Mill, [53], [54];
difficulty in finding true mates, [55];
exceptional cases not discouraging, [56];
easier for ordinary people, [57];
inequality, [58];
hopeless tranquillity, [59];
youthful dreams dispelled, [60];
Nature’s promises, how fulfilled, [61];
“I thee worship,” [62];
wife’s relations, [73];
filial obedience, [94-97];
destroying friendship, [115];
affecting personal wealth, [119];
social treatment, [120];
of children, [123];
effect of royal religion, [166];
and of lower-class, [171];
civil and religious, [184], [185];
clerical, [196], [198-201];
of absent friends, [338];
French customs, [339];
Montaigne’s sentiments, [351], [352];
slanderous attempts to prevent, [371-375];
household cares, [381];
breakfasts, [385], [386].
(See [Women], etc.)
Mask, a simile, [370].
Mediocrity, dead level of, [236].
Mediterranean Sea, allusion, [399].
Meissonier, Jean Ernest Louis, his talent, [284].
Melbourne, Bishop of, [221].
Men, choose for themselves, [197].
(See [Marriage], [Sons], [Women], etc.)
Mephistopheles, allusion, [235].
Merchants, connection with national peace, [149], [150].
Mérimée, Prosper, Correspondence, [321].
Metallurgy, under fixed law, [228].
Methodists, the: in England, [170];
hymns, [257].
Michelet, Jules: on the Church, [189], [190];
on the confessional, [202], [203].
Middle Classes: Dickens’s descriptions, [20];
rank of some authors, [56];
domestic rudeness, [75];
table customs, [103];
religious freedom, [170];
clerical inferences, [183].
(See [Classes], [Lower Class], etc.)
Mignet, François Auguste Marie: friendship with Thiers, [120];
condition, [121].
Military Life: illustration, [21];
filial obedience, [80];
religion, [123];
religious conformity, [169];
antagonistic to toleration, [173], [174];
French, [272];
allusion, [300], [307].
Mill, John Stuart: social affinities, [20];
aversion to unintellectual society, [27], [28];
relations to women, [53-55];
social rank, [56];
education by his father, [81-84];
on friendship, [112], [113];
on sneering depreciation, [237];
on English conduct towards strangers, [245];
on social stupidity, [263].
Milnes, Richard Monckton. (See [Lord Houghton].)
Milton, John, Palmer’s constant interest, [313].
Mind, weakened by concession, [147].
Misanthropy, appearance of, [27].
Montaigne, Michel: marriage, [59];
letter to wife, [351], [352].
Montesquieu, Baron, allusion, [147].
Months, trade terms for, [365].
Morris, Lewis, A Cynic’s Day-dream, [393].
Mothers, “loud-tongued,” [75].
(See [Children], [Women], etc.)
Mountains: climbing affected by railways, [14];
quotation from Byron, [30];
in pictures, [43];
glory in England and France, [270], [271];
Mont Blanc, where situated, [271].
Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus, allusion, [289].
Muloch, Dinah Maria, confounded with George Eliot, [290].
Music: detached from religion, [xii], [xiii];
voice of love, [42];
affecting fraternity, [64];
connection with religion, [191];
illustration of harmony, [389].
Nagging, by parents, [76].
Napoleon I.: and the Universe, [273], [274];
privations, [308];
mot of the Pope, [341];
Rémusat letters, [350].
Napoleon III.: death, son, [225];
ignorance of German power, [278];
losing Sedan, [308].
Nationality: prejudices, [7];
to be respected at table, [106], [107];
different languages an obstacle to intercourse ([Essay XI.]), [148-160];
mutual ignorance ([Essay XIX.]), [264-279] passim.
National Gallery, London, [291].
Nature: compensations, [iv];
causes, [xii];
laws not deducible from single cases, [4];
inestimable gifts, [26];
beauty an alleviation of solitude, loyalty, [30], [31];
opposed to civilization in love-matters, [41];
universality of love, [42], [43];
promises fulfilled, [60-62];
revival of study, [212];
laws fixed ([Essay XV.]), [215-231] passim;
De Saussure’s study, [230], [231];
expressed in painting, [232], [233];
nearness, [303-314] passim;
her destroyers, [393].
Navarre, King Henry of, [224].
Navy, a young officer’s acquaintance, [25], [26].
Neglect, destroys friendship, [116].
Nelson, Lord: the navy in his time, [279];
letter in battle, [327], [328].
Nerves, affected by rudeness, [128], [129].
New England, a blond native, [240].
Newspapers: on nature and the supernatural, [xii];
adultery reports in English, [41];
personal interest, [124];
regard for titles, [137];
quarrels between English and American, [150];
reading, [156];
on royalty, [166], [167];
deaths in, [225];
English and French subservience to rank, [248];
a bourgeois complaint, [286];
crossing the seas, [337], [338].
New Year’s, French customs, [339].
Niagara Rapids, [290].
Night, Palmer’s watches, [312].
Nikias, a military leader, his superstition, [215-217], [229].
Nineteenth Century, earlier half, [205], [206].
Nobility: the English have two churches to choose from, [169-171], [173];
opposition to Dissent, [256], [257].
