Challenge of Thor, quoted, 521.
Channing, W. E., quoted and criti-
cised, 313.

Character, contradictions in, 120; in-
completeness of the sceptical, 171;
contrasts in, 255; paradoxical, 329.
Character, quoted, 528.
Charities, 262.

Charles II, 1; quoted, 53.

Charon, the Stygian ferryman, 159.
Chartists, the, 356.
Chatterton, Thomas, 270.
Chaucer, modernized, 61.
Chesterfield, Lord, quoted, 128.
Childe Harold, quoted and criticised,
340.

Child's First Impressions of a Star,
quoted, 381.

Chillingworth, William, 28.

Christ, J. S. Mill concerning, 424.
Christabel, quoted and criticised, 278.
Christian Hero, 77.
Christianity, 183, 267, 313, 363.
Christianity not Mysterious, 75.
Christian Virtuoso, 38.

Chronicle, the Saxon, quoted, 139.
Church, the English, 268; divisions
in, 363; Irish Protestant, 356; the
New, 425.

Circles, quoted, 528.

Civilization, unprecedented advance-
ment in, 258.

Civilization in England, 420 (note).
Civil Service, corruption of, in the
United States, 358.

Clarendon, Lord, criticised, 28.
Clarissa Harlowe, quoted and criti-
cised, 147.

Clarke, Samuel, 29.

Clergy, decline of political influence,

9: absolute in Scotland, 9; in the
age of Anne, 72. See Church and
Religion.

Cloud, quoted and criticised, 291.
Coffee Houses, 71.
Coleridge,

Samuel Taylor, 313;
quoted, 316; and criticised, 277.
Collier, Jeremy, attack of, on the
stage, 23, 74.

Collins, William, 76.

Collins, William Wilkie, 419 (note).
Commons, House of, 258.
Compensation, quoted, 527.
Complete Angler, quoted and criti-
cised, 24.
Condillac, 43.

Confessions of an Opium Eater, 300
(note).

Conflict, the condition of power, 220;
significance of moral, illustrated,
511.

Congreve, William, quoted and criti-
cised, 17; quoted, 65.

Conquest of Grenada, quoted and
criticised, 55.

Conquest of Mexico, 311.
Conquest of Peru, 311.

Conquest of the Saracens, 420 (note).
Conscience, the tortures of a guilty,
illustrated, 440, 445.

Conscious Lovers, 77.

Considerations by the Way, quoted,
527.

Constitutional History of England,
310.

Contentment, a picture of, 24, 25.
Controversy, the style of theological,
illustrated, 391.

Conversation, Dryden's, 66.
Cooke, G. W., 414 (note).

Cooper, James Fennimore, quoted
and criticised, 308, 419.

Cooper's Hill, quoted and criticised,

Cousin, Victor, 318.

Cowley, Abraham, 14, 23.

Cowper, William, quoted, 45, 64;
biography and criticism, 241-256.
Crabbe, George, quoted and criti-
cised, 270.

Craik, G. L., quoted. 146.
Creg, W. R., 414 (note).
Crimean War, 356.

Criticism, 10, 118, 182, 296, 301, 313,
401, 402.

Cromwell, Oliver, 28.
Cromwell, 420, 460.

Crowded Street, quoted and criti-
cised, 387.

Cudworth, Ralph, 29, 35, 44.

Curse of Kehama, quoted and criti-
cised, 275.

Custom, influence of, 457.

Daily Thoughts, 414 (note).

Dana, R. H., quoted and criticised,
368.

Daniel Deronda, quoted and criti-
cised, 481.

Darkness, quoted and criticised, 347.
Darwin, Charles, 317; quoted and
criticised, 430.

David Copperfield, quoted, 438; and
criticised, 447.

Death, Dryden's image of, 57, 58;
Raleigh's apostrophe to, 140; qual-
ifications for meeting, 159; paral-
lel between, and sleep, 285; the
sorrow of, 291, 292; universality
and dread of, 384, 386.

De Cive, condemned by Parliament,
35.

Declaration of Independence, quoted,

179.

Decline and Fall of the Roman Em-
pire, 198.

De Foe, Daniel, as journalist, 74; as
novelist, 75; biography and criti-
cism, 89-94; and Hawthorne, 503.
Deism, English, rise of, 28; decline
of, 142, 183.

Democracy, growth of, 257; develop-
ment of, in the United States,
358.

