6; attributed to St.
Gregory, ib.; Rabbinical account of, ib.; anecdotes concerning, 127.

SNUFF-BOXES, the rage, in the reign of Queen Anne, i. 229; the
Jesuits', reported to be poisoned, ii. 442.

SOLITUDE, treatise on, by Sir George Mackenzie, ii. 50; necessary
for the pursuits of genius, 52; discomforts of 53, 54.

SOLOMON, accounted an adept in necromancy, i. 122; story of him and
the Queen of Sheba, 202.

SONGS among the Grecians, ii. 142; sayings of Fletcher of Saltoun,
and Dr. Clerk on, ib.; Greek songs of the trades, 143; of the
weavers among the English, ib.; harvest and oar-songs in the
Highlands, ib.; of the gondoliers, ib.; Dibdin's, 144; old English,
145; Swiss, 146; Italian, composed at Florence, under the Medici,
ib.; French "Chansons de' Vendange," 147; parodied, by Puritans,
148; slang or flash, known to the Greeks, and specimens from
Athenaeus, 149; ancient practices in, connected with old English
customs, 150; political, iii. 179, 180.

SONNAH, the, i. 113.

SOTADES travestied the Iliad, ii. 455.

SOTTIES, more farcical than farce, i. 358; specimen of one, 359-360.

SOVEREIGNTY of the seas, ii. 79-81.

SPANISH Etiquette, instances of its absurdity, i. 194.

SPANISH Poetry, i. 100; remarks on and illustrative quotations of,
101; translation of a madrigal found in a newspaper, 102.

SPEED, the historian, suspicions of his originality, ii. 445.

SPENSER, Fuller's character of, i. 379.

SPIDERS, influence of music on, i. 272; admired as food, ii. 355,
note.

STANZAS to Laura, i. 230.

STARCHING, origin of, i. 227.

STEEVENS, George, the Puck of commentators, iii. 296; account of his
literary forgeries, 297, 298; the story of Milton and the Italian
lady attributed to, 299; his motives for omitting the Poems from his
edition of Shakespeare, 301; his trick on the antiquary Gough, 303,
304.

STEPHENS, Robert, the printer, his family and their works, i. 76,
note; divided the Bible into chapter and verse, iii. 433.

STERNHOLD and Hopkins, their version of the Psalms, ii. 472.

STONES, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 244, 245.

STOSCH, Baron, his dishonest collecting, iii. 318.

STREETS of London, origin of many of their names, ii. 239-243.

STUART, Arabella, mistakes of historians regarding, ii. 502; her
history, 503-519.

STUCLEY, Sir Lewis,