weight, was nevertheless a philosopher of profound understanding; while he whose lecturer has taught him ex cathedra that the atmosphere presses with a weight of fifteen pounds to the square inch, may, notwithstanding the superiority of his information, remain a feeble-minded, shallow man.
ABSURDITIES, some common ones, | Autobiography, revived, 309, 310;
Adams, John, his irascibility, 183.
Adams, John Quincy, lines under
his portrait, 275.
Adulterations, of food, etc., 273.
Advancing Backward, 49.
Æschines, his statue in the Vati-
can, 224.
Age, old, the happiest season of life,
its deceptions, 310; character of
Rousseau's in his "Confessions,"
310; Rousseau on Montaigne's,
310.
BACON, FRANCIS, on poetry, 37;
quoted, 57; ran deeply in debt,
66; on nobility, 111.
Bailey, Samuel, quoted, 170.
Alexander the Great, his lucky Barbers, their wit and sunny tem-
Alva, the Duke of, his statue de-
molished by the Dutch, 196.
Americans, their weaknesses, 165.
Amiel, Henri-Frédéric, on Genghis
Khan, 18, 19; on realism in art,
46; on the avoidance of satiety,
54; on life, 58.
Antediluvian life, 155.
Appius, one of the Roman Decem-
viri, his debauchery, 245.
Armitage, Thomas, D.D., his retort,
186, 187.
Arnold, Matthew, as a lecturer, 84.
Art, its grandest works do not make
the reader weep, 204.
per, 287-289; their forbearance,
289.
Barnard, Lady Anne, 2.
Beattie, James, his "Minstrel
quoted, 38.
Being and Seeming, 169-171.
Belief, paradoxes in, 167.
Belisarius, his expedition against
Carthage, 274.
Bells, 195, 196; why they crack,
Bentham, Jeremy, on poetry, 36,
37; his refusal of a ring, 110.
Blaine, James G., the victim of a
friend's phrase, 219.
Bolingbroke, Lord, as a writer, 36.
Ashley, Lord, his good-humor un- Boucicault, Dion, quoted, 174.
241; his attack on Disraeli, 278, | Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, 4; his
279.
Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme, 77.
Bristed, C. A., on undervaluation
of rhetoric and oratory at Cam-
bridge, Eng., University, 86.
Brooks, Bishop, fulsome praise of
him, 219.
Brougham, Lord, his retort on Wel-
lington, 93; Punch's gibes at his
nose, 93.
Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, 88;
on the champions of truth, 219;
his bold felicities of expression,
waspish temper, 184.
Cass, Lewis, a slip in his speech, 227.
Cellini, Benvenuto, his murders,
254, 255; Pope Clement on them,
255.
Chalmers, Thomas, D. D., Hugh
Miller on his elocution, 192; his
repetition of his sermons, 261.
Character, contradictions in, 117-
Christianity, championing it in the
pulpit, 168, 169.
Cicero, examples of his wit, 220,
221; Niebuhr on his wit, 221.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, and Chamfort, Sebastien, R. N., saying
small talk, 243.
Browning, Robert, his lines to Mr.
Fitzgerald, 176; some character-
istics of his verse, 174.
Brydges, Sir Egerton, his poems, 2.
Buckland, William, D.D., anecdote
of, 90.
Buckle, Henry Thomas, his faults
as a thinker and writer, 98, 99.
Buffon, his personal adornment, 7.
Bulwer, the novelist, his many-
sidedness, 27; on one Westma-
cott, a libeller, 177.
Burns, Robert, his genius cramped
by poverty, 252.
CAB-DRIVERS, in Paris, 277; naïve
saying of one, 272.
Cæsar, Julius, causes of his assassi-
nation, 22, 23; his treatment of
Catullus, 29.
Calvin, John, his gentleness to his
mother, 17.
Calmness, under provocation, 181–
184; remarkable examples of it,
182, 183.
Campbell, Thomas, errors in his
poems, 230.
of Mirabeau regarding him, 309.
Charles I., King of England, owed
his execution to Laud and Straf-
ford, 218.
Charles Edward, Prince, of England,
speculations on his expedition in
1745, 146.
Charles V., Emperor of Germany,
his comment on an epitaph, 314.
Chesterfield, Lord, his opinion of
Milton's poems, 319.
Choate, Rufus, anecdotes of, 103,
104; the iteration in his jury
addresses, 143.
Classics, the Greek and Roman in
education, 302.
Coats, new and old contrasted,
180, 181.
College, why go to it, 95-99; ad-
vantages of education it gives, 96,
98.
College degrees, 107-111; once too
lavishly bestowed, 108, 109; J.
Q. Adams's protest against one
conferred on President Jackson,
108; Dr. S. H. Cox on them,
109 affected humility in refus-
ing them, 110; their actual
value, 111.
