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.
De Staël, Madame, anecdote of,
325.
Colton, author of "Lacon," his in- Destiny, an ignominious one, 87-
consistency, 77.
Colver, Nathaniel, D. D., his witti- Dewey, Orville, D.D., his elocu-
cism, 233.
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,
224.
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,
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.
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
Goodness without a theory, 300.
"Going with the grain," 134-139.
Goldsmith, Oliver, Miss Reynolds's
remark on his ugliness, 242.
Grant, Sir William, his verbal
economy, 323.
Grant, Ulysses, his Vicksburg ex-
pedition, 147.
Gray, Thomas, his coxcombry, etc.,
6; his love of sunlight, 14; his
opinion of works of Rousseau and
Thomson, 319.
Greek, some uses of it, 312, 313.
Grosso, Nanni, anecdote of, 6.
Grumbling, its benefits, 166; pre-
cedes every great innovation and
revolution, 166.
75; on petty trials, 106, 107;
on vulgar tastes, 207; on the
Quakers, 240, 241; disproofs of
his criticisms, ib. ;
one of his
letters quoted, 284.
Heine, Heinrich, his humor cyni-
cal, 195; examples of it, 195.
Henry I., King of England, his
treatment of a lampooner, 29.
Hill, Gen., Confederate officer, his
Algebra, 21.
Hisses, silenced, 232, 233.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, on the
miseries of overworked women,
112.
Hood, Thomas, his lines on wed-
lock, 315.
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
Hazlitt, William, quoted, 27; his
sensitiveness to criticism, etc.,
Intercourse, the best teacher, 98.
Intermissions in speech, some long
ones, 323, 324.
Iteration, its value in public ad-
dresses, 142, 143.
JACK-O'-LANTERNS, their various | Law Reports, immortality in, 94.
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,
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,
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-
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.
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.
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