Nature, English love of, not always favourable to art, 37 National Assembly in France, declared sovereign, 107 Nationality in ideas, xviii National success. See Success _Noblesse_, French, surpass the _bourgeoisie_ not in learning but in field sports and equipages, 59; absence of culture, 60; life of the rural aristocracy in France, 61; barbarians in the upper classes, _ib._; despise trade and all professions save that of a soldier, 62; faults of, 327; contempt for work, 328; effect of poverty, 331; Nonconformists, natural jealousy of the Church of England, 151; less tolerant than Anglicans, 152; social equality not to be gained by disestablishment, 154; disadvantage in belonging to inferior sects, 155; Herbert Spencer’s views concerning, 400 Novels and novelists, French and English, 213; invention of situations, 214; temptations, 215; French novels cosmopolitan, 216; variety in the demand, 217; trash, 218 O Ochlocracy, or popular government, 105; in France a mere question of time, 106 Opportunist politics of the author, xiii Orders, Religious, story of their expulsion from France explained, 190, 191 Orleans family, misrepresentations as regards expulsion from France, 194 Orleans princes, educated like other French boys in a _lycée_, 58 Ossian, Macpherson’s, the one literary success in the Scotch Highlands, 424 Oxford University, associated with social distinctions, 57, 59 P Painting in France, the exquisite and the vulgar, 396; qualities of English art, 397; relative success, _ib._ Palgrave, Mr., statement that Orientals regard Europe as one nation, 421 Palmerston, Lord, love of hunting and riding, 3 Paris, superior to London in artistic Europe, 35; artistic ideal contrasted with the English moral ideal, 38; English siege of, impossible without allies, 89; a nation like London, 440; characteristics differing from London, _ib._; contrast with provincial life, 441; the light of France, _ib._; contrast in manners, 442; in morals, 443; in individual character, _ib._ Parliamentary system, alone practicable in England and France, xiv; faulty working, _ib._ Parties in England, probable opposition between strong monarchists and open republicans, 134 Patrie, a sacred word in France, 74; “country” no equivalent, 75