Age: affecting human intercourse, ix; outrun by youth, 86-93 _passim_; affecting friendship, 112; senility hard to convince, 293, 294; middle and old, 302; kind letter to an old lady, 345. Agnosticism, affecting filial relations, 93. Agriculture: under law, 228; and Radicals, 282. Albany, Duke of, his associations, 5. Albert Nyanza, Baker's exploits, 392. Alexis, Prince, sad relations to his father, 95, 96. Alps: first sight, 235; grandeur, 271. Americans: artistic attraction, 8; inequalities of wealth, 248; behaviour towards strangers, 249; treated as ignorant by the English, 277; under George III., 279; use of ruled paper, 328. Amusements: pursuit of, 27; sympathy with youthful, 88; out-door, 302, 303; praise for indulgence not deserved, 342; in general (Essay XXVI.), 383-401; obligatory, 383; expensive and pleasurable, 384; laborious, 385; princely enjoyments, 386, 387; poverty not compelled to practise, 388; feigned, 388, 389; converted into customs, 389; should be independent in, 390; shooting, 391-393; boating, 394-396; selfish compulsion, 397; tyranny of majorities, 398; conversational echoes, 398, 399; ladies not interested, 399; three stages of pleasure, 399, 400; artistic gambols, 400; to be taken naturally and happily, 401. Analysis: important to prevent confusion (Essay XX.), 280-294 _passim_; analytical faculty wanting, 280, 292-294. Ancestry: aristocratic, 123; boast, 130; home, 138; less religion, 214. Angels, and the arts, 191. Anglicanism, and Russian Church, 257, 258. Angling, pleasure of, 401. Animals, feminine care, 177. Annuities, affecting family ties, 68, 69. Answers to letters, 334, 335. Anticipation, pleasure of, 399, 400. Antiquarianism, author's, 323. Apollo, a sportsman compared to, 391. Arabs: use of telegraph, 323; collar-bone broken, 392. Archæology: a friend's interest, x; affected by railway travel, 14. Architecture: illustration, vii, xii; studies in France, 17, 23, 24; connection with religion, 189, 190, 192; ignorance about English, 265; common mistakes, 291; letters about, 365. Aristocracy: French rural, 18, 19; English laws of primogeniture, 66; English instance, 123, 124; discipline, 128; often poor, 135, 136; effect of deference, 146, 147; a mark of? 246, 247; Norman influence, 251, 252; antipathy, to Dissent, 256, 257; sent to Eton, 277; and Bohemianism, 309; dislike of scholarship, 331, 332. (See _Rank_.) Aristophilus, fictitious character, 146. Armies: national ignorance, 277-279; monopoly of places in French, 283. (See _War_.)