INDEX
TO THE VOLUMES FOR 1873 AND 1874.
(Second Thousand.)
The larger black numerals indicate the number of the letter; the smaller numerals the pages.
Though the kind friends who have drawn up this and the earlier index are not content with their work, I believe it will be found entirely sufficient for its purposes, until the system of the whole is more developed. As soon as it has received anything like conclusive form I will index its subjects, in connection, myself.
Abbey of St. Radagune, 27, 4.
Abbotsford, fit for Sir Walter Scott, 47, 257.
Abstract of the first seven letters of this book, 43, 139.
Accent, struggle between the author and his mother regarding correct, 33, 14.
Acres, how many given up to make beasts, 27, 10.
Adderley, Sir C., his opinion on sentiment, 34, 4.
Addington, country near, when the author was young, 29, 3.
Advent, collect for, 48, 278.
Advertisement, entire principle of, defied, 38, 42. [2]
Advice of friends, author usually does good by acting contrary to, 27, 13.
Agassiz, Professor, his labours on glacier movement, 34, 21.
Agricultural, population of England, her only power,
44, 172;
labourer, present privileges of the,
28, 18.
Agriculture, book on,
45, 217 (note);
Lord Derby’s idea of,
45, 207;
success of the author’s experiment in,
48, 265.
Alice, in Miss Yonge’s Dictionary of Christian Names,
45, 212;
of Salisbury,
25, 15, 28;
her defence of her castle,
31, 10.
Alison Wilson, in ‘Old Mortality,’ a real person,
32, 10;
allusion to story of, ib.
Almsgiving, not work, 46, 225.
Alpine flowers, not to be killed, 38, 46 (note).
Alps, ice of the, has lost one-third of its depth in the last twenty years, 34, 17.
Amaryllis, St. George much interested in, 25, 28.
America, her carelessness about dying England, a sign of her own ruin,
42, 118;
what she has learned from England, ib.;
Republican woman of, describes a child, ib.
Amery, of Pavia, the false Lombard, 25, 17.
Amiens, Peace of, 25, 11.
Amusement of factory managers soon likely to end, 35, 21.
Ancestors of modern political economists, 45, 202.
Andrew, St., cross of adopted by the Scotch as the national device,
25, 13;
vision of, ib.
Angel, first thought of squire to shoot it, 45, 202.
Anne, the author’s nurse, 28, 13.
Anthony, St., knows desert flowers, 26, 20.
Apotheosis, modern notion of, 41, 107.
Applegarth, Mr., quoted by the ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’
33, 1;
his views,
34, 27 (note).
Arcadia, a modern, described, 35, 15; 38, 44 (note).
Ariadne, tale of, frontispiece, 28, 5.
Arkwright and Stevenson have done nothing but harm, 44, 173.
Armour, of light, what it is, and why necessary,
48, 279;
of God, reflections on the,
48, 280;
meaning of, in the Advent collect,
48, 279. [3]
Armstrong guns, 29, 12.
Art, in Florence and Oxford,
37, 2;
study of, begun by the author,
45, 192.
Assisi, sacristan’s cell at,
46, 223;
the author comforted by a little pig at,
48, 270, 275.
Athenian wisdom in fondness for crocuses, 26, 16.
Athens, opposed to dressing Sisters of Charity in black, 26, 16.
Aunt, the author’s, 46, 221.
Author, the, of this book, does not set himself up as a leader,
30, 18;
his letter to the ‘Daily Telegraph’ quoted,
37, 21 (note);
remarks on his life,
41, 103;
some account of his parentage,
45, 194;
he finds himself alone in life and knowledge,
37, 3;
results of his few experiments,
48, 265;
his want of success, cause of,
41, 112;
reflections on his life,
41, 113;
family history, his maternal grandmother and grandfather,
46, 220.
Avernus, lake of, 32, 13.
Ayrshire, opposition of the plough to the pulpit in, 32, 17.
Baal-god, law of, in equitable operation, 45, 200.
Baby-nursing, not a lucrative employment according to J. S. Mill, 29, 13, 36, 4.
Bacon, Sir Francis, 37, 13.
Bad thing, a, will pay if put properly before the public, 36, 2.
Ballads, Scottish, sweet, 32, 17.
Bank, the author obliged to keep his money in a,
44, 178;
his reasons,
44, 179.
Barrister, selling his talents,
47, 246;
remarks on the profession of a, ib.
Bath, Scott’s visit to,
33, 16;
Scott’s recollections of,
33, 18.
Beasts, wild, what they were made for,
27, 7;
their worth to us,
27, 8;
might be spared a little room on earth,
27, 9;
of prey, men have the nature of, according to Social Science,
28, 4.
Beesly, Professor, 37, 19, 23 (notes).
Beetroot, a miserable substitute for sugar-cane, 48, 272.
Begging for money, result of, 36, 1. [4]
Benediction, of clergy,
38, 35;
of Irishwoman, ib.
Bible, how to read it,
27, 2;
meaning of one verse of the,
30, 4;
study of, by the author under his mother’s teaching,
33, 14;
text from, examined,
40, 87;
evangelical book-idol, not by any means the word of God,
40, 88;
to be searched, not chopped up, ib.;
list of chapters in the, by the author’s mother,
42, 129;
the author’s lessons in the, on the whole, the one essential part of all his education,
42, 130;
text which the author had to repeat oftenest, ib.
Biography pleasant to read, 33, 2.
Bishop, at the Royal Academy,
40, 95 (note);
epitaph on a,
42, 125.
Bishops and clergy, apathy of, regarding national sin, letter on, 44, 187 (note).
Bismarck, not the cause of the French war,
40, 84;
Prince, description of, from the ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’
43, 143.
Blackfriars Bridge, 41, 111, 114.
Blind man, sent to gaol for four months for begging,
44, 185 (note);
Eastern story of a, for comparison, ib.
Boat at sea, society compared to a,
44, 163;
how truly and how falsely, ib.
Boerhaave, Johnson’s account of,
32, 7;
teacher of Scott’s maternal grandfather, ib.;
naturally quick of resentment,—how cured of this,
32, 8 (note).
Bondage worse than that of Egypt, 46, 231.
Bones, boiled, 27, 18.
Book, our most current, written in three languages,
25, 10;
not readable, unless the mind is one with the author’s,
25, 15.
Bookcase, the author’s, 30, 1.
Books, what, read by rising middle classes about London,
29, 5;
Scott’s, when a child,
33, 11, 15;
change for the better, Mudie and ‘Good Words,’
33, 11;
Ramsey’s tea-table, this compared with Knatchbull-Hugessen’s Tales at tea-time,
33, 12.
Border, morals,
31, 8;
of Scotland,
32, 13;
pre-eminently a singing country, ib.;
beauty of, in summer time,
33, 10. [5]
Borrowing and lending, 38, 41.
Boy or girl, advice to, 46, 233.
Breeding, good, what it means, 25, 27.
Bright, Mr., his speech on the adulteration of food,
37, 5;
his opinion that life inspected would not be worth having,
37, 6;
his speech analysed,
37, 7.
Britannia, as represented on a penny,
25, 6;
who is she? ib.
British, never will be slaves,
38, 31;
constitution breaking fast,
45, 199.
Broom merchant, story of, begins,
30, 5;
continued,
34, 10,
39, 59;
(concluded) the conditions of sentiment in the family relationships to be carefully noted,
39, 69 (note).
Brown, Dr., his letter, 32, 25 (note).
Bucentaur, launched for a collation, 42, 119.
Buckland, Frank, his work, 46, 229.
Builders, plague of their work near London,
29, 2;
houses, residents in, described,
29, 4.
Building and cooking, 48, 274.
Buildings, modern suburban, described, 29, 4.
Bull terrier, the author’s, 48, 276.
Burdens on poor men’s backs, clergy neither noble nor sanctified in binding, 38, 34.
Burns quoted, 40, 97 (note).
Butcher, Steam-Butcher’s-boy-Co., 29, 10.
Buzzing and whistling in Yorkshire, 28, 11.
Cab, the author’s thoughts in a, 39, 51.
Calais,
25, 17;
siege of,
25, 19.
Candles, peasants of Picardy too poor to afford, except to drip on church floors, 31, 22.
Canticle, meaning of, 35, 5.
Capital, see Labour.
Captain, of Christian war,
26, 11;
Shakespeare’s meaning of,
25, 16;
a, taking the wheel in an emergency, account of,
25, 26;
each squire should be a,
45, 205.
