Landor, W. Savage, [314].
Lang, Gideon, [243] note.
Language, poetical use of “laugh” and “smile,” [30]; terms for forms of laughter in French, [49] note; misuse of, as laughable, [104], [240]. See Wit.
Laughable, the (Chapter IV.), definition of, [82]; universality of, [83], [295]; relativity of, [84], [88], [93], [95], [98], [101], [102], [106], [111], [113]; distinguished from the ludicrous, [85]; complexity of, [87], [114], [153]; groups of laughable objects, [87]; inhibitory concomitants of, [90], [93], [96], [101], [111], [301], [306]; relation of, to laughter as a whole, [153]; field of, [260], [315], [319].
Laughter, estimates of, [1], [416]; scientific investigation of, [3] ff., [19], {437} [154]; physiological characteristics of, [22], [26]–28, [30], [33]–36, [69], [227], [309]; varieties of, [22], [48], [188], [251]; an intermittent manifestation, [26], [74]; sounds of, [31], [174], [227]; bad effects of, [37], [46], [415], [418], [420], [422]; mechanically produced, [42], [64] ff., [74]; occasions of, [50] (Chapter III.); nervous, [65]–70, [116]; counteractives to, [88], [90], [93], [96], [101], [102], [111], [377]; as sign of playful mood in animals, [183]–184; as instrument of punishment, [250], [256], [262], [380]; anti-social tendency in, [256], [406]; regulation of, [418]; promotion of, [423]; as branch of education, [426]. See also Child, Development of; Humour; Origin of Laughter; Primitive Laughter; Savages, Laughter of; Social Laughter; Value of Laughter.
Le Fanu, W. R., [111] note.