ABELARD, vii. 172.
Adieu, i. 291.

Affectation, difference between, and ge-
nuine originality, i. 11, 16; the bane of
literature, ii. 10.

Albert, Prince, Saxon Line of, vii. 139
(see Ernestine Line); his Horoscope
and Pedigree, 165.

Albert, Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg,
vii. 140.

Albert, Alcibiades, vii. 158.
Albert the Courageous, vii. 152.
Albertine Line of Saxon Princes, vii. 152.
Almacks, high Art at, i. 222; gum-flowers
of, to be made living roses of Eden, v.

129.

Alsace and Lorraine, cession of, to Ger-
many, vii. 242, 245, 250.

Ambition, v. 264; vi. 49, 67, 78. See Love
of Power.

American War, the late, vii. 203.
Amusements, unveracious, vii. 128.
Anarchy, no victory possible to, vii. 237.
Animal attachments, vi. 64; a wise little
Blenheim cocker, 65; likeness to man,
65.

Antoninus, vii. 203.

Apologue, the age of, iii. 188.
Aristocracy, our, a word to, iv. 207; omi-
nous condition of our, vi. 136, 151, 169;
an Aristocracy a corporation of the Best
and Bravest, 146; old Feudal Aristocra-
cies, 148, 151: a glimpse of self-vision
for them, vii. 126; by nature infinitely
important to us, 218; vocal and indus-
trial, 219, 231, 238; our titled, still
looked up to, 212; their remaining pos-
sibilities, 213, 217, 231; a wide field for
younger sons, 213, 214; the politest
kind of nobleman going, 215; born bro-
ther to the industrial noble, 225; and
to the teaching, 238; vulgar noble lords,
intent on their own game, 240, 241.
Arkwright, Richard, historical import-
ance of, vi. 166.

Art, biographic interest in, iv. 52; neccs-
sity for veracity, vii. 134, 219, 220.

Artificial, the, as contrasted with the na
tural, iv. 12.

Artist, German ideal of the true, i. 48,
196; in History, ii. 259; Opera Artists,

vii. 125.

Ass, the, and the moon, ii. 182.
Atheism, how, melts into nothingness, ii.
205 Richter's Dream of, iii. 55; an
impossibility, iv. 136; proselyting Athe
ist, v. 48, 52.
August the Strong, of the three hundred
and fifty-four bastards, vii. 159.

Bacon, Roger, iii. 169.

Badness by its nature negative, iv. 79.
See Evil.

Baffometus, Werner's parable of, i. 85.
Baillie the Covenanter, vi. 206-237; Scotch
Encampment on the Hill of Dunse, 218;
domesticities of Kilwinning, 221; Im-
peachment and trial of Strafford, 225.
Balaam and his Ass, iv. 208.
Ballet-girls, vii. 125.

Balmung, the wonderful Sword, iii. 126.
Barnardiston, Sir Nathaniel, vii. 59.
Barnum, Yankee, methods, vii. 133.
Battle, life a, iv. 38; all misunderstand-
ing, vi. 114.

Beales, vii. 202, 210; answers for the
Queen's peace, 209.
Bede, Venerable, vi. 158.
Beetle, the, i. 292.
Beginnings, iv. 46.

Being, the lordliest Real-Phantasmagory,
V. 134.

Believing, glory of knowing and, ii. 135;
mystic power of belief, iv. 25, 32, 56,
81; v. 63; the least spiritual belief con-
ceivable, 52; superstitious ditto, 105.
Belleisle's German schemes, vii. 244.
Bentley, vii. 186.

Bernhard of Weimar, vii. 164.

Berserkir rage, deep-hidden in the Saxon
heart, vi. 129.

Bible, the Hebrew, ii. 219; iv. 189; v.

66; a History of the primeval Church,
ii. 261; Bible of World-History, infinite

in meaning as the Divine Mind it em-
blems, vii. 221; the truest of books, v.
65. See Israelitish History.
Biography, a good, almost as rare as a
well-spent life, i. 1; iii. 5; Biography,
iv. 51-66; the basis of all that can in-
terest, 52; of sparrows and cockchafers,
64; need of brevity, 88; the highest
Gospel a Biography, 91; 'respectable'
English Biographies, v. 133; vi. 27;
no heroic Poem but is at bottom a Bio-
graphy, 25; biographic worth of a true
Portrait, vii. 129.

Bismarck's success with Germany, vii. 201;
misconception in England as to his sense
and moderation, 250.

Bolivar, 'the Washington of Columbia,'
vii. 2.

Bonaparte, Napoleon, iv. 40, 46, 144; his
"Tools to him that can handle them,'
our ultimate Political Evangel, v. 207;
vi. 34 Varnhagen at the Court of, 94.
Boner, and his Edelstein, iii. 182; The
Frog and the Steer, 185.

