affection, 62

laws of intercourse, 2

ence, 184

Buffon, habits and life of, 197
Business, letters of, 337; importance
of accuracy in, 343; necessity of
clearness in, 345; commercial slang
in, 347

Byron, Lord, 26; and Lady Byron, 44;
influence of the Countess Guiccioli
on, 45; as a letter-writer, 329

C

CELIBACY, in the Church of Rome, III,
187

Ceremony, advantages of, 116; evil of
excess of, 118

Chambord, Count de, belief in the
restoration of, 240

Chance intercourse, instances of, 19, 21
Charles XII. of Sweden, indifference

to comfort in the field, 292
Children, effect of "nagging" upon, 70
Christian Year, the, alluded to, 186
Church, influence of the customs of, 186
Church of Rome, the, and celibacy, 111,
187

Church Ritual, attraction of, to women,

176

Church, the Russian, 243
Classical literature, study of in the
Renaissance, 199, 200

Claude, influence of, on Turner, 10
Clergy, the, Queen Elizabeth and the
marriage of, 188; state of the early
Protestant, 188

"Clergywomen," value of, 188
Clerical influence, power of, 183
Cockburn, Sir Alexander, perfection of,

in the French language, 141
Comfort, the desire for, 23
Commerce, M. Renan on, 123
"Common sense" not in harmony with

high intellect, 52

Companionship, instances of, in Goethe

and the Baroness von Stein and
Christiane Vulpius, 47; in John
Stuart Mill and Mrs. Taylor, 48

an instance of, 156

Confession, benefit of, to women, 189;
the power of, to the Church, 190;
objection of laymen to, 190
Conformity to religion, Louis XVIII.,
an instance of compulsory, 156
Confusion, of ideas, 266; of the ignorant
as to tastes, 273; avoidance of in pro-
fessional men, 274; literary, 276; in
architecture, 276

Contempt, paternal, instances of, 90
Convention, II

Conversation, timidity in, to be avoided,

137; want of tact in, 137; truth and
untruth in, 222; cause of timidity in,
223; indifference of sportsmen to
taste of others in, 380
Correspondence, 320; French custom

of, 323; suggestions for brief, 323;
the variance of nature and, 324; of
William of Orange and Bentinck,
328; perfection of Byron in, 329; of
Jacquemont, 332; a cause of sever-
ance of friendship, 335; business,
337; accuracy and clearness neces-
sary in, 344; Napoleon's experiment
with regard to, 349

Corvée, 371; in families, 378; at school,
379

Courtesy, epistolary, 299; promptness

in replies necessary to, 300; instances
of, 302, 304; past and present, com-
pared, 305, 307; Scott quoted, 310,
note

Cricket, dislike to, 379
Cromwell, Oliver, 89
Richard, 89

D

DEMOCRATS, bitterness at success
among, 106

Denmark, Crown Prince of, Nelson's
letter to, mentioned, 311

De Saussure, his delight in nature,
218

De Tocqueville on the English people,

Dickens, 17, 19

Diderot mentioned in connection with

Goldsmith, 293

F

of, 117

Dissenter, the, position of, 154; instance

of the difficulties of, 160

Dobell, Sidney, exclusion of from Chel-

tenham society, 16

Dominican friars, attractiveness of their
dress, 178

Doré, Gustave, an instance of letter-
writing by, 329

Double, M. Léopold, the house of, 133
Drawing as a female accomplishment,
176

Dress, influence of, 116; effect of dis-
regard to, 117; the interest of women
in, 176, 177

E

ECLIPSE, result of, on the faith of
Nikias, 203

Education, James Mill's success in, 75;
difficulties attending, 77; patriotic
ignorance of, 260

Egalité, definition of, 269

Eliot, George, 19; and Lewes, 41, 50
Elizabeth, Queen, her orders as to the
marriage of the clergy, 188
Emperor of Germany, habit of, at public
banquets, 96

England, sociability of, in the past, 233
English, the, De Tocqueville, and, 226;
Miss Betham - Edwards' picture of,
227; manners of, abroad, 227; com-
parison of, with the French, 230;
cause of reserve in, 234

English art, excluded from the Louvre,
253.

Father and son, past and present re-
lationship of, 72; difficulties of com-
panionship, 81, 85; Peter the Great
and Alexis, 88; the true relationship
between, gr

Fine arts, the divergence of taste in,
4 study necessary to success in,
381

Flowers, the delight of women in, 177
France, exclusiveness of the aristo-
cracy of, 15

Fraternal affection, instances of, 62
Fraternal indifference, instance of, 61
Fraternité, 268

French, the, excellence of, in art, 5;
ideal of "good form," 12; exclusive-
ness of the aristocracy, 15; a contrast
in the manners of, 119; and English
titles, 128, note 128; ignorance of
English literature in, 139; instance
of the charm of, 230; patriotic ignor-
ance of, regarding England, 255
Friendship, and relationship, 69; in-

stance of English, 113; the death
and various causes of, 102, 103;
John Stuart Mill on, 104; change of
opinion, the cause of severance of,
105; effect of prosperity on, 105;
weakened by physical changes; 106;
ended through marriage, 107; sever-
ance of by correspondence, 335

