If we mean to amuse ourselves let us avoid the painful wrestling against insuperable difficulties, and the humiliation of imperfect results. Let us shun all ostentation, either of wealth or talent, and take our pleasures happily like poor children, or like the idle angler who stands in his old clothes by the purling stream and watches the bobbing of his float, or the glancing of the fly that his guileful industry has made.
INDEX.
Absinthe, French use, [273].
Absurdity, in languages, [157].
Academies, in a university, [275].
Accidents, Divine connection with ([Essay XV.]), [218-222].
Acquaintances: new and humble, [21], [22];
chance, [23-26];
met in travelling ([Essay XVII.]), [239-252] passim.
Adaptability: a mystery, [9];
in life’s journey, [44];
to unrefined people, [72].
Adultery, overlooked in princes, [168].
Affection: not blinding to faults, [10];
how to obtain filial, [98];
in the beginning of letters, [316].
Affinities, mysterious, [288].
Age: affecting human intercourse, [ix];
outrun by youth, [86-93] passim;
affecting friendship, [112];
senility hard to convince, [293], [294];
middle and old, [302];
kind letter to an old lady, [345].
Agnosticism, affecting filial relations, [93].
Agriculture: under law, [228];
and Radicals, [282].
Albany, Duke of, his associations, [5].
Albert Nyanza, Baker’s exploits, [392].
Alexis, Prince, sad relations to his father, [95], [96].
Alps: first sight, [235];
grandeur, [271].
Americans: artistic attraction, [8];
inequalities of wealth, [248];
behaviour towards strangers, [249];
treated as ignorant by the English, [277];
under George III., [279];
use of ruled paper, [328].
Amusements: pursuit of, [27];
sympathy with youthful, [88];
out-door, [302], [303];
praise for indulgence not deserved, [342];
in general ([Essay XXVI.]), [383-401];
obligatory, [383];
expensive and pleasurable, [384];
laborious, [385];
princely enjoyments, [386], [387];
poverty not compelled to practise, [388];
feigned, [388], [389];
converted into customs, [389];
should be independent in, [390];
shooting, [391-393];
boating, [394-396];
selfish compulsion, [397];
tyranny of majorities, [398];
conversational echoes, [398], [399];
ladies not interested, [399];
three stages of pleasure, [399], [400];
artistic gambols, [400];
to be taken naturally and happily, [401].
Analysis: important to prevent confusion ([Essay XX.]), [280-294] passim;
analytical faculty wanting, [280], [292-294].
Ancestry: aristocratic, [123];
boast, [130];
home, [138];
less religion, [214].
Angels, and the arts, [191].
Anglicanism, and Russian Church, [257], [258].
Angling, pleasure of, [401].
Animals, feminine care, [177].
Annuities, affecting family ties, [68], [69].
Answers to letters, [334], [335].
Anticipation, pleasure of, [399], [400].
Antiquarianism, author’s, [323].
Apollo, a sportsman compared to, [391].
Arabs: use of telegraph, [323];
collar-bone broken, [392].
Archæology: a friend’s interest, [x];
affected by railway travel, [14].
Architecture: illustration, [vii], [xii];
studies in France, [17], [23], [24];
connection with religion, [189], [190], [192];
ignorance about English, [265];
common mistakes, [291];
letters about, [365].
Aristocracy: French rural, [18], [19];
English laws of primogeniture, [66];
English instance, [123], [124];
discipline, [128];
often poor, [135], [136];
effect of deference, [146], [147];
a mark of? [246], [247];
Norman influence, [251], [252];
antipathy, to Dissent, [256], [257];
sent to Eton, [277];
and Bohemianism, [309];
dislike of scholarship, [331], [332].
(See [Rank].)
Aristophilus, fictitious character, [146].
Armies: national ignorance, [277-279];
monopoly of places in French, [283].
(See [War].)
Art: detached from religion, [xii];
affecting friendship, [6], [8];
Claude and Turner, [13];
chance acquaintances, [23], [24];
purposes lowered, [28], [29];
penetrated by love, [42], [43];
affecting fraternity, [64];
friendship, [113], [114];
lifts above mercenary motives, [132];
literary, [154];
adaptability of Greek language, [158];
preferences of artists rewarded, [165];
affecting relations of Priests and Women ([Essay XIII. part II.]), [187-195], passim;
exaggeration and diminution, both admissible, [232], [233];
result of selection, [253];
French ignorance of English, [265], [266], [267];
antagonized by Philistinism, [285], [286], [301];
not mere amusement, [400].
(See [Painting], [Sculpture], [Turner], etc.)
Asceticism, tinges both the Philistine and Bohemian, [299], [300].
(See [Priesthood], [Roman Catholicism], etc.)
Association: pleasurable or not, [3];
affected by opinions, [5], [6];
by tastes, [7], [8];
London, [20];
of a certain French painter, [28];
between Priests and Women ([Essay XIII. part III.]), [195-204] passim;
among travellers ([Essay XVII.]), [239-252];
leads to misapprehension of opinions, [287], [288].
(See [Companionship], [Friendship], [Society], etc.)
Atavism, puzzling to parents, [88].
Atheism: reading prayers, [163];
apparent, [173];
confounded with Deism, [257].
(See [God], [Religion], etc.)
Attention: how directed in the study of language, [154];
want of, [197].
Austerlitz, battle, [350].
(See [Napoleon I.])
Austria, Empress, [180].
Authority, of fathers ([Essay VI.]), [78-98] passim.
(See [Priests].)
Authors: illustration, [9];
indebtedness to humbler classes, [22], [23];
relations of several to women, [46] et seq.;
sensitiveness to family indifference, [74];
in society and with the pen, [237], [238];
a procrastinating correspondent, [317];
anonymous letters, [378].
(See [Hamerton], etc.)
Authorship, illustrating interdependence, [12].
(See [Literature], etc.)
Autobiographies, revelations of faithful family life, [65].
Autumn tints, [233].
Avignon, France, burial-place of Mill, [53].
Bachelors: independence, [26];
dread of a wife’s relations, [73];
lonely hearth, [76];
friendship destroyed by marriage, [115], [116];
reception into society, [120];
eating-habits, [244].
(See [Marriage], [Wives], etc.)
Baker, Sir Samuel, shooting, [390-392].
Balzac, his hatred of old maids, [381].
Baptism, religious influence, [184], [185].
(See [Priesthood].)
Baptists: in England, [170];
ignorance about, [257].
(See [Religion].)
Barbarism, emerging from, [161].
(See [Civilization].)
Baronius, excerpts by Prince Alexis, [95].
Barristers, mercenary motives, [132], [133].
Bavaria, king of, [385-387].
Bazaar, charity, [188].
Beard, not worn by priests, [202].
Beauty: womanly attraction, [38], [39];
sought by wealth, [299].
Bedford, Duke of, knowledge of French, [151].
Belgium, letters written at the date of Waterloo, [153].
Beljame, his knowledge of English, [152].
Bell, Umfrey, in old letter, [323].
Benevolence, priestly and feminine association therein, [195], [196].
(See [Priests], etc.)
Ben Nevis, and other Scotch heights, [271].
Bentinck, William, letters to, [344], [345].
Betham-Edwards, Amelia, her description of English bad manners, [240], [245].
Bible: faith in, [6];
allusion to Proverbs and Canticles, [41];
reading, [123];
Babel, [159];
commentaries studied, authority, [206];
examples, [208];
narrow limits, [211], [212];
commentaries and sermons, [302].
(See [Religion], etc.)
Bicycle, illustration, [15].
Birds, in France, [272].
