Carnot's portrait by Von Sybel, a masterpiece,
243

Catharine of Russia, schemes of, 247
'Cato,' Addison's, 14

Cerberus, Indian parallel with the myth of, 114
Chalons, evacuation of, 234

Chateaubriand's parallel between the ages of Na-
poleon and Nero, 196

Cherbourg weak on the land side, 163

'Church and the Age,' 21; the moderate Evan.
gelical and moderate Anglican parties, ib.;
conception of the principles of the Reformed
English Church, 22; elevation of the character
of the clergy, 23; movements at present ex-
isting in the Church, 29; the Ritualists, or
Catholic' Party, ib.; their dogma on the Eu-
charist, 29, 30

Churchill (Arabella), mistress of James II., 4:
her share in the promotion of Marlborough, ib.
Clode on the Military Forces, 128
Cochrane's (Lord Dundonald) exploits, 10
Conscription, varying amount of French, 222
Contagious Diseases Act, 62

Criminality of the northern towns, 57
Cutts (Lord), surnamed the Salamander, 8

Debûts (Parliamentary) of celebrated men, 179
Defoe's Giving Alms no Charity,' 19
Deluge, Hindu myth concerning the, 107
Denmark, French refusal of joint action with
England in the cause of, 201; iniquitous
spoliation of, 202; plunder of Denmark and
Hanover, 293

Divorce, law of Justinian on a ground for, 83

Ellicott's Essay on the Course and Direction of
Religious Thought,' 31; his opinion on the
Thirty-nine Articles, 33; the questions
Whence, why, and whither,' 33

England's decline in foreign influence, 291
Eucharist, doctrine of an actual sacrifice in
the, 29

Eugene (Prince), at Blenheim, 8

Favre's (M.) interviews with Bismarck, 165
France and Germany, war between, 155; Prussia
better prepared for the conflict, 160; the Em-
peror unprepared in either men, material, or
stores, ib.; deceived by those around him, 161;
the French soldier degenerated, ib.; want, be-
fore all other things, of a General, ib.; failure
of valour and discipline in the French soldiers,
162; United Germany, while clamouring for

peace, cries out Væ victis and Delenda est Car-
thago, 166; suggestion of a policy for France,
168, 169; German cry for revenge for Jena, 169
Free thought, school of, 31

Frégier on the dangerous classes, 56
French, their motto invariable under every form
of government, 192

army, its organisation under Marshal
Neil, 222; the maintenance of a corps d'élite
dangerous to the army, 224; comparative me-
rits of the Chassepot and the needle-gun, ib. ;
the mitrailleur, ib.; details of the campaign,
225; only one course, in a military point of
view, a concentric retreat of the whole army
on Chalons, 230; Bazaine's plan of pivoting on
the fortress of Metz, 231; disorder of French
soldiers under reverses, 238; officers killed by
their soldiers, ib.; the army increased while
the entire fabric was rotten to the core, 284
French Journalism, 196; its traditional keen and
polished irony against authorities, ib.

Parliamentary Government a succession
of break-downs, 198

Frere (Sir Bartle) on the condition of India, 26;
village communities in India, 27

Gambling on the Continent, abolition of public, 93
Game-laws, 19

Garotters, Irish, 57

Genius succeeding revolutionary times, four pe-
riods of, 1

German army, summary of the causes of its suc-
cesses, 237; admirable strategy of the cam-
paign on the German side, ib.

populations, their hatred against
France, 203

soldiers, their testimony to the bravery
of the French, 228

unity, the idea began with Schleswig-
Holstein, 156; its ultimate achievement, 203;
full meaning of Germanic unity, 299
Girondists, the authors of the revolutionary war,
246; Girondist ministry, ib.

Grant (Alexander) on Education in Principles at
Stake,' 24

Gray, the best letter-writer in the English lan-
guage,' 126; his letters compared with Cow-
per's, ib.

Haddon's admirable Essay in The Church and
the Age,' 22

How's Essay on the Private Life and Ministra-
tions of the Parish Priest,' 23
Howell (James), his career and letters, 120
Howson's (Dean) description of the condition of
Church parties, 29

Hume's (Joseph) blunders, 182
Huskisson and George IV., 186; his quarrel with
the Duke of Wellington, 187

India, the native home of mysticism, 111
Indra, the Jupiter of the Vedic Pantheon, 108
Irons (Dr.) on the question of Synods, 28

James II., ugliness of his mistresses, 4
Jena, battle of, described, 178

Knight's 'Half Hours with Letter-writers and
Autobiographers,' 115

Körner, a poet of actual battle, 259
Kosciusko, revolt of, 252; succumbed before the
genius of Suwaroff, ib.

