Almacks, high Art at, i. 263; gum-
flowers of, to be made living roses
of Eden, iii. 404.
Ambition, i. 320; iv. 157, 216, 236,
248. See Love of Power.
Amusements, unveracious, iv. 447.
Animal attachments, iv. 233; a wise
little Blenheim cocker, 233; like-
ness to man, 234.

Apologue, the age of, ii. 383.
Aristocracy, our, a word to, iii. 243;

a glimpse of Self-vision for them,
iv. 444.

Art, biographic interest in, iii. 53;
necessity for veracity, iv. 454.
Artificial, the, as contrasted with the
natural, iii. 18.

Artist, German ideal of the true, i.
61, 232; in History, ii. 235; Opera
Artists, iv. 443.

Ass, the, and the moon, ii. 78.
Atheism, how, melts into nothing-
ness, ii. 105; Richter's Dream of,
221; an impossibility, iii. 161;
proselytising Atheist, 311, 316.
August the Strong, of the three-
hundred-and- fifty-four bastards,
iv. 482.

Bacon, Roger, ii. 361.

Badness by its nature negative, iii.
85. See Evil.
Baffometus, Werner's parable of, i.

105.

Baillie the Covenanter, iv. 304-338;
Scotch Encampment on the Hill
of Dunse, 318; domesticities of
Kilwinning, 321; Impeachment
and trial of Strafford, 325.
Balaam and his Ass, iii. 244.
Ballet-girls, iv. 443.

Balmung, the wonderful Sword, ii.

312.

Barnardiston, Sir Nathaniel, iv. 405.
Barnum, Yankee-, methods, iv. 453.
Battle, life a, iii. 48.
Beetle, the, i. 475.
Beginnings, iii. 150.

Being, the lordliest Real-Phantasma-
gory, iv. 9.

Believing, glory of knowing and, ii.
23; mystic power of belief, iii. 34,
41, 58, 86, 329; the least spiritual
belief conceivable, 316; supersti-
tious ditto, 377.

Bernhard of Weimar, iv. 488.
Bible, the Hebrew, ii. 122; iii. 222,
333; a History of the primeval
Church, ii. 238; Bible of World-
History, infinite in meaning as the
Divine Mind it emblems, iii. 331.
See Israelitish History.
Biography, a good, almost as rare as
a well-spent life, i. 5; ii. 167; Biog-
raphy, iii. 52-69; the basis of all
that can interest, 53; of sparrows
and cockchafers, 67; need of brev-
ity, 94; the highest Gospel a Biog-
raphy, 98; respectable' English
Biographies, iv. 7, 192; no heroic
Poem but is at bottom a Biogra-
phy, 189; biographic worth of a
true Portrait, 449.

Bolivar,' the Washington of Colum-

bia,' iv. 340.

Bonaparte, Napoleon, iii. 51, 149, 170;
his Tools to him that can handle
them,' our ultimate Political Evan-
gel, iv. 92, 200; Varnhagen at the
Court of, 266.

Boner, and his Edelstein, ii. 376; The
Frog and the Steer, 380.
Bonpland, M., and how Dr. Francia
treated him, iv. 350, 397.
Bookseller-System, the, iii. 109, 283.
Boswell, iii. 65; his character and
gifts, 76; his true Hero-worship
for Johnson, 80; his Johnsoniad, 83;
no infringement of social privacy,

92.

British Translators, ii. 418; Critics,
iii. 171.

Brühl, Henry Count von, i. 340.
Brummel, Beau, iii. 166.
Burns, i. 265-326; his hard condi-
tions, 270; a true Poet-soul, 272;
like a King in exile, 273; sincerity,
274; his Letters, 277; tenderness
and piercing emphasis of thought,
281; the more delicate relations of
things, 285; indignation, 288; Scots
wha hae, Macpherson's Farewell,
289; Tam O'Shanter, The Jolly
Beggars, 291; his Songs, 293;
love of country, 297; passionate
youth never became clear man-
hood, 299; his estimable Father,
300; iv. 281; boyhood, and en-
trance into life, i. 302; invited to
Edinburgh, 304; Sir Walter Scott's
reminiscence of him, 305; Excise
and Farm scheme, 309; calumny,
isolation, death, 312; his failure
chiefly in his own heart, 318; a
divine behest lay smouldering
within him, 323; his kinghood
and kingdom, iii. 101; a contem-
porary of Mirabeau, iv. 117.
Byron's short career, i. 74; life-
weariness, 224; his manful, yet un-
victorious struggle, 250; far enough
from faultless, 276, 300; ii. 253;
sent forth as a missionary to his
generation, i. 324: poor Byron,
who really had much substance
in him, iv. 216.

