Cheerfulness, no equivalent in France, 389 Chevreul, the centenarian, respected in France, 54 Church of England, its social influence over the laity, 40; its strength, 125; subjection to the Queen or Parliament, 141; intensely national, 142; question of disestablishment, 151; natural jealousy of nonconformists, _ib._; freethinkers not eager for disestablishment, 152; Mr. Voysey’s views, 154; many formalists but few hypocrites, 167; philosophical Anglicans, 171; their treatment of dogma, _ib._; examples amongst the clergy, 172; ritualism promoted by formalism, 175; old-fashioned Anglican formalism, 176; opposite ideas of the marriage of ecclesiastics, 208 Church of Rome, founds all moral teaching on authority, 43; clerical jealousy of family influence in France, _ib._ Classics, ancient, proposed abandonment in French schools, 18; views of M. Frary and Professor Seeley, _ib._; neglected in France, 19; value as mental discipline, _ib._; decay of the old veneration for in France, 55 Cleanliness, English, an invention of the nineteenth century, 254; in England and France, 255; English pride in hardihood, 256; French warm baths, _ib._; cleanly appearance of the French, 257; effects of coal-smoke in England, _ib._; whitewash in England, unknown in France, 258; superior cleanness of the English, 259 Clergy, French and English, contrast in horse-riding and other exercises, 7; in yearly emoluments, 379 Clifford, Professor, fond of gymnastics, 2 Closure, adopted by the English from the French, 127 Clubs, more sociable in France than in England, 369 Colonisation, unfavourable to patriotism, 67 Comfort, English passion for, 285; opposed to Christianity and Greek philosophy, 286; difficulty of plain living, 287; English prejudice against self-indulgence, 287; stoicism of the French peasantry, 288; comfort combined in England with mental anxiety, 289; little known in France, _ib._; as costly as luxury, 290 Commerce, its influence on art-culture, 32 Communes, proposed payment of the French clergy, 150 Communist, confounded with Communard, xii, _note_. Conscription in the French army, faults under the Second Empire, 93; revolution under the Republic, 94; improved health of the French nation, 95; increase of gymnastics and extension of education, 95; repugnant to English feeling but inevitable in the future, 97; disappearance of jealousies and social distinctions in the event of war, _ib._