Fiske, James, canonized in America,26, 7.Fleur de Lys, what it is,25, 10.Flite, Miss, some account of,48, 287(note).Florence, the laws of, to be obeyed in St. George’s Company,37, 13,38, 26;art in, 600 years ago,37, 2;her opinion of Church and State,46, 219;her liberal opinions according to learned authors,46, 220.[12]Florin, new, examination of,25, 9;ancient Florentine engraving of,25, 18.Food, only to be got out of the ground,30, 19;abundance of, in the world,38, 36;prices of, regulate all other prices,ib.;those who produce, the masters of those who buy,44, 172,181;a certain quantity of, paid in the form of rent and taxes,44, 173.Fools, heaven in no sense merciful to,42, 127.Footstool, the author charged £5 for a,44, 174.Forbes, his book on glaciers,34, 22.Forcing, vegetables, a vile and gluttonous habit,46, 235.Ford and bridge, difference between,32, 15.Fords, give names to half the prettiest towns and villages,32, 15;Scottish fords, the happiest pieces of all one’s day’s walk,ib.Fors, publication of, in future,27, 21(note);the third, orders the contents of these letters,30, 13;price raised and frontispiece withdrawn,—reasons for this,37, 17(note);must now be bought by editors and others,38, 42;power of the third,40, 76(note);Clavigera, meaning and purpose of the word,43, 137;the whole gist of this book,48, 274.Fortune, how you may make or mar your,43, 138.Fournier, caution requisite in reading,45, 210.Fox, George, in Scotland,31, 14.Franc, remarks on,43, 158(note).France, final resignation of, in George’s III.’s time,25, 11.Franchise, picture of, from the ‘Romance of the Rose,’43, 147;corrupted form of, from a French novel,43, 149.Francis, St.,41, 111.Frankness, freedom of heart, not freedom of insolence,43, 147.Fraud and Taxation, views of the ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ concerning,44, 163.Frederick the Great, his father an evangelical divine,40, 84.French, girl, story of a,29, 18;character,40, 84,43, 144;of the 12th century,43, 152;character described by Bismarck,43, 144;remarks thereon,43, 145;readers, advice to,43, 151.[13]Frenchman, to hate a, Nelson’s notion of duty,25, 12.Friends, the author still retains power of sympathy with his,73, 4;this not reciprocal,ib.Froissart, no fault of his if you don’t enjoy the story of the siege of Calais,25, 21;his account of the fight and supper at Calais,25, 22;his account of the meeting of Edward III. and Alice of Salisbury,31, 11.Froude, on the influence of the Reformation on Scottish character, to be read,40, 86;his sketch of the life of Bishop Hugo,43, 152.Fruits, out of season, diabolic work,46, 229.Fuel-company, letter to the author from a cheap,36, 13(note).Gaboriau, Emile, extracts from novels of,43, 152.Garden, the use of, ought to be in its vegetables,46, 235.Garibaldi,40, 85.Gasometer, heaven only a large,41, 110.Genesis, book of,41, 108;nursery tales of mightiest men,ib.,48, 145.Gentleman, how distinguished from a churl,41, 102.Gentleness, meaning of, by the author,41, 102.Geoffrey of Chargny at Calais, account of,25, 17,19.Geology, the author’s interest in,34, 19.Geometry, how to be taught in St. George’s School,39, 52.George, St., type of a Christian gentleman,25, 28;on a modern pound, good die cutting of,26, 3;on coins of George III. and George IV. compared,ib.;by Carpaccio described,26, 4;Pistrucci,ib.;modern literature respecting, as unsatisfactory as modern art,ib.;not merely one, but a symbol of Knights innumerable,26, 6;the real, martyredA.D.290,26, 8;the Arian bishop, killedA.D.361,ib.;Historie of, by Peter Heylyn, 1631,ib.;remarks on ditto,26, 11;his speech to the Senate,26, 9;beheaded,26, 11;a husbandman,26, 12;knows field flowers,26, 20;fund of, list of subscriptions to,36, 15(note);the company of,37, 8;42, 134;45, 215;46, 224;48, 263.[14]George’s Square, St., mistake about, corrected,32, 9.Germans, character of the,40, 84,43, 143;temper of the, frightful in its naïve selfishness,43, 143.Giles’s, St., Church Lane, impossibility of keeping it clean,48, 266.Giotto,41, 113;his picture of the marriage of St. Francis to Poverty,45, 213.Girl, little, with large shoes,37, 2;letter to a, on dress,38, 43(note).Girls, picture of some of them from ‘Daily Telegraph,’29, 13;2,000 apply at the Post Office for eleven places,ib.Glaciers,34, 17to 26;only one step in the knowledge of, made in forty years,34, 19;movement of, explained,34, 22;sketch of,34, 32(note),35, 21to 23;their movements,35, 22,43, 158(note);newspaper account of the battle of the,43, 159(note).Gladiatorial exhibitions, signs of declining national honour,48, 275.Gold, all vices summed in the simple acceptance of the authority of,36, 6.Goose pie, receipt for,25, 2;not economical, a friend thinks,27, 17;economy of,35, 13,48, 274.Goschen, Mr., on the state of England,48, 287(note).Gospel, modern, what truth and what pestilent evil is in it,42, 126.Gotthelf, author of the ‘Mirror of Peasants,’30, 1;in sympathy with Pope and Fielding, and pure as Wordsworth,34, 10.Grandfather, the author’s, his severe punishment of falsehood,46, 221;his death,ib.Greenhouses, girls advised to have nothing to do with,46, 235.Grey, Lady Jane,35, 12,14.Grisette, modern, corruption of Franchise,43, 148;description of a French,43, 149.Grocers’ shops, magazines of petroleum,45, 201.Guns, Armstrong,29, 12.[15]Haliburton, Barbara, heraldry of her shield,33, 13.Handiwork shall be taught to St. George’s boys,48, 274.Hanwell, qualification for, how it begins,48, 264.Happiness, only to be got out of honesty,30, 19;and counter-happiness,34, 5.Hardiknute,32, 12.Heart, difference between the sins of the hot and cold,41, 102,42, 128.Heaven, how grave we are, if the doctor hints we are going there,28, 2;only a large gasometer,41, 110;the teachings of, are often given in an obscure manner,42, 126;necessarily read wrong by blockheads,42, 127.Helmet, proper signification of,25, 8.Henry, R., Scotch clergyman and historian,25, 13.Heraldry of Barbara Haliburton’s shield,33, 13;of the Waverley novels,47, 252.Heritage of the squires of England, what it once was,45, 201.Heylyn, his translation of the history of St. George,26, 8.Hill, Miss Octavia,46, 225.History, better read none than such as the specimen by R. Henry,25, 22.Home, Scott’s notice of his first,29, 6;letter describing the break up of a real,29, 7;each man to live in one fit for him,47, 256;love of, the end of all right education for a woman,33, 17;the break up of the, of one of the author’s friends,36, 14(note).Home-made things, advantage of,30, 11.Homes, railroad,29, 6.Honest men, and rogues, confusion of the two is the result of evangelical teaching,35, 3;can do little for the present,44, 180;advice to,ib.Honesty, of open cattle stealing,31, 20;of R. Scott,31, 21;and roguery, difference between,35, 3;one punished as much as the other at present,37, 7;how distinguished,41, 102.Honour, understanding of, will be essential in the education of the children of St. George’s company,37, 10;to the[16]brave in modern Venice,42, 121;entirely desirable,42, 121and 125.Hope, picture of, by Giotto,45, 214.Horace, the most beautiful descriptive line in,43, 150.Horsehair worn by English squires,25, 8.Host or hospitaller, a sacred function for young Christian men,36, 5.Hotel, Umfraville, ghastly nature of,38, 38;in Paris,48, 271.House, each man to live in one fit for him,47, 256;the simplest way of building,47, 258;advice about a suitable,47, 256;at Herne Hill exactly fit for the author,47, 257.Houses, about London, packing cases,29, 5;ill-aired, pestilence of, in the suburbs of London,29, 2;of St. George’s Co.,37, 11.Housemaid, would young ladies feel aggrieved at being made under-,30, 5.Housemaid’s broom, spear of lady members of St. George’s Co.,30, 5.Housewife, her weekly bill doubled,29, 10;cause of this,29, 11.Howell, James, and Co., remarks on a circular from,26, 2.Hunter St., London, and Market St., Croydon, change in relations between,46, 222.Hunting and shooting, healthy animal stupidities,37, 14(note).Hurry of mind,25, 25.Huxley, Professor,35, 13;thinks himself wiser than any quantity of psalmists,35, 5.Idiot, meaning of,28, 18.‘Illustrated News,’ worth of,28, 7.Imagination, power of, always purifies,34, 8;fiction supplies defect of, in common minds,34, 5.Index, difficulty of making,30, 13.Indians, Otomac, diet of the,27, 18;assertion by Count Bismarck that the French only copper-coloured, finely dressed,43, 144.Infernal things, various, described,29, 11.Inn, true hospitality of, still possible,44, 170.