Mickle-mouth Meg, story of,31, 13.Middlemen, for sale of perishable articles, to be entirely abolished,38, 26.Mill, J. S., on nursing the baby,31, 8;result of his Essay on Liberty becoming the gospel of England,35, 14;labourers produced by the writings of,36, 2.Millowners, shrieks of the landed,45, 200.Mind, of the author, practical and matter of fact,37, 3.Minstrel, feeling of, steadily antagonistic to puritanism,32, 17.‘Mirror of Peasants,’30, 1;life of the author of the,30, 2.Miscreant, or misbeliever, properly applied accurately to Turks,25, 24.Missionary work in India, result of as a whole,37, 18(note).Mob, British, its gnarled blockheadism,37, 4.Mona, meaning of, in St. John’s gospel,27, 1;possible effect of using the word,27, 3.Monastery of St. Bernard in Charnwood forest,38, 47(note).Money, of St. George’s Company to be the ‘soldo’ of Florence,37, 18(note);what to do with it, a question of increasing gravity,44, 179;power of, in matters of crime, letter on,44, 184(note);a token of right, not a medium of exchange,44, 173(note);worship,46, 231.Monks, why don’t people do anything wise and generous without becoming?38, 48(note);silent,ib.Montagu, Lady M. W.,42, 116.Moral disposition of a child determined greatly in its speechless years,33, 8.More, Sir Thomas,37, 13.Morning, lovely, at Oxford, description of,25, 24;at Coniston, description of,28, 9;first bright, seen for months,29, 1.Mother, the author’s,46, 221.[23]Motto, one-tenth of a pound, not the ancient motto of England,25, 14;of the garter described,25, 15;of the Prince of Wales, remarks on,28, 8.Muzzling dogs, a great mistake,40, 96(note).Napoleon, III., not the cause of the French war,40, 84.Nature with her hands behind her back,27, 9.Needle and thread preferable to telegraphic needle,29, 15.Neglect of their children by the French upper classes, an absolute source of corruption,43, 149.Newcastle,29, 12.Newspaper extracts,37, 18(note).Normandy, frankness of,43, 150.Northfleet, wreck of the, alluded to,29, 25(note).Northumberland, extent of in Charlemagne’s time,25, 13;letter of Lord, to Henry VIII.,31, 9.Notre-dame, casts brought by the author from,41, 105.Novels, Scott’s, are history,32, 4.Nugget, hardness of another walking off with a scientific,34, 23.Nurse, the author’s account of his,28, 13;Scott’s second, went mad,32, 9.Obedience, nature of, in the St. George’s Company,37, 10;can not be mentioned by the English squire,45, 205.Ogilvie, Hon. Mrs., account of,33, 4,5.Old Mortality, Scott the, of the heart,32, 5.Opinions, sale of, fraudulent,44, 165.Ornithology, the author going to lecture on,25, 25.Otomac Indians, diet of,27, 18.Own, every man to his, meaning of the expression,28, 1.Oxford, art at, on what now dependent,37, 2.Painters and authors, no need to speak of the honesty of,31, 20.Painting, the witness of, unbroken, down to the last days of Venice,26, 13.‘Pall Mall Gazette,’ extract from the, on a month’s railway accidents,[24]35, 26–29 (note);extract from the, on the wealth of the world,44, 163;remarks thereon,44, 164.Pancras, St.,32, 27(note).Pantomime at Drury Lane,39, 54;compared with the real world,39, 56.Paper manufacture, pollutes streams,33, 2.Paris, behaviour of old,29, 18;breakfast in,48, 271;food fund, committee of, pleasant reading,33, 22(note);walk through,41, 105;destruction of,43, 143.Park, meaning of the word,27, 6;pulling down railings of,ib.;cost of,27, 10,28, 4;no longer for us,28, 4.Parks of England,27, 10.Parliamentary talk, a watchman’s rattle sprung by constituencies of rascals at the sight of an honest man,37, 7.Parricide at Halifax,35, 31(note).Passion not judged, but the want of it,42, 128.Pastoral life promotes song,32, 13.Patience, necessary for work,25, 26;a mother’s effect of, in education,33, 14.Patriotism, real, what it is,46, 231.Patron saints of the chief occupations of the members of St. George’s Company,26, 13(note).Paul, St., why to be reverenced,28, 3;ascertained by German critics to be Simon Magus,ib.;his grave,43, 154.Paupers, squires are able-bodied, compelling their dole,45, 250.Pavement, ideally clean street,48, 266.Payment over the counter, in all wise commerce,26, 2.Peasant, difference between English and Swiss,39, 62(note).Peebles, story of Peter,47, 251,252;compared with Miss Flite,47, 253.Penny, shilling, and pound, the British Bible,25, 6;description of a,ib.Pepin de Werre, at Calais,25, 18.Pepper’s ghost,29, 5.Perseverance of the author’s mother, consequence of,33, 15.Peter Mathieson, old dignified coachman,32, 20;turned ploughman,32, 21.[25]Phalanthus of Sparta, allusion to,25, 8.Physical science, advantage of, to boys and girls,48, 274.Physicians, dishonesty of,31, 20.Piper, Highland, feeling of, steadily antagonistic to puritanism,32, 17.Place, every one to find his own,28, 2.Plan, the author’s, in this book,36, 2,37, 13,43, 142.Plato, quotation from the republic of,37, 14.Play, how was it Scott could not write a?33, 20.Plumes, what they are the symbol of,28, 7.Poetry, dramatic, lyric, and epic,34, 6.Political economy and the Peace Society can neither grant nor protect land,45, 199.Pontine marshes, a symbol of diabolic work,46, 228.Pope,32, 4,40, 94(note).Positive philosophy,37, 4.Post-office, eleven vacancies for girls at the, applied for by 2000,29, 13.Pound, (the coin,) put it on the table and let us examine it,26, 3;(the prison,) chosen in preference to park,28, 4.Poverty, of the country through the enriching of a few,27, 17;Giotto’s picture of the marriage of, to St. Francis,45, 213.Power of writing and spelling correctly, how acquired by the author,33, 14.Prayer, to take away hardness of heart from all Jews, etc., an absurd one,30, 3;for Jews, etc., the author’s form of, for himself,ib.;is not work,46, 225;Duke of Argyll on,ib.Preaching, to be good, must be gratis,31, 23.Press, writers for the public, really answerable for the present state of things,27, 13;for thirty years steadily opposed to good work of the author,ib.;opinion of the British, on Fors Clavigera,46, 239(note);folly and impudence of the,ib.;remarks theron,ib.Presumption of pointing out all the ways of governing the universe, M’Cosh on the,27, 9.Price, the author’s first, always thelowest,37, 17(note);regulation of,38, 31;now regulated by rascals,38, 32.[26]Prices, regulation of,38, 35;of this book,38, 39.Pride, Scott’s strongest passion nobly set,32, 18.Princess, dream of the, picture of,40, 93(note).Print shops can be only looked into at the expense of modesty,29, 11.Profession, every gentlemanly, except digging, has a taint of dishonesty in it,31, 20.Property, private right of,28, 17;letter on the increased conviction of the sanctity of,44, 183(note).Provident, people in good position so,28, 14.Psalm-singing squire,35, 5;his lovely love-poems,35, 6,7.Psalmody, modern Scottish, discordant,32, 17.Psalms, book of, very precious,35, 4;the fourteenth and fifteenth examined,36, 7;the author unable to account for the sentence, “There were they in great fear,” etc.,36, 8;of England,42, 132.Public, reluctance of the British, to trust an honest person,36, 2.Punch, epitaph on the Bishop of Winchester and Baron Bethell in,42, 125.Punishment, capital, only opposed by rogues and their abettors,35, 3; 14.Puppy, glossy headed, to sell fish eventually,34, 33.Puritanism, influence of, on Scott’s mental life,32, 17;one of the last remains of noble and sincere, among men of sound learning,33, 7.Purity, Shakespeare’s meaning of,25, 16.Quakers, influence of, on Scott’s ancestors,31, 14.Questions, on Shakespeare answered,25, 17;pressing, for England and France,43, 153.Rabies, canine, letter concerning,40, 95.Race, few now left of the old,48, 269.Rachel of England,46, 231.Raeburn, Sir Henry, dining with Lord Eldon,38, 37(note).Railings, pulling down park, a significant business,27, 6.[27]Railroad dividends, letter on,47, 261(note).Railways,35, 6,26–30 (note);“blamed for blood,”35, 7;an infernal means of locomotion,44, 166.Rainbow, all the colours of the, are essentially secondary,42, 115.Rational, what is now called,48, 264.Readers, evangelical, compared to hedgehogs,35, 4(note).Reading, how to make young ladies fond of,33, 4.