Grumblers, a word for, 163-167, Hooker, Richard, D. D., on the

Hardships, do not harden men, Inconsistency of the poet Thomson,
308.

Harun-al-Rashid, his epistle to the Indian name of a lake, 51, 52.

Emperor Nicephorus, 214.
Haydon, the painter, his complaints

JACK-O'-LANTERNS, their various | Law Reports, immortality in, 94.

forms, 156.

James II., King of England, causes
of his abdication, 218.
Jeffrey, Francis, Macaulay on his
many faces, 322.

Jerrold, Douglas, on debt, 65.
Jews, their lack of humor, 194, 195.
John Bull, a born grumbler, 163,

164.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 17; exhibi-

tions of temper in his Diction-
ary; on Samuel Richardson, 23;
on John Milton, 23, 24; on the
neglect of merit, 57; on the mon-
osyllable "No," 64; his rude-
ness, 77; his superstition, 92;
his sensibility, 216; on the choice
of food, 284.

Jokes, laughing at one's own, 44,

45.

Jonson, Ben, his retort on James I.,
114.

KANT, IMMANUEL, anecdote of, 62.
Keats, John, comments on one of
his expressions, 231.

Kenyon, Lord Lloyd, his miserli-

ness, 133.

Key, Francis S., 4.

Lecturers, English and American
contrasted, 83-87; inferiority of
English, and its causes, 85, 86;
popular, 161; their economy of
resources, ib. ; their dulness in-
excusable, 161.

Legal niceties, 290, 291.

Le Kain, Henry Louis, his personal
appearance, 242.

Letters, laconic, 210-215; to-day's
contrasted with those of "the
olden time," 210; qualities of
the latter, 211-215; of Lord El-
don, the Duke of Dorset, Dr.
Nath. Emmons, Daniel Webster,
Harun-al-Rashid, Talleyrand, Sir
C. J. Napier, Frederic the Great,
Samuel Rogers, and Ann, Count-
ess of Dorset, 211-215.
Letter-writing, almost a lost art,
210; causes of its decay, 210.
Lewes, George H., on the uses of
a knowledge of Greek, 312.
Librarians, anecdotes illustrating
their trials, 34-36.
Literature, the secret of success in
it, 40-42; its sycophancy, 317-

321.

Lincoln, Abraham, on his self-vin-
dication, 148.

Kirkland, Mrs. C. M., anecdote of Livermore, Mrs. Mary, 9, 10.

168.
Knowledge, value of a little, 99-
103; when a little is "danger-
ous," 102.

Knowles, Herbert, 3.

LABOR, "pays," 187, 188.
Lamb, Charles, sayings of, 284,
287.

Landor, Walter Savage, verses from,
126 his quarrelsome disposition,
183, 184.

Living, by proxy, 47-49.

Locke, John, his contempt of po-
etry, 37.

Longevity, its secret, 208, 209;
Bismarck, Gladstone, Tennyson,
Von Moltke, and the poet Bry-
ant on its causes, 209; heredity
its main cause, 209; promoted
by mental activity, 308, 309.
Lorraine, Claude, his landscapes,
46;
his self-repetition, 104;
causes of his excellence as a
painter, 325.

Louis XIV., King of France, his | Mathews, Henry, his “Diary of an

Lubbock, Sir John, saying of, Mazères, Baron Francis, mathemati-

Lyrics, excellence of old English Merenra, oldest of the Pharaohs,
ones, 124, 125.

Maclaren, Alexander, D.D., saying
of, 238.
Manners, English vs. American, Ministers, shelving old ones, 250,

Malaprops, anecdotes of colored | Mirabeau, his eloquence, 194.
ones, 298.
Molière, lines from, 232.

Marlborough, Duke of, his gracious Money, "no chance to make it
manners, 136.

Marryatt, Florence, her anecdote of Mozart, the composer, on musical

Music, ancient and modern con- | Novels, the first in English, 265,
trasted, 310-312.

266.

Musquito, a battle with one, 262- Nuisance, a social, 133.

264.

Mystery, Amiel on its necessity in
religion, 264, 265.

OATHS, abolition of public ones,

154; their violation, 155.
Occupation, various needful, 208.

NAPIER, SIR CHARLES J., com- October, its charms, 151–154.

plaints of him, 159.
Napoleon, his saying to Marshal
Duroc, 283; hackneyed saying
of one of his old soldiers, 270;
its wearisome repetition in the
pulpit, 270, 271; his character,
327.

Names vs. Things, 21-23.

Nero, his treatment of his libellers,
29.

Newspapers, their rivalry, 115, 116;
examples of their enterprise,
116;
their abuse, 267-270; their
uses and value, 268; indispen-
sable to students, 268; R. W.
Emerson on their value, 268;
make the opinions of their read-
ers, 269; how they may be util-
ized, ib.

Nicknames, their cruelty, 75, 76;
their adhesiveness, 76;
"the
Paper-Collar Brigade,” 76.
Newton, Sir Isaac, his shyness, 85;
comments on a saying of his, 162.
66 'Nickels," odd use of the word by
a German lad, 247.

Old Age, Montaigne on it, 17.
Old Women, Coleridge's classifica-
tion of them, 16; when charm-
ing, 16.

Orators, the secret of some of their
failures, 171.

Otis, Harrison Gray, on his life,
275.

PARKER, THEODORE, his retorts,
232, 233.

Parr, Samuel, D. D., his ugliness,
242.

Parsons, Theophilus, Judge Story
on his brevity and power as a
speaker, 199.

Parsons, wine-bibbing, 248, 249.
Passionless Men, 157-159; char-
acterized by Albertus Magnus,
157; insipid, 158; their lack of
manliness and pluck, 159.
D. D., on declining

Patton,

hock, 248, 249.

Paul, the apostle, his verbal con-
tradictions, 231, 232.

"No," effects of the ability or non- Payne, John Howard, had no home,

ability to say it, 63, 64.
Noise, needless, 60, 61; eminent
haters of it, 61, 62; disliked by
thinkers and literary men, 61;
Schopenhauer on it, 61.
Nonsense, sensible, examples of
it, 50, 51.

77; his poverty and vagabond
life, 298.

Pedants, a plea for, 24-28.
Pell, Sir Albert, advocate, the
iteration in his jury addresses,
146; Brougham's saying about his
speeches, ib.

North, Frederic, Earl of Guilford, Peterborough, Lord, the hero of

anecdote of, 202.

Almanza, his eccentricity, 93.

Phillips, Wendell, his self-repeti- | Pugin, Augustus N. W., architect,

Phrases, origin of some popular Puzzling a Yankee, 148–150.

Plutarch, on the citizens of Rhodes, Rebecca, in Scott's "Ivanhoe," her

Richardson, Samuel, the novelist, 7.

Porson, Richard, saying of, 162; Richelieu, Cardinal, 88, 89.

Praise, greed of, 23; its value, 321, Robinson, Ezekiel, D. D., on col-

Precious stones, pelting with, 139, Rogues, examples of their ingenuity,

Preacher, a "safe "one, 222; mean- Romance, its narrowing bounds,
ing of the term, ib.