[17]Insanity, egotistic,48, 268;manual work a preventive of,ib.Institutes, Literary, failures,25, 15.Interest, the power of money to accumulate value by—extract from Kellogg on,44, 189;principle of,45, 209.Inundation, Roman, extract from a letter to the ‘Daily Telegraph’ by the author on,33, 23(note).Isaiah, argument about, with the sacristan at Assisi,45, 191.Jeremiah, quotation from,46, 230.Jersey, account of changes produced in, by recent trade,30, 14.Jews, have not all hard hearts,30, 3.John, St., gospel of, the author stopped by a text in,28, 1.Jones and Robinson, demigods,38, 25.Journal to be published by the St. George’s Company,37, 10.Judges of England,47, 244.Judging, all good, gratis,31, 23.Jury, ignorant of the meaning of mercy,42, 127.Justice and mercy, professional sale of, a deadly sin,31, 24;virtue summed in,41, 102.Juvenile depravity,35, 30(note).Katrine, Loch, a reservoir,27, 11.Kensington, a few words on,32, 27(note);modern art teaching at, how utterly bad,32, 29(note).Kent, catechism of the county of,27, 3.King, Kenneth, showing shining figure to his councillors,25, 13;a good, useless if his officers are allowed to oppress,40, 78;French revolution was against a good,40, 79;last kings of true power,45, 206;whose eyes have seen the?45, 193.Kinghood, the end of, supposed to have come,39, 59(note).Kirk, Professor, his “social politics” to be read carefully,27, 11;on land and liquor,ib.;letter to the author regarding book of,29, 23(note).Kitten, the author’s,27, 8.Knatchbull-Hugessen, his tales,33, 12(note).Labour, question of, at the Social Science meeting,28, 21(note);[18]greater part spent unproductively,29, 11;of St. George’s Company,37, 8;machine, letter describing,40, 79;hand, letter describing,40, 80;how best spent,44, 180;and capital, extract from Kellogg of New York on,44, 188(note);rest from,45, 195;the first of the landlords, to keep hold of their lands,45, 199;killing and grinding,46, 229.Labourers, what sort of, the author writes for,36, 3.La Cava, forests of,32, 13.Ladies, advice to,45, 215.Lady, the first duty of a,45, 212.Lameness (of Scott), caused by cold and bad air,31, 27.Lance point, land won at the, must be held by the,45, 206.Land, for St. George’s company, poor preferred,37, 8;if marsh, how to be treated,ib.;how, if rocky,37, 9;desert, to be redeemed,44, 180;laid up in a napkin,45, 197.Landlords, more or less thoughtless and ignorant,27, 13;to fight for their lands,45, 199,205.Landscape, how the author was diverted from the study of,45, 192.Laocoon, story of, to the Greeks,26, 14.Largesse, French description of,45, 207,210;and supplication, not part of the world’s work,46, 225.Last judgment of squires, imaginary picture of,45, 197.Latin, supposed properties of, for purposes of explanation,35, 23.Law reform, letter on,44, 183(note);British modern,47, 244.Laws, to be obeyed in St. George’s Company to be the laws of Florence of the fourteenth century, modified,37, 13,38,26;wise, long since known and obeyed,38, 26.Lawyers,31, 20,23;no need to speak of the honesty of,31, 20;advice to, at Billingsgate,38, 35;in parliament, advice to,40, 100(note);definers of limits and modes,47, 243.Leader, the author does not pretend to be a,30, 19.Leal, the land of the,32, 23.Lecky, Mr., statement of his sagacious creed,43, 155(note);his opinions,48, 268.[19]Legal, profession, exactly right condition of, explained,31, 23;expenses of the kingdom, query concerning,44, 186(note).Legibility of character,31, 23.Leith, condition of the water at,33, 2.Lessons, by heart, meaning of,32, 12;first, what they are to be,32, 13.Letter, from a working man on literary institutes, remarks on,25, 15;interesting, from Manchester working man and mates,25, 29(note);of Mr. Affleck, the author pleased with,ib.;of a native and honest republican,ib.;from a girl describing a modern Arcadia,35, 16;on the rice famine,40, 83.Letters, of the author, constant objects of,25, 4;to the author, from a south country clergyman,ib.;remarks regarding,29, 23(note);these, mosaic work, and more useful as they go on,36, 3.Liars and traitors, no legislation for,38, 26;no law for, but gravitation,ib.Liberty, ultimate privileges of,28, 19;working man’s notion of,42, 135;in the modern English sense,43, 146;the French knew what it was before you,ib.;its synonyms,43, 148.Library, of Scott, when a child,33, 11,15;of the St. George’s company,37, 10;formation of a, a main object with the author,ib.Life, division of, into youth, labour, and death,32, 1,3,5;entirely healthy, happy, and wise,44, 171;mechanical, must be as limited as possible,44, 178.Lilias Redgauntlet,32, 3;examination of,47, 247.Lilies, Belt of,25, 14.Linen, good Scots preferable to that from Glasgow mills,32, 16;hand-made, compared with machine-made,40, 81;hand-made, lasted three generations,ib.Linlithgow,33, 2.Lions in heraldry,25, 11.Literature, modern, for children,33, 12;value of cheap,38, 40.[20]‘Liverpool Commercial News,’ folly and impudence of,46, 239(note).Living in style, British public’s idea of,38, 39.Lockhart, not answerable for the author’s statements about Scott,31, 4.London, type of five-sixths of middle classes about,29, 5;they compare unfavourably with apes,29, 6;privileges and facilities in,29, 11;population, vile life of,44, 174;East and West end compared,44, 176.Loneliness, severity of change from, to membership of a large family,31, 28.Lord, de Manny, at Calais,25, 17;John de Montagu, at Calais,25, 18;Beauchamp, at Calais,ib.;Eustace of Ribaumont at Calais,25, 19;John of Landas,ib.;Gawain of Bailleul,ib.Loss, the son of,28, 2.Louis, St., folly of, virtually causes the strength of France to perish,40, 85.Love, two kinds of noble,34, 3;songs,35, 5;decree of the court of,35, 10;of money, the root of all evil,35, 21;state or habit of, is gentleness,41, 102;three great loves rule the souls of men,ib.; how it ought to come, according to Shakespeare and Scott,47, 248;story of, in Redgauntlet,47, 247.Loyalty, capacity of the French people for, before the revolution,40, 78.Lust, state or habit of, is clownishness,41, 102.Lustration, popular, in Rome,44, 162.Luther, on the gospel of St. James,40, 85.Luxuries, the basest, of the idle classes, how paid for by the poor,44, 178.Machinery, not to be used on St. George’s land, except such as is moved by wind, water, and animal force,37, 11;power of,44, 165,171;whatever is needful can be driven by wind or water,44, 177.Madness in dogs. (SeeRabies.)[21]Madonna, influence of the worship of the,41, 104;modern magnifying of the,41, 106.Magistrate, scarcely now exists, but to do evil,44, 174(note).Mammon, the author never heard one preacher deal faithfully with the worship of,36, 6.Man, a carnivorous animal,42, 131.Management, necessity of docile and sensible people for,40, 76.Manchester, muddy and smoking streams of, suitable for crocodiles,27, 19.Manfred of Swabia, death of,25, 8.Manny, Sir Walter de,25, 17.Mansion, meaning of, in St. John’s gospel,27, 2.Marmion, quotation from, note every word of,31, 21.Marmontel, quotation from story by,40, 73;lovely and wise sentence of,40, 76.Marriage, a providence of God,36, 5;not possible in modern life on five hundred per annum,28, 14.Martyrs, made away with usually less for their faith than for their incivility,26, 10;boy and girl, the author has no respect for,32, 27(note).Mary, St., you don’t care for any,31, 7.Masters, and servants,28, 9;true relations between, taught by Scott,31, 3;subject begins to purpose,31, 18;masters, only truly served if loved,32, 22;curious piece of lecture on the duties of,33, 9.Materia medica, Thomas Scott’s opinion of, to be greatly respected31, 26.Matthias, St., schools,32, 26(note).May, first of, questions proposed on the,30, 20.M’Cosh, the Rev. Jas., a catechist of nature,27, 8.Meat and drink, how sanctified to us,36, 4.Mechanical population of England her certain ruin,44, 173;occupation invariably degrades,44, 178.Memmi, Simone, painting by, in Florence,46, 220.Mendicity society’s tickets,39, 57.Menial, a terrible word to the modern English mind,28, 12;meaning of,ib.[22]Mercy, the real meaning of,42, 127,128;not understood by a jury,42, 127.Michael Angelo, painter of squires,45, 197.Michael, St., his patronage,35, 12;armour of,48, 280.Michaelmas, henceforward only remembered for goose,35, 13.
