French Revolution, 212, 218.
=Frontiers, Ancient and Modern=, 291-327.
Demarcation of frontiers a modern development, 291.
Interest of the subject to England, 293.
Mr. Baddeley's work on the Caucasus, 294.
Description of the Caucasus, 295.
The Russian advance, 296.
Yermoloff and his policy, 298.
Its failure for the time, and his recall, 301.
Rise of Muridism, 302.
Shamil succeeds Kazi Mullah, 303.
Capture of Akhlongo, 306.
Repulse of Vorontzoff at Dargo; 307.
and at Ghergebil, 310.
Shamil ransoms his son, 312.
Surrenders at Gooneeb (1857), 313.
Effect on Asiatic politics, 315.
Russian policy compared with British in Afghanistan, 316.
Dr. Pennell on the Afghans, 319.
Ghazis, blood feuds, 321.
Dr. Pennell on missions, 326.
Frontiers, not strictly demarcated in the East, 413.
Froude, J. A., quoted, 74.
His methods as a historian, 382.
Gambetta votes for war with Prussia, 359.
Garibaldi, 273.
Gaskell, Mrs., 26.
_Gesta Romanorum_, 2.
_Gil Blas_, 19, 204.
Gladstone, W. E., 229.
Godwin, William:
As recipient of good letters, 46.
His tragedy, _Antonio_, 46.
Carlyle's description, 64.
A peaceful anarchist, 234.
Goethe, 78, 182.
Gordon, Lindsay, 32.
_Grand Cyrus_, 96.
Gray, Thomas, 37, 50.
Greek Church, 433.
Comparison with Rome, 409.
Hemans, Mrs., 265.
Herodotus, 160, 379.
=Heroic Poetry=, 155-176.
Definition, 155.
Professor Ker's _Epic and Romance_, 156.
Early bards and chroniclers, 157.
Their work based on fact, 158, 164.
The hero and the heroic poet, 159.
Icelandic Sagas, and Afghan songs, 163.
Homer, 165.
Position of women in Homeric poetry, 166.
The heroic style in the Old Testament, 167.
Romantic poetry of England, _Morte d Arthur_ and ballads, 169.
Sir Walter Scott, 171.
Limitations of heroic poetry, 172.
Its decline, unfavourable influences of both the romantic and the
realistic spirit, 174.
Hindu, meaning of, 419.
Hinduism, not a missionary religion, 400.
Never established by the State, 447.
Historical romance brought to perfection in nineteenth century, 96.
=History, Remarks on the Reading of=, 377-398.
Almost all real history written in some European language, 377.
History, formerly an art, becoming a science, 379.
Macaulay, Froude, and Carlyle as historical artists, 382.
The scientific method, possible drawbacks, 384.
Limitation and subdivision necessary, 386.
Short abstracts, their use and abuse, 388.
Motives for studying history, 390.
Our knowledge imperfect, and our predictions fallible, 392.
Lord Acton's advice and principles, 394.
Hobbes, Thomas, 243, 273.
Followed by Bentham, 221.
Quoted, 319, 413, 441.
Hogarth, William, 99.
Hookham Frere, 204.
Hugo, Victor, 187, 300.
Swinburne's admiration, 265, 282, 287.
Hume, 215, 216.
Influence on Bentham, 222;
on Mill, 244, 254.
Quoted, 224.
Humphry Ward, Mrs., example of her descriptive method, 27.
Hutcheson, 217.
Iliad, 174.
Impressionist school in fiction, 33.
Inchbald, Mrs., quoted, 46.
India, Mill's history of, 225.
Importance of frontier questions, 293.
Indian Empire:
Resemblance to Roman, 420.
Comparison with Russian, 424.
See also 'Race and Religion,' and 'The State in Relation to Religion.'
Irish characters, Thackeray's partiality for, 109.
Islam:
Its militant policy, 400, 413.
Spread of, 432.
In India, 446.
Importance to Turkey of Sultan's position in, 449.
James, G. P. R., 32.
Jeffrey, Thomas, 186, 199.
Jehu's story, 382.
_John Inglesant_, 18, 106.
Johnson, Samuel, 120.
Jones, Paul, 113.
Jowett, Benjamin, quoted, 55, 57.
Kaffir, origin of the name, 415.
Keats, John, 185, 199.
See also 'Letter-writing.'
Kemble, Fanny, FitzGerald's letters to, 68.
Ker's _Epic and Romance_, 156, 164, 168.
_Kidnapped_, direct narration in, 18.
Kingsley, Charles, 8.
Quoted, 278.
Kipling, Rudyard, 32, 149, 174.
Klugenau, Russian General, 305.
Lamartine, 187.
Lamb, Charles, 47.
Quoted, 48, 56.
Lansdowne, Lord, 228.
Laotze, 438.
Le Boeuf, Marshal, 334, 347, 351, 358.
Lecky, W. E. H., on American Loyalists, 105.
Comparison with Walpole, 376.
=L'Empire Liberal=, 328-367.
Constitutional reforms and character of Napoleon III., 330.
Ollivier's difficult position as chief minister, 331.
Crown of Spain accepted by Leopold, 332.
Effect in France, warning to Prussia, 333-336.
Benedetti's interview at Ems, 337.
Leopold's compulsory renunciation, 338.
Incautious action of Ollivier, 339;
and of Gramont, 341.
Assurances demanded from Prussia, 344.
Ollivier meditates resignation, 345.
Benedetti at Ems, 348.
'Le Soufflet de Bismarck,' 350.
Declaration of war, 352.
Thiers' opposition, Ollivier's defence, 353, 354.
French enthusiasm, 358.
Reception of declaration by Bismarck; 360;
and by the Reichstag, 361.
Bismarck's real responsibility, 362.
Ollivier's acts and motives examined, 365.
=Letter-writing (English) in the Nineteenth Century=, 34-75.
Conditions of fine letter-writing, 34.
Affinities with the diary and the essay, 36.
Poets as good letter-writers, 37.
Value of letters for biographical and other purposes, 38.
Earlier writers--Keats, Scott, Southey, Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth,
Shelley, Lamb, 39-47.
Lord Morley's canon, 50.
Later writers and their difficulties, 52.
Dean Stanley's letters, 53.
Matthew Arnold's, 57.
Thomas Carlyle's, 63.
Edward Fitzgerald's, 66.
R. L. Stevenson's, 70.
Lever, Charles, 8, 92.
Liverpool, Lord, 66, 229, 230.
Lucretius, 271.
Macaulay, T. B., 61, 206.
On Byron, 184, 191.
His rejoinder to James Mill, 227.
Influence on Walpole, 371.
Ranke's criticism, 383.
Machiavelli:
On judging by results, 329.
On standing neutral in war, 331.
Mackintosh, as typical Whig, 228.
Maine, Sir H., on 'Sovereignty,' 412.
Malthus, T., 234, 236.
Manning, Cardinal, 53, 74.
Marbot, success of his Memoirs, 13, 16.
_Marcella_, quoted, 27.
Marlborough, Thackeray's description of, 103.
Marryat, Captain, 8.
_Master of Ballantrae_, direct narration in, 18.
Maurice, 256.
Mayor's _English Metres_, 286.
Mazzini, 273.
Quoted, 184.
Memoirs and fiction, 13.
_Memorials of Coleorton_, 42.
Meredith, George, 264.