Nonconformity, English, [256], [257].
(See [Dissent], etc.)
Normans, influence of the Conquest, [251], [252].
Oaths, no obstacle to hypocrisy, [162].
Obedience, filial ([Essay VI.]), [78-98].
Observation, cultivated, [290], [291].
Obstacles: of Language, between nations ([Essay XI.]), [148-160];
of Religion ([Essay XII.]), [161-174].
Occupations, easily confused, [288], [289].
Oil, mineral, [288].
Old Maids, defence, [379-382].
Olympus, unbelief in its gods, [162].
Oman, sea of, [226].
Opinions: not the result of volition, [xiii];
of guests to be respected, [105], [106];
changes affecting friendship, [112], [113].
Orange, William of, correspondence, [344], [345].
Oratory, connection with religion, [xii], [191-195].
Order of the Universe, to be trusted, [iii].
Originality: seen in authorship, [12];
how hindered and helped, [13], [14];
French estimate, [15].
Orthodoxy, placed on a level with hypocrisy, [162], [163].
Ostentation, to be shunned in amusements, [401].
Oxford: opinion of a learned doctor about Christ’s divinity, [6];
Shelley’s expulsion, [96];
its antiquity, [275], [276].
Paganism: hypocrisy, and preferment, [162];
gods and wars, [224].
Paget, Lady Florence, curt letter, [321].
Pain, feminine indifference to, [180].
Painters: taste in travel, [14];
deterioration of a, [28];
discovering new beauties, [60];
Corot, [310], [311];
Palmer, [312];
one in adversity, [314];
gayety not in pictures, [341];
sketches in letters, [345];
of boats, [359];
lack of business in French painter, [367], [368];
idle sketches, [400];
Leloir, [401].
Painter’s Camp in the Highlands, [379].
Painting: fondness for it a cause of discord, [6];
French excellence, [8];
interdependence, [13];
high aims, [28];
palpitating with love, [43];
affecting fraternity, [64];
none in heaven, [191];
not necessarily religious, [198];
copies, [203];
two methods, [232], [233];
convenient building, [261];
ignorance about English, [265-267];
not merely an amusement, [400].
(See [Art], etc.)
Paleontology, allusion, [206].
Palgrave, Gifford, saved from shipwreck, [226-228].
Palmer, George, a speech, [223].
Palmer, Samuel, his Bohemianism, [312], [313].
Palmer, William, in Russia, [257], [258].
Paper, used in correspondence, [328].
Paradise: the arts in, [191];
affecting pulpit oratory, [193].
(See [Priests].)
Paris: an artistic centre, [8];
incivility at a dinner, [107];
effect of wealth, [121];
elegant house, [142];
English residents, [150];
a lady’s reply about English knowledge of French language, [152];
Notre Dame, [190];
Jardin des Plantes, [209];
hotel incident, [240-242];
not a desert, [242];
light of the world, [266], [267], [274];
resting after déjeûner, [273];
confusion about buildings, [291];
an illiterate tradesman, [360], [361];
the Salon, [367].
Parliament: illustration of heredity, [93];
indebtedness of members to trade, [135];
infidelity in, [162];
superiority of pulpit, [191];
George Palmer, [223];
questions in, [241];
Houses, [291].
Parsimony: affecting family ties, [70];
in hospitality, [104], [105].
Patriotism: obligations, [12];
Littré’s, [210];
Patriotic Ignorance ([Essay XIX.]), [264-279];
places people in a dilemma, [264];
anecdotes of French and English errors, about art, literature, mountains, landscapes, fuel, ore, schools, language, [265-277];
ignorance leading to war, [277-279];
suspected of lacking, [287-288].
Peace, affected by knowledge of, languages, [148-150], [160].
Peculiarity, of English people towards each other ([Essay XVII.]), [239-252].
Pedagogues, their narrowness, [154].
Pedestrianism: as affected by railways, [14];
in France, [272], [273];
not enjoyed, [302].
Peel, Arthur, his indebtedness to trade, [135].
Pencil, use, when permissible, [333].
Periodicals, akin to correspondence, [30].
Persecution, feminine sympathy with, [80], [181].
Perseverance, Buffon’s and Littré’s, [209], [210].
Personality: its “abysmal deeps,” [11];
repressed by conventionality, [15];
accompanies independence, [17];
affecting family ties, [63-77] passim;
paternal and filial differences, [78-98] passim;
its frank recognition, [98];
confused, anecdotes, [289], [290].
Persuasion, feminine trust in, [175].
Pestilence, God’s anger in, [222].
Peter the Great, sad relations to his son, [95], [96].
Philistinism: illustrative stories, [285], [286];
defined, [297];
passion for comfort, [298];
asceticism and indulgence, [299], [300];
a life-portrait, [300-303];
estimate of life, [303];
an English lady’s parlor, [304], [305];
contrast, [306];
avoidance of needless exposure, [313].
Philology: a rival of literature, [154];
favorable to progress in language, [155].
Philosophy: detached from religion, [xii];
rational tone, [193].