Fiske, James, canonized in America,26, 7.Fleur de Lys, what it is,25, 10.Flite, Miss, some account of,48, 287(note).Florence, the laws of, to be obeyed in St. George’s Company,37, 13,38, 26;art in, 600 years ago,37, 2;her opinion of Church and State,46, 219;her liberal opinions according to learned authors,46, 220.[12]Florin, new, examination of,25, 9;ancient Florentine engraving of,25, 18.Food, only to be got out of the ground,30, 19;abundance of, in the world,38, 36;prices of, regulate all other prices,ib.;those who produce, the masters of those who buy,44, 172,181;a certain quantity of, paid in the form of rent and taxes,44, 173.Fools, heaven in no sense merciful to,42, 127.Footstool, the author charged £5 for a,44, 174.Forbes, his book on glaciers,34, 22.Forcing, vegetables, a vile and gluttonous habit,46, 235.Ford and bridge, difference between,32, 15.Fords, give names to half the prettiest towns and villages,32, 15;Scottish fords, the happiest pieces of all one’s day’s walk,ib.Fors, publication of, in future,27, 21(note);the third, orders the contents of these letters,30, 13;price raised and frontispiece withdrawn,—reasons for this,37, 17(note);must now be bought by editors and others,38, 42;power of the third,40, 76(note);Clavigera, meaning and purpose of the word,43, 137;the whole gist of this book,48, 274.Fortune, how you may make or mar your,43, 138.Fournier, caution requisite in reading,45, 210.Fox, George, in Scotland,31, 14.Franc, remarks on,43, 158(note).France, final resignation of, in George’s III.’s time,25, 11.Franchise, picture of, from the ‘Romance of the Rose,’43, 147;corrupted form of, from a French novel,43, 149.Francis, St.,41, 111.Frankness, freedom of heart, not freedom of insolence,43, 147.Fraud and Taxation, views of the ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ concerning,44, 163.Frederick the Great, his father an evangelical divine,40, 84.French, girl, story of a,29, 18;character,40, 84,43, 144;of the 12th century,43, 152;character described by Bismarck,43, 144;remarks thereon,43, 145;readers, advice to,43, 151.[13]Frenchman, to hate a, Nelson’s notion of duty,25, 12.Friends, the author still retains power of sympathy with his,73, 4;this not reciprocal,ib.Froissart, no fault of his if you don’t enjoy the story of the siege of Calais,25, 21;his account of the fight and supper at Calais,25, 22;his account of the meeting of Edward III. and Alice of Salisbury,31, 11.Froude, on the influence of the Reformation on Scottish character, to be read,40, 86;his sketch of the life of Bishop Hugo,43, 152.Fruits, out of season, diabolic work,46, 229.Fuel-company, letter to the author from a cheap,36, 13(note).Gaboriau, Emile, extracts from novels of,43, 152.Garden, the use of, ought to be in its vegetables,46, 235.Garibaldi,40, 85.Gasometer, heaven only a large,41, 110.Genesis, book of,41, 108;nursery tales of mightiest men,ib.,48, 145.Gentleman, how distinguished from a churl,41, 102.Gentleness, meaning of, by the author,41, 102.Geoffrey of Chargny at Calais, account of,25, 17,19.Geology, the author’s interest in,34, 19.Geometry, how to be taught in St. George’s School,39, 52.George, St., type of a Christian gentleman,25, 28;on a modern pound, good die cutting of,26, 3;on coins of George III. and George IV. compared,ib.;by Carpaccio described,26, 4;Pistrucci,ib.;modern literature respecting, as unsatisfactory as modern art,ib.;not merely one, but a symbol of Knights innumerable,26, 6;the real, martyredA.D.290,26, 8;the Arian bishop, killedA.D.361,ib.;Historie of, by Peter Heylyn, 1631,ib.;remarks on ditto,26, 11;his speech to the Senate,26, 9;beheaded,26, 11;a husbandman,26, 12;knows field flowers,26, 20;fund of, list of subscriptions to,36, 15(note);the company of,37, 8;42, 134;45, 215;46, 224;48, 263.[14]George’s Square, St., mistake about, corrected,32, 9.Germans, character of the,40, 84,43, 143;temper of the, frightful in its naïve selfishness,43, 143.Giles’s, St., Church Lane, impossibility of keeping it clean,48, 266.Giotto,41, 113;his picture of the marriage of St. Francis to Poverty,45, 213.Girl, little, with large shoes,37, 2;letter to a, on dress,38, 43(note).Girls, picture of some of them from ‘Daily Telegraph,’29, 13;2,000 apply at the Post Office for eleven places,ib.Glaciers,34, 17to 26;only one step in the knowledge of, made in forty years,34, 19;movement of, explained,34, 22;sketch of,34, 32(note),35, 21to 23;their movements,35, 22,43, 158(note);newspaper account of the battle of the,43, 159(note).Gladiatorial exhibitions, signs of declining national honour,48, 275.Gold, all vices summed in the simple acceptance of the authority of,36, 6.Goose pie, receipt for,25, 2;not economical, a friend thinks,27, 17;economy of,35, 13,48, 274.Goschen, Mr., on the state of England,48, 287(note).Gospel, modern, what truth and what pestilent evil is in it,42, 126.Gotthelf, author of the ‘Mirror of Peasants,’30, 1;in sympathy with Pope and Fielding, and pure as Wordsworth,34, 10.Grandfather, the author’s, his severe punishment of falsehood,46, 221;his death,ib.Greenhouses, girls advised to have nothing to do with,46, 235.Grey, Lady Jane,35, 12,14.Grisette, modern, corruption of Franchise,43, 148;description of a French,43, 149.Grocers’ shops, magazines of petroleum,45, 201.Guns, Armstrong,29, 12.[15]Haliburton, Barbara, heraldry of her shield,33, 13.Handiwork shall be taught to St. George’s boys,48, 274.Hanwell, qualification for, how it begins,48, 264.Happiness, only to be got out of honesty,30, 19;and counter-happiness,34, 5.Hardiknute,32, 12.Heart, difference between the sins of the hot and cold,41, 102,42, 128.Heaven, how grave we are, if the doctor hints we are going there,28, 2;only a large gasometer,41, 110;the teachings of, are often given in an obscure manner,42, 126;necessarily read wrong by blockheads,42, 127.Helmet, proper signification of,25, 8.Henry, R., Scotch clergyman and historian,25, 13.Heraldry of Barbara Haliburton’s shield,33, 13;of the Waverley novels,47, 252.Heritage of the squires of England, what it once was,45, 201.Heylyn, his translation of the history of St. George,26, 8.Hill, Miss Octavia,46, 225.History, better read none than such as the specimen by R. Henry,25, 22.Home, Scott’s notice of his first,29, 6;letter describing the break up of a real,29, 7;each man to live in one fit for him,47, 256;love of, the end of all right education for a woman,33, 17;the break up of the, of one of the author’s friends,36, 14(note).Home-made things, advantage of,30, 11.Homes, railroad,29, 6.Honest men, and rogues, confusion of the two is the result of evangelical teaching,35, 3;can do little for the present,44, 180;advice to,ib.Honesty, of open cattle stealing,31, 20;of R. Scott,31, 21;and roguery, difference between,35, 3;one punished as much as the other at present,37, 7;how distinguished,41, 102.Honour, understanding of, will be essential in the education of the children of St. George’s company,37, 10;to the[16]brave in modern Venice,42, 121;entirely desirable,42, 121and 125.Hope, picture of, by Giotto,45, 214.Horace, the most beautiful descriptive line in,43, 150.Horsehair worn by English squires,25, 8.Host or hospitaller, a sacred function for young Christian men,36, 5.Hotel, Umfraville, ghastly nature of,38, 38;in Paris,48, 271.House, each man to live in one fit for him,47, 256;the simplest way of building,47, 258;advice about a suitable,47, 256;at Herne Hill exactly fit for the author,47, 257.Houses, about London, packing cases,29, 5;ill-aired, pestilence of, in the suburbs of London,29, 2;of St. George’s Co.,37, 11.Housemaid, would young ladies feel aggrieved at being made under-,30, 5.Housemaid’s broom, spear of lady members of St. George’s Co.,30, 5.Housewife, her weekly bill doubled,29, 10;cause of this,29, 11.Howell, James, and Co., remarks on a circular from,26, 2.Hunter St., London, and Market St., Croydon, change in relations between,46, 222.Hunting and shooting, healthy animal stupidities,37, 14(note).Hurry of mind,25, 25.Huxley, Professor,35, 13;thinks himself wiser than any quantity of psalmists,35, 5.Idiot, meaning of,28, 18.‘Illustrated News,’ worth of,28, 7.Imagination, power of, always purifies,34, 8;fiction supplies defect of, in common minds,34, 5.Index, difficulty of making,30, 13.Indians, Otomac, diet of the,27, 18;assertion by Count Bismarck that the French only copper-coloured, finely dressed,43, 144.Infernal things, various, described,29, 11.Inn, true hospitality of, still possible,44, 170.