Democracy in America, quoted, 262.
Demonology and Witchcraft, 325.
Denham, Sir John, quoted and criti-
cised, 12.

Dennis, John, quoted, 121.
Descent of Man, 430.

Deserted Village, quoted and criti-
cised, 212.

De Quincey, Thomas, quoted, 220;
and criticised, 299.

Design, the argument from, 184.
Development, imodern conception of,
430.

Dialogues of the Dead, 157.
Diary. Evelyn's, quoted and criti-
cised, 25.

Diary, Pepys', quoted and criticised,
26.

Dickens, Charles, biography and
criticism, 438-454.

Dictionary of the English Language,
criticised, 173.

Disraeli, Benjamin, quoted, 241; as
a novelist, 419 (note),
Dissenters, the, 72.

Dissertation on Roast Pig, quoted
and criticised, 299.

Dombey and Son, quoted and criti-
cised, 446.

Domestic Manners of the Americans,
quoted, 263.

Don Juan, quoted and criticised, 348.
Donne, John, allusion to, 14.

Dorset, Earl of, quoted and criti-
cised, 11.

Drama, in the Restoration, licen-
tiousness of, and the causes, 15; in
eighteenth century, slight literary
importance of, 74, 136, 181; in
nineteenth century, downward ten-
dency of, continued, 396; moral
elevation of, 398.

Drama of Exile, quoted, 370.
Draper, John W., criticised, 422;
allusion to, 435.

Drapier Letters, criticised, 102.
Dream, quoted and criticised, 339.
Doubt, the function of, 202.
Dryden, John, allusion to, 13, 22,
45; quoted, 15, 95; prose works of,
24; biography and criticism, 54-

69.

Dugdale, Sir William, allusion to, 27.
Dunciad, quoted and criticised, 114.
Dutch, the early, Irving on the
domestic architecture and manners
of, 304.

Dying Alchemist, quoted and criti-
cised, 380.

Edgeworth, Maria, Irish Tales of,
308.

Edinburgh Review, 294.

Edward Fane's Kosebud, quoted and
criticised, 503.

Education, classical, Hazlitt on, 298.
Eggleston, Edward, 419 (note).
Elegy written in a Country Church-
yard, quoted and criticised, 135.
Elements, quoted, 532.

Eliot, George, biography and criti-
cism, 470-487.
Elizabeth, 420 (note).

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quoted, 239,
318. 407, 425: allusion to, 414;
anti-materialism of, 435: biog-
raphy and criticism, 523-543; and
Carlyle, 537.

Empedocles on Etna, quoted, 373.
Endymion, quoted and criticised,

Essays in Biography and Criticism,
414 (note).

Essays, Philosophical and Theologi-
cal, 414 (note).

Essays, Theological and Literary,
414 (note).

Eternal Goodness, quoted, 396.
Eternal Hope, 414 (note).
Etherege, Sir George, his definition
of a gentleman, 16.

Ethics, intuitive and utilitarian
schools of, characterized and dis-
tinguished, 31, 143; utilitarian
tone of, in last half of eighteenth
century, 188; also in nineteenth
century, 315, 427; representatives
of intuitive school of, 429.
European Morals from Augustus to
Charlemagne, 420 (note).

Evangeline, quoted and criticised,

520.

Eve of St. Agnes, quoted and criti-
cised, 282.

Evelyn, John, quoted and criticised,

25.

Every Day Topics, 414 (note).
Evidences of Christianity, 75.
Evil not an entity, 527.
Evolution, theory of, introduction
of, into English science, 316; not
of modern origin, 318; general
acceptance of, 430; feels the uplift
of the ideal, 431; endangers no
fundamental belief, 432; the Pla-
tonic view of, 532.

Excellence, all, perpetual, 256.
Excelsior, 521.

Excursion, quoted, 330.

Fable for Critics, quoted, 518.
Fables, quoted and criticised, 61.
Faith, beauty of the child's, 381.
Faith Gartney's Girlhood, 419 (note).
Fame, transitoriness of poetical, 296;
evils of, 381.

Fan, Addison on the use of the, 83.
Far from the Madding Crowd, 419
(note).

Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother,

393.
Farquhar, George, quoted and criti-
cised, 21.

Farrar, F. W., 414 (note).

Fate, element of, in the government of
the world, 526; limitations of, 527.
Fate, quoted, 526.