Cobbett, William, his likes and
dislikes manifested in his Eng-
lish grammar, 20.
in the conveyance of news, 173;
on the sycophancy of literature,
317, 318.
Coke, Sir Edward, his paradox, Desmond, Countess of, 17.
Collins, author of "To-morrow," 3.
Colton, author of "Lacon," his in-
consistency, 77.
De Staël, Madame, anecdote of,
325.
Destiny, an ignominious one, 87-
Colver, Nathaniel, D. D., his witti- Dewey, Orville, D.D., his elocu-
Conscience and Umbrellas, 89-92.
Conversation-Classes, in New York,
47, 48.
Conversation, of men and women
contrasted, 111, 112; as an art,
201; rarity of good, 201; pro-
priety its first condition, 201;
its common faults, 202.
Coolness of temper, its advantages,
278-280; needed by American
politicians, 280.
Cortez, Hernando, 146.
Courage, proofs of it, 315.
Couthon, Georges, his character be-
fore the French Revolution, 217.
Crabbe, the poet, characterized, 46.
Criticism, of the Hub" Fathers,
DA VINCI, LEONARDO, his versa-
tility and many-sidedness, 120;
contradictions in his character,
121; a dozen men in one, 323.
Debt, its advantages, 64-68; Sir
Richard Steele and Douglas Jer-
rold on it, 65.
De Maistre, Count Joseph, his wor-
ship of his mother, 18; on the
heat of his style, 159; on learn-
ing languages, 324.
De Montalembert, Count Charles
Forbes, how his electrical oratory
was acquired, 325, 326.
De Quincey, Thomas, on changes
Dickens, Charles, his habits as a
writer, 12.
Disraeli, Benjamin, his retorts on
the mob, 278; his imperturba-
bility when attacked, 278, 279.
Dodd, Mrs., wife of William Dodd,
D.D., anecdote of, 71.
Doddridge, Philip, D. D., saying
of his daughter, 136.
Dorset, Ann, Countess of, 215.
Dryden, John, as a reader, 193.
Dufferin, Lord Frederic T. B., his
solecism, 229.
Dundonald, the Earl of, his naval
achievements, 74; his lack of
prudence and self-restraint, 74;
fined and imprisoned, 74.
Dunning, John, Lord Ashburton,
his ugliness, wit, and eloquence,
242.
EATING, American and English
habits contrasted, 284, 285; an
index of character, 285, 286.
Editorial life, its trials in the coun-
try, 257-259.
Electioneering, political, anecdote
of it, 189, 190.
Elocution, attention to it in Ameri-
can colleges and public schools,
86, 87; skill in it the chief need
of the pulpit, 190; its compara-
tive neglect in theological semi-
naries, 190, 191.
Emerson, R. W., on professional | Freethinkers, in religion, are abso-
enthusiasm, 24; on modern civil-
ization, 47.
Enigma, a spiritual, 62, 63.
Enthusiasm, Kant on it, 326; not
a quality of the greatest geniuses,
326, 327.
Epictetus, saying of, 114.
Epicurus, 167.
"Eothen," by Kinglake, causes of
its brilliant success, 40, 41.
Eutychus, his cheap immortality,
lutist in politics, 167.
Froissart, the Chronicler, his anec-
dote of a monk, 28.
Froude, James Anthony, on Dean
Stanley, 158.
Friends, the damage they do to
political and philanthropic causes,
philosophies, Christianity, etc.,
etc., 217-220.
Fuller, Thomas, D. D., on Dr.
William Perkins's preaching,
239, 240.
GALIANI, FERDINANDO, Abbé, 322.
Garnett, Richard, his "Life of
Milton," 30.
Garnier-Pages, Louis Antoine, his
retort on a workman, 267.
Garrick, a witness at Baretti's
trial, 85.
Genius, and application, 121–124;
why it hates regular work, 123;
and painstaking, 162, 163; not
a capacity for taking pains, ib. ;
adversity not always an advan-
tage to it, 251-253; enthusiasm
not its characteristic, 326, 327.
Getting into harness, 164, 165.
Gibbon, Edward, his "Decline and
Fall" a masterpiece of history;
his personal appearance, 130;
his defects as a historian, 131.
Fontenelle, on life at ninety-nine, Giles, Rev. Henry, as a story-
Foscoli, Ugo, his ugliness, 241.
Fournier, Edouard, characterized by
Jules Janin, 27.
France, her purchase of Corsica,
301.
Frederic the Great, his letter to
a Jew, 215.
teller, 259, 260; some of his say-
ings, 260.
Gladstone, William E., Spurgeon's
remarks on his temper, 166; three
men in one, 323; causes of his
vitality, 207, 208; his changes
of occupation, 207; his freedom
from worry, 208.
Freedom, a Yankee's idea of it, Goethe, advantages of his financial
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