Lancashire, the great nursery of crime, 57; cri-
minals of Irish birth in Liverpool gaol 35 per
cent. of the prisoners, ib.

Lewis's (Sir G.) letters, 125

Logos, the idea of it a deep reverence for the
idea of speech, traced in the ancient world, f11;
illustrations of the deification of speech, ib.
London, its population compared with that of
other capitals, 47; rapidity of its growth, ib. ;
traffic on London Bridge, 54
'Lothair' (by the Right Hon. B. Disraeli), 34;
analysis of the story, ib.; attempts to convert
the enormously rich Lothair to the Roman Ca-
tholic faith, 35, 36; falls in love with another
man's wife, 36; Theodora's influence in deli-
vering him from bigots, 37; fêtes at Muriel
Towers surpassing the Arabian Nights,' 38;
wounded at Mentana, 39; renewed attempts
for his conversion, ib.; escapes to Malta from
ecclesiastical projects. 40, 41; character of Mr.
Phoebus, 41; Mr. Paraclete, 42; sins of the
book against good taste and justice, 44; Lo-
thair's character weak and silly, ib.; the book
untrue to nature in style, language, and cha-
racters, ib.; characters too closely drawn from
real life, 45; unreality about even the best
characters, ib.; entire absence of passion, ib. ;
affected, unnatural, euphuism, ib.; a vein of
satire against the upper classes, 46; the ten-
dency of the book intensely democratic, ib.
Louis XVI.'s arrest at Varennes, 244

Macknight's Thirty Years of Foreign Policy,'

191

Maclagan's (W. D., M.A.) Essay on 'The Church
and the People,' 25

MacMahon, his three alternatives at Chalons,
234; wounded by a shell, 235; of higher qua-
lity as a man and soldier than Bazaine, 236:
compared with Marshal Ney, ib.; his character
has emerged pure from responsibility and ad-
versity, ib.

Macpherson's (Dr.) Baths and Wells of Europe,'

96

Malet's (Sir A.) 'Overthrow of the German Con-
federation by Prussia in 1866,' 155
Malmesbury (Lord), diplomacy of, 250
Malplaquet, battle of, 10

Marlborough (Duke of) and the Duchess of Cleve-
land, 4; purchases an annuity of 500l., 5; his
personal bravery, ib.; secret correspondence
with St. Germains, ib.; recommended by Wil-
liam to Anne, ib.; Wellington's opinion of his
military genius, 6; his movement on Blen-
heim compared with Napoleon's march to
Austerlitz, ib.; battle of Blenheim, 7; of Ra-
millies, 9; Oudenarde, 9, 10; Malplaquet, 10;
letters to his wife, ib.; affront put upon him
through Harley, 14; the Duchess of Marlbo-
rough required to surrender the gold key held
as Mistress of the Robes, ib.

Maria da Gloria's (Donna) reception by George
IV., 189

Masham's (Mrs.) political influence, 12
Milnes, Orator, 180

Mills on the Church in South Africa, 27
Mirabeau's part in the French revolution, 243
Mitford's (Miss) place among letter-writers, 127
Mohocks and Captain Sentry, 18

Moltke, (von,) the right hand of the King of
Prussia as chief of the staff, 222; his plan of
swinging the whole army forward on Saar-
bruck as a pivot, 227

Monotheistic instinct in the human soul, 108

Napoleon III., his position demanded
a war with Prussia in the interest of his dy
nasty, 158; surrenders in person to the King
of Prussia, 163; vindicated, 170; benefits to
France from the Second Empire, ib.; ever
moderate and generous in the hour of triumph,
171; friendly policy toward England, ib.; im-
provement of Paris, 172; letter of surrender to
the King of Prussia, 235
Nash, Beau, reign of, 91

Navy, mismanagement of the British, 207; re-
duction in the number of Lords of the Admi-
ralty, 208; changes at Somerset House, 209;
strength of the Admiralty Office reduced to a
minimum, ib.; dismissal of Admiralty clerks,
210; confusion of duties incident to the aboli-
tion of necessary offices, 211; the grand secret
to get rid of the naval element in the govern-
ment of the navy, ib.; coal for the navy, ib. ;
coal stores at all our naval stations reduced
one half, 212; cheese-paring policy in all the
sources of supply, 213; instances of deficient
supplies to ships, 213, 214; reduction of sea-
men, marines, and boys by 5500, 214; dis-
charge of stokers, ib.; unarmoured vessels, 215;
defence of harbours and coasts in an alarming
condition, ib.; rifles required for the navy and
marines as well as for the army, militia, and
volunteers, 217; closing of Deptford and Wool-
wich dockyards, 218; desire for reduction
which seized the present government, ib.; the
retirement scheme, ib.; its glaring absurdi-
ties, 219

