timate of, viii, 173.

Abnegation, v, 243.

Abolition, v, 205;
in New England, vii, 408.

Abraham, x, 19.

_Abraham_, Rembrandt's, iv, 63.

Abstinence, v, 248.

_Account of the English Poets_, Addison, v, 246.

Achievement, the price of, v, 135.

Acton, Lord, i, 60.

_Adam Bede_, Eliot, i, 59; v, 148.

Adams, Brooks, _The Law of Civilization and Decay_, xii, 89.

Adams, John, iii, 79, 251, 239;
quoted, iii, 89.

Adams, John Quincy, mother of, iii, 143;
marriage of, iii, 145;
president, iii, 146;
member of Congress, iii, 146;
death of, iii, 146;
on business, ix, 131;
on Thomas Paine, ix, 158.

Adams, Maude, i, p xxvii; xii, 169.

Adams, Samuel,
letter of, to Arthur Lee, iii, 78;
politics of, iii, 80;
part of, in the Boston uprising, iii, 81;
member of the Calkers' Club, iii, 85;
as a member of the Congress of the Colonies, iii, 91;
characteristics of, iii, 94;
place in history of, iii, 95, 251;
typical Puritan, iii, 232;
quoted, iii, 240.

Adams, Sarah Flower, v, 48.

Addison, Joseph, iii, 60;
birthplace of, v, 239;
the perfect English gentleman, v, 239;
education of, v, 244;
travels of, v, 247;
under-secretary of State, v, 252;
Parliamentary experience of, v, 252;
meeting of, with Steele, v, 254;
his connection with the _Tatler_ and the _Spectator_, v, 254;
referred to, v, 294;
on Plato, x, 121.

Adirondack Murray, vii, 375.

Adler, Felix, ix, 282;
preaching of, vii, 310.

Adolescence, Dr. Charcot on, xii, 23.

_Adoration of the Magi_, Botticelli, vi, 70.

Adversity, uses of, i, 110.

AEschines, disciple of Socrates, viii, 29.

AEschylus, ii, 28.

_AEsthetic England_, Walter Hamilton, xiii, 272.

Affectation, v, 238.

_Africa_, Petrarch, xiii, 239.

Agassiz, Louis, xi, 419; xii, 407;
Darwinism and, xii, 230;
Thoreau and, viii, 417;
compared with Disraeli, v, 338.

Age, of enlightenment, viii, 271;
of Herbert Spencer, viii, 354;
of Michelangelo, iv, 6;
of Rembrandt, iv, 78.

_Age of Reason, The_, Thomas Paine, ix, 157, 160, 179.

Agitators, personality of, vii, 409.

Agnosticism, x, 342.

Agnostic School, the, xii, 327.

Agriculture, Humboldt on, xii, 140.

_Aida_, Verdi, xiv, 294.

_Aids to Reflection_, Coleridge, v, 313.

Alameda smile, the, viii, 365.

Alaska, population of, iv, 128.

Albert memorial, i, 314.

Alcibiades, Socrates and, viii, 29;
Nero compared with, viii, 71.