Carlyle, Thomas, the only man in England to whom the author [6]can look for guidance in his plan,
37, 12;
his description of a shoal of fish,
38, 27;
strange comment on his letter,
44, 186 (note).
Carol, 48, 281.
Carpaccio, his deep conviction on the subject of dragons, 26, 13.
Carpentering, advice to rely on your own boys for, 29, 9.
Carshalton, the author’s work at, 46, 229; 48, 265.
Cattle dealer, Robert Scott is a, yet a gentleman,
31, 24;
a stubbornly honest,
31, 20.
Celibacy of laity, 28, 19.
Centaur Chiron, type of Greek tutor, 25, 27.
Challenge from the author to the squires of England, 45, 194.
Channel Islands feed their own people and export provisions also, 45, 218 (note).
Character, noble, the only perfect, in Scott’s first novel, a Hanoverian Colonel,
31, 3;
heroic, the most finished in all Scott’s novels, a presbyterian milkmaid, ib.
Charity, French poem on, and translation, 37, 1, 2.
Charlemagne, alliance of, with Scottish king, 25, 13; 43, 145.
Charming, to be, first duty of a girl, 38, 43 (note).
Children, of St. George’s Company, how to be treated,
37, 10;
of mothers in mills, how taken care of by the clergymen,
38, 44 (note);
a joy and honour, and the reverse,
46, 230;
the Rachel of England weeps because they are,
46, 231.
Chillianwallah, different arrangement of letters in, 30, 20; 31, 23.
China, how to be civilized by steam at sixty pounds on the inch, 42, 136 (note).
Christianity, essence of, modern idea of, 42, 126.
Christmas fare, advice concerning, 48, 281.
Church, of England, in South Australia turned money lender, letter on,
44, 187 (note);
and state, relations of,
46, 219;
no power but benediction and protection, ib.
Cinderella, at Hengler’s,
39, 55;
reflections on,
39, 57.
Circular of Howell and James, 26, 2.
Circus, Hengler’s, 39, 55.
Civilization, what we now call,
27, 5;
principal condition of, [7]according to the Secretary of the Social Science Meeting,
42, 131.
Clarty hole, 32, 15.
Clay eaten by the Otomac Indians, 27, 19.
Clergy, dread their congregations doing anything,
25, 5;
really responsible for present state of things,
27, 13;
of the McCosh persuasion, characterised by shrinking modesty,
27, 9;
profession of,
31, 20, 23;
how many honest clergymen,
31, 20;
address to the,
48, 279.
Clergyman, south country, letter from,
25, 4;
author of novellettes,
30, 1.
Clergymen, author not prejudiced in favour of,
30, 2;
advice to young,
38, 34;
modern, often a lie rampant,
40, 95.
Clifford, Lady Anne, 38, 45 (note).
Coal mining, tastes differ about, 38, 47 (note).
Coburg, letter from, 40, 81.
Colchis, crocus, the enchanted herb of, 26, 16.
Colours, Shakspeare’s meaning of, 25, 17.
Commerce, failures in, 26, 1.
Commonness, not vulgarity,
25, 29 (note);
refer to ‘Modern Painters,’ ib.
Compassion, true meaning of, 34, 5.
Competition, great principle of, among Scott’s servants, 32, 21.
Coniston, poisoning fish at,
46, 229;
result of the author’s agricultural experiments at,
48, 265.
Constitution, British, is breaking fast, 45, 199.
Contentment, the main matter,
48, 274;
the author not contented,
48, 275.
Cookery book, penny, 27, 18.
Cooking, advice as to, 47, 259, 48, 274.
Coolness, necessary to meet even pressing need, 25, 26.
Corn land, how much is occupied in supplying means of drink, 27, 10.
Corners, sweeping into, uncommon, 30, 11.
Cornhill Magazine, quotation from the,
28, 18;
on luxury of marriage and labourers,
28, 19.
Costermonger, to be entirely abolished, 38, 26, 32. [8]
Count, of Stafford, at Calais,
25, 18;
of Suffolk, at Calais, ib.
Country, air, effect of, on Scott,
32, 11;
life in France before the Revolution,
40, 73.
Cozeners, true, what they are, 31, 20.
Credit, no gain in the long run, 26, 2.
Critics, remarks on the author’s, 41, 103.
Crocodile, the word, always terrific to the author when a child,
26, 15;
meaning of the word, ib.;
fat of, used by the Otomac Indians,
27, 19;
potted, ib.;
Manchester and Rochdale muddy and smoking streams suitable for, ib.
Crocus, St. George much interested in,
25, 28;
true story of a, written for the author by a friend,
26, 16.
Crossness Sewage Works, letter on the, 27, 22 (note).
Cuckoo clock, the author ignorant of the mechanism of, 48, 274.
Dædalus, labyrinth, 28, 4.
‘Daily News,’ the, views of, on the prices of things,
29, 2;
on ‘Fors Clavigera,’
30, 21 (note).
Darwin, and Huxley, 35, 13, 45, 202.
David, King, reflections on, 40, 87.
Degringolade, La, worth reading, though long and tiresome, 43, 153.
Demand and supply, 30, 14, 38, 32.
Derby, Lord, his new code of civilization,
29, 13;
his idea of agriculture,
45, 207.
Derivation, cannot stand astride on two languages, 30, 18.
Devastation, new ship of the line, 48, 278.
Devil, in the second part of Faust, afraid of roses,
26, 16;
clumsy at christening,
43, 146;
how the father of English squires,
45, 201;
his pet weapon,
46, 234;
not afraid of hothouse plants, mortally so of roses and crocuses,
46, 236;
his work, the six heads of,
46, 227 to 229.
Dickens, Charles, his opinion about menials,
28, 15;
as a novelist, his power over the feelings,
31, 1;
his opinion of British law,
47, 244.
Didron, his work “Iconographie Chrétienne,” 26, 13. [9]
Dinner party, advice to a lady about her, 46, 232.
Dividend not expected by M. De Laval, 40, 78 (note).
Dog and man fight, 43, 275.
Dogs Act of 1871, brainless and brutal, 40, 99 (note).
Dollar, engraving of Swiss, 34 (frontispiece).
Domestic relations, modern, satirical questions regarding, 31, 8.
Doré, his pictures, better see the devil than,
29, 11;
his paintings,
34, 9,
35, 15.
Dover, description of, in the Catechism of Kent, 27, 3.
Dragon, fight, real difficulty of, not so much to kill as to see him,
26, 4;
symbol of sins and trials innumerable,
26, 6;
marvel of the world,
26, 13;
a seeing creature,
26, 14;
representing spiritual enemies, natural habit of the Greek mind,
26, 11;
too true a creature spiritually,
26, 13;
sacred Egyptian,
26, 14;
crocodile, ib.
Dream, don’t think a thing is done as soon as you have dreamt it, 30, 9.
Dress, letter to a good girl on, 38, 43 (note).
Drink, ‘I was thirsty, and ye gave me’; as carried out by Christian Englishmen, 27, 12.
Drury lane, pantomime at,
39, 55;
reflections on it,
39, 57.
Dulwich, lovely wild roses at, formerly, 46, 236.
Earls of Guildford, worship of, 27, 5.
Economy, first question of,
29, 12;
of Government in the matter of books,
37, 19 (note).
Ecstacy, how to be had, 41, 112.
Edgeworth, Mr., Scott’s description of,
28, 17;
Miss, her morality,
38, 1;
not read as she should be,
32, 25 (note);
her tale of ‘Frank,’
43, 145;
her love-making,
47, 248.
Edinburgh, or Edwin’s Burg,
25, 13;
inhabitants of, called worse than heathen by Charlemagne,
25, 14;
houses in,
27, 12;
new town of,
31, 5,
32, 9;
arrangement for taking rent from the lower orders in,
40, 89;
houses of the poor described, ib.
Education, practical, Ecclesiastical idea of,
25, 4;
nobility of,
25, 15;
of children of St. Matthias’ school,
30, 19;
of [10]Sir Walter Scott,
31, 27;
of Scott’s mother,
33, 3;
bodily, for a girl,
33, 5;
when it begins,
33, 7;
end of all right, for a woman,
33, 17;
the highest agricultural, possible for men and women, the design of these Letters,
37, 7;
has to begin, the author’s as well as the reader’s,
47, 258.
