Index 427 PromontognotL 264 Prophets, Goers and, 333 Prophets, stoning them 157, 201 Property, 309 Proposing, The art of, 289 Prose, 193, 264 — Poetical, 197 — Translations from verse into, 197 Proselyte, 82 Proselytising, eating and, 81 Protoplasm, 58 — and Reproduction, 69 — Viscid, 69, 70 Providence, 322 — and Improvidence, 223 — and Othello, 223 — Genius and, 180 — Tempting, 99 Proverbi Toscani, 379 Proverbs, The, 201, 203 Psalmist, The, 27, 212 " Psalm of Montreal," A, 3, 4, 6, 379, 388 Psalm, A penitential, 230 Psalms, The, 202 Public, Catering for the, 372 — ear, The, 162 — Handel and the British, 113 — Hoodwinking the, 162 — life, 367 — My, a declining one, 369 — opinion, 108, 261 — Wooing the, 371 Publisher, 364 Publishers' antechambers dis- tasteful, 373 Publishers, Myself and my, 166 Publishing at my own risk, 373 Pulling strings, 396 Punch, 208 Punishment, 343 Punishments, Rewards and, 362 Pupils, 173 Pupils, The old masters and their, 135 t Purcell, 122, 127, 128, 188 Purgatory, 219 Purse, Atrophy of the, 231 Purses, Things and, 224 Puzzled atoms, 84 Puzzled to death, 206 Quails, 307 Quarrelling, The art of, 229 Queen, The, 316 — of Heaven, The, 334 Quick people, 294 Quick, The, and the dead, 279 Quickly, Mrs., 264 Quickness in seeing, 139 " Quis Desiderio------? " 166 Quixote, Don, Hamlet, Mr. Pickwick and, 217 Raccolta di Proverbi Toscani, 379 Race, The, and the individual, 15 Rachel, Madame, 184 Raffaelle, 256, 257, 324 — the Ansidei, 145 et seq. Railway, Line of, The last six inches of a, 380 Rain, 326 Rain-drops of new experience, 62 Rain, Handel's shower of, 120 Rakaia, 288 " Ramblings in Cheapside," 261 Rangitata, 268, 288 Rape of Lucrece, The, 192 Rapson, Mr. E. J., 165 Rarity, 365 Rassegna della Letteratuva Sid- liana, 5 Rattlesnake, An intellectual, 268 Ravens, 253