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 Athens an instance of highly-developed 263 Atrato, mouths of, pestilential, 57 impossible, 38-41 AFGHANISTAN not all mountains, 51 Agassiz, early training of, 305 Ainos, 49 Albert, Archbishop, heart, 208 on the human Alcibiades charged with impiety, 262 Algeria, 44, 63, note; influence of, Almaden, mines of, 107 Amazon, Indians of, 52; whites of, 53 fitted for white men, 53 America, tropical, proportions of races America, U.S., white population in, 64; American militia not very successful in Anaxagoras charged with impiety, 262 Anselm revives philosophy, 90; com- Apaches untameable, 34 Arminius, 89 Arnold, Matthew, failed as a lecturer, Asia, Central, capabilities of, 43, 44 Australia the best inheritance of the Australia, South, and progressive land- Austria gained by Solferino, 141 BACON, Roger, 13; pathetic fate of, 212 Baylen, capitulation of, its character, 120 Beaconsfield, Lord, on critics, 307 Bell, Graham, invents telephone, 102, Bell, Patrick, invents reaping-machine, Beluchistan not all desert, 51, and note Boers, 36; occupy Natal, 36; defeat Switzerland, 58 Booth's analysis of London population, Borde on Englishmen, 99, note Boudeuse, La, captain of, kills prisoners, Bourrienne clothes French troops in Boyle's estimate of Indian population, 54 largely negro, 59, 60 British North Borneo Company is 167; only honoured when old, 331 Bryce on laws restraining immigration, Buckle's success, 309 Burke, predictions by, 2, 3; describes Bury as historian, 313 a CADE, sympathisers with, behead Calderon gives the primitive view of Canning, prediction by, 3; knew Cape Colony, 35, 36 Carlyle approves Frederick II.'s political Chesterfield, Lord, predicts French note China has little to dread from civilised Chinamen, 31, 33; mortality of, in Nica- Cholera, its effects in 1831-32, 153 Cicero loathes life out of Rome, 148 Cid, story of, consistent with the times, 233 Clive a typical Englishman, 100; of a Cobden the real author of Free Trade, 331 Cochin China, fine ruins in, 91 Colley, Sir G., character of his defeat, Commin of Denwick invents reaping- Comoy, John, demises his wife, 230, Congo, anticipations about the region of Corneille modernises the story of the Cortez, 33, 34 Courier, 151; transformed by jealousy, Cousin on the source of inspiration in Cowley overrated by Johnson, 308 in science, 304-306; influenced by DALTON'S discovery unsurpassable, 291 Darwin, Erasmus, dreams of, 290, and note Darwin not a liver in cities, 157; pro- Davis, President, eulogised by Gladstone, 4 Death, Black, effects of, 153 Debts, national, often rightly incurred, 116; on reforms in French organisa- | Guatemala, few whites in, 33, 54 Fox, predictions by, 3; knew the France, Reign of Terror in, 25, 26; in- Frederick II., 46; his economical policy, French army, size of, in 1740, 95, note 2 French princes, profligacy of, 198 Froeschwiller, French cuirassiers at, 139 GALDOS paints Spanish villager, 169 Germanic standard of chastity high, Germany is driving out the Poles, 285 Gilbert, admirable work of, 166 Gobelins, tapestry of, 107 Goldsmith predicts changes in France, Great men careless of gain, 288; their Greeks comparatively exterminated, 69; Guaranis, 56; docile, 59 Guardia, a half-caste, 56 Guerillas of no real utility, 121 HALE, Sir M., uncritical, 305 Hamilton, predictions by, 6 Hastings, Warren, not moral, by modern 262 Hawthorne criticises Englishmen, 100 added nothing to thought, 341 214 Homer perhaps influenced by town life, Horace on barbarian wives, 238, note 1 note 1 Hugo, Victor, appreciates John Brown, Huguenots at the Cape, 35; in England, Humaita, 33 Hutton's (R. H.) work as a journalist, 318 Hyder Ali ravages the Carnatic, 82 IBSEN partially appreciated, 167, 168 Immigration, alien rights of, every- India, its people too numerous to be Indians, 34; not dangerous in Argentine, Inkerman, English infantry at, 139 Irishmen, increase of, 69, 70, 75, 76 |