Edward III., his quartering,
25, 11;
fighting under captainship,
25, 17;
becoming doubtful,
25, 27;
his behaviour to his prisoners after the siege of Calais,
25, 20;
his fighting, rightness of, not discussed,
25, 26;
his first interview with Alice of Salisbury,
25, 27;
rides to help Alice of Salisbury,
31, 10.
Eels, law concerning, in Florence, 38, 41.
Egbert, trained by Charles,
25, 14;
recovers the throne of the West Saxons, ib.;
first king of all England, ib.;
grandfather of Alfred, ib.
Egyptian, worship of the, 26, 14.
Eldon, Lord, anecdote of his economical dinner, 38, 37 (note).
Emerson, his bas relief of St. George,
26, 4;
his English traits, extract from, on St. George, ib.;
his true instincts of heroism,
26, 5.
England, present and future influence of,
42, 118;
how despised in America, ib.;
that it deserves little care is now fatally true, ib.;
state of, examined in a broad light,
44, 172;
official statement of the condition of, at the commencement of ‘Fors,’ by Mr. Goschen,
48, 287 (note);
Press extracts on,
48, 288, 292.
Epitaph, in ‘Punch’ on the Bishop of Winchester and Baron Bethell,
42, 125;
on the squires,
45, 194.
Evangelicals, only read the bits of the Bible they like,
35, 4;
refuse to practise Bible precepts if against their money interests, ib.;
do not understand in the least the 14th Psalm, ib.;
never read the 15th Psalm, ib.;
self worship and hell worship,
41, 105.
Exchange, definition of, by the Secretary to the Social Science Meeting,
45, 207;
mere, profits nobody,
45, 208.
Excursions to the French battle-fields, 41, 106. [11]
Facts against the author he never flinches from stating, 31, 5.
Failing, remarks on mercantile credit, 26, 1.
Fair-ladies, description of a home so called by the author, 29, 8.
Faith, by or in, substituted for “without doubting,”
25, 26;
Giotto’s picture of,
45, 213;
without works, better buried as well as dead,
45, 216.
False shame, the devil’s pet weapon, 46, 234.
Families, of St. George, to be cheerful and honest, obedient and God-fearing,
37, 9;
higher classes preferred, ib.
Famine, in the event of a national, commissariat officers to starve first,
38, 35;
in India,
40, 82.
Farm, in Switzerland or Bavaria, fifty years ago,
44, 170;
at Thun, ib.
Father, the author’s, 46, 221.
Feathers, Prince of Wales’,
28, 7;
ostrich, meaning of, ib.
Fiction, works of, supply defect of imagination in common minds, 34, 5.
Fighting, modern British, compared with that at Calais,
25, 23;
with dogs,
48, 275;
rightness of Edward III.’s, not discussed,
25, 26.
Financial art, modern, 44, 162.
Fine art, 28, 7.
Fireside, too costly,
27, 18;
not a patent stove,
31, 22.
Fish, in Florence, not to be re-sold,
38, 26;
shoals of, like shining continents,
38, 27;
trade in, described by a correspondent, ib.;
result of independent action of the fishermen,
38, 28;
big men in the conduct of,
38, 28, 30;
Columbia market a failure,
38, 31;
selling must be done by gentlemen,
38, 33;
trade, letter on the,
40, 93 (note);
to fill the waters with, a celestial work,
46, 229.
Fiske, James, canonized in America, 26, 7.
Fleur de Lys, what it is, 25, 10.
Flite, Miss, some account of, 48, 287 (note).
Florence, the laws of, to be obeyed in St. George’s Company,
37, 13,
38, 26;
art in, 600 years ago,
37, 2;
her opinion of Church and State,
46, 219;
her liberal opinions according to learned authors,
46, 220. [12]
Florin, new, examination of,
25, 9;
ancient Florentine engraving of,
25, 18.
Food, only to be got out of the ground,
30, 19;
abundance of, in the world,
38, 36;
prices of, regulate all other prices, ib.;
those who produce, the masters of those who buy,
44, 172, 181;
a certain quantity of, paid in the form of rent and taxes,
44, 173.
Fools, heaven in no sense merciful to, 42, 127.
Footstool, the author charged £5 for a, 44, 174.
Forbes, his book on glaciers, 34, 22.
Forcing, vegetables, a vile and gluttonous habit, 46, 235.
Ford and bridge, difference between, 32, 15.
Fords, give names to half the prettiest towns and villages,
32, 15;
Scottish fords, the happiest pieces of all one’s day’s walk, ib.
Fors, publication of, in future,
27, 21 (note);
the third, orders the contents of these letters,
30, 13;
price raised and frontispiece withdrawn,—reasons for this,
37, 17 (note);
must now be bought by editors and others,
38, 42;
power of the third,
40, 76 (note);
Clavigera, meaning and purpose of the word,
43, 137;
the whole gist of this book,
48, 274.
Fortune, how you may make or mar your, 43, 138.
Fournier, caution requisite in reading, 45, 210.
Fox, George, in Scotland, 31, 14.
Franc, remarks on, 43, 158 (note).
France, final resignation of, in George’s III.’s time, 25, 11.
Franchise, picture of, from the ‘Romance of the Rose,’
43, 147;
corrupted form of, from a French novel,
43, 149.
Francis, St., 41, 111.
Frankness, freedom of heart, not freedom of insolence, 43, 147.
Fraud and Taxation, views of the ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ concerning, 44, 163.
Frederick the Great, his father an evangelical divine, 40, 84.
French, girl, story of a,
29, 18;
character,
40, 84,
43, 144;
of the 12th century,
43, 152;
character described by Bismarck,
43, 144;
remarks thereon,
43, 145;
readers, advice to,
43, 151. [13]
Frenchman, to hate a, Nelson’s notion of duty, 25, 12.
Friends, the author still retains power of sympathy with his,
73, 4;
this not reciprocal, ib.
Froissart, no fault of his if you don’t enjoy the story of the siege of Calais,
25, 21;
his account of the fight and supper at Calais,
25, 22;
his account of the meeting of Edward III. and Alice of Salisbury,
31, 11.
Froude, on the influence of the Reformation on Scottish character, to be read,
40, 86;
his sketch of the life of Bishop Hugo,
43, 152.
Fruits, out of season, diabolic work, 46, 229.
Fuel-company, letter to the author from a cheap, 36, 13 (note).
Gaboriau, Emile, extracts from novels of, 43, 152.
Garden, the use of, ought to be in its vegetables, 46, 235.
Garibaldi, 40, 85.
Gasometer, heaven only a large, 41, 110.
Genesis, book of,
41, 108;
nursery tales of mightiest men, ib., 48, 145.
Gentleman, how distinguished from a churl, 41, 102.
Gentleness, meaning of, by the author, 41, 102.
Geoffrey of Chargny at Calais, account of, 25, 17, 19.
Geology, the author’s interest in, 34, 19.
Geometry, how to be taught in St. George’s School, 39, 52.
George, St., type of a Christian gentleman,
25, 28;
on a modern pound, good die cutting of,
26, 3;
on coins of George III. and George IV. compared, ib.;
by Carpaccio described,
26, 4;
Pistrucci, ib.;
modern literature respecting, as unsatisfactory as modern art, ib.;
not merely one, but a symbol of Knights innumerable,
26, 6;
the real, martyred A.D. 290,
26, 8;
the Arian bishop, killed A.D. 361, ib.;
Historie of, by Peter Heylyn, 1631, ib.;
remarks on ditto,
26, 11;
his speech to the Senate,
26, 9;
beheaded,
26, 11;
a husbandman,
26, 12;
knows field flowers,
26, 20;
fund of, list of subscriptions to,
36, 15 (note);
the company of,
37, 8;
42, 134;
45, 215;
46, 224;
48, 263. [14]
George’s Square, St., mistake about, corrected, 32, 9.
Germans, character of the,
40, 84,
43, 143;
temper of the, frightful in its naïve selfishness,
43, 143.
Giles’s, St., Church Lane, impossibility of keeping it clean, 48, 266.
Giotto,
41, 113;
his picture of the marriage of St. Francis to Poverty,
45, 213.
Girl, little, with large shoes,
37, 2;
letter to a, on dress,
38, 43 (note).
Girls, picture of some of them from ‘Daily Telegraph,’
29, 13;
2,000 apply at the Post Office for eleven places, ib.
Glaciers,
34, 17 to 26;
only one step in the knowledge of, made in forty years,
34, 19;
movement of, explained,
34, 22;
sketch of,
34, 32 (note),
35, 21 to 23;
their movements,
35, 22,
43, 158 (note);
newspaper account of the battle of the,
43, 159 (note).
