INDEX

A
Accent, purity of, a mark of rank in England, not in France, [59]
Affections, family, strong in the French, [47];
cooler in England, [49];
cultured in France, [49];
example of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, [51];
English sympathy with the lower animals, [52], [53];
French hardness, ib.
Agnostics, their influence in the French University, [42]
Allen, Mr. Grant, just to France as regards Algeria, [202]
Alliances.
See Marriage
America, system of Presidential government unsuitable to France, [110]
Americans, their condemnation of idleness, [46]
Anglicans, philosophical, different opinions, [171];
treatment of dogma, ib.;
formalists but not hypocrites, [172];
amongst the English clergy, ib.;
nearest French equivalent, [173].
See Church of England
Animals, humanity of the English and hardness of the French, [52];
cruelties in both nations in sport and cookery, [53]
Apocrypha, no longer venerated in England, [55]
Archery, unbecoming in English clergymen, [7]
Army, English, a profession regarding volunteers and militia as amateurs, [92];
old purchase system, ib.;
French army under the Second Empire, raised by conscription but not national, [93];
healthy revolution after the Franco-German war, ib.;
real dignity of all military service, [94];
conscription under the Republic compensated by unity of sentiment with civil population, [95];
by improvement in physical strength and activity, and extension of education, ib.;
national armies essentially peaceful when combined with parliamentary government, [96];
French averse to the war in Tonquin, ib.;
conscription in the English army inevitable, [97]
Aristocracy, English, strong views of Matthew Arnold, [324];
overshadowing the English mind, [326];
favourable to simplicity of life, [327];
faults of the French Noblesse, ib.;
their contempt for trade, [328];
usurpations of the territorial “de” in France, [329]
Arnold, Dr., his personal influence in moral training, [39];
depended on his being a clergyman, [43]
Arnold, Matthew, error as regards a French catechism used in lycées, [195], [196];
confusion of l’État with le Pays, ib.;
charges the French with immorality, [220];
strong views of aristocracy, [324];
his influence, [400];
his division of the English into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace, [401]
Art, independent of luxury, [295];
beautiful materials, ib.;
the nude, [317];
realism, [318];
depreciation of English art in France, [410];
appreciated by cultivated French artists, [411];
English prejudice against French art, [412], [413];
patriotic bias of French art, [414].
See Education, Artistic.
Artists, French, their generosity, [31]
Ascanius, his friendship for Euryalus excessively French, [47]
B
Bagehot, Mr., his defence of titles, [325]
Balzac, a hard-working genius, [403]
Beckwith, Miss, the English swimmer, [10]
Beljame, his evidence respecting the teachers and teaching of modern languages in France, [20];
recent reforms in examinations and certificates of teachers, [21]
Bible, English knowledge of, [27];
French ignorance of, [28], [55]
Bifurcation, introduced into French schools by Fortoul’s ministry, [29]
Bishops in France, may not ride or drive, [7]
Bismarck, Prince, charges the French with hating their neighbours, [83]
Black, William, his appreciation of patriotic tenderness in the “Princess of Thule,” [66]
Boar, wild, shooting in France, [11]
Boating in England, [3];
limited in France, [8];
French regatta clubs, [9]
Bonheur, Rosa, nothing in common with Landseer, [398];
her reputation in England, [412]
Book-buyers in France, [395]
Boucicaut, Madame, a true success, [376];
her goodness, ib.
Bourgeoisie, or middle class in France, [35];
ignorant of art, [35];
vastly increased by French system of education, [56], [57];
inferior to the French noblesse in field sports and equipages, but not in learning, [59];
equal in purity of speech and language, [60]
Bright, John, a salmon-fisher, [3]
Britain.
See Variety in
Brittany contrasted with Provence, [434]
Browning, Robert, unknown in France, [24];
his love for Italy, [72]
Burgundy, contrasted with the Morvan district, [436]
Byron, Lord, a distinguished swimmer, [3];
widely known in France, [24], [408]
C
Cabinets, government of, in France and England, [110]
Cafés, French, maintained by habitués, [237];
tend to separate the sexes, [367]
Calendar, ought to be international, [124]
Canadian society, Mrs. Jameson’s first impression, [81]
Carlyle, Thomas, his teaching not followed by the English, [399]
Carnot, President, his election a proof of the obedience of the French army to the civil authorities, [94]
Caste in France and England, [321];
true and false, [322];
aristocratic spirit, ib.;
titles, [323];
peerage of Tennyson and Victor Hugo, ib.;
strong views of Matthew Arnold, [324];
defence of titles by Bagehot, [325];
faults of the French noblesse, [327];
contempt for trade, [328];
absence of pure caste in England, [330];
new peers, [331];
Anglican clergy, ib.;
French clergy and religious orders, [332];
military officers in France and England, [334];
officials, [335];
Noblesse, Bourgeoisie, Peuple, [336];
English gentlemen, ib.;
fashionable and educated classes, [337];
French peasantry, ib.;
pariahs in England and France, [338];
infidels and republicans, ib.
Catholics, Roman, results of emancipation in England, [125];
English sympathies with French Catholics, ib.;
an international religion, [142];
social preponderance in France, [153];
devotion of Catholic Sisters, [161];
genuine and formal, [174];
liberal interpretation of the Jesuits, ib.;
dogma of eternal punishment, [175];
misrepresentation as to the expulsion of religious orders from France, [191],
horror at the marriage of the Protestant clergy, [208];
good reputation of the French clergy, [223];
observance of Sunday for the protection of labour, [273];
incomes of the clergy in France as compared with England, [379]
Catholicism in England and France, xii;
how far persecuted, xvi
Cetewayo, question of England’s right to break his power, [87], [88]
Chambers, Robert, self-defence as to the authorship of Vestiges of Creation, [196]
Changes, dislike of, described by Sir Henry Maine, [120];
detested by Mohammedans, Chinese, and Hindus, [120];
by women, [121];
provoked by old institutions, [129];
future, in Great Britain and Ireland, [130]
Channel Islands, French jealousy of English occupation, [88]
Chauvinisme, a vulgar patriotism, ix
Cheerfulness, no equivalent in France, [389]
Chevreul, the centenarian, respected in France, [54]
Church of England, its social influence over the laity, [40];
its strength, [125];
subjection to the Queen or Parliament, [141];
intensely national, [142];
question of disestablishment, [151];
natural jealousy of nonconformists, ib.;
freethinkers not eager for disestablishment, [152];
Mr. Voysey’s views, [154];
many formalists but few hypocrites, [167];
philosophical Anglicans, [171];
their treatment of dogma, ib.;
examples amongst the clergy, [172];
ritualism promoted by formalism, [175];
old-fashioned Anglican formalism, [176];
opposite ideas of the marriage of ecclesiastics, [208]
Church of Rome, founds all moral teaching on authority, [43];
clerical jealousy of family influence in France, ib.