‘Record,’ newspaper,46, 241(note).Redgauntlet, novel of,29, 8;Sir Walter Scott’s own biography,31, 16;the story of,47, 247;epitome of,47, 248.Refined personages not easy in their minds,28, 10.Refinement to be enforced in St. George’s Company,48, 272.Reign of law, or a spirit of mercy and truth,42, 130.Religion, frantic hatred of, by French republican mind,43, 153;essential meaning of,45, 204.Religious egotism, Scott’s inevitable perception of,33, 6.Remedy, for the present state of affairs, proposed in a letter to the author,43, 157(note).Rent, of St. George to be paid in tithes of produce,37, 9;capital and interest all to be attacked at once,43, 142;paid in food,44, 173;how to be fixed,45, 203;ought to be diminished in proportion to the improvement of land,ib.Republican, list of questions put to the author by a,25, 30(note);answer to ditto,ib.;characteristic letter from a,29, 25–28 (note);pantomime unknown,39, 58.Republicanism, letter characteristic of the genius of,29, 25–28 (note).Reserved subtlety of Scott’s teaching like Nature’s own,31, 2.Responsibility and free will, the author settled these questions for himself long ago,37, 3.Rest on the seventh day and work on the six,46, 225.Revolution, French,29, 16,40, 79;and massacre the result of our present policy,44, 172.Riband, blue, worn by the Queen, fastened by Alice of Salisbury,31, 11.Ribaumont, Lord Eustace de,25, 19.[28]Rich, English people not,27, 17.Rivers, Scottish, condition of,33, 2(note).Road, an old English,35, 6.Roast beef, no more,27, 17.Robert Henry, his polished account of the Supper at Calais,25, 22.Robinson Crusoe, advice to imitate,47, 258.Rogue, what distinguishes him from an honest man,41, 102.Rome, modern buildings in,44, 162.Rope, superiority of hand-made over machine-made,46, 242(note).Rose, Romance of the,34, 3,43, 147;bestrewn path in the Basilica, filthy state of,44, 161.Roses, the devil afraid of,26, 15;wild, not cultivated,46, 236;sad story of poor girl’s asking for,46, 237.Ruffianism, quotation from ‘Morning Post’ on,34, 27(note).Rugby, travellers’ repose at,28, 8.Ruin, the only remedy now possible,29, 25(note).Rutherford, Dr., accustomed to pray for his patients,33, 6.Sadness of the past promotes song,32, 14.Saint (seeseparate names); evangelical notion of,27, 6.Saints, those the St. George’s Company will be bound to reverence,26, 12,27, 5.St. George. (SeeGeorge.)St. George’s Square, mistake about, corrected,32, 9.Salmon, servants at Perth objected to too much,38, 32(note).Sandy-Knowe,32, 9.Sanitary condition of Scotherne,27, 23(note).‘Saturday Review’ on the author’s sentimentality,42, 130.Scandal at Bath Pump Room,33, 18.‘School for Scandal,’ in reference to Dr. Tyndall’s sweet speeches,43, 160(note).Schoolmistress, profession of, respectable,33, 5.Science, general, corrupted and retarded by jealousy,34, 25;in St. George’s schools to be practically taught,39, 52.Scotherne, sanitary condition of the village of,27, 23(note).[29]Scotland, pre-eminently a singing country,32, 13.Scott, Sir Walter, on poor law,27, 14;on tippling houses,27, 15;on the gambling nature of business generally,27, 17;on the beatitude and virtues of masterhood,28, 16;description of his first country house,29, 7;portrait of, frontispiece to31;made romance ridiculous,31, 1;the good his works could do,31, 2;his one weakness,ib.;compared with Dante and Virgil,ib.;life of, begins,31, 4;his temper,ib.;his monument a vulgar gothic steeple,ib.;the unhealthiness of his birthplace,31, 5;his ancestors,ib., also 12, 14, 16;his notes and private letters, caution to be observed when reading,31, 17;his ancestors,31, 24;his aunt Janet,31, 26;divisions of his life,32, 1,3,5;his loving thought of his dogs on parting,32, 3;reflections on his life,32, 2;epitome of his youth,32, 5;his childhood,32, 7–12;his pride,32, 18;his sorrow for his servants,32, 20;Sir Walter, commonly read,32, 25(note);life of, too interesting to readers,33, 1;his mother,33, 3;his grandmother,33, 8–10;his aunt,33, 8–13;his library,33, 11,15;Janet, aunt of Sir Walter,33, 13,16;goes to the play,33, 19;his work always epic,34, 7;dramatic work contrary to his nature,ib.;classed with Pindar, Homer, Virgil, and Dante,34, 8;his character-portraits,34, 10;his mode of travelling,44, 167;the chief charm of his prose works, what, and how obtained,44, 168;his opinion of British law,47, 244;his legal characters,47, 247.Scott’s land, limits of, fixed by the author,29, 7.Scottish streams, the beauty of the sound of,32, 14.Sculpture, effect of, on Scott when a child,33, 18;power of religious,meantto terrify,33, 19;grand knots in the beams answering all the purposes of,46, 223.Seaside hotel, old and new,38, 38.Seasons, proper observation of, a celestial work,46, 228.Secret, the utter and inmost, of the squire’s behaviour45, 206.Selborne, history of, alluded to on the Crocus,26, 16.[30]Sentiment, ancient, compared with modern common sense,33, 1;of the dark ages,34, 3;its real nature,34, 5;Sir C. Adderley on,34, 4;purity of, distinguishes a gentle from a churlish mind,41, 102.Serfs, who are,28, 11.Sermons, the author’s experience of, for thirty years,36, 6.Servants, Scott’s, their love for him,32, 20;sometimes masters,32, 21(seeMasters);character of the old school of, at the hotel Meurice,48, 271;German,ib.Service to death may be recovered,32, 22;broken by the sin of your masters,ib.Shakespeare, remarks on shilling copy of,25, 15;Chaucer and Fielding, remarks on,34, 9;and Scott,47, 250.Sheep, Scott’s knowledge of individual,32, 11;difficulty of knowing each one in a large flock,32, 12.Shield, Barbara Haliburton’s,33, 13.Shillings, the author’s delight in lion,34, 12(note).Shirley, beauty of the village of,29, 3;now covered with houses built of rotten brick,ib.Shooting and tormenting beasts,46, 229.Sidney, Sir Philip,35, 1;his wound,35, 11;his dying charge to his brother,ib.;his kind act to a soldier,ib., and36, 5;his death,35, 12;all England went into mourning for,ib.Simplicity without coarseness, possible and natural, under laws of St. George’s Company,37, 12.Sins of the hot and cold heart,42, 128.Sire of Cresques, the, at Calais,25, 19.Sir Walter Scott’s land, limits of, fixed by the author,29, 7.Sixty pounds on the square inch, power of steam at,41, 110.Sky still blue in London in the early morning,41, 101.Slaves, those employed in mechanical labour are,44, 172,178;to society,46, 231.Smith and carpenter in St. George’s Company, what work permitted,37, 11.Smoke and filth not to be lived in,44, 178.Social Science meeting, author’s address on the labour question[31]at,28, 23(note);secretary of, on civilization—the vilest sentence in literature,42, 131.Soldier, French, and his bride, story of,29, 19.Soldier’s life passing into shepherd’s promotes song,32, 14.Song, its connexion with industry and human love,32, 17;in border land of Scotland, reasons for,32, 13;love-song, by Sir Philip Sidney,35, 5–9.Soul, what does Shakespeare mean by a pure?25, 16.Sound of Scottish streams, the beauty of, promotes song,32, 14.Sour plums in Galashiels,31, 26,32, 26(note);origin of the song and tune,33, 10.‘Spectator,’ its meaning of ‘high aims,’27, 14;on agriculture,45, 218;quotation from the, on the author,46, 238.Spelling, difficulty of, with many girls,33, 4;cannot be learned late,ib.Spinning-wheel, ancient use of,32, 16,40, 80;at Coburg,40, 81.Spurs, dish of two,31, 9.Squire, means a rider,35, 6;the root of the present evil his crime,44, 173;his usual action,ib.;strict scrutiny will be made as to the use of every instant of his time,45, 196;the vicegerent of Christ his Captain,45, 205;an able-bodied pauper compelling his dole,ib.;how he gets into parliament now,ib.Squires of England, the author’s challenge to the,46, 194;will have to fight for their lands,45, 199;heritage, what it once was,45, 201;first duty of,45, 203;second ditto,45, 204.Squirrel at Coniston, sad story of a,48, 277.Squirrel cage, London a vast,44, 175.State, power of death alone possessed by the,46, 219.Station in life, frantic fear of people falling below,30, 4.Statuary, superstitious terror of, in Scott when a child,33, 18.Steam at sixty pounds to the square inch,41, 110;letter from China on,42, 136.Stephen, Mr. Leslie, among the Alps,48, 271.
