tor, did not last long: No cage big enough to hold a Kaiser: Beats Albert Alcibiades; and gets killed. The present King of Saxony a far-off nephew of jockeying Moritz: A most expensive progeny; in general not admirable otherwise. August the Strong, of the three-hundred-and-fifty-four bastards: More transcendent king of gluttonous flunkeys seldom stalked this earth. His miscellany of mistresses, very pretty some of them, but fools all: The unspeakably unexemplary mortal! Protestant Saxony spiritually bankrupt ever since. One of his bastards became Maréchal de Saxe, and made much noise for a time: Like his father, an immensely strong man; of unbounded dissoluteness, and loose native ingenuity. (474). — The elder or Ernestine Line, in its undecipherable, disintegrated state. How the pious German mind holds by the palpably superfluous; and in general cannot annihilate rubbish: The Ernestine Line was but like its neighbours in that. Cruel to say of these Ernestine little Dukes, they have no history: Perhaps here and there they have more history than we are aware of. Pity brave men, descended presumably from Witekind and the gods, certainly from John the Steadfast and John Frederick the Magnanimous, should be reduced to stand thus inert, amid the whirling arena of the world! (485). — Bernhard of Weimar, a famed captain in the ThirtyYears' War, whose Life Goethe prudently did not write: Not so easy to dig-out a Hero from the mouldering paper-heaps. Another individual of the Ernestine Line; notable to Englishmen as 'Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg. He also a late, very late, grandson of that little stolen Ernst; concerning whom both English History and English Prophecy might say something. The Horologe of Time goes inexorably on. (488).

INDEX.

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, 361;
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-
Camille Desmoulins, iv. 174.
day ended, 398.
Cant, i. 276; iii. 82, 134; iv. 144.
Capital Punishments, iv. 387.
Cathedral of Immensity, iv. 366.
Catherine of Russia, Diderot's visit
Cervantes, i. 21; iv. 197.
to, iii. 304.
Change, the inevitable approach of,
manifest every where, iii. 25; iv.
336, 489; universal law of, iii. 42,
Characteristics, iii. 5-48.
150, 206.
Charlemagne, iv. 8.
Charles I., vacuous, chimerical let-
ters of, iv. 313; judicial blindness,
Charles II., iii. 62.
321; at Strafford's Trial, 328.
Châtelet, the Marquise du, ii. 39;
her utter shamelessness, 41; un-
Cheek, Sir Hatton, and Sir Thomas
imaginable death-bed scene, 42.
Dutton, iv. 435.

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

Chivalry on the wane, ii. 361, 364;
happy Unconsciousness of, iii. 7.
Christ, the Divine Life of, i. 247;
gone, 374; iii. 34; iv. 18.
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;