Classics, ancient, proposed abandonment in French schools, [18];
views of M. Frary and Professor Seeley, ib.;
neglected in France, [19];
value as mental discipline, ib.;
decay of the old veneration for in France, [55]
Cleanliness, English, an invention of the nineteenth century, [254];
in England and France, [255];
English pride in hardihood, [256];
French warm baths, ib.;
cleanly appearance of the French, [257];
effects of coal-smoke in England, ib.;
whitewash in England, unknown in France, [258];
superior cleanness of the English, [259]
Clergy, French and English, contrast in horse-riding and other exercises, [7];
in yearly emoluments, [379]
Clifford, Professor, fond of gymnastics, [2]
Closure, adopted by the English from the French, [127]
Clubs, more sociable in France than in England, [369]
Colonisation, unfavourable to patriotism, [67]
Comfort, English passion for, [285];
opposed to Christianity and Greek philosophy, [286];
difficulty of plain living, [287];
English prejudice against self-indulgence, [287];
stoicism of the French peasantry, [288];
comfort combined in England with mental anxiety, [289];
little known in France, ib.;
as costly as luxury, [290]
Commerce, its influence on art-culture, [32]
Communes, proposed payment of the French clergy, [150]
Communist, confounded with Communard, xii, note.
Conscription in the French army, faults under the Second Empire, [93];
revolution under the Republic, [94];
improved health of the French nation, [95];
increase of gymnastics and extension of education, [95];
repugnant to English feeling but inevitable in the future, [97];
disappearance of jealousies and social distinctions in the event of war, ib.
Conservatism and Experiment in French written constitutions, [119];
not produced by love of change but desire for order and permanence, [120];
Sir Henry Maine on the dislike to change, ib.;
tendency of the French to democratic conservatism, [121];
permanent innovations in France, [122];
decimal coinage, departmental administration, French university, universal suffrage, representative government, [122], [123];
abolition of the republican calendar, [124];
permanent innovations in England, ib.;
the Anglican Church, Catholic Emancipation, revolutionary monarchy, [126];
opposition of Frenchmen to railways and of Englishmen to the Suez Canal and decimal systems, ib.;
adoption by the English of the French closure, [127].
See Change
Constable, revolutionised French landscape, [411]
Conversation in foreign tongues a rare accomplishment, [25]
Country, not an equivalent word to patrie, [75]
Courage, national, apparent decline in England and France, [261];
shrinking from war, ib.;
French courage after Sedan, [263];
bottled up in the Paris Commune, ib.;
difference of training in England and France, ib.;
football, duelling, boxing, and bull-fighting, [264];
field sports and military service, [265]
Cricket in England, [3];
not popular in France, [4]
Criticisms, international, reasonable and unreasonable, [89]
Crosses, alleged removal from French cemeteries, [192];
the true story, [193]
Cruelty to animals, sympathies of the English and indifference of the French, [52];
cruelties of both nations in sport and cookery, [53]
Culture of the affections in France, [50];
want of it in England, ib.;
example of Queen Victoria, [51]
Culture versus Rank, [60]
D
Dancing in the open air, out of fashion in France, [10];
objectionable balls, ib.
“De,” the particle, supposed to indicate nobility in France, [329];
assumed by many of the bourgeois, [330];
money value in marriage alliances, [355]
Debt, disapproved by the French, [46]
Decimal system, a permanent innovation in France, [122], [127]
Decorum, difference in national ideas, [307];
French and English bathing, [308];
artists’ models, [309];
natural necessities, [310];
language, [311];
inequalities of strictness, [312];
French reserve, [313];
at funerals, [313];
in literature, [314];
divorce reports in France and England, [315];
English tolerance of old books, ib.;
Byron and Shakespeare, [316];
comic papers, ib.;
the nude in art, [317];
realism, [318]
Deer in France, [11]
Democracy inevitable in France after Mirabeau’s declaration of the sovereignty of the people, [105];
resemblance in the growth in France and England, [106];
comparison of the two revolutions, [107];
government in France, [109]
Departmental administration in France, a permanent innovation, [123]
Dicey, Professor, his explanation of the sovereignty of parliament and people in England, [107]
Dickens, a great reputation in France as an inventor, [408]
Dissenters, dislike to being treated as inferiors, [132].
See Nonconformist.
Dissimulation encouraged in France by clerical teachers, [41]
Dowries, in France, [359];
in England, [360]
Drouet, Juliette, her relations with Victor Hugo, [211]
Du Lac, Father, his views respecting Her Majesty the Queen, [200]
Duelling in France and England, [277];
an appeal to divine justice, ib.;
its survival in France, [278];
English sentiment expressed in Thackeray’s Newcomes, [279];
French sentiment, ib.;
extinguished in England by ridicule, [279];
a modern French duel, [280];
its causes, ib.;
difficulty in abolishing the custom, [281]
Duruy’s Ministry, established the Enseignement Spécial in the French Schools, [29]
Duty. See Patriotic Duty.
E
Edinburgh, its superiority as an art-centre to Lyons or Marseilles, [36];
the centre of the literature and art of the Scottish Lowlanders, [425]
Education, artistic, French and English, [31];
seriousness of the French in teaching, ib.;
generosity of French artists towards all art students, ib.;
extension of art teaching in England, [32];
spread of sound elementary drawing amongst the French people, ib.;
promoted by the desire for commercial success, ib.;
art schools in Lancashire, a reaction against the ugliness of the industrial age, [33];
comparative torpor of artistic life in French country towns, [34];
leadership of art in France maintained by Paris, [35];
academical teaching in England, [35];
superiority of Edinburgh as an art-centre to Lyons or Marseilles, [36];
difficult for the English to understand art, [37];
success of Ruskin’s moral criticism, ib.;
English love of nature an impediment, [38];
feebler moral sense of Parisians favourable to their acceptance of art, ib.;
contrast of English and Parisian ideals, ib.
Education of feelings of French and English, [47];
cultivated in France, repressed in England, ib.;
love of mothers by Frenchmen and Englishmen compared, ib.;
sentiment of friendship, [48];
coolness of the family affections in England, [49];
their culture in France, [50];
causes of the difference, ib.;
healthy influence of the Queen in the expression of the feelings, [51];
English sympathy with the lower animals ridiculed in France, [52];
hardness of the scientific spirit, ib.;
cruelties for the sake of sport or cookery, [53];
sentiment of reverence dying out in France, [54];
decaying in England except towards the Bible and the Throne, [55];
loss of veneration and faith, ib.
