161.

Geoffrin, Madame, and Rulhière, 170.

Gertrud bird, 79.

Giardini, of playing the violin, 130.

Gibbon, his fastidiousness as a writer, 125;
review of the series of Byzantine emperors, 219.

Gladstone, interesting reply of, 263.

Glass in Pompeii, 177.

Godwin, Madame de Staël's criticism of, 98;
a good husband and kind father, 255;
and Rough, 311.

Goethe, confesses his ignorance, 29;
reason can never be popular, 62;
anecdote of Merck and the grand duke, 89;
to know how cherries and strawberries taste, 90;
a fortunate mistake of, 92;
nature, 103;
giving advice, 104;
aristocracy and democracy, 104;
the world cannot keep quiet, 109;
his works commercially, 133;
objections to luxurious furniture, 137;
of Dante's great poem, 147;
advised against writing Faust, 148;
genius of Shakespeare, 152;
influence of Voltaire, 153;
a staff officer's opinion of, 155;
first impression of Switzerland, 195;
critical remark of, 198;
on a peculiarity of Schiller, 244;
disparaged himself as a poet, 261;
pleasant dreams after falling asleep in tears, 318;
compares life to a residence at a watering-place, 332;
the simplicity of the world, 347;
arrogance natural to youth, 352;
remark of at the age of seventy-five, 355;
truth and error, 361;
of a Christianity of feeling and action, 366.

Goldsmith, of the vanity of human judgment, 24;
ten years composing the Traveller, 129;
to Bob Bryanton, 135;
proud reply to Hawkins, 139;
reply to Dr. Scott, 139;
criticises Waller, Pope, and Milton, 145;
opinion of Tristram Shandy, 147;
his street ballads, 156;
a saying of credited to Talleyrand, 172;
relations with Bott, the barrister, 200;
friendship and jealousy, 240;
as a talker and as a writer, 244;
Goody Two Shoes, 268;
at the British Coffee House, 270;
first acting of She Stoops to Conquer, 270;
conduct during, 271.

Goodness tainted, 94.

Gordianus, epitaph of, 263.

Grammont, Count, on Sir John Denham, 235.

Gray, twenty years touching up his Elegy, 126;
criticises Thomson and Akenside, 145;
diffidence and fastidiousness of, 238;
his Elegy not intended for the public, 258.

Greene, Peele, and Marlowe, 249.

Grimaldi, devouring melancholy of, 315.

Groenvelt, Dr., persecution of, 201.

Guérin, Eugénie de, her story of the poor shepherdess, 345.

Guérin, Maurice de, on a solitary life, 342.

Guido, and the portrait of Beatrice Cenci, 313.

Guizot, declines a title, 141.


Hadrian's villa, 217.

Hale, Sir Matthew, criticised by Charles II., 3;
unpublished writings of, 194;
trials before for witchcraft, 224;
influenced by Jeffreys, 247.

Hall, Robert, sought relief in Dante, 267.

Hallam, his opinion of Hooker, 225.

Hammond, Elton, 278.

Händel, blindness of, 228;
his hallelujahs open the heavens, 229.

Harrington, imprisonment of, 135;
man a religious creature, 368.

Harvey, effects of his discovery, 147, 301.

Hawthorne, on men who surrender themselves to an overruling power, 97;
on special reformers, 98;
distinction between a philanthropic man and a philanthropist, 113;
Byron and Burns, 153;
of the Scarlet Letter, 188;
statement relating to the Mayflower, 241;
of artists who have painted their own portraits, 377.

Haydn, a story told of, 175.

Hayward, passages from, 164, 165, 174.

Hazlitt, his violence at times, 36;
legend of a Brahman turned into a monkey, 48;
of two pictures by Northcote, 190;
of Coleridge and John Chester, 211;
the poet Gray, 238;
every man an exception, 240;
strange facts about, 263;
opinion of Mary Lamb, 267;
of Garrick, 297;
wanting one thing, he wanted everything, 325;
on aiming at too much, 337;
on keeping in our own walk in life, 347;
life, at the beginning and the end, 352.

Heart, insensibility of the, 242.

Heine, pleads for the negro king, 27;
of Luther, 47;
when he would forgive his enemies, 53;
tribute to Goethe, 153;
ignorance of doctors, 208;
of the leper-poet, 318;
a paralytic, 320;
fame nauseous to, 331.

Helps, Arthur, the nature of man, 33;
you never know enough about a man to condemn him, 39;
the art of life, 341;
dialogue on toleration and charity, 383.

Helvetius, of the passions, 46;
advice to Montesquieu, 148.

Henderson, faculty of getting words by heart, 125.

Henry VI. of France, a story of, 171.

Henry, Patrick, his last speech, 264.

Hercules, a diminutive figure of, 178.

Herder, advice to Goethe, 148.

Herrick, a painstaking elaborator, 129.

Hiero, questions Simonides, 31, 348.

Hildebrand, Pope, fate of, 223.

Hill, Dr., and Hannah Glass, 268.

Hillard, on Hadrian's villa, 217.

History and fiction, 164.

Hogarth, relating to the sale of certain pictures, 192;
his estimate of Reynolds, 198;
impressions as to his true vocation, 258.

Hogg, his neighbors thought him no poet, 145.

Holbein, German engraving in the manner of, 326.