G

GAMBETTA, Imperialists' view of his
death, 212

Generosity, instances of misplaced, 64

French as to, 139

English titles, foreign indifference to, 128
Epistolary courtesy, 299, 304, 305, 307,

310, 312

Exclusion, instance of, in Sidney Dobell,

16

242; inconsistency of, 246; avoidance
of, by men of culture, 248

Germans, the, quiet sociability of, 231
Germany, the Emperor of, at public
dinners, 96

Gladstone, Mr., probable estimate of,

by French aristocracy, 15; an in-
stance of indebtedness to trade, 125;
319

Godwin, Mary, and Shelley, 43
Goethe, separation of, and the Baroness

von Stein, 47; love for Christiane
Vulpius, 48; 51

Goldsmith, a true Bohemian, 293; his
later life, 294

"Good form," French ideal of, 12
Greek, as a universal language, 148
Guest, the, rights of, 92; the relation-
ship of the host and, 93; opinions of,
to be respected, 98; duties of, to-
wards the host, 100; indifference of,
to his host, 133

Guiccioli, Countess, and Lord Byron,

45

H

HABITS, French and English, com-
pared in regard to friendship, 234
Haidée, an instance of passionate love,
35

Hamerton, Sir Stephen, 308, note
Hamerton's Intellectual Life, anony-
mous criticism of, 361; Painter's
Camp in the Highlands, 361
Haweis, Rev. H. R., on prayer and
victory in battle, 211

Homer, knowledge of the lower classes
in, 19

Hospitality, the true principle of, 93;

absence of true, 97; for the sake of
society only, 133; of the rich prefer-
able, 134

Host, the, and the guest, 92; absence

of tact in, 94; difficulties of, 96;
negligence in, 96; as protector of
the younger guests, 99; advantages
of wit in, 99; duties of the guest
toward, 100; love of admiration in,
134

Hostess, the, thoughtlessness in conver-

sation of, to be avoided, 99
Houghton, Lord, and the mastery of
the French language, 141
Human intercourse, absence of fixed
laws as to, I

Humorists, Lowell an example of, 17

Humour, of the vulgar, 16; in connec-
tion with foreign languages, 147
Huxley, Professor, on the order of
Nature, 205

I

IDEAS, of intercourse, 2, 3; change in,
the cause of severance of friendship,
103; confusion of, in politics, 266
Ignorance, genteel, 239; of politics,
241; in religion, 242; as to income,
244; patriotic, 250
Imperialists, and the deaths of Gam-
betta and Napoleon III., 212
Income, limited, difficulties attending, 245
Incompatibility, natural pleasure in de-
tecting, 1; the bar to intercourse, 8;
discovery of, after marriage, 44
Inconsistency, in judging acquired
wealth, 126

Independant, meaning of, 12

Independence, two kinds of, 9; mental,
completeness of, in London, 13; false,

63

Industry, M. Renan on, 123

com-

Intellectual sympathy, not to be gener-
ally expected, 68
Intellectuality, and middle class "
mon sense," 52
Intercourse, absence of fixed laws con-
cerning, 1; complexity of human
nature in relation to, 2; popular
ideas of, 2; likeness and unlikeness
in connection with, 6; difficulties of,
in connection with the Fine Arts, 4;
of nationalities, 5; suggestion as to a
general law of, 7; instance of, 7; and
incompatibility, 8; and sympathy, 8;
instances of chance, 19, 21; instance
of the evil of lower, 24; equality in
wealth not necessary to, 110; intellect
and culture in relation to, III; of
Mignet and Thiers, 111; difficulties
of, between poor and rich, 131; and
religion, 150; written, 299; business,
338

Intercourse, religious, doctrine an oppo-
sition to, 3

International differences, evils of, 138;
usefulness of newspapers in, 140

186

Knowledge, advantages of modern, 217
Knyghton, Henry, quoted, 238, note

L

LANDOWNER, the social position of, in
Scotland, 122

Language, the obstacles of, 138; know-
ledge of, necessary to the advance of
commerce, 140; stages in the study
of, 143; evil of imperfect study of,
146; absurdities in, 146; foreign, a
source of humour, 146; a universal,
146

Louis II., King of Bavaria, contrasted
with H.R.H. the Prince of Wales,
367; 369

Louis XVIII., an instance of compul-
sory conformity to religion, 156

masters of, 141

Laws of intercourse, absence of, 1;

complexity an obstacle to, 2
Legouvé, M., 72; and religious dissen-
sion in families, 86; 316

Leloir, Louis, on singleness in study,
382

Leopold, Prince, Duke of Albany, an

instance of generous refinement, 2
Letters, of friendship, 320; of business,

338

253

Love, the true object of, 29; capricious-
ness of, 31; the poets and, 32; and
marriage, 32; variety of, 33; the
misery of misplaced, 36; the power
of, 38; the aim of woman, 167
Lowell, as a humorist, 17

Lucy Ashton, an instance of passionate
love, 35

M

358; on religion, 359

Letter-writing, 300; immediate reply
necessary, 300; instances of the evil
of delay in, 301; modes of address,
302, 305, note; Legouvé mentioned in

Macaulay's Ivry, religious faith in, 211
Macleod, Dr. Norman, 175, note
Mariage de convenance, 54
Marriage, evils of unsuitable, 36; time
of, in different classes of society, 37