Cabanis's, Dr., metaphysical dis-
coveries, ii. 144, 360.
Cagliostro, Count, iii. 330-401; a
Liar of the first magnitude, 336;

singularly prosperous career, 336;
birth and boyhood, 341; with a
Convent-Apothecary, 344; a touch
of grim Humour, 345; returns to
Palermo, 346; Forgery and gen-
eral Swindlery, 347; a Treasure-
digging dodge, and consequent
flight, 350; quack-talent, 356:
marriage, and a new game opened
out, 358; temporary reverses, 861;
potions and love-philtres, 363;
visits England, and drives a pros-
perous trade in the supernatural,
364: Freemasonry, 366; his gift
of Tongue, 374; successes and ex-
posures, 379; how he fleeced the
Cardinal de Rohan, 385; The Dia-
mond-Necklace business, 388; iv.
29-84; again in England, iii. 390;
Goethe's visit to his family at
Palermo, 392; Cagliostro's Work-
day ended, 398.

Camille Desmoulins, iv. 174.
Cant, i. 276; iii. 82, 134; iv. 144.
Capital Punishments, iv. 887.
Cathedral of Immensity, iv. 366.
Catherine of Russia, Diderot's visit
to, iii. 304.
Cervantes, i. 21; iv. 197.
Change, the inevitable approach of,
manifest every where, iii. 25; iv.
336, 489; universal law of, iii. 42,
150, 206.
Characteristics, iii. 5–48.
Charlemagne, iv. 8.
Charles I., vacuous, chimerical let-
ters of, iv. 313; judicial blindness,
321; at Strafford's Trial, 328.
Charles II., iii. 62.
Châtelet, the Marquise du, ii. 39;
her utter shamelessness, 41; un-
imaginable death bed scene, 42.
Cheek, Sir Hatton, and Sir Thomas
Dutton, iv. 435.

Chesterfield, Lord, Johnson's letter
to, iii. 111.
Childhood, fresh gaze of, ii. 118, 160;

happy Unconsciousness of, ini. 7.
Chivalry on the wane, ii. 361, 364;
gone, 374; iii. 34; iv. 18.
Christ, the Divine Life of, i. 247;
true reverence for his sufferings
and death, 248; allusion to, by
Tacitus, ii. 7; a Sanctuary for all
the wretched, iv. 45.
Christian Religion, ineffaceable rec-
ord of the, ii. 66; its sacred, si-
lent, unfathomable depths, 68;

Novalis's thoughts on, 121; how
it arose and spread abroad among
men, 149; dissipating into Meta-
physics, iii. 26.

Church History, a continued Holy
Writ, ii. 238; Mother-Church a
superannuated stepmother, iii. 34.
Circumstances, man not the product
of his, i. 362; the victorious sub-
duer, iii. 98; their inevitable in-
fluence, 309; iv. 205.
Clothes-horse, man never altogether
a, iii. 163.

Cobbett, William, a most brave phe-
nomenon, iv. 202, 245.

Codification, the new trade of, ii. 147,

442.

Coleridge, ii. 81.

Commons, English House of, iv. 390.
Commonweal, European, tendency
to a, ii. 453. See Europe, Euro-
pean Revolution.

Condamine, M. de la, iv. 356.
Conscience, the only safehold, ii. 243;
singular forms of, iii. 318; not
found in every character named
human, iv. 34.

Constancy the root of all excellence,
ii. 94.

Contagion, spiritual, ii. 135; iii. 15.
Conversation, the phenomenon of, iii.
53, 249; sincere and insincere, 92.
Cooper, Fenimore, what he might
have given us, iv. 190.
Copyright Bill, Petition on the, iv.

Cromwell, what, did, iii. 105; iv. 335.
Croydon Races, a quarrel at, iv. 432.
Crusades, the, ii. 150.
Cui bono, i. 471.

Currie's, Dr., Life of Burns, i. 266.

D'Alembert, iii. 287.
Dante, iv. 102, 243.

Danton, an Earthborn, yet honestly
born of Earth, iv. 92.
David, King, iv. 442.
Death, the seal and immortal conse-
cration of Life, i. 319; iii. 21; Eter-
nity looking through Time, 147;
if not always the greatest epoch,
yet the most noticeable, 156.
Defoe, i. 284.

Democracy, stern Avatar of, iii. 351;
iv. 18.