Hood, origin of the Song of the Shirt, 149;
what delighted him, 155;
a victim of distress and melancholy, 321;
anecdotes of, 321;
lines on his dead child, 322;
passages from letters to little children, 322, 323.

Hook, attempt of Southey to hoax, 200.

Hooker, circumstances of his marriage, 224;
character of, by Izaak Walton, 225.

Home, Sweet Home, 205.

Homer, called a plagiarist, 144;
effect of his character and genius, 162.

Horace, a laborious writer, 125;
passage from, 302.

Howard, John, humanity of, 229;
and solitary confinement, 260.

Howe, John, his method of conducting public fasts, 37.

Huber, François, blindness of, 259.

Human things compared to icebergs, 109.

Humboldt, credits the Chinese with magnetic carriages, 181.

Hume, his care in composition, 126;
his history slow of sale at first, 133;
advice to Robertson, 148.

Humility illustrated by the rain-drop, 344.

Hunt, Leigh, tribute to Händel, 228;
on pseudo-Christianity, 364;
remark on Lamb, 383.

Hyacinthe, the church of the future, 366.

Hypocrite, profession of, 71.


Ice, curious facts relating to, 210.

Iceland, the best building in, 241.

Icicles, formation of, 209.

Ideas, the few great, remain about the same, 157.

Ignorance, 17, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 240, 352.

Incledon, stories of Garrick and Foote, 77.

Indian cazique, story of, 101.

Intellectual chemistry, 42.

Invective, a primitive Quaker's, 44.

Ireland, baptisms in, 37.

Irving, on the habit of criticising government, 25;
small returns from his writings, 133;
an observation on Goldsmith, 187;
modesty and diffidence of, 239;
called a vagabond by a neighbor, 239;
stealing his own apples, 239;
of elaborating humor, 316;
circumstances under which he composed the History of New York, 319.

Isocrates, timidity of, 262.


Jameson, Mrs., a story related by, 172.

Java, flowers, fruits, and trees of, 301.

Jeffreys, portrait and conduct of, 189;
influence over Sir Matthew Hale, 247.

Jenner, persecution of, 202.

Jenyns, described by Cumberland, 236.

Jerome, St., legend of St. John recorded by, 359.

Jerrold, Douglas, his dislike of the theatre behind the scenes, 1;
of the practical benevolence of a London tradesman, 81;
ambitious to write a treatise on philosophy, 261;
the Caudle Lectures, 316.

Jews, curious persecution of the, 203.

Joan of Arc, Shakespeare's and Schiller's, 174.

Johnson, reply to Boswell as to the indecency of a statue, 1;
his opinion of remarks by Orrery and Delany on Swift, 2;
his hatred of baby-talk, 50;
a remark on marriage, 62;
opinion of feeling people, 98;
opinion of levelers, 105;
Life of, at first slow of sale, 133;
Cumberland on, 142;
how he was once made happy, 143;
opinion of Milton's sonnets, 146;
criticises Swift, Gray, and Sterne, 146;
opinion of Lycidas, 147;
a neglect of the great, 151;
of Shakespeare, 152;
Dr. Campbell's estimate of, 153;
remark to Mrs. Macaulay, 168;
version of Pope's Messiah, 176;
reviewer's remark on, 190;
painter's confession to, 199;
of Demosthenes Taylor, 212;
tribute to Savage, 236;
poverty and companionships of, 243;
belief in ghosts, 243;
a peculiarity of, 244;
a famous speech of Pitt, 248;
speeches of Chesterfield, 248;
collected sermons, 248;
a number of the Rambler, 248;
Ramblers written rapidly, 248;
confidence in Psalmanazar, 250;
bigotry of, 257;
learned Dutch after he was seventy, 267;
first acting of Goldsmith's comedy, 270;
melancholy of, 316;
of Pope and his writings, 317;
of Young and his writings, 317;
of the Christian religion, 370.

Jones, Paul, and Thomson's Seasons, 261.

Joubert, a thought of, 1;
his habit as a writer, 127.

Journalism, impersonal, 241.

Judkins, Juke, reminiscences of, 81.

Junius, warns the king, 298.

Jupiter and Cupid, 296;
imaginary proclamation by, 374.


Kane, Dr., curious experience with the Esquimaux, 102;
of frost in the Arctic region, 301.

Kant, a curious fact of, 251.

Kean, Edmund, wretchedness of his early life, 124;
how he studied and slaved, 131.

Kemble, John, reply to Northcote, 15;
as to his new readings of Hamlet, 131.

Kempis, Thomas à, of simplicity and purity, 345;
of charity and humility, 372;
of amending our own faults, 374.

King, Dr., on toleration, 383.

Kinglake, care in the composition of Eothen, 128.

Kingsley, Charles, of his father, 151.

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, remark to a sitter, 13.

Knives and forks, ridiculed by Ben Jonson and Beaumont and Fletcher, 202.

Knowledge reserved, 240.

Kotzebue, relating to, 257.


Labor, life's blessing, 121.

La Bruyère, of judging men, 2;
of diversity, 6;
some thoughts of, 24;
on the mixture of good and evil, 73;
eloquent passage of, 219.

La Fontaine, always copying and recopying, 126;
dull and stupid in conversation, 260.

Lais, the courtezan, saying of, 41.

Lamartine, a strange statement relating to, 256.

Lamb, remark on covetousness,