Education, Intellectual, French and English, [15];
superiority of Latin and Greek maintained by both, ib.;
Latin more important in France, and Greek in England, ib.;
antiquity and mystery of ancient languages and dignity of the teacher, [16];
priestly character of Latin in France, ib.;
French contempt for modern languages, [17];
present tendency to thorough study of the classics or to abandon them, [18];
views of M. Raoul Frary and Professor Seeley as regards Latin and Greek, ib.;
of masters in the French lycées, [19];
Latin and Greek regarded as mental gymnastics, ib.;
neglect of Greek, ib.;
inferior study of modern languages in French schools, [20];
inferior teachers, ib.;
neglect of English, [21];
recent reforms, ib.;
vast improvement in teachers of modern languages in France, ib.;
examinations and certificates, [21];
inferior teachers of modern languages in England, [22];
difficulties in appreciating foreign poetry, [23];
English difficulties with French verse, [24];
conventional ignorance of English literature in France, ib.;
knowledge of languages apart from a knowledge of literature, [25];
hollow pretensions to superior education, [26];
diminution of libraries in France and England, [27];
superiority of the English in a knowledge of the Bible, [27];
science more studied than literature, [28];
present varieties in French secondary education, ib.;
old system of Napoleon I, ib.;
the Bifurcation of Fortoul’s ministry, [29];
the Enseignement Spécial of Duruy’s ministry, ib.;
present varieties, [30]
Education, moral training, French and English, [39];
difficulty in ascertaining its results on character, ib.;
personal influence of Dr. Arnold, ib.;
national moral sense stronger in England than in France, [40];
moral influence of the Church of England superior to that of the Roman Catholic clergy, ib.;
clerical education only beneficial to believers, [41];
creates habits of dissimulation in unbelievers, ib.;
turns French unbelievers into hypocrites, ib.;
Agnostics in the French University, [42];
moral authority of the Catholic clergy wanting in lay teaching, ib.;
moral authority of parents discouraged by the Catholic clergy, [43];
value of home influences in France, ib.;
French boys civilised by their mothers, [44];
manners acquired in French seminaries, ib.;
home influences and school influences in England, ib.;
advantages of English grammar schools in the country, [45];
conflict between social morality and international immorality, ib.;
value of public opinion as a moral authority, [46];
French disapproval of debt, and American disapproval of idleness, ib.;
professional virtues of soldiers and medical practitioners, ib.
Education, Physical, French and English, [1];
English not scientifically trained except for boat races, ib.;
activity due to open air amusements, ib.;
physical pursuits of distinguished Englishmen, [2];
Professor Clifford, Gladstone, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Tyndall, Millais, John Bright, Fawcett, Trollope, and Palmerston, [3];
cricket exclusively English, [4];
French abandonment of tennis, ib.;
tendency towards gymnastics and military drill, [5];
fencing, [6];
walking powers of English women, ib.;
of French peasants, ib.;
horse-riding in England and France, ib.;
contrast in French and English clergy, [7];
relative strictness as regards amusements, ib.;
activity and dignity, [8];
disappearance of French prejudice against boating, ib.;
swimming cultivated more in France than in England, [9];
exceptional cases of Miss Beckwith, Captain Webb, and Vice-Chancellor Shadwell’s family, [10];
French dancing, past and present, ib.;
field sports in France and England, ib.;
hunting in France, [11];
opposition of French farmers and peasant proprietors, [12];
contrasts in the physical life of classes more striking in England, ib.;
ideal of a whole nation equal to the English aristocracy, ib.;
sedentary life of the French middle classes, [13];
velocipedes and volunteering of the English middle class, ib.;
French peasantry and English factory workers, ib.;
comparison of the physical qualities of the two races, ib.;
decline of health and strength in both, [14]
Education, rank of, in France and England, [56];
not a class distinction in France, ib.;
the bachelor degree necessary in France for some professions, ib.;
not absolutely necessary in England, ib.;
French boys trained as bourgeois, English boys as gentlemen, [57];
no Eton or Oxford in France, ib.;
confers social distinction in England, ib.;
English mistakes about French lycées, [58];
little social distinction conferred by education in France, [59];
purity of accent a mark of rank in England, not in France, ib.;
French noblesse outshine the bourgeoisie, not in learning, but in field sports and equipages, ib.;
culture versus rank, [60]
Egypt, French jealousy of English occupation, [87]
England. See French and English
English and French. See French
English, peculiar notions of political evolution in France, [104];
their preservation of an aristocracy and monarchy, [108];
misrepresented in France, [187], [188];
untruthful charges against the French Government, [190]
Enigmas of Life, by Mr. W. R. Greg, want of sympathy for the growth of free institutions in France, [105]
Enseignement Spécial established in France by Duruy’s Ministry, [29]
Epictetus, indifference to comfort, [286]
Etching, revival of, [398]
Eton, boating and cricket surprising to foreigners, [3];
associated with social distinction, [57], [59]
Etty, prejudiced against French art, [413]
Europe, considered by Orientals as one nation, [421];
evidence of Mr. Palgrave, ib.;
differences between England and France, [422].
See Variety in Britain and Variety in France
Euryalus, his affection for his mother, [47]
Exhibitions, public, English in the provinces superior to those in France, [34]
F
Factory population in England, its deterioration, [13]
Faith, two meanings, custom and conviction, [159];
sacrifice the test of sincerity, [160];
example of a young Frenchman, ib.;
devotion of Catholic sisters, [161];
an Anglican saint, [163];
an Anglican layman, [164];
a Catholic and Protestant, [165];
political and social convictions, [166]
Family influence in France, [43];
undervalued in England, [44];
love of sons for mothers in France and England, [47];
coolness of the affections in England, [49];
their culture in France, [50];
decay of reverence in France, [54];
dispersion of middle-class families in England, [69]
Farmers in France, their opposition to hunting, [12]
Fawcett, Mr., love of riding and skating after his blindness, [3]
Fencing, practised in France, [6]
Feelings. See Education of
Field sports, difference between France and England in game-preserving, [10];
game in France, [11];
deer and wild boar, ib.;
French hunting, ib.
Flaxman, his illustrations of Homer appreciated in France, [411]
Foreign policy, its continuity in England, [98];
unpatriotic in France, ib.
Foreigners, impartial treatment of, viii;
ridiculous or wicked, x;
their difficulties in society, [25]
Formalism, distinct from hypocrisy, [167];
prevalence in the Church of England, ib.;
among atheists, [168];
in England and France, [169];
at marriages and funerals, ib.;
of philosophical Anglicans, [171];
association with ritualism, [175];
weakening effect on faith, [177]
Fortoul’s ministry, introduced the “bifurcation” into French schools, [29]
France. See Variety in
France, desire for rest, [135];
no ritualist party, [176];
her sympathy with Gordon at Khartoum, [202];
feeling about war, [203].
