Abbot, Ezra,405.Adams, John,150.Adams, Samuel,155,300.Adoni-shomo, a religious community,449-452.Agassiz, Louis,77,312.Agricultural chemistry,73.Alabama Claims,172,176.Albigenses, crusade against the,132.Alger, W. R.,93.Algol, a multiple star,7.Alphabet puzzle,435.Altruism,113.America, discovery of,123,124;effects of its discovery upon political freedom,127.American history, picturesqueness of,197-199.Ames, Fisher,300.Anachronisms in Shakespeare's plays,389.Anaxagoras,117.Anglophobia of Scotchmen in former times,181.Anthropocentric thought,111,112.Appleton, D., & Co.,89-91.Arbitration, instances of,176,177;among the ancient Greeks,182;among the Italian republics,183.Arbitration Treaty between the United States and Great Britain,165-193.Arnold, Matthew, on translating Homer,353.Arts, beginning of,118-120.Aryan languages,31,32.Asbjoernsen's folk-tales of Norway,325.Astley, Sir Jacob,160.Astronomy at the Harvard Observatory,309.Athanasius,53.Athenæum Press, the,309.Atomic theory,28.Augustine,53.Avogadro's law of gaseous volumes,28.Aztecs,209.Bacon, Delia, a paradoxer,351,356,385,399,402,440.Bacon, Francis,356,357,367,370,374,375,378,379,381,383,385-398,403,404.Bacon-Shakespeare folly,350-404,410.Baer, K. E. von,18,19,25,41.Balance, use of,2,3.Baptists,148.Barbarism, types of,32-34.Barratt, Joseph,455-459.Bathybius,343-345.Baxter, Richard,154.Beaumont, Francis,374.Beecher, Henry Ward,92.Bellerophon, his letter,354.Bessel, F. W.,6.Biblical chronology disturbed by geologists,9.Bichat, X., his study of tissues,17.Big Crow, a Sioux chief,240.Biglow, Hosea, on the right to be a fool,175;on the Yankee dialect,298;on citified English,371.Black, Joseph, his discovery of latent heat,10.Blackfriars Theatre,378.Blake, Robert,154.Blue Anchor Tavern,297.Boccaccio, G.,359.Bond, G. P.,309.Bond, W. C.,309.Bopp, Franz,30.Boughton, Sir T.,382.Bouquet, Henry,207.Bowditch, Nathaniel,434.Brébeuf, J.,199.Bridge, John,293.Bridges of Cambridge,302.Bridgman, Laura,335.Brougham, Lord,412.Brown, Marie, a paradoxer,441.Browning, Charles,459.Büchner, L.,54.Buckle, H. T.,218.Buller, Sir Francis, his absurd charge to the jury,382.Bunker Hill,301.Bunyan, John,403.Burghley, Lord,364.Burke, Edmund,194.Burton, Robert,403.Cabanis, Pierre,55.Calvin, J.,130.Cambridge, Mass., its history,286-318;originally intended to be capital of Massachusetts,290;in what sense the daughter of Cambridge, England,295;complex nature of its growth,306;its extensive manufactures,307-309;excellence of its municipal government,316,317.Camden, William,374.Carlyle, Thomas,218.Caroline, Sister,447,450,451.Carpenter, W., a paradoxer,421.Catastrophes in geology,21.Catholics, disfranchised in Rhode Island,139.Causans, M. de, a circle-squarer,434.Cavaliers in Virginia,142.Cavendish, Henry, his analysis of water,29.Champlain, S.,199,203,210.Chancery phrases seldom found in Shakespeare,383.Chapman, George,357,359,373,385.Charles I.,290.Charles II.,137,165.Chemical chart, devised by E. L. Youmans,79.Chemistry, Youmans's textbook of,80,81.Christ Church in Cambridge,298.Cieza de Leon,202.Circle-squaring,406-408,411-417.Cities in Massachusetts,305.Clan ownership,33.Clarendon, Earl of,158.Clark, J. S.,93,100.Class Day forty years ago,311.Classification of organisms, significance of,14,15.Cleveland, Grover,175;his Venezuela message,179."Coin's Financial School,"436.Coke, Edward,374,393.Columbus, Christopher,123.Commercial spirit and ecclesiastical spirit, antagonism between,134-136.Comparative method,30-35.Comte, Auguste, his assertion that a stellar astronomy is impossible,6;failure of his philosophy,13,14,88.Conán Maol,327.Congress of American Colonies,191.Congresses, International,188,189.Connecticut, founding of,145.Controverted questions between the United States and Great Britain,171,172.Cook, Joseph,333-349.Cooper, James Fenimore, unreality of his Indians,200.Copernicus, N.,102,111,125.Copyright, international,97.Correlation of forces,27,28,55,97.Cortes, H.,123.Cotton, John,139,146,225.Criminal trials,382.Cromwell, Oliver,154-164.Culmer, Frederick, a paradoxer,425,426.Culture, early stages of,32-34.Cumulative action,11,12,77,101.Curtin, Jeremiah,320-332.Curtis, B. R.,300.Cuvier, his classification of animals in space and time,16,17.Dalton's law of proportions,28.Darwin, Charles,21-24,30,40,49,77,103-105,335,363,386.Darwin, George Howard,8.Defoe, Daniel,404.Delitzsch, Franz,341.De Morgan, Augustus,411-419,427,435.Derby, Earl of,194.Descartes, René,125.Dickens, Charles,370.Differentiation,44.Dingle, Edward, a paradoxer,431.Diogenes, on the possibility of motion,61.Disarmament,191-193.Disqualifications, religious,143.Dobbs, a