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.
waspish temper, 184.
Cass, Lewis, a slip in his speech, 227. Cellini, Benvenuto, his murders, 254, 255; Pope Clement on them,
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.
Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, 88; on the champions of truth, 219; his bold felicities of expression, 232. 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.
Cicero, examples of his wit, 220, 221; Niebuhr on his wit, 221.
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,
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,
Evil, chastises itself, 18, 19. Evils, of having one's life saved, 299, 300.
Exactness, sticklers for it, 296–298. Excellence, its price, 324–326.
FACTS, not faculty, 330-332. Fall, results of one, 140. Fallacy, a popular one exposed, 204; regarding pauperism, 266, 267.
Fame, queer roads to it, 93; its hollowness, 274-276; the poet Campbell's estimates of it, 276. Fastidious persons, characterized, 7; their miseries, 8. Fielding, Joseph, 66.
Founereau, Thomas George, his "Diary of a Dutiful Son" quoted, 239.
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
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
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.
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.
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