Gladiatorial exhibitions, signs of declining national honour, 48, 275.
Gold, all vices summed in the simple acceptance of the authority of, 36, 6.
Goose pie, receipt for,
25, 2;
not economical, a friend thinks,
27, 17;
economy of,
35, 13,
48, 274.
Goschen, Mr., on the state of England, 48, 287 (note).
Gospel, modern, what truth and what pestilent evil is in it, 42, 126.
Gotthelf, author of the ‘Mirror of Peasants,’
30, 1;
in sympathy with Pope and Fielding, and pure as Wordsworth,
34, 10.
Grandfather, the author’s, his severe punishment of falsehood,
46, 221;
his death, ib.
Greenhouses, girls advised to have nothing to do with, 46, 235.
Grisette, modern, corruption of Franchise,
43, 148;
description of a French,
43, 149.
Grocers’ shops, magazines of petroleum, 45, 201.
Haliburton, Barbara, heraldry of her shield, 33, 13.
Handiwork shall be taught to St. George’s boys, 48, 274.
Hanwell, qualification for, how it begins, 48, 264.
Happiness, only to be got out of honesty,
30, 19;
and counter-happiness,
34, 5.
Hardiknute, 32, 12.
Heart, difference between the sins of the hot and cold, 41, 102, 42, 128.
Heaven, how grave we are, if the doctor hints we are going there,
28, 2;
only a large gasometer,
41, 110;
the teachings of, are often given in an obscure manner,
42, 126;
necessarily read wrong by blockheads,
42, 127.
Helmet, proper signification of, 25, 8.
Henry, R., Scotch clergyman and historian, 25, 13.
Heraldry of Barbara Haliburton’s shield,
33, 13;
of the Waverley novels,
47, 252.
Heritage of the squires of England, what it once was, 45, 201.
Heylyn, his translation of the history of St. George, 26, 8.
Hill, Miss Octavia, 46, 225.
History, better read none than such as the specimen by R. Henry, 25, 22.
Home, Scott’s notice of his first,
29, 6;
letter describing the break up of a real,
29, 7;
each man to live in one fit for him,
47, 256;
love of, the end of all right education for a woman,
33, 17;
the break up of the, of one of the author’s friends,
36, 14 (note).
Home-made things, advantage of, 30, 11.
Homes, railroad, 29, 6.
Honest men, and rogues, confusion of the two is the result of evangelical teaching,
35, 3;
can do little for the present,
44, 180;
advice to, ib.
Honesty, of open cattle stealing,
31, 20;
of R. Scott,
31, 21;
and roguery, difference between,
35, 3;
one punished as much as the other at present,
37, 7;
how distinguished,
41, 102.
Honour, understanding of, will be essential in the education of the children of St. George’s company,
37, 10;
to the [16]brave in modern Venice,
42, 121;
entirely desirable,
42, 121 and 125.
Hope, picture of, by Giotto, 45, 214.
Horace, the most beautiful descriptive line in, 43, 150.
Horsehair worn by English squires, 25, 8.
Host or hospitaller, a sacred function for young Christian men, 36, 5.
Hotel, Umfraville, ghastly nature of,
38, 38;
in Paris,
48, 271.
House, each man to live in one fit for him,
47, 256;
the simplest way of building,
47, 258;
advice about a suitable,
47, 256;
at Herne Hill exactly fit for the author,
47, 257.
Houses, about London, packing cases,
29, 5;
ill-aired, pestilence of, in the suburbs of London,
29, 2;
of St. George’s Co.,
37, 11.
Housemaid, would young ladies feel aggrieved at being made under-, 30, 5.
Housemaid’s broom, spear of lady members of St. George’s Co., 30, 5.
Housewife, her weekly bill doubled,
29, 10;
cause of this,
29, 11.
Howell, James, and Co., remarks on a circular from, 26, 2.
Hunter St., London, and Market St., Croydon, change in relations between, 46, 222.
Hunting and shooting, healthy animal stupidities, 37, 14 (note).
Hurry of mind, 25, 25.
Huxley, Professor,
35, 13;
thinks himself wiser than any quantity of psalmists,
35, 5.
Idiot, meaning of, 28, 18.
‘Illustrated News,’ worth of, 28, 7.
Imagination, power of, always purifies,
34, 8;
fiction supplies defect of, in common minds,
34, 5.
Index, difficulty of making, 30, 13.
Indians, Otomac, diet of the,
27, 18;
assertion by Count Bismarck that the French only copper-coloured, finely dressed,
43, 144.
Infernal things, various, described, 29, 11.
Inn, true hospitality of, still possible, 44, 170. [17]
Insanity, egotistic,
48, 268;
manual work a preventive of, ib.
Institutes, Literary, failures, 25, 15.
Interest, the power of money to accumulate value by—extract from Kellogg on,
44, 189;
principle of,
45, 209.
Inundation, Roman, extract from a letter to the ‘Daily Telegraph’ by the author on, 33, 23 (note).
Isaiah, argument about, with the sacristan at Assisi, 45, 191.
Jeremiah, quotation from, 46, 230.
Jersey, account of changes produced in, by recent trade, 30, 14.
Jews, have not all hard hearts, 30, 3.
John, St., gospel of, the author stopped by a text in, 28, 1.
Jones and Robinson, demigods, 38, 25.
Journal to be published by the St. George’s Company, 37, 10.
Judges of England, 47, 244.
Judging, all good, gratis, 31, 23.
Jury, ignorant of the meaning of mercy, 42, 127.
Justice and mercy, professional sale of, a deadly sin,
31, 24;
virtue summed in,
41, 102.
Juvenile depravity, 35, 30 (note).
Katrine, Loch, a reservoir, 27, 11.
Kensington, a few words on,
32, 27 (note);
modern art teaching at, how utterly bad,
32, 29 (note).
Kent, catechism of the county of, 27, 3.
King, Kenneth, showing shining figure to his councillors,
25, 13;
a good, useless if his officers are allowed to oppress,
40, 78;
French revolution was against a good,
40, 79;
last kings of true power,
45, 206;
whose eyes have seen the?
45, 193.
Kinghood, the end of, supposed to have come, 39, 59 (note).
Kirk, Professor, his “social politics” to be read carefully,
27, 11;
on land and liquor, ib.;
letter to the author regarding book of,
29, 23 (note).
Kitten, the author’s, 27, 8.
Knatchbull-Hugessen, his tales, 33, 12 (note).
Labour, question of, at the Social Science meeting,
28, 21 (note);
[18]greater part spent unproductively,
29, 11;
of St. George’s Company,
37, 8;
machine, letter describing,
40, 79;
hand, letter describing,
40, 80;
how best spent,
44, 180;
and capital, extract from Kellogg of New York on,
44, 188 (note);
rest from,
45, 195;
the first of the landlords, to keep hold of their lands,
45, 199;
killing and grinding,
46, 229.
Labourers, what sort of, the author writes for, 36, 3.
La Cava, forests of, 32, 13.
Ladies, advice to, 45, 215.
Lady, the first duty of a, 45, 212.
Lameness (of Scott), caused by cold and bad air, 31, 27.
Lance point, land won at the, must be held by the, 45, 206.
Land, for St. George’s company, poor preferred,
37, 8;
if marsh, how to be treated, ib.;
how, if rocky,
37, 9;
desert, to be redeemed,
44, 180;
laid up in a napkin,
45, 197.
Landlords, more or less thoughtless and ignorant,
27, 13;
to fight for their lands,
45, 199, 205.
Landscape, how the author was diverted from the study of, 45, 192.
Laocoon, story of, to the Greeks, 26, 14.
Largesse, French description of,
45, 207, 210;
and supplication, not part of the world’s work,
46, 225.
Last judgment of squires, imaginary picture of, 45, 197.
Latin, supposed properties of, for purposes of explanation, 35, 23.
Law reform, letter on,
44, 183 (note);
British modern,
47, 244.
Laws, to be obeyed in St. George’s Company to be the laws of Florence of the fourteenth century, modified,
37, 13, 38, 26;
wise, long since known and obeyed,
38, 26.
Lawyers,
31, 20, 23;
no need to speak of the honesty of,
31, 20;
advice to, at Billingsgate,
38, 35;
in parliament, advice to,
40, 100 (note);
definers of limits and modes,
47, 243.
Leader, the author does not pretend to be a, 30, 19.