caravan doctor,247.Dogberry,395.Donellan, John, famous case of,382.Donne, John,374.Donnelly, Ignatius, a paradoxer,398,403,440.Doyle, J. A.,155.Dudley, Joseph,146.Dummkopf, Herr, substituted name for a paradoxer,408,409.Dunster, Henry,294.Dying, how to avoid,411-452.Dynamical conception of the world,36.East Gate of Cambridge,296.Eccentric literature,409-444.Ecclesiasticism and commercialism, antagonism between,134-136.Edward I.,130.Edward III.,130,136.Edwards, Jonathan,147,148,164.Electoral Commission of 1877,173.Eliot, George,353,354.Eliot, John,157.Elizabeth, Queen,131,132.Elze, K.,372.Embryology, its lessons,16.Emerson, R. W.,145,150.Endicott, John,143,144.Evolution,35-38;and the study of history,42,65,66.Facts vs. theories,21.Fairfax, Thomas,157.Faraday, M., his discovery of magneto-electric induction,27.Farmer Weathersky,329.Fenian legends,327.Fifth Monarchists,164.Fischer, Kuno,386.Fletcher, John,374,395.Flighty, Mr., substituted name for a paradoxer,452-455.Forman, Captain, a paradoxer,412,413.Forsyth, W.,194.Foster, John,155.Fox-hunting, condemned by E. A. Freeman,283.France and England, their struggle for North America,216.Franklin, Benjamin,69,145,150.Freedom of thought, unpopularity of,128,152.Freeman, E. A.,30;his birth,265;leading events of his life,266;his early work in architecture,267;his breadth of view,268;his historical essays,269;his book on federal government,269-272;his "Norman Conquest" and "William Rufus,"272-274;his miscellaneous work, especially relating to eastern Europe,275;his lectures on comparative politics,276;his work on historical geography,277;other work,278,279;his history of Sicily,279,280;his premature death,281;his warfare against fools and tyrants,281,282;his wholesome view of the Eastern Question,282;his condemnation of fox-hunting,283;his domestic habits,283.French heroism,218.French materialists of the 18th century,116,117.French war of 1755-1763;its importance not generally comprehended,251.Fresnel, A. J.,27.Frontenac, Count,210.Frothingham, Octavius Brooks,225,257,260.Froude, J. C.,194.Fuller, Thomas,374.Gaelic language, its pathetic fate,320-323.Galapagos Islands,23.Galen,400.Galileo,444,453.Garcilasso de la Vega,202.Gardiner, S. R.,156.Gerry, Elbridge,300.God's Acre in Cambridge,296.Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, one of the first among evolutionists,14,15,41,62.Gravitation, theory of, called atheistic,9;forbidden to be taught in Spain,126.Gray, Asa,30,312,349.Gray, Thomas,157.Great Awakening, the,147,148.Great Design, the, of Henry IV.,190.Greece in primitive times,211,212.Greene, Robert,373,384.Grove, Sir W.,27.Gruagach of Tricks, the,329-331.Gumpach, Johannes, a paradoxer,418.Gurney, E. W.,93.Haddon Hall,123.Haeckel, Ernst, his materialism refuted,51-62,115,116.Hail-Storm, a young warrior,243-245.Hales, Sir James, case of,379,380.Half-way Covenant,146-148.Hall, Caroline,225.Hall, Nathaniel,225.Hamilton, Alexander,157,180.Hampden, John,157.Hampden, John, a paradoxer,419.Harvard College, founding of,161,294.Harvey, William, on the advance from simplicity to complexity,41;his remark about Bacon,388;his discovery of the circulation of blood,400,401.Hathaway, Anne, her cottage at Shottery,365.Helium,7.Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von,27.Helps, Sir Arthur,64.Henry V. of England,125.Henry VIII. of England,129,134.Henry the Navigator, Prince,123.Herbert, Edward,374.Herschel, Sir John,412.Heterogeneity,44.Higginson, T. W.,194.Hippocrates,400.Historian, requirements for making an,208.Hitchcock, Edward,458,459.Hodge, a circle-squarer,413-416.Holinshed, Raphael,358.Holmes, Nathaniel, a paradoxer,379-381,440.Holmes, O. W., his birthplace,301.Homo tridactylus,458.Homogeneity,44.Hook, Theodore,350.Hooker, Sir J.,20.Hooker, Richard,53,373.Hooker, Thomas,292.Hosmer, J. K.,156-165.Household science,97.Howland, Father,444,445,448.Human sacrifices,34.Human soul, centre of Spencerian world,48.Humboldt, Alexander von,422.Humour, Bacon's deficiency in,390;seldom found in cranks,410.Hunter, Sir John,382.Hutchinson, Anne,161,292.Hutchinson, Thomas,291,300.Hutton, James, his theory of the earth,10.Huxley, T. H.,17,30,91,95,337,343-348,361,363.Huyghens, Christian,26,27.Immortality of the soul,61,114.Independency,131-134.Indestructibility of matter,28.Infancy, chief causes of the prolongation of human,106-109;effect of the prolongation of human,109;of the orang-outang,105.Inquisition in Spain, effects of,126.Insane literature,407-409.Integration,44.International Scientific Series,96,97.Ireton, Henry,157.Irish folk-lore,319-332.Iroquois farmers in the State of New York,209.