[17]Insanity, egotistic,48, 268;manual work a preventive of,ib.Institutes, Literary, failures,25, 15.Interest, the power of money to accumulate value by—extract from Kellogg on,44, 189;principle of,45, 209.Inundation, Roman, extract from a letter to the ‘Daily Telegraph’ by the author on,33, 23(note).Isaiah, argument about, with the sacristan at Assisi,45, 191.Jeremiah, quotation from,46, 230.Jersey, account of changes produced in, by recent trade,30, 14.Jews, have not all hard hearts,30, 3.John, St., gospel of, the author stopped by a text in,28, 1.Jones and Robinson, demigods,38, 25.Journal to be published by the St. George’s Company,37, 10.Judges of England,47, 244.Judging, all good, gratis,31, 23.Jury, ignorant of the meaning of mercy,42, 127.Justice and mercy, professional sale of, a deadly sin,31, 24;virtue summed in,41, 102.Juvenile depravity,35, 30(note).Katrine, Loch, a reservoir,27, 11.Kensington, a few words on,32, 27(note);modern art teaching at, how utterly bad,32, 29(note).Kent, catechism of the county of,27, 3.King, Kenneth, showing shining figure to his councillors,25, 13;a good, useless if his officers are allowed to oppress,40, 78;French revolution was against a good,40, 79;last kings of true power,45, 206;whose eyes have seen the?45, 193.Kinghood, the end of, supposed to have come,39, 59(note).Kirk, Professor, his “social politics” to be read carefully,27, 11;on land and liquor,ib.;letter to the author regarding book of,29, 23(note).Kitten, the author’s,27, 8.Knatchbull-Hugessen, his tales,33, 12(note).Labour, question of, at the Social Science meeting,28, 21(note);[18]greater part spent unproductively,29, 11;of St. George’s Company,37, 8;machine, letter describing,40, 79;hand, letter describing,40, 80;how best spent,44, 180;and capital, extract from Kellogg of New York on,44, 188(note);rest from,45, 195;the first of the landlords, to keep hold of their lands,45, 199;killing and grinding,46, 229.Labourers, what sort of, the author writes for,36, 3.La Cava, forests of,32, 13.Ladies, advice to,45, 215.Lady, the first duty of a,45, 212.Lameness (of Scott), caused by cold and bad air,31, 27.Lance point, land won at the, must be held by the,45, 206.Land, for St. George’s company, poor preferred,37, 8;if marsh, how to be treated,ib.;how, if rocky,37, 9;desert, to be redeemed,44, 180;laid up in a napkin,45, 197.Landlords, more or less thoughtless and ignorant,27, 13;to fight for their lands,45, 199,205.Landscape, how the author was diverted from the study of,45, 192.Laocoon, story of, to the Greeks,26, 14.Largesse, French description of,45, 207,210;and supplication, not part of the world’s work,46, 225.Last judgment of squires, imaginary picture of,45, 197.Latin, supposed properties of, for purposes of explanation,35, 23.Law reform, letter on,44, 183(note);British modern,47, 244.Laws, to be obeyed in St. George’s Company to be the laws of Florence of the fourteenth century, modified,37, 13,38,26;wise, long since known and obeyed,38, 26.Lawyers,31, 20,23;no need to speak of the honesty of,31, 20;advice to, at Billingsgate,38, 35;in parliament, advice to,40, 100(note);definers of limits and modes,47, 243.Leader, the author does not pretend to be a,30, 19.Leal, the land of the,32, 23.Lecky, Mr., statement of his sagacious creed,43, 155(note);his opinions,48, 268.[19]Legal, profession, exactly right condition of, explained,31, 23;expenses of the kingdom, query concerning,44, 186(note).Legibility of character,31, 23.Leith, condition of the water at,33, 2.Lessons, by heart, meaning of,32, 12;first, what they are to be,32, 13.Letter, from a working man on literary institutes, remarks on,25, 15;interesting, from Manchester working man and mates,25, 29(note);of Mr. Affleck, the author pleased with,ib.;of a native and honest republican,ib.;from a girl describing a modern Arcadia,35, 16;on the rice famine,40, 83.Letters, of the author, constant objects of,25, 4;to the author, from a south country clergyman,ib.;remarks regarding,29, 23(note);these, mosaic work, and more useful as they go on,36, 3.Liars and traitors, no legislation for,38, 26;no law for, but gravitation,ib.Liberty, ultimate privileges of,28, 19;working man’s notion of,42, 135;in the modern English sense,43, 146;the French knew what it was before you,ib.;its synonyms,43, 148.Library, of Scott, when a child,33, 11,15;of the St. George’s company,37, 10;formation of a, a main object with the author,ib.Life, division of, into youth, labour, and death,32, 1,3,5;entirely healthy, happy, and wise,44, 171;mechanical, must be as limited as possible,44, 178.Lilias Redgauntlet,32, 3;examination of,47, 247.Lilies, Belt of,25, 14.Linen, good Scots preferable to that from Glasgow mills,32, 16;hand-made, compared with machine-made,40, 81;hand-made, lasted three generations,ib.Linlithgow,33, 2.Lions in heraldry,25, 11.Literature, modern, for children,33, 12;value of cheap,38, 40.[20]‘Liverpool Commercial News,’ folly and impudence of,46, 239(note).Living in style, British public’s idea of,38, 39.Lockhart, not answerable for the author’s statements about Scott,31, 4.London, type of five-sixths of middle classes about,29, 5;they compare unfavourably with apes,29, 6;privileges and facilities in,29, 11;population, vile life of,44, 174;East and West end compared,44, 176.Loneliness, severity of change from, to membership of a large family,31, 28.Lord, de Manny, at Calais,25, 17;John de Montagu, at Calais,25, 18;Beauchamp, at Calais,ib.;Eustace of Ribaumont at Calais,25, 19;John of Landas,ib.;Gawain of Bailleul,ib.Loss, the son of,28, 2.Louis, St., folly of, virtually causes the strength of France to perish,40, 85.Love, two kinds of noble,34, 3;songs,35, 5;decree of the court of,35, 10;of money, the root of all evil,35, 21;state or habit of, is gentleness,41, 102;three great loves rule the souls of men,ib.; how it ought to come, according to Shakespeare and Scott,47, 248;story of, in Redgauntlet,47, 247.Loyalty, capacity of the French people for, before the revolution,40, 78.Lust, state or habit of, is clownishness,41, 102.Lustration, popular, in Rome,44, 162.Luther, on the gospel of St. James,40, 85.Luxuries, the basest, of the idle classes, how paid for by the poor,44, 178.Machinery, not to be used on St. George’s land, except such as is moved by wind, water, and animal force,37, 11;power of,44, 165,171;whatever is needful can be driven by wind or water,44, 177.Madness in dogs. (SeeRabies.)[21]Madonna, influence of the worship of the,41, 104;modern magnifying of the,41, 106.Magistrate, scarcely now exists, but to do evil,44, 174(note).Mammon, the author never heard one preacher deal faithfully with the worship of,36, 6.Man, a carnivorous animal,42, 131.Management, necessity of docile and sensible people for,40, 76.Manchester, muddy and smoking streams of, suitable for crocodiles,27, 19.Manfred of Swabia, death of,25, 8.Manny, Sir Walter de,25, 17.Mansion, meaning of, in St. John’s gospel,27, 2.Marmion, quotation from, note every word of,31, 21.Marmontel, quotation from story by,40, 73;lovely and wise sentence of,40, 76.Marriage, a providence of God,36, 5;not possible in modern life on five hundred per annum,28, 14.Martyrs, made away with usually less for their faith than for their incivility,26, 10;boy and girl, the author has no respect for,32, 27(note).Mary, St., you don’t care for any,31, 7.Masters, and servants,28, 9;true relations between, taught by Scott,31, 3;subject begins to purpose,31, 18;masters, only truly served if loved,32, 22;curious piece of lecture on the duties of,33, 9.Materia medica, Thomas Scott’s opinion of, to be greatly respected31, 26.Matthias, St., schools,32, 26(note).May, first of, questions proposed on the,30, 20.M’Cosh, the Rev. Jas., a catechist of nature,27, 8.Meat and drink, how sanctified to us,36, 4.Mechanical population of England her certain ruin,44, 173;occupation invariably degrades,44, 178.Memmi, Simone, painting by, in Florence,46, 220.Mendicity society’s tickets,39, 57.Menial, a terrible word to the modern English mind,28, 12;meaning of,ib.[22]Mercy, the real meaning of,42, 127,128;not understood by a jury,42, 127.Michael Angelo, painter of squires,45, 197.Michael, St., his patronage,35, 12;armour of,48, 280.Michaelmas, henceforward only remembered for goose,35, 13.