Leal, the land of the, 32, 23.
Lecky, Mr., statement of his sagacious creed,
43, 155 (note);
his opinions,
48, 268. [19]
Legal, profession, exactly right condition of, explained,
31, 23;
expenses of the kingdom, query concerning,
44, 186 (note).
Legibility of character, 31, 23.
Leith, condition of the water at, 33, 2.
Lessons, by heart, meaning of,
32, 12;
first, what they are to be,
32, 13.
Letter, from a working man on literary institutes, remarks on,
25, 15;
interesting, from Manchester working man and mates,
25, 29 (note);
of Mr. Affleck, the author pleased with, ib.;
of a native and honest republican, ib.;
from a girl describing a modern Arcadia,
35, 16;
on the rice famine,
40, 83.
Letters, of the author, constant objects of,
25, 4;
to the author, from a south country clergyman, ib.;
remarks regarding,
29, 23 (note);
these, mosaic work, and more useful as they go on,
36, 3.
Liars and traitors, no legislation for,
38, 26;
no law for, but gravitation, ib.
Liberty, ultimate privileges of,
28, 19;
working man’s notion of,
42, 135;
in the modern English sense,
43, 146;
the French knew what it was before you, ib.;
its synonyms,
43, 148.
Library, of Scott, when a child,
33, 11, 15;
of the St. George’s company,
37, 10;
formation of a, a main object with the author, ib.
Life, division of, into youth, labour, and death,
32, 1, 3, 5;
entirely healthy, happy, and wise,
44, 171;
mechanical, must be as limited as possible,
44, 178.
Lilias Redgauntlet,
32, 3;
examination of,
47, 247.
Lilies, Belt of, 25, 14.
Linen, good Scots preferable to that from Glasgow mills,
32, 16;
hand-made, compared with machine-made,
40, 81;
hand-made, lasted three generations, ib.
Linlithgow, 33, 2.
Lions in heraldry, 25, 11.
Literature, modern, for children,
33, 12;
value of cheap,
38, 40. [20]
‘Liverpool Commercial News,’ folly and impudence of, 46, 239 (note).
Living in style, British public’s idea of, 38, 39.
Lockhart, not answerable for the author’s statements about Scott, 31, 4.
London, type of five-sixths of middle classes about,
29, 5;
they compare unfavourably with apes,
29, 6;
privileges and facilities in,
29, 11;
population, vile life of,
44, 174;
East and West end compared,
44, 176.
Loneliness, severity of change from, to membership of a large family, 31, 28.
Lord, de Manny, at Calais,
25, 17;
John de Montagu, at Calais,
25, 18;
Beauchamp, at Calais, ib.;
Eustace of Ribaumont at Calais,
25, 19;
John of Landas, ib.;
Gawain of Bailleul, ib.
Loss, the son of, 28, 2.
Louis, St., folly of, virtually causes the strength of France to perish, 40, 85.
Love, two kinds of noble,
34, 3;
songs,
35, 5;
decree of the court of,
35, 10;
of money, the root of all evil,
35, 21;
state or habit of, is gentleness,
41, 102;
three great loves rule the souls of men, ib.; how it ought to come, according to Shakespeare and Scott,
47, 248;
story of, in Redgauntlet,
47, 247.
Loyalty, capacity of the French people for, before the revolution, 40, 78.
Lust, state or habit of, is clownishness, 41, 102.
Lustration, popular, in Rome, 44, 162.
Luther, on the gospel of St. James, 40, 85.
Luxuries, the basest, of the idle classes, how paid for by the poor, 44, 178.
Machinery, not to be used on St. George’s land, except such as is moved by wind, water, and animal force,
37, 11;
power of,
44, 165, 171;
whatever is needful can be driven by wind or water,
44, 177.
Madness in dogs. (See Rabies.) [21]
Madonna, influence of the worship of the,
41, 104;
modern magnifying of the,
41, 106.
Magistrate, scarcely now exists, but to do evil, 44, 174 (note).
Mammon, the author never heard one preacher deal faithfully with the worship of, 36, 6.
Man, a carnivorous animal, 42, 131.
Management, necessity of docile and sensible people for, 40, 76.
Manchester, muddy and smoking streams of, suitable for crocodiles, 27, 19.
Manfred of Swabia, death of, 25, 8.
Manny, Sir Walter de, 25, 17.
Mansion, meaning of, in St. John’s gospel, 27, 2.
Marmion, quotation from, note every word of, 31, 21.
Marmontel, quotation from story by,
40, 73;
lovely and wise sentence of,
40, 76.
Marriage, a providence of God,
36, 5;
not possible in modern life on five hundred per annum,
28, 14.
Martyrs, made away with usually less for their faith than for their incivility,
26, 10;
boy and girl, the author has no respect for,
32, 27 (note).
Mary, St., you don’t care for any, 31, 7.
Masters, and servants,
28, 9;
true relations between, taught by Scott,
31, 3;
subject begins to purpose,
31, 18;
masters, only truly served if loved,
32, 22;
curious piece of lecture on the duties of,
33, 9.
Materia medica, Thomas Scott’s opinion of, to be greatly respected 31, 26.
Matthias, St., schools, 32, 26 (note).
May, first of, questions proposed on the, 30, 20.
M’Cosh, the Rev. Jas., a catechist of nature, 27, 8.
Meat and drink, how sanctified to us, 36, 4.
Mechanical population of England her certain ruin,
44, 173;
occupation invariably degrades,
44, 178.
Memmi, Simone, painting by, in Florence, 46, 220.
Mendicity society’s tickets, 39, 57.
Menial, a terrible word to the modern English mind,
28, 12;
meaning of, ib. [22]
Mercy, the real meaning of,
42, 127, 128;
not understood by a jury,
42, 127.
Michael Angelo, painter of squires, 45, 197.
Michael, St., his patronage,
35, 12;
armour of,
48, 280.
Michaelmas, henceforward only remembered for goose, 35, 13.
Mickle-mouth Meg, story of, 31, 13.
Middlemen, for sale of perishable articles, to be entirely abolished, 38, 26.
Mill, J. S., on nursing the baby,
31, 8;
result of his Essay on Liberty becoming the gospel of England,
35, 14;
labourers produced by the writings of,
36, 2.
Millowners, shrieks of the landed, 45, 200.
Mind, of the author, practical and matter of fact, 37, 3.
Minstrel, feeling of, steadily antagonistic to puritanism, 32, 17.
‘Mirror of Peasants,’
30, 1;
life of the author of the,
30, 2.
Miscreant, or misbeliever, properly applied accurately to Turks, 25, 24.
Missionary work in India, result of as a whole, 37, 18 (note).
Mob, British, its gnarled blockheadism, 37, 4.
Mona, meaning of, in St. John’s gospel,
27, 1;
possible effect of using the word,
27, 3.
Monastery of St. Bernard in Charnwood forest, 38, 47 (note).
Money, of St. George’s Company to be the ‘soldo’ of Florence,
37, 18 (note);
what to do with it, a question of increasing gravity,
44, 179;
power of, in matters of crime, letter on,
44, 184 (note);
a token of right, not a medium of exchange,
44, 173 (note);
worship,
46, 231.
Monks, why don’t people do anything wise and generous without becoming?
38, 48 (note);
silent, ib.
Montagu, Lady M. W., 42, 116.
Moral disposition of a child determined greatly in its speechless years, 33, 8.
More, Sir Thomas, 37, 13.
Morning, lovely, at Oxford, description of,
25, 24;
at Coniston, description of,
28, 9;
first bright, seen for months,
29, 1.
Mother, the author’s, 46, 221. [23]
Motto, one-tenth of a pound, not the ancient motto of England,
25, 14;
of the garter described,
25, 15;
of the Prince of Wales, remarks on,
28, 8.
Muzzling dogs, a great mistake, 40, 96 (note).
Napoleon, III., not the cause of the French war, 40, 84.
Nature with her hands behind her back, 27, 9.
Needle and thread preferable to telegraphic needle, 29, 15.
Neglect of their children by the French upper classes, an absolute source of corruption, 43, 149.
Newcastle, 29, 12.
Newspaper extracts, 37, 18 (note).
Normandy, frankness of, 43, 150.
Northfleet, wreck of the, alluded to, 29, 25 (note).
Northumberland, extent of in Charlemagne’s time,
25, 13;
letter of Lord, to Henry VIII.,
31, 9.
Notre-dame, casts brought by the author from, 41, 105.