Photography: a French experience, [24];
under fixed law, [228].
Physicians: compared with priests, [186];
rational, [193];
Littré’s service, [210].
Picturesque, regard for the, [7].
Piety: and law ([Essay XV.]), [215-231] passim;
shipwreck, [226], [227].
Pitt, William, foreign disturbances in his day, [150].
Pius VII., on Napoleon, [341].
Play, boyish friendship in, [111].
Pleasures, three in amusements, [399], [400].
Plebeians, in England, [251], [252].
Plumpton Correspondence, [318-323], [331].
Poetry: detached from religion, [xii];
of love, [42];
dulness to, [47];
Shelley’s, [47];
Byron’s, [50], [345-349];
Goethe’s, [51];
and science, [57];
Tennyson on Brotherhood, [67];
lament, [73];
art, [154];
music in heaven, [191];
Keble, [198];
Battle of Ivry, [224];
French, [268], [269];
Latin, loyalty of Tennyson, [289];
French couplet, [304];
in a library, [305];
“If I be dear,” [325];
Horace, [361];
Palace of Art, [386];
quotation from Morris, [393];
line about anticipation, [399].
Poets: ideas about the harmlessness of love, [36];
avoidance of practical difficulties, [39];
love in natural scenery, [43].
Politics: conventional, [15];
French narrowness, [18], [19];
coffee-house, [28];
inherited opinions, [93];
opinions of guests to be respected, [105], [106];
affecting friendship, [113-115];
affected by ignorance of language, [148], [150], [160];
adaptation of Greek language, [158];
disabilities arising from religion, [161-174];
divine government, [229];
genteel ignorance, [254-256];
votes sought, [257];
affected by national ignorance, [277-279];
distinctions confounded, [280-284];
verses on letter-writing, [335].
Ponsard, François, quotations, [304], [335].
Popes: their infidelity, [162];
temporal power, [255], [256].
(See [Roman Catholicism], etc.)
Popular Notions, often wrong, [292].
Postage, cheap, [336].
Postal Union, a forerunner, [159].
Post-cards, affecting correspondence, [329], [330], [335].
Poverty: allied with shrewdness, [22];
affecting friendship ([Essay IX.]), [116], [119-129];
priestly visits, [183];
Littré’s service, [210];
ignorance about, [258-260];
French rhyme, [304];
not always the concomitant of Bohemianism, [309];
not despised, [314];
in epistolary forms, [317].
Prayers: reading in French, [158];
averting calamities, [220-231] passim.
Prejudices: about great men, [4];
national, [7];
of English gentlewomen, [382].
Pride: of a wife, [59];
in family wealth, [66];
refusal of gifts, [68];
in shooting, [390].
Priesthood: Priests and Women ([Essay XIII.]), [175-204];
meeting feminine dependence, [178];
affectionate interest, [179];
representing God, [182];
sympathy, [183];
marriages and burials, [184];
baptism and confirmation, [185];
death, [186];
Queen Victoria’s reflections, [186], [187];
æsthetic interest, [188];
vestments, [189];
architecture, [190];
music, [191];
oratory and dignity, [192];
heaven and hell, [193];
partisanship, [194];
association in benevolence, [195];
influence of leisure, [196];
custom and ceremony, [197];
holy seasons, [198];
celibacy, [199];
marriage in former times, [200];
sceptical sons, [201];
confessional, [202];
assumption of superiority, [203];
perfunctory goodness, [204].
Primogeniture, affecting family ties, [66].
Privacy: of a host, to be respected, [109];
in letters, [350], [357].
Procrastination: in correspondence, [318], [319], [356];
anecdotes, [366-369].
Profanity, definition, [208].
Professions, contrasted with trades, [132], [133].
Progress, five stages in the study of language, [153-157].
Promptness: in correspondence, [316], [317], [329];
in business, [368].
Propriety, cloak for vice, [297].
Prose: an art, [154];
eschewed by Tennyson, [289].
Prosody, rival of literature, [154].
Protestantism: in France, [19], [165], [256];
Prussian tyranny, [173];
exclusion of music, [191];
clerical marriages, [200], [201];
auricular confession, [201-203];
liberty infringed, [281].
Providence and Law ([Essay XV.]), [215-231] passim.
Prussia: Protestant tyranny, [173];
a soldier’s cloak, [189];
military strength, [278].
Public Men, wrong judgment about, [4].
Punch’s Almanack, quoted, [133].
Pursuits, similarity in, [10].
Puseyism, despised, [284], [285].
Puzzle, language regarded as a, [153], [154].
Rabelais, quotation, [165].
Racehorses, illustration, [65].
Radicalism, definition, [282], [283].
Railways: affecting independence, [13-15];
meditations in a French, [17];
story in illustration of rudeness, [108], [109];
distance from, [116];
French accident, [218-220];
moving huts, [261], [262];
Stephenson’s locomotive, [293];
allusion, [309];
journeys saved, [360];
compared to sailing, [395].
Rain: cause of accident, [219];
prayers for, [221].
