London, first impressions of, 1, 4, 7, 8; St. Paul’s, 4; Morley’s Hotel, 4, 5; Temple Bar, 5; Ludgate Hill, 6; Strand, 6, 7; Charing Cross, 7; Piccadilly, 7, 8; its immensity an advantage, 8-13; creeds and coteries, 11; home of human race, 13; headquarters of English speech, 14; absence of style, 15; accident of style replaces intention, 16, 17; parks, 16-25; rural impressions, 18, 19; rustic walk from Notting Hill to Whitehall, 18-25; Hyde Park, 19-22; Hyde Park Corner, 20; Grosvenor Place 21; Apsley House, 20, 21; Green Park, 21-23; Buckingham Palace, 21-23; levelling tendencies of London life, 25-28; beautiful women the great admiration, 28; liberal hospitality, 29; cultivation of the abrupt, 29, 30; lights and shades, 31-36, 134; holidays, 34; railway stations, 37, 38; bookstalls, 38, 39; Thames River, 40-43; Hampstead, 43, 44; Kensington, 44; the Season, 45-51; Easter exodus, 126-128; Passion Week, 130-138; architectural ugliness, 133, 134; people of the slums, 137; proletariat funeral, 138-141; the Tower, 142, 143; dog-days in, 153-161; no “public fund” of amusement, 157-159; tramps, 160, 161; convivial gatherings, 162-164. Ludgate Hill, 6. Ludlow, a charming old town, 240; provincial society at, 241-243. Lynton, 102-104. Mayfair, mind of, residences of, 15, 16. “Middlemarch,” locality of, 216, 217. “Mill on the Floss,” retrospective pictures in, 65. Milton, John, 14. Monmouthshire, April in, 245, 246; the Skirrid, 246, 247; Abergavenny, 247; a mediæval church, 247-249; feudal manors, 249, 250. Newmarket Heath, 265, 266. Notting Hill, rustic walk to Whitehall, 18-25. North Devon, 93-105; Exeter Cathedral, 95-97; beauties of Ilfracombe, 97-101; Lynton, 102-104; Somerset, 104, 105. Odger, George, radical agitator, his funeral, 138-141. “Oliver Twist,” visit to a workhouse recalls, 274. Oxford, 41; at Commemoration, 189-196; typifies union of science and sense, 261; Trinity College, 261-264. “Pall Mall Gazette,” 176. Pall Mall, 32, 33. Piccadilly, 7, 8, 14, 21; funeral procession on, 130, 140; the “White House,” 177. Portsmouth, untidy and prosaic, 255, 256; Nelson’s “Victory,” 256, 257. “Punch,” 7. Queen Anne, statue of, 6. Rembrandt, pictures at Warwick Castle, 90. Rochester, the Dickens country, 143-145; Watts’s shelter, 144; the cathedral, 145-147. Ryde, 251.