Novels, Scott’s, are history, 32, 4.
Nugget, hardness of another walking off with a scientific, 34, 23.
Nurse, the author’s account of his,
28, 13;
Scott’s second, went mad,
32, 9.
Obedience, nature of, in the St. George’s Company,
37, 10;
can not be mentioned by the English squire,
45, 205.
Ogilvie, Hon. Mrs., account of, 33, 4, 5.
Old Mortality, Scott the, of the heart, 32, 5.
Opinions, sale of, fraudulent, 44, 165.
Ornithology, the author going to lecture on, 25, 25.
Otomac Indians, diet of, 27, 18.
Own, every man to his, meaning of the expression, 28, 1.
Oxford, art at, on what now dependent, 37, 2.
Painters and authors, no need to speak of the honesty of, 31, 20.
Painting, the witness of, unbroken, down to the last days of Venice, 26, 13.
‘Pall Mall Gazette,’ extract from the, on a month’s railway accidents, [24]
35, 26–29 (note);
extract from the, on the wealth of the world,
44, 163;
remarks thereon,
44, 164.
Pancras, St., 32, 27 (note).
Pantomime at Drury Lane,
39, 54;
compared with the real world,
39, 56.
Paper manufacture, pollutes streams, 33, 2.
Paris, behaviour of old,
29, 18;
breakfast in,
48, 271;
food fund, committee of, pleasant reading,
33, 22 (note);
walk through,
41, 105;
destruction of,
43, 143.
Park, meaning of the word,
27, 6;
pulling down railings of, ib.;
cost of,
27, 10,
28, 4;
no longer for us,
28, 4.
Parks of England, 27, 10.
Parliamentary talk, a watchman’s rattle sprung by constituencies of rascals at the sight of an honest man, 37, 7.
Parricide at Halifax, 35, 31 (note).
Passion not judged, but the want of it, 42, 128.
Pastoral life promotes song, 32, 13.
Patience, necessary for work,
25, 26;
a mother’s effect of, in education,
33, 14.
Patriotism, real, what it is, 46, 231.
Patron saints of the chief occupations of the members of St. George’s Company, 26, 13 (note).
Paul, St., why to be reverenced,
28, 3;
ascertained by German critics to be Simon Magus, ib.;
his grave,
43, 154.
Paupers, squires are able-bodied, compelling their dole, 45, 250.
Pavement, ideally clean street, 48, 266.
Payment over the counter, in all wise commerce, 26, 2.
Peasant, difference between English and Swiss, 39, 62 (note).
Peebles, story of Peter,
47, 251, 252;
compared with Miss Flite,
47, 253.
Penny, shilling, and pound, the British Bible,
25, 6;
description of a, ib.
Pepin de Werre, at Calais, 25, 18.
Pepper’s ghost, 29, 5.
Perseverance of the author’s mother, consequence of, 33, 15.
Peter Mathieson, old dignified coachman,
32, 20;
turned ploughman,
32, 21. [25]
Phalanthus of Sparta, allusion to, 25, 8.
Physical science, advantage of, to boys and girls, 48, 274.
Physicians, dishonesty of, 31, 20.
Piper, Highland, feeling of, steadily antagonistic to puritanism, 32, 17.
Place, every one to find his own, 28, 2.
Plan, the author’s, in this book, 36, 2, 37, 13, 43, 142.
Plato, quotation from the republic of, 37, 14.
Play, how was it Scott could not write a? 33, 20.
Plumes, what they are the symbol of, 28, 7.
Poetry, dramatic, lyric, and epic, 34, 6.
Political economy and the Peace Society can neither grant nor protect land, 45, 199.
Pontine marshes, a symbol of diabolic work, 46, 228.
Positive philosophy, 37, 4.
Post-office, eleven vacancies for girls at the, applied for by 2000, 29, 13.
Pound, (the coin,) put it on the table and let us examine it,
26, 3;
(the prison,) chosen in preference to park,
28, 4.
Poverty, of the country through the enriching of a few,
27, 17;
Giotto’s picture of the marriage of, to St. Francis,
45, 213.
Power of writing and spelling correctly, how acquired by the author, 33, 14.
Prayer, to take away hardness of heart from all Jews, etc., an absurd one,
30, 3;
for Jews, etc., the author’s form of, for himself, ib.;
is not work,
46, 225;
Duke of Argyll on, ib.
Preaching, to be good, must be gratis, 31, 23.
Press, writers for the public, really answerable for the present state of things,
27, 13;
for thirty years steadily opposed to good work of the author, ib.;
opinion of the British, on Fors Clavigera,
46, 239 (note);
folly and impudence of the, ib.;
remarks theron, ib.
Presumption of pointing out all the ways of governing the universe, M’Cosh on the, 27, 9.
Price, the author’s first, always the lowest,
37, 17 (note);
regulation of,
38, 31;
now regulated by rascals,
38, 32. [26]
Prices, regulation of,
38, 35;
of this book,
38, 39.
Pride, Scott’s strongest passion nobly set, 32, 18.
Princess, dream of the, picture of, 40, 93 (note).
Print shops can be only looked into at the expense of modesty, 29, 11.
Profession, every gentlemanly, except digging, has a taint of dishonesty in it, 31, 20.
Property, private right of,
28, 17;
letter on the increased conviction of the sanctity of,
44, 183 (note).
Provident, people in good position so, 28, 14.
Psalm-singing squire,
35, 5;
his lovely love-poems,
35, 6, 7.
Psalmody, modern Scottish, discordant, 32, 17.
Psalms, book of, very precious,
35, 4;
the fourteenth and fifteenth examined,
36, 7;
the author unable to account for the sentence, “There were they in great fear,” etc.,
36, 8;
of England,
42, 132.
Public, reluctance of the British, to trust an honest person, 36, 2.
Punch, epitaph on the Bishop of Winchester and Baron Bethell in, 42, 125.
Punishment, capital, only opposed by rogues and their abettors, 35, 3; 14.
Puppy, glossy headed, to sell fish eventually, 34, 33.
Puritanism, influence of, on Scott’s mental life,
32, 17;
one of the last remains of noble and sincere, among men of sound learning,
33, 7.
Purity, Shakespeare’s meaning of, 25, 16.
Quakers, influence of, on Scott’s ancestors, 31, 14.
Questions, on Shakespeare answered,
25, 17;
pressing, for England and France,
43, 153.
Rabies, canine, letter concerning, 40, 95.
Race, few now left of the old, 48, 269.
Rachel of England, 46, 231.
Raeburn, Sir Henry, dining with Lord Eldon, 38, 37 (note).
Railings, pulling down park, a significant business, 27, 6. [27]
Railroad dividends, letter on, 47, 261 (note).
Railways,
35, 6, 26–30 (note);
“blamed for blood,”
35, 7;
an infernal means of locomotion,
44, 166.
Rainbow, all the colours of the, are essentially secondary, 42, 115.
Rational, what is now called, 48, 264.
Readers, evangelical, compared to hedgehogs, 35, 4 (note).
Reading, how to make young ladies fond of, 33, 4.
‘Record,’ newspaper, 46, 241 (note).
Redgauntlet, novel of,
29, 8;
Sir Walter Scott’s own biography,
31, 16;
the story of,
47, 247;
epitome of,
47, 248.
Refined personages not easy in their minds, 28, 10.
Refinement to be enforced in St. George’s Company, 48, 272.
Reign of law, or a spirit of mercy and truth, 42, 130.
Religion, frantic hatred of, by French republican mind,
43, 153;
essential meaning of,
45, 204.
Religious egotism, Scott’s inevitable perception of, 33, 6.
Remedy, for the present state of affairs, proposed in a letter to the author, 43, 157 (note).
Rent, of St. George to be paid in tithes of produce,
37, 9;
capital and interest all to be attacked at once,
43, 142;
paid in food,
44, 173;
how to be fixed,
45, 203;
ought to be diminished in proportion to the improvement of land, ib.
Republican, list of questions put to the author by a,
25, 30 (note);
answer to ditto, ib.;
characteristic letter from a,
29, 25–28 (note);
pantomime unknown,
39, 58.
Republicanism, letter characteristic of the genius of, 29, 25–28 (note).
Reserved subtlety of Scott’s teaching like Nature’s own, 31, 2.
Responsibility and free will, the author settled these questions for himself long ago, 37, 3.
Rest on the seventh day and work on the six, 46, 225.
Revolution, French,
29, 16,
40, 79;
and massacre the result of our present policy,
44, 172.
