Acton, Lord:
On causes of Franco-German War, 346.
Quoted, 362 (footnote), 386, 396, 398.
Advice to writers of history, 384, 394.
Also 370, 374, 375, 387.
Addison's _Blenheim_ criticised in _Esmond_, 101.
Adventure, see Novels of.
Adventures of Moreau de Jonnes, 16.
Popularity of, in short stories, 31.
Afghan:
Blood feuds, border forays, etc., 163, 164.
War, 163, 318.
Songs, 168.
Frontier and frontier policy, 319, 324.
Character, 320.
Afghanistan:
Barrier to Russian advance in Asia, 316.
British policy towards, compared with Russian policy in Caucasus, 317.
Is acquiring a territorial connotation, 416.
Eastern bulwark of Islam, 417, 449.
Akhlongo, siege of, 305.
Althorp, Lord, 64.
Armenians, their position and misfortunes, 414.
Arnold, Matthew:
Lord Morley's article on his letters, 50.
His letters reviewed, 57.
Quoted, 58, 59, 60, 61,177, 257.
Praised and criticised by Swinburne, 282, 287.
Also 126, 183, 207, 266, 281.
Asia and foreign dynasties, 417.
Asoka, 436.
Austen, Jane, as novelist of manners, 21, 24.
Austria-Hungary, intermixture of races and religions in, 403.
Balfour, Arthur James, _Foundations of Belief_, 250.
Balkans, policy of the Turks in the, 407.
Balzac, 94.
Bariatinsky, 314.
Beauchamp and the Utilitarian rejection of theology, 255.
Behn, Mrs. Aphra, 2.
Benedetti, 332, etc.