See French and English
France and England, second-class powers, [262];
varying degrees of dissimilarity at different periods, [269];
courtesy in France and England, [297];
caste in France and England, [321];
aristocratic spirit, [322];
comparative wealth of France and England, [339];
creations of the nineteenth century, [340];
developments of industries, [341];
necessity for wealth in England, [342];
French feeling about riches, [343];
sanctity of wealth in England, [344];
sentiments of the poor, [345];
national defence, [351];
marriage alliances, [353];
sociability greater in England, [363];
separation of the sexes in France, ib.;
difference in England, [365];
want of amusements in France, [367];
divisions in France and England, [371];
personal success, [375];
known in France to the middle classes, ib.;
money-making in France, [376];
lotteries and private gambling, [377];
overcrowded professions in France, [378];
incomes of French and English clergy, [379];
of the army, public offices, etc., [381];
wealthy traders, [382];
English manufacturers, ib.;
cost of living in France and England, [383];
strong contrasts in France, [385];
little pleasures, [386];
Paris and London, [387];
provincial life in France and England, ib.;
industrial civilisation a failure, [388];
French gaiety and English gravity, [389];
national success at home, [390];
comparison of France and England in religion and politics, [391];
in finance, [392];
party feeling, [393];
science, ib.;
manufactures, [394];
printing, [395];
painting, [396];
literature, [399];
poetry, [401];
young philosophers, [403];
journalists, ib.;
dread of war in both countries, [404];
English and French prejudices in art, [413];
difference in the military reputation of France and England, [417];
former French confidence and present English anxiety, ib.;
difference between England and France. See Variety in Britain and Variety in France;
modern changes in the national character of France and England, [445]
Frary, M. Raoul, proposed abandonment of the classics, [18]
Freethinkers, not eager for disestablishment, [152];
support state religions, [157];
dislike dissenters in England and Protestants in France, [158]
French and English, euphony of title, vii;
question of mutual consideration, ix;
tendencies to resemblance, xiii;
Catholics and Protestants, xv;
opposition of French Republicans to England, xvii
French and English, Custom, [267];
chronology, [269];
comfort, [285];
luxury, [291];
manners, [297];
decorum, [307]
French and English, Education, [1];
physical, ib.;
intellectual, [15];
artistic, [31];
moral training, [39];
feelings, [47];
rank, [56]
French and English, Patriotism, [63];
patriotic tenderness, [65];
pride, [77];
jealousy, [85];
duty, [91]
French and English, Politics, [101];
revolution, [103];
liberty, [112];
conservatism, [119];
stability, [129]
French and English, Religion, [139];
state establishments, [141];
disestablishment in France and England, [147];
social power, [153];
faith, [159];
formalism, [167]
French and English, Society, [319];
caste, [321];
wealth, [339];
alliances, [353];
intercourse, [363]
French and English, Success, [373];
personal, [375];
national, at home, [390];
abroad, [406]
French and English, Variety, [419];
in Britain, [421];
in France, [432]
French and English, Virtues, [179];
truth, [181];
justice, [198];
purity, [207];
temperance, [233];
thrift, [247];
cleanliness, [254];
courage, [261]
Funerals in France, religious formalism at, [169];
unpopularity of civil interments in provincial towns, [170]
G
Gaiety, French, compared with English, [389]
Game-preserving in France and England, [10];
poaching, [11];
Baron Rothschild’s preserves at Ferrières, [11] note
Gibraltar, English possession galling to Spain, [88]
Gladstone, Mr., skill in felling trees, [2];
opposes the masses to the classes, [113];
bitterness of the contest on the question of Home Rule, [114];
causes of his downfall, [116]
Glasgow, the centre of the industry of the Scottish Lowlanders, [425]
Gormandism in France, [239];
variety of terms, [240];
temperance of the real gourmet, [241]
Government, deceptive use of the terms “Monarchy” and “Republic,” xi;
essentially the same in England and France, ib.;
confusion between Communist and Communard, xii note;
adoption of French institutions by England, xiii;
the author’s opportunism, ib.;
parliamentary system alone practicable in England and France, xiv;
faulty workings, ib.;
opposition of French Republicans to England, xvii
Grammar schools in England, their effect on family life, [45]
Gravity, English, compared with French gaiety, [389]
Greeks, ancient, their physical life compared with that of the modern English, [1];
their surroundings compared with those of Manchester, [12]
Greek language and literature studied more in England than in France, [15];
antiquity and mystery of the language, [16];
neglected in French schools, [19]
Greg, Mr. W. R., want of sympathy for the growth of free institutions in France, [104];
Enigmas of Life quoted, [105]
Grévy, President, expelled by the French chamber, [117]
Guyot, M. Yves, proposal to pay the French clergy through the communes, [150]
Gymnastics, general indifference of Englishmen, [2];
training rare except for boat races, ib.;
accepted by the French as discipline and drill, [5];
discouraged in France by the Church, ib. note
Gymnastics, mental, superiority of Latin and Greek as, [19]
H
Harrison, Mr. F., his view of the autocracy of the House of Commons, [116]
Hartington, Lord, quotes Professor Dicey’s explanations of the sovereignty of the House of Commons, [107]
Haydon, prejudiced against French art, [413]
Highlands, French, [433]
Highlanders, Scotch, their inertia, [423];
lack of enterprise, ib.;
naturally gentlemen, [424];
absence of the Fine Arts and poverty of literature, ib.;
outside European civilisation, [427]
Horse-riding, associated in France with military exercises, in England with hunting, [6];
denied to French ecclesiastics, but permitted English clergy, [7];
hunting in France, [11]
Home Rule in Ireland, bitterness of the contest between the masses and the classes, [113], [114]
Hospitality, decline of, in France, [369]
House of Commons, its sovereignty as explained by Professor Dicey, [107];
quoted by Lord Hartington, ib.
Houses of Parliament, English, depreciated by foreigners, [415]
Hugo, Victor, French veneration for, [54];
his relations with Juliette Drouet, [210];
his peerage, [323];
his resistance to Napoleon III, [402]
Hunting in France and England, [11]
Hypocrisy, distinct from formalism, [167];
example of a church-going atheist, [168]
I
Ideals, English moral contrasted with the artistic of the Parisians, [38]
Idleness condemned in America, [46]
Ignorance of the English as regards Scotland and Ireland, [81]
Ingres, Father, venerated in France, [54]
Intellectual education. See Education, French and English
Invasion, no cruel experiences of, felt in England, [75]
Ireland, English ignorance of, [81]
Irish, their patriotic tenderness, [70];
exemplification in Mr. Robert Joyce the Irish poet, [71]
Intercourse. See Sociability
J
Jameson’s, Mrs., first impressions of Canadian society, [81]
Jealousies, National, reasonable and unreasonable, [89]
Jesuits, liberal interpretation of Catholic doctrines, [174]
Joyce, Mr. Robert, the Irish poet, his patriotic tenderness, [71]
Justice, Intellectual, less appreciated in France than in England, [198];
obscured by party dissensions, [199];
sympathies of classes, ib.;
English gentlemen with American slaveholders, ib.;
with French Catholics, [200];
class ideas in England, [201];
in France, ib.;
vulgar patriotism, [202];
French criticisms of France, [203];
exaggerations in literature, ib.;
French pleasantry as regards Her Majesty the Queen, [204];
injustice of Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Michelet, and Ruskin, [205];
just and unjust accounts of railways, ib.
K
Keats, unknown in France, [24]
Knighthood, orders of, retained in England but not in France, [133]
L
Labouchere, his resolution against the hereditary principle of the House of Lords, [131]
Lamartine, signs of revival, [403]
Lancashire, art schools of, [33];
a reaction against the industrial age, [34];
almost a nation, [426];
character of the Lancastrians, ib.;
their energy, encouragement of literature and art, and severe Protestantism, ib.;
connection with the Scotch lowlanders, [427];
open to European civilisation, ib.
