COMPOSITION, its toils, 80-81.

CONTEMPORARY criticism, frequently unjust, 75.

CONVERSATIONS of men of genius, 99-109; those who converse well seldom write well, 104.

COTIN, Abbé, troubled by wealth, 188.

CRACHERODE, Rev. C.M., his collections of art and literature, n., 13.

CRITICISM not always just, 65-75.

CURRIE, his idea of the power of genius, 26.

CUVIER'S discoveries in natural history, 145.

DANTE, his great abstraction of mind, 134.

DEATHS of literary men, 243.