Of these statistics it may be remarked 1. That the census of 1870 is regarded as inaccurate, and as erring on the side of imperfect enumeration. 2. The census authorities of the United States say that the increase of the white race in the South since 1830 has not been effected by the aid of immigration, except in Kansas and Missouri. As, however, the whites in the South have increased at the rate of 17 per cent, while the average rate, independent of immigration, has been 14 per cent, it seems as if immigration cannot be disregarded. 3. The great increase of railways in the Southern States since the war of 1862-66 has been accompanied by an increase of towns as distributing centres, and has therefore been favourable to the growth of the white population. 4. Taking the Union all round, the increase for the last ten years-exclusive of immigration-has been 13.90 for the blacks against 14 for the whites. It is claimed that the blacks increased faster only when they were recruited by the slave-trade; and that white immigration has completely turned the balance since then. On the other hand, the diminution of increase among the blacks from 34.82 in 1870-80 to 13.90 in 1880-90 is so vast, even if we allow the preceding census to have been incomplete, as to suggest a doubt whether the negro population has been completely numbered at the last census. 5. Assuming the facts of the last census to be unimpeachable, it seems to result that whites and blacks increase in nearly the same ratio, but that there is in the United States "a perceptible tendency southward of the coloured people." In this case the result will still be to make a belt of States predominantly negro. 6. If we reduce the increase of the whites in the Black Belt by 3 per cent so as to bring it to the normal American rate, their gain upon the negroes during the last ten years will appear to be very trifling. INDEX AFGHANISTAN not all mountains, 55 | Apaches untameable, 36 Africa, Central, colonisation of, by whites impossible, 41, 43 Agassiz, early training of, 322 Ainos, 52 Araucanians untameable, 36 Argentine Republic, its circumstances Arminius, 94 Albert, Archbishop, on the human Arnold, Matthew, failed as a lecturer, heart, 284 Alcibiades charged with impiety, 278 Alexander's successors, effects of 174; jests on the Trinity, 212; Asia, Central, capabilities of, 46, 47 Algeria, 47, 68, note; influence of, Athens an instance of highly-de- upon French society, 131 Almaden, mines of, 113 Amazon, Indians of, 56; whites of, ib. veloped city life, 157; under the best conditions, 165; in the Pelo- America, Central and Southern, not Atrato, mouths of, pestilential, 61 Attila, 95 America, Southern, clergy control Australia the best inheritance of the America, tropical, proportions of 68; emigration to, 102; European Angola, 38 higher races, 16; an instructive Australia, South, and progressive Austria gained by Solferino, 149 Aztecs, 60; docile, 63 BACON, Roger, pathetic fate of, 224 Anselm revives philosophy, 95; com- Balzac paints the French peasant, passionate to animals, 230 178; and filial ingratitude, 314 | Buckle's success, 309 Buffon, fascinating style of, 327 Burke, predictions by, 2, 3; de. Burleigh's (Lord) view of marriage, Bury as historian, 331 Beluchistan not all desert, 55, and Bushmen worthless as slaves, 38; exterminated, ib. CADE, sympathisers with, behead a Caesar's (Julius) massacres in Gaul, Caesar, Augustus, 345 California, chances in, 179 Canterbury, Archbishop of, opposes Boyle's estimate of Indian popula- Carlyle approves Frederick II.'s tion, 58 Bradlaugh jests on the Trinity, 212 political economy, 113; restricts British North Borneo Company is Carnatic ravaged, 87 Carnot organises the French army, 125 Cashmere not adapted for colonisa- Catholicism parodied, 25 Cavaliers not disinterested, 201 |