Mickle-mouth Meg, story of,31, 13.Middlemen, for sale of perishable articles, to be entirely abolished,38, 26.Mill, J. S., on nursing the baby,31, 8;result of his Essay on Liberty becoming the gospel of England,35, 14;labourers produced by the writings of,36, 2.Millowners, shrieks of the landed,45, 200.Mind, of the author, practical and matter of fact,37, 3.Minstrel, feeling of, steadily antagonistic to puritanism,32, 17.‘Mirror of Peasants,’30, 1;life of the author of the,30, 2.Miscreant, or misbeliever, properly applied accurately to Turks,25, 24.Missionary work in India, result of as a whole,37, 18(note).Mob, British, its gnarled blockheadism,37, 4.Mona, meaning of, in St. John’s gospel,27, 1;possible effect of using the word,27, 3.Monastery of St. Bernard in Charnwood forest,38, 47(note).Money, of St. George’s Company to be the ‘soldo’ of Florence,37, 18(note);what to do with it, a question of increasing gravity,44, 179;power of, in matters of crime, letter on,44, 184(note);a token of right, not a medium of exchange,44, 173(note);worship,46, 231.Monks, why don’t people do anything wise and generous without becoming?38, 48(note);silent,ib.Montagu, Lady M. W.,42, 116.Moral disposition of a child determined greatly in its speechless years,33, 8.More, Sir Thomas,37, 13.Morning, lovely, at Oxford, description of,25, 24;at Coniston, description of,28, 9;first bright, seen for months,29, 1.Mother, the author’s,46, 221.[23]Motto, one-tenth of a pound, not the ancient motto of England,25, 14;of the garter described,25, 15;of the Prince of Wales, remarks on,28, 8.Muzzling dogs, a great mistake,40, 96(note).Napoleon, III., not the cause of the French war,40, 84.Nature with her hands behind her back,27, 9.Needle and thread preferable to telegraphic needle,29, 15.Neglect of their children by the French upper classes, an absolute source of corruption,43, 149.Newcastle,29, 12.Newspaper extracts,37, 18(note).Normandy, frankness of,43, 150.Northfleet, wreck of the, alluded to,29, 25(note).Northumberland, extent of in Charlemagne’s time,25, 13;letter of Lord, to Henry VIII.,31, 9.Notre-dame, casts brought by the author from,41, 105.Novels, Scott’s, are history,32, 4.Nugget, hardness of another walking off with a scientific,34, 23.Nurse, the author’s account of his,28, 13;Scott’s second, went mad,32, 9.Obedience, nature of, in the St. George’s Company,37, 10;can not be mentioned by the English squire,45, 205.Ogilvie, Hon. Mrs., account of,33, 4,5.Old Mortality, Scott the, of the heart,32, 5.Opinions, sale of, fraudulent,44, 165.Ornithology, the author going to lecture on,25, 25.Otomac Indians, diet of,27, 18.Own, every man to his, meaning of the expression,28, 1.Oxford, art at, on what now dependent,37, 2.Painters and authors, no need to speak of the honesty of,31, 20.Painting, the witness of, unbroken, down to the last days of Venice,26, 13.‘Pall Mall Gazette,’ extract from the, on a month’s railway accidents,[24]35, 26–29 (note);extract from the, on the wealth of the world,44, 163;remarks thereon,44, 164.Pancras, St.,32, 27(note).Pantomime at Drury Lane,39, 54;compared with the real world,39, 56.Paper manufacture, pollutes streams,33, 2.Paris, behaviour of old,29, 18;breakfast in,48, 271;food fund, committee of, pleasant reading,33, 22(note);walk through,41, 105;destruction of,43, 143.Park, meaning of the word,27, 6;pulling down railings of,ib.;cost of,27, 10,28, 4;no longer for us,28, 4.Parks of England,27, 10.Parliamentary talk, a watchman’s rattle sprung by constituencies of rascals at the sight of an honest man,37, 7.Parricide at Halifax,35, 31(note).Passion not judged, but the want of it,42, 128.Pastoral life promotes song,32, 13.Patience, necessary for work,25, 26;a mother’s effect of, in education,33, 14.Patriotism, real, what it is,46, 231.Patron saints of the chief occupations of the members of St. George’s Company,26, 13(note).Paul, St., why to be reverenced,28, 3;ascertained by German critics to be Simon Magus,ib.;his grave,43, 154.Paupers, squires are able-bodied, compelling their dole,45, 250.Pavement, ideally clean street,48, 266.Payment over the counter, in all wise commerce,26, 2.Peasant, difference between English and Swiss,39, 62(note).Peebles, story of Peter,47, 251,252;compared with Miss Flite,47, 253.Penny, shilling, and pound, the British Bible,25, 6;description of a,ib.Pepin de Werre, at Calais,25, 18.Pepper’s ghost,29, 5.Perseverance of the author’s mother, consequence of,33, 15.Peter Mathieson, old dignified coachman,32, 20;turned ploughman,32, 21.[25]Phalanthus of Sparta, allusion to,25, 8.Physical science, advantage of, to boys and girls,48, 274.Physicians, dishonesty of,31, 20.Piper, Highland, feeling of, steadily antagonistic to puritanism,32, 17.Place, every one to find his own,28, 2.Plan, the author’s, in this book,36, 2,37, 13,43, 142.Plato, quotation from the republic of,37, 14.Play, how was it Scott could not write a?33, 20.Plumes, what they are the symbol of,28, 7.Poetry, dramatic, lyric, and epic,34, 6.Political economy and the Peace Society can neither grant nor protect land,45, 199.Pontine marshes, a symbol of diabolic work,46, 228.Pope,32, 4,40, 94(note).Positive philosophy,37, 4.Post-office, eleven vacancies for girls at the, applied for by 2000,29, 13.Pound, (the coin,) put it on the table and let us examine it,26, 3;(the prison,) chosen in preference to park,28, 4.Poverty, of the country through the enriching of a few,27, 17;Giotto’s picture of the marriage of, to St. Francis,45, 213.Power of writing and spelling correctly, how acquired by the author,33, 14.Prayer, to take away hardness of heart from all Jews, etc., an absurd one,30, 3;for Jews, etc., the author’s form of, for himself,ib.;is not work,46, 225;Duke of Argyll on,ib.Preaching, to be good, must be gratis,31, 23.Press, writers for the public, really answerable for the present state of things,27, 13;for thirty years steadily opposed to good work of the author,ib.;opinion of the British, on Fors Clavigera,46, 239(note);folly and impudence of the,ib.;remarks theron,ib.Presumption of pointing out all the ways of governing the universe, M’Cosh on the,27, 9.Price, the author’s first, always thelowest,37, 17(note);regulation of,38, 31;now regulated by rascals,38, 32.[26]Prices, regulation of,38, 35;of this book,38, 39.Pride, Scott’s strongest passion nobly set,32, 18.Princess, dream of the, picture of,40, 93(note).Print shops can be only looked into at the expense of modesty,29, 11.Profession, every gentlemanly, except digging, has a taint of dishonesty in it,31, 20.Property, private right of,28, 17;letter on the increased conviction of the sanctity of,44, 183(note).Provident, people in good position so,28, 14.Psalm-singing squire,35, 5;his lovely love-poems,35, 6,7.Psalmody, modern Scottish, discordant,32, 17.Psalms, book of, very precious,35, 4;the fourteenth and fifteenth examined,36, 7;the author unable to account for the sentence, “There were they in great fear,” etc.,36, 8;of England,42, 132.Public, reluctance of the British, to trust an honest person,36, 2.Punch, epitaph on the Bishop of Winchester and Baron Bethell in,42, 125.Punishment, capital, only opposed by rogues and their abettors,35, 3; 14.Puppy, glossy headed, to sell fish eventually,34, 33.Puritanism, influence of, on Scott’s mental life,32, 17;one of the last remains of noble and sincere, among men of sound learning,33, 7.Purity, Shakespeare’s meaning of,25, 16.Quakers, influence of, on Scott’s ancestors,31, 14.Questions, on Shakespeare answered,25, 17;pressing, for England and France,43, 153.Rabies, canine, letter concerning,40, 95.Race, few now left of the old,48, 269.Rachel of England,46, 231.Raeburn, Sir Henry, dining with Lord Eldon,38, 37(note).Railings, pulling down park, a significant business,27, 6.[27]Railroad dividends, letter on,47, 261(note).Railways,35, 6,26–30 (note);“blamed for blood,”35, 7;an infernal means of locomotion,44, 166.Rainbow, all the colours of the, are essentially secondary,42, 115.Rational, what is now called,48, 264.Readers, evangelical, compared to hedgehogs,35, 4(note).Reading, how to make young ladies fond of,33, 4.