Landseer, nothing in common with Rosa Bonheur, [398]
Languages, relative study of Latin and Greek in England and France, [15];
dignity of the teacher only to be secured by an ancient language, [16];
antiquity and mystery, ib.;
proposed abandonment of the ancient for the modern, [18];
inferior teachers of English in France, [20];
vast improvement in the present study of modern languages in France, [21];
in the status of the masters, ib.;
low status of teachers of modern languages in England, [22];
difficulties in appreciating foreign poetry, [23];
English difficulties in judging French verse, [24];
exceptional knowledge of Swinburne, ib.;
rarity of conversational accomplishment in foreign tongues, [25];
direction of future studies, ib.;
fail to elevate the mind, [26]
Language, English, its musical qualities denied in France, [407]
Latin, more studied than Greek in France, [15];
antiquity and mystery of the language, [16];
sacerdotal and aristocratic, ib.;
gave a dignity to laymen over inferiors and women, [17];
proposed abolition in French schools, [18];
neglected as a mental discipline, [19], [20];
required for the bachelor’s degree necessary to professions, [56]
Lecky, unknown in France, [24]
Leslie, C. R., his depreciation of continental art, [412]
Liberty of thought in religion unfavourable to moral authority, [42]
Liberty, in England and France, [112];
rule of majorities accepted in England, but not in France, [113];
growing hostility of the classes in England, and hatred against Mr. Gladstone, ib.;
approximating to that of the classes in France, [114];
opposition of the French Chamber to personal rule, [115];
Gambetta, Ferry, Wilson, and Boulanger, [116];
English jealousy of Mr. Gladstone, ib.;
Mr. F. Harrison on the autocracy of the House of Commons, ib.;
autocracy of the French Chamber, [117];
religious liberty curtailed by political liberty, [118];
free discussion in England limited by juries, ib.
Libraries, private, in France and England, [27];
exclusion of indecent books, [219]
Literature rendered brilliant by malevolence, ix
Literature, French ignorance of English, [24];
superseded by science, [28];
more influential in England than in France, [399];
novelists and playwrights successful in France, [403];
English writers known in France only in translations, [408];
Russian novels popular in France, [409];
English demand for French novels, ib.
Liverpool, cultivation of the fine arts better than in Rouen or Lyons, [34]
London, inferior to Paris in its maintenance of art, [35];
French siege of, inconceivable, [89];
a nation, [427];
a state within a state, [428];
its standard of civilisation, ib.;
not insular but cosmopolitan, ib.;
absorbing the English aristocracy, [429]
Lords, House of, its hereditary principle threatened, [131]
Lotteries in France, [377]
Louis XIV of France, the realisation of ideal monarchy, [109]
Lowlanders, Scotch, repugnance to polish, [424];
sabbatarianism, industrial triumphs, intellectual distinction, and taste for the Fine Arts, [425];
their resemblances to the Lancastrians, [426]
Lunch, English, unknown in France, [368]
Luxury, definition of, [291];
connected with expense and not with cheap pleasures, [292];
development, ib.;
a home product in France but an exotic in England, [293];
domestic servants, ib.;
dress, [294];
independent of Art, [295];
French commonplace, [296]
Lycées, French, absence of cricket, [4];
proposed abolition of Latin as compulsory, [18];
question of excluding Greek, [19];
teaching of modern languages, [20];
examination and certificate of teachers, [21];
pupils compared with those in seminaries, [44];
disregard of social distinctions, [58];
their cheapness, ib.;
distinguished from seminaries, [59];
lay masters and priests, ib.;
deny the use of the catechism described by Matthew Arnold, [195]
Lyons, cultivation of the Fine Arts inferior to that in Manchester or Liverpool, [34];
a town of contrasts, [439];
Michelet’s description of, ib.
M
Macculloch, Dr., his description of the inertia of the Scotch Highlanders, [423]
Macpherson’s Ossian the one literary success in the Scotch Highlands, [424]
Madagascar, English jealousy of French expedition, [87]
Maine, Sir Henry, his view of the dislike to change, [120];
interest in Mohammedans, Africans, Chinese, and Hindus, [121];
conservatism of women, ib.;
his contemptuous estimate of the French President, [135]
Majority, government of, in France and England, [113];
a state of liberty only when balanced by a minority, [115]
Malevolence entertaining in literature, ix
Manchester, cultivation of the Fine Arts better than in Rouen or Lyons, [34]
Manners, national and class codes, [297];
courtesy in France and England, ib.;
epistolary forms, [298];
French ceremony, [299];
old-fashioned, [300];
embarrassments, [301];
John Stuart Mill’s observation in France and England, [303];
English hospitality, [304];
defensive politeness, ib.;
bad manners in France and England, [305];
French manners of George H. Lewes, [306].
See Decorum
Marriage, French and English ideas of, [228], [353];
mésalliances, ib.;
class ideas in France, [354];
pecuniary value of the French de, [355];
London market, ib.;
le mariage de convenance, [356];
prudent marriages, ib.;
French customs, [357];
dowerless French girls, [358];
varying dowries, [249], [359];
English contempt for small dowries, [360];
clerical influence, [361];
companionship the only ideal, ib.;
prudence and rashness, [362];
marriage-feasts of the French peasantry, [369];
marriage of French army officers, [381]
Marriage of clergy, opposite ideas in England and France, [208];
Catholic horror at the marriage of a bishop, [209]
Meissonier, comparable only with the Dutch, [398]
Mésalliance defined, [353]
Michelet, his description of Lyons, [439]
Milan, King of Servia, educated in a French lycée, [58]
Military exercises, imposed in France by the conscription, [5];
duelling, [6]
Military officers in France and England, [334]
Militia in England, a reserve of military amateurs, [92]
Mill, John Stuart, observations on French feeling, [47];
on French and English manners, [303];
his influence, [399]
Millais, a grouse-shooter, [3]
Mirabeau, his declaration of the sovereignty of the people, [105]
Mivart, Mr., on intellectual liberty in the Catholic church, [174];
story of the Deluge, [175]
Monarchy and Republic, misuse of the terms in France and England, [103];
character of the old monarchy in France, [109]
Monarchy in England, its possible duration, [134]
Moral training, French and English, the outcome of personal influence, [39];
a national moral sense necessary, ib.;
stronger in England than in France, [40];
influence of the Church of England superior to that of Rome, ib.;
effect of clerical education on unbelievers, [41];
influence of Agnostics, [42];
want of moral authority in lay teaching in France, ib.;
truthfulness damaged by clerical education of unbelievers, [43];
French boys civilised by their mothers, [44];
home influences and school influences in England, ib.;
advantages of rural life and grammar schools, [45];
immorality in dealings between nations, ib.;
value of public opinion as moral authority, [46];
national and professional virtues, ib.
Morley, Mr. John, his views regarding the House of Lords, [113];
his influence, [401]
Morvan, district in France, a peculiar country, language, and people, [434];
material civilisation, [435];
ignorance of cookery, [436];
contrasted with the Burgundy wine country, ib.;
absence of the Fine Arts, ib.