Rank: a power for good, [5];
conversation of French people of, [16];
pursuit of, [27];
discrimination in hospitality, [104];
affecting friendship, [116];
Differences ([Essay X.]), [130-147];
social precedence, [130];
land and money, [131];
trades and professions, [132-135];
unreal distinctions, [135];
to be ignored, [136];
English and Continental views, [136], [137];
family without title, [138];
affecting hospitality, [139-145];
price, deference, [145-147];
English admiration, [241], [242], [248], [249-252];
connection with amusement, [383-401] passim.
Rapidity, in letter-writing, [324], [325].
Reading, in a foreign language, [154-158].
Reading, Eng., speech, [223], [224].
Reasoning, in letters, [384], [385].
Rebels, contrasted with reformers, [280].
Recreation, the purpose of amusement, [389].
Reeve, Henry, knowledge of French, [152].
Reformers, and rebels, [280], [281].
Refinement: affecting family harmony, [64];
companionship, [71];
enhanced by wealth, [125], [126].
Religion: affecting human intercourse, [xi-xiii];
detached from the arts, [xii];
affecting friendship, [5], [6];
conventional, [15];
Cheltenham prejudice, [19];
formal in England, [63];
affecting fraternity, [64];
affecting family regard, [74];
clergyman’s son, [90], [91];
family differences, [93], [94];
to be respected in guests, [105], [106];
destroying friendship, [113];
Evangelical, [123];
personal deterioration, [124];
mercenary motives, [132], [133];
title-worship, [137];
an Obstacle ([Essay XII.]), [161-174];
the dominant, [161];
a hindrance to honest people, [162];
dissimulation, [163];
apparent liberty, [164];
social penalties, [165];
no liberty for princes, [166];
French illustration, [167];
royal liberty in morals, [168];
official conformity, [169];
greater freedom in the lower ranks, [170];
less in small communities, [171];
liberty of rejection and dissent, [172];
false position, [173];
enforced conformity, [174];
Priests and Women ([Essay XIII.]), [175-204];
of love, [178], [179];
Why we are Apparently becoming Less Religious ([Essay XIV.]), [205-214];
meditations of ladies of former generation, [205];
trust in Bible, [206];
idealization, [207];
Nineteenth Century inquiries, [208];
Buffon as an illustration, [209];
Littré, [210];
compared with Bible characters, [211];
the Renaissance, [212];
boundaries outgrown, [213];
less theology, [214];
How we are Really becoming Less Religious ([Essay XV.]), [215-231];
superstition, [215];
supernatural interference, [216], [217];
idea of law diminishes emotion, [218];
railway accident, [219];
prayers and accidents, [220];
future definition, [221];
penitence and punishment, [222];
war and God, [223];
natural order, [224];
Providence, [225];
salvation from shipwreck, [226];
un hazard providentiel, [227];
irreligion, [228];
less piety, [229];
devotion and science, [230];
wise expenditure of time, [231];
feuds, [240];
genteel ignorance of established churches, [255-258];
French ignorance of English Church, [275];
distinctions confounded, [281], [282];
intolerance mixed with social contempt, [284], [285];
activity limited to religion and riches, [301];
in old letters, [320], [321], [323];
female interest in the author’s welfare, [377], [378];
in theology, [379], [380].
(See [Church of England], [Methodism], [Protestantism], etc.)
Rémusat, Mme. de, letters, [350].
Renaissance, expansion of study in the, [212].
Renan, Ernest, one objection to trade, [132].
Republic, French, [254], [283], [284].
Residence, affecting friendship, [116].
Respect: the road to filial love, [98];
why liked, [122];
in correspondence, [316].
Restraints, of marriage and love, [36], [37].
Retrospection, pleasures of, [400].
Revolution, French, [209], [246], [283].
(See [France].)
Riding, Lever’s difficulties, [260].
Rifles: in hunting, [391-393];
names, [392].
Rights. (See different heads, such as [Hospitality], [Sons], etc.)
Robinson Crusoe, illustration, [21].
Rock, simile, [251].
Roland, his sword Durindal, [391].
Roman Camp, site, [14].
Roman Catholicism: its effect on companionship, [6];
seen in rural France, [19];
illustration of the Pope, [87];
infidel sons, [93];
wisdom of celibacy, [120];
infidel dignitaries, [162];
liberty in Spain, [164];
royalty hearing Mass, [167];
military salute to the Host, [169];
recognition in England, [169], [170], [173];
Continental intolerance, [172], [173];
a conscientious traveller, [173];
oppression in Prussia, [173];
tradesmen compelled to hear Mass, [174];
Madonna’s influence, [176];
priestly consolation, [183];
use of art, [188-190];
Dominican dress, [189];
cathedrals, the Host, [190];
astuteness, celibacy, [199];
female allies, [200];
confessional, [201], [202];
feudal tenacity, [255];
Protestantism ignored, [256];
Romanism ignored by the Greek Church, [258];
compulsory attendance, [282].
(See [Priesthood], [Religion], etc.)
Romance: like or dislike for, [7];
glamour of love, [42].
Rome: people not subjected to the papacy, [255], [256];
Byron’s letter, [347].
Rossetti, on Mrs. Harriett Shelley, [46].