‘Record,’ newspaper,46, 241(note).Redgauntlet, novel of,29, 8;Sir Walter Scott’s own biography,31, 16;the story of,47, 247;epitome of,47, 248.Refined personages not easy in their minds,28, 10.Refinement to be enforced in St. George’s Company,48, 272.Reign of law, or a spirit of mercy and truth,42, 130.Religion, frantic hatred of, by French republican mind,43, 153;essential meaning of,45, 204.Religious egotism, Scott’s inevitable perception of,33, 6.Remedy, for the present state of affairs, proposed in a letter to the author,43, 157(note).Rent, of St. George to be paid in tithes of produce,37, 9;capital and interest all to be attacked at once,43, 142;paid in food,44, 173;how to be fixed,45, 203;ought to be diminished in proportion to the improvement of land,ib.Republican, list of questions put to the author by a,25, 30(note);answer to ditto,ib.;characteristic letter from a,29, 25–28 (note);pantomime unknown,39, 58.Republicanism, letter characteristic of the genius of,29, 25–28 (note).Reserved subtlety of Scott’s teaching like Nature’s own,31, 2.Responsibility and free will, the author settled these questions for himself long ago,37, 3.Rest on the seventh day and work on the six,46, 225.Revolution, French,29, 16,40, 79;and massacre the result of our present policy,44, 172.Riband, blue, worn by the Queen, fastened by Alice of Salisbury,31, 11.Ribaumont, Lord Eustace de,25, 19.[28]Rich, English people not,27, 17.Rivers, Scottish, condition of,33, 2(note).Road, an old English,35, 6.Roast beef, no more,27, 17.Robert Henry, his polished account of the Supper at Calais,25, 22.Robinson Crusoe, advice to imitate,47, 258.Rogue, what distinguishes him from an honest man,41, 102.Rome, modern buildings in,44, 162.Rope, superiority of hand-made over machine-made,46, 242(note).Rose, Romance of the,34, 3,43, 147;bestrewn path in the Basilica, filthy state of,44, 161.Roses, the devil afraid of,26, 15;wild, not cultivated,46, 236;sad story of poor girl’s asking for,46, 237.Ruffianism, quotation from ‘Morning Post’ on,34, 27(note).Rugby, travellers’ repose at,28, 8.Ruin, the only remedy now possible,29, 25(note).Rutherford, Dr., accustomed to pray for his patients,33, 6.Sadness of the past promotes song,32, 14.Saint (seeseparate names); evangelical notion of,27, 6.Saints, those the St. George’s Company will be bound to reverence,26, 12,27, 5.St. George. (SeeGeorge.)St. George’s Square, mistake about, corrected,32, 9.Salmon, servants at Perth objected to too much,38, 32(note).Sandy-Knowe,32, 9.Sanitary condition of Scotherne,27, 23(note).‘Saturday Review’ on the author’s sentimentality,42, 130.Scandal at Bath Pump Room,33, 18.‘School for Scandal,’ in reference to Dr. Tyndall’s sweet speeches,43, 160(note).Schoolmistress, profession of, respectable,33, 5.Science, general, corrupted and retarded by jealousy,34, 25;in St. George’s schools to be practically taught,39, 52.Scotherne, sanitary condition of the village of,27, 23(note).[29]Scotland, pre-eminently a singing country,32, 13.Scott, Sir Walter, on poor law,27, 14;on tippling houses,27, 15;on the gambling nature of business generally,27, 17;on the beatitude and virtues of masterhood,28, 16;description of his first country house,29, 7;portrait of, frontispiece to31;made romance ridiculous,31, 1;the good his works could do,31, 2;his one weakness,ib.;compared with Dante and Virgil,ib.;life of, begins,31, 4;his temper,ib.;his monument a vulgar gothic steeple,ib.;the unhealthiness of his birthplace,31, 5;his ancestors,ib., also 12, 14, 16;his notes and private letters, caution to be observed when reading,31, 17;his ancestors,31, 24;his aunt Janet,31, 26;divisions of his life,32, 1,3,5;his loving thought of his dogs on parting,32, 3;reflections on his life,32, 2;epitome of his youth,32, 5;his childhood,32, 7–12;his pride,32, 18;his sorrow for his servants,32, 20;Sir Walter, commonly read,32, 25(note);life of, too interesting to readers,33, 1;his mother,33, 3;his grandmother,33, 8–10;his aunt,33, 8–13;his library,33, 11,15;Janet, aunt of Sir Walter,33, 13,16;goes to the play,33, 19;his work always epic,34, 7;dramatic work contrary to his nature,ib.;classed with Pindar, Homer, Virgil, and Dante,34, 8;his character-portraits,34, 10;his mode of travelling,44, 167;the chief charm of his prose works, what, and how obtained,44, 168;his opinion of British law,47, 244;his legal characters,47, 247.Scott’s land, limits of, fixed by the author,29, 7.Scottish streams, the beauty of the sound of,32, 14.Sculpture, effect of, on Scott when a child,33, 18;power of religious,meantto terrify,33, 19;grand knots in the beams answering all the purposes of,46, 223.Seaside hotel, old and new,38, 38.Seasons, proper observation of, a celestial work,46, 228.Secret, the utter and inmost, of the squire’s behaviour45, 206.Selborne, history of, alluded to on the Crocus,26, 16.[30]Sentiment, ancient, compared with modern common sense,33, 1;of the dark ages,34, 3;its real nature,34, 5;Sir C. Adderley on,34, 4;purity of, distinguishes a gentle from a churlish mind,41, 102.Serfs, who are,28, 11.Sermons, the author’s experience of, for thirty years,36, 6.Servants, Scott’s, their love for him,32, 20;sometimes masters,32, 21(seeMasters);character of the old school of, at the hotel Meurice,48, 271;German,ib.Service to death may be recovered,32, 22;broken by the sin of your masters,ib.Shakespeare, remarks on shilling copy of,25, 15;Chaucer and Fielding, remarks on,34, 9;and Scott,47, 250.Sheep, Scott’s knowledge of individual,32, 11;difficulty of knowing each one in a large flock,32, 12.Shield, Barbara Haliburton’s,33, 13.Shillings, the author’s delight in lion,34, 12(note).Shirley, beauty of the village of,29, 3;now covered with houses built of rotten brick,ib.Shooting and tormenting beasts,46, 229.Sidney, Sir Philip,35, 1;his wound,35, 11;his dying charge to his brother,ib.;his kind act to a soldier,ib., and36, 5;his death,35, 12;all England went into mourning for,ib.Simplicity without coarseness, possible and natural, under laws of St. George’s Company,37, 12.Sins of the hot and cold heart,42, 128.Sire of Cresques, the, at Calais,25, 19.Sir Walter Scott’s land, limits of, fixed by the author,29, 7.Sixty pounds on the square inch, power of steam at,41, 110.Sky still blue in London in the early morning,41, 101.Slaves, those employed in mechanical labour are,44, 172,178;to society,46, 231.Smith and carpenter in St. George’s Company, what work permitted,37, 11.Smoke and filth not to be lived in,44, 178.Social Science meeting, author’s address on the labour question[31]at,28, 23(note);secretary of, on civilization—the vilest sentence in literature,42, 131.Soldier, French, and his bride, story of,29, 19.Soldier’s life passing into shepherd’s promotes song,32, 14.Song, its connexion with industry and human love,32, 17;in border land of Scotland, reasons for,32, 13;love-song, by Sir Philip Sidney,35, 5–9.Soul, what does Shakespeare mean by a pure?25, 16.Sound of Scottish streams, the beauty of, promotes song,32, 14.Sour plums in Galashiels,31, 26,32, 26(note);origin of the song and tune,33, 10.‘Spectator,’ its meaning of ‘high aims,’27, 14;on agriculture,45, 218;quotation from the, on the author,46, 238.Spelling, difficulty of, with many girls,33, 4;cannot be learned late,ib.Spinning-wheel, ancient use of,32, 16,40, 80;at Coburg,40, 81.Spurs, dish of two,31, 9.Squire, means a rider,35, 6;the root of the present evil his crime,44, 173;his usual action,ib.;strict scrutiny will be made as to the use of every instant of his time,45, 196;the vicegerent of Christ his Captain,45, 205;an able-bodied pauper compelling his dole,ib.;how he gets into parliament now,ib.Squires of England, the author’s challenge to the,46, 194;will have to fight for their lands,45, 199;heritage, what it once was,45, 201;first duty of,45, 203;second ditto,45, 204.Squirrel at Coniston, sad story of a,48, 277.Squirrel cage, London a vast,44, 175.State, power of death alone possessed by the,46, 219.Station in life, frantic fear of people falling below,30, 4.Statuary, superstitious terror of, in Scott when a child,33, 18.Steam at sixty pounds to the square inch,41, 110;letter from China on,42, 136.Stephen, Mr. Leslie, among the Alps,48, 271.