Birth, priestly connection with, [184], [185].
(See [Priests], [Women].)
Black cap, illustration, [204].
Blake, William, quotation about Folly and Wisdom, [31].
Blasphemy, royal, [167].
(See [Immorality], etc.)
Boating: affected by railways, [14];
French river, [128];
rich and poor, [138], [139];
comparison, [154];
Lever’s experience, [260];
mistaken judgments, [292], [293];
not enjoyed, [302];
sleeping, [307];
on the Thames, [335];
painting a boat, [359];
amusement, [394-396].
(See [Yachts], etc.)
Boccaccio, quotation about pestilence, [222].
Bohemianism: Noble ([Essay XXI.]), [295-314];
unjust opinions, [295];
lower forms, [296];
social vices, [297];
sees the weakness of Philistinism, [298];
how justifiable, [299];
imagination and asceticism, [300];
intimacy with nature, [302];
estimate of the desirable, [303];
living illustration, [304];
furniture, mental and material, [305];
an English Bohemian’s enjoyment, [306];
contempt for comfort, uselessness, [307];
self-sacrifice, [308];
higher sort, [309];
of Goldsmith, [309], [310];
Corot, Wordsworth, [311];
Palmer, [312], [313];
part of education, [313], [314];
a painter’s, [314].
(See [Philistinism].)
Bonaparte Family, criminality of, [168].
(See [Napoleon I.])
Books: how far an author’s own, [13];
in hospitality, [142];
refusal to read, [195];
indifference to, [286], [287];
cheap and dear, [304], [305];
Wordsworth’s carelessness, [311];
binding, [359].
(See [Literature], etc.)
Bores, English dread of, [245].
(See [Intrusion].)
Borrow, George, on English houses, [145].
Botany, allusion, [166].
Bourbon Family, criminality of, [168].
Bourrienne, Fauvelet de, Napoleon’s secretary, [367].
Boyton, Captain, swimming-apparatus, [290].
Boys: French, [23], [24];
English fraternal jealousies, [66];
education, and differences with older people, [78-98] passim;
roughened by play, [100];
friendships, [111].
(See [Brothers], [Fathers], [Sons], etc.)
Brassey, Sir Thomas, his yacht, [138], [139].
Brevity, in correspondence, [324-331], [361].
Bright, John, his fraternity, [68].
British Museum: ignorance about, [266];
library, [287];
confused with other buildings, [291].
(See [London].)
Brontë, Charlotte, her St. John, in Jane Eyre, [196].
Brothers: divided by incompatibility, [10];
English divisions, [63];
idiosyncrasy, [64];
petty jealousy, [65], [66];
love and hatred illustrated, [67];
the Brights, [68];
money affairs, [69];
generosity and meanness, [70];
refinement an obstacle, [71];
lack of fraternal interest, [74];
riches and poverty, [77].
(See [Boys], [Friendship], [Sons], etc.)
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de, his noble life, [209], [210].
Buildings, literary illustration, [vii].
Bulgaria, lost to Turkey, [278].
Bull-fights, women’s presence, [180].
(See Cruelty.)
Bunyan, John: choice in religion, [173];
imprisoned, [181].
Business: affecting family ties, [64], [67];
affecting letter-writing, [342], [343];
Letters of ([Essay XXIV.]), [354-369];
orally conducted or written, [354-357];
stupid agents, [358], [359];
talent for accuracy, [360];
acknowledging orders, [361];
apparent carelessness, one subject best, [362];
knowledge of drawing important to explanations on paper, [363], [364];
acquaintance with languages a help, [364];
commercial slang, [365];
indolence in letter-reading has disastrous results, [366-369].
(See [Correspondence].)
Byron, Lord: on Friendship, [30];
Haidée, [39];
marriage relations, [46], [48-50], [55-57];
as a letter-writer, [345-349];
careless rhymes, [400].
Calumny: caused by indistinct ideas, [292];
in letters, [370-377].
Cambridge University, [275], [276].
Camden Society, publication, [318].
Cannes, anecdote, [235].
Cannon-balls, national intercourse, [160].
(See [Wars].)
Canoe, illustration, [15].
Card-playing: incident, [128], [129];
French habit, [273];
kings, [289];
laborious, [397].
Carelessness, causing wrong judgments, [293].
Caste: as affecting friendship, [4];
not the uniting force, [9];
French rites, [16];
English prejudice, [19];
sins against, [22];
among authors, [46-56];
kinship of ideas, [67];
ease with lower classes, [64];
really existent, [124], [125];
loss through poverty, [136];
among English travellers, [240-242], [245], [246].
(See [Classes], [Rank], [Titles], etc.)
Cat, drawing by a child, [364].
Cathedrals: drawing a French, [23], [24];
imposing, [189], [190], [192].
Celibacy: Shelley’s experience, [34];
in Catholic Church, [120];
clerical, [198-201];
of old maids, [379-382].
(See [Clergy], [Priests], [Wives], etc.)
Censure, dangerous in letters, [352], [353].
Ceremony: dependent on prosperity, [125], [126];
fondness of women for, [197], [198];
also [187-195] passim.
(See [Manners], [Rank], etc.)
Chamberlain, the title, [137].
Chambord, Count de, restoration possible, [254], [255].
Channel, British, illustration, [14].
Charles II., women’s influence during his reign, [181].
Charles XII., his hardiness, [308].
Chaucer, Geoffrey, on birds, [272].
Cheltenham, Eng., treatment of Dissenters, [19].
Chemistry, illustration, [3].
Cheshire, Eng., a case of generosity, [68].
Children: recrimination with parents, [75];
as affecting parental wealth, [119];
social reception, [120];
keenly alive to social distinctions, [121];
imprudent marriages, [123];
a poor woman’s, [139];
interruptions, [140], [141];
ignorance of foreign language makes us seem like, [151];
feminine care, [177];
of clergy, [200], [201];
cat picture, [364];
pleasures of poor, [401].
(See [Boys], [Brothers], [Marriage], [Sons], etc.)
Chinese mandarins, [130].
Chirography, in letters, [331-333].
Christ: his divinity a past issue, [6];
Church instituted, [178], [179];
Dr. Macleod on, [186];
limits of knowledge in Jesus’ day, [213].
(See [Church], [Religion], etc.)
Christianity: as affecting intercourse, [5], [6];
its early disciples, [142];
preferment for adherence, [162], [163];
morality a part of, [168], [169];
state churches, [170];
in poetry, [198];
early ideal, [206].
(See [Roman Catholicism], etc.)
Christmas: decorations, [188];
in Tennyson, [198].
(See [Clergy], [Priesthood], [Women].)
Church: attendance of hypocrites, [163];
compulsory, [172];
instituted by God in Christ, [178], [179];
influence at all stages of life, [183-186];
æsthetic industry, [188];
dress, [189];
buildings, [190];
menaces, [193];
partisanship, [194];
power of custom, [198];
authority, [203].
(See [Religion], [Roman Catholicism], etc.)
Church of England: as affecting friendship, [6];
freedom of members in their own country, instance of Dissenting tyranny, [164];
dangers of forsaking, [165];
bondage of royalty, [166], [168];
adherence of nobility, [169], [170], [173];
of working-people, [170], [171];
compulsory attendance, liberality, [172], [173];
ribaldry sanctioned by its head, [181];
priestly consolation, [183];
the legal church, [185];
ritualistic art, [188-190];
a bishop’s invitation to a discussion, [192];
story of a bishop’s indolence, [366], [367];
French ignorance of, [275].
(See [England], [Christ], etc.)
Cipher, in letters, [326].
Civility. (See [Hospitality].)
