graphical note on, VIII, 79;
some of his table talk and sayings, 79.

Lytton, Edward Bulwer;
biographical note on, VI, 21;
his description of the descent of Vesuvius on Pompeii, 21.

Macaulay, Lord;
biographical note on, V, 233;
articles by--Puritan and Royalist, 233;
Cromwell's army, 238;
the opening of the trial of Warren Hastings, 242;
the gift of Athens to man, 248;
the pathos of Byron's life, 251.

Machiavelli, Niccolo;
biographical note on, VIII, 178;
ought princes to keep their promises, 178.

Malory, Sir Thomas;
biographical note on, III, 26;
article by--on the finding of a sword for Arthur, 26.

Mandeville, Sir John;
biographical note on, III, 8;
articles by--the route from England to Constantinople, 8;
at the court of the great Chan, 11.

Marcus Aurelius;
biographical note on, II, 248;
his debt to others, 248.

Mather, Cotton;
biographical note on, IX, 33;
in praise of John Eliot, 33.

Maupassant, Guy de;
biographical note on, VIII, 69;
Madame Jeanne's last days, 69.

Merivale, Charles;
biographical note on, VI, 37;
on the personality of Augustus, 37.

Milton, John;
biographical note on, III, 121;
articles by--on his own literary ambitions, 121;
a complete education defined, 126;
on reading in his youth, 129;
in defense of books, 131;
a noble and puissant nation, 135;
of fugitive and cloistered virtue, 141.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley;
biographical note on, IV, 58;
articles by--on happiness in the matrimonial state, 58;
inoculation for the smallpox, 63.

Montaigne, Michel de;
biographical note on, VII, 90;
articles by--a word to his readers, 90;
of society and solitude, 92;
of his own library, 94;
that the soul discharges her passions among false objects where
true ones are wanting, 99;
that men are not to judge of our happiness until after death, 102.

Montesquieu, Baron de;
biographical note on, VII, 150;
articles by--of the causes which destroyed Rome, 150;
of the relation of laws to different human beings, 156.

More, Sir Thomas;
biographical note on, III, 29;
on life in Utopia, 29.

Morley, John;
biographical note on, VI, 244;
on Voltaire as an author and man of action, 244.

Morris, Gouverneur;
biographical note on, IX, 117;
articles by--the opening of the French States-General, 117;
the execution of Louis XVI, 120.

Motley, John Lothrop;
biographica