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The arbitrament of God in the middle ages, and now.

Arithmetic with the Romans.

Absence of poetry in musical composers.

Pietism, hypnotism and table-turning.

Infectious diseases.

Moorish architecture.

The force of prejudice, as evident from illnesses attributed to draught. (Have I not said that the list is most remarkable?)

German unity.

Longitude at sea. (I suppose at sea things are just as long as on the land.)

The duties of Government with regard to public forms of recreation.

Similarity between the Scottish and Frisian languages.

Prosody.

The beauty of the women of Nîmes and Arles, and an inquiry into the system of colonization of the Phœnicians.

Agrarian contracts in Java.

The power of suction in a new kind of pump.

The legitimate rights of dynasties.

National literature in the Javanese rhapsodists.

A new method of reefing.

Percussion, as applied to hand-grenades. (This article is dated 1847, i.e. before Orsini.)

The idea of honour.

The Apocrypha.

The laws of Solon, Lycurgus, Zoroaster, and Confucius.

Parental authority.

Shakespeare as an historian.

Slavery in Europe. (I don’t understand what he means by this. There is a good deal more like it!)

Screw-water-mills.

The sovereign right of pardon.