James I., 201;
fate of Dr. Lamb, the poisoner (_engraving_), 202;
slow poisoning in Italy, its general prevalence; employed by the Duke of
Guise; much used by Roman ladies to poison husbands, 203;
trial and execution of La Spara and others; other women punished, 204;
atrocious crimes of La Tophania; the nature of her poison; protected in
sanctuary by the clergy of Naples; seized by the viceroy, tried,
and executed, 206-208.
In France: Exili, Glaser, and Sainte Croix, the first criminals, 208;
Madame de Brinvilliers and Sainte Croix; their crimes and punishment,
208-214;
M. de Penautier charged with poisoning; popular mania for the crime, 214;
Lavoisin and Lavigoreux executed, 215;
charges against the Marshal de Luxembourg and the Countess of Soissons;
recent revival of the crime in England, 216.

Pope, his sketch of Sir John Blunt, Chairman of the South-Sea Company,
i. 74.

POPULAR FOLLIES OF GREAT CITIES, ii. 239-248.
Cant or slang phrases:
"Quoz," 240;
"What a shocking bad hat," 240;
"Hookey Walker," 241;
"There he goes with his eye out," 242;
"Has your mother sold her mangle?" 242;
"Flare up," 242;
"Does your mother know you're out?" 244;
"Who are you?" 244.
Songs:
"Cherry ripe," 246;
"The Sea," 247;
"Jim Crow," 247.

PORTRAITS.--John Law, i. 1;
the Regent Orleans, 5;
D'Aguesseau, 34;
D'Argenson, 42;
Earl of Sunderland, 80;
Harley Earl of Oxford, 46;
Sir Robert Walpole, 49;
Mr. Secretary Craggs, 64;
Conrad Gesner, the first tulip cultivator, 85;
Albertus Magnus, 100;
Arnold de Villeneuve, 103;
Raymond Lulli, 105;
Cornelius Agrippa, 138;
Panacelsus, 142;
Dr. Dee, 152;
Philip IV., ii. 112;
Charles IX., 119;
John Knox, 128;
James I., 134;
Sir George Mackenzie, 138;
Pietro d'Apone, 140;
Sir Matthew Hale, 148;
Sir Thomas Brown, 151;
Louis XIV., 177;
Henry Andrews, the original of "Francis Moore," i. 244;
Nostradamus, 246;
Peter the Great, 267;
Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 195;
Villiers duke of Buckingham, 198;
Lord Chief Justice Coke, 199;
Earl and Countess of Somerset, 200, 201;
Henry IV. of France, 277;
Lord Bacon, 286.

Political prejudices and enactments against long hair and beards,
i. 296-303.

Poetry and romance, their obligations to the Rosicrucians, i. 179.

Powell, Chief Justice, his opposition to the belief in