(Second Thousand.)The larger black numerals indicate the number of the letter; the smaller numerals the pages.Though the kind friends who have drawn up this and the earlier index are not content with their work, I believe it will be found entirely sufficient for its purposes, until the system of the whole is more developed. As soon as it has received anything like conclusive form I will index its subjects, in connection, myself.Abbey of St. Radagune,27, 4.Abbotsford, fit forSirWalter Scott,47, 257.Abstract of the first seven letters of this book,43, 139.Accent, struggle between the author and his mother regarding correct,33, 14.Acres, how many given up to make beasts,27, 10.Adderley, Sir C., his opinion on sentiment,34, 4.Addington, country near, when the author was young,29, 3.Advent, collect for,48, 278.Advertisement, entire principle of, defied,38, 42.[2]Advice of friends, author usually does good by acting contrary to,27, 13.Agassiz, Professor, his labours on glacier movement,34, 21.Agricultural, population of England, her only power,44, 172;labourer, present privileges of the,28, 18.Agriculture, book on,45, 217(note);Lord Derby’s idea of,45, 207;success of the author’s experiment in,48, 265.Alice, in Miss Yonge’s Dictionary of Christian Names,45, 212;of Salisbury,25, 15,28;her defence of her castle,31, 10.Alison Wilson, in ‘Old Mortality,’ a real person,32, 10;allusion to story of,ib.Almsgiving, not work,46, 225.Alpine flowers, not to be killed,38, 46(note).Alps, ice of the, has lost one-third of its depth in the last twenty years,34, 17.Amaryllis, St. George much interestedin,25, 28.America, her carelessness about dying England, a sign of her own ruin,42, 118;what she has learned from England,ib.;Republican woman of, describes a child,ib.Amery, of Pavia, the false Lombard,25, 17.Amiens, Peace of,25, 11.Amusement of factory managers soon likely to end,35, 21.Ancestors of modern political economists,45, 202.Andrew, St., cross of adopted by the Scotch as the national device,25, 13;vision of,ib.Angel, first thought of squire to shoot it,45, 202.Anne, the author’s nurse,28, 13.Anthony, St., knows desert flowers,26, 20.Apotheosis, modern notion of,41, 107.Applegarth, Mr., quoted by the ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’33, 1;his views,34, 27(note).Arcadia, a modern, described,35, 15;38, 44(note).Ariadne, tale of, frontispiece,28, 5.Arkwright and Stevenson have done nothing but harm,44, 173.Armour, of light, what it is, and why necessary,48, 279;of God, reflections on the,48, 280;meaning of, in the Advent collect,48, 279.[3]Armstrong guns,29, 12.Art, in Florence and Oxford,37, 2;study of, begun by the author,45, 192.Assisi, sacristan’s cell at,46, 223;the author comforted by a little pig at,48, 270,275.Athenian wisdom in fondness for crocuses,26, 16.Athens, opposed to dressing Sisters of Charity in black,26, 16.Aunt, the author’s,46, 221.Author, the, of this book, does not set himself up as a leader,30, 18;his letter to the ‘Daily Telegraph’ quoted,37, 21(note);remarks on his life,41, 103;some account of his parentage,45, 194;he finds himself alone in life and knowledge,37, 3;results of his few experiments,48, 265;his want of success, cause of,41, 112;reflections on his life,41, 113;family history, his maternal grandmother and grandfather,46, 220.Avernus, lake of,32, 13.Ayrshire, opposition of the plough to the pulpit in,32, 17.Baal-god, law of, inequitableoperation,45, 200.Baby-nursing, not a lucrative employment according to J. S. Mill,29, 13,36, 4.Bacon, Sir Francis,37, 13.Bad thing, a, will pay if put properly before the public,36, 2.Ballads, Scottish, sweet,32, 17.Bank, the author obliged to keep his money in a,44, 178;his reasons,44, 179.Barrister, selling his talents,47, 246;remarks on the profession of a,ib.Bath, Scott’s visit to,33, 16;Scott’s recollections of,33, 18.Beasts, wild, what they were made for,27, 7;their worth to us,27, 8;might be spared a little room on earth,27, 9;of prey, men have the nature of, according to Social Science,28, 4.Beesly, Professor,37, 19,23(notes).Beetroot, a miserable substitute for sugar-cane,48, 272.Begging for money, result of,36, 1.[4]Benediction, of clergy,38, 35;of Irishwoman,ib.Bible, how to read it,27, 2;meaning of one verse of the,30, 4;study of, by the author under his mother’s teaching,33, 14;text from, examined,40, 87;evangelical book-idol, not by any means the word of God,40, 88;to be searched, not chopped up,ib.;list of chapters in the, by the author’s mother,42, 129;the author’s lessons in the, on the whole, the one essential part of all his education,42, 130;text which the author had to repeat oftenest,ib.Biography pleasant to read,33, 2.Bishop, at the Royal Academy,40, 95(note);epitaph on a,42, 125.Bishops and clergy, apathy of, regarding national sin, letter on,44, 187(note).Bismarck, not the cause of the French war,40, 84;Prince, description of, from the ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’43, 143.Blackfriars Bridge,41, 111,114.Blind man, sent to gaol for four months for begging,44, 185(note);Eastern story of a, for comparison,ib.Boat at sea, society compared to a,44, 163;how truly and how falsely,ib.Boerhaave, Johnson’s account of,32, 7;teacher of Scott’s maternal grandfather,ib.;naturally quick of resentment,—how cured of this,32, 8(note).Bondage worse than that of Egypt,46, 231.Bones, boiled,27, 18.Book, our most current, written in three languages,25, 10;not readable, unless the mind is one with the author’s,25, 15.Bookcase, the author’s,30, 1.Books, what, read by rising middle classes about London,29, 5;Scott’s, when a child,33, 11,15;change for the better, Mudie and ‘Good Words,’33, 11;Ramsey’s tea-table, this compared with Knatchbull-Hugessen’s Tales at tea-time,33, 12.Border, morals,31, 8;of Scotland,32, 13;pre-eminently a singing country,ib.;beauty of, in summer time,33, 10.[5]Borrowing and lending,38, 41.Boy or girl, advice to,46, 233.Breeding, good, what it means,25, 27.Bright, Mr., his speech on the adulteration of food,37, 5;his opinion that lifeinspectedwould not be worth having,37, 6;his speech analysed,37, 7.Britannia, as represented on a penny,25, 6;who is she?ib.British, never will be slaves,38, 31;constitution breaking fast,45, 199.Broom merchant, story of, begins,30, 5;continued,34, 10,39, 59;(concluded) the conditions of sentiment in the family relationships to be carefully noted,39, 69(note).Brown, Dr., his letter,32, 25(note).Bucentaur, launched for a collation,42, 119.Buckland, Frank, his work,46, 229.Builders, plague of their work near London,29, 2;houses, residents in, described,29, 4.Building and cooking,48, 274.Buildings, modern suburban, described,29, 4.Bull terrier, the author’s,48, 276.Burdens on poor men’s backs, clergy neither noble nor sanctified in binding,38, 34.Burns quoted,40, 97(note).Butcher, Steam-Butcher’s-boy-Co.,29, 10.Buzzing and whistling in Yorkshire,28, 11.Cab, the author’s thoughts in a,39, 51.Calais,25, 17;siege of,25, 19.Candles, peasants of Picardy too poor to afford, except to drip on church floors,31, 22.Canticle, meaning of,35, 5.Capital,seeLabour.Captain, of Christian war,26, 11;Shakespeare’s meaning of,25, 16;a, taking the wheel in an emergency, account of,25, 26;each squire should be a,45, 205.Carlyle, Thomas, the only man in England to whom the author[6]can look for guidance in his plan,37, 12;his description of a shoal of fish,38, 27;strange comment on his letter,44, 186(note).Carol,48, 281.Carpaccio, his deep conviction on the subject of dragons,26, 13.Carpentering, advice to rely on your own boys for,29, 9.Carshalton, the author’s work at,46, 229;48, 265.Cattle dealer, Robert Scott is a, yet a gentleman,31, 24;a stubbornly honest,31, 20.Celibacy of laity,28, 19.Centaur Chiron, type of Greek tutor,25, 27.Challenge from the author to the squires of England,45, 194.Channel Islands feed their own people and export provisions also,45, 218(note).Character, noble, the only perfect, in Scott’s first novel, a Hanoverian Colonel,31, 3;heroic, the most finished in all Scott’s novels, a presbyterian milkmaid,ib.Charity, French poem on, and translation,37, 1,2.Charlemagne, alliance of, with Scottish king,25, 13;43, 145.Charming, to be, first duty of a girl,38, 43(note).Children, of St. George’s Company, how to be treated,37, 10;of mothers in mills, how taken care of by the clergymen,38, 44(note);a joy and honour, and the reverse,46, 230;the Rachel of England weeps because theyare,46, 231.Chillianwallah, different arrangement of letters