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INDEX.

A.

Abuse, not an argument against
the use of things, 96.
Actors, as conversers, 10.
Adams, John Q. 254.
Addison, his conversation, 12;
his care in writing, 117; his
fondness for Bayle's Diction-
ary, 195; his worldly success,
228; his failure as an orator,

251.

Alba, Duke of, his cruelty, 74.
Alcibiades, his conversation, 15.
American literature, its defects,
161.

Andrew Fletcher, 205.
Angelo, Michael, 170.
Anglo-Saxon race, the, unsympa-
thetic, 144.

Anjou, François, Duke of, 264.
Aquinas, Thomas, 193.
Argyle, the Duke of, as an ora-
tor, 206.

Artists, their coarseness, 180.
Authors, as conversers, 9-15;
their writings not always a
key to their dispositions, 170,
174, 179; their poverty, 233,
234; advice to, 235, 236.
Authorship, examples of unpro-
fitable, 224; its remuneration
in France, 231; not ill-paid,
224-238; often a pis-aller, 234;
its prerequisites, 235, 236; not
incompatible with vulgar cares,
236.

B.

Baillie, Joanna, quoted, 14-33; on
Mackintosh's talk, 29.
Beattie, Dr. James, his literary
criticisms, 243.

Beaumont, Francis, on the con-
versation at the "Mermaid"
tavern, 20.

Beecher, Dr. Lyman, his wit, 191.
Beecher, Henry Ward, his wit,
191; his elocution, 205.
Beethoven, a slow composer, 113;

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anecdote of, 113.
Bentley's Miscellany, 33.
Béranger, a laborious writer, 118.
Beresford, author of 'Miseries
of Human Life," 181.
Bergerac, Cyrano de, 264.
Berkeley, Bishop, on elocution,
206.

Blanc, Louis, on Robespierre, 130.
Blanchard, Laman, 173, 225.
Blucher, Field Marshal, his de-
feat at Ligny, 276.

Boasters, not always cowards, 72.
Boileau, epigram by, 59.
Bon mots, their power in France,
141.

Book, one, value of its exclusive

study, 194-199.

Books, their cheapness not wholly
a blessing, 199; communion
with, 199.

Booth, Junius Brutus, the elder,
his reading of the Lord's Pray-.
er, 203.
Bossuet, his labor in writing, 117.
Bravery, sometimes associated
with cruelty, 73, 74.
Brougham, Lord, his nose, 268
Brown, Dr. Thomas, 168.

Bacon, Lord, his essays, 23; his Browne, Sir Thomas, on Physi-

conversation, 24.

ognomy, 85.

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obscenity, 180.

Buckle, Henry Thomas, his con- | Chateaubriand, his occasional
versation, 41.
Buffon, 12, 24; a fastidious Chatham, Lord, his conversation,
writer, 118.

Burke, Edmund, his conversa-
tion, 40, 41; his fastidiousness
as a writer, 117; on the French
idealism in government, 154,
155; a type of the English
mind, 158; on political ab-
stractions, 158.

Burns, Robert, his conversation,
27, 28; a fastidious writer, 116.
Burton, Robert, his Anatomy of
Melancholy, 221.

Bushnell, Dr. Horace, 204, 205.
Butler, Samuel, his conversation,
13; on the tongue, 1; epi-
gram on, 61; his miseries, 172.
Byron, Lord, his conversation,
28; on De Stael's, 34; a rapid
writer, 110; his opinion of his
poems, 169; his melancholy,
172; on originality, 220; his
income, 230; his literary criti-
cisms, 240, 245.

C.

Cæsar, Julius, 16, 169.
Calvin, John, contrasted with
Luther, 148, 190.
Campbell, Thomas, his conversa-
tion, 14; a fastidious writer,
116; his opinion touching his
masterpiece, 169, 170; his
worldly success, 230.
Canning, George, his labor on
his speeches, 119.
Canova, sculptor, 168.

Carlini, actor, anecdote of, 173.
Carlyle, Thomas, his conversa-
tion, 39.

Cellini, Benvenuto, his boastful-
ness, 73.

Chalmers, Dr. Thomas, 203, 220,
254.

Charles II., on Butler's conversa-
tion, 13.

40; his fondness for Barrow,
195.

Chaucer, 219, 227.
Cheerfulness, its value, 186, 187.
Chesterfield, Lord, on laughter,
190; his oratory, 206.
Christina, of Sweden, saying of,

26.

Cicero, his conversation, 16.
Clarendon, Lord, 195.
Cleveland, John, his epigram on
the Scots, 60.

Clubs, literary, 44-52; when ob-
jectionable, 44-46; the London
"Literary Club," 46; advan-
tages of, 46, 52.
Cobbett, William, on writing,
108.

Coincidences, literary, 221, 222.
Coleridge, S T., his conversation,
34-36; on the French, 121; his
indebtedness to Collins, 195;
a literary borrower, 220; why
always poor, 230; his nose, 263.
Composition, literary, hints on,

107-8; speed in, 109-113; ex-
acts labor, 114; also time, 120.
"Contentment better than rich-
es," a fallacy, 79.
Conversation, of authors, 9-15;
of actors, 10; of the ancients,
15; requisites of good, 40; the
art dying out, 42-43; neces-
sary to culture, 50-52.
Conversers, the great, 9-43; need
of a work on, 9; authors and
actors not good, 10.
Cooper, Fennimore, 220.
Corneille, 12;

Courier, Paul Louis, his style,
138.

Cowley, Abraham, his conversa-
tion, 24.

Cowper, William, his conversa
tion, 12; on care in writing,
116; his mental gloom, 171;
his bashfulness, 252.

