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 Rh Boswell, 437

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 262

Burns, 441; his birth, and humble heroic parents, 442; rustic dialect, 442; the most gifted British soul of his century, 443; resemblance to Mirabeau, 444; his sincerity, 445; his visit to Edinburgh, Lion-hunted to death, 448

Caabah, the, with its Black Stone and Sacred Well, 304

Canopus, worship of, 265

Charles I. fatally incapable of being dealt with, 467

China, literary governors of, 422

Church. See Books

Cromwell, 461; his hypochondria, 465, 470; early marriage and conversion; a quiet farmer, 465; his Ironsides, 468; his Speeches, 472, 486; his 'ambition,' and the like, 474; dismisses the Rump Parliament, 482; Protectorship and Parliamentary Futilities, 486; his last days, and closing sorrows, 488

Dante, 340; biography in his Book and Portrait, 340; his birth, education and early career, 341; love for Beatrice, unhappy marriage, banishment, 342; uncourtier-like ways, 343; death, 345; his Divina Commedia genuinely a song, 345; the Unseen World, as figured in the Christianity of the Middle Ages, 351; 'uses' of Dante, 354

David, the Hebrew King, 301

Divine Right of Kings, 451

Duty, 286, 318; infinite nature of, 330; sceptical spiritual paralysis, 425

Edda, the Scandinavian, 272

Eighteenth Century, the sceptical, 424-429, 461

Elizabethan Era, 356

Faults, his, not the criterion of any man, 301

Fichte's theory of literary men, 410

Fire, miraculous nature of, 273

Forms, necessity for, 458

Frost. See Fire

Goethe's 'characters,' 359; notablest of literary men, 411

Graphic, secret of being, 347

Gray's misconception of Norse lore, 290

Hampden, 460

Heroes, Universal History the united biographies of, 257, 285; how 'little critics' account for great men, 268; all Heroes fundamentally of the same stuff, 283, 333, 370, 408; Heroism possible to all, 382, 399; Intellect the primary outfit, 360; no man a hero to a valet-soul, 437, 461, 469

Hero-worship the tap-root of all Religion, 267; perennial in man, 270, 456

Hutchinson and Cromwell, 460, 489

Iceland, the home of Norse Poets, 272

Idolatry, 375; criminal only when insincere, 377

Igdrasil, the Life-Tree, 276, 356

Intellect, the summary of man's gifts, 360

Islam, 311

Job, the Book of, 304

Johnson's difficulties, poverty, hypochondria, 432; rude self-help; stands genuinely by the old formulas, 433; his noble unconscious sincerity, 434; twofold Gospel, of Prudence and hatred of Cant, 435; his Dictionary, 436; the brave old Samuel, 437

Jotuns, 273, 291

Kadijah, the good, Mahomet's first Wife, 308, 310

King, the, a summary of all the various figures of Heroism, 449; indispensable in all movements of men, 481

Knox's influence on Scotland, 399; the bravest of Scotchmen, 401; his unassuming career; is sent to the French Galleys, 404; his colloquies with Queen Mary, 404; vein of drollery; a brother to high and to low; his death, 406

Koran, the, 319

Lamaism, Grand, 261

Leo X., the elegant Pagan Pope, 386

Liberty and Equality, 381, 455

Literary Men, 410; in China, 423

Literature, chaotic condition of, 412; not our heaviest evil, 424

Luther's birth and parentage, 382; hardship and rigorous necessity; death of Alexis; becomes monk, 383; his religious despair; finds a Bible; deliverance from darkness, 385; Rome, 385; Tetzel, 386; burns the Pope's Bull, 388; at the Diet of Worms, 389; King of the Reformation, 392; 'Duke Georges nine days running,' 394; his little daughter's deathbed; his solitary Patmos, 395; his Portrait, 396

Mahomet's birth, boyhood, and youth, 306; marries Kadijah, 308; quiet,