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Rh Italy adaptable to the stationary state, 105 ; a gainer by war, 141

, 31, 32

Java, climate of, 42

Jemappes won by half -trained troops, 118

Jevons, Prof., on the coal-measures, 174, note

Jews in Russia, 76-80 ; capable of of agriculture, 77 ; causes of their increase, 78, 79 ; appear a danger to the Empire, 80

Johnson, Dr., a lover of town life, 147 ; social sphere of, 157 ; his estimate of Cowley and Shakespeare, 307 ; of Savage and Gray, 308

Juarez, 33, 55

Junius, a journalist, 318 ; overrated, 319

Juvenal praises city life, with a reservation, 148, 149 ; too vehement for modern times, 293

take refuge under British rule, 36

Kanakas, some qualities of the, 32

Kant's estimate of Englishmen, 99 ; on patriotism, 183

Keble on a moral order, 268, 269

Kempis on predestination, 268 ; his view generally taken, 269

Kloster-Zeven, capitulation of, 122

Knowles, Sheridan, value of success of, 165

, its regulation by law inevitable, 12

Lacordaire, why silenced, 194

Las Casas, 210

Laveleye on communal property, 106

Law, Mississippi scheme of, 177

Leibnitz, his doctrine of eternal life, 272

Lely on Englishmen, 99, note

Lesseps, M. de, vindicates climate of Nicaragua, 57

Lewis, Cornewall, predictions by, 4-6

Life may be prolonged by science, 321, 322 ; and this will be a gain to knowledge, 323 ; and to political order, 323-324 ; but will rob life of brightness and energy, 324-326

Local feeling dying out, 258

London, riotous meetings in, 281

Lords, House of, if abolished, 109

Louis XV., 190 ; censured by the Church, 197, 198

Lowell on patriotism, 183, 184

Loyola's conversion, 269

Luther's old name for the Turks, 133 ; perplexed by the liberty of the Reformation, 195 ; on temptations, 268

Lytton, Bulwer, success of, on the stage, 165

on Junius, 319 M'Cormick patents reaping-machine in America, 102, note 1

Machiavel uses uncritical materials, 305

Magyars crowded out in Hungary, 69

Mahommedanism a possible force in China, 131-133

Mahommedans of Yunnan, 34 ; of China, 132

Mahrattas, desolation caused by, 321 Maine's success, 309 ; work in journalism, 318

Maistre, De, paradox by, 141 ; on teaching religion, 216

Malaysia, capabilities of, 42, 43

Malthus, doctrines of, 142

Maories, 32

Marcus Aurelius, 89 ; his despondency, 339

Marlborough superseded by Wellington, 332

Marriage anciently indissoluble, 236-238 ; idea of purity imported into, 238-240 ; the marriage of suitability, 240-243 ; is being superseded by the marriage of inclination, which implies divorce, 243-245 ; and at least tends to weaken the marriage bond, 245-247 ; diminished importance of, favours individualism, 251-253

Mars-la-Tour, heroism of German infantry at, 139

Mashonaland, future of, 31

Matabeleland, future of, 31

Mauritius, decay of French in, 76

Meeting, public right of, everywhere restrained, 281, 282

Meissen, porcelain of, 107

Mejia, 33, 55

Mendez, 56

Merv, 43, note, 44

Meteren's estimate of Englishmen, 99

Mexico, Indians of, not exterminated, 33 ; whites can labour in, 33 ; population of, how composed, 54, 55 ; ruling class white, 56 ; use of guerillas revived in, 121

Michelet on French revolutionary levies, 116

Military education likely to be generalised, 136 ; in some respects advantageous to character, 138-141, 265

Mill condemns State labour, 107, 108 ; a master of style, 311, 312

Milton perhaps a gainer by solitude, 149

Milton a product of Puritan and Hellenic