Shakespeare as an Englishman, 429; his ignorance of French, 430 Shelley, his love of boating and swimming, 3 Shelley unknown in France, 24 Sociability, greater in England than in France, 363; French liking for talk, 364; separation of the sexes in France, _ib._; difference in England, 365; want of amusements in France, 367; especially in the provinces, 368; English lunch unknown in France, _ib._; decline of hospitality in France, 369; the club and the _cercle_, _ib._; restricted by religious and political bigotry, 370; divisions in France and England, 371 Social distinctions. See Caste Socrates, indifference to comfort, 286 Spain, her pride wounded by English possession of Gibraltar, 88 Spencer, Herbert, great reputation in France as a thinker, 408 Spencer, Herbert, his term “anti-patriotism,” vii Spenser, Edmund, not known in France, 24, 26 Sports: see Field sports. Drill: see Military exercise Stability, English, French faith in, 129; wanting in English cabinets, 130; in the House of Commons, 131; threatened abolition of the hereditary principle in the House of Lords, _ib._; causes of the instability of a State Church, 132; question as regards the English Throne, 133; future of England, 134; of France, 135; coolness of French republican sentiment, _ib._; Sir Henry Maine’s estimate of a French president refuted, 136, 137 Stoicism of the English, 47 Strathclyde, old, included the western Lowlanders and Lancashire, 427 Student life in France, 224; Scotch and French students compared, 225; morality of boys in French schools, 227 Success, National, abroad, its vanity, 406; non-appreciation of English poetry in France, _ib._; French opinions of English writers, 408; Russian novels in France, 409; English demand for French novels, _ib._; French opinion of English art, 411; influence of Constable on French landscape, _ib._; wide celebrity of French painters, _ib._; French art appreciated in England, 412; English and German music unpopular in France, 413; national appreciation of minor excellencies, 414; depreciation of the Houses of Parliament by foreigners, 415; moral eminence of success in war, _ib._; French depreciation of the English navy, 416; military reputation of France and England compared, 417; changes since the Franco-Prussian war, _ib._; greatness of England dependent on her superiority in arms, 418