Civilization: liking for, [xiii];
antagonism to nature in love-matters, [41];
lower state, [72];
affected by hospitality, [100];
material adjuncts, [253];
physical, [298];
duty to further, [299];
forsaken, [310].
(See [Barbarism], [Bohemianism], [Philistinism], etc.)
Classes: Differences of Rank ([Essay X.]), [130-147] passim;
affected by religion ([Essay XII.]), [161-174];
limits, [250];
in connection with Gentility ([Essay XVIII.]), [253-263] passim.
(See [Caste], [Ceremonies], [Rank], etc.)
Classics, study of, in the Renaissance, [212].
Claude, helps Turner. (See [Painters], etc.)
Clergy: mercenary motives, [132], [133];
more tolerant of immorality than of heresy, [168];
belief in natural law, [221];
dangers of association with, [287].
(See [Priesthood], [Religion], etc.)
Clergywomen, [200], [201].
Clerks, their knowledge an aid to national intercourse, [149], [150].
(See [Business], [Languages], etc.)
Coats-of-arms: usurped, [135];
in letters, [326], [327].
(See [Rank].)
Cockburn, Sir Alexander, knowledge of French, [151].
Cock Robin, boat, [138].
(See [Boating].)
Coffee, satire on trade, [133], [134].
Cologne Cathedral, [190].
Colors, in painting, [232], [233].
Columbus, Voltaire’s allusion, [274].
Comet, in Egyptian war, [229].
(See [Superstition].)
Comfort, pursuit of, [27], [298], [299].
(See [Philistinism].)
Commerce, affected by language, [148-150], [159], [160].
(See [Business], [Languages], etc.)
Communism, threats, [377].
Como, Italy, solitude, [31].
Companionship: how decided, [4];
affected by opinions, [5], [6];
by tastes, [7], [8];
in London, [20];
with the lower classes, [21-23];
chance, [24-26];
intellectual exclusiveness, [27], [28];
books, [29];
nature, [30];
in Marriage ([Essay IV.]), [44-62];
travelling, absence, [44];
intellectual, [45];
instances of unlawful, [46], [47];
failures not surprising, [48];
of Byron, [49], [50];
Goethe, [51], [52];
Mill, [53], [54];
discouraging examples, [55], [56];
difficulties of extraordinary minds, [57];
artificial, [58];
hopelessness of finding ideal associations, [59];
indications and realizations, [60];
trust, [61], [62];
hindered by refinement, [71], [72];
affected by cousinship, [73];
parents and children ([Essay VI.]), [78-98] passim;
Death of Friendship ([Essay VIII.]), [110-118];
affected by wealth and poverty (Essays [IX.] and [X.]), [119-147] passim;
between Priests and Women ([Essay XIII.]), [175-204].
(See [Association], [Friendship], etc.)
Comradeship, difficult between parents and children, [89].
(See [Association], etc.)
Concession: weakening the mind, [147];
national, [148];
feminine liking, [175].
Confessional, the: influencing women, [201-203];
a supposititious compulsion, [281].
(See [Religion], etc.)
Confirmation, priestly connection with, [185].
(See [Women].)
Confusion: ([Essay XX.]), [280-294];
masculine and feminine, [280];
political, [280-284];
rebels and reformers, [280];
private and public liberty, [281];
Radicals, [282];
égalité, [283];
religious, [284], [285];
Philistines and Bohemians, [285-287];
confounding people with their associates, [287], [288];
vocations, [288], [289];
persons, [290];
foreign buildings, [291];
inducing calumny, [292];
caused by insufficient analysis, [292], [293];
about inventions, [293];
result of carelessness, indolence, or senility, [293], [294].
Consolation, of clergy, [179-183].
(See [Religion].)
Construing, different from reading, [154].
(See [Languages].)
Continent, the: family ties, [63];
friendship broken by marriage, [116];
religious liberality, [173];
marriage, [184];
flowers, [188], [189];
confessional, [202], [203];
exaggeration, [234], [235];
table-manners of travellers, [240-252] passim;
drinking-places, [262].
(See [France], etc.)
Controversy, disliked, [xiii].
Conventionality: affecting personality, [15-17];
genteel ignorance engendered by, [260-262].
(See [Courtesy], [Manners], etc.)
Conversation: chance, [26];
compared with literature, [29];
study of languages, [156];
at table d’hôte, [239-249];
among strangers, [247-252] passim;
useless to quote, [291];
Goldsmith’s enjoyment, [309].
Convictions, our own to be trusted, [iii], [iv].
Copenhagen, battle, [327].
Cornhill Magazine, Lever’s article, [259], [260].
Corot (Jean Baptiste Camille), his Bohemianism, [310], [311].
Correspondence: akin to periodicals, [30];
Belgian letters, [153];
Courtesy of Epistolary Communication ([Essay XXII.]), [315-335];
introductions and number of letters, [316];
promptness, [317], [318];
Plumpton Letters, [318-323];
brevity, [324];
telegraphy and abbreviations, [325];
sealing, [326], [327];
peculiar stationery, [328];
post-cards, [329];
un mot à la poste, [330];
brevity and hurry, [331];
handwriting, [332];
crossed lines, ink, type-writers, [333];
dictation, outside courtesy, [334];
to reply or not reply? [335];
Letters of Friendship ([Essay XXIII.]), [336-353];
a supposed gain to friendship, [336];
neglected, [337];
impediments, [338];
French cards, [339];
abandonment to be regretted, [340];
letter-writing a gift, [341];
real self wanted in letters, [342];
letters of business and friendship, [343];
familiarity best, [344];
lengthy letters, [345];
Byron’s, [346-348];
Jacquemont’s, [349];
the Rémusat letters, [350];
Bernardo Tasso’s, Montaigne’s, [350];
perils of plain speaking, [352], [353];
Letters of Business ([Essay XXIV.]), [354-369];
differences of talent, [354];
repeated perusals, [355];
refuge of timidity, [356];
letters exposed, literary faults, omissions, [357];
directions misunderstood, [358], [359];
acknowledging orders, [361];
slovenly writing, one subject in each letter, [362];
misunderstanding through ignorance, [363];
in foreign languages, [364];
conventional slang, [365];
careful reading necessary, [366];
unopened letters, [367];
epistles half-read, [368];
a stupid error, [369];
Anonymous Letters ([Essay XXV.]), [370-382];
common, [370];
slanderous, [371];
vehicle of calumny, [372];
written to betrothed lovers, [373];
story, [374];
written in collaboration and with pains, [375];
an expected grandchild, [376];
torture and threats, [377];
kindly and critical, [378-382].
Corvée: allusion, [342];
definition, [389], [390], [396], [397].
(See [Amusements].)
Cottage, love in a, [35], [36].
Court-circulars, [166], [167].
Courtesy: its forms, [127-129];
idioms, [157];
in Epistolary Communication ([Essay XXII.]), [315-335];
in what courtesy consists, [315];
the act of writing, phrases, [316];
promptitude, [317];
instance of procrastination, [317], [318];
illustrations, in the Plumpton Correspondence, of ancient courtesy, [318-323], [331];
consists in modern brevity, [324];
foreign forms, [325];
by telegraph, [326];
in little things, [327];
in stationery, [328];
affected by postal cards, [329], [330];
in chirography, [331], [332];
affected by type-writers, [333];
for show merely, [334];
requiring answers, [335].
(See [Manners], [Classes], etc.)
Cousins: French proverb, general relationship, [72];
lack of friendly interest, [74].
(See [Brothers], etc.)
Creuzot, French foundry, [272].