in,30, 20;31, 23.China, how to be civilized by steam at sixty pounds on the inch,42, 136(note).Christianity, essence of, modern idea of,42, 126.Christmas fare, advice concerning,48, 281.Church, of England, in South Australia turned money lender, letter on,44, 187(note);and state, relations of,46, 219;no power but benediction and protection,ib.Cinderella, at Hengler’s,39, 55;reflections on,39, 57.Circular of Howell and James,26, 2.Circus, Hengler’s,39, 55.Civilization, what we now call,27, 5;principal condition of,[7]according to the Secretary of the Social Science Meeting,42, 131.Clarty hole,32, 15.Clay eaten by the Otomac Indians,27, 19.Clergy, dread their congregations doing anything,25, 5;really responsible for present state of things,27, 13;of the McCosh persuasion, characterised by shrinking modesty,27, 9;profession of,31, 20,23;how many honest clergymen,31, 20;address to the,48, 279.Clergyman, south country, letter from,25, 4;author of novellettes,30, 1.Clergymen, author not prejudiced in favour of,30, 2;advice to young,38, 34;modern, often a lie rampant,40, 95.Clifford, Lady Anne,38,45 (note).Coal mining, tastes differ about,38, 47(note).Coburg, letter from,40, 81.Colchis, crocus, the enchanted herb of,26, 16.Colours, Shakspeare’s meaning of,25, 17.Commerce, failures in,26, 1.Commonness, not vulgarity,25, 29(note);refer to ‘Modern Painters,’ib.Compassion, true meaning of,34, 5.Competition, great principle of, among Scott’s servants,32, 21.Coniston, poisoning fish at,46, 229;result of the author’s agricultural experiments at,48, 265.Constitution, British, is breaking fast,45, 199.Contentment, the main matter,48, 274;the author not contented,48, 275.Cookery book, penny,27, 18.Cooking, advice as to,47, 259,48, 274.Coolness, necessary to meet even pressing need,25, 26.Corn land, how much is occupied in supplying means of drink,27, 10.Corners, sweeping into, uncommon,30, 11.Cornhill Magazine, quotation from the,28, 18;on luxury of marriage and labourers,28, 19.Costermonger, to be entirely abolished,38, 26,32.[8]Count, of Stafford, at Calais,25, 18;of Suffolk, at Calais,ib.Country, air, effect of, on Scott,32, 11;life in France before the Revolution,40, 73.Cozeners, true, what they are,31, 20.Credit, no gain in the long run,26, 2.Critics, remarks on the author’s,41, 103.Crocodile, the word, always terrific to the author when a child,26, 15;meaning of the word,ib.;fat of, used by the Otomac Indians,27, 19;potted,ib.;Manchester and Rochdale muddy and smoking streams suitable for,ib.Crocus, St. George much interested in,25, 28;true story of a, written for the author by a friend,26, 16.Crossness Sewage Works, letter on the,27, 22(note).Cuckoo clock, the author ignorant of the mechanism of,48, 274.Dædalus, labyrinth,28, 4.‘Daily News,’ the, views of, on the prices of things,29, 2;on ‘Fors Clavigera,’30, 21(note).Darwin, and Huxley,35, 13,45, 202.David, King, reflections on,40, 87.Degringolade, La, worth reading, though long and tiresome,43, 153.Demand and supply,30, 14,38, 32.Derby, Lord, his new code of civilization,29, 13;his idea of agriculture,45, 207.Derivation, cannot stand astride on two languages,30, 18.Devastation, new ship of the line,48, 278.Devil, in the second part of Faust, afraid of roses,26, 16;clumsy at christening,43, 146;how the father of English squires,45, 201;his pet weapon,46, 234;not afraid of hothouse plants, mortally so of roses and crocuses,46, 236;his work, the six heads of,46, 227to 229.Dickens, Charles, his opinion about menials,28, 15;as a novelist, his power over the feelings,31, 1;his opinion of British law,47, 244.Didron, his work “Iconographie Chrétienne,”26, 13.[9]Dinner party, advice to a lady about her,46, 232.Dividend not expected by M. De Laval,40, 78(note).Dog and man fight,43, 275.Dogs Act of 1871, brainless and brutal,40, 99(note).Dollar, engraving of Swiss,34(frontispiece).Domestic relations, modern, satirical questions regarding,31, 8.Doré, his pictures, better see the devil than,29, 11;his paintings,34, 9,35, 15.Dover, description of, in the Catechism of Kent,27, 3.Dragon, fight, real difficulty of, not so much to kill as to see him,26, 4;symbol of sins and trials innumerable,26, 6;marvel of the world,26, 13;a seeing creature,26, 14;representing spiritual enemies, natural habit of the Greek mind,26, 11;too true a creature spiritually,26, 13;sacred Egyptian,26, 14;crocodile,ib.Dream, don’t think a thing is done as soon as you have dreamt it,30, 9.Dress, letter to a good girl on,38, 43(note).Drink, ‘I was thirsty, and ye gave me’; as carried out by Christian Englishmen,27, 12.Drury lane, pantomime at,39, 55;reflections on it,39, 57.Dulwich, lovely wild roses at, formerly,46, 236.Earls of Guildford, worship of,27, 5.Economy, first question of,29, 12;of Government in the matter of books,37, 19(note).Ecstacy, how to be had,41, 112.Edgeworth, Mr., Scott’s description of,28, 17;Miss, her morality,38, 1;not read as she should be,32, 25(note);her tale of ‘Frank,’43, 145;her love-making,47, 248.Edinburgh, or Edwin’s Burg,25, 13;inhabitants of, called worse than heathen by Charlemagne,25, 14;houses in,27, 12;new town of,31, 5,32, 9;arrangement for taking rent from the lower orders in,40, 89;houses of the poor described,ib.Education, practical, Ecclesiastical idea of,25, 4;nobility of,25, 15;of children of St. Matthias’ school,30, 19;of[10]Sir Walter Scott,31, 27;of Scott’s mother,33, 3;bodily, for a girl,33, 5;when it begins,33, 7;end of all right, for a woman,33, 17;the highest agricultural, possible for men and women, the design of these Letters,37, 7;has to begin, the author’s as well as the reader’s,47, 258.Edward III., his quartering,25, 11;fighting under captainship,25, 17;becoming doubtful,25, 27;his behaviour to his prisoners after the siege of Calais,25, 20;his fighting, rightness of, not discussed,25, 26;his first interview with Alice of Salisbury,25, 27;rides to help Alice of Salisbury,31, 10.Eels, law concerning, in Florence,38, 41.Egbert, trained by Charles,25, 14;recovers the throne of the West Saxons,ib.;first king of all England,ib.;grandfather of Alfred,ib.Egyptian, worship of the,26, 14.Eldon, Lord, anecdote of his economical dinner,38, 37(note).Emerson, his bas relief of St. George,26, 4;his English traits, extract from, on St. George,ib.;his true instincts of heroism,26, 5.England, present and future influence of,42, 118;how despised in America,ib.;that it deserves little care is now fatally true,ib.;state of, examined in a broad light,44, 172;official statement of the condition of, at the commencement of ‘Fors,’ by Mr. Goschen,48, 287(note);Press extracts on,48, 288,292.Epitaph, in ‘Punch’ on the Bishop of Winchester and Baron Bethell,42, 125;on the squires,45, 194.Evangelicals, only read the bits of the Bible they like,35, 4;refuse to practise Bible precepts if against their money interests,ib.;do not understand in the least the 14th Psalm,ib.;never read the 15th Psalm,ib.;self worship and hell worship,41, 105.Exchange, definition of, by the Secretary to the Social Science Meeting,45, 207;mere, profits nobody,45, 208.Excursions to the French battle-fields,41, 106.[11]Facts against the author he never flinches from stating,31, 5.Failing, remarks on mercantile credit,26, 1.Fair-ladies, description of a home so called by the author,29, 8.Faith, by or in, substituted for “without doubting,”25, 26;Giotto’s picture of,45, 213;without works, better buried as well as dead,45, 216.False shame, the devil’s pet weapon,46, 234.Families, of St. George, to be cheerful and honest, obedient and God-fearing,37, 9;higher classes preferred,ib.Famine, in the event of a national, commissariat officers to starve first,38, 35;in India,40, 82.Farm, in Switzerland or Bavaria, fifty years ago,44, 170;at Thun,ib.Father, the author’s,46, 221.Feathers, Prince of Wales’,28, 7;ostrich, meaning of,ib.Fiction, works of, supply defect of imagination in common minds,34, 5.Fighting, modern British, compared with that at Calais,25, 23;with dogs,48, 275;rightness of Edward III.’s, not discussed,25, 26.Financial art, modern,44, 162.Fine art,28, 7.Fireside, too costly,27, 18;not a patent stove,31, 22.Fish, in Florence, not to be re-sold,38, 26;shoals of, like shining continents,38, 27;trade in, described by a correspondent,ib.;result of independent action of the fishermen,38, 28;big men in the conduct of,38, 28,30;Columbia market a failure,38, 31;selling must be done by gentlemen,38, 33;trade, letter on the,40, 93(note);to fill the waters with, a celestial work,46, 229.