Denial and Destruction, i. 222; ii. 21,
69; iii. 113, 246, 260, 315; change
from, to affirmation and re-con-
struction, ii. 428; iii. 37.
Descriptive power, i. 282; iii. 65.
D'Ewes, Sir Simonds, High-Sheriff
of Suffolk, iv. 403; his immacu-
late election affidavits, 404; Sir
Simonds sat spotless for Sudbury,
422; took Notes of the Long Par-
liament, 423; purged out with
some four or five score others,
423; value of his Ms. Notes, 425.
Diamond Necklace, the, iv. 5-84;
the various histories of those va-
rious Diamonds, 13; description
of, 15; it changes hands, 61; Dia-
monds for sale, 68; the extraordi-
nary 'Necklace' Trial, 72.
Diderot, iii. 257-329; his Father,
266; education, 267; precarious
manner of life, 272; marriage,
278; general scoundrelism, 280;
authorship, 281; his letters, 286;
incredible activity, 297; garbled
proof-sheets, 298; free, open-
handed life in Paris, 302; visits
Petersburg, 305; death, 307; men-
tal gifts, 308; a proselytising Athe-
ist, 311; utter shamelessness and
uncleanness, 318; brilliant Talk,
321; literary facility, 321; neither
a coward nor in any sense a brave
man, 327.

Dilettanteism, reign of, iii. 196.

Divine Right of Kings, and of
Squires, iv. 337.
Do-nothing, the vulgar, contrasted
with the vulgar Drudge, iii. 220.
Döring's Gallery of Weimar Au-
thors, i. 6.

Doubt, withering influence of, i. 223;
the inexhaustible material which
Action fashions into Certainty, iii.
30. See Infidelity, Scepticism.
Dresden, bombardment of, i. 346.
Du Barry's foul day done, iv. 18.
Duelling, ii. 374; iv. 427.
Dumont's Souvenirs sur Mirabeau,

iv. 96.

Duncon's, Samuel, election affida-
vits, iv. 407.

Dunse, Scotch Encampment on the
Hill of, iv. 318.

Dutton, Sir Thomas, and Sir Hatton
Cheek, iv. 435.

Duty, infinite nature of, iii. 119; iv.
205; duty-made-easy, iii. 327.

Edelstein. See Boner.

Education, real and so-called, iii.
222; how young souls are trained
to live on poison, iv. 361; frightful
waste of faculty and labour, 442.
Egalité, Philippe, iv. 53.
Eighteenth Century, the prosaic, i.
270, 319; in it all the elements of
the French Revolution, ii. 25, 71;
iii. 259, 285; iv. 128; an era of
Cant, iii. 82; Hypocrisy and Athe-
ism dividing the world between
them, 113, 309.

Eloquence, long-eared, how to ac-
quire the gift of, iii. 375.
Emigration, iii. 44.

Ense's, Varnhagen von, Memoirs, iv.
252-281; his peculiar qualifica-
tions, 257; visit to Jean Paul, 258;
fighting at Wagram, 262; experi-
ences at the Court of Napoleon,
266; Rahel, his Wife, a kind of
spiritual queen in Germany, 270;
her letters, 272; brilliant talk, 274;
her death, 278.

Envy, a putrid corruption of sympa-
thy, iii. 160.

Epics, the old, believed Histories, iii.
58; the true Epic of our Time,

242.

Era, a New, began with Goethe, iii.
147, 152, 206.
See Spiritual.
Erasmus, i. 32.
Ernestine Line of Saxon Princes, iv.

471, 479; in its disintegrated state,
485.

Error, and how to confute it, ii. 82.
Europe, like a set of parishes, ir.

222. See Commonweal, Feudal.
Evil, Origin of, speculations on the,
iii. 30; evil, in the widest sense
of the word, 33. See Badness,
Right and Wrong.
Exeter-Hall twaddle, iv. 387.

Fables, Four, i. 471; the fourteenth
century an age of Fable, ii. 382.
Fact, the smallest historical, con-
trasted with the grandest fictitious
event, iii. 62, 86. See Reality.
Faith. See Believing.
Fame, no test of merit, i. 212; the
fantastic article so called, iii. 124.
See Popularity.

Fate, different ideas of, i. 398; Soph-
ocles, iv. 442.