Bonpland, M., and how Dr. Francia
treated him, vii. 11, 52.

Books, Collections of, vii. 173; two kinds
of, 183, 184.

Bookseller-System, the, iv. 101; v. 24.
Boswell, iv. 61; his character and gifts,
73; his true Hero-worship for Johnson,
75; his Johnsoniad, 78; no infringe-
ment of social privacy, 85.

Bouillon, Duke of, and Francis I., vii.

Brühl, Henry Count von, ii. 65.
Brummel, Beau, iv. 141.

Buckskin, the Hon. Hickory, vii. 98.
Burgundy united to France, vii. 243.
Burns, ii. 1-53; his hard conditions, 5;

a true Poet-soul, 7; like a King in exile,
7; sincerity, 9; his Letters, 11; tender-
ness and piercing emphasis of thought,

15;

the more delicate relations of things,
18; indignation, 20; Scots wha hae,
Macpherson's Farewell, 21; Tam O'
Shanter, The Jolly Beggars, 23; his
Songs, 24; love of country, 28; pas-
sionate youth never became clear man-
hood, 30; his estimable Father, 31; vi.
107; boyhood, and entrance into life,
ii. 31 invited to Edinburgh, 34; Sir
Walter Scott's reminiscence of him, 35;
Excise and Farm scheme, 38; calumny,
isolation, death, 40; his failure chiefly
in his own heart, 46; a divine behest
lay smouldering within him, 51; his
kinghood and kingdom, iv. 93; a con-
temporary of Mirabeau, v. 229; men-
tioned, vi. 124, 150.

Byron's short carcer i. 59; life-weariness,

189; his manful yet unvictorious strug
gle, 211; far enough from faultless, i
10, 31; iii. 72; sent forth as a missionary
to his generation, ii. 50; poor Byron,
who really had much substance in him,
vi. 49.

Cabanis's, Dr., metaphysical discoveries,
ii. 237; iii. 168.

Cagliostro, Count, v. 64-126; a Liar of
the first magnitude, 69; singularly pro-
sperous career, 70; birth and boyhood,
73; with a Convent Apothecary, 76;
a touch of grim Humour, 76; returns
to Palermo, 78; Forgery and general
Swindlery, 79; a Treasure - digging
dodge, and consequent flight, 81; quack-
talent, 87; marriage, and a new game
opened out, 89; temporary reverses,
91; potions and love-philtres, 92; visits
England, and drives a prosperous trade
in the supernatural, 93: Freemasonry,
95; his gift of Tongue, 103; successes
and exposures, 107; how he fleeced the
Cardinal de Rohan, 111, the Diamond-
Necklace business, 114, 151-200; again
in England, 116; Goethe's visit to his
family at Palermo, 118; Cagliostro's
Workday ended, 123.

Camille Desmoulins, vi. 11.
Cant, ii. 10; iv. 77, 122; V. 252.
Capital Punishments, vii. 43.

Carteret's, Loid, interest in Germany, vii.
250.

Cash-payment, vi. 148, 154.

Cathedral of Immensity, vii. 24.
Catherine of Russia, Diderot's visit to, v.42.
Celts, the, vi. 158.

Cervantes, i. 15; vi. 32.

Chancery, Cromwell's reform of, vii. 179,

180.

Change, the inevitable approach of, mani-
fest everywhere, iv. 19; vi. 236; vii.
165 universal law of, iv. 33, 46, 176.
Characteristics, iv. 1-38.
Charlemagne, v. 133.
Charles I., vacuous, chimerical letters of,
vi. 215; judicial blindness, 221; at Straf
ford's Trial, 228; his time, vii. 182.
Charles II., iv. 60; desperate return of,
vii. 211, 216.

Charles V.'s struggles with Francis I., vii.
243, 246.

Chartism, vi. 109, 136, 144; the history of
Chartism not mysterious, 170.
Châtelet, the Marquise du, ii. 149: her
utter shamelessness, 151; unimaginable
death-bed scene, 151.

Chatham-and-Dover Railway, vii. 229.
Cheap and Nasty, vii. 201, 226-230.
Cheek, Sir Hatton, and Sir Thomas Dut
ton, vii. 118.

Chesterfield, Lord, Johnson's Letter to
iv. 102.

Childhood, fresh gaze of, ii. 216; happy
Unconsciousness of, iv. 2.
Chivalry on the wane, iii. 168, 171; gone,
180; iv. 26; v. 142.