(Second Thousand.)The larger black numerals indicate the number of the letter; the smaller numerals the pages.Though the kind friends who have drawn up this and the earlier index are not content with their work, I believe it will be found entirely sufficient for its purposes, until the system of the whole is more developed. As soon as it has received anything like conclusive form I will index its subjects, in connection, myself.Abbey of St. Radagune,27, 4.Abbotsford, fit forSirWalter Scott,47, 257.Abstract of the first seven letters of this book,43, 139.Accent, struggle between the author and his mother regarding correct,33, 14.Acres, how many given up to make beasts,27, 10.Adderley, Sir C., his opinion on sentiment,34, 4.Addington, country near, when the author was young,29, 3.Advent, collect for,48, 278.Advertisement, entire principle of, defied,38, 42.[2]Advice of friends, author usually does good by acting contrary to,27, 13.Agassiz, Professor, his labours on glacier movement,34, 21.Agricultural, population of England, her only power,44, 172;labourer, present privileges of the,28, 18.Agriculture, book on,45, 217(note);Lord Derby’s idea of,45, 207;success of the author’s experiment in,48, 265.Alice, in Miss Yonge’s Dictionary of Christian Names,45, 212;of Salisbury,25, 15,28;her defence of her castle,31, 10.Alison Wilson, in ‘Old Mortality,’ a real person,32, 10;allusion to story of,ib.Almsgiving, not work,46, 225.Alpine flowers, not to be killed,38, 46(note).Alps, ice of the, has lost one-third of its depth in the last twenty years,34, 17.Amaryllis, St. George much interestedin,25, 28.America, her carelessness about dying England, a sign of her own ruin,42, 118;what she has learned from England,ib.;Republican woman of, describes a child,ib.Amery, of Pavia, the false Lombard,25, 17.Amiens, Peace of,25, 11.Amusement of factory managers soon likely to end,35, 21.Ancestors of modern political economists,45, 202.Andrew, St., cross of adopted by the Scotch as the national device,25, 13;vision of,ib.Angel, first thought of squire to shoot it,45, 202.Anne, the author’s nurse,28, 13.Anthony, St., knows desert flowers,26, 20.Apotheosis, modern notion of,41, 107.Applegarth, Mr., quoted by the ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’33, 1;his views,34, 27(note).Arcadia, a modern, described,35, 15;38, 44(note).Ariadne, tale of, frontispiece,28, 5.Arkwright and Stevenson have done nothing but harm,44, 173.Armour, of light, what it is, and why necessary,48, 279;of God, reflections on the,48, 280;meaning of, in the Advent collect,48, 279.[3]Armstrong guns,29, 12.Art, in Florence and Oxford,37, 2;study of, begun by the author,45, 192.Assisi, sacristan’s cell at,46, 223;the author comforted by a little pig at,48, 270,275.Athenian wisdom in fondness for crocuses,26, 16.Athens, opposed to dressing Sisters of Charity in black,26, 16.Aunt, the author’s,46, 221.Author, the, of this book, does not set himself up as a leader,30, 18;his letter to the ‘Daily Telegraph’ quoted,37, 21(note);remarks on his life,41, 103;some account of his parentage,45, 194;he finds himself alone in life and knowledge,37, 3;results of his few experiments,48, 265;his want of success, cause of,41, 112;reflections on his life,41, 113;family history, his maternal grandmother and grandfather,46, 220.Avernus, lake of,32, 13.Ayrshire, opposition of the plough to the pulpit in,32, 17.Baal-god, law of, inequitableoperation,45, 200.Baby-nursing, not a lucrative employment according to J. S. Mill,29, 13,36, 4.Bacon, Sir Francis,37, 13.Bad thing, a, will pay if put properly before the public,36, 2.Ballads, Scottish, sweet,32, 17.Bank, the author obliged to keep his money in a,44, 178;his reasons,44, 179.Barrister, selling his talents,47, 246;remarks on the profession of a,ib.Bath, Scott’s visit to,33, 16;Scott’s recollections of,33, 18.Beasts, wild, what they were made for,27, 7;their worth to us,27, 8;might be spared a little room on earth,27, 9;of prey, men have the nature of, according to Social Science,28, 4.Beesly, Professor,37, 19,23(notes).Beetroot, a miserable substitute for sugar-cane,48, 272.Begging for money, result of,36, 1.[4]Benediction, of clergy,38, 35;of Irishwoman,ib.Bible, how to read it,27, 2;meaning of one verse of the,30, 4;study of, by the author under his mother’s teaching,33, 14;text from, examined,40, 87;evangelical book-idol, not by any means the word of God,40, 88;to be searched, not chopped up,ib.;list of chapters in the, by the author’s mother,42, 129;the author’s lessons in the, on the whole, the one essential part of all his education,42, 130;text which the author had to repeat oftenest,ib.Biography pleasant to read,33, 2.Bishop, at the Royal Academy,40, 95(note);epitaph on a,42, 125.Bishops and clergy, apathy of, regarding national sin, letter on,44, 187(note).Bismarck, not the cause of the French war,40, 84;Prince, description of, from the ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’43, 143.Blackfriars Bridge,41, 111,114.Blind man, sent to gaol for four months for begging,44, 185(note);Eastern story of a, for comparison,ib.Boat at sea, society compared to a,44, 163;how truly and how falsely,ib.Boerhaave, Johnson’s account of,32, 7;teacher of Scott’s maternal grandfather,ib.;naturally quick of resentment,—how cured of this,32, 8(note).Bondage worse than that of Egypt,46, 231.Bones, boiled,27, 18.Book, our most current, written in three languages,25, 10;not readable, unless the mind is one with the author’s,25, 15.Bookcase, the author’s,30, 1.Books, what, read by rising middle classes about London,29, 5;Scott’s, when a child,33, 11,15;change for the better, Mudie and ‘Good Words,’33, 11;Ramsey’s tea-table, this compared with Knatchbull-Hugessen’s Tales at tea-time,33, 12.Border, morals,31, 8;of Scotland,32, 13;pre-eminently a singing country,ib.;beauty of, in summer time,33, 10.[5]Borrowing and lending,38, 41.Boy or girl, advice to,46, 233.Breeding, good, what it means,25, 27.Bright, Mr., his speech on the adulteration of food,37, 5;his opinion that lifeinspectedwould not be worth having,37, 6;his speech analysed,37, 7.Britannia, as represented on a penny,25, 6;who is she?ib.British, never will be slaves,38, 31;constitution breaking fast,45, 199.Broom merchant, story of, begins,30, 5;continued,34, 10,39, 59;(concluded) the conditions of sentiment in the family relationships to be carefully noted,39, 69(note).Brown, Dr., his letter,32, 25(note).Bucentaur, launched for a collation,42, 119.Buckland, Frank, his work,46, 229.Builders, plague of their work near London,29, 2;houses, residents in, described,29, 4.Building and cooking,48, 274.Buildings, modern suburban, described,29, 4.Bull terrier, the author’s,48, 276.Burdens on poor men’s backs, clergy neither noble nor sanctified in binding,38, 34.Burns quoted,40, 97(note).Butcher, Steam-Butcher’s-boy-Co.,29, 10.Buzzing and whistling in Yorkshire,28, 11.Cab, the author’s thoughts in a,39, 51.Calais,25, 17;siege of,25, 19.Candles, peasants of Picardy too poor to afford, except to drip on church floors,31, 22.Canticle, meaning of,35, 5.Capital,seeLabour.Captain, of Christian war,26, 11;Shakespeare’s meaning of,25, 16;a, taking the wheel in an emergency, account of,25, 26;each squire should be a,45, 205.Carlyle, Thomas, the only man in England to whom the author[6]can look for guidance in his plan,37, 12;his description of a shoal of fish,38, 27;strange comment on his letter,44, 186(note).Carol,48, 281.Carpaccio, his deep conviction on the subject of dragons,26, 13.Carpentering, advice to rely on your own boys for,29, 9.Carshalton, the author’s work at,46, 229;48, 265.Cattle dealer, Robert Scott is a, yet a gentleman,31, 24;a stubbornly honest,31, 20.Celibacy of laity,28, 19.Centaur Chiron, type of Greek tutor,25, 27.Challenge from the author to the squires of England,45, 194.Channel Islands feed their own people and export provisions also,45, 218(note).Character, noble, the only perfect, in Scott’s first novel, a Hanoverian Colonel,31, 3;heroic, the most finished in all Scott’s novels, a presbyterian milkmaid,ib.Charity, French poem on, and translation,37, 1,2.Charlemagne, alliance of, with Scottish king,25, 13;43, 145.Charming, to be, first duty of a girl,38, 43(note).Children, of St. George’s Company, how to be treated,37, 10;of mothers in mills, how taken care of by the clergymen,38, 44(note);a joy and honour, and the reverse,46, 230;the Rachel of England weeps because theyare,46, 231.Chillianwallah, different arrangement of letters