bility, 247;
with Hayes at Harvard commencement, 251;
and civil service reform, 256;
social character, 262;
as editor of _Evening Post_, 274;
and greenback inflation, 281.

Scott, Winfield, presidential campaign, 86, 87.

Sea-power, Gibbon on, 127.

Senate. _See_ Congress.

Seward, W. H., and arbitrary arrests, 214.

Shakespeare, William, as historian, 1, 7, 22;
conciseness, 36;
and study of human character, 67.

Shaw, Bernard, on reality of Shakespeare's characters, 67.

Sheffield, Lord, sends wine to Gibbon, 135.

Sherman, John, and Silver Bill of 1878, 221, 259, 260;
on contact of President and Congress, 237;
in Ohio campaign of 1875, 246;
Secretary of Treasury, ability, 247, 258;
refunding, 258;
abused for depression, specie resumption, 258, 259;
social character, 263;
and greenback inflation, 281.

Sherman, W. T., and Hayes's suggestion of war portfolio for General
Johnston, 247;
and burning of Columbia, 301-313.

Sicilian expedition, Thucydides's account, 19, 61.

Silver. _See_ Finances.

Slavery, and westward expansion, 212.

Source material, use by Thucydides and Tacitus, 12-16;
modern, 20, 22;
newspapers, 29-32, 83-97;
manuscript, 85, 91, 143, 294.

South Carolina, overthrow of carpet-bag government, 248;
feeling of Union army towards, 306.

Spanish War, newspapers and cause, 89;
McKinley's course, 233;
attitude of Godkin, 286.

Speaker of House of Representatives, power, 227.

_Spectator_, on McKinley's diplomacy, 234.

Spedding, James, Gardiner on, 145.

Spencer, Herbert, on aim of education, 77;
on age as factor in evidence, 85;
Bryce on, 293.

Spoils system. _See_ Civil service.

Stael, Madame de, parents, 137;
on Gibbon, 137 n.

"Stalwarts," origin of name, 249.

Stanton, E. M., and arbitrary arrests, 214.

Stephens, H. M., on French Revolution, 155.

Stone, G. A., at burning of Columbia, 302, 310, 311.

Story, Joseph, on presidential character, 235.

Stubbs, William, as historian, 42, 69, 157.

Suffrage, Godkin on universal, 296.
_See also_ Negro.

Sumner, Charles, style, 53.

Switzerland, Gibbon's manuscript history, 124.

Tacitus, rank as historian, 5;
characteristics as historian, 8-10, 128;
conciseness, 11, 16;
use of source material, 15;
as contemporary historian,