Talks on the study of literature.

by Arlo Bates

• Ballads, [222].
• Balzac, [189].
• Barrie, J. M., [211].
• Bible, [101], [140], [142], [145], [197];
  • allusions to, [98]-[101];
  • as a classic, [143]-[147];
  • books of, characterized, [146];
  • quoted, [100], [228];
  • Revised Version vs. King James, [146].
• Black, William, [13], [211].
• Blackmore, R. D., [211].
• Blake, William, [54], [66];
  • quoted, [58], [121], [252].
• Boccaccio, [143].
• Breeding, good, [204].
• Brontë, Charlotte, [189].
• Broughton, Rhoda, [185].
• Browning, Mrs. E. B., quoted, [8], [132], [225], [241];
  • "Sonnets from the Portuguese," [7]-[9].
• Browning Robert, [92], [155], [179], [180];
  • "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," [48];
  • lack of melody, [236];
  • obscure in allusions, [106];
  • "Prospice," [13];
  • quoted, [244];
  • "The Ring and the Book," [180].
• Bunyan, John, "Pilgrim's Progress," [129].
• Burke, Edmund, quoted, [229].
• Burns, quoted, [234].
• Byron, Lord, [11], [12];
  • quoted, [104].

• Cable, G. W., [211].
• Carleton, Will, "Farm Ballads," [223].
• Carlyle, Thomas, [42];
  • quoted, [244].
• Carroll, Lewis, quoted, [236].
• Cervantes, [133], [140], [143];
  • "Don Quixote," [129], [189].
• Character, [56].
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, [78], [116], [123], [124], [140], [142], [146];
  • as a classic, [151]-[152];
  • Lowell on, [114];
  • quoted, [114].
• Children, education of, [193]-[196], [223];
  • reading of, [195]-[198].
• Civilization, [204].
• Classic, defined, [127].
• Classics, [176], [177];
  • cause of the neglect of, [132]-[134];
  • test of, [130].
• "Clerk Saunders," [222].
• Coleridge, S. T., [54], [66];
  • "Hymn Before Sunrise," etc., [75];
  • quoted, [145], [237], [247].
• Collins, William, [66].
• Comprehension, [74].
• Conventions, [88]-[92].
• Cowper, William, quoted, [79].
• Crawford, F. M., [211].
• Critics, use of, [70].

• Dante, [58], [78], [140], [142], [146];
  • as a classic, [150]-[151].
• Darwin, Charles, [55].
• D'Aulnoy, Countess, [196].
• D'Aurevilly, Barbey, [169].
• Defoe, [66];
  • "Robinson Crusoe," [197].
• De Gasparin, Madame, "The Near and the Heavenly Horizons," [48].
• De Maupassant, Guy, [182].
• Dekker, Thomas, quoted, [115].
• Dickens, Charles, [179], [180], [189];
  • his metrical prose, [233].
• Doyle, A. Conan, [211];
  • quoted, [134].
• Dryden, John, [66], [146];
  • quoted, [152].
• "Duchess," The, [13], [185].
• Dumas, A., père, [182], [189];
  • "D'Artagnan Romances," [27], [92].

• Edgeworth, Maria, [201].
• Education, use of poetry in, [223].
• Eliot, George, [180], [187], [189].
• Emerson, R. W., [179], [180];
  • on translations, [148];
  • quoted, [43], [47], [103], [225], [241].
• Emotion, [241]-[245];
  • fashion in, [15];
  • genuine, [68];
  • tests of genuineness of, [10]-[20].
• Etiquette, [204].
• Euripides, [149].
• Experience the test of art, [10].

• Fairy stories, [196]-[197].
• Fiction, truth in, [188].
• Fielding, Henry, [66].
• Folk-lore, [223].
• Folk-songs, [137]-[139], [221]-[222].
• French authors, [170].
• Fuller, Margaret, [86].

• Genius, [20], [250].
• Gibbon, Edward, quoted, [74].
• Gladstone, W. E., [168].
• Goethe, quoted, [36], [178].
• Goldsmith, Oliver, [66].
• Gower, John, [116].
• Gray, Thomas, quoted, [103].
• Greek literature, [149], [150].
• Greek sculpture, [150].
• Greek tragedians, [143], [148].
• Greeks, sanity of the, [148].
• Grimm, The Brothers, [194], [196].

• Haggard, Rider, "She," [26].
• Hannay, James, quoted, [57].
• Hardy, Thomas, "Far from the Madding Crowd," [181];
  • "The Return of the Native," [181], [208];
  • "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," [181];
  • "Under the Greenwood Tree," [181].
• Harris, J. C., "Uncle Remus," [197].
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [179], [180], [189];
  • Arthur Dimmesdale, [201];
  • "The Marble Faun," [92];
  • quoted, [83];
  • "The Scarlet Letter," [2], [13], [201], [208], [214];
  • "Tanglewood Tales," [197];
  • "The Wonder-Book," [197].
• Hazlitt, William, quoted, [113].
• "Helen of Kirconnell," [13], [138].
• Homer, [58], [78], [123], [131], [140], [142], [146], [151];
  • as a classic, [147]-[150].
• Hope, Anthony, [211].
• Hugo, Victor, [189];
  • "Les Misérables," [92], [208].
• Hunt, Leigh, quoted, [84].
• Hunt, W. M., quoted, [62].

• Ibsen, [172], [173], [177];
  • "The Doll's House," [18];
  • "Ghosts," [173].
• Imagination, [93], [246]-[248], [253];
  • and thought, [251];
  • creative, [111];
  • the realizing faculty, [19];
  • reality of, [54].
• Imaginative language, defined, [230]-[231].
• Imaginative quality, test of, [93].
• Impressionism, [69].
• Interest, temporary and permanent, [127]-[129].
• Irreverence, [87].
• Isaiah, [146], [150].

• James, Henry, quoted, [203].
• Jewett, Sarah O., Miss, [211].
• Job, [146], [230].
• Johnson, Samuel, quoted, [84].
• Jonson, Ben, quoted, [83].
• Judd, Sylvester, "Margaret," [30].

• Keats, John, [54], [92], [112];
  • letters to Miss Brawne, [62];
  • "Ode [on] a Grecian Urn," [17];
  • quoted, [94], [102], [249].
• Kingsley, Charles, [189].
• Kipling, Rudyard, [182];
  • "Jungle Books," [197], [213].