up for the day, 43.

Taylor, Jeremy;
biographical note on, III, 153;
on the benefits of adversity, 153.

Thackeray, William M.;
biographical note on, VI, 62;
articles by--the imperturbable Marlborough, 62;
the ball before the battle of Waterloo, 65;
the death of Colonel Newcome, 75;
London in the time of the first George, 80.

Thiers, Louis Adolph;
biographical note on, VII, 201;
the burning of Moscow, 201.

Thoreau, Henry David;
biographical note on, X, 99;
articles by--the building of his house at Walden Pond, 99;
how to make two small ends meet, 103;
on reading the ancient classics, 115;
of society and solitude, 120.

Thucydides;
biographical note on, I, 25;
articles by--the Athenians and Spartans contrasted, 25;
the plague at Athens, 38;
the sailing of the Athenian fleet for Sicily, 45;
the completion of the Athenian defeat at Syracuse, 52.

Tocqueville, Alexis de;
biographical note on, VIII, 3;
on the tyranny of the American majority, 3.

Tolstoy, Count Leo;
biographical note on, VIII, 252;
Shakespeare not a great genius, 252.

Turgeneff, Ivan;
biographical note on, VIII, 239;
Bazarov's death, 239.

Vasari, Giorgio;
biographical note on, VIII, 192;
of Raphael and his early death, 192.

Vigny, Alfred de;
biographical note on, VII, 222;
Richelieu's way with his master, 222.

Ville-Hardouin, Geoffrey de;
biographical note on, VII, 23;
the sack of Constantinople, 23.

Voltaire, Francois Arouet;
biographical note on, VII, 160;
articles by--of Bacon's greatness, 160;
England's regard for men of letters, 164.

Walpole, Horace;
biographical note on, IV, 149;
articles by--on Hogarth, 149;
the war in America, 154;
the death of George II, 155.

Walton, Izaak;
biographical note on, III, 92;
articles by--the antiquity of angling, 92;
of the trout, 96;
the death of George Herbert, 101.

Ward, Artemus;
biographical note on, X, 191;
Forrest as Othello, 191.

Washington, George;
biographical note on, IX, 79;
articles by--to his wife on taking command of the army, 79;
of his army in Cambridge, 81;
to the Marquis de Chastellux on his marriage, 84.

White, Gilbert;
biographical note on, IV, 158;
on the chimney swallow, 158.

Wordsworth, William;
biographical note on, V, 23;
a poet defined, 23.

Wyclif, John;
biographical note on, III, 4;
a passage from his translation of