Fiske, James, canonized in America,26, 7.Fleur de Lys, what it is,25, 10.Flite, Miss, some account of,48, 287(note).Florence, the laws of, to be obeyed in St. George’s Company,37, 13,38, 26;art in, 600 years ago,37, 2;her opinion of Church and State,46, 219;her liberal opinions according to learned authors,46, 220.[12]Florin, new, examination of,25, 9;ancient Florentine engraving of,25, 18.Food, only to be got out of the ground,30, 19;abundance of, in the world,38, 36;prices of, regulate all other prices,ib.;those who produce, the masters of those who buy,44, 172,181;a certain quantity of, paid in the form of rent and taxes,44, 173.Fools, heaven in no sense merciful to,42, 127.Footstool, the author charged £5 for a,44, 174.Forbes, his book on glaciers,34, 22.Forcing, vegetables, a vile and gluttonous habit,46, 235.Ford and bridge, difference between,32, 15.Fords, give names to half the prettiest towns and villages,32, 15;Scottish fords, the happiest pieces of all one’s day’s walk,ib.Fors, publication of, in future,27, 21(note);the third, orders the contents of these letters,30, 13;price raised and frontispiece withdrawn,—reasons for this,37, 17(note);must now be bought by editors and others,38, 42;power of the third,40, 76(note);Clavigera, meaning and purpose of the word,43, 137;the whole gist of this book,48, 274.Fortune, how you may make or mar your,43, 138.Fournier, caution requisite in reading,45, 210.Fox, George, in Scotland,31, 14.Franc, remarks on,43, 158(note).France, final resignation of, in George’s III.’s time,25, 11.Franchise, picture of, from the ‘Romance of the Rose,’43, 147;corrupted form of, from a French novel,43, 149.Francis, St.,41, 111.Frankness, freedom of heart, not freedom of insolence,43, 147.Fraud and Taxation, views of the ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ concerning,44, 163.Frederick the Great, his father an evangelical divine,40, 84.French, girl, story of a,29, 18;character,40, 84,43, 144;of the 12th century,43, 152;character described by Bismarck,43, 144;remarks thereon,43, 145;readers, advice to,43, 151.[13]Frenchman, to hate a, Nelson’s notion of duty,25, 12.Friends, the author still retains power of sympathy with his,73, 4;this not reciprocal,ib.Froissart, no fault of his if you don’t enjoy the story of the siege of Calais,25, 21;his account of the fight and supper at Calais,25, 22;his account of the meeting of Edward III. and Alice of Salisbury,31, 11.Froude, on the influence of the Reformation on Scottish character, to be read,40, 86;his sketch of the life of Bishop Hugo,43, 152.Fruits, out of season, diabolic work,46, 229.Fuel-company, letter to the author from a cheap,36, 13(note).Gaboriau, Emile, extracts from novels of,43, 152.Garden, the use of, ought to be in its vegetables,46, 235.Garibaldi,40, 85.Gasometer, heaven only a large,41, 110.Genesis, book of,41, 108;nursery tales of mightiest men,ib.,48, 145.Gentleman, how distinguished from a churl,41, 102.Gentleness, meaning of, by the author,41, 102.Geoffrey of Chargny at Calais, account of,25, 17,19.Geology, the author’s interest in,34, 19.Geometry, how to be taught in St. George’s School,39, 52.George, St., type of a Christian gentleman,25, 28;on a modern pound, good die cutting of,26, 3;on coins of George III. and George IV. compared,ib.;by Carpaccio described,26, 4;Pistrucci,ib.;modern literature respecting, as unsatisfactory as modern art,ib.;not merely one, but a symbol of Knights innumerable,26, 6;the real, martyredA.D.290,26, 8;the Arian bishop, killedA.D.361,ib.;Historie of, by Peter Heylyn, 1631,ib.;remarks on ditto,26, 11;his speech to the Senate,26, 9;beheaded,26, 11;a husbandman,26, 12;knows field flowers,26, 20;fund of, list of subscriptions to,36, 15(note);the company of,37, 8;42, 134;45, 215;46, 224;48, 263.[14]George’s Square, St., mistake about, corrected,32, 9.Germans, character of the,40, 84,43, 143;temper of the, frightful in its naïve selfishness,43, 143.Giles’s, St., Church Lane, impossibility of keeping it clean,48, 266.Giotto,41, 113;his picture of the marriage of St. Francis to Poverty,45, 213.Girl, little, with large shoes,37, 2;letter to a, on dress,38, 43(note).Girls, picture of some of them from ‘Daily Telegraph,’29, 13;2,000 apply at the Post Office for eleven places,ib.Glaciers,34, 17to 26;only one step in the knowledge of, made in forty years,34, 19;movement of, explained,34, 22;sketch of,34, 32(note),35, 21to 23;their movements,35, 22,43, 158(note);newspaper account of the battle of the,43, 159(note).Gladiatorial exhibitions, signs of declining national honour,48, 275.Gold, all vices summed in the simple acceptance of the authority of,36, 6.Goose pie, receipt for,25, 2;not economical, a friend thinks,27, 17;economy of,35, 13,48, 274.Goschen, Mr., on the state of England,48, 287(note).Gospel, modern, what truth and what pestilent evil is in it,42, 126.Gotthelf, author of the ‘Mirror of Peasants,’30, 1;in sympathy with Pope and Fielding, and pure as Wordsworth,34, 10.Grandfather, the author’s, his severe punishment of falsehood,46, 221;his death,ib.Greenhouses, girls advised to have nothing to do with,46, 235.Grey, Lady Jane,35, 12,14.Grisette, modern, corruption of Franchise,43, 148;description of a French,43, 149.Grocers’ shops, magazines of petroleum,45, 201.Guns, Armstrong,29, 12.[15]Haliburton, Barbara, heraldry of her shield,33, 13.Handiwork shall be taught to St. George’s boys,48, 274.Hanwell, qualification for, how it begins,48, 264.Happiness, only to be got out of honesty,30, 19;and counter-happiness,34, 5.Hardiknute,32, 12.Heart, difference between the sins of the hot and cold,41, 102,42, 128.Heaven, how grave we are, if the doctor hints we are going there,28, 2;only a large gasometer,41, 110;the teachings of, are often given in an obscure manner,42, 126;necessarily read wrong by blockheads,42, 127.Helmet, proper signification of,25, 8.Henry, R., Scotch clergyman and historian,25, 13.Heraldry of Barbara Haliburton’s shield,33, 13;of the Waverley novels,47, 252.Heritage of the squires of England, what it once was,45, 201.Heylyn, his translation of the history of St. George,26, 8.Hill, Miss Octavia,46, 225.History, better read none than such as the specimen by R. Henry,25, 22.Home, Scott’s notice of his first,29, 6;letter describing the break up of a real,29, 7;each man to live in one fit for him,47, 256;love of, the end of all right education for a woman,33, 17;the break up of the, of one of the author’s friends,36, 14(note).Home-made things, advantage of,30, 11.Homes, railroad,29, 6.Honest men, and rogues, confusion of the two is the result of evangelical teaching,35, 3;can do little for the present,44, 180;advice to,ib.Honesty, of open cattle stealing,31, 20;of R. Scott,31, 21;and roguery, difference between,35, 3;one punished as much as the other at present,37, 7;how distinguished,41, 102.Honour, understanding of, will be essential in the education of the children of St. George’s company,37, 10;to the[16]brave in modern Venice,42, 121;entirely desirable,42, 121and 125.Hope, picture of, by Giotto,45, 214.Horace, the most beautiful descriptive line in,43, 150.Horsehair worn by English squires,25, 8.Host or hospitaller, a sacred function for young Christian men,36, 5.Hotel, Umfraville, ghastly nature of,38, 38;in Paris,48, 271.House, each man to live in one fit for him,47, 256;the simplest way of building,47, 258;advice about a suitable,47, 256;at Herne Hill exactly fit for the author,47, 257.Houses, about London, packing cases,29, 5;ill-aired, pestilence of, in the suburbs of London,29, 2;of St. George’s Co.,37, 11.Housemaid, would young ladies feel aggrieved at being made under-,30, 5.Housemaid’s broom, spear of lady members of St. George’s Co.,30, 5.Housewife, her weekly bill doubled,29, 10;cause of this,29, 11.Howell, James, and Co., remarks on a circular from,26, 2.Hunter St., London, and Market St., Croydon, change in relations between,46, 222.Hunting and shooting, healthy animal stupidities,37, 14(note).Hurry of mind,25, 25.Huxley, Professor,35, 13;thinks himself wiser than any quantity of psalmists,35, 5.Idiot, meaning of,28, 18.‘Illustrated News,’ worth of,28, 7.Imagination, power of, always purifies,34, 8;fiction supplies defect of, in common minds,34, 5.Index, difficulty of making,30, 13.Indians, Otomac, diet of the,27, 18;assertion by Count Bismarck that the French only copper-coloured, finely dressed,43, 144.Infernal things, various, described,29, 11.Inn, true hospitality of, still possible,44, 170.