Federal Government, 420 (note).
Few Sighs from Hell, 46.
Fichte, philosophy of, 318.
Fiction, sketch of the growth of, 307.
Field, James T., 414 (note).
Fielding, Henry, 127; quoted, 128;
criticised, 137: biography and
criticism, 151–157.

Fire, the Great, account of, 25.
Fiske, John, 414 (note), 435.
Flood of Years, criticised, 387.
Flying coaches established, 4.
Fontenelle, quoted, 34.
Fool's Errand, 419 (note).
Forerunners, quoted, 531.
Foster, John, quoted, 268.
Fountain, criticised, 387.
Fox, Charles, quoted, 193.
Fragments of Science, quoted, 432.
Free Thought, 29, 423.

Free Trade, first advocated by Hume,
170; adopted in England, 356.
Freedom of discussion, 180.
Freeholder, 82.

Freeman, Edward, 420.

French influence in English Litera-
ture, 312, 320.

French poetry, Dryden's description
of, 62.

French Revolution, 420 (note); quoted

and criticised, 461.

Froude, J. A., as a critic, 401; quoted
and criticised, 403, 420.
Fuller, Margaret, quoted, 469.
Fuller's Worthies, 27.
Fulton, Robert, 259.
Funeral, 77.

Future, a vision of the, 358.

Future, quoted, 373.

Future Life, quoted and criticised,

387.

Galileo, quoted, 38.

Gallows, as an index to the state of

society, 3.

Galvani, an unrecognized benefactor,
192.

Gambling, 2, 71, 128.

Garden, quoted and criticised, 14.
Garrick, David, 136.

Garth, 419 (note).

Gas, introduction of, into London,
259.

Gates Ajar, 419 (note).
Gay, John, 136.

Gebir, quoted and criticised, 368.
Gems of thought and sentiment, 64,
104, 118, 134, 274, 297, 306, 314,
353, 371, 408, 413, 464, 486, 501,
513, 538.

Genius, Newton's conception of, 37;
Helvetius', 37; Carlyle's, 460.
Gentleman, definition of a, in the
Restoration, 16.

Geology, rise of the science of, 187;
progress, 316.

German influence in English Litera-
ture, 312, 320.

Gertrude of Wyoming, quoted and
criticised, 274.

Giaour, quoted and criticised, 343.
Gibbon, Edward, 183, 310; biog-
raphy and criticism, 195-203.
Gin, discovery of, and the results,
128.

God, Locke's derivation of the idea
of, 41; Pope's prayer to, 116;
Pope's attempt to define, 117; ar-
gument of natural theology for the
existence of, 184; on the provi-
dence of, 331; the impartial good-
ness of, 332; faith in, 396; the
fundamental reality, 457; the Over-
soul in process of self-evolution,
525.

Goethe, quoted, 171, 255, 539.
Golden Legend, quoted, 519, 520.
Goldsmith, Oliver, quoted, 175; bi-
ography and criticism, 203-221.
Good and Evil, Carlyle on, 466.
Goodness and Greatness, ends, not
means, 316.

Gospel a Republication of the Reli-
gion of Nature, 75.

Gray, Thomas, quoted and criticised,
135; quoted, 212.

Gray, Asa, anti-materialistic, 436.
Great Man, the, Carlyle's conception
of, 460; Emerson's, 530.
Great Rebellion, 28.
Greeley, Horace, 294.
Green, John R., 420.

Greenwich Observatory founded, 36.
Grimaldi, melancholy of, 329.
Guardian, 77, 82.

Guizot, quoted, 199.

Guesses at Truth, 414 (note).
Gulliver's Travels, quoted and criti-
cised, 103.

Habeas Corpus, 43.

Habit, and the sense of beauty, 407.
Hall, Robert, quoted, 267.

Hallam, Henry, quoted and criti-
cised, 310.

Halleck, Fitz Greene, quoted and
criticised, 378.

Hamilton, Gail, 414 (note).
Hamilton, Sir William, quoted, 43;
allusion to, 315; quoted and criti-
cised, 318.
Happiness, Gibbon on, 201; as a
motive to virtue, and the ground
of the moral sentiments, 315;
essential requisite for, 315; not a
usual possession of the highest
minds, 404.

Hardy, Thomas, 419 (note).
Harte, Francis Bret, 419 (note).
Hartley, David, utilitarian, 143.
Haven, Joseph, 429.

