Marriage, French and English ideas of, 228, 353; _mésalliances_, _ib._; class ideas in France, 354; pecuniary value of the French _de_, 355; London market, _ib._; _le mariage de convenance_, 356; prudent marriages, _ib._; French customs, 357; dowerless French girls, 358; varying dowries, 249, 359; English contempt for small dowries, 360; clerical influence, 361; companionship the only ideal, _ib._; prudence and rashness, 362; marriage-feasts of the French peasantry, 369; marriage of French army officers, 381 Marriage of clergy, opposite ideas in England and France, 208; Catholic horror at the marriage of a bishop, 209 Meissonier, comparable only with the Dutch, 398 _Mésalliance_ defined, 353 Michelet, his description of Lyons, 439 Milan, King of Servia, educated in a French _lycée_, 58 Military exercises, imposed in France by the conscription, 5; duelling, 6 Military officers in France and England, 334 Militia in England, a reserve of military amateurs, 92 Mill, John Stuart, observations on French feeling, 47; on French and English manners, 303; his influence, 399 Millais, a grouse-shooter, 3 Mirabeau, his declaration of the sovereignty of the people, 105 Mivart, Mr., on intellectual liberty in the Catholic church, 174; story of the Deluge, 175 Monarchy and Republic, misuse of the terms in France and England, 103; character of the old monarchy in France, 109 Monarchy in England, its possible duration, 134 Moral training, French and English, the outcome of personal influence, 39; a national moral sense necessary, _ib._; stronger in England than in France, 40; influence of the Church of England superior to that of Rome, _ib._; effect of clerical education on unbelievers, 41; influence of Agnostics, 42; want of moral authority in lay teaching in France, _ib._; truthfulness damaged by clerical education of unbelievers, 43; French boys civilised by their mothers, 44; home influences and school influences in England, _ib._; advantages of rural life and grammar schools, 45; immorality in dealings between nations, _ib._; value of public opinion as moral authority, 46; national and professional virtues, _ib._ Morley, Mr. John, his views regarding the House of Lords, 113; his influence, 401 Morvan, district in France, a peculiar country, language, and people, 434; material civilisation, 435; ignorance of cookery, 436; contrasted with the Burgundy wine country, _ib._; absence of the Fine Arts, _ib._ Music, national, prejudices created by political jealousy, 413 Music, sacred and profane, 275 Musset, Alfred de, popularity in France, 403 N Napoleon I, system of education founded on the classics, and lighter scientific studies, 28 Napoleon III, never won any real deference, 83