men, who played for the most part so exceedingly indifferently, on the plain of Billères by the Gave of Pau. Many an Englishman, too, has gone southward in missionary mood that has sought vent in proselytising in his native country. From Devon to Northumberland are links and wastes that have as yet eluded the enterprise of the capitalist. We are glad to know that many a good game goes on among men who as yet may have hidden their lights under bushels. Unquestionably golf is the most catholic of sports. It recommends itself to both sexes alike, and to every age, rank, and calling. We have referred to the prohibitory statutes its popularity provoked, in the most troubled periods of Scottish history, when men held to their lives by the tenure of their swords, and every one's hand was against his neighbour. It is a strange picture we conjure up the baron rid ing down from the neighbouring fortalice on the cliff, with a varlet behind carrying the clubs, and having the pockets of his slashed breeches bulging out with the golfballs. We see the worthy warrior setting his sentinels, if he were prudent, against surprise, and strip ping off his linked hauberk, while his footpage was teeing the ball. We may well imagine that he must have had many other things to think of, and that the niceties of the putting-green might have scemed somewhat tame to a gentleman whose trade was blows,, and whose hands were heavily weighted with blood feuds. But you would be sure to enter more thoroughly into his feelings, if you paid a visit to one of the favourite golfing grounds nowadays. Money-getting, and professional ambitions in their various shapes, are, we suppose, at least as absorbing as blood-shedding, yet they never wean the golfer from his earlier and more innocent loves. He may have climbed to the highest places on the bench; he may be floundering from morning to long past midnight in an ocean of briefs; he may wag his head habitually in a pulpit, and yet so long as he remains a shadow of his former self, he may be seen in most unprofessional costume taking his pleasure gaily in the crowd of kindred spirits. Nay, in this instance only, precedent and distinguished patronage has been too much for deep-seated Scottish prejudices; and it shows the hold golf has established on the national affections, that a rising young advocate may venture to coquette with it, without being put to the horn by austere writers to the signet. "A tame game" indeed!" and apparently somewhat uninteresting! The dullest and least impressionable of onlookers will scarcely dare to reiterate that most absurd of calumnies after his friend has taken him a round of the links. Stubborn facts convert and silence him. Among the motley groups he mixes with, except here and there in the case of some unlucky individual who is out of play, or hopelessly overweighted, is there a man about him who is not so entirely absorbed, as scarcely to have even a look or a civil word for the stranger. See the finish of some exciting match on the putting green, and mark, except in the rarest instances, the perceptible agitation of the oldest players that only habit succeeds in controlling. Case-hardened veterans will tell you, from the fulness of their experience, that men who keep their coolness elsewhere, who have learned to bear up against the vicissitudes of their fortunes, without a throb of the pulse or a quiver of the eyelid, lose their nerve altogether on occasion on the golf ground. And is it nothing to have passed master in a game that insures you exercise and innocent excitement, stimulating the mind as well as the body up to the closing days of an existence it has brightened and prolonged that holds men together in congenial friendship whose ties are only drawn tighter at the age when one is most apt to grow unsocial? "Long may golf flourish " is the wish we would wind up with, were it worth the while; but we can trust its future with the most absolute confidence to the constant affections of the Scottish people. INDEX TO VOLUME CXVIII. Aber-gwain or Fishguard, sketches at, ABODE OF SNOW, THE, Conclusion, the Administration of the French Army, the, Ægina, invention of coin at, 429. Afghans, character of the, 73-their po- Agricultural Holdings Bill, the, 235. Alupka, the scenery, &c., at, 726. Apelles and Protogenes, anecdote of, 305. Aristophanes' Apology, review of, 91. Arthur, traditions regarding, in North Artillery, the French, at the opening of the war, 515-reorganisation of it, 137. Beam-trawl, the, and its use, 442. "Beddan" in Wales, legends regarding, 604. Bernini, the works of, 309. Bible, elegies in the, 345. Birds, prognostications of weather from, Bishop and his Clerks, rocks called the, Black, Charles C., Michael Angelo Buon- Blois, the castle of, 178. Books, the companionship of, 273. Bramante, his jealousy of Michael Angelo, BRITISH SEA-FISHERIES, THE, 441. Budget, the, and its reception, 233. Burnes, Sir Alexander, on the Afghans, 75. Byron, his elegy on