in,30, 20;31, 23.China, how to be civilized by steam at sixty pounds on the inch,42, 136(note).Christianity, essence of, modern idea of,42, 126.Christmas fare, advice concerning,48, 281.Church, of England, in South Australia turned money lender, letter on,44, 187(note);and state, relations of,46, 219;no power but benediction and protection,ib.Cinderella, at Hengler’s,39, 55;reflections on,39, 57.Circular of Howell and James,26, 2.Circus, Hengler’s,39, 55.Civilization, what we now call,27, 5;principal condition of,[7]according to the Secretary of the Social Science Meeting,42, 131.Clarty hole,32, 15.Clay eaten by the Otomac Indians,27, 19.Clergy, dread their congregations doing anything,25, 5;really responsible for present state of things,27, 13;of the McCosh persuasion, characterised by shrinking modesty,27, 9;profession of,31, 20,23;how many honest clergymen,31, 20;address to the,48, 279.Clergyman, south country, letter from,25, 4;author of novellettes,30, 1.Clergymen, author not prejudiced in favour of,30, 2;advice to young,38, 34;modern, often a lie rampant,40, 95.Clifford, Lady Anne,38,45 (note).Coal mining, tastes differ about,38, 47(note).Coburg, letter from,40, 81.Colchis, crocus, the enchanted herb of,26, 16.Colours, Shakspeare’s meaning of,25, 17.Commerce, failures in,26, 1.Commonness, not vulgarity,25, 29(note);refer to ‘Modern Painters,’ib.Compassion, true meaning of,34, 5.Competition, great principle of, among Scott’s servants,32, 21.Coniston, poisoning fish at,46, 229;result of the author’s agricultural experiments at,48, 265.Constitution, British, is breaking fast,45, 199.Contentment, the main matter,48, 274;the author not contented,48, 275.Cookery book, penny,27, 18.Cooking, advice as to,47, 259,48, 274.Coolness, necessary to meet even pressing need,25, 26.Corn land, how much is occupied in supplying means of drink,27, 10.Corners, sweeping into, uncommon,30, 11.Cornhill Magazine, quotation from the,28, 18;on luxury of marriage and labourers,28, 19.Costermonger, to be entirely abolished,38, 26,32.[8]Count, of Stafford, at Calais,25, 18;of Suffolk, at Calais,ib.Country, air, effect of, on Scott,32, 11;life in France before the Revolution,40, 73.Cozeners, true, what they are,31, 20.Credit, no gain in the long run,26, 2.Critics, remarks on the author’s,41, 103.Crocodile, the word, always terrific to the author when a child,26, 15;meaning of the word,ib.;fat of, used by the Otomac Indians,27, 19;potted,ib.;Manchester and Rochdale muddy and smoking streams suitable for,ib.Crocus, St. George much interested in,25, 28;true story of a, written for the author by a friend,26, 16.Crossness Sewage Works, letter on the,27, 22(note).Cuckoo clock, the author ignorant of the mechanism of,48, 274.Dædalus, labyrinth,28, 4.‘Daily News,’ the, views of, on the prices of things,29, 2;on ‘Fors Clavigera,’30, 21(note).Darwin, and Huxley,35, 13,45, 202.David, King, reflections on,40, 87.Degringolade, La, worth reading, though long and tiresome,43, 153.Demand and supply,30, 14,38, 32.Derby, Lord, his new code of civilization,29, 13;his idea of agriculture,45, 207.Derivation, cannot stand astride on two languages,30, 18.Devastation, new ship of the line,48, 278.Devil, in the second part of Faust, afraid of roses,26, 16;clumsy at christening,43, 146;how the father of English squires,45, 201;his pet weapon,46, 234;not afraid of hothouse plants, mortally so of roses and crocuses,46, 236;his work, the six heads of,46, 227to 229.Dickens, Charles, his opinion about menials,28, 15;as a novelist, his power over the feelings,31, 1;his opinion of British law,47, 244.Didron, his work “Iconographie Chrétienne,”26, 13.[9]Dinner party, advice to a lady about her,46, 232.Dividend not expected by M. De Laval,40, 78(note).Dog and man fight,43, 275.Dogs Act of 1871, brainless and brutal,40, 99(note).Dollar, engraving of Swiss,34(frontispiece).Domestic relations, modern, satirical questions regarding,31, 8.Doré, his pictures, better see the devil than,29, 11;his paintings,34, 9,35, 15.Dover, description of, in the Catechism of Kent,27, 3.Dragon, fight, real difficulty of, not so much to kill as to see him,26, 4;symbol of sins and trials innumerable,26, 6;marvel of the world,26, 13;a seeing creature,26, 14;representing spiritual enemies, natural habit of the Greek mind,26, 11;too true a creature spiritually,26, 13;sacred Egyptian,26, 14;crocodile,ib.Dream, don’t think a thing is done as soon as you have dreamt it,30, 9.Dress, letter to a good girl on,38, 43(note).Drink, ‘I was thirsty, and ye gave me’; as carried out by Christian Englishmen,27, 12.Drury lane, pantomime at,39, 55;reflections on it,39, 57.Dulwich, lovely wild roses at, formerly,46, 236.Earls of Guildford, worship of,27, 5.Economy, first question of,29, 12;of Government in the matter of books,37, 19(note).Ecstacy, how to be had,41, 112.Edgeworth, Mr., Scott’s description of,28, 17;Miss, her morality,38, 1;not read as she should be,32, 25(note);her tale of ‘Frank,’43, 145;her love-making,47, 248.Edinburgh, or Edwin’s Burg,25, 13;inhabitants of, called worse than heathen by Charlemagne,25, 14;houses in,27, 12;new town of,31, 5,32, 9;arrangement for taking rent from the lower orders in,40, 89;houses of the poor described,ib.Education, practical, Ecclesiastical idea of,25, 4;nobility of,25, 15;of children of St. Matthias’ school,30, 19;of[10]Sir Walter Scott,31, 27;of Scott’s mother,33, 3;bodily, for a girl,33, 5;when it begins,33, 7;end of all right, for a woman,33, 17;the highest agricultural, possible for men and women, the design of these Letters,37, 7;has to begin, the author’s as well as the reader’s,47, 258.Edward III., his quartering,25, 11;fighting under captainship,25, 17;becoming doubtful,25, 27;his behaviour to his prisoners after the siege of Calais,25, 20;his fighting, rightness of, not discussed,25, 26;his first interview with Alice of Salisbury,25, 27;rides to help Alice of Salisbury,31, 10.Eels, law concerning, in Florence,38, 41.Egbert, trained by Charles,25, 14;recovers the throne of the West Saxons,ib.;first king of all England,ib.;grandfather of Alfred,ib.Egyptian, worship of the,26, 14.Eldon, Lord, anecdote of his economical dinner,38, 37(note).Emerson, his bas relief of St. George,26, 4;his English traits, extract from, on St. George,ib.;his true instincts of heroism,26, 5.England, present and future influence of,42, 118;how despised in America,ib.;that it deserves little care is now fatally true,ib.;state of, examined in a broad light,44, 172;official statement of the condition of, at the commencement of ‘Fors,’ by Mr. Goschen,48, 287(note);Press extracts on,48, 288,292.Epitaph, in ‘Punch’ on the Bishop of Winchester and Baron Bethell,42, 125;on the squires,45, 194.Evangelicals, only read the bits of the Bible they like,35, 4;refuse to practise Bible precepts if against their money interests,ib.;do not understand in the least the 14th Psalm,ib.;never read the 15th Psalm,ib.;self worship and hell worship,41, 105.Exchange, definition of, by the Secretary to the Social Science Meeting,45, 207;mere, profits nobody,45, 208.Excursions to the French battle-fields,41, 106.[11]Facts against the author he never flinches from stating,31, 5.Failing, remarks on mercantile credit,26, 1.Fair-ladies, description of a home so called by the author,29, 8.Faith, by or in, substituted for “without doubting,”25, 26;Giotto’s picture of,45, 213;without works, better buried as well as dead,45, 216.False shame, the devil’s pet weapon,46, 234.Families, of St. George, to be cheerful and honest, obedient and God-fearing,37, 9;higher classes preferred,ib.Famine, in the event of a national, commissariat officers to starve first,38, 35;in India,40, 82.Farm, in Switzerland or Bavaria, fifty years ago,44, 170;at Thun,ib.Father, the author’s,46, 221.Feathers, Prince of Wales’,28, 7;ostrich, meaning of,ib.Fiction, works of, supply defect of imagination in common minds,34, 5.Fighting, modern British, compared with that at Calais,25, 23;with dogs,48, 275;rightness of Edward III.’s, not discussed,25, 26.Financial art, modern,44, 162.Fine art,28, 7.Fireside, too costly,27, 18;not a patent stove,31, 22.Fish, in Florence, not to be re-sold,38, 26;shoals of, like shining continents,38, 27;trade in, described by a correspondent,ib.;result of independent action of the fishermen,38, 28;big men in the conduct of,38, 28,30;Columbia market a failure,38, 31;selling must be done by gentlemen,38, 33;trade, letter on the,40, 93(note);to fill the waters with, a celestial work,46, 229.