Cricket: not played in France, [272];
author’s dislike, [398].
(See [Amusements].)
Crimean War, caused by ignorance, [278].
(See [War].)
Criticism: intolerant of certain features in books, [89];
in Byron’s letters, [347];
in anonymous letters, [379];
explained by a date, [381].
Cromwell, Oliver, contrasted with his son, [96].
Culture and Philistinism, [285-287].
Customs: upheld by clergy, [197], [198];
amusements changed into, [383], [384], [389].
(See [Ceremonies], [Courtesy], [Rank], etc.)
Daily News, London, illustration of natural law vs. religion, [xii].
Dancing: French quotation about, [31];
religious aversion, [123];
not compulsory to the poor, [388].
(See [Amusements], etc.)
Dante, his subjects, [192].
Daughters, their respectful and impertinent letters, [319-321].
(See [Fathers], [Sons], [Women], etc.)
Death: termination of intercourse, [x], [xi];
from love, [39];
Byron’s lines, [50];
ingratitude expressed in a will, [69];
of wife’s relations, [73];
of Friendship ([Essay VIII.]), [110-118];
not personal, [110];
of a French gentleman, [182];
priestly connection with, [184-186], [203];
of absent friends, [338];
French customs, [339];
silence, [340].
(See [Priests], [Religion].)
Debauchery, destructive of love, [34].
Deference, why liked, [122].
(See [Rank], etc.)
Deism, confounded with Atheism, [257].
(See [God], [Religion], etc.)
Delos, oracle of, [229].
Democracies, illustration of broken friendships, [114], [115].
Democracy: accusation of, [131];
confounded with Dissent, [257].
(See [Nationality], etc.)
Denmark, the crown-prince of, [327].
Dependence, of one upon all, [12].
De Saussure, Horace Benedict, his life study, [230], [231].
Despotism, provincial and social, [17].
(See [Tyranny].)
De Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Clerel: allusion, [147];
translation, [152];
on English unsociability ([Essay XVII.]), [239-252] passim.
Devil: priestly opposition, [195];
belief in agency, [224];
God’s relation to, [228].
(See [Clergy], [Superstition], [Religion], etc.)
Devonshire, Eng., its beauty, [270].
Dickens, Charles: his middle-class portraitures, [20];
his indebtedness to the poor, [22];
humor, [72].
Dictionary, references, [155].
(See [Languages].)
Diderot, Denis, Goldsmith’s interview, [309].
Dignity, to be maintained in middle-life, [117].
Diminution, habit in art and life ([Essay XVI.]), [232-238].
(See [Exaggeration].)
Diogenes, his philosophy, [127].
Discipline: of children, [78-98] passim;
delegated, [83];
mental, [208];
of self, [308].
Discord, the result of high taste, [6].
Dishonesty, part of Bohemianism, [296].
Disraeli, Benjamin, female estimate, [380].
Dissenters: French estimate, [18], [19];
English exclusion, [19], [256];
liberty in religion, [164], [165];
position not compulsory, [170];
small towns, [171-173].
(See [Church of England], etc.)
Dissipation: among working-men, [124];
in France, [272], [273].
(See [Wine], etc.)
Distinctions forgotten ([Essay XX.]), [280-294] passim.
(See [Confusion].)
Divorce, causes of, [38].
(See [Marriage], [Women], etc.)
Dobell, Sidney, social exclusion, [19].
Dog, rifle compared to, [392].
(See [Amusements].)
Dominicans, dress, [189].
(See [Religion], etc.)
Dominoes in France, [273].
(See [Amusements].)
Don Quixote, illustration of paternal satire, [97].
Doré, Gustave, his kind and long letter, [345].
Double, Léopold, home, [142].
Dover Straits, [337].
Drama: power of adaptation, [72];
amateur actors, [143].
Drawing: a French church, [23], [24];
aid to business letters, [363], [364].
(See [Painters], etc.)
Dreams, outgrown, [60].
Dress: connection with manners, [126], [127];
ornaments to indicate wealth, [131];
feminine interest, [187];
clerical vestments, [187], [188], [198];
sexless, [202], [203];
of the Philistines, [297], [298];
Bohemian, [304-307], [313], [314].
(See [Women].)
Driving, sole exercise, [302].
Drunkenness: part of Bohemianism, [296];
in best society, [297].
(See [Table], [Wine], etc.)
Duelling, French, [273].
Du Maurier, George, his satire on coffee-dealers, [133], [134].
Dupont, Pierre, song about wine, [268], [269], [272].
Ear, learning languages by, [156].
(See [Languages].)
Easter: allusion, [198];
confession, [281].
Eccentricity: high intellect, [56];
in an artist, [307];
claims indulgence, [387].
Eclipse, superstitious view, [215-217], [229].
Economy, necessitated by marriage, [26].
(See [Wealth].)
Edinburgh Review, editor, [152].
Editor, a procrastinating correspondent, [317].
Education: similarity, [10];
affecting idiosyncrasy, [13];
conventional, [15];
effect upon humor, [20];
literary, derived from the poor, [22];
affected by change in filial obedience, [80-88];
home, [81] et seq.;
authority of teachers, [81], [83];
divergence of parental and filial, [84];
special efforts, [85];
divergent, [90-92];
profound lack of, [91];
never to be thrown off, [92];
of hospitality, [99], [100];
the effect on all religion ([Essay XV.]), [215-231] passim;
knowledge of languages, [245];
of Tasso family, [350], [351].
(See [Languages], etc.)
Egypt: Suez Canal, xii;
illustration of school tasks, [85];
war of 1882, [222-224], [229].
Eliot, George: hints from the poor, [22];
her peculiar relation to Mr. Lewes, [45], [46], [55], [56];
often confounded with other writers, [290].
Elizabeth, Queen: order about the marriage of clergy, [200];
her times, [381].
(See [Celibacy].)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: the dedication, [iii], [iv];
anecdote of Napoleon, [367].
England: newspaper reports, [41];
a French woman’s knowledge of, [107];
respect for rank, [136];
title-worship, [137];
estimate of wealth, [144-146];
slavery to houses, [145];
French ideas slowly received, [150];
religious freedom, [164-168], [172];
two religions for the nobility, [169], [170], [173];
a most relentless monarch, [180];
women during reign of Charles II., [181];
marriage rites, [184], [185];
aristocracy, [246];
A Remarkable Peculiarity ([Essay XVII.]), [239-252];
meeting abroad, [239];
reticence in each other’s company, [240];
anecdotes, [241], [242];
dread of intrusion, [243], [244];
freedom with foreigners and with compatriots, [245];
not a mark of aristocracy, [246];
fear of meddlers, [247];
interest in rank, [248];
reticence outgrown, [249];
Lever’s illustration, [250];
exceptions, [251];
Saxon and Norman influence, [251], [252];
Dissenters ignored, [256], [257];
general information, [263];
French ignorance of art and literature in, [265-267], [269];
game, [268];
mountains, [270], [271];
landscapes, [270];
Church, [275];
supposed law about attending the Mass, [281];
homes longed for, [286];
the architectural blunders of tourists, [291];
Philistine lady, [304];
painter and Philistine, [306];
letters in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, [318-321];
use of telegraph, [323];
letters shortened, [325];
letter-paper [328];
post-cards, [329], [330];
communication with France, [337];
trade habits, [361], [365];
reading of certain books not compulsory, [378];
old maids, [381];
winter, [399].
(See [Church of England], [France], etc.)
English Language: ignorance of, a misfortune, [149], [150];
familiar knowledge unusual in France, [151-153];
forms of courtesy, [157];
conversation abroad, [240];
Bohemian, [295];
literature, [305];
bad spelling, [360], [361];
no synonym for corvée, [389];
nautical terms, [396].