Riband, blue, worn by the Queen, fastened by Alice of Salisbury, 31, 11.
Ribaumont, Lord Eustace de, 25, 19. [28]
Rich, English people not, 27, 17.
Rivers, Scottish, condition of, 33, 2 (note).
Road, an old English, 35, 6.
Roast beef, no more, 27, 17.
Robert Henry, his polished account of the Supper at Calais, 25, 22.
Robinson Crusoe, advice to imitate, 47, 258.
Rogue, what distinguishes him from an honest man, 41, 102.
Rome, modern buildings in, 44, 162.
Rope, superiority of hand-made over machine-made, 46, 242 (note).
Rose, Romance of the,
34, 3,
43, 147;
bestrewn path in the Basilica, filthy state of,
44, 161.
Roses, the devil afraid of,
26, 15;
wild, not cultivated,
46, 236;
sad story of poor girl’s asking for,
46, 237.
Ruffianism, quotation from ‘Morning Post’ on, 34, 27 (note).
Rugby, travellers’ repose at, 28, 8.
Ruin, the only remedy now possible, 29, 25 (note).
Rutherford, Dr., accustomed to pray for his patients, 33, 6.
Sadness of the past promotes song, 32, 14.
Saint (see separate names); evangelical notion of, 27, 6.
Saints, those the St. George’s Company will be bound to reverence, 26, 12, 27, 5.
St. George. (See George.)
St. George’s Square, mistake about, corrected, 32, 9.
Salmon, servants at Perth objected to too much, 38, 32 (note).
Sandy-Knowe, 32, 9.
Sanitary condition of Scotherne, 27, 23 (note).
‘Saturday Review’ on the author’s sentimentality, 42, 130.
Scandal at Bath Pump Room, 33, 18.
‘School for Scandal,’ in reference to Dr. Tyndall’s sweet speeches, 43, 160 (note).
Schoolmistress, profession of, respectable, 33, 5.
Science, general, corrupted and retarded by jealousy,
34, 25;
in St. George’s schools to be practically taught,
39, 52.
Scotherne, sanitary condition of the village of, 27, 23 (note). [29]
Scotland, pre-eminently a singing country, 32, 13.
Scott, Sir Walter, on poor law,
27, 14;
on tippling houses,
27, 15;
on the gambling nature of business generally,
27, 17;
on the beatitude and virtues of masterhood,
28, 16;
description of his first country house,
29, 7;
portrait of, frontispiece to 31;
made romance ridiculous,
31, 1;
the good his works could do,
31, 2;
his one weakness, ib.;
compared with Dante and Virgil, ib.;
life of, begins,
31, 4;
his temper, ib.;
his monument a vulgar gothic steeple, ib.;
the unhealthiness of his birthplace,
31, 5;
his ancestors, ib., also 12, 14, 16;
his notes and private letters, caution to be observed when reading,
31, 17;
his ancestors,
31, 24;
his aunt Janet,
31, 26;
divisions of his life,
32, 1, 3, 5;
his loving thought of his dogs on parting,
32, 3;
reflections on his life,
32, 2;
epitome of his youth,
32, 5;
his childhood,
32, 7–12;
his pride,
32, 18;
his sorrow for his servants,
32, 20;
Sir Walter, commonly read,
32, 25 (note);
life of, too interesting to readers,
33, 1;
his mother,
33, 3;
his grandmother,
33, 8–10;
his aunt,
33, 8–13;
his library,
33, 11, 15;
Janet, aunt of Sir Walter,
33, 13, 16;
goes to the play,
33, 19;
his work always epic,
34, 7;
dramatic work contrary to his nature, ib.;
classed with Pindar, Homer, Virgil, and Dante,
34, 8;
his character-portraits,
34, 10;
his mode of travelling,
44, 167;
the chief charm of his prose works, what, and how obtained,
44, 168;
his opinion of British law,
47, 244;
his legal characters,
47, 247.
Scott’s land, limits of, fixed by the author, 29, 7.
Scottish streams, the beauty of the sound of, 32, 14.
Sculpture, effect of, on Scott when a child,
33, 18;
power of religious, meant to terrify,
33, 19;
grand knots in the beams answering all the purposes of,
46, 223.
Seaside hotel, old and new, 38, 38.
Seasons, proper observation of, a celestial work, 46, 228.
Secret, the utter and inmost, of the squire’s behaviour 45, 206.
Selborne, history of, alluded to on the Crocus, 26, 16. [30]
Sentiment, ancient, compared with modern common sense,
33, 1;
of the dark ages,
34, 3;
its real nature,
34, 5;
Sir C. Adderley on,
34, 4;
purity of, distinguishes a gentle from a churlish mind,
41, 102.
Serfs, who are, 28, 11.
Sermons, the author’s experience of, for thirty years, 36, 6.
Servants, Scott’s, their love for him,
32, 20;
sometimes masters,
32, 21 (see Masters);
character of the old school of, at the hotel Meurice,
48, 271;
German, ib.
Service to death may be recovered,
32, 22;
broken by the sin of your masters, ib.
Shakespeare, remarks on shilling copy of,
25, 15;
Chaucer and Fielding, remarks on,
34, 9;
and Scott,
47, 250.
Sheep, Scott’s knowledge of individual,
32, 11;
difficulty of knowing each one in a large flock,
32, 12.
Shield, Barbara Haliburton’s, 33, 13.
Shillings, the author’s delight in lion, 34, 12 (note).
Shirley, beauty of the village of,
29, 3;
now covered with houses built of rotten brick, ib.
Shooting and tormenting beasts, 46, 229.
Sidney, Sir Philip,
35, 1;
his wound,
35, 11;
his dying charge to his brother, ib.;
his kind act to a soldier, ib., and
36, 5;
his death,
35, 12;
all England went into mourning for, ib.
Simplicity without coarseness, possible and natural, under laws of St. George’s Company, 37, 12.
Sins of the hot and cold heart, 42, 128.
Sire of Cresques, the, at Calais, 25, 19.
Sir Walter Scott’s land, limits of, fixed by the author, 29, 7.
Sixty pounds on the square inch, power of steam at, 41, 110.
Sky still blue in London in the early morning, 41, 101.
Slaves, those employed in mechanical labour are,
44, 172, 178;
to society,
46, 231.
Smith and carpenter in St. George’s Company, what work permitted, 37, 11.
Smoke and filth not to be lived in, 44, 178.
Social Science meeting, author’s address on the labour question [31]at,
28, 23 (note);
secretary of, on civilization—the vilest sentence in literature,
42, 131.
Soldier, French, and his bride, story of, 29, 19.
Soldier’s life passing into shepherd’s promotes song, 32, 14.
Song, its connexion with industry and human love,
32, 17;
in border land of Scotland, reasons for,
32, 13;
love-song, by Sir Philip Sidney,
35, 5–9.
Soul, what does Shakespeare mean by a pure? 25, 16.
Sound of Scottish streams, the beauty of, promotes song, 32, 14.
Sour plums in Galashiels,
31, 26,
32, 26 (note);
origin of the song and tune,
33, 10.
‘Spectator,’ its meaning of ‘high aims,’
27, 14;
on agriculture,
45, 218;
quotation from the, on the author,
46, 238.
Spelling, difficulty of, with many girls,
33, 4;
cannot be learned late, ib.
Spinning-wheel, ancient use of,
32, 16,
40, 80;
at Coburg,
40, 81.
Spurs, dish of two, 31, 9.
Squire, means a rider,
35, 6;
the root of the present evil his crime,
44, 173;
his usual action, ib.;
strict scrutiny will be made as to the use of every instant of his time,
45, 196;
the vicegerent of Christ his Captain,
45, 205;
an able-bodied pauper compelling his dole, ib.;
how he gets into parliament now, ib.
Squires of England, the author’s challenge to the,
46, 194;
will have to fight for their lands,
45, 199;
heritage, what it once was,
45, 201;
first duty of,
45, 203;
second ditto,
45, 204.
Squirrel at Coniston, sad story of a, 48, 277.
Squirrel cage, London a vast, 44, 175.
State, power of death alone possessed by the, 46, 219.
Station in life, frantic fear of people falling below, 30, 4.
Statuary, superstitious terror of, in Scott when a child, 33, 18.
Steam at sixty pounds to the square inch,
41, 110;
letter from China on,
42, 136.
Stephen, Mr. Leslie, among the Alps, 48, 271.
Stephen, St., 48, 277.
