e--Episode of the mother and the child--The sequel

XL.--THE HARP.

The principal musical instrument--Description--Four sets of
chords--Strings of electricity--Marvellous variation and
depression of the notes--Echoes and responses--Diapason changed to
an extraordinary extent--Different characters of sound
produced--Examples--Harp language; how taught--Accompaniments--Harp
beautiful as a work of sculptural art--Movement of birds, flowers,
and foliage, and exhalation of perfume in accord with the
music--How idea was suggested

XLI.--SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.

Amusements enjoined--Learned men prone to seclusion--Wisdom of
requiring studious men to cultivate social relations
questioned--Twenty men selected for the experiment--Result--The
works of the "Seclusionists" and of the "Society-Sympathisers"--The
MONOMANIAC--His eccentricities and cure--Convert to the Narrator's
views

XLII.--THEATRES--ENTERTAINMENTS.

Arenas--Electricity--Why arenas open to the sky--Games exhibited--
Beautiful effects produced--MAN and HORSE--The FLYING
CHILDREN--WILL--DEAF AND DUMB CHILD--The MONKEYS--Tragic
Drama--Races and public games--Parties for children--Labouring
people--The aged--Districts--The middle-aged--INTRODUCTION of
strangers--Ceremony observed--ATTRACTING-MACHINE

XLIII--SHIPS.

Peculiar form and construction--Former shape--Effective model
sought--"Swan Ships"--Dangers of navigation--Ship sometimes
submerged--Sufferings of the passengers for want of
air--Remedy--The swan's head--Captain's quarters--Vessels propelled
by electric power--Machinery--Steering and stoppage of the
vessel--TIMBER FOR SHIPS--How seasoned--How protected against
insects in every part--The COMPASS--The ANCHOR--Peculiarity of its
formation: how let out and hauled in--The Bison ropes

XLIV.--PICTURES FROM WATER.

Interesting discoveries--Microscopic pictures transmitted from a
distance--Picture made of a landscape and persons afar off--Picture
of swan-vessels and passengers--How effected--Bottom of the sea
rendered visible

XLV.--THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.

Invaluable--Antipathy to human beings--Hippopotamus'
hide--Impervious to water--Resistance to destroying forces--All
parts of the animal utilised--Parts subservient to the
beautiful--Hippopotamus' land--Numerous herds-