Music, national, prejudices created by political jealousy, [413]
Music, sacred and profane, [275]
Musset, Alfred de, popularity in France, [403]
N
Napoleon I, system of education founded on the classics, and lighter scientific studies, [28]
Napoleon III, never won any real deference, [83]
Nature, English love of, not always favourable to art, [37]
National Assembly in France, declared sovereign, [107]
Nationality in ideas, xviii
National success. See Success
Noblesse, French, surpass the bourgeoisie not in learning but in field sports and equipages, [59];
absence of culture, [60];
life of the rural aristocracy in France, [61];
barbarians in the upper classes, ib.;
despise trade and all professions save that of a soldier, [62];
faults of, [327];
contempt for work, [328];
effect of poverty, [331];
Nonconformists, natural jealousy of the Church of England, [151];
less tolerant than Anglicans, [152];
social equality not to be gained by disestablishment, [154];
disadvantage in belonging to inferior sects, [155];
Herbert Spencer’s views concerning, [400]
Novels and novelists, French and English, [213];
invention of situations, [214];
temptations, [215];
French novels cosmopolitan, [216];
variety in the demand, [217];
trash, [218]
O
Ochlocracy, or popular government, [105];
in France a mere question of time, [106]
Opportunist politics of the author, xiii
Orders, Religious, story of their expulsion from France explained, [190], [191]
Orleans family, misrepresentations as regards expulsion from France, [194]
Orleans princes, educated like other French boys in a lycée, [58]
Ossian, Macpherson’s, the one literary success in the Scotch Highlands, [424]
Oxford University, associated with social distinctions, [57], [59]
P
Painting in France, the exquisite and the vulgar, [396];
qualities of English art, [397];
relative success, ib.
Palgrave, Mr., statement that Orientals regard Europe as one nation, [421]
Palmerston, Lord, love of hunting and riding, [3]
Paris, superior to London in artistic Europe, [35];
artistic ideal contrasted with the English moral ideal, [38];
English siege of, impossible without allies, [89];
a nation like London, [440];
characteristics differing from London, ib.;
contrast with provincial life, [441];
the light of France, ib.;
contrast in manners, [442];
in morals, [443];
in individual character, ib.
Parliamentary system, alone practicable in England and France, xiv;
faulty working, ib.
Parties in England, probable opposition between strong monarchists and open republicans, [134]
Patrie, a sacred word in France, [74];
“country” no equivalent, [75]
Patriotic Duty, in France and England, [91];
English and French ideas compared, ib.;
volunteer movement in England, [92];
English army more professional than national, ib.;
want of national feeling in the French army under the Second Empire, [93];
revolution in public opinion under the Republic, [94];
unity of sentiment between the French army and the nation, [95];
influence of national armies on peace and war, [96];
English repugnance to conscription, ib.;
likely to be overcome, [97];
patriotism of the English in foreign policy during peace, [98];
absent in France except during war, ib.;
confusion of patriotism with hatred, [99].
Patriotic Jealousy, between France and England, [85];
rivalry in Europe, ib.;
in naval strength, ib.;
equalities and resemblances, [86];
rivalry in Africa and the East, [86], [87];
English jealousy of French colonial enterprise, [87];
French jealousy of English possession of the Channel Islands, [88];
not to be settled by war, [87], [88];
difficulties of conquest on either side, [89];
jealousies reasonable and unreasonable, ib.
Patriotic Pride, in France and England, [77];
strong in France before the Franco-German war, ib.;
subdued by the loss of security, [78];
aristocracy humiliated by the establishment of the Republic, [79];
not wounded in England, [80];
strengthened by being the head of English-speaking nations, [81];
by underrating other nations, [82];
easy indifference of the French, [83];
hatred of France for her neighbours, ib.
Patriotic Tenderness, in France and England, [65];
increasing in France and diminishing in England, ib.;
loyal and pathetic as expressed in Black’s Princess of Thule, [66];
nourished by rural life, ib.;
colonisation unfavourable to English patriotism, [67];
expression in composite states, ib.;
increased by religion and poetry, but diminished by travel, ib.;
causes of its diminution in England, [68];
dispersion of English middle-class families, [69];
reluctance of the French to emigrate, [70];
patriotic tenderness of the Irish, [70];
of the poet Wordsworth, [71];
attachment of the English to foreign countries, [72];
Robert Browning’s love for Italy, ib.;
illusions of the French as regards France, [73];
provincial feeling stronger in France than in England, [74];
the words pays and patrie, ib.;
no cruel experience of invasion felt in England, [75];
varying intensity, [76]
Patriotism, as opposed to impartiality in discussing foreigners, viii;
degenerates into chauvinisme, ix
Peasants, French, endurance in walking, [6];
their healthy and active lives in comparison with English factory workers, [13]
Pedestrianism, English ladies better walkers than French, [6]
Photography, French superior to English, [399]
Physical Education. See Education, French and English
Physical Education, imperfect in England, [1];
amusements of distinguished Englishmen, [2];
cricket and boating, [3];
high physical life of the English aristocracy contrasted with that of towns, [12];
peasant life in France and factory life in England, [13];
English and French compared, ib.;
future of the two races, [14]
Poaching in France and England, [11]
Poetry, foreign difficulties in appreciating, [23];
in France and England, [402];
English not appreciated in France, [406], [407]
Politeness. See Manners
Political celebrity in England, [326]
Pope, veneration for by Catholics, [54]
Prefect, his official rank in France, [335]
Pride. See Patriotic
Priests in France, may not shoot, hunt, or row in a boat, [7];
may fish with a hook, [8]
President of the French Republic, contemptuous estimate of his position refuted, [136];
his real influence, [137]
Presidential government, American system of, unsuited to France, [110];
compulsory retirement of Grévy and peaceful election of his successor, [111]
Princess of Thule, an example of local patriotism, [65]
Printing, French and English compared, [395]
Protestantism, in England and France, xii;
protected in France by Freethinkers, xv
Protestants, their isolation in France, [155];
ultra-simplicity, [177]
Provence contrasted with Brittany, [434]
Provincial Feeling, strong in France but not in England, [74];
no cruel experiences of invasion felt in England, [75]
Public opinion, its value as a moral authority, [46];
national and professional virtues, ib.
Puritanism, revolutionised the English people, [270];
especially the middle classes, [271];
experiences of an English family on a Sunday in Paris, ib.;
success of Puritanism in Scotland, [274];
sacred and profane music, [275];
effect on literature, [276]
Purity, dual relations between the sexes, [207];
physical and mental, [208];
opposite views of Catholic and Protestant of the marriage of Anglican clergymen, ib.;
Catholic horror at the marriage of a bishop, [209];
opposite views of marriage with a deceased wife’s sister, ib.;
illegitimate unions in the lower classes, ib.;
tolerated in artists and writers, [210];
Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet, French opinion, [211];
Lewes and Liszt, [212];
immorality in great cities, ib.;
French novels no evidence of French immorality, [213];
crimes frequent in all imaginary literature, ib.;
especially in English novels, [214];
French novelists and their readers, [215], [216];
pure literature in France, [219];
misrepresentation of French lubricity, [220];
extreme cases of vice, [221];
social penalties, ib.;
rustic morals in England and France, [221];
unmarried girls in middle and upper classes, [223];
French and Anglican clergy, ib.;
soldiers and sailors, [224];
student life in France and England, ib.;
Scotch and French students, [225];
French and English schools, [226];
domestic life in Paris, [227];
conflicting views of marriage, [228];
moral pride of the English, [229];
want of it in France, [230];
worship of the Virgin Mary, [231];
moral feeling in England stronger than in France, [232]
R
Railways, just and unjust accounts of, [205];
Mr. Ruskin’s diatribe, ib.
Rank, associated as with education in France and England, [56].