Christ, the Divine Life of, i. 208; true re-
verence for his sufferings and death,
209; allusion to by Tacitus, ii. 121; a
Sanctuary for all the wretched, v. 165.
Christian Religion, ineffaceable record of
the, ii. 172; its sacred silent, unfathom-
able depths, 173; Novalis's thoughts
on, 219; how it arose and spread abroad
among men, 242; dissipating into meta-
physics, iv. 20; in the new epoch, vii.
200; its dead body getting buried, 224.
Church, the, and what it might be, vi.

142; church done by machinery, 178.
Church History, a continued Holy Writ,

ii. 261; Mother-Church a superannu-
ated stepmother, iv. 26.

Circumstances, man not the product of
his, ii. 83; the victorious subduer, iv.
92; their inevitable influence, v. 47; vi.
39.

Clive, Robert, vi. 168.

Cleon the Tanner, vii. 188, 202, 358.
Clothes-horse, man never altogether a, iv.
138.

Cobbett, William, a most brave phenome-
non, vi. 37, 75.

Codification, the new trade of, ii. 240; iii.

241.

Coleridge, ii. 184.

Collins's Peerage, an excellent book for
diligence and fidelity, vii. 181, 182.
Colonial Vice-Kings, vii. 213.
Commons, English House of, vii. 46.
Commonweal, European, tendency to a,
iii. 251. See Europe, European Revolu-
tion.

Commonwealth of England demanded,
vii. 211, 212.

Condamine, M. de la, vii. 16.

Conquest, no, permanent if altogether
unjust, vi. 134.

Conscience, the only safehold, iii. 62; sin-

gular forms of, v. 54; not found in
every character named human, 156; vi.

162.

Constancy the root of all excellence, ii.
196.

Constitution, the English, vi. 160, 164.
Contagion, spiritual, ii. 230.
Conversation, the phenomenon of, iv. 52,
214; sincere and insincere, 86.
Cooper, Fenimore, what he might have
given us, vi. 25.

Copyright Bill, Petition on the, vi. 187.
Corn-Law Rhymes, and Rhymer, iv. 184-
211; an earnest, truth-speaking man,
192; his bread-tax philosophy, 195;
primary idea of all poetry, 198; defects
of manner, 199; glimpses into the pro-
phetic Book of Existence, 200; the

poor workman's hopeless struggle, 203;
Enoch Wray, an inarticulate, half-
audible Epic, 206.

Corn-Laws and Sliding-Scales, vi. 237.
Courage, true, iv. 49, 119.

Court-life, teetotum terrors of, v. 149.
Cramming, University, vii. 172.
Creation and Manufacture, iv. 4; what
fe things are made by man, v. 139.
See Man, Invention.

Creed, every, and Form of Worship, a
form merely, i. 123.

Crichton, Lord Sanquhar, vii. 116.
Criticism, German literary, i. 43; the
Critical Philosophy, 64; petty critics,
218. See British.

Croker's, Mr., edition of Boswell, iv. 67.
Cromwell, what he did, iv. 97; vi. 146,
162, 234; his worth in history, vii. 176;
his Protectorate, 178; dead body hung
on the gibbet, 216.

Croydon Races, a quarrel at, vii. 116.
Crucify him!' a considerable feat in the
suppression of minorities, vii. 90, 92.
Crusades, the, ii. 242.

Cui bono, i. 288.

Currie's, Dr., Life of Burns, ii, 2.

D'Alembert, v. 27.

Dante, v. 215; vi. 73.

Danton, an earthborn, yet honestly born
of Earth, v. 207.

David, King, vii. 124.

Death, the seal and immortal consecra.
tion of Life, ii. 46; iv. 15; Eternity
looking through Time, 44; if not always
the greatest epoch, yet the most notice-
able, 132.
Defoe, ii. 17.

Democracy, stern Avatar of, v. 82, 142;
true meaning of, vi. 145; Macchia-
velli's opinion of, vii. 178; to complete
itself, 200.

Denial and Destruction,. i. 187; ii. 134,
174; iv. 105, 210; v. 4, 52; change from,
to affirmation and reconstruction, ii.
229; iv. 28.

Demosthenes and Phocion, vii. 187.
Denmark, vii. 251.

Derby, Lord, vii. 213.

Descriptive power, iv. 62.

Devil, the, become an emancipated gen-
tleman, vii. 207; constant invocation of
the, 229.

D'Ewes, Sir Simonds, High-Sheriff of
Suffolk, vii. 58; his immaculate election
affidavits, 59; Sir Simonds sat spotless
for Sudbury, 74; took Notes of the
Long Parliament, 75; purged out with
some four or five score others, 75; value
of his Ms. Notes, 76.

Diamond Necklace, the, v. 131-200; the
various histories of those various Dia-
monds, 138; description of, 140; it

changes hands, 179; Diamonds for sale,
185; extraordinary 'Necklace Trial,'
189.

Dickson, Colonel, not kicked out, vii. 209.
Dictatorships, use of, vii. 178.