(See [England], etc.)
English People: Continental repulsion, [7];
artistic attraction, [8];
undervaluation of chance conversations, [26];
looseness of family ties, [63];
ashamed of sentiment, [82];
feeling about heredity, [93];
one lady’s empty rooms, [104];
another’s incivility, [106];
a merchant’s loss of wealth, [121], [122];
deteriorated aristocrat, [123];
letters by ladies, [153];
no consoling power, [182];
gentlewomen of former generation, [205], [206];
where to find inspiriting models, [208];
companions of Prince Imperial, [225];
understatement a habit, [234-238];
a lady’s ignorant remark about servants, [258], [259];
ignorance of French mountains, etc., [270-271];
fuel and iron, [272];
universities, [275], [276];
patronage of Americans, [277];
anonymous letter to a gentleman, [376].
Ennui: banished by labor, [32];
on shipboard, [396].
Enterprise, affecting individualism, [14].
Envy, expressed in anonymous letters, [371].
Epiphany, annual Egyptian ceremony, [xii].
(See [Science], [Superstition], etc.)
Epithets, English, [235].
Equality: affecting intercourse, [246];
égalité, [282], [283].
(See [Rank], [Ignorance].)
Equestrianism, affected by railways, [14].
Etching, Leloir’s fondness for, [401].
Etheredge, Sir George, his ribaldry, [181].
Eton College, allusion, [277].
Eugénie, Empress: her influence over her husband, [176];
his regard, [225].
Europe: vintages, [133];
influence of Littré, [210];
Southern, [240];
allusion, [254];
Turkey nearly expelled, [278];
latest thought, [306];
cities, [309];
William of Orange, on complications, [344];
communistic disturbances, [377].
(See [England], [France], etc.)
Evangelicism, English peculiarities, [123].
(See [Dissenters], etc.)
Evans, Marian. (See [George Eliot].)
Evolution, theory of, [176].
Exaggeration, the habit in art and life ([Essay XVI.]), [232-238].
(See [Diminution].)
Exercise: love of, [14];
in the young and the old, [86], [87].
(See [Amusements].)
Experience: value, [30];
needed to avoid dangers in letter-writing, [352].
Extravagance: part of Bohemianism, [295];
Goldsmith’s, [310].
Family: Ties ([Essay V.]), [63-77];
looseness in England, [63];
brotherly coolness, [64];
domestic jealousies, [65];
laws of primogeniture, [66];
instances of strong attachment, [67];
illustrations of kindness, [68];
pecuniary relations, [69];
parsimony, [70];
discomfort of refinement, [71];
cousins, [72];
wife’s relations, [73];
indifference to the achievements of kindred, [74];
aid from relatives, domestic rudeness, [75];
brutality, misery, [76];
home privations, [77];
Fathers and Sons ([Essay VI.]), [78-98];
intercourse, to be distinguished from individual, [119], [120];
rich friends, [121];
false, [122];
children’s marriages, [123];
old, [135], [136];
clerical, [199], [200];
subjects of letters, [205];
regard of Napoleon III., [225].
(See [Brothers], [Sons], etc.)
Fashion, transient, [307].
Fathers: separated from children by incompatibility, [10];
by irascibility, [75];
by brutality of tongue, [76];
and Sons ([Essay VI.]), [78-98];
unsatisfactory relation, interregnum, [78];
old and new feelings and customs, [79];
commanding, [80];
exercise of authority, [81];
Mill’s experience, [82];
abdication of authority, [83];
personal education of sons, [84], [85];
mistakes of middle-age, [86];
outstripped by sons, [87];
intimate friendship impossible, [88];
differences of age, [89];
divergences of education and experience, [90], [91];
opinions not hereditary, [92], [93];
the attempted control of marriage, [94];
Peter the Great and Alexis, [95];
other illustrations of discord, [96];
satire and disregard of personality, [97];
true foundation of paternal association, [98];
death of a French parent, [182];
a letter, [319-322].
Favor, fear of loss, [147].
Ferdinand and Isabella, religious freedom in their reign, [164].
Fiction: love in French, [41];
absorbing theme, [42];
in a library, [305].
Fletcher, Thomas, firearms made by, [391], [392].
Florence, Italy, pestilence, [222].
Flowers: illustration, [179];
church use, [188];
Flower Sunday, [189].
(See [Women], etc.)
Fly, artificial, [377].
Fog, English, [270].
Foreigners: associations with, [7];
view of English family life, [63];
in travelling-conditions ([Essay XVII.]), [239-252] passim;
association leads to misapprehension, [287];
in England, [291].
Fox-hunting, [180], [398], [399].
(See [Amusements], [Sports], etc.)
France: a peasant’s outlook, [xii];
social despotism in small cities, [17-19];
pleasant associations in a cathedral city, [23], [24];
political criticism, [115];
noisy card-players, [128], [129];
disregard of titles, [136], [137];
adage about riches, [145];
English ideas slowly received, [150];
travel in Southern, [150];
religious freedom, [165];
marriage, [184];
railway accident, [218-220];
the Imperialists, [225];
feudal fashions, [246];
obstinacy of the old régime, [254-256];
mountains, [271];
vigor of young men, [272], [273];
universities, [275], [276];
equality attained by Revolution, [283];
bourgeois complaint of newspapers, [286];
mineral oil, [288];
confusion of tourists, [291];
Goldsmith’s travels, [309], [310];
landscape painter, [310];
end of Plumpton family, [323];
use of telegraph, [323];
letters shortened, [325];
letter-paper, [328];
post-cards, [330];
chirography, [332];
New Year’s cards, [339];
carton non bitumé, [358], [359];
habits of tradesmen, [360], [361], [365];
the Salon, [367];
old maids, [381];
a corvée, [389], [390];
Leloir the painter, [401].
(See [Continent], etc.)
Fraternity, fraternité, [282], [283].
(See [Brothers].)
Freedom: national,
[279];
public and private liberty confounded, [281], [282].
French Language: teaching, [85];
ignorance a misfortune, [149], [150];
rare knowledge of, by Englishmen, [151], [152];
letters by English ladies, [153];
forms of courtesy, [157];
prayers, [158];
as the universal tongue, [158], [159];
English knowledge of, [245];
univers, [273], [274].
(See [Languages].)
French People: excellence in painting, and relations to Americans and English, [7];
an ideal of good form, [15];
old conventionality, [16-18];
love in fiction, [41];
family ties, [63];
proverb about cousins, [72];
unbelieving sons, [93];
bourgeois table manners formerly, [101], [102];
state apartments, [105];
incivility towards, at an English table, [106];
girls, [106];
a woman’s clever retort, [107];
literature condemned by wholesale, [147];
royal daily life, [167];
power of consolation, [182];
examples of virtue, [208];
old nobility, [209];
Buffon and Littré, [209-211];
hazard providentiel, [227];
painters, [232], [233];
overstatement, [234], [235];
sociability with strangers contrasted with the English want of it ([Essay XVII.]), [239-252] passim;
a widow and suite, [242], [243];
discreet social habits, [247], [248];
a disregard of titles, [248];
a weak question about fortune, [259];
ignorance of English matters, [265-270];
wine-song, [268], [269];
fuel and iron, [271], [272];
seeming vanity of language, [273], [274];
conceit cured by war, [278];
communist dreamers, [284];
proverb, [287];
confusion of persons, [290].
