Army, English, a profession regarding volunteers and militia as amateurs, 92; old purchase system, _ib._; French army under the Second Empire, raised by conscription but not national, 93; healthy revolution after the Franco-German war, _ib._; real dignity of all military service, 94; conscription under the Republic compensated by unity of sentiment with civil population, 95; by improvement in physical strength and activity, and extension of education, _ib._; national armies essentially peaceful when combined with parliamentary government, 96; French averse to the war in Tonquin, _ib._; conscription in the English army inevitable, 97 Aristocracy, English, strong views of Matthew Arnold, 324; overshadowing the English mind, 326; favourable to simplicity of life, 327; faults of the French Noblesse, _ib._; their contempt for trade, 328; usurpations of the territorial “de” in France, 329 Arnold, Dr., his personal influence in moral training, 39; depended on his being a clergyman, 43 Arnold, Matthew, error as regards a French catechism used in _lycées_, 195, 196; confusion of _l’État_ with _le Pays_, _ib._; charges the French with immorality, 220; strong views of aristocracy, 324; his influence, 400; his division of the English into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace, 401 Art, independent of luxury, 295; beautiful materials, _ib._; the nude, 317; realism, 318; depreciation of English art in France, 410; appreciated by cultivated French artists, 411; English prejudice against French art, 412, 413; patriotic bias of French art, 414. See Education, Artistic. Artists, French, their generosity, 31 Ascanius, his friendship for Euryalus excessively French, 47 B Bagehot, Mr., his defence of titles, 325 Balzac, a hard-working genius, 403 Beckwith, Miss, the English swimmer, 10 Beljame, his evidence respecting the teachers and teaching of modern languages in France, 20; recent reforms in examinations and certificates of teachers, 21 Bible, English knowledge of, 27; French ignorance of, 28, 55 Bifurcation, introduced into French schools by Fortoul’s ministry, 29 Bishops in France, may not ride or drive, 7 Bismarck, Prince, charges the French with hating their neighbours, 83 Black, William, his appreciation of patriotic tenderness in the “Princess of Thule,” 66 Boar, wild, shooting in France, 11 Boating in England, 3; limited in France, 8; French regatta clubs, 9 Bonheur, Rosa, nothing in common with Landseer, 398; her reputation in England, 412 Book-buyers in France, 395 Boucicaut, Madame, a true success, 376; her goodness, _ib._