[17]Insanity, egotistic,48, 268;manual work a preventive of,ib.Institutes, Literary, failures,25, 15.Interest, the power of money to accumulate value by—extract from Kellogg on,44, 189;principle of,45, 209.Inundation, Roman, extract from a letter to the ‘Daily Telegraph’ by the author on,33, 23(note).Isaiah, argument about, with the sacristan at Assisi,45, 191.Jeremiah, quotation from,46, 230.Jersey, account of changes produced in, by recent trade,30, 14.Jews, have not all hard hearts,30, 3.John, St., gospel of, the author stopped by a text in,28, 1.Jones and Robinson, demigods,38, 25.Journal to be published by the St. George’s Company,37, 10.Judges of England,47, 244.Judging, all good, gratis,31, 23.Jury, ignorant of the meaning of mercy,42, 127.Justice and mercy, professional sale of, a deadly sin,31, 24;virtue summed in,41, 102.Juvenile depravity,35, 30(note).Katrine, Loch, a reservoir,27, 11.Kensington, a few words on,32, 27(note);modern art teaching at, how utterly bad,32, 29(note).Kent, catechism of the county of,27, 3.King, Kenneth, showing shining figure to his councillors,25, 13;a good, useless if his officers are allowed to oppress,40, 78;French revolution was against a good,40, 79;last kings of true power,45, 206;whose eyes have seen the?45, 193.Kinghood, the end of, supposed to have come,39, 59(note).Kirk, Professor, his “social politics” to be read carefully,27, 11;on land and liquor,ib.;letter to the author regarding book of,29, 23(note).Kitten, the author’s,27, 8.Knatchbull-Hugessen, his tales,33, 12(note).Labour, question of, at the Social Science meeting,28, 21(note);[18]greater part spent unproductively,29, 11;of St. George’s Company,37, 8;machine, letter describing,40, 79;hand, letter describing,40, 80;how best spent,44, 180;and capital, extract from Kellogg of New York on,44, 188(note);rest from,45, 195;the first of the landlords, to keep hold of their lands,45, 199;killing and grinding,46, 229.Labourers, what sort of, the author writes for,36, 3.La Cava, forests of,32, 13.Ladies, advice to,45, 215.Lady, the first duty of a,45, 212.Lameness (of Scott), caused by cold and bad air,31, 27.Lance point, land won at the, must be held by the,45, 206.Land, for St. George’s company, poor preferred,37, 8;if marsh, how to be treated,ib.;how, if rocky,37, 9;desert, to be redeemed,44, 180;laid up in a napkin,45, 197.Landlords, more or less thoughtless and ignorant,27, 13;to fight for their lands,45, 199,205.Landscape, how the author was diverted from the study of,45, 192.Laocoon, story of, to the Greeks,26, 14.Largesse, French description of,45, 207,210;and supplication, not part of the world’s work,46, 225.Last judgment of squires, imaginary picture of,45, 197.Latin, supposed properties of, for purposes of explanation,35, 23.Law reform, letter on,44, 183(note);British modern,47, 244.Laws, to be obeyed in St. George’s Company to be the laws of Florence of the fourteenth century, modified,37, 13,38,26;wise, long since known and obeyed,38, 26.Lawyers,31, 20,23;no need to speak of the honesty of,31, 20;advice to, at Billingsgate,38, 35;in parliament, advice to,40, 100(note);definers of limits and modes,47, 243.Leader, the author does not pretend to be a,30, 19.Leal, the land of the,32, 23.Lecky, Mr., statement of his sagacious creed,43, 155(note);his opinions,48, 268.[19]Legal, profession, exactly right condition of, explained,31, 23;expenses of the kingdom, query concerning,44, 186(note).Legibility of character,31, 23.Leith, condition of the water at,33, 2.Lessons, by heart, meaning of,32, 12;first, what they are to be,32, 13.Letter, from a working man on literary institutes, remarks on,25, 15;interesting, from Manchester working man and mates,25, 29(note);of Mr. Affleck, the author pleased with,ib.;of a native and honest republican,ib.;from a girl describing a modern Arcadia,35, 16;on the rice famine,40, 83.Letters, of the author, constant objects of,25, 4;to the author, from a south country clergyman,ib.;remarks regarding,29, 23(note);these, mosaic work, and more useful as they go on,36, 3.Liars and traitors, no legislation for,38, 26;no law for, but gravitation,ib.Liberty, ultimate privileges of,28, 19;working man’s notion of,42, 135;in the modern English sense,43, 146;the French knew what it was before you,ib.;its synonyms,43, 148.Library, of Scott, when a child,33, 11,15;of the St. George’s company,37, 10;formation of a, a main object with the author,ib.Life, division of, into youth, labour, and death,32, 1,3,5;entirely healthy, happy, and wise,44, 171;mechanical, must be as limited as possible,44, 178.Lilias Redgauntlet,32, 3;examination of,47, 247.Lilies, Belt of,25, 14.Linen, good Scots preferable to that from Glasgow mills,32, 16;hand-made, compared with machine-made,40, 81;hand-made, lasted three generations,ib.Linlithgow,33, 2.Lions in heraldry,25, 11.Literature, modern, for children,33, 12;value of cheap,38, 40.[20]‘Liverpool Commercial News,’ folly and impudence of,46, 239(note).Living in style, British public’s idea of,38, 39.Lockhart, not answerable for the author’s statements about Scott,31, 4.London, type of five-sixths of middle classes about,29, 5;they compare unfavourably with apes,29, 6;privileges and facilities in,29, 11;population, vile life of,44, 174;East and West end compared,44, 176.Loneliness, severity of change from, to membership of a large family,31, 28.Lord, de Manny, at Calais,25, 17;John de Montagu, at Calais,25, 18;Beauchamp, at Calais,ib.;Eustace of Ribaumont at Calais,25, 19;John of Landas,ib.;Gawain of Bailleul,ib.Loss, the son of,28, 2.Louis, St., folly of, virtually causes the strength of France to perish,40, 85.Love, two kinds of noble,34, 3;songs,35, 5;decree of the court of,35, 10;of money, the root of all evil,35, 21;state or habit of, is gentleness,41, 102;three great loves rule the souls of men,ib.; how it ought to come, according to Shakespeare and Scott,47, 248;story of, in Redgauntlet,47, 247.Loyalty, capacity of the French people for, before the revolution,40, 78.Lust, state or habit of, is clownishness,41, 102.Lustration, popular, in Rome,44, 162.Luther, on the gospel of St. James,40, 85.Luxuries, the basest, of the idle classes, how paid for by the poor,44, 178.Machinery, not to be used on St. George’s land, except such as is moved by wind, water, and animal force,37, 11;power of,44, 165,171;whatever is needful can be driven by wind or water,44, 177.Madness in dogs. (SeeRabies.)[21]Madonna, influence of the worship of the,41, 104;modern magnifying of the,41, 106.Magistrate, scarcely now exists, but to do evil,44, 174(note).Mammon, the author never heard one preacher deal faithfully with the worship of,36, 6.Man, a carnivorous animal,42, 131.Management, necessity of docile and sensible people for,40, 76.Manchester, muddy and smoking streams of, suitable for crocodiles,27, 19.Manfred of Swabia, death of,25, 8.Manny, Sir Walter de,25, 17.Mansion, meaning of, in St. John’s gospel,27, 2.Marmion, quotation from, note every word of,31, 21.Marmontel, quotation from story by,40, 73;lovely and wise sentence of,40, 76.Marriage, a providence of God,36, 5;not possible in modern life on five hundred per annum,28, 14.Martyrs, made away with usually less for their faith than for their incivility,26, 10;boy and girl, the author has no respect for,32, 27(note).Mary, St., you don’t care for any,31, 7.Masters, and servants,28, 9;true relations between, taught by Scott,31, 3;subject begins to purpose,31, 18;masters, only truly served if loved,32, 22;curious piece of lecture on the duties of,33, 9.Materia medica, Thomas Scott’s opinion of, to be greatly respected31, 26.Matthias, St., schools,32, 26(note).May, first of, questions proposed on the,30, 20.M’Cosh, the Rev. Jas., a catechist of nature,27, 8.Meat and drink, how sanctified to us,36, 4.Mechanical population of England her certain ruin,44, 173;occupation invariably degrades,44, 178.Memmi, Simone, painting by, in Florence,46, 220.Mendicity society’s tickets,39, 57.Menial, a terrible word to the modern English mind,28, 12;meaning of,ib.[22]Mercy, the real meaning of,42, 127,128;not understood by a jury,42, 127.Michael Angelo, painter of squires,45, 197.Michael, St., his patronage,35, 12;armour of,48, 280.Michaelmas, henceforward only remembered for goose,35, 13.
Fiske, James, canonized in America,26, 7.
Fleur de Lys, what it is,25, 10.
Flite, Miss, some account of,48, 287(note).
Florence, the laws of, to be obeyed in St. George’s Company,37, 13,38, 26;art in, 600 years ago,37, 2;her opinion of Church and State,46, 219;her liberal opinions according to learned authors,46, 220.[12]
Florin, new, examination of,25, 9;ancient Florentine engraving of,25, 18.