Friendship: supposed impossible in a given case, [viii], [ix];
real, [x];
how formed, [4];
not confined to the same class, [5];
affected by art and religion, [6];
by taste and nationality, [7], [8];
by likeness, [8];
with those with whom we have not much in common, [9], [10];
affected by incompatibility, [10];
Byron’s comparison, [30];
affecting illicit love, [41];
akin to marriage, [48];
elective affinity, [75];
Death of ([Essay VIII.]), [110-118];
sad subject, no resurrection, definition, [110];
boyish alliances, growth, [111];
personal changes, [112];
differences of opinion, [113];
of prosperity, financial, professional, political, [114];
habits, marriage, [115];
neglect, poor and rich, [116];
equality not essential, acceptance of kindness, new ties, [117];
intimacy easily destroyed, [118];
affected by wealth (Essays [IX.], [X.]), [119-147] passim;
by language, [149];
between Priests and Women ([Essay XIII.]), [175-204] passim;
formed with strangers, [251];
leads to misunderstood opinions, [287], [288];
disturbed by procrastination, [317];
Letters of, ([Essay XXIII.]), [336-353];
infrequency, [336];
obstacles, [337];
the sea a barrier, [338];
aid of a few words at New Year’s, [339];
death-like silence, [340];
charm of manner not always carried into letters, [341];
excluded by business, [342];
cooled by reproaches, [343];
all topics interesting to a friend, [344];
affection overflows in long letters, [345-351];
fault-finding dangerous, [352], [353];
journeys saved, [360].
(See [Association], [Companionship], [Family], etc.)
Fruit, ignorance about English, [269], [270].
Fruition, pleasure of, [400].
Fuel, French, [272].
Furniture: feminine interest in, [187];
regard and disregard ([Essay XXI.]), [295-314] passim;
Goldsmith’s extravagance, [310].
(See [Women].)
Gambetta, his death, [225].
Game: in England, [267], [268], [270];
elephant and hippopotamus, [392].
(See [Sports].)
Games, connection with amusement, [385], [397].
(See [Cards], etc.)
Garden, illustration, [9].
Gascoyne, William, letters, [318], [319].
Generosity: affecting family ties, [69], [70];
of a Philistine, [301].
Geneva Lake, as seen by different eyes, [230], [231].
Genius, enjoyment of, [303].
Gentility: Genteel Ignorance ([Essay XVIII.]), [253-263];
an ideal condition, [253];
misfortune, [254];
French noblesse, [255];
ignores differing forms of religion, [256], [257];
poverty, [258];
inferior financial conditions, [259], [260];
real differences, [261];
genteel society avoided, [262];
because stupid, [263].
Geography: London Atlas, [274];
work of Reclus, [291].
(See [Ignorance].)
Geology, allusion, [166].
(See [Science].)
George III., colonial tenure, [279].
Germany: models of virtue, [208];
hotel fashions, [244];
a Bohemian and scholar, [304-306].
German Language, English knowledge, [245].
Gladstone, William E.: the probable effect of a French training, [17], [18];
indebtedness to trade, [135];
Lord, [137];
foreign troubles ending in inkshed, [150];
allusion, [241];
use of post-cards, [335];
female estimate, [380].
Glasgow, steamer experience, [25].
Gloucester, Eng., manufactory of rifles, [391], [392].
God: of the future, [177];
personal care, [178], [179];
against wickedness, [180];
Divine love, [178-181], [186], [187];
interference with law ([Essay XV.]), [215-231] passim;
human motives, [228].
(See [Religion], etc.)
Gods: our valors the best, [177];
siege of Syracuse, [215-217].
(See [Superstition].)
Godwin, Mary, relations to Shelley, [46-48].
Goethe: Faust’s Margaret, [39];
relation to women, [46], [50], [56], [57];
Life, [244].
Gold: in embroidery to indicate wealth, [131];
color, [232], [233].
Goldsmith, Oliver, his Bohemianism, [309], [310].
Gormandizing, [103].
(See [Table].)
Government: feminine, [176];
scientific, [229].
Grammar: French knowledge of, [152];
rival of literature, [154];
in correspondence, [356], [357].
(See [Languages], etc.)
Gratitude: a sister’s want of, [69];
hospitality not reciprocated, [122].
Greece: Byron’s enthusiasm, [50], [57];
story of Nikias, [215-217];
advance of knowledge, [230];
Byron’s notice of a book, [348].
Greek Church: Czar’s headship, [168];
the only true, [258].
(See [Church of England], etc.)
Greek Language: teaching, [84];
fitness as the universal language, [158], [159];
in the Renaissance, [212];
professorship and library, [287];
doggerel, [400].
(See [Languages].)
Groom, true happiness in a stable, [343].
Guests: Rights of ([Essay VII.]), [99-109];
respect, exclusiveness, [99];
two views, [100];
conformity insisted upon, [101];
left to choose for himself, [102];
duties towards a host, generous entertainment, [103];
parsimonious treatment, [104];
illustrations, ideas to be respected, [105];
nationality also, [107];
a host the ally of his guests, [107];
discourtesy towards a host, [108];
illustration, [109];
among rich and poor, [140-144].
Guiccioli, Countess, her relations to Byron, [49], [50].
Guillotine, Byron’s description, [347].
Gulliver’s Travels, allusion, [261].
Gymnastics: by young Frenchmen, [272];
aristocratic monopoly, [283].
(See [Amusements], etc.)
Habits: in language, [157];
French discretion, [247], [248].
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert: indebtedness to Emerson, [iii], [iv];
plan of the book, [vii-ix];
omissions, [ix];
the pleasures of friendship, [x];
on death, [x], [xi];
a liking for civilization and all its amenities, [xii];
thoughts in French travel, [17] et seq.;
pleasant experience in studying French architecture, [23], [24];
conversation in Scotland, [24], [25];
in a steamer, [25], [26];
acquaintance with a painter, [28];
belief in Nature’s promises, [60] et seq.;
what a sister said, [65];
the love of two brothers, [67];
delightful experience with wife’s relations, [73];
experience of hospitable tyranny, [100] et seq.;
Parisian dinner, [107];
experience with friendship, [113];
noisy French farmers, [128], [129];
Scotch dinner, [131];
country incident, [139], [140];
questioning a Parisian lady, [152];
Waterloo letters, [156];
how Italian seems to him, [155];
incident of Scotch travel, [173];
visit to a bereaved French lady, [182];
travel in France, [219];
lesson from a painter, [232];
snubbed at a hotel, [240-242];
a French widow on her travels, [242], [243];
a lady’s ignorance about religious distinctions, [257];
personal anecdotes about ignorance between the English and French, [265-279] passim;
translations into French, [267];
Puseyite anecdote, [284], [285];
conversations heard, [291];
boat incident, [292], [293];
life-portraits, [300-308];
experience with procrastinators, [317], [318];
residence in Lancashire, [318];
interest in Plumpton family, [323], [324];
telegraphing a letter, [326];
experience with un mot à la poste, [330];
his boat wrongly painted, [359];
his Parisian correspondent, [360], [361];
efforts to ensure accuracy, [368], [369];
a strange lady’s anxiety for his religious condition, [378];
his Wenderholme, [378];
anonymous letter answered, [379-382];
dislike of cricket, [398].
Harewood, Earl of, [323].
Haste, connection with refinement and wealth, [125], [126].
(See [Leisure].)
Hastings, Marquis of, his elopement, [321].
Haweis, H. R., sermon on Egyptian war, [224].
Hedges: English, [270], [271];
sleeping under, [307].
Hell, element in oratory, [192], [193].
(See [Priests].)
Heredity, opinions not always hereditary, [92-97].