Fault, what we mean by a, i. 259.
Faust, Goethe's, emphatically a work
of Art, i. 158; the story a Christian
mythus, 160; several attempts to
body it forth, 161; Goethe's suc-
cess, 162; his conception of Meph-
istopheles, 163; of Faust himself,
164; of Margaret, 169; the origi-
nal legend, ii. 388; like a death-
song of departing worlds, iii. 202.
Feudal Europe, old, fallen a-dozing
to die, iii. 351.

Fichte's notion of the Literary Man,
i. 62; his Philosophy, 81; ii. 108.
Fiction, and its kinship to lying, iii.

that distant country, 364; an un-
just judge discomfited, 370; hypo-
chondria, 371; Secretary of a Par-
aguay National Congress, 373; re-
tires into privacy, 375; his personal
appearance, and library, 375, 376;
gets himself declared Dictator,
377; a conspiracy detected, and
forty persons executed, 380; two
harvests in one season, 381; his
lease of Paraguay, 382; Funeral
Eulogium, 385; his message to the
English Nation, 390; his Work-
man's Gallows,' 393; mode of life,
394; treatment of M. Bonpland,
397; rumoured quarrel with his
father, 398; his life of labour
ended, 399.
Frederick, Elector, der Streitbare,
iv. 459.

the Pacific, iv. 460; differences
with Kunz von Kaufungen, 462;
his two Children stolen and recov-
ered, 464.

the Wise, who saved Luther
from the Diet of Worms, iv. 473.

August, the big King of Poland,
iv. 482.

the Great at Dresden, i. 343,
346; his favour for La Motte Fou-
qué, 417; Voltaire's visit to, ii.
37; his notion of Shakspeare, 63;
a Philosophe King, iii. 294.
Freedom, a higher, than freedom
from oppression, ii. 161.
Freemasonry, Cagliostro's, iii. 366.
French poetry, ii. 64; philosophy,

74, 142.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense,
i. 315.

Fugger, Anton, of Augsburg, ii. 395.

Gallows, terror of the, iv. 76; Dr.
Francia's Workman's Gallows,'
393.

Genius ever a secret to itself, iii. 9,

14; iv. 213. See Original Man.
Gentleman, modern, and meagre
Pattern-Figure, iv. 6. See Re-
spectability.

George, Duke of Saxony, whom Lu-
ther thought so little of, iv. 475.
German Literature, State of, i. 30-91;
foreign ignorance of, 32; charge of
bad-taste, 41; German authors not
specially poor, 47; high character
of German poetry, 68; charge of
Mysticism, 74; Irreligion, 89; First

era of German Literature, ii. 357,
425; physical science unfolds it-
self, 361; Didactic period, 365;
Fable literature, 382; on all hands
an aspect of full progress, 392;
rudiments of a new spiritual era,
428; for two centuries in the sere
leaf, iii. 197.

Gesta Romanorum, the, ii. 383, 386.
Gigmanity, literary, ii. 196; iii. 177.
God, the Living, no cunningly-de-
vised fable, iii. 318; judgments

of, 353.

Godlike, the, vanished from the
world, iii. 36.

Goethe's pictorial criticism, i. 66;
his Poetry, 69; Goethe, 204-264;
his Autobiography, 209; unexam-
pled reputation, 212; the Teacher
and exemplar of his age, 214;
Werter and Götz von Berlichingen,
217, 224; iv. 220; his notions on
suicide, 228; Wilhelm Meister,
230-248; spiritual manhood, 250;
singularly emblematic intellect,
251; a master of Humanity and
of Poetry, 252; not a German
Voltaire, 256, 257; his faults, 259;
Sketch of his life and works, 453-
468; his prose, ii. 215; intercourse
with Schiller, 266, 294; Goethe's
Portrait, iii. 49; Death of Goethe,
145-155; beginning of a New Era,
147; Goethe's Works, 156-215;
his greatness, 170; his Wahrheit
und Dichtung, 174; childhood and
parentage, 178; his father's hatred
of the French Army, 183; beauti-
ful Gretchen, 187; at Leipzig Uni-
versity, 188; studies for the Law,
190; the good Frederike, 191;
Goethe's goodness and badness,
193; the German Chaos, 195; first
literary productions, 199; settles
in Weimar, 200; inward life as
recorded in his Writings, 202;
tribute from Fifteen Englishmen,
204; his spiritual significance,
208;
a contemporary of Mira-
beau, iv. 117. See Faust, Helena,
Novelle, The Tale, Madame de
Staël.

Goldsmith, i. 220; iii. 126.
Good, no, that is possible but shall

one day be real, iii. 41; in Good-
ness the surest instinct for the
Good, 355.

Good Man, the, ever a mystic crea-