the Princess Charlotte, CANADA AS IT NOW IS, a sketch of, 44- Carlyle's Frederick the Great, 581. Cathcart, Sir George, his tomb at Sevas- Cato, his faith in incantations, 681. Charlotte, the Princess, Byron's elegy on, Chateau Gaillard, the ruins of, 174, 175. Chaudière Falls, the, 45. Chenonceaux, chateau of, 180. Christian Art, characteristics of, 310. Cicero, his faith in auguries, 680. Civil Service of Canada, the, 47. Clergy, position, &c., of the, in Wales, Climate, distinction between, and weather, Clouds, relations of, to weather, 614. Coercion Code, effects of the, on Ireland, Coin, proportion of the precious metals Cornwall, pilchard fishing off the coast of, 453. Corpse candles, superstition regarding, in Correggio, the Madonnas of, 304. CRIMEA, NOTES FROM THE, 720. 'David' of Michael Angelo, the, 466. Demosthenes, schoolboy reminiscences of, Derby, Lord, on the Regimental Ex- Dew, what, 619. DILEMMA, THE: Part III., 1-Part IV., Dryden, his elegy on Cromwell, 347-his Ducrot, General, his report on Strasburg Dufferin, Lord, as Governor-General of Dunbar, quantities of fish despatched DUTCH AND THEIR DEAD CITIES, THE, Dutch Herring fisheries, the, 453. East, the, absorption of the precious metals Edam, the town of, and its cheeses, 540. ELF KING'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, THE, Elia Lamb, a Horatian Lyric, 112. Elizabeth, Queen of Henry VII., More's Emigration, prospects, &c., of, in Canada, 48. Employers and Workmen Act, the, 236. England, prevalent spirit of insubordina- English cemeteries in the Crimea, the, Enkhuizen, the town of, its decay, 541. Fame, slow growth of, 693. Fenton, Mr., his tour through Pembroke, Fisheries, great development of, by rail- Fishguard or Aber-gwain, sketches at, Fix, Major, efforts of, for improvement Fog, relations of, to weather, 618. Frederick the Great, origin of his wars, French, invasion of Wales by, in 1797 FRENCH ARMY, THE STATE OF THE, 125 French army, the, its strength at the French Rivers, our Autumn Holiday on, French 'scare,' the, 229. FRENCH WAR PREPARATIONS IN 1870, Freycenet, M. de, as minister of war at Furniture, Continental, 575. GALATEA, A SONG FOR, 608. Garde Mobile, organisation of the, 509- Gelert, the legend of, 593. George Ernest, etchings on the Loire by, Germans, the absence of self-assertion GOLF, A ROYAL AND ANCIENT GAME, re- Governments, general tendency to de- Grand or Ottawa River, the, 45. Grimsby, trawling, &c., at, 446--storing Gwain, valley of the, 290. H. K., Paulo Post-mortem, by, 28-The Hail, relations of, to weather, 619. Harderwyk, town of, 543. Harlingen, town of, 542. Hartington, Lord, as leader of the Oppo- HAVARD'S LA HOLLANDE PITTORESQUE, Herrick, the songs of, 684. Herring, quantities taken off the Scotch Hindelopen, the town of, 542. Hindú Kúsh mountains, the, 71. 323. Holiday-making, on, 167. Holland, the scenery of, 528-the decay Holy well, sketches, &c., of, 591. Hoorn, ancient and present state of, HORATIAN LYRICS, Elia Lamb, 112-The Hoti Mardan, sketches at, 77. IN A STUDIO: Conversation No. III., IN MY STUDY CHAIR, 273. 416. general passion for, Indians, the, in the British North Ame- Insubordination, general prevalence of, International currency, advantages of an, Ireland, state of, and legislation regarding Irish Peace 230. Preservation Act, the, J. R. S., Thalassa, Thalassa, by, 225-A 728. Jhelam river, the, 62. Jonson, Ben, Dryden on, 678. Llangorse lake, tradition of submerged Lloyd, David, a Welsh seer, and Henry Local taxation, measures regarding, "Loi des cadres," the, in France, 135. Loiret, boating on the, 177. London, former and present imports 448. Lowestoft, quantities of fish sent from, 441. Lumber trade, the, on Ontario, 51. Maas, scenery of the, in Holland, 528. Maidens' Lake, legend regarding the, Manasbal Lake, Kashmir, the, 60. Matériel, present state of, in the French Medemblik, decay of, 542. Medici, the tombs of the, by Michael Merchant Shipping Acts Amendment Julius II., patronage of Michael Angelo Merlin, traditions regarding, 596. by, 468 et seq. Jumièges, the ruins of, 172. Justice, the administration of, in Canada, Kampen, present state of, 542. Keats, Shelley's elegy on, 352. Ker, J. B., his work on nursery rhymes, Kertch, the town of, 726. Key, ordeal of the, in Wales, 606. Khyber Pass, the, and its inhabitants, Kishen Ganga, or Krishna river, the, "Knockers," the popular superstition Laura, Petrarch's elegies on, 360 et seq. LEGENDS AND FOLK-LORE OF NORTH Leigh, shrimp trawling at, 445. Leo X., his connection with Michael An- Leopoldina, the empress, elegy on, 350. Livadia, villa of the Empress of Russia at, Livingstone, answer to the Quarterly MICHAEL ANGELO, 461-sketch of his life, Military bands, German, 54. AND ITS FRUIT, 75. Molloy, J. L., An Autumn Holiday on MONEY, 424 attempt to define it, ib.- Monnikendam, sketch of, 539. Montreal, the city of, 53. Moon, the, its supposed influence on wea- Moore, the songs of, 692. More, Sir T., his elegy on the death of |