Heresy: banishment for, [161];
disabilities, [162] et seq.;
punishment by fire, [180];
pulpit attack, [192];
shades in, [257], [258];
resistance to God, [284].
(See [Roman Catholicism], etc.)
Highlanders, their rowing, [154].
Hirst, Eng., letters from, [320], [321].
History, French knowledge of, [152].
Holland, Goldsmith’s travels, [309].
Home: Family Ties ([Essay V.]), [62-77];
a hell, [76];
crowded, [77];
absence affecting friendship, [111];
French, [142];
English ([Essay X.]), [130-147] passim;
the confessional, [202];
nostalgia, [286].
Homer: indebtedness to the poor, [22];
on the appetite, [103].
Honesty, at a discount, [162], [163], [170].
Honor, in religious conformity, [162].
Horace: familiarity with, [155];
quoted, [289], [361].
Horneck, Mrs., Goldsmith’s friend, [310].
Horseback: illustration, [168], [260];
luxury, [298].
Hospitality: ([Essay VII.]), [99-109];
help to liberty, [99];
an educator for right or wrong, [100];
opposite views, [100];
tyranny over guests, [101];
reaction against old customs, [102];
a host’s rights, some extra effort to be expected, [103];
disregard of a guest’s comfort, [104];
instances, opinions to be respected, [105];
host should protect a guest’s rights, [106];
anecdote, [107];
invasion of rights, [108];
glaring instance, [109];
affected by wealth, [140-144];
excuse by a procrastinator, [318].
(See [Guests].)
Hosts, rights and duties ([Essay VII.]), [99-109] passim.
(See [Hospitality].)
Houghton, Lord, his knowledge of French, [151], [152].
Housekeeping: ignorance of cost, [258], [259];
cares, [381].
Houses: effect of living in the same, [ix];
big, [145];
evolution of dress, [189];
movable, [261], [262];
damage, [358].
Hugo, Victor, use of a word, [273], [274].
Humanity: obligations to, [12];
future happiness dependent upon a knowledge of languages, [148] et seq.
Humor: in different classes, [20];
lack of it, [72];
in using a foreign language, [157], [158];
not carried into letters and pictures, [340-342].
Hungarians, their sociability, [249].
Hurry, to be distinguished from brevity in letter-writing, [331].
Husbands: narration of experience, [25], [26];
unsuitable, [40];
relations of noted men to wives, [44-62] passim;
compulsory unions, [94-98];
old-fashioned letter, [322];
use of post-cards, [329], [330];
privacy of letters, [350];
Montaigne’s letter, [351], [352].
(See [Wives], etc.)
Hut: suggestions of a, [261], [262];
for an artist, [314].
Huxley, Thomas Henry, on natural law, [217], [219].
Hypocrisy: to be avoided, [xi-xiii];
in religion ([Essay XII.]), [161-174] passim;
not a Bohemian vice, [296].
Ibraheem, lost at sea, [226].
Ideas, their interchange dependent upon language, [148].
Idiosyncrasy: its charm, [9];
in art and authorship, [12], [13];
nullified by travel, [14], [15];
affecting marital happiness, [48-62] passim;
affecting family ties, [64];
wanted in letters, [347];
in amusements, [389];
congenital, [396].
Ignorance: Genteel ([Essay XVIII.]), [253-263];
among French royalists, [254], [255];
in religion, [256], [257];
in regard to pecuniary conditions, [258], [259];
of likeness and unlikeness, [260], [261];
disadvantages, [262];
drives people from society, [263];
Patriotic ([Essay XIX.]), [264-279];
a narrow satisfaction, [264];
French ignorance of English art, [265], [267];
of English game, [268];
of English fruit, [269];
English errors as to mountains, [270], [271];
fuel, manly vigor, [272], [273];
word universal, [274];
universities, [275], [276];
literature, [277];
leads to war, [277], [278];
not the best patriotism, [279];
unavoidable, [301];
contented, [302];
of gentlewomen, [381], [382].
(See [Nationality], etc.)
Imagination, a luxury, [300].
Immorality: too easily forgiven in princes, [168];
considered essential to Bohemianism, [295].
(See [Vice].)
Immortality: connection with music, [191];
menaces and rewards, [193].
(See [Priests], etc.)
Impartiality, not shown by clergy, [194].
Impediments, to national intercourse ([Essay XI.]), [148-160].
Impertinence, ease of manner mistaken for, [250].
Incompatibility: inexplicable, [10];
one of two great powers deciding intercourse, [11].
(See [Friendship], etc.)
Independence: ([Essay II.]), [12-32];
illusory and real, influence of language, [12];
illustrations, [13];
railway travel destructive to, [14];
conventionality and French ideas of good form, [15];
social repressions and London life, [16];
local despotism, [17];
the French rural aristocracy, [18];
illustrations and social exclusion, [19];
humor and domestic anxiety, society not essential, [20];
palliations to solitude, outside of society, absolute solitude, [21];
rural illustrations, [22];
incident in a French town, [23];
one in Scotland, [24];
on a steamer, [25];
English reticence, [26];
an evil of solitude, pursuits in common, [27];
illustration from Mill, deterioration of an artist, [28];
patient endurance, the refreshment of books, [29];
companionship of nature, [30];
consolation of labor, [31];
an objection to this relief, [32];
a fault, [69];
of Philistines and Bohemians ([Essay XXI.]), [295-314] passim.
(See [Society], etc.)
Independents, the, in England, [170].
India: a brother’s cold farewell, [67];
relations of England, [279].
Indians, their Bohemian life, [298], [306].
Individualism, affected by railways, [13-15].
Individuality, reliance upon our own, [iv].
Indolence: destroying friendship, [116];
stupid, [197];
causes wrong judgment, [293];
part of Bohemianism, [295];
in business, [356];
in reading letters, [366-369].
Indulgences, affecting friendship, [115].
Industry: to be respected, [132];
professional work, [196];
Buffon’s and Littré’s, [209], [210];
ignorance about English, [265], [266];
of a Philistine, [300];
in letter-writing, [356].
Inertia, in middle-life, [302].
Infidelity: affecting political rights, [162], [163];
withstood by Dissent, [257].
Ink: dilution to save expense, [333];
red, [369].
Inquisition, the, in Spain, [180].
Inspiration, in Jacquemont’s letters, [348].
Intellectuality: a restraint upon passion, [38];
affecting family ties, [73], [74];
its pursuits, [127];
denied to England, [265], [266], [267];
ambition for, [283];
the accompaniment of wealth, [297];
outside of, [301];
enjoyed, [306].
Intelligence: the supreme, [176], [177];
connection with leisure, [197].
Intercession, feminine fondness for, [175], [176].
Intercourse. (This subject is so interwoven with the whole work that special references are impossible.)
Interdependence, illustrated by literary work, [12].
Interviews, compared with letters, [354-357].
Intimacy: mysteriously hindered, [10];
with nature, [302].
Intolerance, of amusements, [389].
Intrusion, dreaded by the English, [243], [247].
Inventions, why sometimes misjudged, [292], [293].
Irascibility, in parents, [75], [76].
Iron, in France, [272].
Irving, Washington, on Goldsmith, [310].
Isolation: affecting study, [28], [29];
alleviations, [29-31].
(See [Independence].)
Italian Language: Latin naturalized, [155];
merriment in using, [158].
Italy: Byron’s sojourn, [50];
Goethe’s, [51],
titles and poverty, [136];
overstatement a habit, [234];
papal government, [255], [256];
travelling-vans, [261],
allusion, [271];
why live there, [285], [286];
tourists, [291];
Goldsmith’s travels, [309];
forms in letter-writing, [325].