Rouen Cathedral, [190].
Royal Academy, London, [266], [276].
Royal Society, London, [274].
Royalty, its religious bondage, [166-169], [171].
Rugby, residence of a father, [84].
Ruolz, the inventor, his bituminous paper, [358], [359].
Russell, Lord Arthur, his knowledge of French, [152].
Russia: religious position of the Czar, [168];
orthodoxy, [257], [258];
war with Turkey, [278].
(See [Greek Church].)
Sabbath, its observance, [123].
Sacredness, definition of, [208].
Sacrifices: demanded by courtesy, [315], [316];
in letter-writing, [329-331];
to indolence, [368].
Sahara, love-simile, [60].
Saint Bernard, qualities, [230], [231].
Saint Hubert’s Day, carousal, [345].
Saints, in every occupation, [209].
Salon, French, [266], [276], [367].
Sarcasm: lasting effects, [66];
brutal and paternal, [97].
Satire. (See [Sarcasm].)
Savagery, return to, [298].
(See [Barbarism], [Civilization].)
Saxons, influence in England, [251], [252].
Scepticism: and religious rites, [184], [185];
in clergymen’s sons, [201].
(See [Heresy].)
Schools, prejudice against French, [106].
Schuyler’s Life of Peter the Great, [96].
Science: study affected by isolation, [29];
and poetry, [57];
superiority to mercenary motives, [132];
in language, [154];
adaptation of Greek language to, [158];
illustration, [166];
cold, [176], [178], [190];
disconnected with religion, [198];
affecting Bible study, [206];
connection with religion ([Essay XV.]), [215-231] passim.
Scolding, [75], [76].
Scotland: a chance acquaintance, [25], [26];
gentleman’s sacrifice for his son, [84];
incident in a country-house, [131];
religious incident in travel, [173];
a painter’s hint, [232];
the Highlands, [271];
scenery, [379];
cricket impossible, [398].
Scott, Sir Walter: indebtedness to the poor, [22];
Lucy of Lammermoor, [39], [143], [144];
Jeanie Deans, [175];
supposed American ignorance of, [277];
quotation from Waverley, [327];
Provost’s letter, [365].
Sculpture: warmed by love, [42], [43];
none in heaven, [191];
ignorance about English, [265].
(See [Art], etc.)
Seals on letters, [326-328].
Secularists: in England, [171];
tame oratory, [193].
Sedan, cause of lost battle, [308].
Seduction, how restrained, [38].
Self-control, grim, [397].
Self-esteem, effect of benevolence in developing, [196].
Self-examination, induced by letters, [380].
Self-indulgence, of opposite kinds, [299], [300].
Self-interest: affecting friendship, [116];
at the confessional, [202].
Selfishness: affected by marriage, [26];
desire for comfort, [27];
affecting passion, [38];
in hosts, [101], [102];
in a letter, [334];
in amusements, [397].
Sensuality, connection with Bohemianism, [296].
Sentences, reading, [156].
Sentiment, none in business, [353], [364].
Separations: between friends, [111-118];
letter-writing during, [338];
Tasso family, [350], [351].
Sepulchre, whited, [297].
Sermons: one-sided, [29];
in library, [302].
Servants: marriage to priests, [200];
often needful, [259];
concomitants of wealth, [297], [298];
none, [307];
in letters, [324];
anonymous letter, [376];
hired to wait, [397].
Severn River, [270].
Sexes: pleasure in association, [3];
passionate love, [34];
relations socially limited, [36], [37];
antagonism of nature and civilization, [41];
in natural scenery, [43];
inharmony in marriages, [44-62] passim;
sisters and brothers, [65];
connection with confession, [201-204];
lack of analysis, [280];
Bohemian relations, [296], [297].
Shakspeare: indebtedness to the poor, [22];
Juliet, [39];
portraiture of youthful nonsense, [88];
allusion by Grant White, [277];
Macbeth and Hamlet confused, [290];
Polonius’s advice applied to Goldsmith, [310].
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: his study of past literature, [13];
passionate love, [34];
marriages, [35], [46-48], [55], [56];
quotation, [43];
disagreement with his father, [96], [97].
Ships: passing the Suez canal, [xii];
interest of Peter the Great, and dislike of his son, [85];
at siege of Syracuse, [215];
of war, [277], [278];
as affecting correspondence, [337];
drifting, [378];
fondness for details, [394].
Shoeblack, illustration, [335].
Shyness, English, [245].
Siamese Twins, allusion, [290].
Silence, golden, [85].
Sin, affecting pulpit oratory, [193].
Sir, the title, [137].
Sisters: affection, [63-77] passim;
jealousy of admiration, [65];
pecuniary obligations, how regarded, [69].
Slander: by rich people, [146], [147];
in anonymous letters, [370-377].
Slang, commercial, [365].
Slovenliness, part of Bohemianism, [296].
Smith, an imaginary gentleman, [130].
Smith, Jane, an imaginary character, [178].
Smoking: affecting friendship, [115];
Bohemian practice, [305].
Snobbery, among English travellers, [240-242].