(Second Thousand.)The larger black numerals indicate the number of the letter; the smaller numerals the pages.Though the kind friends who have drawn up this and the earlier index are not content with their work, I believe it will be found entirely sufficient for its purposes, until the system of the whole is more developed. As soon as it has received anything like conclusive form I will index its subjects, in connection, myself.Abbey of St. Radagune,27, 4.Abbotsford, fit forSirWalter Scott,47, 257.Abstract of the first seven letters of this book,43, 139.Accent, struggle between the author and his mother regarding correct,33, 14.Acres, how many given up to make beasts,27, 10.Adderley, Sir C., his opinion on sentiment,34, 4.Addington, country near, when the author was young,29, 3.Advent, collect for,48, 278.Advertisement, entire principle of, defied,38, 42.[2]Advice of friends, author usually does good by acting contrary to,27, 13.Agassiz, Professor, his labours on glacier movement,34, 21.Agricultural, population of England, her only power,44, 172;labourer, present privileges of the,28, 18.Agriculture, book on,45, 217(note);Lord Derby’s idea of,45, 207;success of the author’s experiment in,48, 265.Alice, in Miss Yonge’s Dictionary of Christian Names,45, 212;of Salisbury,25, 15,28;her defence of her castle,31, 10.Alison Wilson, in ‘Old Mortality,’ a real person,32, 10;allusion to story of,ib.Almsgiving, not work,46, 225.Alpine flowers, not to be killed,38, 46(note).Alps, ice of the, has lost one-third of its depth in the last twenty years,34, 17.Amaryllis, St. George much interestedin,25, 28.America, her carelessness about dying England, a sign of her own ruin,42, 118;what she has learned from England,ib.;Republican woman of, describes a child,ib.Amery, of Pavia, the false Lombard,25, 17.Amiens, Peace of,25, 11.Amusement of factory managers soon likely to end,35, 21.Ancestors of modern political economists,45, 202.Andrew, St., cross of adopted by the Scotch as the national device,25, 13;vision of,ib.Angel, first thought of squire to shoot it,45, 202.Anne, the author’s nurse,28, 13.Anthony, St., knows desert flowers,26, 20.Apotheosis, modern notion of,41, 107.Applegarth, Mr., quoted by the ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’33, 1;his views,34, 27(note).Arcadia, a modern, described,35, 15;38, 44(note).Ariadne, tale of, frontispiece,28, 5.Arkwright and Stevenson have done nothing but harm,44, 173.Armour, of light, what it is, and why necessary,48, 279;of God, reflections on the,48, 280;meaning of, in the Advent collect,48, 279.[3]Armstrong guns,29, 12.Art, in Florence and Oxford,37, 2;study of, begun by the author,45, 192.Assisi, sacristan’s cell at,46, 223;the author comforted by a little pig at,48, 270,275.Athenian wisdom in fondness for crocuses,26, 16.Athens, opposed to dressing Sisters of Charity in black,26, 16.Aunt, the author’s,46, 221.Author, the, of this book, does not set himself up as a leader,30, 18;his letter to the ‘Daily Telegraph’ quoted,37, 21(note);remarks on his life,41, 103;some account of his parentage,45, 194;he finds himself alone in life and knowledge,37, 3;results of his few experiments,48, 265;his want of success, cause of,41, 112;reflections on his life,41, 113;family history, his maternal grandmother and grandfather,46, 220.Avernus, lake of,32, 13.Ayrshire, opposition of the plough to the pulpit in,32, 17.Baal-god, law of, inequitableoperation,45, 200.Baby-nursing, not a lucrative employment according to J. S. Mill,29, 13,36, 4.Bacon, Sir Francis,37, 13.Bad thing, a, will pay if put properly before the public,36, 2.Ballads, Scottish, sweet,32, 17.Bank, the author obliged to keep his money in a,44, 178;his reasons,44, 179.Barrister, selling his talents,47, 246;remarks on the profession of a,ib.Bath, Scott’s visit to,33, 16;Scott’s recollections of,33, 18.Beasts, wild, what they were made for,27, 7;their worth to us,27, 8;might be spared a little room on earth,27, 9;of prey, men have the nature of, according to Social Science,28, 4.Beesly, Professor,37, 19,23(notes).Beetroot, a miserable substitute for sugar-cane,48, 272.Begging for money, result of,36, 1.[4]Benediction, of clergy,38, 35;of Irishwoman,ib.Bible, how to read it,27, 2;meaning of one verse of the,30, 4;study of, by the author under his mother’s teaching,33, 14;text from, examined,40, 87;evangelical book-idol, not by any means the word of God,40, 88;to be searched, not chopped up,ib.;list of chapters in the, by the author’s mother,42, 129;the author’s lessons in the, on the whole, the one essential part of all his education,42, 130;text which the author had to repeat oftenest,ib.Biography pleasant to read,33, 2.Bishop, at the Royal Academy,40, 95(note);epitaph on a,42, 125.Bishops and clergy, apathy of, regarding national sin, letter on,44, 187(note).Bismarck, not the cause of the French war,40, 84;Prince, description of, from the ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’43, 143.Blackfriars Bridge,41, 111,114.Blind man, sent to gaol for four months for begging,44, 185(note);Eastern story of a, for comparison,ib.Boat at sea, society compared to a,44, 163;how truly and how falsely,ib.Boerhaave, Johnson’s account of,32, 7;teacher of Scott’s maternal grandfather,ib.;naturally quick of resentment,—how cured of this,32, 8(note).Bondage worse than that of Egypt,46, 231.Bones, boiled,27, 18.Book, our most current, written in three languages,25, 10;not readable, unless the mind is one with the author’s,25, 15.Bookcase, the author’s,30, 1.Books, what, read by rising middle classes about London,29, 5;Scott’s, when a child,33, 11,15;change for the better, Mudie and ‘Good Words,’33, 11;Ramsey’s tea-table, this compared with Knatchbull-Hugessen’s Tales at tea-time,33, 12.Border, morals,31, 8;of Scotland,32, 13;pre-eminently a singing country,ib.;beauty of, in summer time,33, 10.[5]Borrowing and lending,38, 41.Boy or girl, advice to,46, 233.Breeding, good, what it means,25, 27.Bright, Mr., his speech on the adulteration of food,37, 5;his opinion that lifeinspectedwould not be worth having,37, 6;his speech analysed,37, 7.Britannia, as represented on a penny,25, 6;who is she?ib.British, never will be slaves,38, 31;constitution breaking fast,45, 199.Broom merchant, story of, begins,30, 5;continued,34, 10,39, 59;(concluded) the conditions of sentiment in the family relationships to be carefully noted,39, 69(note).Brown, Dr., his letter,32, 25(note).Bucentaur, launched for a collation,42, 119.Buckland, Frank, his work,46, 229.Builders, plague of their work near London,29, 2;houses, residents in, described,29, 4.Building and cooking,48, 274.Buildings, modern suburban, described,29, 4.Bull terrier, the author’s,48, 276.Burdens on poor men’s backs, clergy neither noble nor sanctified in binding,38, 34.Burns quoted,40, 97(note).Butcher, Steam-Butcher’s-boy-Co.,29, 10.Buzzing and whistling in Yorkshire,28, 11.Cab, the author’s thoughts in a,39, 51.Calais,25, 17;siege of,25, 19.Candles, peasants of Picardy too poor to afford, except to drip on church floors,31, 22.Canticle, meaning of,35, 5.Capital,seeLabour.Captain, of Christian war,26, 11;Shakespeare’s meaning of,25, 16;a, taking the wheel in an emergency, account of,25, 26;each squire should be a,45, 205.Carlyle, Thomas, the only man in England to whom the author[6]can look for guidance in his plan,37, 12;his description of a shoal of fish,38, 27;strange comment on his letter,44, 186(note).Carol,48, 281.Carpaccio, his deep conviction on the subject of dragons,26, 13.Carpentering, advice to rely on your own boys for,29, 9.Carshalton, the author’s work at,46, 229;48, 265.Cattle dealer, Robert Scott is a, yet a gentleman,31, 24;a stubbornly honest,31, 20.Celibacy of laity,28, 19.Centaur Chiron, type of Greek tutor,25, 27.Challenge from the author to the squires of England,45, 194.Channel Islands feed their own people and export provisions also,45, 218(note).Character, noble, the only perfect, in Scott’s first novel, a Hanoverian Colonel,31, 3;heroic, the most finished in all Scott’s novels, a presbyterian milkmaid,ib.Charity, French poem on, and translation,37, 1,2.Charlemagne, alliance of, with Scottish king,25, 13;43, 145.Charming, to be, first duty of a girl,38, 43(note).Children, of St. George’s Company, how to be treated,37, 10;of mothers in mills, how taken care of by the clergymen,38, 44(note);a joy and honour, and the reverse,46, 230;the Rachel of England weeps because theyare,46, 231.Chillianwallah, different arrangement of letters in,30, 20;31, 23.China, how to be civilized by steam at sixty pounds on the inch,42, 136(note).Christianity, essence of, modern idea of,42, 126.Christmas fare, advice concerning,48, 281.Church, of England, in South Australia turned