Mickle-mouth Meg, story of,31, 13.Middlemen, for sale of perishable articles, to be entirely abolished,38, 26.Mill, J. S., on nursing the baby,31, 8;result of his Essay on Liberty becoming the gospel of England,35, 14;labourers produced by the writings of,36, 2.Millowners, shrieks of the landed,45, 200.Mind, of the author, practical and matter of fact,37, 3.Minstrel, feeling of, steadily antagonistic to puritanism,32, 17.‘Mirror of Peasants,’30, 1;life of the author of the,30, 2.Miscreant, or misbeliever, properly applied accurately to Turks,25, 24.Missionary work in India, result of as a whole,37, 18(note).Mob, British, its gnarled blockheadism,37, 4.Mona, meaning of, in St. John’s gospel,27, 1;possible effect of using the word,27, 3.Monastery of St. Bernard in Charnwood forest,38, 47(note).Money, of St. George’s Company to be the ‘soldo’ of Florence,37, 18(note);what to do with it, a question of increasing gravity,44, 179;power of, in matters of crime, letter on,44, 184(note);a token of right, not a medium of exchange,44, 173(note);worship,46, 231.Monks, why don’t people do anything wise and generous without becoming?38, 48(note);silent,ib.Montagu, Lady M. W.,42, 116.Moral disposition of a child determined greatly in its speechless years,33, 8.More, Sir Thomas,37, 13.Morning, lovely, at Oxford, description of,25, 24;at Coniston, description of,28, 9;first bright, seen for months,29, 1.Mother, the author’s,46, 221.[23]Motto, one-tenth of a pound, not the ancient motto of England,25, 14;of the garter described,25, 15;of the Prince of Wales, remarks on,28, 8.Muzzling dogs, a great mistake,40, 96(note).Napoleon, III., not the cause of the French war,40, 84.Nature with her hands behind her back,27, 9.Needle and thread preferable to telegraphic needle,29, 15.Neglect of their children by the French upper classes, an absolute source of corruption,43, 149.Newcastle,29, 12.Newspaper extracts,37, 18(note).Normandy, frankness of,43, 150.Northfleet, wreck of the, alluded to,29, 25(note).Northumberland, extent of in Charlemagne’s time,25, 13;letter of Lord, to Henry VIII.,31, 9.Notre-dame, casts brought by the author from,41, 105.Novels, Scott’s, are history,32, 4.Nugget, hardness of another walking off with a scientific,34, 23.Nurse, the author’s account of his,28, 13;Scott’s second, went mad,32, 9.Obedience, nature of, in the St. George’s Company,37, 10;can not be mentioned by the English squire,45, 205.Ogilvie, Hon. Mrs., account of,33, 4,5.Old Mortality, Scott the, of the heart,32, 5.Opinions, sale of, fraudulent,44, 165.Ornithology, the author going to lecture on,25, 25.Otomac Indians, diet of,27, 18.Own, every man to his, meaning of the expression,28, 1.Oxford, art at, on what now dependent,37, 2.Painters and authors, no need to speak of the honesty of,31, 20.Painting, the witness of, unbroken, down to the last days of Venice,26, 13.‘Pall Mall Gazette,’ extract from the, on a month’s railway accidents,[24]35, 26–29 (note);extract from the, on the wealth of the world,44, 163;remarks thereon,44, 164.Pancras, St.,32, 27(note).Pantomime at Drury Lane,39, 54;compared with the real world,39, 56.Paper manufacture, pollutes streams,33, 2.Paris, behaviour of old,29, 18;breakfast in,48, 271;food fund, committee of, pleasant reading,33, 22(note);walk through,41, 105;destruction of,43, 143.Park, meaning of the word,27, 6;pulling down railings of,ib.;cost of,27, 10,28, 4;no longer for us,28, 4.Parks of England,27, 10.Parliamentary talk, a watchman’s rattle sprung by constituencies of rascals at the sight of an honest man,37, 7.Parricide at Halifax,35, 31(note).Passion not judged, but the want of it,42, 128.Pastoral life promotes song,32, 13.Patience, necessary for work,25, 26;a mother’s effect of, in education,33, 14.Patriotism, real, what it is,46, 231.Patron saints of the chief occupations of the members of St. George’s Company,26, 13(note).Paul, St., why to be reverenced,28, 3;ascertained by German critics to be Simon Magus,ib.;his grave,43, 154.Paupers, squires are able-bodied, compelling their dole,45, 250.Pavement, ideally clean street,48, 266.Payment over the counter, in all wise commerce,26, 2.Peasant, difference between English and Swiss,39, 62(note).Peebles, story of Peter,47, 251,252;compared with Miss Flite,47, 253.Penny, shilling, and pound, the British Bible,25, 6;description of a,ib.Pepin de Werre, at Calais,25, 18.Pepper’s ghost,29, 5.Perseverance of the author’s mother, consequence of,33, 15.Peter Mathieson, old dignified coachman,32, 20;turned ploughman,32, 21.[25]Phalanthus of Sparta, allusion to,25, 8.Physical science, advantage of, to boys and girls,48, 274.Physicians, dishonesty of,31, 20.Piper, Highland, feeling of, steadily antagonistic to puritanism,32, 17.Place, every one to find his own,28, 2.Plan, the author’s, in this book,36, 2,37, 13,43, 142.Plato, quotation from the republic of,37, 14.Play, how was it Scott could not write a?33, 20.Plumes, what they are the symbol of,28, 7.Poetry, dramatic, lyric, and epic,34, 6.Political economy and the Peace Society can neither grant nor protect land,45, 199.Pontine marshes, a symbol of diabolic work,46, 228.Pope,32, 4,40, 94(note).Positive philosophy,37, 4.Post-office, eleven vacancies for girls at the, applied for by 2000,29, 13.Pound, (the coin,) put it on the table and let us examine it,26, 3;(the prison,) chosen in preference to park,28, 4.Poverty, of the country through the enriching of a few,27, 17;Giotto’s picture of the marriage of, to St. Francis,45, 213.Power of writing and spelling correctly, how acquired by the author,33, 14.Prayer, to take away hardness of heart from all Jews, etc., an absurd one,30, 3;for Jews, etc., the author’s form of, for himself,ib.;is not work,46, 225;Duke of Argyll on,ib.Preaching, to be good, must be gratis,31, 23.Press, writers for the public, really answerable for the present state of things,27, 13;for thirty years steadily opposed to good work of the author,ib.;opinion of the British, on Fors Clavigera,46, 239(note);folly and impudence of the,ib.;remarks theron,ib.Presumption of pointing out all the ways of governing the universe, M’Cosh on the,27, 9.Price, the author’s first, always thelowest,37, 17(note);regulation of,38, 31;now regulated by rascals,38, 32.[26]Prices, regulation of,38, 35;of this book,38, 39.Pride, Scott’s strongest passion nobly set,32, 18.Princess, dream of the, picture of,40, 93(note).Print shops can be only looked into at the expense of modesty,29, 11.Profession, every gentlemanly, except digging, has a taint of dishonesty in it,31, 20.Property, private right of,28, 17;letter on the increased conviction of the sanctity of,44, 183(note).Provident, people in good position so,28, 14.Psalm-singing squire,35, 5;his lovely love-poems,35, 6,7.Psalmody, modern Scottish, discordant,32, 17.Psalms, book of, very precious,35, 4;the fourteenth and fifteenth examined,36, 7;the author unable to account for the sentence, “There were they in great fear,” etc.,36, 8;of England,42, 132.Public, reluctance of the British, to trust an honest person,36, 2.Punch, epitaph on the Bishop of Winchester and Baron Bethell in,42, 125.Punishment, capital, only opposed by rogues and their abettors,35, 3; 14.Puppy, glossy headed, to sell fish eventually,34, 33.Puritanism, influence of, on Scott’s mental life,32, 17;one of the last remains of noble and sincere, among men of sound learning,33, 7.Purity, Shakespeare’s meaning of,25, 16.Quakers, influence of, on Scott’s ancestors,31, 14.Questions, on Shakespeare answered,25, 17;pressing, for England and France,43, 153.Rabies, canine, letter concerning,40, 95.Race, few now left of the old,48, 269.Rachel of England,46, 231.Raeburn, Sir Henry, dining with Lord Eldon,38, 37(note).Railings, pulling down park, a significant business,27, 6.[27]Railroad dividends, letter on,47, 261(note).Railways,35, 6,26–30 (note);“blamed for blood,”35, 7;an infernal means of locomotion,44, 166.Rainbow, all the colours of the, are essentially secondary,42, 115.Rational, what is now called,48, 264.Readers, evangelical, compared to hedgehogs,35, 4(note).Reading, how to make young ladies fond of,33, 4.