116 ; on reforms in French organisation, 117
Fox, predictions by, 3 ; knew the classics, 311
France, Reign of Terror in, 25, 26 ; increase of population in, 68, 74, 75 ; outstrips England in ironclads, 103 ; adaptable to the stationary state, 105 ; gained by defeat at Sedan, 141 ; education in, 215, 216 ; law and practice of marriage in, 231, 240-243
Francis, St., condemns intellect, 212; compassionates animals, 218
Frederick II. , 46 ; his economical policy, 107 ; his ambition, 137
French army, size of, in 1740, 95, note 2
French princes, profligacy of, 198
French society broken up by the Second
Empire, 158
Frobisher, 262
Froesch wilier, French cuirassiers at, 139
Future life, belief in, impaired, 271, 273
Galados paints Spanish villager, 169
Garibaldi worked as a soap-boiler, 286
Garrick made Shakespeare popular, 307
George IV. not reproved by the Church, 198
Germanic standard of chastity high, 239
Germany is driving out the Poles, 285
Gibbon, estimate by, of Roman subjects, 67 ; criticised by Maurice, 89, note ; his excellent work, 303, 304 ; the best Church historian, 304, and note ; his concision, 313 ; his expectation of life, 323 ; his estimate of the time of the Antonines, 339
Gilbert, admirable work of, 166
Gladstone, eulogy of President Davis by, 4
Gobelins, tapestry of, 107
Goethe on English inventiveness, 102, note 2 ; on progress, 203 ; on the beginnings of a science, 313 ; his literary articles, 318
Goldsmith predicts changes in France, Germany, Holland, and Sweden, 5, 6
Gray's view of the attributes of power, 328
Great men careless of gain, 288 ; their importance circumscribed in modern society, 326, 328
Greeks comparatively exterminated, 69 ; appreciated city life, 147
Grey Town pestilential, 57
Grote, Mrs., disapproves marriage for men of genius, 253
Guaranis, 56 ; docile, 59
Guardia, a half-caste, 56
Guatemala, few whites in, 33, 54
Guerillas of no real utility, 121
Hale, Sir M., uncritical, 305
Hamerton on French society, 202, notes ; vindicates French schools, 224 ; on the effects of marriage, 253
Hamilton, predictions by, 6
Hare's theory popularised by newspaper discussion, 317
Hastings, Warren, not moral, by modern standards, 202 ; his type disappearing, 262
Hawthorne criticises Englishmen, 100
Heine predicts defeat of France by Germany, 7 ; criticises Englishmen, 100 ; his political articles, 318
Henry VIII., his aims 193, and note
Henry's (Patrick) oratory, 314, 315
Herschel on earthquakes, 141
Hindoos, 33, 34 ; increase of, 76 ; have added nothing to thought, 341
Holberg's estimate of Englishmen, 99-101
Holland, education denominational in, 214
Homer perhaps influenced by town life, 150 ; comparatively forgotten, 332
Honduras impossible for Europeans, 57
Horace on barbarian wives, 238, note 1
Hottentots, few, at Cape in 1795, 36
Howe improves sewing-machine, 102, note 1
Hugo, Victor, appreciates John Brown, 6, 7 ; his greatness as a dramatist, 167
Huguenots at the Cape, 35 ; in England, 283
Humaita, 33
Hutton's (R. H. ) work as a journalist, 318
Hyder Ali ravages the Carnatic, 82
Ibsen partially appreciated, 167, 168
Hi, Chinese immigration into, 66 ; massacres in, 82 ; Mahommedanism stamped out in, 131
Immigration, alien rights of, everywhere restrained, 283-285 ; unfortunate consequences of this restraint, 285-287
India, its people too numerous to be exterminated, 34 ; character of reforms in, 83
Indians, 34 ; not dangeroiis in Argentine, 58 ; occupy fertile niches of Peru, etc., 58
Inkerman, English infantry at, 139
Ireland, population in, 68
Irishmen, increase of, 69, 70, 75, 76
