London, inferior to Paris in its maintenance of art, 35; French siege of, inconceivable, 89; a nation, 427; a state within a state, 428; its standard of civilisation, _ib._; not insular but cosmopolitan, _ib._; absorbing the English aristocracy, 429 Lords, House of, its hereditary principle threatened, 131 Lotteries in France, 377 Louis XIV of France, the realisation of ideal monarchy, 109 Lowlanders, Scotch, repugnance to polish, 424; sabbatarianism, industrial triumphs, intellectual distinction, and taste for the Fine Arts, 425; their resemblances to the Lancastrians, 426 Lunch, English, unknown in France, 368 Luxury, definition of, 291; connected with expense and not with cheap pleasures, 292; development, _ib._; a home product in France but an exotic in England, 293; domestic servants, _ib._; dress, 294; independent of Art, 295; French commonplace, 296 _Lycées_, French, absence of cricket, 4; proposed abolition of Latin as compulsory, 18; question of excluding Greek, 19; teaching of modern languages, 20; examination and certificate of teachers, 21; pupils compared with those in seminaries, 44; disregard of social distinctions, 58; their cheapness, _ib._; distinguished from seminaries, 59; lay masters and priests, _ib._; deny the use of the catechism described by Matthew Arnold, 195 Lyons, cultivation of the Fine Arts inferior to that in Manchester or Liverpool, 34; a town of contrasts, 439; Michelet’s description of, _ib._ M Macculloch, Dr., his description of the inertia of the Scotch Highlanders, 423 Macpherson’s _Ossian_ the one literary success in the Scotch Highlands, 424 Madagascar, English jealousy of French expedition, 87 Maine, Sir Henry, his view of the dislike to change, 120; interest in Mohammedans, Africans, Chinese, and Hindus, 121; conservatism of women, _ib._; his contemptuous estimate of the French President, 135 Majority, government of, in France and England, 113; a state of liberty only when balanced by a minority, 115 Malevolence entertaining in literature, ix Manchester, cultivation of the Fine Arts better than in Rouen or Lyons, 34 Manners, national and class codes, 297; courtesy in France and England, _ib._; epistolary forms, 298; French ceremony, 299; old-fashioned, 300; embarrassments, 301; John Stuart Mill’s observation in France and England, 303; English hospitality, 304; defensive politeness, _ib._; bad manners in France and England, 305; French manners of George H. Lewes, 306. See Decorum