See Education
Regattas in France, [8];
clubs, [9]
Religion, changed by political revolution, [118];
denial of Christianity or of the authority of the Scriptures a criminal offence under English law, [118];
dislike of dissenters to be treated as inferiors, [132]
Religion, real similarity between England and France, xii;
anomalous antipathies, xv;
relations between Catholics, Protestants, and Freethinkers, ib.;
decay of reverence in France, [54];
in England confined to the Bible and the throne, [55];
State establishments, French and English compared, [141];
not national in France, [142];
international character of the Catholic priesthood, ib.;
Anglicanism in England, Presbyterianism in Scotland, and Catholicism in Ireland, [143];
co-establishments in France, ib.;
changes under the Republic, [144];
contradiction, [145];
neutrality in France, ib.;
toleration in England, [146];
modern idea of State protection to all creeds, ib.;
disestablishment easy in France, [147];
in Great Britain and Ireland, ib.;
impolicy of confiscating the stipends of priests in France, [148];
subscriptions for the Church easier than for science, [149];
proposed payment of the French clergy through the communes, [150];
disestablishment in England, [151];
natural jealousy of nonconformists, ib.;
social power of the Church of Rome in France, [153];
isolation of Protestants in France, [155];
disadvantage of belonging to inferior sects, ib.;
nominal orthodoxy alone required, [156];
dangers of nominal heterodoxy, [157];
State religion supported by Freethinkers, [157], [158];
two senses in the word “faith,” “custom” and “conviction,” [159];
sincerity tested by sacrifice, [160];
example of a young Frenchman, ib.;
devotion of Catholic Sisters, [161];
strong faith in both Catholics and Protestants, [165];
distinction between formalism and hypocrisy, [167];
philosophical Anglicans, [171];
examples in the English clergy, [172];
French equivalent, [173];
religion hereditary, ib.;
external conformity in France, [174];
ritualism and formalism in England, [175];
no ritualist party in France, [176];
sham Christians in England and France, [184], [185];
revolutionised in England by Puritanism, [270];
observance of Sunday in France and England, [272];
incomes of the clergy in France and England, [379]
Renan, his influence, [403]
Republic, French, regarded by the Conservatives as a foreign occupation, [391]
Republic and Monarchy, misuse of the terms in France and England, [103]
Republicans, French, their opposition to England, xvii
Republican sentiment cooling in France, [135]
Reverence, dying out in France, [54];
decaying in England except towards the Bible and the Throne, [55]
Revolutions in France and England, misleading terms “Republic” and “Monarchy,” [103];
abolition of absolutism similar in both countries, [104];
want of English sympathy for the growth of liberty in France, ib.;
beginning of democracy in France, [105];
sovereignty of the people, ib.;
resemblances between the two revolutions, [106];
sovereignty of the National Assembly and House of Commons, [107];
aristocratic republic in England, [108];
irregular progress of the democracy in France, [109];
absence of a written constitution in England, [109], [110];
cabinet government in England copied by France, [110];
the misleading use in France of American terms, “Republic,” “President,” “Senate,” [111];
peaceful changes, ib.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, his writings on art appreciated in France, [408];
his paintings depreciated as imitations, [410]
Rhyme in poetry, difficulties of pronunciation, [23]
Ritualism in England promoted by formalism, [175]
Rothschild, Baron, abundance of game in his preserves at Ferrières, [11] note
Rouen, cultivation of the Fine Arts inferior to that in Manchester or Liverpool, [34]
Royalist sentiment extinct in France, [54], [135]
Rural and urban life in France and England, [34]
Ruskin, Mr., causes of his success, an art teacher to the English, [37];
his diatribe against railways, [205];
his influence, [400];
no readers in France, [408];
depreciates French art, [413]
Russian novels, demand for in France, [409]
S
Sabbath. See Sunday
Sabbatarianism of the Scotch Lowlanders, [425]
Sarcey, F., his evidence respecting the neglect of English and German in France, [21]
Saturday Review, remarks on education in France, [218]
Science, superseding literature, [28];
its place in secondary education in France, [29]
Science and Art Department in England, [32]
Scotland. See Highlanders and Lowlanders
Scotland, English ignorance of, [81];
French confusion of Highlanders and Lowlanders, [425]
Scott, Sir Walter, a keen sportsman, [3];
his denial of the authorship of Waverley novels, [196];
ignorance of French, [430]
Seeley, Professor, proposals as regards Latin and Greek, [18]
Seminaries, French ecclesiastical, their effect on pupils, [44]
Sentiment, natural to the French, but ridiculous to the English, [47];
filial affection, ib.;
friendship, [48];
sympathy, [49];
degrees of relationship, ib.;
funerals, ib.;
neglected tombs, ib.;
cultured by the French, [50];
in the English clergy, [51];
English tenderness for animals, [52];
French hardness, [53];
reverence, ib.;
royalist, absent in France, [54]
Servants, domestic, in France and England, [293]
Sisters, Catholic working Orders, their devotion, [161];
activity and cheerfulness, [162];
example of an Anglican saint, [163];
more common in France than in England, [164]
Shadwell, Vice-Chancellor, family swimming in the Thames, [10]
Shakespeare as an Englishman, [429];
his ignorance of French, [430]
Shelley, his love of boating and swimming, [3]
Shelley unknown in France, [24]
Sociability, greater in England than in France, [363];
French liking for talk, [364];
separation of the sexes in France, ib.;
difference in England, [365];
want of amusements in France, [367];
especially in the provinces, [368];
English lunch unknown in France, ib.;
decline of hospitality in France, [369];
the club and the cercle, ib.;
restricted by religious and political bigotry, [370];
divisions in France and England, [371]
Social distinctions. See Caste
Socrates, indifference to comfort, [286]
Spain, her pride wounded by English possession of Gibraltar, [88]
Spencer, Herbert, great reputation in France as a thinker, [408]
Spencer, Herbert, his term “anti-patriotism,” vii
Spenser, Edmund, not known in France, [24], [26]
Sports: see Field sports.