money lender, letter on,44, 187(note);and state, relations of,46, 219;no power but benediction and protection,ib.Cinderella, at Hengler’s,39, 55;reflections on,39, 57.Circular of Howell and James,26, 2.Circus, Hengler’s,39, 55.Civilization, what we now call,27, 5;principal condition of,[7]according to the Secretary of the Social Science Meeting,42, 131.Clarty hole,32, 15.Clay eaten by the Otomac Indians,27, 19.Clergy, dread their congregations doing anything,25, 5;really responsible for present state of things,27, 13;of the McCosh persuasion, characterised by shrinking modesty,27, 9;profession of,31, 20,23;how many honest clergymen,31, 20;address to the,48, 279.Clergyman, south country, letter from,25, 4;author of novellettes,30, 1.Clergymen, author not prejudiced in favour of,30, 2;advice to young,38, 34;modern, often a lie rampant,40, 95.Clifford, Lady Anne,38,45 (note).Coal mining, tastes differ about,38, 47(note).Coburg, letter from,40, 81.Colchis, crocus, the enchanted herb of,26, 16.Colours, Shakspeare’s meaning of,25, 17.Commerce, failures in,26, 1.Commonness, not vulgarity,25, 29(note);refer to ‘Modern Painters,’ib.Compassion, true meaning of,34, 5.Competition, great principle of, among Scott’s servants,32, 21.Coniston, poisoning fish at,46, 229;result of the author’s agricultural experiments at,48, 265.Constitution, British, is breaking fast,45, 199.Contentment, the main matter,48, 274;the author not contented,48, 275.Cookery book, penny,27, 18.Cooking, advice as to,47, 259,48, 274.Coolness, necessary to meet even pressing need,25, 26.Corn land, how much is occupied in supplying means of drink,27, 10.Corners, sweeping into, uncommon,30, 11.Cornhill Magazine, quotation from the,28, 18;on luxury of marriage and labourers,28, 19.Costermonger, to be entirely abolished,38, 26,32.[8]Count, of Stafford, at Calais,25, 18;of Suffolk, at Calais,ib.Country, air, effect of, on Scott,32, 11;life in France before the Revolution,40, 73.Cozeners, true, what they are,31, 20.Credit, no gain in the long run,26, 2.Critics, remarks on the author’s,41, 103.Crocodile, the word, always terrific to the author when a child,26, 15;meaning of the word,ib.;fat of, used by the Otomac Indians,27, 19;potted,ib.;Manchester and Rochdale muddy and smoking streams suitable for,ib.Crocus, St. George much interested in,25, 28;true story of a, written for the author by a friend,26, 16.Crossness Sewage Works, letter on the,27, 22(note).Cuckoo clock, the author ignorant of the mechanism of,48, 274.Dædalus, labyrinth,28, 4.‘Daily News,’ the, views of, on the prices of things,29, 2;on ‘Fors Clavigera,’30, 21(note).Darwin, and Huxley,35, 13,45, 202.David, King, reflections on,40, 87.Degringolade, La, worth reading, though long and tiresome,43, 153.Demand and supply,30, 14,38, 32.Derby, Lord, his new code of civilization,29, 13;his idea of agriculture,45, 207.Derivation, cannot stand astride on two languages,30, 18.Devastation, new ship of the line,48, 278.Devil, in the second part of Faust, afraid of roses,26, 16;clumsy at christening,43, 146;how the father of English squires,45, 201;his pet weapon,46, 234;not afraid of hothouse plants, mortally so of roses and crocuses,46, 236;his work, the six heads of,46, 227to 229.Dickens, Charles, his opinion about menials,28, 15;as a novelist, his power over the feelings,31, 1;his opinion of British law,47, 244.Didron, his work “Iconographie Chrétienne,”26, 13.[9]Dinner party, advice to a lady about her,46, 232.Dividend not expected by M. De Laval,40, 78(note).Dog and man fight,43, 275.Dogs Act of 1871, brainless and brutal,40, 99(note).Dollar, engraving of Swiss,34(frontispiece).Domestic relations, modern, satirical questions regarding,31, 8.Doré, his pictures, better see the devil than,29, 11;his paintings,34, 9,35, 15.Dover, description of, in the Catechism of Kent,27, 3.Dragon, fight, real difficulty of, not so much to kill as to see him,26, 4;symbol of sins and trials innumerable,26, 6;marvel of the world,26, 13;a seeing creature,26, 14;representing spiritual enemies, natural habit of the Greek mind,26, 11;too true a creature spiritually,26, 13;sacred Egyptian,26, 14;crocodile,ib.Dream, don’t think a thing is done as soon as you have dreamt it,30, 9.Dress, letter to a good girl on,38, 43(note).Drink, ‘I was thirsty, and ye gave me’; as carried out by Christian Englishmen,27, 12.Drury lane, pantomime at,39, 55;reflections on it,39, 57.Dulwich, lovely wild roses at, formerly,46, 236.Earls of Guildford, worship of,27, 5.Economy, first question of,29, 12;of Government in the matter of books,37, 19(note).Ecstacy, how to be had,41, 112.Edgeworth, Mr., Scott’s description of,28, 17;Miss, her morality,38, 1;not read as she should be,32, 25(note);her tale of ‘Frank,’43, 145;her love-making,47, 248.Edinburgh, or Edwin’s Burg,25, 13;inhabitants of, called worse than heathen by Charlemagne,25, 14;houses in,27, 12;new town of,31, 5,32, 9;arrangement for taking rent from the lower orders in,40, 89;houses of the poor described,ib.Education, practical, Ecclesiastical idea of,25, 4;nobility of,25, 15;of children of St. Matthias’ school,30, 19;of[10]Sir Walter Scott,31, 27;of Scott’s mother,33, 3;bodily, for a girl,33, 5;when it begins,33, 7;end of all right, for a woman,33, 17;the highest agricultural, possible for men and women, the design of these Letters,37, 7;has to begin, the author’s as well as the reader’s,47, 258.Edward III., his quartering,25, 11;fighting under captainship,25, 17;becoming doubtful,25, 27;his behaviour to his prisoners after the siege of Calais,25, 20;his fighting, rightness of, not discussed,25, 26;his first interview with Alice of Salisbury,25, 27;rides to help Alice of Salisbury,31, 10.Eels, law concerning, in Florence,38, 41.Egbert, trained by Charles,25, 14;recovers the throne of the West Saxons,ib.;first king of all England,ib.;grandfather of Alfred,ib.Egyptian, worship of the,26, 14.Eldon, Lord, anecdote of his economical dinner,38, 37(note).Emerson, his bas relief of St. George,26, 4;his English traits, extract from, on St. George,ib.;his true instincts of heroism,26, 5.England, present and future influence of,42, 118;how despised in America,ib.;that it deserves little care is now fatally true,ib.;state of, examined in a broad light,44, 172;official statement of the condition of, at the commencement of ‘Fors,’ by Mr. Goschen,48, 287(note);Press extracts on,48, 288,292.Epitaph, in ‘Punch’ on the Bishop of Winchester and Baron Bethell,42, 125;on the squires,45, 194.Evangelicals, only read the bits of the Bible they like,35, 4;refuse to practise Bible precepts if against their money interests,ib.;do not understand in the least the 14th Psalm,ib.;never read the 15th Psalm,ib.;self worship and hell worship,41, 105.Exchange, definition of, by the Secretary to the Social Science Meeting,45, 207;mere, profits nobody,45, 208.Excursions to the French battle-fields,41, 106.[11]Facts against the author he never flinches from stating,31, 5.Failing, remarks on mercantile credit,26, 1.Fair-ladies, description of a home so called by the author,29, 8.Faith, by or in, substituted for “without doubting,”25, 26;Giotto’s picture of,45, 213;without works, better buried as well as dead,45, 216.False shame, the devil’s pet weapon,46, 234.Families, of St. George, to be cheerful and honest, obedient and God-fearing,37, 9;higher classes preferred,ib.Famine, in the event of a national, commissariat officers to starve first,38, 35;in India,40, 82.Farm, in Switzerland or Bavaria, fifty years ago,44, 170;at Thun,ib.Father, the author’s,46, 221.Feathers, Prince of Wales’,28, 7;ostrich, meaning of,ib.Fiction, works of, supply defect of imagination in common minds,34, 5.Fighting, modern British, compared with that at Calais,25, 23;with dogs,48, 275;rightness of Edward III.’s, not discussed,25, 26.Financial art, modern,44, 162.Fine art,28, 7.Fireside, too costly,27, 18;not a patent stove,31, 22.Fish, in Florence, not to be re-sold,38, 26;shoals of, like shining continents,38, 27;trade in, described by a correspondent,ib.;result of independent action of the fishermen,38, 28;big men in the conduct of,38, 28,30;Columbia market a failure,38, 31;selling must be done by gentlemen,38, 33;trade, letter on the,40, 93(note);to fill the waters with, a celestial work,46, 229.
(Second Thousand.)
The larger black numerals indicate the number of the letter; the smaller numerals the pages.
Though the kind friends who have drawn up this and the earlier index are not content with their work, I believe it will be found entirely sufficient for its purposes, until the system of the whole is more developed. As soon as it has received anything like conclusive form I will index its subjects, in connection, myself.
Abbey of St. Radagune,27, 4.
