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Rh Cid, story of, consistent with the times, 233

Clive a typical Englishman, 100 ; of a type disappearing, 263

Cobden the real author of Free Trade, 331

Cochin China, fine ruins in, 91

Coghill, Dr. M., approved corporal correction for a wife, 251

Coleridge, moderately successful as lecturer, 164 ; on Shakespeare, 307 ; as journalist, 318

Colley, Sir G., character of his defeat, 121, 122

Commin of Deuwick invents reaping-machine, 102, note 1

Comoy, John, demises his wife, 230, note 2

Congo, anticipations about the region of the, 31

Corneille modernises the story of the Cid, 233 ; his Medea quoted, 337

Cortez, 33, 34

Courier, 151 ; transformed by jealousy, 297 ; a transcendent journalist, 319, 320 ; on literary reputation, 332

Cousin on the source of inspiration in writers, 320

Cowley overrated by Johnson, 308

Criticism invaluable and fairly certain in science, 304-306 ; influenced by fashion and feeling in taste, 306, 307 ; apt to be too favourable, 307-309 ; likely to decline still further as the highest standards are disused, 310, 311

Cromwell, Puritan and Roman elements in, 275 ; adopts promotion by merit, 279 ; impossible in modern England or the United States, 327, 328

discovery unsurpassable, 291

Dante perhaps a gainer by exile, 149 ; and by city life, 150 ; proscribed by Rome, 264

Darwin, Erasmus, dreams of, 290, and note

Darwin not a liver in cities, 157 ; proscribed by Rome, 264 ; belief in, 267 ; value of his discovery, 291, 303 ; admirable style of, 312 ; varied work by, 313

Davis, President, eulogised by Gladstone, 4

Death, Black, effects of, 153

Debts, national, often rightly incurred, 170, 171 ; or on plausible grounds, 171 - 173 ; may be dangerous, 173, 174 ; because (1) the State undertakes too much, 174, 175; and (2) then national integrity breaks down under the burden, 175-177

Decrès on the term of service, 119

Democracy, real meaning of, 109, 261

Demosthenes, 315

Diaz, Porfirio, of mixed descent, 55

Dickens as lecturer, 164

Diocesan courts, 195, and note

Directory, French, issues orders denying quarter to Englishmen, 139

Disraeli on Peel, 330

Drake, 262

Dramatic poetry is dying out because passions are weaker, 296-298 ; and because topics have been exhausted, 298, 299

Dryden as a critic, 306, 307

Duff, Grant, on Indian reforms, 83 ; on effects of Thirty Years' War, 90, note

Dumas the younger, 167

Dutch at the Cape, 35, 36 ; in Natal, 36, 37 ; in Java, 42

court, powers of, 196

Ecuador, Indians in, 52 ; whites in, 54 ; a tropical Switzerland, 58

Education, State, a necessity, 11

Edward III., debts not yet paid, 177

Eliot, George, restricts her social intercourse, 157 ; was praised for inferior work, 309

Emancipation, slave, a sound bargain, 171

Emigration weakens national feeling, 257, 258

Emigrés, French, disloyal to their country, 190 ; well compensated, 191

England, treatment of children in, 246, and note ; is indebted to alien immi-grants, 285

English debt being reduced, 171

English race, tendency of, to State Socialism, 96-98

always capriciously given, 329-331 ; and likely to be more evenly distributed hereafter than now, 331-333

Family, unit of State, 228 ; powers of the paterfamilias anciently very great, 228-231; the blood -feud, 231-233; rights over life in, 233-235

Family feeling, advantages of, 253-256

Ferrar, Nicholas, 274

Finlay as historian, 313

Flemings, settlement of, in England, 283

Fletcher of Saltouu on Scotch pauperism, 208

Fleury a peace-loving minister, 137

Fonblanque on Peel, 330

Fortescue quoted, 96

Foy, General, on insurrectionary soldiers,