III, 82;
the speech of Brutus to his countrymen, 82;
Shylock in defense of his race, 83;
Hamlet to the players, 85.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe;
biographical note on, V, 151;
articles by--in defense of poetry, 151;
the baths of Caracalla, 155;
the ruins of Pompeii, 158.

Smith, Adam;
biographical note on, IV, 163;
articles by--of ambition misdirected, 163;
the advantages of a division of labor, 166.

Smith, John;
biographical note on, IX, 3;
his story of Pocahontas, 3.

Southey, Robert;
biographical note on, V, 80;
Nelson's death at Trafalgar, 80.

Spencer, Herbert;
biographical note on, VI, 173;
articles by--the origin of professional occupations, 173;
self-dependence and paternalism, 181;
the ornamental and the useful in education, 186;
reminiscences of his boyhood, 191;
a tribute to E. L. Youmans, 195;
why he never married, 197.

Stael, Madame de;
biographical note on, VII, 178;
of Napoleon Bonaparte, 178.

Steele, Sir Richard;
biographical note on, IV, 3;
articles by--of companions and flatterers, 3;
the story-teller and his art, 7;
Sir Roger and the widow, 10;
the Coverley family portraits, 16;
on certain symptoms of greatness, 21;
how to be happy tho married, 26.

Sterne, Laurence;
biographical note on, IV, 123;
articles by--the starling in captivity, 123;
to Moulines with Maria, 127;
the death of LeFevre, 129;
passages from the romance of my Uncle Toby and the widow, 131.

Stevenson, Robert Louis;
biographical note on, VI, 247;
articles by--Francis Villon's terrors, 247;
the lantern bearers, 251.

Suetonius;
biographical note on, II, 231;
articles by--the last days of Augustus, 231;
the good deeds of Nero, 236;
the death of Nero, 241.

Swift, Jonathan;
biographical note on, III, 216;
on pretense in philosophers, 216;
on the hospitality of the vulgar, 221;
the art of lying in politics, 224;
a meditation upon a broomstick, 228;
Gulliver among the giants, 230.

Tacitus;
biographical note on, II, 177;
articles by--from Republican to Imperial Rome, 177;
the funeral of Germanicus, 183;
the death of Seneca, 189;
the burning of Rome by order of Nero, 193;
the burning of the capitol at Rome, 202;
the siege of Cremona, 205;
Agricola, 212.

Taine, Hippolite Adolphe;
biographical note on, VIII, 38;
articles by--on Thackeray as a satirist, 38;
on the king's getting