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INDEX 



Catholicism, 125. 

 Cats, 176. 



Chateaubriand, 93. 

 Cherbullez, Victor, 188. 

 Chickadee (Porus atricapil- 



lus\ 173. 

 Cicero, quotations from, 240, 



241. 



Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 119. 



Collins, Wilkie, 8. 



Conversations with Goefhe,225. 



Cowley, Abraham, his essays, 

 220. 



Criticism, the scope, aims, and 

 functions of, 80-84: vital 

 truth the important thing in, 

 84; personality and impres- 

 sionism in, 86-89 ; inspiration 

 more important than Judg- 

 ment in, 89-92; diversity of 

 critical judgments, 92-95 ; the 

 Inner self of the critic a ne- 

 eessary element in, 95, 96 ; 



i Importance of the power of 

 expression In, 96-98 ; relativ- 

 ity of truth in, 98-100; sub- 

 jective and objective, 100- 

 104; individual taste in, 104, 

 105; catholicity in, 105-108; 

 democratic and aristocratic, 

 109-115 ; good and bad taste 

 in, 116-118; the doctrinaire 

 in, 118-126 ; the most produc- 

 tive attitude in, 127-132 ; pro- 

 fessional, 127, 128, 130 ; predi- 

 lection in, 132 ; antipathy in, 

 132, 133. 



Cuckoo, European, 176, 178. 



Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., his 

 Two Tears Before the Mast, 

 3, 226, 227. 



Dante, 209. 



Darwin, Charles, 211. 



Defoe, Daniel, 3, 



Democracy, in literature, 109- 

 115 ; modern growth of, 161, 

 152; its effect upon litera- 

 ture, 152-156. 



Demnocratix Critieism, 109. 



Demosthenes, 162. 



De Quincey, Thomas, 78, 163 ; 

 his Philosophy of Roman 

 History, 163 ; 210 ; quotation 

 from, 163, 164. 



Dickens, Charles, 5, 7 ; his Tale 

 of Two Cities, 225, 226; a 



matchless mimicwith nodeep 



seriousness, 226, 226. 

 Didacticism, 142. 

 Distinction, 113-116. 

 Dowden, Edward, 124. 

 Dryden, John, 92. 



Earthworm, Gilbert White's 

 observations on, 178. 



Eckermann, Johann Peter, his 

 Conversations with Ooethe, 

 225. 



Elioti George, 6, 119, 121. 



Eloquence, its relation to poe- 

 try, 161-167. 



Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1, 19, 

 24, 27, 28; on individuality, 

 63, 54 ; 59, 76, 78, 105, 106, 119 i 



as a poet, 122 ; as a critic, 122, 

 123; 124, 132, 136 ; his Katuire, 

 164; an example of poetic 

 prose from, 164 ; 181, 182, 184 ; 

 his appeal chiefly to youth 

 and early manhood, 191; 

 never ceased to be a clergy- 

 man, 192; no prosaic side, 

 192 ; his sympathy for ideas 

 rather than for men or 

 things, 193, 194; his inborn 

 radicalism, 194, 195; ab- 

 stract in his aim and con- 

 crete in his methods. 196; 

 his suggestiveness, 205 ; 223, 

 22B-230, 237; his attitude 

 toward the past, 238 ; quotas 

 tions from, 24, 53, 54, 59, 164, 

 193-195. 



English poetry, 165. 



English writers, 7, 63. 



Evans, Mary Ann (George 

 EUot), 6, 119, 121. 



Everett, Edward, 5. 



Family tree, the, 47, 48. 



Fashions, 2. 



Ferguson, Charles, his Rai- 

 gion of Democracy, quota- 

 tions from, 210, 211. 



Fern-owl, 175. 



Fiction, values in, 6, 7 ; a finer 

 but not a greater art to-day 

 than formerly, 60, 61. 



Fieldfare, 174. 



Flaubert, Gustave, 19. 



France, Anatole, 112. 



Franklin, Benjamin, his Auto- 

 hiography, 226. 