Abbotsford, fit forSirWalter Scott,47, 257.
Abstract of the first seven letters of this book,43, 139.
Accent, struggle between the author and his mother regarding correct,33, 14.
Acres, how many given up to make beasts,27, 10.
Adderley, Sir C., his opinion on sentiment,34, 4.
Addington, country near, when the author was young,29, 3.
Advent, collect for,48, 278.
Advertisement, entire principle of, defied,38, 42.[2]
Advice of friends, author usually does good by acting contrary to,27, 13.
Agassiz, Professor, his labours on glacier movement,34, 21.
Agricultural, population of England, her only power,44, 172;labourer, present privileges of the,28, 18.
Agriculture, book on,45, 217(note);Lord Derby’s idea of,45, 207;success of the author’s experiment in,48, 265.
Alice, in Miss Yonge’s Dictionary of Christian Names,45, 212;of Salisbury,25, 15,28;her defence of her castle,31, 10.
Alison Wilson, in ‘Old Mortality,’ a real person,32, 10;allusion to story of,ib.
Almsgiving, not work,46, 225.
Alpine flowers, not to be killed,38, 46(note).
Alps, ice of the, has lost one-third of its depth in the last twenty years,34, 17.
Amaryllis, St. George much interestedin,25, 28.
America, her carelessness about dying England, a sign of her own ruin,42, 118;what she has learned from England,ib.;Republican woman of, describes a child,ib.
Amery, of Pavia, the false Lombard,25, 17.
Amiens, Peace of,25, 11.
Amusement of factory managers soon likely to end,35, 21.
Ancestors of modern political economists,45, 202.
Andrew, St., cross of adopted by the Scotch as the national device,25, 13;vision of,ib.
Angel, first thought of squire to shoot it,45, 202.
Anne, the author’s nurse,28, 13.
Anthony, St., knows desert flowers,26, 20.
Apotheosis, modern notion of,41, 107.
Applegarth, Mr., quoted by the ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’33, 1;his views,34, 27(note).
Arcadia, a modern, described,35, 15;38, 44(note).
Ariadne, tale of, frontispiece,28, 5.
Arkwright and Stevenson have done nothing but harm,44, 173.
Armour, of light, what it is, and why necessary,48, 279;of God, reflections on the,48, 280;meaning of, in the Advent collect,48, 279.[3]
Armstrong guns,29, 12.
Art, in Florence and Oxford,37, 2;study of, begun by the author,45, 192.
Assisi, sacristan’s cell at,46, 223;the author comforted by a little pig at,48, 270,275.
Athenian wisdom in fondness for crocuses,26, 16.
Athens, opposed to dressing Sisters of Charity in black,26, 16.
Aunt, the author’s,46, 221.
Author, the, of this book, does not set himself up as a leader,30, 18;his letter to the ‘Daily Telegraph’ quoted,37, 21(note);remarks on his life,41, 103;some account of his parentage,45, 194;he finds himself alone in life and knowledge,37, 3;results of his few experiments,48, 265;his want of success, cause of,41, 112;reflections on his life,41, 113;family history, his maternal grandmother and grandfather,46, 220.
Avernus, lake of,32, 13.
Ayrshire, opposition of the plough to the pulpit in,32, 17.
Baal-god, law of, inequitableoperation,45, 200.
Baby-nursing, not a lucrative employment according to J. S. Mill,29, 13,36, 4.
Bacon, Sir Francis,37, 13.
Bad thing, a, will pay if put properly before the public,36, 2.
Ballads, Scottish, sweet,32, 17.
Bank, the author obliged to keep his money in a,44, 178;his reasons,44, 179.
Barrister, selling his talents,47, 246;remarks on the profession of a,ib.
Bath, Scott’s visit to,33, 16;Scott’s recollections of,33, 18.
Beasts, wild, what they were made for,27, 7;their worth to us,27, 8;might be spared a little room on earth,27, 9;of prey, men have the nature of, according to Social Science,28, 4.
Beesly, Professor,37, 19,23(notes).
Beetroot, a miserable substitute for sugar-cane,48, 272.
Begging for money, result of,36, 1.[4]
Benediction, of clergy,38, 35;of Irishwoman,ib.
Bible, how to read it,27, 2;meaning of one verse of the,30, 4;study of, by the author under his mother’s teaching,33, 14;text from, examined,40, 87;evangelical book-idol, not by any means the word of God,40, 88;to be searched, not chopped up,ib.;list of chapters in the, by the author’s mother,42, 129;the author’s lessons in the, on the whole, the one essential part of all his education,42, 130;text which the author had to repeat oftenest,ib.
Biography pleasant to read,33, 2.
Bishop, at the Royal Academy,40, 95(note);epitaph on a,42, 125.
Bishops and clergy, apathy of, regarding national sin, letter on,44, 187(note).
Bismarck, not the cause of the French war,40, 84;Prince, description of, from the ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’43, 143.
Blackfriars Bridge,41, 111,114.
Blind man, sent to gaol for four months for begging,44, 185(note);Eastern story of a, for comparison,ib.
Boat at sea, society compared to a,44, 163;how truly and how falsely,ib.
Boerhaave, Johnson’s account of,32, 7;teacher of Scott’s maternal grandfather,ib.;naturally quick of resentment,—how cured of this,32, 8(note).
Bondage worse than that of Egypt,46, 231.
Bones, boiled,27, 18.
Book, our most current, written in three languages,25, 10;not readable, unless the mind is one with the author’s,25, 15.
Bookcase, the author’s,30, 1.
Books, what, read by rising middle classes about London,29, 5;Scott’s, when a child,33, 11,15;change for the better, Mudie and ‘Good Words,’33, 11;Ramsey’s tea-table, this compared with Knatchbull-Hugessen’s Tales at tea-time,33, 12.
Border, morals,31, 8;of Scotland,32, 13;pre-eminently a singing country,ib.;beauty of, in summer time,33, 10.[5]
Borrowing and lending,38, 41.
Boy or girl, advice to,46, 233.
Breeding, good, what it means,25, 27.
Bright, Mr., his speech on the adulteration of food,37, 5;his opinion that lifeinspectedwould not be worth having,37, 6;his speech analysed,37, 7.
Britannia, as represented on a penny,25, 6;who is she?ib.
British, never will be slaves,38, 31;constitution breaking fast,45, 199.
Broom merchant, story of, begins,30, 5;continued,34, 10,39, 59;(concluded) the conditions of sentiment in the family relationships to be carefully noted,39, 69(note).
Brown, Dr., his letter,32, 25(note).
Bucentaur, launched for a collation,42, 119.
Buckland, Frank, his work,46, 229.
Builders, plague of their work near London,29, 2;houses, residents in, described,29, 4.
Building and cooking,48, 274.
Buildings, modern suburban, described,29, 4.
Bull terrier, the author’s,48, 276.
Burdens on poor men’s backs, clergy neither noble nor sanctified in binding,38, 34.
Burns quoted,40, 97(note).
Butcher, Steam-Butcher’s-boy-Co.,29, 10.
Buzzing and whistling in Yorkshire,28, 11.
Cab, the author’s thoughts in a,39, 51.
Calais,25, 17;siege of,25, 19.
Candles, peasants of Picardy too poor to afford, except to drip on church floors,31, 22.
Canticle, meaning of,35, 5.
Capital,seeLabour.
Captain, of Christian war,26, 11;Shakespeare’s meaning of,25, 16;a, taking the wheel in an emergency, account of,25, 26;each squire should be a,45, 205.
Carlyle, Thomas, the only man in England to whom the author[6]can look for guidance in his plan,37, 12;his description of a shoal of fish,38, 27;strange comment on his letter,44, 186(note).
Carol,48, 281.
Carpaccio, his deep conviction on the subject of dragons,26, 13.
Carpentering, advice to rely on your own boys for,29, 9.
Carshalton, the author’s work at,46, 229;48, 265.
Cattle dealer, Robert Scott is a, yet a gentleman,31, 24;a stubbornly honest,31, 20.
Celibacy of laity,28, 19.
Centaur Chiron, type of Greek tutor,25, 27.
Challenge from the author to the squires of England,45, 194.
Channel Islands feed their own people and export provisions also,45, 218(note).
Character, noble, the only perfect, in Scott’s first novel, a Hanoverian Colonel,31, 3;heroic, the most finished in all Scott’s novels, a presbyterian milkmaid,ib.
Charity, French poem on, and translation,37, 1,2.
Charlemagne, alliance of, with Scottish king,25, 13;43, 145.
Charming, to be, first duty of a girl,38, 43(note).
Children, of St. George’s Company, how to be treated,37, 10;of mothers in mills, how taken care of by the clergymen,38, 44(note);a joy and honour, and the reverse,46, 230;the Rachel of England weeps because theyare,46, 231.
Chillianwallah, different arrangement of letters in,30, 20;31, 23.
China, how to be civilized by steam at sixty pounds on the inch,42, 136(note).
Christianity, essence of, modern idea of,42, 126.
Christmas fare, advice concerning,48, 281.
Church, of England, in South Australia turned money lender, letter on,44, 187(note);and state, relations of,46, 219;no power but benediction and protection,ib.
