was born in London in 1806, and was educated at Westminster School. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1829. Mixing, however, the study of the belles lettres with that of law, he edited the "Universal Biography," and subsequently composed a considerable portion of "The Georgian Era." He was appointed successively Solicitor and Attorney General of New South Wales, and resident Judge at Port Phillip, a title which he exchanged for that of Chief Justice of Victoria on the erection of that part of Australia into a separate colony. He retired and returned to England in 1863. ABOUT, EDMOND-FRANÇOISVALENTIN, a popular French writer, was born at Dieuze (Meurthe), the 14th February, 1828. He pursued his studies at the Lycée Charlemagne, won the prize of honour in 1818, and passed, in 1851, to the French School of Athens. In Greece he directed his attention to archæological studies, and made his first appearance as an author with "La Grèce Contemporaine" (1855), a work in which modern Hellas was painted in truer colours to the general world than was acceptable to the people of Greece. It was well received, and the author had soon plenty of work on his hands. In the Revue des Deux Mondes he published a kind of autobiographical novel, "Tolla" (1855). "Les Mariages de Paris (1856) was another " Capitulation of Meiningen," now to ACLAND, HENRY WENTWORTH, M.D., F.R.S., &c., fourth son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., was born in 1815, and educated at Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford, whence he was elected, in 1841, to a Fellowship at All Souls. He took the degree of M.D. at Oxford in 1818, where he holds the post of Physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary, and was appointed Lee's Reader in Anatomy in 1845. Dr. Acland is known for his active exertions in the promotion of cleanliness, drainage, and athletic exercise, as the best remedies against disease; and has published, with a view to bring the sanitary question before the public mind, an account of the visitation of cholera at Oxford in 1851, besides other matter, books, and pamphlets. He accompanied the Prince of Wales to America in 1860, as his medical attendant. ADAM, JEAN-VICTOR, the son of an eminent engraver, was born in Paris, the 29th February, 1801. He has gained some distinction as a painter. His first work, "Herminie secourant Tancrede," was exhibited in 1819. Several of his pictures painted since then are to be found in the gallery of Versailles. He has also had great success as a lithographic artist. Medals have rewarded the productions of his genius; but his fame as an artist will rest chiefly upon such pieces as the "Entrance of the French into Montebello" and the grand success; and so, also, "Ger-, be seen at Versailles. |