Stephenson, inventor of the steam-locomotive, xi, 246.

Stepmothers, vi, 47;
ministrations of, vi, 23.

Sterne, shallowness of, v, 162.

Stevenson, Robert Louis, iv, 178;
Edmund Gosse on, xiii, 42;
experience of, on shipboard, xiii, 30;
experience of, in New York, xiii, 31;
on failure, vi, 169;
humor of, xiii, 11;
Fanny Osbourne and, xiii, 22;
quoted, iv, 314; xi, 73; xiii, 19;
on relaxation, xiv, 41;
on Velasquez, vi, 154;
Walt Whitman and, xiii, 18.

Stewart, Alexander T., business methods of, xi, 344;
business palace of, xi, 351;
Peter Cooper and, xi, 352;
wealth of, xi, 352;
the apple-woman and, xi, 220;
President Grant and, xi, 334;
purchaser of Meissonier's _Eighteen Hundred Seven_, iv, 142;
John Wanamaker and, xi, 353.

Stoddard, Charles Warren, iv, 263.

Stoics and Sophists compared, viii, 53.

Stone Age, the, x, 16.

Stoner, Winifred Sackville, ix, 283.

_Stones of Venice_, Ruskin, i, 89.

Story, Judge, and Daniel Webster, iii, 197.

_Story of a Country Town_, E. W. Howe, x, 247.

_Story of France_, Thomas E. Watson, viii, 241; ix, 380.

_Story of German Love_, Max Muller, viii, 192.

_Story of My Life, The_, George Sand, xiv, 76.

Story, W. W., sculptor, xi, 327.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, v, 207.

Strabismus, v, 100.

_Stratford_, Browning, v, 55.

"Strap-oil," vii, 243.

Stratford-on-Avon, i, 49.

Strawberry Hill, home of Horace Walpole, iv, 302.

Street preaching, ix, 38.

Stupidity, Irish, xii, 336.

Sublime Porte, the, viii, 82.

Submission, religion by, ix, 188.

_Substance and Show_, Starr King, vii, 328.

Substitution, religion by, ix, 188.

_Subterranean Vegetation_, Humboldt, xii, 139.

Success in business, xi, 355.

Suicide, Schopenhauer on, viii, 385.

Sullivan, Sir Arthur, on Handel, xiv, 254.

Sumner, Charles, iii, 271;
Wendell Phillips and, vii, 399.

Sunday School books, old-time, iii, 7.

Sunday, Rev. William, x, 331.

Sunshine, definition of, i, 339.

Superior class, the, v, 291; xiv, 320.

Superstition, iv, 124; v, 153; vii, 17; ix, 182; x, 366;
Hypatia on, x, 275;
Voltaire on, viii, 293.

Supreme Court, first chief justice of, iii, 246.

Surveying, the business of, xii, 389.

Swedenborg, Emanuel, the mystic, iii, 28; viii, 174;
parents of, viii, 181;
_The Animal Kingdom_, viii, 194;
his experiments in motive power, xii, 21;
_Conjugal Love_, viii, 191;
Darwin compared wi