Drill: see Military exercise
Stability, English, French faith in, [129];
wanting in English cabinets, [130];
in the House of Commons, [131];
threatened abolition of the hereditary principle in the House of Lords, ib.;
causes of the instability of a State Church, [132];
question as regards the English Throne, [133];
future of England, [134];
of France, [135];
coolness of French republican sentiment, ib.;
Sir Henry Maine’s estimate of a French president refuted, [136], [137]
Stoicism of the English, [47]
Strathclyde, old, included the western Lowlanders and Lancashire, [427]
Student life in France, [224];
Scotch and French students compared, [225];
morality of boys in French schools, [227]
Success, National, abroad, its vanity, [406];
non-appreciation of English poetry in France, ib.;
French opinions of English writers, [408];
Russian novels in France, [409];
English demand for French novels, ib.;
French opinion of English art, [411];
influence of Constable on French landscape, ib.;
wide celebrity of French painters, ib.;
French art appreciated in England, [412];
English and German music unpopular in France, [413];
national appreciation of minor excellencies, [414];
depreciation of the Houses of Parliament by foreigners, [415];
moral eminence of success in war, ib.;
French depreciation of the English navy, [416];
military reputation of France and England compared, [417];
changes since the Franco-Prussian war, ib.;
greatness of England dependent on her superiority in arms, [418]
Success, National, at home, [390];
England greater in religion and politics, ib.;
isolation of French conservatives, [391];
partial success of the Republic, ib.;
English and French finances, 392;
contrast in party feeling, [393];
arts and sciences, ib.;
manufactures, [394];
printing, [395];
painting, [396];
home success of French and English artists, [397];
literature, [399];
poetry, [401];
young philosophers, [403];
journalists, ib.;
dread of war in England and France, [404]
Success, Personal, difficult for a French gentleman, [375];
familiar to the middle classes, ib.;
example of Madame Boucicaut, [376];
money-making, [377];
lotteries and private gambling, ib.;
overcrowding professions, [378];
wealthy traders, [382];
English manufacturers, ib.;
cost of living in France and England, [383];
definition of real success, ib.;
little pleasures, [386];
industrial civilisation a failure, [388]
Suffrage in England and France, xi
Sunday in Paris shocking to English and Scotch, [271];
in England before the Puritan revolution, [272];
Catholic observance for the protection of toilers, [273];
example of a French Sunday, ib.;
in England and Scotland, [274];
distinction between sacred and profane music, [275];
rowing and sailing, ib.;
effect of the Sabbatarian customs on literature, [276]
Swinburne, his exceptional knowledge of technical workmanship in French poetry, [24]
Swimming, cultivated more in France than in England, [9];
exceptional cases of Miss Beckwith, Captain Webb, and Vice-Chancellor Shadwell’s family, [10]
T
Tea-drinking in England opposed to French ideas, [283]
Temperance, drinking in France as distinct from drunkenness, [233];
possible allowance of a Frenchman, [234];
wine a safeguard against spirits, [235];
German wine drinking, [236];
difference in drinking habits in France, [237];
French abstainers between meals, [239];
gormandism, ib.;
temperance of the gourmet, [241];
quotation from Thackeray, ib.;
plain living in France, [242];
consumption of spirits in England, [243];
dipsomania, ib.;
growing temperance in England, [244];
English love of flesh meat, [245];
French economy, ib.;
English asceticism, [246]
Tenderness. See Patriotic
Tennis, abandoned in France, [4];
the parent of English lawn tennis, ib.
Tennyson known in France only to students in English literature, [408]
Tennyson, his peerage, [323]
Thackeray, a French gourmet, [241];
ideas of duelling expressed in the Newcomes, [278]
Thackeray, little appreciated in France, [408]
Thrift, superiority of the French to the English, [247];
pettiness and meanness, [248];
English contempt for meanness, ib.;
selfishness and self-denial, [249];
French anxiety to provide dowries, ib.;
discouragements to thrift in England, [249];
contempt for small sums, [250];
prodigality of the old French nobility, ib.;
modern examples of extreme thrift, [251];
English improvidence, [252];
results of thrift on the French nation, ib.
Titles, the consecration of wealth, [323];
peerages of Tennyson and Victor Hugo, ib.;
defended by Mr. Bagehot, [325]
Tonquin, English jealousy of French expedition, [87];
unpopular in France, [96]
Trollope, Anthony, love for fox-hunting, [3]
Toussenel, misrepresentations of England in L’Esprit des Bêtes, [187], [188]
Towns, French, pleasantness compared with English, [34];
render artistic life torpid, ib.;
their exhibitions inferior to English, ib.;
inferior taste in buildings, [35];
inferior to English as art centres, [37]
Training. See Moral
Training, physical. See Physical Education
Truth, repressed in French education, [181];
intellectual dishonesty encouraged, [182];
sham admiration in literature and art, [183];
less in England than in France, ib.;
literary lying about Shakespeare and the classics, ib.;
sham Christians rewarded, [184];
Sunday observance and family prayers, [185];
political lying, [186];
difference between French and English, ib.;
French reliance on ignorance, [187];
misrepresentations of Toussenel as regards England, [188];
superiority of English falsehood, [190];
French Government pronounced atheistical, ib.;
alleged expulsion of religious orders from France, [191];
of removal of crosses from the French cemeteries, [192];
expulsion of the Orleans family, [194];
story of a French catechism, [195];
Walter Scott’s denial of the authorship of Waverley, [196];
silence of Chambers as to his Vestiges of Creation, ib.;
French and English ideas of truth, [197]
Truthfulness, a social virtue, [41];
damaged by clerical education of unbelievers, ib.
Turner, not comparable with any French artist, [398]
Tyndall, Professor, a mountaineer, [3]
U
University in France, teachers of modern languages assuming the status of classical masters, [21];
professors mostly Agnostics, [42];
bachelor’s degree necessary in France for professions, [56];
not absolutely necessary in England, ib.;
confers social distinctions in England, not in France, [57]
Urban and rural life in France and England, [34]
V
Variety in Britain, [421];
four distinct nationalities, [423];
Scotch Highlanders, their inertia, ib.;
Lowlanders, their Sabbatarianism, industry, intellect, and Fine Arts, [425];
Lancastrians, their resemblance to the Scotch Lowlanders, [426];
London, a nation, [427];
a state within a state, [428];
Irish, Scotch, Welsh, [429];
Shakespeare and Walter Scott, [430]
Variety in France, [432];
English ignorance of provincial France, ib.;
highlands, plains, and coasts, [433];
seven distinct climates, ib.;
contrast between Brittany and Provence, [434];
between the Morvan and Burgundy, [435], [436];
departments, provinces, districts, [437];
local climates, [438];
diversities in towns, ib.;
Paris, a nation, [440];
local as distinguished from London, ib.;
the most artistic city in Europe, ib.;
contrasted with the provinces, [441];
contrast in manners, [442];
in morals, [443];
modern diminution of variety in France, [444]
Velocipedes in France and England, [8]
Velocipedes, undignified in France, [8]
Veneration, Catholic, for priests, [54];
absence of in French republicans, ib.;
for Victor Hugo, Ingres, Chevreul, ib.;
want of in French family life, [55];
in England for the Bible and the Throne, ib.
Victoria, Queen, an example of open expression of the feelings, [51]
Victorian era, probable consequences, [133];
monarchy in England, its probable duration, [134]
Virtues, maintained only by a strong public opinion, [46]
Virtues. See Truth
Volunteer movement in England produced by a sense of danger, [92]
Voysey, Mr., his warning to dissenters, [154]
W
War, diminution of national enthusiasm in England and France, [262]
War, dreaded in England and France, [405]
Wealth of France and England compared, [339];
creations of the nineteenth century, [340];
developments of industries, [341];
social value of wealth in England, [342];
French feeling, [343];
sanctity of wealth in England, [344];
sentiments of the poor, [345];
views of Matthew Arnold, ib.;
and Gerald Massey, [346];
aggressiveness of mill-hands in Lancashire, [347];
respectful civility in France, [349];
national defence, [351];
rich traders and manufacturers, [382];
cost of living in France and England, [383]
Webb, Captain, the English swimmer, [10]
Wine drinking in France, [233], [234];
in Germany, [236];
advantages of cheap wine, [236];
wine and water, [238];
growth of English taste for French wines, [282]
Women, their severe conservatism, [121]
Wordsworth, a pedestrian, [2]

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