Cid, story of, consistent with the times, 233
Clive a typical Englishman, 100 ; of a type disappearing, 263
Cobden the real author of Free Trade, 331
Cochin China, fine ruins in, 91
Coghill, Dr. M., approved corporal correction for a wife, 251
Coleridge, moderately successful as lecturer, 164 ; on Shakespeare, 307 ; as journalist, 318
Colley, Sir G., character of his defeat, 121, 122
Commin of Deuwick invents reaping-machine, 102, note 1
Comoy, John, demises his wife, 230, note 2
Congo, anticipations about the region of the, 31
Corneille modernises the story of the Cid, 233 ; his Medea quoted, 337
Cortez, 33, 34
Courier, 151 ; transformed by jealousy, 297 ; a transcendent journalist, 319, 320 ; on literary reputation, 332
Cousin on the source of inspiration in writers, 320
Cowley overrated by Johnson, 308
Criticism invaluable and fairly certain in science, 304-306 ; influenced by fashion and feeling in taste, 306, 307 ; apt to be too favourable, 307-309 ; likely to decline still further as the highest standards are disused, 310, 311
Cromwell, Puritan and Roman elements in, 275 ; adopts promotion by merit, 279 ; impossible in modern England or the United States, 327, 328
DAlton's discovery unsurpassable, 291
Dante perhaps a gainer by exile, 149 ; and by city life, 150 ; proscribed by Rome, 264
Darwin, Erasmus, dreams of, 290, and note
Darwin not a liver in cities, 157 ; proscribed by Rome, 264 ; belief in, 267 ; value of his discovery, 291, 303 ; admirable style of, 312 ; varied
work by, 313
Davis, President, eulogised by Gladstone, 4
Death, Black, effects of, 153
Debts, national, often rightly incurred, 170, 171 ; or on plausible grounds, 171 - 173 ; may be dangerous, 173, 174 ; because (1) the State undertakes too much, 174, 175; and (2) then national integrity breaks down under the burden, 175-177
Decrès on the term of service, 119
Democracy, real meaning of, 109, 261
Demosthenes, 315
Diaz, Porfirio, of mixed descent, 55
Dickens as lecturer, 164
Diocesan courts, 195, and note
Directory, French, issues orders denying quarter to Englishmen, 139
Disraeli on Peel, 330
Drake, 262
Dramatic poetry is dying out because passions are weaker, 296-298 ; and because topics have been exhausted, 298, 299
Dryden as a critic, 306, 307
Duff, Grant, on Indian reforms, 83 ; on effects of Thirty Years' War, 90, note
Dumas the younger, 167
Dutch at the Cape, 35, 36 ; in Natal, 36, 37 ; in Java, 42
Ecclesiastical court, powers of, 196
Ecuador, Indians in, 52 ; whites in, 54 ; a tropical Switzerland, 58
Education, State, a necessity, 11
Edward III., debts not yet paid, 177
Eliot, George, restricts her social intercourse, 157 ; was praised for inferior work, 309
Emancipation, slave, a sound bargain, 171
Emigration weakens national feeling, 257, 258
Emigrés, French, disloyal to their country, 190 ; well compensated, 191
England, treatment of children in, 246, and note ; is indebted to alien immi-grants, 285
English debt being reduced, 171
English race, tendency of, to State Socialism, 96-98
Fame always capriciously given, 329-331 ; and likely to be more evenly distributed hereafter than now, 331-333
Family, unit of State, 228 ; powers of the paterfamilias anciently very great, 228-231; the blood -feud, 231-233; rights over life in, 233-235
Family feeling, advantages of, 253-256
Ferrar, Nicholas, 274
Finlay as historian, 313
Flemings, settlement of, in England, 283
Fletcher of Saltouu on Scotch pauperism, 208
Fleury a peace-loving minister, 137
Fonblanque on Peel, 330
Fortescue quoted, 96
Foy, General, on insurrectionary soldiers,