Cinderella, at Hengler’s,39, 55;reflections on,39, 57.
Circular of Howell and James,26, 2.
Circus, Hengler’s,39, 55.
Civilization, what we now call,27, 5;principal condition of,[7]according to the Secretary of the Social Science Meeting,42, 131.
Clarty hole,32, 15.
Clay eaten by the Otomac Indians,27, 19.
Clergy, dread their congregations doing anything,25, 5;really responsible for present state of things,27, 13;of the McCosh persuasion, characterised by shrinking modesty,27, 9;profession of,31, 20,23;how many honest clergymen,31, 20;address to the,48, 279.
Clergyman, south country, letter from,25, 4;author of novellettes,30, 1.
Clergymen, author not prejudiced in favour of,30, 2;advice to young,38, 34;modern, often a lie rampant,40, 95.
Clifford, Lady Anne,38,45 (note).
Coal mining, tastes differ about,38, 47(note).
Coburg, letter from,40, 81.
Colchis, crocus, the enchanted herb of,26, 16.
Colours, Shakspeare’s meaning of,25, 17.
Commerce, failures in,26, 1.
Commonness, not vulgarity,25, 29(note);refer to ‘Modern Painters,’ib.
Compassion, true meaning of,34, 5.
Competition, great principle of, among Scott’s servants,32, 21.
Coniston, poisoning fish at,46, 229;result of the author’s agricultural experiments at,48, 265.
Constitution, British, is breaking fast,45, 199.
Contentment, the main matter,48, 274;the author not contented,48, 275.
Cookery book, penny,27, 18.
Cooking, advice as to,47, 259,48, 274.
Coolness, necessary to meet even pressing need,25, 26.
Corn land, how much is occupied in supplying means of drink,27, 10.
Corners, sweeping into, uncommon,30, 11.
Cornhill Magazine, quotation from the,28, 18;on luxury of marriage and labourers,28, 19.
Costermonger, to be entirely abolished,38, 26,32.[8]
Count, of Stafford, at Calais,25, 18;of Suffolk, at Calais,ib.
Country, air, effect of, on Scott,32, 11;life in France before the Revolution,40, 73.
Cozeners, true, what they are,31, 20.
Credit, no gain in the long run,26, 2.
Critics, remarks on the author’s,41, 103.
Crocodile, the word, always terrific to the author when a child,26, 15;meaning of the word,ib.;fat of, used by the Otomac Indians,27, 19;potted,ib.;Manchester and Rochdale muddy and smoking streams suitable for,ib.
Crocus, St. George much interested in,25, 28;true story of a, written for the author by a friend,26, 16.
Crossness Sewage Works, letter on the,27, 22(note).
Cuckoo clock, the author ignorant of the mechanism of,48, 274.
Dædalus, labyrinth,28, 4.
‘Daily News,’ the, views of, on the prices of things,29, 2;on ‘Fors Clavigera,’30, 21(note).
Darwin, and Huxley,35, 13,45, 202.
David, King, reflections on,40, 87.
Degringolade, La, worth reading, though long and tiresome,43, 153.
Demand and supply,30, 14,38, 32.
Derby, Lord, his new code of civilization,29, 13;his idea of agriculture,45, 207.
Derivation, cannot stand astride on two languages,30, 18.
Devastation, new ship of the line,48, 278.
Devil, in the second part of Faust, afraid of roses,26, 16;clumsy at christening,43, 146;how the father of English squires,45, 201;his pet weapon,46, 234;not afraid of hothouse plants, mortally so of roses and crocuses,46, 236;his work, the six heads of,46, 227to 229.
Dickens, Charles, his opinion about menials,28, 15;as a novelist, his power over the feelings,31, 1;his opinion of British law,47, 244.
Didron, his work “Iconographie Chrétienne,”26, 13.[9]
Dinner party, advice to a lady about her,46, 232.
Dividend not expected by M. De Laval,40, 78(note).
Dog and man fight,43, 275.
Dogs Act of 1871, brainless and brutal,40, 99(note).
Dollar, engraving of Swiss,34(frontispiece).
Domestic relations, modern, satirical questions regarding,31, 8.
Doré, his pictures, better see the devil than,29, 11;his paintings,34, 9,35, 15.
Dover, description of, in the Catechism of Kent,27, 3.
Dragon, fight, real difficulty of, not so much to kill as to see him,26, 4;symbol of sins and trials innumerable,26, 6;marvel of the world,26, 13;a seeing creature,26, 14;representing spiritual enemies, natural habit of the Greek mind,26, 11;too true a creature spiritually,26, 13;sacred Egyptian,26, 14;crocodile,ib.
Dream, don’t think a thing is done as soon as you have dreamt it,30, 9.
Dress, letter to a good girl on,38, 43(note).
Drink, ‘I was thirsty, and ye gave me’; as carried out by Christian Englishmen,27, 12.
Drury lane, pantomime at,39, 55;reflections on it,39, 57.
Dulwich, lovely wild roses at, formerly,46, 236.
Earls of Guildford, worship of,27, 5.
Economy, first question of,29, 12;of Government in the matter of books,37, 19(note).
Ecstacy, how to be had,41, 112.
Edgeworth, Mr., Scott’s description of,28, 17;Miss, her morality,38, 1;not read as she should be,32, 25(note);her tale of ‘Frank,’43, 145;her love-making,47, 248.
Edinburgh, or Edwin’s Burg,25, 13;inhabitants of, called worse than heathen by Charlemagne,25, 14;houses in,27, 12;new town of,31, 5,32, 9;arrangement for taking rent from the lower orders in,40, 89;houses of the poor described,ib.
Education, practical, Ecclesiastical idea of,25, 4;nobility of,25, 15;of children of St. Matthias’ school,30, 19;of[10]Sir Walter Scott,31, 27;of Scott’s mother,33, 3;bodily, for a girl,33, 5;when it begins,33, 7;end of all right, for a woman,33, 17;the highest agricultural, possible for men and women, the design of these Letters,37, 7;has to begin, the author’s as well as the reader’s,47, 258.
Edward III., his quartering,25, 11;fighting under captainship,25, 17;becoming doubtful,25, 27;his behaviour to his prisoners after the siege of Calais,25, 20;his fighting, rightness of, not discussed,25, 26;his first interview with Alice of Salisbury,25, 27;rides to help Alice of Salisbury,31, 10.
Eels, law concerning, in Florence,38, 41.
Egbert, trained by Charles,25, 14;recovers the throne of the West Saxons,ib.;first king of all England,ib.;grandfather of Alfred,ib.
Egyptian, worship of the,26, 14.
Eldon, Lord, anecdote of his economical dinner,38, 37(note).
Emerson, his bas relief of St. George,26, 4;his English traits, extract from, on St. George,ib.;his true instincts of heroism,26, 5.
England, present and future influence of,42, 118;how despised in America,ib.;that it deserves little care is now fatally true,ib.;state of, examined in a broad light,44, 172;official statement of the condition of, at the commencement of ‘Fors,’ by Mr. Goschen,48, 287(note);Press extracts on,48, 288,292.
Epitaph, in ‘Punch’ on the Bishop of Winchester and Baron Bethell,42, 125;on the squires,45, 194.
Evangelicals, only read the bits of the Bible they like,35, 4;refuse to practise Bible precepts if against their money interests,ib.;do not understand in the least the 14th Psalm,ib.;never read the 15th Psalm,ib.;self worship and hell worship,41, 105.
Exchange, definition of, by the Secretary to the Social Science Meeting,45, 207;mere, profits nobody,45, 208.
Excursions to the French battle-fields,41, 106.[11]
Facts against the author he never flinches from stating,31, 5.
Failing, remarks on mercantile credit,26, 1.
Fair-ladies, description of a home so called by the author,29, 8.
Faith, by or in, substituted for “without doubting,”25, 26;Giotto’s picture of,45, 213;without works, better buried as well as dead,45, 216.
False shame, the devil’s pet weapon,46, 234.
Families, of St. George, to be cheerful and honest, obedient and God-fearing,37, 9;higher classes preferred,ib.
Famine, in the event of a national, commissariat officers to starve first,38, 35;in India,40, 82.
Farm, in Switzerland or Bavaria, fifty years ago,44, 170;at Thun,ib.
Father, the author’s,46, 221.
Feathers, Prince of Wales’,28, 7;ostrich, meaning of,ib.
Fiction, works of, supply defect of imagination in common minds,34, 5.
Fighting, modern British, compared with that at Calais,25, 23;with dogs,48, 275;rightness of Edward III.’s, not discussed,25, 26.
Financial art, modern,44, 162.
Fine art,28, 7.
Fireside, too costly,27, 18;not a patent stove,31, 22.
Fish, in Florence, not to be re-sold,38, 26;shoals of, like shining continents,38, 27;trade in, described by a correspondent,ib.;result of independent action of the fishermen,38, 28;big men in the conduct of,38, 28,30;Columbia market a failure,38, 31;selling must be done by gentlemen,38, 33;trade, letter on the,40, 93(note);to fill the waters with, a celestial work,46, 229.