400; Outlines of an Industrial Science, 403; The Kingdom of the Heavens, 406; The Large and Small Game of Bengal and the North-Western Provinces of India, 408; Outlines of Lectures on the History of Philosophy, 411; Rays from the Southern Cross, 412; Octavius Brooks Frothingham and the New Faith, 413; An Alphabet in Finance. A Simple Statement of Permanent Principles and their Application to Questions of the Day, 414; God's Chosen Festival (A Christmas Song), and other Poems, 414; Certainties of Christianity. Four Lectures, 415; The Vendetta, and other Poems, 416; Poems, 542; The Northern Question, or Russia's Policy in Turkey Unmasked, 544; The Constitutional and Political History of the United States, 650; Mythology among the Hebrews, and its Historical Development, 654; The Select Dramatic Works of John Dryden, 658; The whole Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, 662; The Bampton Lectures, 1876. The Witness of the Psalms to Christ and Christianity, 665; Philology, 668; Legends and Poems, 671; The Political Economy of Indian Famines, 787; History of Philosophy from Thales to the Present Time, 789; Ought Protestant Christians to Circulate Romish Versions of the Word of God? 794; Transcriptions from Italian History and Romance, 795; Hoho and Haba, and their Adventures Narrated and Illustrated, 796; Saint Christopher, with Psalm and Song, 796. London Hermit, Lays of the Saintly, 25, 355, 471, 709.

Maiden's Grief, The, After Schiller, 303.
Martineau, D.D., 434.
Mary Carroll, 766.

McMahon, the Rev. John, on Mental
Science, 265.

Mental Science as a Branch of Liberal Culture, 265.

Milesian Invasion of Ireland, The, 673.
Monsieur Joubert's Thoughts, 250.

Murphy, Rev. H. D., 449.

Nannette, 683.

Old Acquaintances, 332.

"Our Portrait Gallery " :

No. XXXVI., Professor Tyndall, 30.

No. XXXVII., Dean Stanley, 174.

No. XXXVIII., The Right Hon. Lyon
Playfair, 304.

No. XXXIX., The Rev. Dr. Martineau,

434.

No. XL., Professor Sir William Thomson, 560.

No. XLI., Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, 696.

Over a Glass of Grog, From the Russian of
Alexandre Herzon, 365.

Philip the Second, 1.
Playfair, Right Hon. Lyon, 304.

POETRY: -Lays of the Saintly, by the London Hermit, 25, 355, 471, 709; In the Midnight, by Lady Wilde, 44; Holly and Ivy, by William Digby Seymour, Q. C., 270; The Maiden's Grief, 303; Tendebatque Manu Ripæ Ulterioris Amore, 449; Death and Immortality, 645; Episode from a New Translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, 754; On a Bridge, 786.

Pompeii, by W. Knighton, 106.

Prester, John, The Order of Jesus, 320;
Terrorism in Ireland, 390; Gerald Griffin,
534; The Corbeship of Clunys, 605;
Shelley's Queen Mab and Prometheus
Unbound, 773.

Servia and the Slavs, Part IV., 140.
Shadow on the Wall, Part II., 46, 186.
Shelley's Queen Mab and Prometheus, Un-
bound, 773.

Spectacles and Weak Nerves, On, 780.
Sportsmen of Ancient Greece and Italy, 231.
Stanley, Dean, 174.

Star Chamber, The Irish, 222.
STORIES:-The Shadow on the Wall, by E.

J. Curtis, 46 and 186; Folk Lore of the County Donegal, 241; Old Acquaintances, 332; Over a Glass of Grog, 365; Aunt Patty's Pattens, 385; The White House, 450; Tales from Boccaccio's Decameron, 526; The Legend of Lough Beg, 555; Carmencita's Fortune, 568; Leaves from my Note Book, by an Ex-Officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary, 621 and 718; Nannette, 683; How our Polly was Won, 741; Mary Carroll, 766.

Studies in Scottish Literature :--
No. VII., Robert Burns, 94.
No. VIII., John Galt, 495.

FERDINAND THE CATHOLIC had annexed to the Crown the mastership of the military fraternities of the Peninsula; Charles the First of Spain and Fifth of Germany had become the protector of the knights of St. John, to whom he had given over the island of Malta. Philip the Second had inherited, from his father and great-grandfather, all these titles to concentrate within his own hand the direction of those once powerful communities of fighting monks. He was the Catholic king by excellence, and he meant to become everywhere the Catholic king by excellence, in all the senses of the word.

The Inquisition, whose privileges were more extended than ever, was also more under his sway than under that of any of his predecessors. By the building of the Escorial and his intense devotion, of the most monastic type, he had done all in his power to identify with the interests of the monks the great leading force of the Peninsula-his

crown, dynasty, policy, ambition and hopes in this world and in the next. Face to face with the inhabitant of the Vatican, the crowned servus servorum of the inquisitorial Church of Rome, was to be seen the inmate of the Escorial, the crowned servus servorum of the inquisitorial monastic Church of Spain.

As far as we can judge, the son of the Jeronymite monk of Yuste was ready to support the old monastic and military orders of the mediæval Papacy; but the new monastic and military institutions, animated by the same or a similar spirit, were not in favour with him. When the Pope wanted to establish in Spain the military order of St. Lazarus, he objected to it in such terms that His Holiness, after taking into due consideration the strong and aggressive remonstrances of Don Luis de Requesens, the Spanish ambassador at Rome, renounced his idea.

The originators of similar schemes at home were no more successful.