Story of the Broom merchant. (See Broom.) [32]
Stoves, patent, instead of fires,
27, 17;
difference of effect between,
31, 22.
Stowe, Mrs. Beecher, 28, 19.
Streams, sound of,
32, 14;
geological reasons for music of,
32, 14;
Italian,
33, 23 (note);
Scottish, present condition of,
33, 2;
the first thing a king has to do is to manage them,
33, 23;
at Seven Bridge Road at Oxford,
38, 35.
Streets of London, 39, 53.
Strikes, no thought of, among Scott’s servants, 32, 21.
Strutting, Emerson quoted on, and remarks, 26, 5.
Subscriptions to St. George’s fund, list of, 48, 293 (note).
Sugar tongs and modern refinements, 48, 272.
Suisse, the Superbe, and his bear, frontispiece to 34.
Sun, worship of the,
45, 193;
Turner, a sun worshipper, ib.
Sunday,
39, 55;
remarks on, in a letter to the author,
29, 9;
keeping of,
40, 89.
Sunshine at six o’clock on an October morning, a mistake, 32, 26 (note).
Supply and demand,
38, 32;
operation of the law of, in Jersey,
30, 14;
not consulted by Scott’s servants,
32, 21.
Swindler, probable consequences if the author had been a, 36, 1.
Swiss, life fast passing away,
34, 17;
snows fast passing away, ib.
Sympathy with the author, letter of, 48, 283 (note).
Tale-tellers, the four great modern, had all the best intentions,
31, 1;
difficult to know what good they did,
31, 1, 2.
Taormina, theatre of, 48, 275.
Taxation,
44, 163, 178;
and theft defended by popular journalists,
44, 163.
Taxes, oppressive nature of French,
40, 76;
in England, ib.;
receiver of, in France, his perquisites,
40, 77.
Teaching, of nature, reserved subtlety of,
31, 2;
of heaven often ironical and obscure,
42, 126;
theological and political art, the most complete example of,
46, 220.
Tea shop, the author’s,
48, 266;
his difficulty about a sign for the,
48, 267. [33]
‘Telegraph’ newspaper, extract from, describing murder by kicking,
25, 23;
working men called hard names by, ib.;
‘The Daily,’
27, 13;
extracts from, on Paris food fund,
33, 22 (note);
extract from, on Roman inundation,
33, 23 (note).
Telegraph wire won’t feed people, 29, 15.
Temper, a noble, better for having its own way,
31, 28;
rational,
48, 264.
Temperance man, the author not a, 27, 10.
Tenants of St. George’s Company,
37, 9;
on what terms they obtain leases,
37, 11.
Thackeray compared to a meat fly, 31, 1.
Thatch, tiles substituted for, in Picardy, 31, 22.
Theatre, Scott’s first visit to a, 33, 19.
Theseus, 28, 5, and frontispiece.
Thick skin, and a good digestion, the advantage of a, 48, 270.
Thieving, open, has no dishonesty in it, 31, 8, 20.
Thing, a bad, will pay if put properly before the public, 36, 2.
Thistle and rue, must learn their story, 25, 13.
Thomas, St., the author’s sympathy for, 27, 2.
Thought, power of, how formed in a child, 33, 8.
Thoughtlessness, the chief calamity of the day, 48, 277.
Thoughts of a great man, the, not got at at once, 47, 246.
Thun, scene in a farmhouse near, 44, 170.
Tichborne claimant, cost of the trial of the, 44, 187 (note).
Tien Tsin, massacre of, described by the ‘Spectator,’ 37, 24 (note).
‘Times, The,’ conquest honoured by, as private enterprise, 42, 122.
Tintoret, his convictions on the subject of the dragon, 26, 13.
Tongues, decent men and women ought to use their, 38, 48 (note).
Townspeople, wretched, 30, 12 (note).
Trade, true and beneficent, what it is,
29, 12;
dress bought for the good of, to be immediately burned,
38, 44 (note);
principles of,
45, 209.
Tradespeople, demoralization of, 44, 174. [34]
Tramways, 29, 11.
Travelling in olden times compared with new, 44, 167.
Treasure of Charlemagne, 25, 14.
Trout, the author’s, at Carshalton, 46, 229.
Trust, get your customers’, not to enable you to cheat them, 30, 8 (note).
Truth, the author only states what he knows to be incontrovertibly, 43, 138.
Tuilleries, the burning of the, confused the author’s plans, 43, 142.
Turk, the author would enforce a passage of the Koran on a faithful, 30, 3.
Turner darkening his picture, author’s story of, disbelieved,
26, 6;
a sun worshipper,
45, 193.
Tweed, river, what it was to Scott, 32, 15.
Tyndall, Professor, on the regelation of ice,
33, 11;
his recent work on glaciers,
34, 18;
degree of ignorance to which he has reduced the general scientific public,
35, 22;
his sweet speeches,
43, 160 (note).
Ulverstone, railway travelling at, described, 44, 167.
Usury, 43, 155 (note), 44, 179.
Utopian topics objected to in the author’s art lectures, 42, 117.
Venice, called ‘pleasant’ by Shakespeare—remarks thereon,
25, 16;
witness of painting in,
26, 13;
result of her trading in pleasure,
42, 119;
sea canals of,
46, 228.
Verona, chant of girls at,
32, 16;
no one cares for now,
42, 117.
Veterinarian, opinion of an eminent London, on rabies, 40, 96 (note).
Victor Carpaccio, his opinion of St. George,
26, 3;
how he painted him,
26, 13.
Virtue, the world exists only by the strength of silent,
40, 74;
summed by the author as gentleness and justice,
41, 102.
Voltaire, Henriade of,
34, 7;
destitute of imaginative power,
34, 8;
Candide of, ib. [35]
Vote for parliament, author never did and never means to, 29, 27 (note).
Wages of Sir W. Scott’s servants not determined by competition, 32, 21.
Walls, strength of old, 41, 110.
Wandering Willie, 32, 17, 26 (note).
War, what it really means,
37, 19 (note);
select committee on, proposed by ‘Daily Telegraph,’
37, 19 (note);
French,
40, 83.
War horn, border, found by Scott, 44, 168.
Wars, how paid for, 44, 178.
Washstand in the cell at Assisi, 46, 223.
Water, states of, on the Alps, 34, 26.
Waverley novels, heraldic delineations of the, 47, 252.
Wealth, substantial, of what it consists,
37, 8;
of the world infinitely great, according to the ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’
44, 163;
remarks thereon,
44, 165.
Wheatstone’s invention won’t feed people, 29, 15.
Whistling, and buzzing,
32, 22;
natural and steam,
33, 2;
at Venice,
42, 119.
Whitebait, 46, 229.
Wife, not an expensive luxury,
39, 71;
wifely quality, final definition of proper, ib.;
position of, in liberal modern life,
31, 8.
Wigan and Preston, labyrinths to be seen at, 28, 5.
Wilson, Alison, in ‘Old Mortality,’ 32, 10.
Windsor, St. George’s Chapel at, 31, 11.
Wine, price of in Italy, why increased, 44, 163.
‘Without doubting,’ meaning of the expression, 25, 26.
Womanhood, reverence for, inculcated, 41, 104.
Women, picture of, as qualified aspirants by the ‘Telegraph,’
29, 13, 14;
rights of,
29, 15;
influence of the possession or want of beauty upon,
31, 14;
what is true work for,
34, 29 (note).
Woodstock, labyrinth at,
31, 11;
novel of,
32, 3.
Woolwich infant, 45, 200. [36]
Word of God, the Bible so called,
35, 4;
evangelical notion of, ib.;
the real meaning of,
36, 3;
to call a collection of books the, a grave heresy, ib.
Workers, and idlers, relations between,
28, 9;
generally have more control over their appetites than idlers,
29, 24 (note).
Working, man, taught for fifty years that one man is as good as another,
29, 24 (note);
woman, letter from a,
34, 29 (note),
40, 79.
Work,
29, 12;
good and bad,
46, 224, 229;
good, modern notion of,
46, 224;
model for,
46, 226;
God’s on six days, described, ib.;
the first piece a man has to do,
47, 256;
manual, the only defence against madness,
48, 268, 270;
“works do follow them, their,”
44, 177;
meaning of the text,
46, 195;
of darkness,
48, 279.
World, the, discussed, 40, 74.
Worship of money, 46, 231.
Wrath, and doubting, 25, 27.
Young ladies, letter addressed to, 30, 2.