Food, only to be got out of the ground,30, 19;abundance of, in the world,38, 36;prices of, regulate all other prices,ib.;those who produce, the masters of those who buy,44, 172,181;a certain quantity of, paid in the form of rent and taxes,44, 173.
Fools, heaven in no sense merciful to,42, 127.
Footstool, the author charged £5 for a,44, 174.
Forbes, his book on glaciers,34, 22.
Forcing, vegetables, a vile and gluttonous habit,46, 235.
Ford and bridge, difference between,32, 15.
Fords, give names to half the prettiest towns and villages,32, 15;Scottish fords, the happiest pieces of all one’s day’s walk,ib.
Fors, publication of, in future,27, 21(note);the third, orders the contents of these letters,30, 13;price raised and frontispiece withdrawn,—reasons for this,37, 17(note);must now be bought by editors and others,38, 42;power of the third,40, 76(note);Clavigera, meaning and purpose of the word,43, 137;the whole gist of this book,48, 274.
Fortune, how you may make or mar your,43, 138.
Fournier, caution requisite in reading,45, 210.
Fox, George, in Scotland,31, 14.
Franc, remarks on,43, 158(note).
France, final resignation of, in George’s III.’s time,25, 11.
Franchise, picture of, from the ‘Romance of the Rose,’43, 147;corrupted form of, from a French novel,43, 149.
Francis, St.,41, 111.
Frankness, freedom of heart, not freedom of insolence,43, 147.
Fraud and Taxation, views of the ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ concerning,44, 163.
Frederick the Great, his father an evangelical divine,40, 84.
French, girl, story of a,29, 18;character,40, 84,43, 144;of the 12th century,43, 152;character described by Bismarck,43, 144;remarks thereon,43, 145;readers, advice to,43, 151.[13]
Frenchman, to hate a, Nelson’s notion of duty,25, 12.
Friends, the author still retains power of sympathy with his,73, 4;this not reciprocal,ib.
Froissart, no fault of his if you don’t enjoy the story of the siege of Calais,25, 21;his account of the fight and supper at Calais,25, 22;his account of the meeting of Edward III. and Alice of Salisbury,31, 11.
Froude, on the influence of the Reformation on Scottish character, to be read,40, 86;his sketch of the life of Bishop Hugo,43, 152.
Fruits, out of season, diabolic work,46, 229.
Fuel-company, letter to the author from a cheap,36, 13(note).
Gaboriau, Emile, extracts from novels of,43, 152.
Garden, the use of, ought to be in its vegetables,46, 235.
Garibaldi,40, 85.
Gasometer, heaven only a large,41, 110.
Genesis, book of,41, 108;nursery tales of mightiest men,ib.,48, 145.
Gentleman, how distinguished from a churl,41, 102.
Gentleness, meaning of, by the author,41, 102.
Geoffrey of Chargny at Calais, account of,25, 17,19.
Geology, the author’s interest in,34, 19.
Geometry, how to be taught in St. George’s School,39, 52.
George, St., type of a Christian gentleman,25, 28;on a modern pound, good die cutting of,26, 3;on coins of George III. and George IV. compared,ib.;by Carpaccio described,26, 4;Pistrucci,ib.;modern literature respecting, as unsatisfactory as modern art,ib.;not merely one, but a symbol of Knights innumerable,26, 6;the real, martyredA.D.290,26, 8;the Arian bishop, killedA.D.361,ib.;Historie of, by Peter Heylyn, 1631,ib.;remarks on ditto,26, 11;his speech to the Senate,26, 9;beheaded,26, 11;a husbandman,26, 12;knows field flowers,26, 20;fund of, list of subscriptions to,36, 15(note);the company of,37, 8;42, 134;45, 215;46, 224;48, 263.[14]
George’s Square, St., mistake about, corrected,32, 9.
Germans, character of the,40, 84,43, 143;temper of the, frightful in its naïve selfishness,43, 143.
Giles’s, St., Church Lane, impossibility of keeping it clean,48, 266.
Giotto,41, 113;his picture of the marriage of St. Francis to Poverty,45, 213.
Girl, little, with large shoes,37, 2;letter to a, on dress,38, 43(note).
Girls, picture of some of them from ‘Daily Telegraph,’29, 13;2,000 apply at the Post Office for eleven places,ib.
Glaciers,34, 17to 26;only one step in the knowledge of, made in forty years,34, 19;movement of, explained,34, 22;sketch of,34, 32(note),35, 21to 23;their movements,35, 22,43, 158(note);newspaper account of the battle of the,43, 159(note).
Gladiatorial exhibitions, signs of declining national honour,48, 275.
Gold, all vices summed in the simple acceptance of the authority of,36, 6.
Goose pie, receipt for,25, 2;not economical, a friend thinks,27, 17;economy of,35, 13,48, 274.
Goschen, Mr., on the state of England,48, 287(note).
Gospel, modern, what truth and what pestilent evil is in it,42, 126.
Gotthelf, author of the ‘Mirror of Peasants,’30, 1;in sympathy with Pope and Fielding, and pure as Wordsworth,34, 10.
Grandfather, the author’s, his severe punishment of falsehood,46, 221;his death,ib.
Greenhouses, girls advised to have nothing to do with,46, 235.
Grey, Lady Jane,35, 12,14.
Grisette, modern, corruption of Franchise,43, 148;description of a French,43, 149.
Grocers’ shops, magazines of petroleum,45, 201.
Guns, Armstrong,29, 12.[15]
Haliburton, Barbara, heraldry of her shield,33, 13.
Handiwork shall be taught to St. George’s boys,48, 274.
Hanwell, qualification for, how it begins,48, 264.
Happiness, only to be got out of honesty,30, 19;and counter-happiness,34, 5.
Hardiknute,32, 12.
Heart, difference between the sins of the hot and cold,41, 102,42, 128.
Heaven, how grave we are, if the doctor hints we are going there,28, 2;only a large gasometer,41, 110;the teachings of, are often given in an obscure manner,42, 126;necessarily read wrong by blockheads,42, 127.
Helmet, proper signification of,25, 8.
Henry, R., Scotch clergyman and historian,25, 13.
Heraldry of Barbara Haliburton’s shield,33, 13;of the Waverley novels,47, 252.
Heritage of the squires of England, what it once was,45, 201.
Heylyn, his translation of the history of St. George,26, 8.
Hill, Miss Octavia,46, 225.
History, better read none than such as the specimen by R. Henry,25, 22.
Home, Scott’s notice of his first,29, 6;letter describing the break up of a real,29, 7;each man to live in one fit for him,47, 256;love of, the end of all right education for a woman,33, 17;the break up of the, of one of the author’s friends,36, 14(note).
Home-made things, advantage of,30, 11.
Homes, railroad,29, 6.
Honest men, and rogues, confusion of the two is the result of evangelical teaching,35, 3;can do little for the present,44, 180;advice to,ib.
Honesty, of open cattle stealing,31, 20;of R. Scott,31, 21;and roguery, difference between,35, 3;one punished as much as the other at present,37, 7;how distinguished,41, 102.
Honour, understanding of, will be essential in the education of the children of St. George’s company,37, 10;to the[16]brave in modern Venice,42, 121;entirely desirable,42, 121and 125.
Hope, picture of, by Giotto,45, 214.
Horace, the most beautiful descriptive line in,43, 150.
Horsehair worn by English squires,25, 8.
Host or hospitaller, a sacred function for young Christian men,36, 5.
Hotel, Umfraville, ghastly nature of,38, 38;in Paris,48, 271.
House, each man to live in one fit for him,47, 256;the simplest way of building,47, 258;advice about a suitable,47, 256;at Herne Hill exactly fit for the author,47, 257.
Houses, about London, packing cases,29, 5;ill-aired, pestilence of, in the suburbs of London,29, 2;of St. George’s Co.,37, 11.
Housemaid, would young ladies feel aggrieved at being made under-,30, 5.
Housemaid’s broom, spear of lady members of St. George’s Co.,30, 5.
Housewife, her weekly bill doubled,29, 10;cause of this,29, 11.
Howell, James, and Co., remarks on a circular from,26, 2.
Hunter St., London, and Market St., Croydon, change in relations between,46, 222.
Hunting and shooting, healthy animal stupidities,37, 14(note).
Hurry of mind,25, 25.
Huxley, Professor,35, 13;thinks himself wiser than any quantity of psalmists,35, 5.
Idiot, meaning of,28, 18.
‘Illustrated News,’ worth of,28, 7.
Imagination, power of, always purifies,34, 8;fiction supplies defect of, in common minds,34, 5.
Index, difficulty of making,30, 13.
Indians, Otomac, diet of the,27, 18;assertion by Count Bismarck that the French only copper-coloured, finely dressed,43, 144.
Infernal things, various, described,29, 11.
Inn, true hospitality of, still possible,44, 170.[17]
Insanity, egotistic,48, 268;manual work a preventive of,ib.