Hawthorne, Julian, 419 (note).
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 414, 419; bi-
ography and criticism, 502-518;
quoted, 540, 542.

Hazlitt, William, quoted, 107; and
criticised, 298.

Healing of the Daughter of Jairus,
quoted and criticised, 379.
Hectors, the, 3.

Hegel, 318.

Hell, conception of, in the seven-
teenth century, 30; Bunyan's vivid
sense of, 53; Southey's description
of the Indian, 275; past and pres-
ent views of, 426.
Hellenics, 368.

Helps, Sir Arthur, quoted, 438.
Herbert, Lord, deistical tenets of, 28.
Hermit of Thebaid, 395.

Heroes and Hero-Worship, quoted
and criticised, 459.
Herschel, Sir William, 187.
Hiawatha, quoted and criticised, 520.
Hickok, L. P., 430.

Higginson, T. W., 414 (note).
Highways, 3, 4.

High Church, 72, 363.

Hind and Panther, quoted and criti-
cised, 59.

Historians, three schools of, in the
present age, 419.

History, general view of progress in

the method of, to the middle of

History of English Poetry, 183.
History of Ferdinand and Isabella,
310.

History of Greece, 216, 309.

History of Henry Esmond, quoted
and criticised, 418.

History of New York, Irving's, quoted
and criticised, 304.
History of the Popes, Macaulay's
essay on, quoted, 302.
History of Rome, Goldsmith's, 216.
History of Rome, Arnold's, 309.
History of the United States, Ban-
croft's, 421.

History of the World, quoted, 140.
Hobbes, Thomas, prose style of, 24;
deism, 29; utilitarian ethics, 32-
36; psychology, 38; precursor of
modern materialism, 39.
Hogarth, 145.

Holland, J. G., quoted, 238; named,
414 (note), 419 (note).
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, quoted and
criticised, 387.

Holmes, Mrs., 419 (note).

Holy Fair, quoted and criticised,
231.

Homer, Cowper's observations on,
250.

Hood, Thomas, quoted, 238; and
criticised, 366.

Hoosier Schoolmaster, 419 (note).
Hope, blessedness of, 273; apostrophe
to. 274.

Hours in a Library, 414 (note).
Hours with the Mystics, 401.
House of Commons, becomes para-
mount, 2.

House of the Seven Gables, quoted and
criticised, 506.

Howells, W. D., 419 (note).
Hudibras, quoted and criticised, 14;
allusion to, 44.

Hudson, Henry N., 414 (note).
Hughes, Thomas, 419 (note).
Humboldt, Alexander, quoted, 168.
Hume, David, 43, 140, 310; scepti-
cism of, 141; philosophy of, mate-
rialistic, 145, 160; biography and
criticism, 157-171; on principles of
trade, 190.

Hunter, John, his contributions to
medical science, 187.

Hutton, R. H., quoted, 188, 455;
allusion to, 414 (note).

Hunt, Leigh, quoted and criticised,

366.
Huxley, Thomas H., quoted, 432, 435.
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, quoted
and criticised, 291.

Hymn to Proserpine, quoted, 376.
Hymns, quoted and criticised, 81.
Hyperion, Keats', quoted and criti-
cised, 282.

Hyperion, Longfellow's, quoted and
criticised, 519.
Hypatia, 419 (note).
Hypocrisy, illustrated, 443.

Ideal, the, necessity of, 69, 169; un-
realizable, 372; the longing for,
392; influence of, on character, 528.
Idealism, 31, 144, 459.
Idealist, mission of the, 542.
Ideas, power of, 192.

Idler, quoted and criticised, 173.
Idyls of the King, quoted and criti-
cised, 495.

Iliad, Pope's translation, 127.
Iliad, Cowper's translation, 250.
Imagination, decadence of, 73; the

ignorant more inventive than the
educated, 298.

Imaginative poetry, examples of, 289.
Imitations of Horace, quoted, 123.
Immortality, kinds of, 87; belief in,

innate, 117, 332; analogy of Na-
ture for, 142; intimations of, 299,
334; Byron on, 353; Carlyle, 458;
impersonal, 485.

Indian Emperor, quoted, 56.
Individuals, power of, 68.
Influence, limits of, 68; perpetuity
of. 88.

In Memoriam, quoted and criticised,
492.

Inquiry Concerning the Human Un-
derstanding, quoted and criticised,
160.

Inquiry Concerning the Sublime and
Beautiful, 202.