‘Record,’ newspaper,46, 241(note).Redgauntlet, novel of,29, 8;Sir Walter Scott’s own biography,31, 16;the story of,47, 247;epitome of,47, 248.Refined personages not easy in their minds,28, 10.Refinement to be enforced in St. George’s Company,48, 272.Reign of law, or a spirit of mercy and truth,42, 130.Religion, frantic hatred of, by French republican mind,43, 153;essential meaning of,45, 204.Religious egotism, Scott’s inevitable perception of,33, 6.Remedy, for the present state of affairs, proposed in a letter to the author,43, 157(note).Rent, of St. George to be paid in tithes of produce,37, 9;capital and interest all to be attacked at once,43, 142;paid in food,44, 173;how to be fixed,45, 203;ought to be diminished in proportion to the improvement of land,ib.Republican, list of questions put to the author by a,25, 30(note);answer to ditto,ib.;characteristic letter from a,29, 25–28 (note);pantomime unknown,39, 58.Republicanism, letter characteristic of the genius of,29, 25–28 (note).Reserved subtlety of Scott’s teaching like Nature’s own,31, 2.Responsibility and free will, the author settled these questions for himself long ago,37, 3.Rest on the seventh day and work on the six,46, 225.Revolution, French,29, 16,40, 79;and massacre the result of our present policy,44, 172.Riband, blue, worn by the Queen, fastened by Alice of Salisbury,31, 11.Ribaumont, Lord Eustace de,25, 19.[28]Rich, English people not,27, 17.Rivers, Scottish, condition of,33, 2(note).Road, an old English,35, 6.Roast beef, no more,27, 17.Robert Henry, his polished account of the Supper at Calais,25, 22.Robinson Crusoe, advice to imitate,47, 258.Rogue, what distinguishes him from an honest man,41, 102.Rome, modern buildings in,44, 162.Rope, superiority of hand-made over machine-made,46, 242(note).Rose, Romance of the,34, 3,43, 147;bestrewn path in the Basilica, filthy state of,44, 161.Roses, the devil afraid of,26, 15;wild, not cultivated,46, 236;sad story of poor girl’s asking for,46, 237.Ruffianism, quotation from ‘Morning Post’ on,34, 27(note).Rugby, travellers’ repose at,28, 8.Ruin, the only remedy now possible,29, 25(note).Rutherford, Dr., accustomed to pray for his patients,33, 6.Sadness of the past promotes song,32, 14.Saint (seeseparate names); evangelical notion of,27, 6.Saints, those the St. George’s Company will be bound to reverence,26, 12,27, 5.St. George. (SeeGeorge.)St. George’s Square, mistake about, corrected,32, 9.Salmon, servants at Perth objected to too much,38, 32(note).Sandy-Knowe,32, 9.Sanitary condition of Scotherne,27, 23(note).‘Saturday Review’ on the author’s sentimentality,42, 130.Scandal at Bath Pump Room,33, 18.‘School for Scandal,’ in reference to Dr. Tyndall’s sweet speeches,43, 160(note).Schoolmistress, profession of, respectable,33, 5.Science, general, corrupted and retarded by jealousy,34, 25;in St. George’s schools to be practically taught,39, 52.Scotherne, sanitary condition of the village of,27, 23(note).[29]Scotland, pre-eminently a singing country,32, 13.Scott, Sir Walter, on poor law,27, 14;on tippling houses,27, 15;on the gambling nature of business generally,27, 17;on the beatitude and virtues of masterhood,28, 16;description of his first country house,29, 7;portrait of, frontispiece to31;made romance ridiculous,31, 1;the good his works could do,31, 2;his one weakness,ib.;compared with Dante and Virgil,ib.;life of, begins,31, 4;his temper,ib.;his monument a vulgar gothic steeple,ib.;the unhealthiness of his birthplace,31, 5;his ancestors,ib., also 12, 14, 16;his notes and private letters, caution to be observed when reading,31, 17;his ancestors,31, 24;his aunt Janet,31, 26;divisions of his life,32, 1,3,5;his loving thought of his dogs on parting,32, 3;reflections on his life,32, 2;epitome of his youth,32, 5;his childhood,32, 7–12;his pride,32, 18;his sorrow for his servants,32, 20;Sir Walter, commonly read,32, 25(note);life of, too interesting to readers,33, 1;his mother,33, 3;his grandmother,33, 8–10;his aunt,33, 8–13;his library,33, 11,15;Janet, aunt of Sir Walter,33, 13,16;goes to the play,33, 19;his work always epic,34, 7;dramatic work contrary to his nature,ib.;classed with Pindar, Homer, Virgil, and Dante,34, 8;his character-portraits,34, 10;his mode of travelling,44, 167;the chief charm of his prose works, what, and how obtained,44, 168;his opinion of British law,47, 244;his legal characters,47, 247.Scott’s land, limits of, fixed by the author,29, 7.Scottish streams, the beauty of the sound of,32, 14.Sculpture, effect of, on Scott when a child,33, 18;power of religious,meantto terrify,33, 19;grand knots in the beams answering all the purposes of,46, 223.Seaside hotel, old and new,38, 38.Seasons, proper observation of, a celestial work,46, 228.Secret, the utter and inmost, of the squire’s behaviour45, 206.Selborne, history of, alluded to on the Crocus,26, 16.[30]Sentiment, ancient, compared with modern common sense,33, 1;of the dark ages,34, 3;its real nature,34, 5;Sir C. Adderley on,34, 4;purity of, distinguishes a gentle from a churlish mind,41, 102.Serfs, who are,28, 11.Sermons, the author’s experience of, for thirty years,36, 6.Servants, Scott’s, their love for him,32, 20;sometimes masters,32, 21(seeMasters);character of the old school of, at the hotel Meurice,48, 271;German,ib.Service to death may be recovered,32, 22;broken by the sin of your masters,ib.Shakespeare, remarks on shilling copy of,25, 15;Chaucer and Fielding, remarks on,34, 9;and Scott,47, 250.Sheep, Scott’s knowledge of individual,32, 11;difficulty of knowing each one in a large flock,32, 12.Shield, Barbara Haliburton’s,33, 13.Shillings, the author’s delight in lion,34, 12(note).Shirley, beauty of the village of,29, 3;now covered with houses built of rotten brick,ib.Shooting and tormenting beasts,46, 229.Sidney, Sir Philip,35, 1;his wound,35, 11;his dying charge to his brother,ib.;his kind act to a soldier,ib., and36, 5;his death,35, 12;all England went into mourning for,ib.Simplicity without coarseness, possible and natural, under laws of St. George’s Company,37, 12.Sins of the hot and cold heart,42, 128.Sire of Cresques, the, at Calais,25, 19.Sir Walter Scott’s land, limits of, fixed by the author,29, 7.Sixty pounds on the square inch, power of steam at,41, 110.Sky still blue in London in the early morning,41, 101.Slaves, those employed in mechanical labour are,44, 172,178;to society,46, 231.Smith and carpenter in St. George’s Company, what work permitted,37, 11.Smoke and filth not to be lived in,44, 178.Social Science meeting, author’s address on the labour question[31]at,28, 23(note);secretary of, on civilization—the vilest sentence in literature,42, 131.Soldier, French, and his bride, story of,29, 19.Soldier’s life passing into shepherd’s promotes song,32, 14.Song, its connexion with industry and human love,32, 17;in border land of Scotland, reasons for,32, 13;love-song, by Sir Philip Sidney,35, 5–9.Soul, what does Shakespeare mean by a pure?25, 16.Sound of Scottish streams, the beauty of, promotes song,32, 14.Sour plums in Galashiels,31, 26,32, 26(note);origin of the song and tune,33, 10.‘Spectator,’ its meaning of ‘high aims,’27, 14;on agriculture,45, 218;quotation from the, on the author,46, 238.Spelling, difficulty of, with many girls,33, 4;cannot be learned late,ib.Spinning-wheel, ancient use of,32, 16,40, 80;at Coburg,40, 81.Spurs, dish of two,31, 9.Squire, means a rider,35, 6;the root of the present evil his crime,44, 173;his usual action,ib.;strict scrutiny will be made as to the use of every instant of his time,45, 196;the vicegerent of Christ his Captain,45, 205;an able-bodied pauper compelling his dole,ib.;how he gets into parliament now,ib.Squires of England, the author’s challenge to the,46, 194;will have to fight for their lands,45, 199;heritage, what it once was,45, 201;first duty of,45, 203;second ditto,45, 204.Squirrel at Coniston, sad story of a,48, 277.Squirrel cage, London a vast,44, 175.State, power of death alone possessed by the,46, 219.Station in life, frantic fear of people falling below,30, 4.Statuary, superstitious terror of, in Scott when a child,33, 18.Steam at sixty pounds to the square inch,41, 110;letter from China on,42, 136.Stephen, Mr. Leslie, among the Alps,48, 271.
Mickle-mouth Meg, story of,31, 13.
Middlemen, for sale of perishable articles, to be entirely abolished,38, 26.
Mill, J. S., on nursing the baby,31, 8;result of his Essay on Liberty becoming the gospel of England,35, 14;labourers produced by the writings of,36, 2.
Millowners, shrieks of the landed,45, 200.
Mind, of the author, practical and matter of fact,37, 3.