Institutes, Literary, failures,25, 15.
Interest, the power of money to accumulate value by—extract from Kellogg on,44, 189;principle of,45, 209.
Inundation, Roman, extract from a letter to the ‘Daily Telegraph’ by the author on,33, 23(note).
Isaiah, argument about, with the sacristan at Assisi,45, 191.
Jeremiah, quotation from,46, 230.
Jersey, account of changes produced in, by recent trade,30, 14.
Jews, have not all hard hearts,30, 3.
John, St., gospel of, the author stopped by a text in,28, 1.
Jones and Robinson, demigods,38, 25.
Journal to be published by the St. George’s Company,37, 10.
Judges of England,47, 244.
Judging, all good, gratis,31, 23.
Jury, ignorant of the meaning of mercy,42, 127.
Justice and mercy, professional sale of, a deadly sin,31, 24;virtue summed in,41, 102.
Juvenile depravity,35, 30(note).
Katrine, Loch, a reservoir,27, 11.
Kensington, a few words on,32, 27(note);modern art teaching at, how utterly bad,32, 29(note).
Kent, catechism of the county of,27, 3.
King, Kenneth, showing shining figure to his councillors,25, 13;a good, useless if his officers are allowed to oppress,40, 78;French revolution was against a good,40, 79;last kings of true power,45, 206;whose eyes have seen the?45, 193.
Kinghood, the end of, supposed to have come,39, 59(note).
Kirk, Professor, his “social politics” to be read carefully,27, 11;on land and liquor,ib.;letter to the author regarding book of,29, 23(note).
Kitten, the author’s,27, 8.
Knatchbull-Hugessen, his tales,33, 12(note).
Labour, question of, at the Social Science meeting,28, 21(note);[18]greater part spent unproductively,29, 11;of St. George’s Company,37, 8;machine, letter describing,40, 79;hand, letter describing,40, 80;how best spent,44, 180;and capital, extract from Kellogg of New York on,44, 188(note);rest from,45, 195;the first of the landlords, to keep hold of their lands,45, 199;killing and grinding,46, 229.
Labourers, what sort of, the author writes for,36, 3.
La Cava, forests of,32, 13.
Ladies, advice to,45, 215.
Lady, the first duty of a,45, 212.
Lameness (of Scott), caused by cold and bad air,31, 27.
Lance point, land won at the, must be held by the,45, 206.
Land, for St. George’s company, poor preferred,37, 8;if marsh, how to be treated,ib.;how, if rocky,37, 9;desert, to be redeemed,44, 180;laid up in a napkin,45, 197.
Landlords, more or less thoughtless and ignorant,27, 13;to fight for their lands,45, 199,205.
Landscape, how the author was diverted from the study of,45, 192.
Laocoon, story of, to the Greeks,26, 14.
Largesse, French description of,45, 207,210;and supplication, not part of the world’s work,46, 225.
Last judgment of squires, imaginary picture of,45, 197.
Latin, supposed properties of, for purposes of explanation,35, 23.
Law reform, letter on,44, 183(note);British modern,47, 244.
Laws, to be obeyed in St. George’s Company to be the laws of Florence of the fourteenth century, modified,37, 13,38,26;wise, long since known and obeyed,38, 26.
Lawyers,31, 20,23;no need to speak of the honesty of,31, 20;advice to, at Billingsgate,38, 35;in parliament, advice to,40, 100(note);definers of limits and modes,47, 243.
Leader, the author does not pretend to be a,30, 19.
Leal, the land of the,32, 23.
Lecky, Mr., statement of his sagacious creed,43, 155(note);his opinions,48, 268.[19]
Legal, profession, exactly right condition of, explained,31, 23;expenses of the kingdom, query concerning,44, 186(note).
Legibility of character,31, 23.
Leith, condition of the water at,33, 2.
Lessons, by heart, meaning of,32, 12;first, what they are to be,32, 13.
Letter, from a working man on literary institutes, remarks on,25, 15;interesting, from Manchester working man and mates,25, 29(note);of Mr. Affleck, the author pleased with,ib.;of a native and honest republican,ib.;from a girl describing a modern Arcadia,35, 16;on the rice famine,40, 83.
Letters, of the author, constant objects of,25, 4;to the author, from a south country clergyman,ib.;remarks regarding,29, 23(note);these, mosaic work, and more useful as they go on,36, 3.
Liars and traitors, no legislation for,38, 26;no law for, but gravitation,ib.
Liberty, ultimate privileges of,28, 19;working man’s notion of,42, 135;in the modern English sense,43, 146;the French knew what it was before you,ib.;its synonyms,43, 148.
Library, of Scott, when a child,33, 11,15;of the St. George’s company,37, 10;formation of a, a main object with the author,ib.
Life, division of, into youth, labour, and death,32, 1,3,5;entirely healthy, happy, and wise,44, 171;mechanical, must be as limited as possible,44, 178.
Lilias Redgauntlet,32, 3;examination of,47, 247.
Lilies, Belt of,25, 14.
Linen, good Scots preferable to that from Glasgow mills,32, 16;hand-made, compared with machine-made,40, 81;hand-made, lasted three generations,ib.
Linlithgow,33, 2.
Lions in heraldry,25, 11.
Literature, modern, for children,33, 12;value of cheap,38, 40.[20]
‘Liverpool Commercial News,’ folly and impudence of,46, 239(note).
Living in style, British public’s idea of,38, 39.
Lockhart, not answerable for the author’s statements about Scott,31, 4.
London, type of five-sixths of middle classes about,29, 5;they compare unfavourably with apes,29, 6;privileges and facilities in,29, 11;population, vile life of,44, 174;East and West end compared,44, 176.
Loneliness, severity of change from, to membership of a large family,31, 28.
Lord, de Manny, at Calais,25, 17;John de Montagu, at Calais,25, 18;Beauchamp, at Calais,ib.;Eustace of Ribaumont at Calais,25, 19;John of Landas,ib.;Gawain of Bailleul,ib.
Loss, the son of,28, 2.
Louis, St., folly of, virtually causes the strength of France to perish,40, 85.
Love, two kinds of noble,34, 3;songs,35, 5;decree of the court of,35, 10;of money, the root of all evil,35, 21;state or habit of, is gentleness,41, 102;three great loves rule the souls of men,ib.; how it ought to come, according to Shakespeare and Scott,47, 248;story of, in Redgauntlet,47, 247.
Loyalty, capacity of the French people for, before the revolution,40, 78.
Lust, state or habit of, is clownishness,41, 102.
Lustration, popular, in Rome,44, 162.
Luther, on the gospel of St. James,40, 85.
Luxuries, the basest, of the idle classes, how paid for by the poor,44, 178.
Machinery, not to be used on St. George’s land, except such as is moved by wind, water, and animal force,37, 11;power of,44, 165,171;whatever is needful can be driven by wind or water,44, 177.
Madness in dogs. (SeeRabies.)[21]
Madonna, influence of the worship of the,41, 104;modern magnifying of the,41, 106.
Magistrate, scarcely now exists, but to do evil,44, 174(note).
Mammon, the author never heard one preacher deal faithfully with the worship of,36, 6.
Man, a carnivorous animal,42, 131.
Management, necessity of docile and sensible people for,40, 76.
Manchester, muddy and smoking streams of, suitable for crocodiles,27, 19.
Manfred of Swabia, death of,25, 8.
Manny, Sir Walter de,25, 17.
Mansion, meaning of, in St. John’s gospel,27, 2.
Marmion, quotation from, note every word of,31, 21.
Marmontel, quotation from story by,40, 73;lovely and wise sentence of,40, 76.
Marriage, a providence of God,36, 5;not possible in modern life on five hundred per annum,28, 14.
Martyrs, made away with usually less for their faith than for their incivility,26, 10;boy and girl, the author has no respect for,32, 27(note).
Mary, St., you don’t care for any,31, 7.
Masters, and servants,28, 9;true relations between, taught by Scott,31, 3;subject begins to purpose,31, 18;masters, only truly served if loved,32, 22;curious piece of lecture on the duties of,33, 9.
Materia medica, Thomas Scott’s opinion of, to be greatly respected31, 26.
Matthias, St., schools,32, 26(note).
May, first of, questions proposed on the,30, 20.
M’Cosh, the Rev. Jas., a catechist of nature,27, 8.
Meat and drink, how sanctified to us,36, 4.
Mechanical population of England her certain ruin,44, 173;occupation invariably degrades,44, 178.
Memmi, Simone, painting by, in Florence,46, 220.
Mendicity society’s tickets,39, 57.
Menial, a terrible word to the modern English mind,28, 12;meaning of,ib.[22]
Mercy, the real meaning of,42, 127,128;not understood by a jury,42, 127.
Michael Angelo, painter of squires,45, 197.
Michael, St., his patronage,35, 12;armour of,48, 280.
Michaelmas, henceforward only remembered for goose,35, 13.