Sociability: affecting the appetite, [102];
English want of ([Essay XVII.]), [239-252];
in amusements, [383], [384].
Society: good, in France, [15], [16];
eccentricity no barrier in London, [16-18];
exclusion, [21], [22];
unexpectedly found, [23-26];
alienation from common pursuits, [27], [28];
aid to study, [29-31];
restraints upon love, [36], [37];
laws set aside by George Eliot, [45], [46], [55];
Goethe’s defiance, [52], [56], [57];
rights of hospitality, illustrated ([Essay VII.]), [99-109];
aristocratic, [124];
affected by rank and wealth ([Essay X.]), [130-147] passim;
and by religion ([Essay XII.]), [161-174] passim;
ruled by women, [176];
tyranny, [181];
clerical leisure, [196], [197];
inimical to Littré, [210];
absent air in, [237];
affected by Gentility ([Essay XVIII.]), [253-263];
secession of thinkers, [262], [263];
intellectual, [303];
usages, [304];
outside of, [307].
Socrates, allusion, [204].
Solicitors, their industry, [196].
Solitude: social, [19];
dread, [21];
pleasant reliefs, [22-26];
serious evil, [27];
sometimes demoralizing, [28];
affecting study, [29];
mitigations, [29-31];
preferred, [31];
forgotten in labor, [31], [32];
picture of, [43];
Shelley’s fondness, [47];
free space necessary, [77];
dislike prompting to hospitality (q. v.), [143].
Sons: separated from fathers by incompatibility, [10];
escape from paternal brutality, [76];
Fathers and ([Essay VI.]), [78-98];
change of circumstances, [78];
former obedience, [79];
orders out of fashion, [80];
outside education, [81];
education by the father, [82-85];
rapidity of youth, [86], [87];
lack of paternal resemblance, [88];
differing tastes, [89];
fathers outgrown, [90];
changes in culture, [91];
reservations, [92];
differing opinions, [93];
oldtime divisions, [94];
an imperial son, [95];
other painful instances, [96];
wounded by satire, [97];
right basis of sonship, [98].
(See [Family], [Fathers], etc.)
Sorbonne, the, professorship of English, [152].
Southey, Robert, Life of Nelson, [327].
Spain: religious freedom, [164];
heretics burned, [180].
Speculation, compared with experience, [30].
Speech, silvern, [85].
Spelling, inaccurate, [360].
(See [Languages], etc.)
Spencer, Herbert: made the cover for an assault upon a guest’s opinions, [106];
on display of wealth, [145];
confidence in nature’s laws, [227].
Spenser, Edmund, his poetic stanza, [384].
Sports: often comparatively unrestrained, [36];
affecting fraternity, [64];
youth fitted for, [86];
roughening influence, [100];
affecting friendship, [115];
aristocratic, [124];
among the rich, [143];
ignorance about English, [267], [268];
concomitant of wealth, [297];
not enjoyed, [302];
William of Orange’s, [345];
connection with amusement, [385-401] passim.
Springtime of love, [34].
Stanford’s London Atlas, [274].
Stars, illustration of crowds, [77].
Steam, no help to friendship, [337].
Stein, Baroness von, relations to Goethe, [51-53].
Stephenson, George, his locomotive not a failure, [293].
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, her works confounded with George Eliot’s, [290].
Strangers, treatment of by the English and others ([Essay XVII.]), [239-252] passim.
Stream, illustration from the impossibility of upward flow, [98].
Strength, accompanied with exercise, [302].
Studies: affecting friendship, [111];
literary and artistic, [400], [401].
Subjugation, the motive of display of wealth, [145].
Suez Canal, and superstition, [xii].
Sunbeam, yacht, [138], [139].
Sunday: French incident, [128], [129];
allusion, [198];
supposed law, [281].
(See [Sabbath].)
Sunset, allusion, [31].
Supernaturalism ([Essay XV.]), [215-231] passim;
doubts about, [377], [378].
Superstition and religion ([Essay XV.]), [215-231] passim.
Surgeon, an artistic, [289].
Sweden, king of, [308].
Swedenborgianism, commended to the author, [378].
Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s box, [261].
Swimming: affected by railways, [14];
in France, [272].
Switzerland: epithets applied to, [235];
tourists, [240];
Alps, [271];
Goldsmith’s travels, [309];
Doré’s travels, [345].
Sympathy: with an author, [9];
one of two great powers deciding human intercourse, [11];
of a married man with a single, [25], [26];
between parents and children ([Essay VI.]), [78-98] passim;
between Priests and Women ([Essay XIII. part I.]), [175-186] passim.
Symposium, antique, allusion, [29].
Syracuse, siege, [215-217], [229].
Table: its pleasures comparatively unrestrained, [36];
former tyranny of hospitality, [101], [102];
modern customs, appetite affected by sociability, [102];
excess not required by hospitality, [103];
French fashion, [105];
instances of bad manners, [106], [107], [126-128];
rules of precedence, [130], [131];
matrons occupied with cares, [140], [141];
among the rich, [143];
tyranny, [172];
English manners towards strangers contrasted with those of other nations ([Essay XVII.]), [239-252];
déjeûner, [273];
among the rich, [297];
talk about hunting, [398], [399].