Minstrel, feeling of, steadily antagonistic to puritanism,32, 17.
‘Mirror of Peasants,’30, 1;life of the author of the,30, 2.
Miscreant, or misbeliever, properly applied accurately to Turks,25, 24.
Missionary work in India, result of as a whole,37, 18(note).
Mob, British, its gnarled blockheadism,37, 4.
Mona, meaning of, in St. John’s gospel,27, 1;possible effect of using the word,27, 3.
Monastery of St. Bernard in Charnwood forest,38, 47(note).
Money, of St. George’s Company to be the ‘soldo’ of Florence,37, 18(note);what to do with it, a question of increasing gravity,44, 179;power of, in matters of crime, letter on,44, 184(note);a token of right, not a medium of exchange,44, 173(note);worship,46, 231.
Monks, why don’t people do anything wise and generous without becoming?38, 48(note);silent,ib.
Montagu, Lady M. W.,42, 116.
Moral disposition of a child determined greatly in its speechless years,33, 8.
More, Sir Thomas,37, 13.
Morning, lovely, at Oxford, description of,25, 24;at Coniston, description of,28, 9;first bright, seen for months,29, 1.
Mother, the author’s,46, 221.[23]
Motto, one-tenth of a pound, not the ancient motto of England,25, 14;of the garter described,25, 15;of the Prince of Wales, remarks on,28, 8.
Muzzling dogs, a great mistake,40, 96(note).
Napoleon, III., not the cause of the French war,40, 84.
Nature with her hands behind her back,27, 9.
Needle and thread preferable to telegraphic needle,29, 15.
Neglect of their children by the French upper classes, an absolute source of corruption,43, 149.
Newcastle,29, 12.
Newspaper extracts,37, 18(note).
Normandy, frankness of,43, 150.
Northfleet, wreck of the, alluded to,29, 25(note).
Northumberland, extent of in Charlemagne’s time,25, 13;letter of Lord, to Henry VIII.,31, 9.
Notre-dame, casts brought by the author from,41, 105.
Novels, Scott’s, are history,32, 4.
Nugget, hardness of another walking off with a scientific,34, 23.
Nurse, the author’s account of his,28, 13;Scott’s second, went mad,32, 9.
Obedience, nature of, in the St. George’s Company,37, 10;can not be mentioned by the English squire,45, 205.
Ogilvie, Hon. Mrs., account of,33, 4,5.
Old Mortality, Scott the, of the heart,32, 5.
Opinions, sale of, fraudulent,44, 165.
Ornithology, the author going to lecture on,25, 25.
Otomac Indians, diet of,27, 18.
Own, every man to his, meaning of the expression,28, 1.
Oxford, art at, on what now dependent,37, 2.
Painters and authors, no need to speak of the honesty of,31, 20.
Painting, the witness of, unbroken, down to the last days of Venice,26, 13.
‘Pall Mall Gazette,’ extract from the, on a month’s railway accidents,[24]35, 26–29 (note);extract from the, on the wealth of the world,44, 163;remarks thereon,44, 164.
Pancras, St.,32, 27(note).
Pantomime at Drury Lane,39, 54;compared with the real world,39, 56.
Paper manufacture, pollutes streams,33, 2.
Paris, behaviour of old,29, 18;breakfast in,48, 271;food fund, committee of, pleasant reading,33, 22(note);walk through,41, 105;destruction of,43, 143.
Park, meaning of the word,27, 6;pulling down railings of,ib.;cost of,27, 10,28, 4;no longer for us,28, 4.
Parks of England,27, 10.
Parliamentary talk, a watchman’s rattle sprung by constituencies of rascals at the sight of an honest man,37, 7.
Parricide at Halifax,35, 31(note).
Passion not judged, but the want of it,42, 128.
Pastoral life promotes song,32, 13.
Patience, necessary for work,25, 26;a mother’s effect of, in education,33, 14.
Patriotism, real, what it is,46, 231.
Patron saints of the chief occupations of the members of St. George’s Company,26, 13(note).
Paul, St., why to be reverenced,28, 3;ascertained by German critics to be Simon Magus,ib.;his grave,43, 154.
Paupers, squires are able-bodied, compelling their dole,45, 250.
Pavement, ideally clean street,48, 266.
Payment over the counter, in all wise commerce,26, 2.
Peasant, difference between English and Swiss,39, 62(note).
Peebles, story of Peter,47, 251,252;compared with Miss Flite,47, 253.
Penny, shilling, and pound, the British Bible,25, 6;description of a,ib.
Pepin de Werre, at Calais,25, 18.
Pepper’s ghost,29, 5.
Perseverance of the author’s mother, consequence of,33, 15.
Peter Mathieson, old dignified coachman,32, 20;turned ploughman,32, 21.[25]
Phalanthus of Sparta, allusion to,25, 8.
Physical science, advantage of, to boys and girls,48, 274.
Physicians, dishonesty of,31, 20.
Piper, Highland, feeling of, steadily antagonistic to puritanism,32, 17.
Place, every one to find his own,28, 2.
Plan, the author’s, in this book,36, 2,37, 13,43, 142.
Plato, quotation from the republic of,37, 14.
Play, how was it Scott could not write a?33, 20.
Plumes, what they are the symbol of,28, 7.
Poetry, dramatic, lyric, and epic,34, 6.
Political economy and the Peace Society can neither grant nor protect land,45, 199.
Pontine marshes, a symbol of diabolic work,46, 228.
Pope,32, 4,40, 94(note).
Positive philosophy,37, 4.
Post-office, eleven vacancies for girls at the, applied for by 2000,29, 13.
Pound, (the coin,) put it on the table and let us examine it,26, 3;(the prison,) chosen in preference to park,28, 4.
Poverty, of the country through the enriching of a few,27, 17;Giotto’s picture of the marriage of, to St. Francis,45, 213.
Power of writing and spelling correctly, how acquired by the author,33, 14.
Prayer, to take away hardness of heart from all Jews, etc., an absurd one,30, 3;for Jews, etc., the author’s form of, for himself,ib.;is not work,46, 225;Duke of Argyll on,ib.
Preaching, to be good, must be gratis,31, 23.
Press, writers for the public, really answerable for the present state of things,27, 13;for thirty years steadily opposed to good work of the author,ib.;opinion of the British, on Fors Clavigera,46, 239(note);folly and impudence of the,ib.;remarks theron,ib.
Presumption of pointing out all the ways of governing the universe, M’Cosh on the,27, 9.
Price, the author’s first, always thelowest,37, 17(note);regulation of,38, 31;now regulated by rascals,38, 32.[26]
Prices, regulation of,38, 35;of this book,38, 39.
Pride, Scott’s strongest passion nobly set,32, 18.
Princess, dream of the, picture of,40, 93(note).
Print shops can be only looked into at the expense of modesty,29, 11.
Profession, every gentlemanly, except digging, has a taint of dishonesty in it,31, 20.
Property, private right of,28, 17;letter on the increased conviction of the sanctity of,44, 183(note).
Provident, people in good position so,28, 14.
Psalm-singing squire,35, 5;his lovely love-poems,35, 6,7.
Psalmody, modern Scottish, discordant,32, 17.
Psalms, book of, very precious,35, 4;the fourteenth and fifteenth examined,36, 7;the author unable to account for the sentence, “There were they in great fear,” etc.,36, 8;of England,42, 132.
Public, reluctance of the British, to trust an honest person,36, 2.
Punch, epitaph on the Bishop of Winchester and Baron Bethell in,42, 125.
Punishment, capital, only opposed by rogues and their abettors,35, 3; 14.
Puppy, glossy headed, to sell fish eventually,34, 33.
Puritanism, influence of, on Scott’s mental life,32, 17;one of the last remains of noble and sincere, among men of sound learning,33, 7.
Purity, Shakespeare’s meaning of,25, 16.
Quakers, influence of, on Scott’s ancestors,31, 14.
Questions, on Shakespeare answered,25, 17;pressing, for England and France,43, 153.
Rabies, canine, letter concerning,40, 95.
Race, few now left of the old,48, 269.
Rachel of England,46, 231.
Raeburn, Sir Henry, dining with Lord Eldon,38, 37(note).
Railings, pulling down park, a significant business,27, 6.[27]
Railroad dividends, letter on,47, 261(note).
Railways,35, 6,26–30 (note);“blamed for blood,”35, 7;an infernal means of locomotion,44, 166.
Rainbow, all the colours of the, are essentially secondary,42, 115.
Rational, what is now called,48, 264.
Readers, evangelical, compared to hedgehogs,35, 4(note).
Reading, how to make young ladies fond of,33, 4.
‘Record,’ newspaper,46, 241(note).
Redgauntlet, novel of,29, 8;Sir Walter Scott’s own biography,31, 16;the story of,47, 247;epitome of,47, 248.
Refined personages not easy in their minds,28, 10.
