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318 Landor, creative works; 124; his "sea-shell," 205, 206; cited, 18; quoted, 184, 204, 239, 241, 247; and see 58, 82, 133, 135, 179, 200, 203.

Landscape. See Descriptive Poetry, Nature, etc.

Lang, A., renderings from the Anthology, 89; and see 82.

Language, its efficacy to express ideas, 15, 16; poetry absolutely dependent on, for its concrete existence, 50; Ben Jonson on, as speech, 51; must become rhythmic to be minstrelsy, 51-55; "idealized language," 52; vibratory power of words, 52; a test of genuineness, 54; speech a more complex music than music itself, 72, 179; the Hebrew, 87; the genius of our English tongue, 214,—its eclecticism and increase, 215; and see Diction.

Lanier, compared with Whitman, 196; his imagination, 253; musical genius of, 282; his work tentative, ib.; and see 62, 158.

Laocoön, Lessing, 66.

Latinism, sentiment of Latin poets, 90-94; Vergil and his modern countertypes, 91; Ovid, Catullus, etc., 92; Tu Marcellus eris, 93; Horace and the Horatii, 93, 94.

Law, natural, the working basis of all art, 6-8; poetic, 62.

Lay of the Last Minstrel, The, Scott, 131, 238.

Lazarus, Emma, 266.

Learning, the New, 34; and see Science.

Lee-Hamilton, E., sonnet by, 206.

Leighton, Sir F., painter, 279.

Leopardi, 133.

Les Précieuses, Molière, 100.

Les Trois Mousquetaires, Dumas, 137.

Life, conduct of, 5; the poet supreme among artists in the portrayal of, 70, 71.

Life School, prospective rise of a, 211.

Light of Asia, The, E. Arnold, 82, 235.

Limitations, of specific genius, 80, 283; charmingly observed by the Horatii, 94; and see 288.

Lincoln, Abraham, 143.

"Lines to an Indian Air," Shelley, 266.

Liszt, musician, 9, 232.

Literary eras. See Periods, literary and artistic.

Liturgy, The Church, as a literary masterpiece of Faith, 291-294; its universal and human quality, 292; symphonic perfection, 293; its uniqueness, ib.

"Local" Flavor, Lowell's taste for American lyrics, 200; a home-field for our sculptors, ib.

"Locksley Hall," Tennyson, 270.

Lodge, O. J., physicist, 35.

Lombroso, C., a theory of, 284.

Longfellow, the New World counterpart of Vergil, 91; "Gaspar Becerra," 220; his national