Talking, contrasted with writing, [354-357].
Tasso, Bernardo, father of the poet, his letters, [350], [351].
Taylor, Mrs., relations to Mill, [53-55].
Telegraphy: under fixed law, [228];
affecting letters, [324], [325], [331], [361];
anecdote, [326].
Telephone, illustration, [336].
Temper, destroys friendship, [112], [118].
Temperance, sometimes at war with hospitality, [102-104].
Tenderness, in letters, [320], [322].
Tennyson: study of past literature, [13];
line about brotherhood, [67];
religious sentiment of In Memoriam, [198];
loyalty to verse, [289];
Palace of Art, [386], [400].
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Rev. Honeyman in The Newcomes, [203];
Book of Snobs, [242].
Thames River, [270], [335].
Theatre: avoidance, [123];
English travellers like actors, [242];
gifts of a painter, [341].
Thélème, Abbaye de, its motto, [165].
Thierry, Augustin, History of Norman Conquest, [251], [252].
Thiers, Louis Adolphe, friendship with Mignet, [120], [121].
Time, forgotten in labor, [31], [32].
Timidity, taking refuge in correspondence, [356], [357].
Titles: table precedence, [130];
estimate in England and on the Continent, [136], [137];
British regard, [241], [242], [248-252] passim;
French disregard, [248].
Tolerance: induced by hospitality, [99];
of amusements, [389].
Towneley Hall, library, [318].
Trade: English and social exclusion, [19];
foolish distinctions, [132-135];
connection with national peace, [150];
adaptation of Greek language, [158];
interference of religion, [171], [174];
ignorance about English, [265], [266], [268];
Lancashire, [288];
careless tradesmen, [360], [361];
slang, [365].
Translations: disliked, [154];
of Hamerton into French, [267].
Transubstantiation: private opinion and outward form, [169];
poetic, [190].
(See [Roman Catholicism], etc.)
Trappist, freedom of an earnest, [164], [165].
Travel: railway illustration, [13-15];
marriage simile, [44];
affecting fraternity, [64];
affecting friendship, [111];
facilitated, [160];
in Arabia, [226];
unsociability ([Essay XVII.]), [239-252];
in vans, [261], [262];
confusion of places, [291];
dispensing with luxury, [300];
an untravelled man, [301];
not cared for, [302];
cheap conveyances, [304];
books of, [305];
Goldsmith’s, [309].
Trees, and Radicals, [282], [283].
Trinity, denial of, [257].
Truth, violations ([Essay XVI.]), [232-238].
Tudor Family: Mary’s reign, [164];
criminality, [168];
Mary’s persecution, [180].
Turkey, war with Russia, [278].
Turner, Joseph Mallord William, aided by Claude, [13].
Type-writers, effect on correspondence, [333].
Tyranny: of religion ([Essay XII.]), [161-174];
meanest form, [172], [174];
of majorities, [398].
Ulysses: literary simile, [29];
Bow of, [392].
Understatement. (See [Untruth].)
Union of languages and peoples, [148-150].
Unitarianism: no European sovereign dare profess, [167], [168];
difficulty with creeds, [172];
ignorance about, [257].
United States, advantage of having the same language as England, [150].
Universe, univers, [273-275].
Universities: degrees, [91];
French and English, [275], [276];
Radical members, [284].
Untruth: an Unrecognized Form of ([Essay XVI.]), [232-238];
two methods in painting, [232];
exaggeration and diminution, [233];
self-misrepresentation, [234];
overstatement and understatement illustrated in travelling epithets, [235];
dead mediocrity in conversation, [236];
inadequacy, [237];
illustration, [238].
Vanity: national ([Essay XIX.]), [264-279] passim;
taking offence, [279];
absence, [301].
Vice: of classes, [124], [125];
devilish, [195];
part of Bohemianism, [295], [296];
of best society, [297].
Victoria, Queen: quotation from her diary, [186], [187];
her oldest son, [385].
Violin, illustration, [389].
Viollet-le-Duc, anecdote, [364].
Virgil, Palmer’s constant companion, [313].
(See [Latin].)
Virgin Mary, her influence, [176].
(See [Eugénie], etc.)
Virtue: of classes, [124], [125];
priestly adherence, [195];
definition, [208];
Buffon’s and Littré’s, [211].
Visiting, with rich and poor, [139-144].
Vitriol, in letters, [371].
Vituperation, priestly, [194].
Vivisection, feminine dislike, [180].
Voltaire: quotation about Columbus, [274];
Goldsmith’s interview, [309].
Vulpius, Christiane, relations to Goethe, [52], [53].
Wagner, Richard, his Tannhaüser, [388].
Wales, Prince of, laborious amusements, [385-387].
Warcopp, Robert, in Plumpton letters, [323], [331].
Wars: affected by study of languages, [148-150], [151], [160];
Eugénie’s influence, [176];
divine connection, [215-224];
caused by national ignorance, [277], [278].
Waterloo, battle, [153].
Wave, simile, [251].