Refinement to be enforced in St. George’s Company,48, 272.
Reign of law, or a spirit of mercy and truth,42, 130.
Religion, frantic hatred of, by French republican mind,43, 153;essential meaning of,45, 204.
Religious egotism, Scott’s inevitable perception of,33, 6.
Remedy, for the present state of affairs, proposed in a letter to the author,43, 157(note).
Rent, of St. George to be paid in tithes of produce,37, 9;capital and interest all to be attacked at once,43, 142;paid in food,44, 173;how to be fixed,45, 203;ought to be diminished in proportion to the improvement of land,ib.
Republican, list of questions put to the author by a,25, 30(note);answer to ditto,ib.;characteristic letter from a,29, 25–28 (note);pantomime unknown,39, 58.
Republicanism, letter characteristic of the genius of,29, 25–28 (note).
Reserved subtlety of Scott’s teaching like Nature’s own,31, 2.
Responsibility and free will, the author settled these questions for himself long ago,37, 3.
Rest on the seventh day and work on the six,46, 225.
Revolution, French,29, 16,40, 79;and massacre the result of our present policy,44, 172.
Riband, blue, worn by the Queen, fastened by Alice of Salisbury,31, 11.
Ribaumont, Lord Eustace de,25, 19.[28]
Rich, English people not,27, 17.
Rivers, Scottish, condition of,33, 2(note).
Road, an old English,35, 6.
Roast beef, no more,27, 17.
Robert Henry, his polished account of the Supper at Calais,25, 22.
Robinson Crusoe, advice to imitate,47, 258.
Rogue, what distinguishes him from an honest man,41, 102.
Rome, modern buildings in,44, 162.
Rope, superiority of hand-made over machine-made,46, 242(note).
Rose, Romance of the,34, 3,43, 147;bestrewn path in the Basilica, filthy state of,44, 161.
Roses, the devil afraid of,26, 15;wild, not cultivated,46, 236;sad story of poor girl’s asking for,46, 237.
Ruffianism, quotation from ‘Morning Post’ on,34, 27(note).
Rugby, travellers’ repose at,28, 8.
Ruin, the only remedy now possible,29, 25(note).
Rutherford, Dr., accustomed to pray for his patients,33, 6.
Sadness of the past promotes song,32, 14.
Saint (seeseparate names); evangelical notion of,27, 6.
Saints, those the St. George’s Company will be bound to reverence,26, 12,27, 5.
St. George. (SeeGeorge.)
St. George’s Square, mistake about, corrected,32, 9.
Salmon, servants at Perth objected to too much,38, 32(note).
Sandy-Knowe,32, 9.
Sanitary condition of Scotherne,27, 23(note).
‘Saturday Review’ on the author’s sentimentality,42, 130.
Scandal at Bath Pump Room,33, 18.
‘School for Scandal,’ in reference to Dr. Tyndall’s sweet speeches,43, 160(note).
Schoolmistress, profession of, respectable,33, 5.
Science, general, corrupted and retarded by jealousy,34, 25;in St. George’s schools to be practically taught,39, 52.
Scotherne, sanitary condition of the village of,27, 23(note).[29]
Scotland, pre-eminently a singing country,32, 13.
Scott, Sir Walter, on poor law,27, 14;on tippling houses,27, 15;on the gambling nature of business generally,27, 17;on the beatitude and virtues of masterhood,28, 16;description of his first country house,29, 7;portrait of, frontispiece to31;made romance ridiculous,31, 1;the good his works could do,31, 2;his one weakness,ib.;compared with Dante and Virgil,ib.;life of, begins,31, 4;his temper,ib.;his monument a vulgar gothic steeple,ib.;the unhealthiness of his birthplace,31, 5;his ancestors,ib., also 12, 14, 16;his notes and private letters, caution to be observed when reading,31, 17;his ancestors,31, 24;his aunt Janet,31, 26;divisions of his life,32, 1,3,5;his loving thought of his dogs on parting,32, 3;reflections on his life,32, 2;epitome of his youth,32, 5;his childhood,32, 7–12;his pride,32, 18;his sorrow for his servants,32, 20;Sir Walter, commonly read,32, 25(note);life of, too interesting to readers,33, 1;his mother,33, 3;his grandmother,33, 8–10;his aunt,33, 8–13;his library,33, 11,15;Janet, aunt of Sir Walter,33, 13,16;goes to the play,33, 19;his work always epic,34, 7;dramatic work contrary to his nature,ib.;classed with Pindar, Homer, Virgil, and Dante,34, 8;his character-portraits,34, 10;his mode of travelling,44, 167;the chief charm of his prose works, what, and how obtained,44, 168;his opinion of British law,47, 244;his legal characters,47, 247.
Scott’s land, limits of, fixed by the author,29, 7.
Scottish streams, the beauty of the sound of,32, 14.
Sculpture, effect of, on Scott when a child,33, 18;power of religious,meantto terrify,33, 19;grand knots in the beams answering all the purposes of,46, 223.
Seaside hotel, old and new,38, 38.
Seasons, proper observation of, a celestial work,46, 228.
Secret, the utter and inmost, of the squire’s behaviour45, 206.
Selborne, history of, alluded to on the Crocus,26, 16.[30]
Sentiment, ancient, compared with modern common sense,33, 1;of the dark ages,34, 3;its real nature,34, 5;Sir C. Adderley on,34, 4;purity of, distinguishes a gentle from a churlish mind,41, 102.
Serfs, who are,28, 11.
Sermons, the author’s experience of, for thirty years,36, 6.
Servants, Scott’s, their love for him,32, 20;sometimes masters,32, 21(seeMasters);character of the old school of, at the hotel Meurice,48, 271;German,ib.
Service to death may be recovered,32, 22;broken by the sin of your masters,ib.
Shakespeare, remarks on shilling copy of,25, 15;Chaucer and Fielding, remarks on,34, 9;and Scott,47, 250.
Sheep, Scott’s knowledge of individual,32, 11;difficulty of knowing each one in a large flock,32, 12.
Shield, Barbara Haliburton’s,33, 13.
Shillings, the author’s delight in lion,34, 12(note).
Shirley, beauty of the village of,29, 3;now covered with houses built of rotten brick,ib.
Shooting and tormenting beasts,46, 229.
Sidney, Sir Philip,35, 1;his wound,35, 11;his dying charge to his brother,ib.;his kind act to a soldier,ib., and36, 5;his death,35, 12;all England went into mourning for,ib.
Simplicity without coarseness, possible and natural, under laws of St. George’s Company,37, 12.
Sins of the hot and cold heart,42, 128.
Sire of Cresques, the, at Calais,25, 19.
Sir Walter Scott’s land, limits of, fixed by the author,29, 7.
Sixty pounds on the square inch, power of steam at,41, 110.
Sky still blue in London in the early morning,41, 101.
Slaves, those employed in mechanical labour are,44, 172,178;to society,46, 231.
Smith and carpenter in St. George’s Company, what work permitted,37, 11.
Smoke and filth not to be lived in,44, 178.
Social Science meeting, author’s address on the labour question[31]at,28, 23(note);secretary of, on civilization—the vilest sentence in literature,42, 131.
Soldier, French, and his bride, story of,29, 19.
Soldier’s life passing into shepherd’s promotes song,32, 14.
Song, its connexion with industry and human love,32, 17;in border land of Scotland, reasons for,32, 13;love-song, by Sir Philip Sidney,35, 5–9.
Soul, what does Shakespeare mean by a pure?25, 16.
Sound of Scottish streams, the beauty of, promotes song,32, 14.
Sour plums in Galashiels,31, 26,32, 26(note);origin of the song and tune,33, 10.
‘Spectator,’ its meaning of ‘high aims,’27, 14;on agriculture,45, 218;quotation from the, on the author,46, 238.
Spelling, difficulty of, with many girls,33, 4;cannot be learned late,ib.
Spinning-wheel, ancient use of,32, 16,40, 80;at Coburg,40, 81.
Spurs, dish of two,31, 9.
Squire, means a rider,35, 6;the root of the present evil his crime,44, 173;his usual action,ib.;strict scrutiny will be made as to the use of every instant of his time,45, 196;the vicegerent of Christ his Captain,45, 205;an able-bodied pauper compelling his dole,ib.;how he gets into parliament now,ib.
Squires of England, the author’s challenge to the,46, 194;will have to fight for their lands,45, 199;heritage, what it once was,45, 201;first duty of,45, 203;second ditto,45, 204.
Squirrel at Coniston, sad story of a,48, 277.
Squirrel cage, London a vast,44, 175.
State, power of death alone possessed by the,46, 219.
Station in life, frantic fear of people falling below,30, 4.
Statuary, superstitious terror of, in Scott when a child,33, 18.
Steam at sixty pounds to the square inch,41, 110;letter from China on,42, 136.
Stephen, Mr. Leslie, among the Alps,48, 271.