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352 116 ; on reforms in French organisation, 117

Fox, predictions by, 3 ; knew the classics, 311

France, Reign of Terror in, 25, 26 ; increase of population in, 68, 74, 75 ; outstrips England in ironclads, 103 ; adaptable to the stationary state, 105 ; gained by defeat at Sedan, 141 ; education in, 215, 216 ; law and practice of marriage in, 231, 240-243

Francis, St., condemns intellect, 212; compassionates animals, 218

Frederick II. , 46 ; his economical policy, 107 ; his ambition, 137

French army, size of, in 1740, 95, note 2

French princes, profligacy of, 198

French society broken up by the Second

Empire, 158

Frobisher, 262

Froesch wilier, French cuirassiers at, 139

Future life, belief in, impaired, 271, 273

paints Spanish villager, 169

Garibaldi worked as a soap-boiler, 286

Garrick made Shakespeare popular, 307

George IV. not reproved by the Church, 198

Germanic standard of chastity high, 239

Germany is driving out the Poles, 285

Gibbon, estimate by, of Roman subjects, 67 ; criticised by Maurice, 89, note ; his excellent work, 303, 304 ; the best Church historian, 304, and note ; his concision, 313 ; his expectation of life, 323 ; his estimate of the time of the Antonines, 339

Gilbert, admirable work of, 166

Gladstone, eulogy of President Davis by, 4

Gobelins, tapestry of, 107

Goethe on English inventiveness, 102, note 2 ; on progress, 203 ; on the beginnings of a science, 313 ; his literary articles, 318

Goldsmith predicts changes in France, Germany, Holland, and Sweden, 5, 6

Gray's view of the attributes of power, 328

Great men careless of gain, 288 ; their importance circumscribed in modern society, 326, 328

Greeks comparatively exterminated, 69 ; appreciated city life, 147

Grey Town pestilential, 57

Grote, Mrs., disapproves marriage for men of genius, 253

Guaranis, 56 ; docile, 59

Guardia, a half-caste, 56

Guatemala, few whites in, 33, 54

Guerillas of no real utility, 121

, Sir M., uncritical, 305

Hamerton on French society, 202, notes ; vindicates French schools, 224 ; on the effects of marriage, 253

Hamilton, predictions by, 6

Hare's theory popularised by newspaper discussion, 317

Hastings, Warren, not moral, by modern standards, 202 ; his type disappearing, 262

Hawthorne criticises Englishmen, 100

Heine predicts defeat of France by Germany, 7 ; criticises Englishmen, 100 ; his political articles, 318

Henry VIII., his aims 193, and note

Henry's (Patrick) oratory, 314, 315

Herschel on earthquakes, 141

Hindoos, 33, 34 ; increase of, 76 ; have added nothing to thought, 341

Holberg's estimate of Englishmen, 99-101

Holland, education denominational in, 214

Homer perhaps influenced by town life, 150 ; comparatively forgotten, 332

Honduras impossible for Europeans, 57

Horace on barbarian wives, 238, note 1

Hottentots, few, at Cape in 1795, 36

Howe improves sewing-machine, 102, note 1

Hugo, Victor, appreciates John Brown, 6, 7 ; his greatness as a dramatist, 167

Huguenots at the Cape, 35 ; in England, 283

Humaita, 33

Hutton's (R. H. ) work as a journalist, 318

Hyder Ali ravages the Carnatic, 82

partially appreciated, 167, 168

Hi, Chinese immigration into, 66 ; massacres in, 82 ; Mahommedanism stamped out in, 131

Immigration, alien rights of, everywhere restrained, 283-285 ; unfortunate consequences of this restraint, 285-287

India, its people too numerous to be exterminated, 34 ; character of reforms in, 83

Indians, 34 ; not dangeroiis in Argentine, 58 ; occupy fertile niches of Peru, etc., 58

Inkerman, English infantry at, 139

Ireland, population in, 68

Irishmen, increase of, 69, 70, 75, 76