Diderot, v. 1-63; his Father, 9; educa-
tion, 10; precarious manner of life, 14;
his marriage, 19; general scoundrelism,
21; authorship, 22; his letters, 26; in-
credible activity, 36; garbled proof-
sheets, 37; free, open-handed life in
Paris, 40; visits Petersburg, 42; death,
44; mental gifts, 45; a proselyting
Atheist, 48; utter shamelessness and
uncleanness, 54; brilliant talk, 56; lite-
rary facility, 57; neither a coward nor
in any sense a brave man, 62.
Dilettantism, reign of, iv. 167.
Diligence, honest, vii. 171, 172.
Dismal Science, the, vii. 84.

Elizabethan Era, vi. 165.
Eloquence, long-eared, how to acquire the
gift of, v. 103.

Emigration, iv. 34; vi. 182.

Enceladus betrayed into sudden sneezing,
vii. 89.

Enfranchisement, and what it has led to,
vii. 95:

England, condition of, question, vi. 109,
117; England guilty towards Ireland,
125, 127: Eras of England, 155-169;
whose the proprietorship of England,
159; two tasks assigned, 160; educa-
tion of, 179; over-population, 182; her
History worthy of study, vii. 176-183;
piety in, 218; History of, an Iliad, or
even almost a kind of Bible, 222; needs
to be rebuilt once every seventy years,
228; 'prestige' of, on the Continent,
230.

Dizzy, him they call, vii. 208.

Do-nothing, the vulgar, contrasted with
the vulgar Drudge, iv. 187.
Dominica, as it is and might be, vii. 214.
Döring's Gallery of Weimar Authors, i. 2.
Doubt, withering influence of, i. 187; the
inexhaustible material which Action
fashions into Certainty, iv. 23. See In-
fidelity, Scepticism.

Dresden, bombardment of, ii. 70.

Drill, Soldier, vii. 192; Sergeant, the,
234; unspeakable value of wise drill,
235, 236.

Du Barry's foul day done, v. 142.
Duelling, iii. 181; vii. 111.

Duke of Trumps, the, and his domestic
service, vii. 93.

Dumont's Souvenirs sur Mirabeau, v.

210.

Duncon's, Samuel, election affidavits, vii.
61.

Dunse, Scotch Encampment on the Hill
of, vi. 218.

Dupes and Impostors, vi. 138.

Dutton, Sir Thomas, and Sir Hatton
Cheek, vii. 118.

Duty, infinite nature of, iv. 109; vi, 39;
duty-made-easy, v. 62.

Edelstein. See Boner.

Education, real and so-called, iv. 189; vi.
175, 179; how young souls are trained
to live on poison, vii. 20; frightful waste
of faculty and labour, 124.
Egalité, Philippe, v. 172.
Eighteenth Century, the, prosaic, ii. 4,
47; in it all the elements of the French
Revolution, 136, 176; v. 2, 26, 238; an
era of Cant, iv. 77; Hypocrisy and
Atheism dividing the world between
them, 104 v. 47: vi. 133; Industrial
victories of, 165.

108; his peculiar qualifications, 84;
visit to Jean Paul, 86; fighting at
Wagram, 91; his experiences at the
Court of Napoleon, 94; Rahel, his Wife,
a kind of spiritual queen in Germany,
98; her letters, 99; brilliant talk, 101;
her death, 104.

Envy, a putrid corruption of sympathy,
iv. 135.

Epics, the old, believed Histories, iv. 56;
the true Epic of our Time, 207.
Equality of men, vii. 203.

Era, a New, began with Goethe, iv. 44r
48, 175. See Spiritual.
Erasmus, i. 23.

Ernestine Line of Saxon Princes, vii. 149,

156; in its disintegrated state, 162.
Error, and how to confute it, ii. 185.
Etruscan pottery, vii. 228.
Europe, like a set of parishes, vi. 54;

modern revolutionary, 138; overcrowd-
ed, 185. See Commonweal, Feudal.
Evil, Origin of, speculations on the, iv.
22; evil, in the widest sense of the
word, 25; manfully fronted, vi. 175.
See Badness, Right and Wrong.
Exeter-Hall twaddle, vii. 43, 81.
Eyre, Governor, rabid persecution of, vii.

210.

Fables, Four, i. 289; the fourteenth cen-
tury an age of Fable, iii. 188.
Fact, the smallest historical, contrasted
with the grandest fictitious event, iv. 60,
81. See Reality.

Faith. See Believing.

Fame, no test of merit, i. 179; the fan-
tastic article so called, iv. 114. See
Popularity.

Fate, different ideas of, ii. 113; of So-
phocles, vii. 124.

Fault, what we mean by a, i. 219.

Faust, Goethe's, emphatically a work of