Newman's (Dr.) "Grammar of Assent," 68; ele-
ment in our nature supplementary to pure rea-
son, 69; the moral sense, 71; M. Comte's philo-
sophy, 72; effect of the sense of sin, 73; ori-
ginal premises in the human heart, on which
the reception of the proof of revelation is based,
74; primary ideas and sentiments constituting
natural religion, 75; in moral subjects the un-
derstanding cannot be separated from the af-
fections, 76; the logical posture of the Chris-
tian and infidel towards each other, ib.; philoso-
phy of the sceptical press, 77; fallacy that the
progress of science and civilisation will de-
stroy fundamental sentiments and convictions.
ib.; civilisation cannot expunge the ideas of
conscience, sin, repentance, judgment, the foun-
dations of Christian belief, 78; the Essay a pow-
erful defence of a common Christianity, 79
Nicene Creed embodies the truths of revelation
in the noblest form, 32
Novel, origin of the modern, 15
Oudenarde, battle of, 9

Palmerston (Lord), son of the first Viscount and
of Miss Mee, of Dublin, 175; at Harrow, with
Byron and Peel, 176; friendship for Sir George
Shee, ib.; his studies at Edinburgh and Cam-
bridge, ib.; represents the borough of New-
town, 177; Secretary at War, 181; conscien-
tious conduct as an Irish landlord, 183; his
political position isolated down to 1822, ib.;
George IV.'s eagerness to expatriate him, 184,
185; joins the Duke of Wellington's adminis-
tration, 186; secession from it, ib.; enters the
Foreign Office, 190; conducted or initiated
fourteen commercial treaties, 195; his master-
piece the Quadruple Alliance Treaty of 1834,
ib.

Smith (Goldwin) identifies himself with the Ox-
ford Professor in Lothair, 36

(Professor Payne) on the 'Powers and
Duties of Priesthood,' 31
Soma-plant or Homa, its part in the Vedic ritual,
104

Songs of Germany. Patriotic and war songs, 256;
Arndt and Körner, 257; Rückert, 260; Schenk-
endorf, a poet of the Liberation war, 261; his
'Student's War Song,' 261, 262; Morning and
Evening Songs, 262, 263; the Reiterlied' of
Herwegh, 264; Hauff's Morgenroth,' ib. ; the
Soldier's Farewell,' 266; legendary elements in
German patriotic songs, 267; the Barbarossa
legend, ib.; Blücher at the Rhine,' 269; the
famous Rhine Song' of Becker, 269, 270; set
to music by seventy different composers, 270;
the watchword of the present war, the Rhine
Watch,' ib.; metrical version, 271; lyrics re-
sulting from the present war-time, ib.; Herz's
Tagelied,' 271, 272; Freiligrath's 'Hurrah!
Germania,' 273

Spa during the wars of the Republic and Empire,
decay of, 93

Stanhope's (Earl) History of England from Queen
Anne to the Peace of Utrecht,' 1; compared
with Macaulay, 3; qualifications as an histo-
rian, ib.; comparison of Queen Anne's age
with the present, 17

Steele's (Sir Richard) letters, 123
Sumner's (G, H., M.A.) Principles at Stake,' 21
Swadha identified with ἔθος or ἦθος, 110
Swift pictured by Macaulay, 13; his weakness in
affecting familiarity with the great, ib. ; talent
for popular poetry, ib. ; editorship of the 'Exa-
miner,' ib.; letters, 124

Sybel's History of the French Revolutionary
Epoch,' 240; the most important contribution
to our knowledge of it offered by modern Ger-
man historians, ib.; his appreciation of the
irony of historical facts, 243; proves the exag
geration of the estimate of fourteen armies'
of the Republic in 1793; commencement of the
French war of conquest in 1794, 249; offensive

Væ victis, 292

Volunteer movement, 280

Walpole's (Horace) correspondence with Miss
Berry, 125; his vast correspondence, 126
War, general suggestions for our guidance from
the present, 239; the one great lesson which
the English people should lay to heart, ib.
Weir (A., D.C.L.), editor of 'The Church and the
Age,' 21

Whitworth ordnance, refusal to introduce it into
the navy, 216

Wimpfen's (General) capitulation, 235
Winsloe, the first officer killed in the war be-
tween France and Prussia, 225
Wellington compared with Marlborough, 6
Wörth, battle-field of, 228

Yeomanry cavalry, 289