Jacquemont, Victor, his letters, [348-350].
James, an imaginary friend, [343], [344].
Jardin des Plantes, Buffon’s work, [209].
Jealousy: national, [7];
domestic, [65],
youthful, effect of primogeniture, [66];
between England and France, [150];
Greece need not awaken, [159],
excited by the confessional, [202], [203];
in anonymous letters, [371].
Jerusalem, the Ark lost, [229].
Jewelry: worn by priests, [202];
enjoyment of, [297].
Jews: not the only subjects of useful study, [207], [208], [211];
God of Battles, [224];
advance of knowledge, [230].
(See [Bible].)
John, an imaginary friend, [344], [345].
Jones, an imaginary gentleman, [130].
Justice: feminine disregard, [180];
connection with priesthood, [194].
Keble, John, Christian Year, [198].
Kempis, Thomas à, his great work, [95].
Kenilworth, anecdote, [277].
Kindness, how to be received, [117].
Kindred: affected by incompatibility, [10];
Family Ties ([Essay V.]), [63], [77];
given by Fate, [75].
(See [Sons], etc.)
Kings: divine right, [255];
on cards, [289];
courtesy in correspondence, [317];
a poetic figure, [386], [387].
(See [Rank], etc.)
Knarsbrugh, Eng., [320].
Knyghton, Henry, quotation, [251].
Lakes, English, [270].
Lancashire, Eng.: all residents not in cotton-trade, [288];
residence, [318],
drinking-habits, [378].
Land-ownership, [131].
Landscape: companionship, [31];
ignorance about the English, [270].
Languages: as affecting friendship, [7];
similarity, [10];
influences interdependence, [12];
study of foreign, [29], [84], [85];
ignorance of, an Obstacle ([Essay XI.]), [148-160];
impediment to national intercourse, [148];
mutual ignorance of the French and English, [149];
commercial advantages, American kinship, [150];
an imperfect knowledge induces reticence, [151];
rarity of full knowledge, [152];
illustrations, first stage of learning a tongue, [153];
second, [154];
third, fourth, [155];
fifth, learning by ear, [156];
absurdities, idioms, forms of politeness, [157];
a universal speech, [158];
Greek commended, [159];
advantages, [160];
one enough, [301], [305];
acquaintance with six, [304];
foreign letters, [364], [365].
Latin: teaching, [84];
construction unnatural, [155];
in the Renaissance, [212];
church, [258];
proverb, [287];
poetry, [289];
in telegrams, [324];
Horace, [361];
corrogata, [390].
Laws: difficult to ascertain, [viii];
human resignation to, [xi];
of Human Intercourse ([Essay I.]), [3-11];
fixed knowledge difficult, [3],
common belief, [4];
similarity of interest, [5];
may breed antagonism, [6];
national prejudices, [7];
likeness begets friendship, [8];
idiosyncrasy and adaptability, [9];
intimacy slow, [10];
law of the pleasure of human intercourse still hidden, [11];
fixed, [179];
feminine disregard, [184];
quiet tone, [193];
regularity and interference ([Essay XV.]), [215-231] passim;
legal distinctions, [280], [281].
Laymen, contrasted with clergy, [181], [182].
Lectures, one-sided, [29].
Legouvé, M.: on filial relations, [78];
religious question, [93];
anecdote of chirography, [332].
Leisure: its connection with refinement, [125], [126];
varying in different professions, [196], [197].
Leloir, Louis, fondness for etching, [401].
Lent, allusion, [198].
Letters. (See [Correspondence].)
Lever, Charles: quotation from That Boy of Norcott’s, [249], [250];
finances misunderstood, [259], [260];
boating, [259], [394].
Lewes, George Henry: relation to Marian Evans, [45];
quotation from Life of Goethe, [244].
Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, immortal saying, [385].
L’Honneur et l’Argent, quotation, [304], [335].
Liberality: French lack of, [18], [19];
induced by hospitality, [99], [100];
apparent, [173].
Liberty: in religion ([Essay XII.]), [161-174];
private and public, [281], [282];
liberté, [282], [283];
with friends in letters, [353].
Libraries: value, [286], [287];
narrow specimens, [302].
Lies, at a premium, [162], [163].
Life: companionship for, [44-62];
enjoyed in different ways, [306].
Likeness, the secret of companionship, [8].
Limpet, an illustration of incivility, [108].
Literature: conventional, [15];
influence of the humbler classes, [22], [23];
softens isolation, [29], [31];
deaths from love, [39];
affecting fraternity, [64];
youthful nonsense not tolerated in books, [89];
superiority to mercenary motives, [132];
advantages of mutual national knowledge, [149-153];
rivals in its own domain, [154];
not necessarily religious, [198];
English periodical, [237];
ignorance about English, [267];
and Philistinism, [286], [287];
singleness of aim, [289];
English, [305];
not an amusement, [400].
Littré, Maximilien Paul Émile, his noble life, [209-211].
Livelihood, anxiety about, [20].
London: mental independence, [16-18];
solitude needless, [20];
Mill’s rank, [56];
old but new, [136];
Flower Sunday, [189];
pestilence improbable, [222];
The Times, [244];
centre of English literature, [267];
business time contrasted with that of Paris, [273];
buildings, [291];
Palmer leaving, [310];
cabman, [335];
a famous Londoner, [399].
Lottery, illustrative of kinship, [75].
Louis II., amusements, [386-388].
Louis XVIII., impiety, [167].
Louvre: English art excluded, [267];
confounded with other buildings, [291].
Love: of nature, [30];
Passionate ([Essay III.]), [33-43];
nature, blindness, [33];
not the monopoly of youth, debauchery, [34];
permanence not assured, [35];
“in a cottage,” perilous to happiness, socially limited, [36];
restraints, higher and lower, [37];
varieties, selfishness, in intellectual people, [38];
poetic subject, dying for, [39];
old maids, unlawful in married people, [40];
French fiction, early marriage repressed by civilization, [41];
passion out of place, the endless song, [42];
natural correspondences and Shelley, [43];
in marriage, [44-62];
some family illustrations, [63-77];
wife’s relations, [73];
paternal and filial ([Essay VI.]), [78-98] passim;
between friends ([Essay VIII.]), [110-118];
divine, [178], [179];
family, [205].
(See [Brothers], [Family], etc.)
Lowell, James Russell, serious humor, [20].
Lower Classes, the: English rural, [22];
rudeness, [75];
religious privileges, [170], [171].
Luxury, material, [298].
(See [Philistinism].)
Lyons, France, the Academy, [275].
Macaulay, T. B., quotations, [181], [200], [224], [344], [345].
Macleod, Dr. Norman, his sympathy, [186], [187].
Magistracy, French, [283].
Mahometanism, as affecting intercourse, [5].
Malice: harmless, [269];
in letters, [371-377].
Manchester, Eng., life there, [31].
Manners: affected by wealth, [125-129];
by leisure, [197];
by aristocracy, [246].
(See [Courtesy], etc.)
Manufactures: under fixed law, [228];
ignorance about English, [265], [266], [268].
Marriage: responsibility increased, [25], [26];
or celibacy? [34];
Shelley’s, does not assure love, [35];
following love, [36];
irregular, [37];
restraints of superior intellects, [38];
love outside of, [40];
early marriage restrained by civilization, [41];
philosophy of this, [42];
Companionship in ([Essay IV.]), [44-62];
life-journey, [44];
alienations for the sake of intellectual companionship, [45];
illustrations, [46], [47];
mistakes not surprising, [48];
Byron, [49], [50];
Goethe, [51], [52];