Wealth: affecting fraternity, [66];
affecting domestic harmony, [77];
destroying friendship, [114], [116];
Flux of ([Essay IX.]), [119-129];
property variable, influence of changes, [119];
access of bachelors and the married to society, [120];
instances of friendship affected by poverty, [121];
false friends, [122];
imprudent marriages, [123];
middle-class instances of contentment, [124];
aid to refinement, [125];
dress, [126];
cards, and other forms of courtesy, superfluities, [127];
discipline of courtesy, [128];
rural manners in France, [129];
Differences ([Essay X.]), [130-147];
social precedence, [130];
land-ownership, [131];
trade, [132-134];
nouveau riche and ancestry, [135];
titles, [136], [137];
varied enjoyments, [138], [139];
hospitality, [140-144];
English appreciation, [144-146];
undue deference, [146], [147];
overstatement and understatement, [234];
assumption, [242];
plutocracy, [246], [247];
American inequalities, [248];
genteel ignorance, [258-260];
two great advantages, [297], [298];
small measure, [298];
connection with Philistinism and Bohemianism, [299-314];
employs better agents, [359], [360];
connection with amusements, [383-401].
(See [Poverty], etc.)
Webb, Captain, lost at Niagara, [290].
Weeds, illustration of Radicalism, [282].
Weimar: Goethe’s home, [52],
[57];
Duke of, [57].
Wenderholme, Hamerton’s story, [378].
Wesley, John, choice in religion, [173].
(See [Methodism].)
Westbrook, Harriett, relation to Shelley, [46], [47], [97].
Westminster Abbey, mistaken for another building, [291].
White, Richard Grant, story, [277].
Whist, selfishness in, [397].
William, emperor of Germany, table customs, [103].
Wine: connection with hospitality, [101-103], [121];
traders in considered superior, [133];
ignorance about English use, [268], [269], [270];
port, [273];
concomitant of wealth, [297], [298];
simile, [367].
(See [Table], etc.)
Wives: a pitiful confession, [41];
George Eliot’s position, [45], [46];
relations to noted husbands, [47-62];
dread of a wife’s kindred, [73];
unions made by parents, [94-98];
destroying friendship, [115], [116];
tired, [144];
regard of Napoleon III., [225];
old letters, [322];
gain from post-cards, [329], [330];
privacy of letters, [350];
Montaigne’s letter, [251], [252].
(See [Marriage], [Women], etc.)
Wolf, priestly, [203].
Wolseley, Sir Garnet, victory, [222], [223], [229].
Wood, French use of, [272].
Women: friendship between two, [viii], [ix];
absorption in one, [33];
beauty’s attraction, [33], [38], [39];
passion long preserved, [40];
relations to certain noted men, [44-62] passim;
sisterly jealousy, [65];
governed by sentiment, [69];
adding to home discomfort, [75], [76];
English incivility, [106];
French incivility to English, and defence, [106];
social acuteness, [130];
Priests and Women ([Essay XIII.]), [175-204];
dislike of fixed rules, [175];
persuasive powers, ruling society, [176];
dependence, advisers, [177];
love, [178];
gentleness, [179];
sympathy with persecution, [180];
harm of both frivolity and seriousness, [181];
injustice of female sex, anxiety for sympathy, [182];
sensitiveness, [183];
services desired at special times, [184];
motherhood, [185];
consolation, [186];
æsthetic nature, [187];
fondness for show, [188];
dress, [189];
churches, [190];
worship in music, [191];
eloquence, [192];
eager for the right, [194];
obstinacy, [195];
association in benevolence, [196];
love of ceremony, [197];
festivals, [198];
confidence in a clergyman, [199];
marriage formerly disapproved, clergywomen, [200];
relief in confession, [201], [202];
gentlewomen’s letters, [205], [206];
French, among strangers, [242], [243];
want of analysis, [280];
strong theological interest, [377-380];
old maids, [379-382];
gentlewomen, [381], [382];
not interested in sporting talk, [399].
(See [Marriage], [Wives], etc.)
Word, power of a, [118].
Wordsworth: indebtedness to the poor, [22];
on Nature’s loyalty, [30];
instance of his uncleanness, [311].
Work, softens solitude, [31], [32].
Working-men. (See [Lower Classes].)
World, possible enjoyment of, [303].
Worship: word in wedding-service, [62];
limited by locality, [171-174];
musical, [191];
expressions in letters, [321].
Writing, a new discovery supposed, [336].
Wryghame, message by, [320].
Wycherley, William, his ribaldry, [181].
Yachting, [258], [259], [292], [358].
(See [Boating].)
York: Minster, [190];
archbishop, [222];
diocese, [275].
Yorkshire, letter to, [320].
Youth: contrasted with age, [87-89];
nonsense reproduced by Shakspeare, [89];
insult, [107];
in friendship, [111], [112];
acceptance of kindness, [117];
semblance caused by ignorance of a language, [151].
Zeus, a hunter compared to, [391].
THE END.
University Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge.
Footnotes:
[1] An expression used to me by a learned Doctor of Oxford.
[2] The causes of this curious repulsion are inquired into elsewhere in this volume.