Talks on the study of literature.

by Arlo Bates

• Laboulaye, Édouard, [196].
• Lamb, Charles, [133];
  • quoted, [196].
• Language, imaginative, defined, [230]-[231].
• Lear, Edward, [235].
• Lessing, "Nathan the Wise," [48].
• Lincoln, Abraham, "Gettysburg Address," [112].
• Literature, books about, [65]-[68];
  • convincing, [14];
  • defined, [1]-[32];
  • didactic, [201];
  • early, [136];
  • eighteenth century, [65], [66];
  • gossip about, [62]-[65];
  • history of, [65];
  • juvenile, [193]-[195];
  • morbid, [20], [177], [178];
  • office of, [46]-[59];
  • relative rank, [31];
  • study of, defined, [33]-[44], [60]-[68];
  • study of, difficult, [72];
  • talk about, [40]-[43];
  • a unit, [154];
  • vs. science, [55].
• "Littell's Living Age," [39].
• Longfellow, H. W., [181].
• Lowell, J. R., [67];
  • quoted, [78], [102], [114], [173], [216].

• Macaulay, T. B., [220];
  • quoted, [207].
• Maclaren, Ian, [211], [213].
• Maeterlinck, [172].
• Magazines, [163]-[166].
• Malory, Thomas, "Morte d'Arthur," [196].
• Marcus Aurelius, "Reflections," [7].
• Marlowe, Christopher, "The Jew of Malta," [76].
• Melody, [235]-[240].
• Meredith, George, "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel," [92], [181], [208].
• Metre, [227]-[230].
• Milton, John, [108], [140], [143];
  • "L'Allegro," [106];
  • "Il Penseroso," [107];
  • "Lycidas," [77];
  • "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," [100];
  • quoted, [63], [113], [163].
• Modernity, [169].
• Molière, [140], [143].
• Montaigne, [133], [140], [143].
• Morbidity, [140].
• Morley, John, [67].
• "Mother Goose," [96], [221].
• Mulock, D. M., [189].
• Music, barbaric, [90];
  • Chinese, [90].
• Musset, A. de, "Mlle. de Maupin," [177].

• Newspapers, [162], [163].
• Nordau, Max, "Degeneration," [170];
  • quoted, [171].
• Notes, use of, [84], [109].
• Notoriety, [128], [172].
• Novels, realistic, [209];
  • vs. poetry, [245];
  • with a theory, [167].
• Novelty, [134].

• "Old Oaken Bucket," The, [17].
• Originality, [170].
• Ouida, [17], [41].

• Page, T. N., [211].
• Pater, Walter, "Marius the Epicurean," [25].
• Periodicals, [162]-[166].
• Petrarch, [143].
• Philology not the study of literature, [79].
• Plato, quoted, [234].
• Plutarch, letter to his wife, [50].
• Poe, E. A., "Lygeia," [22];
  • quoted, [104], [105], [237], [249];
  • Tales, [21].
• Poetry, defined, [227];
  • form is essential, [236], [239];
  • how different from prose, [231], [232];
  • office in education, [223];
  • office of, [245]-[252];
  • optimism of, [248]-[250];
  • origin, [5];
  • reading of, [244];
  • vs. novels, [245].
• Pope, Alexander, [66].
• Prose, how different from poetry, [231]-[232];
  • language of, [231].
• Public guided by the few, [10].

• Quincy, Josiah, [50].

• Rabelais, [133], [140].
• Reade, Charles, [189].
• Reading, first, [85];
  • for amusement, [210];
  • measure of character, [159];
  • serious matter, [87];
  • should be a pleasure, [71]-[73];
  • test of, [86];
  • works as units, [81].
• Realism, [69], [209].
• Reverence, [87].
• Rhythm, [220], [221], [227]-[229].
• Richardson, Samuel, [66].
• Rossetti, D. G., [181];
  • "Sister Helen," [119], [120].
• Rousseau, "Confessions," [7].
• Ruskin, John, quoted, [95].
• Russell, W. Clark, [13], [211].

• Sanity, [140], [174].
• Schopenhauer, quoted, [63], [227].
• Science vs. art, [32].
• Science vs. literature, case of Darwin, [55].
• Scott, Sir Walter, [189].
• Sculpture, Aztec, [89];
  • Greek, [89].
• Sensationalism, [26].
• Sentiment, [16], [157];
  • defined, [15].
• Sentimentality, [16], [139], [157];
  • defined, [15].
• Shakespeare, William, [3], [35], [41], [53], [58], [65], [77], [86], [92], [93], [107], [118], [124], [133], [140], [143], [145], [147], [173], [214], [216];
  • as a classic, [152]-[153];
  • condensation of, [93];
  • "Cymbeline," [75];
  • epithets of, [112], [231];
  • for children, [197];
  • "Hamlet," [81], [215];
  • "King Lear," [81];
  • "The Merchant of Venice," [115]-[118];
  • "Othello," [81];
  • quoted, [102], [104], [113], [114], [115], [229], [231], [239];
  • "Sonnets," [8], [239].
• Shelley, P. B., [92], [131];
  • quoted, [254];
  • "Stanzas Written in Dejection," etc., [17].
• Shorthouse, J. H., "John Inglesant," [29].
• Sienkiewicz, [182];
  • "The Deluge," [92].
• Sincerity, [12]-[15].
• Smile, sardonic, [95].
• Sophocles, [149].
• Spenser, Edmund, [123], [124], [143], [197].
• Standards, [141];
  • of criticism, [161].
• Steele, Sir Richard, [66].
• Stephen, Leslie, [67].
• Stevenson, R. L., [181];
  • "Kidnapped," [197];
  • quoted, [57];
  • "Treasure Island," [27], [197].
• Stockton, Frank, "The Adventures of Captain Horn," [27].
• Story, happy ending of a, [215];
  • the short, [211]-[214].
• Stowe, Mrs. H. B., on Byron, [62].
• Suckling, Sir John, quoted, [106].
• Suggestion, [111]-[114], [118]-[120], [230], [235].
• Suttner, Baroness von, [161].
• Swift, Jonathan, [66];
  • "Gulliver's Travels," [197].
• Swinburne, A. C., [181];
  • "Atalanta in Calydon," [228];
  • excess of melody, [236].
• Symbolism, [69].
• Sympathy between reader and author, [82].

• Talleyrand, quoted, [38].
• Tasso, [143].
• Taste a measure of character, [3].
• Technical excellence, [25].
• Tennyson, Alfred, [92], [155], [179], [180], [232];
  • "Idylls of the King," [180];
  • "In Memoriam," [7], [50];
  • quoted, [101], [249].
• Thackeray, W. M., [42], [179], [180], [189];
  • Beatrix Esmond, [92];
  • Colonel Newcome, [13];
  • "Henry Esmond," [208];
  • Major Pendennis, [201];
  • "Pendennis," [200].
• Titian, [42]-[43].
• Tolstoi, [172], [177];
  • "The Kreutzer Sonata," [20], [214];
  • "War and Peace," [29].
• Traill, H. D., quoted, [190].
• Translations, use of, [147], [148].
• Trollope, Anthony, [180], [189].
• Tupper, M. F., [3].
• Turgenieff, [182].

• "Uncle Tom's Cabin," [160].