Criticism, curiosities of, 239-248;, Dualism, in men's lives, 168-185.
how biased, 239; rarity of Duclos, on papal elections, 101.
genuine, 247.
Duelling, repressed by satire,
164.

Cromwell, Oliver, 102, 104; con-
trasted with the French revo-
lutionists, 147.

Curran, John Philpot, his first
speech, 252.
Cuvier, 102.

Dante, 195.

D.

David, painter, 168.
De Maistre, Count Joseph, on
France in 1796, 122; on the
proselytism of the French, 143;
on the French Constitutions,
157.
Demogeot, J., on French civiliza-
tion, 142.

Demosthenes, 195.

Denham, Sir John, on Cowley
and Killigrew, 24.
De Quincey, Thomas, on Cole-
ridge's conversation, 35; his
own conversation, 38-39; on
his own physiognomy, 86; on
improvisation, 112; on the in-
vention of types, 213.
Descartes, 12.

De Stael, Madame, her conversa-
tion, 34.

DeTocqueville, Alexis, on the
French, 124.
Dickens, Charles, 230.
Difficulty, a blessing, 97.
Diogenes, his sayings, 15.
Disraeli, Benjamin, epigrams on,
64, 65.

Disraeli, Isaac, quoted.
Dissatisfaction, a law of life, 81.
Dolabella, 16.
Domitian, 178.

Dorset, the Earl of, on Butler's

conversation, 13.
Drudgery, the Bishop of Exeter
on, 119.

Dryden, John, his conversation,
12; his elocution, 202; his in-
come, 228.

Dugazon, actor, on noses, 270.

E.

Economy, private, a public bless-
ing, 78.

Eldon, Lord, epigram on, 58; on
public speaking, 254.

Ellis, George, his conversation,
28.

Eloquence, the heart its source,
208.

Elphinstone, Bishop, 187.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, on origi-
nality, 217.

Emmons, Dr. Nathaniel, his wit,
191.

English periodicals, their solem-
nity, 159, 160.

English, the, their slowness, 127;
their pertinacity, 128; their
gruffness, 133; their hospital-
ity, 133; good colonizers, 135;
inferiority of their writers as
stylists to the French, 138;
their wealth, 138; their nar-
rowness, 144; their orators com-
pared with those of the French,
149; defects of their literature,
152, 153; their contempt of po-
litical abstractions, 155; their
political inconsistencies, 156;
their legislation, 157; their
love of precedents, 157.
Epigrams, 53-71; why good ones
are rare, 53; their requisites,
54; the changes they have un-
dergone, 55; collection of, by
Rev. J. Booth, 55; Martial's,
56-58; neatness of the French,
59; surprise an element of, 60;
the great age of, 61; on Marl-
borough, 61, 62; on names,
when formidable, 68, 69; why
nearly obsolete, 69-71.
Erasmus, 163.

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Fallacies, popular, 72-84.
Fénélon, a rapid writer, 111.
Fielding, Henry, 247.
Foote, Samuel, 17.

Foster, John, his conversation, 37.
Fox, Chas. James, his conversa-
tion, 40; on Burke's, 41; on
the French, 136.

France, the focus of civilization,
142; the interpreter between
England and mankind, 142,
143.

Francis, Sir Philip, 252.
French, the, their versatility, 122,
123; their paradoxical char-
acter, 123, 124; described by De
Tocqueville, 124; caricatured
by the English, 125; the lead-
ing nation of Europe, 125;
their mercurial nature, 126;
their lack of patience, 127;
128; their fondness for the
theatrical, 128-132; their van-
ity, 132; contrasted with the
English, 132; their love of
glory, 132; their self-con-
sciousness, 133; their divorce
of profession and practice, 134;
their dependence on others for
happiness, 134 their gregari-
ousness, 134; their failure as
colonizers, 135; their litera-
ture, 137-143; clearness of
their literary style, 139, their
sociality, 140; their superiority
in conversation and letter-
writing, 140; their brilliant
wit, 140; their appreciation of
foreign ideas, 141; their spirit
of proselytism, 143; their sym-
pathy with the down-trodden,
143; their preeminence as lo-
gicians, 145, 147; their ten-
dency to scepticism, 146; their

lack of profound convictions,
147; their dogmatism, 148;
their preeminence as orators,
148; their inferiority in poetry,
149, 151; their passion for ab-
stract ideas, 151-153; their
idealism in politics, 153, 154,
157.

French language, its defects, 146,
151.

French traits, 121-158.
Frenchwomen, their coquetry,
131.

Fuller, Margaret, on Carlyle's
conversation, 40.

G.

Galiani, the Abbé, his definition
of sublime oratory, 7.
Garrick, David, on Adam Smith's
conversation, 13.
Garrow, Baron, 59.
Gay, John, his epitaph, 172.
Gauls, the, described by Julius
Cæsar, 128.

Genest, the Abbé, 263, 264.
Genius, men of, their self-igno-
rance, 169.

Germanic literatures, their merits
and defects, 150, 151.
German writers, their obscurity,
139, 140.

Gibbon, the historian, a rapid
writer; his failure as an ora-
tor, 251; his nose, 266.
Gifford, his critical judgments,
244.

Girardet, painter, 168.
Godliness, true, is cheerful, 186.
Godwin, William, his talk, 13; a
rapid writer, 111; his nose,
265.

Goethe, John Wolfgang, 70; on
originality, 217; his borrow-
ings, 221.

Goldsmith, Oliver, as a converser,
12, 13; on Johnson's conversa-
tion, 12; on Burke's, 41; his
care in composition, 115; on
the solemnity of contemporary

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