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Rh Victoria, Queen of England, her know- ledge of the Hohenzollern pro- ject, 218 marriage of, 481 Vienna, Talleyrand's encounter with Humboldt, 410 Villafranca, Peace of, 196 Villari, L., critic of Ranke, 357 on the death of Alexander VI., 430 historical value of his works, 431 Villemain, 418 Vinet, ignored by George Eliot, 294 Virchow, George Eliot's indifference to, 297 Vitrolles, Baron de, his abuse of Talley- rand, 293 his mission, Talleyrand's oppor- tunity, 412 Vitzthum, Count, his mission to Paris, 225 Vives, Ludovico, arrest of, 46 Voigt, German writer on mediaeval Papacy, 351 reputation, 427 Vollgraph, Dr., his Anthropognosie, Eihnognosie und Polignosie overlooked by Buckle, 330, 331 Voltaire, 488 Volz, 335 Vosges Mountains during war of 1870., 240 Waitz, 383 ; essay by, on Henry I. (the Fowler), foundation of first school of history in the world laid by, 375 head of school of thought, 496 praise of Bohmer by, 374 repressor of historical scepticism, 6 5 too obvious erudition of, 499 work not for general public, 501 Walewski, 487 Walters, Lucy, and her son, 85 War of 1870., see Franco - Prussian War of Independence, the, one of its results, 127 spirit in France, 1870., Napo- leon III. on, 221 Warfare, guerilla, in Mexico, Maxi- milian's repression of, 161-2 ; its results to himself, 167 Warham, Archbishop, and the Amic- able Grant, n ; his challenge of Henry's first marriage, 17 ; he badgers Queen Catharine, 46 Warwick, Earl of, why executed, 10 Washington, George, on his fears for the American Constitution, 128-9 Watten, Jesuit house at, 112 Webster, Daniel, Northerner, asserts impossibility of secession, 138 Wegele, Professor, 557 ; Deutsche His- toriographie, 344 Weimar, meeting of George Eliot and Liszt in, 300 ; impressions left by her visit there, 297 Weinburg, scene of the offer of the Spanish crown to Leopold, 215 Weissenburg, 241, 242 Wellhausen, 370 Wellington, Duke of, his errors as a statesman, 475, 476 his prediction regarding future of Prussia mistaken, 381, 382 judgment of Prussian staff on, 381, Talleyrand's opinion of, 398 on Napoleon's errors in Germany, -4 Welwood on the indifference to religion of Charles II. , 90 Werder, 268 Werther, 486 Werthern, Count, and the Hohenzollern candidature, 215-16 Wessenberg on Talleyrand, 401 Western alliance, the, 186 ; Palmerston on, 187 Wieland and Napoleon, dialogue be- tween, at Erfurt, 411 asserts Christ's existence to Napoleon, William I. of Prussia (afterwards German Emperor), 484 and the candidature of Prince Leopold, 216, 217 ; his moderation, 221 ; his non - committal position throughout, 222 ; the ' ' insult " to France, 222-3, see a ^ so Ems affair; "This is war," 224, 230 Wiseman, Cardinal, 422 Wittgenstein, Princess, conversation of, with Lord Houghton, 421 Wolf, 365 Wolsey and the Divorce of Henry VIII. (a review of a Calendar edited by Brewer), 1, 54 his motives in promoting the Divorce, 2, 9, 10 ; his intrigues concern- ing it, 11 ; his designs on the Popedom, 4 ; as affecting his actions concerning the Divorce, 20 et seq. attitude of, to the French wars of Henry VIII., 5, 6 bargain made by, with France, 1524., 7, 8 ; why he succeeded, 8 etseq. character of, and characteristics, 61-2